Monday Mar 30, 2026

Showing Up in Force

Gov’t Reports Island’s

Highest Level of Female Labor

Participation in 45 Years

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Puerto Rico reports highest female workforce participation in 45 years

By THE STAR STAFF

The government of Puerto Rico on Sunday announced significant progress for women in the labor force, marking the highest level of female participation recorded in 45 years. According to a new study from the Department of Labor and Human Resources (DTRH by its initials in Spanish), women represented 45.2% of the workforce in 2025, the highest share since 1980.

The report, titled “Women’s Participation in the Puerto Rico Labor Force: Calendar Year 2025,” was prepared by the DTRH’s Auxiliary Secretariat for Statistics and Publications. It draws on data from the Worker Group Survey, which collects monthly information from a scientific sample of 3,200 households.

Gov. Jenniffer González Colón highlighted the findings as evidence of progress, while acknowledging the challenges that remain.

“This progress is an achievement we aim to sustain by promoting public policies that reduce the gaps and inequalities women still face,” the governor said. “Our administration is advancing training initiatives and talent retention efforts through the creation of more jobs, many of them highly paid thanks to our strategy of bringing more manufacturing to the island. This same study identifies that household responsibilities remain the main reason why nearly one million women remain outside the labor force. That is why we are creating programs such as ACUDEN ContiGO to expand access to child care and extended school-age care services.”

Labor Secretary María del Pilar Vélez Casanova noted that the data shows a shifting demographic and educational profile among working women.

“Today we see a more prepared, diverse female population with an increasingly solid presence in strategic sectors of our labor market,” Vélez Casanova said. “These advances are the result of the efforts of thousands of women and of public policies aimed at expanding opportunities.”

Workforce numbers show broad gains

are between the ages of 25 and 54, though participation has also increased among women aged 55 and older -- signaling broader demographic shifts.

Educational attainment among working women continued to improve: 70.8% have postsecondary studies, and nearly half hold a bachelor’s degree or higher.

Service and commerce sectors remain the largest sources of female employment, accounting for 66.5% of positions. More than half of women work in professional, administrative, or support occupations.

Self-employment also grew, with 59,000 women working independently in 2025, indicating diversification in how women integrate into the labor market.

Socially, the composition of employed women has shifted: 45.6% are single, surpassing married women (41.1%) for the first time.

Despite the progress, the study identifies substantial areas for improvement. An estimated 915,000 women remain outside the labor force. Household responsibilities account for 47.9% of those cases, followed by retirement (23.5%) and academic studies (11.9%). Women ages 20 to 24 recorded the highest unemployment rate within the female population.

Women’s Advocate Astrid Piñeiro Vázquez welcomed the report’s findings and emphasized the need for continued action. “It is a great source of satisfaction to validate through these data that female participation has reached its highest level since 1980,” Piñeiro Vázquez said. “This historic progress, including the lowest female unemployment rate recorded at 5.2%, validates the public policies promoting equity and economic development. We reaffirm our commitment to breaking barriers, especially for the many women who remain outside the workforce due to household responsibilities.”

In absolute terms, the female labor force reached 560,000 women in 2025. Of those, 531,000 were employed, representing 45.4% of total employment on the island. The female labor force participation rate rose to 38.0%, reversing years of decline. Unemployment among women dropped to 5.2%, the lowest since 1980, with only 29,000 women recorded as unemployed.

The gender gap in labor force participation also narrowed significantly, decreasing from 32.9 to 14.9 percentage points.

The report shows that 73.1% of employed women

Ex-San Juan mayor joins call for Congress to certify PR as incorporated territory

By THE STAR STAFF

Former San Juan Mayor Hernán Padilla has formally joined a pro-statehood initiative urging the U.S. Congress to certify Puerto Rico as an incorporated territory of the United States, an action supporters argue is long overdue after 128 years under U.S. sovereignty.

The effort, coordinated by attorney Gregorio Igartúa and a group of statehood advocates, calls on federal lawmakers and the president to recognize what the petition describes as Puerto Rico’s “de facto incorporated status.” The group contends that the island already functions in alignment with incorporated-territory standards and that Congress should formally acknowledge that reality as part of the nation’s broader evolution during the United States’ 250th anniversary year.

According to the petition, recognizing incorporation would also align with “the special interests of Gov. Jenniffer

González,” who has long advocated for advancing Puerto Rico’s path toward statehood.

Padilla on Sunday expressed agreement with the petition’s position that continued plebiscites -- whether local or federally sanctioned -- are no longer a viable or just path for resolving the island’s political status. He argued that repeated votes risk undermining established rights of U.S. citizenship and distract from what he views as Puerto Rico’s long-standing pattern of political integration comparable to territories that ultimately became states.

He echoed the petition’s comparison that asking Puerto Ricans to vote on their political status is akin to asking African Americans during the civil rights era to vote on whether they should receive federal voting rights.

As a longtime statehood supporter, Padilla said the current territorial arrangement is discriminatory, noting that 3.3 million U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico remain

subject to federal authority without full representation or equal treatment under U.S. law. He criticized what he described as an inconsistent federal approach that treats Puerto Rico as incorporated for some purposes and unincorporated for others.

“This arbitrary practice must end,” the statement argues, noting that such contradictions stand in tension with the principles of the U.S. Constitution and the democratic standards the United States expects from other nations.

The petition asserts that Puerto Rico already meets the characteristics historically associated with incorporated territories and has achieved a higher level of assimilation than any previous territory prior to statehood admission.

Padilla joined the petitioners in calling on Congress to certify Puerto Rico’s incorporation without further delay, emphasizing that more than a century has passed since the island was acquired by the United States in 1898.

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Hospitals Assn. summit examines AI integration in health care

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Hospitals Association

(AHPR by its initials in Spanish) held its annual summit this past weekend on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, where hospital administrators, doctors, healthcare industry professionals and some 21 experts in the field of AI applications participated.

The event sought to analyze the critical decisions facing healthcare leaders in Puerto Rico regarding the integration of health information technologies and artificial intelligence solutions, with the goal of strengthening informed and responsible decision-making aligned with the regulatory, clinical, operational, and financial challenges impacting hospitals and other healthcare delivery models.

“The healthcare sector was convened to learn about the latest developments and applications of AI aimed at protecting patient

health and all related aspects,” AHPR Executive Vice President Pedro González said.

The forum’s various panels analyzed the current state and evolution of the health ecosystem in Puerto Rico based on the lessons laarned during the past year in the adoption of health information technologies and AI, “in order to identify structural gaps, emerging capabilities and critical decisions that will allow the health system in all its delivery models to be positioned for the regulatory, operational and sustainability challenges that lie ahead in 2026,” González added.

Among the topics presented and discussed was “Algorithmic Inference and Decision-Making in Mental Health Clinics,” which emphasized “clinical moderators and epistemological boundaries with the goal of analyzing the use of algorithmic inference and artificial intelligence architectures as support tools in clinical decision-making in mental health,” the AHPR official said.

A throng turns out for No Kings rally

By JOHN McPAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

Hundreds if not a thousand or more people turned out on Saturday for the San Juan “No Kings” protest march against the administration of President Donald Trump, carrying signs bearing messages such as “No to Fascism” and “No Thrones in America.”

The throng unless you were the drone that briefly hovered overhead there was no way to precisely estimate the size of the crowd -- gathered in front of the Puerto Rican Hall of Fame and marched noisily to nearby El Escambrón, egged along by mobile loud speakers.

Along with the protest against the Trump administration (see related story on page 6), many of those gathered were simultaneously marching against the Essence Development project in Cabo Rojo.

“The No Kings march and the Essence protest are all mixed together,” said Dariana Frontera, 30, of the Sierra Club.

The Sierra Club opposes the project because its $2 billion price tag for 1,123 housing units and 520 hotel units will be funded in part by $497 million in tax incentives, and according to the Sierra Club that will mean less resources for essential services, less investment in the communities and a greater weight carried by the working population.

“No Kings” protesters’ political ideologies ranged from a small Communist Party contingent to the Sierra Club to average people with no particular ideology. (John McPhaul)

The protesters’ political ideologies ranged from a small Communist Party contingent to the Sierra Club, which led the Essence protest, to average people with no particular ideology.

Some statesiders were also on hand, such as Wendy Thurmond, a teacher from Tacoma Park, Maryland who lent her support for “No Kings.”

“We just refer to the whole situation as ‘it,’” said Thurmond, who said she was “older than 30.”

One New Yorker who didn’t want to reveal her identity said she came to Puerto Rico especially for the protest.

Xochitl Cabarrones, 60, of the Council for Latin America Advancement, held a sign saying “No thrones, No Crowns, Workers have no borders.”

Other signs said “In 1776 We Needed No Kings,” and “There are no dictators, the struggle continues.”

Sebastián Castrodad, 38, a documentary filmmaker with camera and microphone in hand said, “In part this is a protest to improve the conditions of workers directed at a labor reform.”

“They’ve left people behind with no consideration for the economic impact,” he said.

Procedural dispute emerges in rate case with bondholders

By THE STAR STAFF

Aprocedural dispute has emerged in the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) rate case before the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) after bondholders objected to a Feb. 23 filing by the utility, alleging that the submission improperly included advocacy despite a prior order prohibiting it.

In response, hearing examiner Scott Hempling, who is overseeing the rate case, has granted both sides limited opportunities to clarify and contest the disputed material.

The controversy stems from a Feb. 12 order directing PREPA to supply a concise summary of its proposed annual revenue requirement (ARR), complete with citations to the evidentiary record. Hempling emphasized that PREPA’s filing could contain no advocacy, as the deadline for initial ARR briefs had already passed.

PREPA submitted the required material on Feb. 23. However, on March 26 PREPA bondholders filed an objection asserting that PREPA’s submission included argumentative content and should either be disregarded or opened to rebuttal.

After receiving the objection, the hearing examiner informed all parties by email that an order granting the bondholders’ request would be forthcoming and asked for input on deadlines. The bondholders proposed April 7.

PREPA quickly pushed back. In an email response, counsel for the utility argued that issuing an order within 24 hours of the bondholders’ filing would deprive PREPA of due process. PREPA also called the bondholders’ objection untimely, noting that it challenged a Feb. 12 order more than six weeks

after issuance and a Feb. 23 filing more than a month after it was made.

PREPA further disputed the factual basis of the bondholders’ motion, stating that the bondholders incorrectly claimed the utility missed the Jan. 23 initial-brief deadline without seeking an extension. PREPA insisted it had requested a five‑day extension on Jan. 21 an extension the hearing examiner denied.

According to PREPA, its disputed Febr. 23 filing “contained the information ordered … supported by citations without advocacy,” and it is the bondholders who “are in fact, advocating their position.”

Despite the disagreement, the hearing examiner issued an order providing a narrow path forward. Parties now have until this Friday, April 3 at 5 p.m. Puerto Rico time to identify any PREPA statements they believe constitute advocacy and to explain why. PREPA will then have until the following Friday, April 10 at 5 p.m. to respond solely on the question of whether those statements are, in fact, advocacy.

Hempling underscored that no further argument will be entertained. The PREB will consider only whether any impermissible advocacy occurred and, if so, disregard it entirely, as the advocacy phase of the case closed with the initial briefs.

With a statutory deadline requiring a final order by April 16, and the PREB in the midst of drafting a complex resolution based on thousands of pages of filings, the examiner made clear that the agency has no bandwidth for extended disputes.

“The far better course would be for Bondholders and PREPA to meet and make this problem go away,” the hearing examiner wrote, adding that the PREB “needs this dispute

like it needs a hole in the head.”

The bondholders in PREPA’s $9 billion bankruptcy, which began in 2017, had sought to intervene in the rate case to ensure their debt is paid. They have also sought intervention in the case to draft a new integrated resource plan for Puerto Rico’s energy needs.

Scott Hempling, the hearing examiner overseeing the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority rate case before the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (LinkedIn)

GOP rift leaves Congress with no clear path to end the shutdown

By CARL HULSE

Eight months away from elections that will decide if they keep control of Congress and preserve their governing trifecta, House and Senate Republicans have identified the enemy — and it is one another.

A meltdown in relations between the two GOP-led chambers caused the embarrassing collapse Friday of a Senate-passed proposal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security before lawmakers raced out of town on a twoweek recess. It left no clear path for resolving the crisis that has led to airport chaos and workers without paychecks.

And with President Donald Trump seemingly cheering on the intraparty squabble from the White House, it also highlighted an undercurrent of tension and division coursing through Republican ranks that has burst to the surface at the least politically opportune time.

Passengers wait in a line at a security checkpoint at LaGuardia Airport in New York on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. A meltdown in relations between the two GOP-led chambers of Congress caused the embarrassing collapse late last week of a Senate-passed proposal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security before lawmakers raced out of town on a two-week recess. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times)

The breakdown over homeland security funding left hard-right House Republicans castigating their Senate brethren and ripping Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., the majority leader, in particular for cutting what they saw as an atrocious deal with Democrats in order to ease a departure for Easter break.

“Thune screwed America and left town,” Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., wrote on the social platform X. He was just one of many Republicans incensed by what they characterized as a Senate GOP sellout approved without so much as a formal vote in the middle of the night.

That was just hours after Trump told Fox News that the Senate deal was “not appropriate.”

“At three in the morning, senators just decided, well, throw in the towel and maybe see what they can cobble together to get out of town,” Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the No. 2 Republican, said as the House on Friday approved its own plan to fund the entire agency for eight weeks. “That is not the responsible thing to do for this country.”

The nearly party-line vote came after House Republicans dismissed a bipartisan Senate plan to fund homeland security operations other than Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol and allow those branches to continue operating with money included last year in the party’s major tax and social policy law.

GOP leaders in the House saw that approach as surrendering to Democrats, who had refused for weeks to vote for any homeland security money without curbs on the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation crackdown, after two U.S. citizens were fatally shot by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis this year.

But the competing House and Senate plans meant that the shutdown would continue because neither chamber is due back until mid-April to do any business, and both have passed plans that the other refuses to take up. The Senate is set to meet in a pro forma session Monday morning, and

Speaker Mike Johnson urged Republicans to try to force through the House plan then. But that would require the agreement of Democrats who have made clear they are staunchly opposed.

With their majorities at grave risk in November, Republicans would rather not spend the critical months before the elections sniping at one another in a nasty intramural spending feud, or defending the Trump administration’s attacks on Iran for that matter.

Party division can drive down voter enthusiasm and turnout. GOP lawmakers would much prefer to focus on saying how voters benefited from the tax cuts they pushed through last year or promoting a sweeping housing package they are trying to deliver to Trump’s desk — or at least training their attacks on Democrats

Instead, the housing measure is stalled amid Republican divisions, gas prices and economic worry are rising because of an unpopular Iran war, and some days GOP lawmakers appear angrier at each other than they are at Democrats.

Thune and Johnson have talked since the backlash to the Senate legislation erupted, but the majority leader has not responded publicly to the outcry. As the legislation was agreed to just before 2:30 a.m. Friday with only a handful of senators on the floor, he made it clear that it was not his preferred approach but a pragmatic way to move forward and settle the spending fight.

“It’s not the way to fund the department,” he said of the piecemeal spending on homeland security, “but we are out of time for the critical responsibilities, and tens of thousands of workers currently going without pay.”

The Republican unrest is being exacerbated by Thune’s

handling of a new voter measure being pushed by Trump. The president, along with hard-right members of Congress in both chambers and activists, have urged the majority leader to keep the Senate in session and gut the filibuster if necessary to approve the bill that would put stricter requirements on identification to vote and register and new controls on voting by mail. But Thune has so far demurred and has said at some point he would end the debate if Republicans are unable to overcome a Democratic filibuster.

Given the Republican infighting, lawmakers now fear they may have to start anew in the Senate to negotiate some sort of compromise with Democrats, even though such talks failed to produce an agreement over the past two months because Democrats and the White House could not come to terms on new restraints on immigration officers.

But the GOP divisions have also sapped Democrats’ incentive for reaching a deal. Trump on Friday declared that he would go around Congress to pay Transportation Security Agency workers, potentially alleviating the airport security snarls that were a main motivator in coming up with the bipartisan Senate deal the House rejected.

Plus, Democrats have their own midterm imperatives and will be in no hurry to get into the middle of a fight between dueling Republicans.

“The bill that the Senate passed — every conservative senator and every liberal one came to a consensus that the stalemate needed to end, that TSA agents needed to be paid, and that FEMA needed to be funded,” Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colo., said during the House debate. “The only reason we are not considering it is because our colleagues on the other side of the aisle have been captured by the far-right wing of their party. It is shameful.”

Iran and immigration frustrations fuel new wave of ‘No Kings’ rallies

By THOMAS FULLER

In the Twin Cities, a sea of people converged on the state Capitol, invoking the memories of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Demonstrators swarmed intersections in Portland, Oregon, motivated by what one called a “national crisis” that had “escalated to a whole other level.” In Little Rock, Arkansas, where more than 2,000 people marched across the Arkansas River, one woman carried her own MAGA sign: “Morons Are Governing America.”

Protesters filled streets and town squares across the United States on Saturday at thousands of rallies, the third in a sequence of nationwide, loosely coordinated demonstrations under the banner of “No Kings.” They came to denounce President Donald Trump and much of his second-term agenda, wielding signs and chants about issues such as mass deportation, restrictions on voting, attacks on diversity and two matters that have suddenly moved to the fore: the war in Iran and the soaring gas prices that have resulted from it.

A large crowd of demonstrators gathers outside the Idaho State Capitol in Boise for a “No Kings” rally on Saturday, March 28, 2026. (Loren Elliott/The New York Times)

“No Kings” rallies, according to organizers.

“Prices are going up, and it feels like we can’t even afford to live anymore,” said John Moes, a Minneapolis resident who was dressed in a 15-foot puppetlike costume resembling Prince, a local icon.

“This is one of the ways we can say we’re fed up,” said Moes, who described himself as an independent who leans Democratic.

The No Kings organizers said that 8 million people took part; their estimates in some cities were higher than those of local public safety officials. The New York Times is doing its own reporting on some of the turnout, but has not independently confirmed the numbers from the thousands of protest sites.

The demonstrations stretched across the country, from above the Arctic Circle (Kotzebue, Alaska: population 3,000) to the tropics, in Puerto Rico. There were also 39 international

The Twin Cities were a focal point of the day’s protests after tumultuous months of an immigration crackdown that included the killing of two protesters, Good and Pretti, by federal agents. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety estimated that 100,000 people took part; “No Kings” organizers said the number was 200,000.

On a windy and cold day, protesters marched in orderly waves toward a stage at the Capitol in St. Paul, flying Minnesota state and American flags, chanting and singing.

Jane Fonda, an icon of activism against the Vietnam War, addressed the crowd, and Bruce Springsteen took to the stage to perform “Streets of Minneapolis,” which he wrote as a tribute to the city and its defiance to the federal immigration crackdown.

“Here in our home they killed and roamed. In the winter of ’26,” he sang. “We’ll remember the names of those who died. On the streets of Minneapolis.”

Other large protests took place in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. In Manhattan, demonstrators passed through Times Square in a procession that stretched for more than a mile. In Washington, D.C., marchers passed near the residence of Stephen Miller, the architect of the Trump administration’s immigration policies, and called for his removal.

The nationwide marches under mostly bright skies came amid an unpopular war in Iran, months of fury by progressives over sweeping immigration enforcement raids, falling stock markets and sustained frustration over the cost of living, especially rising gasoline prices.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll published Tuesday found Trump’s approval rating had fallen to 36%, the lowest point since he returned to the White House. Just 35% of respondents approved of the U.S. strikes on Iran, the poll found.

Valerie Tirado, the mother of a Marine who is headed to

the Middle East, marched in Brooklyn on Saturday with a sign that said “Bring My Son Home.”

“Trump is using these military men as pawns, just to flex,” said Tirado, 60.

With the midterm elections months away, the protests are being scrutinized for whether they could translate to any political shifts. Although the protesters were largely Democrats, dozens more “No Kings” events were held in Republican-dominated or battleground states Saturday than during the last marches in October, according to the organizers. But overall the shift was marginal, as 49% of events were held in red or battleground states Saturday compared with 48% percent in October, according to data provided by the organizers.

The White House has reacted to “No Kings” rallies with mockery. On Thursday, a White House spokesperson, Abigail Jackson, said in a statement that “the only people who care about these Trump derangement therapy sessions are the reporters who are paid to cover them.”

At a time when conservative control of Washington remains complete, in the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court, the marches were a chance for Democrats to make their voices heard and to try to portray Republican domination as teetering.

At a small protest in Richmond, Kentucky, Missy Manet, 29, donned a red yarn hat and said she had attended the gathering as a show of frustration with the direction of the country.

“I feel somewhat powerless,” she said of being a Democratic voter in a staunchly Republican part of the country. “I feel like my vote doesn’t do a lot most of the times.”

The marches had no shortage of skeptics.

In Oxford, Mississippi, Cass Rutledge, a first-year law student at the University of Mississippi, walked through the “No Kings” protest and around the town square on Saturday and questioned why people thought Trump was acting like a king.

“He is, you know, a duly elected president who won the popular vote and the Electoral College in a landslide,” Rutledge said. “And so I’m a little bit confused on how he’s acting differently than any other president.”

Saturday’s events were organized by national and local groups, including widely known progressive coalitions such as Indivisible, 50501 and MoveOn, as well as hundreds of smaller ones, like American Atheists, the Transgender Law Center and the Michigan Climate Action Network.

In June, the first “No Kings” demonstrations took place on the same day that Trump scheduled a military parade in Washington for the Army’s 250th anniversary, coinciding with his 79th birthday.

In October, more than 7 million people attended “No Kings” demonstrations in all 50 states, according to organizers. (The New York Times has not verified the crowd numbers, which encompassed thousands of rallies.)

The war is going better than you think NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL

By BRET STEPHENS

Most Americans probably don’t look back at March 2012 — if they remember it at all — and think of terrifyingly high gas prices. In the month when “The Hunger Games” ruled the box office and President Barack Obama was on his way to a comfortable reelection, the price of Brent crude closed the month around $123 a barrel. That would be about $175 a barrel in today’s dollars.

As of Tuesday, despite Iran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz and its attacks on its neighbors’ energy facilities, it’s hovering around $100, slightly higher than the average inflation-adjusted price since January 2001, roughly $95.

That ought to provide some perspective on the panic over the war in the Middle East. To hear the critics’ version of events, an unprovoked and unnecessary attack on Iran, launched at Israel’s behest, is already a foreign-policy fiasco that has put the global economy at risk without any clear objective or endgame. As Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., told NBC’s Kristen Welker over the weekend, “We’ve never seen this level of incompetence in war-making in this country’s history.”

Really? Let’s take a tour of some of the recent history.

— During the 1991 Operation Desert Storm against Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, a campaign that is widely considered a brilliant military success, the U.S.-led coalition lost 75 aircraft, 42 of them in combat. In this conflict, four manned aircraft

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have been destroyed, three to friendly fire and one in an accident. Not a single manned plane has yet been lost over Iran.

— The U.S. air and land campaign in that operation lasted a full six weeks. Today it’s remembered as a lightning-fast war. The current conflict with Iran is less than four weeks old.

— In the 1989-90 invasion of Panama, whose military phase lasted a few days, the United States lost 23 soldiers, with 325 more wounded. So far in this war, U.S. losses are 13 dead. Among the more than 230 wounded, most have swiftly returned to duty.

— During the Persian Gulf crisis that began with Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, the U.S. economy went into recession and the Dow fell by about 13% before the allied air war began. Since conflict with Iran began last June with Operation Midnight Hammer, the Dow is up by 9% as of Tuesday morning.

— At the outset of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the United States made a failed decapitation strike against Saddam and his senior leadership, some of whom became leaders of the insurgency. In this war, much of Iran’s top leadership was killed on the first day and there is still no proof of life from the new supreme leader. Yousef Pezeshkian, the son of the current president, has written that if Iran can’t prevent the continued assassination of its leaders, “we will lose the war.”

— Between 1987 and 1988, in the final stages of the so-called tanker war, the Reagan administration reflagged Kuwaiti tankers and had the U.S. Navy escort them out of the Strait of Hormuz. An Iranian mine nearly sank an American frigate. The conflict wound down after the United States sank a handful of Iranian navy ships. This time around, we have destroyed almost all of Iran’s navy with no naval losses of our own.

— In 1991, Iraq fired roughly 40 missiles toward Israel. Hardly any were intercepted despite the deployment of Patriot batteries there. In this war, Israel is registering an interception rate of 92% against more than 400 missiles. Iran’s overall rate of fire has dropped from 438 ballistic missiles on the first day of the war to 21 on Monday. Drone fire has also declined from 345 to 75 for the same dates.

— In the months leading up to the second Iraq war, the George W. Bush administration made a case based on erroneous information that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction. In the current war, there is no question that some 970 pounds of highly enriched uranium lies stashed and buried in Iran — possibly enough, with further enrichment and conversion into uranium metal, for 11 nuclear bombs. If the outrage of the Iraq war is that Saddam didn’t have WMD capabilities, is it now supposed to be somehow more outrageous that Iran does?

— One of the worst mistakes of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was the attempt by U.S. administrators to remake societies in both countries — well-intended efforts with some noble results that nonetheless were beyond our grasp. In this war, despite some varying rhetoric from President Donald

“... if past generations could see how well this war has gone compared with the ones they were compelled to fight at a frightening cost, they would marvel at their posterity’s comparative good fortune,” Times columnist Bret Stephens writes. (Naila Ruechel/The New York Times)

Trump, the goal has been reasonably clear and consistent: Iran cannot have nuclear weapons or other means to menace its neighbors. As for regime change, we hope the Iranian people use the opportunity of their leadership’s weakness to seize their own destiny. But we won’t do it for them.

— The Bush administration had little support from Arab nations during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and its aftermath.

Now The New York Times reports, “Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has been pushing President Trump to continue the war against Iran, arguing that the U.S.-Israeli military campaign presents a ‘historic opportunity’ to remake the Middle East.” Hopefully, one way in which it can be remade is through a peace treaty between Riyadh and Jerusalem.

— In hindsight, the single biggest error of the Gulf War was to end it too soon, before Saddam’s forces were thoroughly routed. Trump should not make the same mistake.

I am not blind to the Trump administration’s failures in planning, particularly its unwillingness to make a stronger public case for war and get more allies on our side before the campaign began. I am also purposely comparing the war with Iran to past wars of similar scale, rather than our true military fiascos in Vietnam, Korea and the two world wars — in which tens of thousands of Americans died due to poor tactical planning and bad strategy.

Still, if past generations could see how well this war has gone compared with the ones they were compelled to fight at a frightening cost, they would marvel at their posterity’s comparative good fortune. They would marvel, too, at our inability to appreciate the advantages we now possess.

CAGUAS – Reafirmando un compromiso que se ha cumplido por los pasados 17 años, la administra-

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SABANA GRANDE – La Administración Municipal de Sabana Grande, junto a su alcalde Marcos Valentín Flores, lamentan el fallecimiento del exalcalde Ángel Antonio “Toño” Figueroa Ramírez, resaltando su legado como una figura influyente en el desarrollo moderno de la ‘Cuidad del Petate’.

“El pueblo de Sabana Grande despide hoy a un líder comprometido, cuya visión y acción dejaron una huella imborrable en nuestra historia. ‘Toño’ Figueroa no solo fue alcalde de Sabana Grande (1985-1992) sino que transformó comunidades completas con proyectos que aún hoy continúan beneficiando a nuestra gente”, expresó el actual Alcalde de Sabana Grande.

Como parte de su legado, el primer ejecutivo municipal destacó que Figueroa Ramírez impulsó una transformación significativa en Sabana Grande mediante pro-

ción municipal de Caguas se unió este sábado, 28 de marzo de 2026, al evento global La Hora de la Tierra. De esta manera, Caguas se consolida, un año más, como la única ciudad en Puerto Rico que participa de manera ininterrumpida en esta iniciativa que es impulsada internacionalmente por el World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF),

La actividad se llevó a cabo en el Complejo Recreodeportivo del Sudeste, donde desde las 5:00 p.m. los presentes participaron de exhibiciones ambientales, talleres educativos, mesas informativas y presentaciones artísticas enfocadas en la conservación de los recursos naturales.

El acto protocolar comenzó a las 8:00 p.m. donde

yectos de vivienda en zonas como: el Arrendado, Santa Elena y La Arbolada. De igual forma, lideró obras de infraestructura clave como la canalización y la construcción del puente sobre el Río Guanajibo, fortaleciendo la seguridad y conectividad del pueblo.

“En el ámbito comunitario y cultural, su legado incluye la remodelación del Teatro Machuchal, la creación de la Placita de la Recordación, la Placita del Burén, centros comunales en diversas comunidades, y el desarrollo del área recreativa Orlando López Martínez, proyecto que impulsó tras la adquisición de terrenos que también dieron paso al crecimiento urbano”, sostuvo Valentín Flores.

La Administración Municipal informó que los actos fúnebres se llevarán a cabo conforme al siguiente itinerario:

Lunes, 30 de marzo de 2026: a las 10:00 a.m. misa por su eterno descanso en la Parroquia San Isidro Labrador y a las 11:00 a.m. será trasladado hasta la Casa

el alcalde de Caguas, William Miranda Torres, destacó que la actividad representa mucho más que un gesto simbólico.

“La Hora de la Tierra no es solamente apagar las luces por una hora. Es detenernos, reflexionar y asumir la responsabilidad diaria de proteger nuestro entorno. El verdadero cambio ocurre cuando convertimos la conciencia en acción”, expresó el primer ejecutivo municipal.

A las 8:30 p.m., se realizó el simbólico apagón de luces que incluyó la Casa Alcaldía William Miranda Marín. De esta manera, la Ciudad Criolla se unió a más de 180 países alrededor del mundo que participaron del esfuerzo global.

Alcaldía de Sabana Grande. Posteriormente, la comitiva fúnebre partirá hacia el Cementerio Municipal, donde recibirá cristiana sepultura.

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A master of animation is back, with a ‘Magnificent’ story

By CARLOS AGUILAR

In the hand-drawn period pieces that have earned French animator Sylvain Chomet international acclaim, the cartoony characters don’t speak. Their bodies tell the story.

But for his first animated feature in 15 years, “A Magnificent Life,” out in U.S. theaters Friday, Chomet’s drawings deliver plenty of lines. “I won’t ever do a film with dialogue again,” he said in a recent video interview from Auvergne, in central France. “I’ve done this one, and it’s about Marcel Pagnol, so it needed to have dialogue.”

The animated biopic celebrates Pagnol, the French playwright, filmmaker and author who immortalized the working class of the Provence region in his vast oeuvre throughout the 20th century. Though it’s certainly Chomet’s most verbose outing, the new film preserves his singular style of caricatured figures in exquisitely detailed backgrounds that earned him four Oscar nominations, including for “The Illusionist” (2010) and “The Triplets of Belleville” (2003).

Nicolas Pagnol, the artist’s grandson, said he had watched “The Triplets of Belleville,” in which a mother tries to save her son from the mafia with the help of a trio of vaudeville performers, “perhaps 20 times.” He approached Chomet with the intention of working together on a rather traditional documentary about his grandfather’s multifaceted creative life, which would have blended archival footage with some historical reenactments in animation.

Chomet, 62, was interested, but favored a different approach. “I said, ‘Let’s do the opposite,’” he recalled. “Let’s do an animated film, and we’ll use some live-action excerpts from the films of Marcel Pagnol.”

Like many in France, Chomet knew Pagnol from his books. He first encountered Pagnol in the pages of the autobiographical “My Father’s Glory,” which records some childhood memories as a 10-year-old on vacation with his parents. “I was that age when I read that,” Chomet said. “This little boy was kind of my friend, and I found his adventures great.”

That boyhood connection manifests in “A Magnificent Life.” Chomet uses a whimsical conversation between the adult Pagnol and his childhood self as the movie’s framing device.

That Pagnol never surrendered his ability for wonder and curiosity resonated deeply with Chomet. “When I was a child, I wanted to make people laugh with my drawings,” Chomet said. “I’m quite faithful to the child I was, because I actually became what I wanted to be.”

Years ago, he considered making a similar film about Victor Hugo, the author of “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame” and “Les Misérables,” but after doing some research, he found Hugo’s life uneventful. “He just sat and wrote,” Chomet said. Pagnol, on the other hand, started out in the theater, then moved on to cinema when talking pictures came in, and lived through World War II.

For Chomet, that was a story worth telling.

With “The Illusionist,” for example, he made a emotionally delicate and humorous portrait of a magician struggling to get work that was inspired by another real-life entertainer, Jacques Tati.

And while he would never call his latest subject a loser, Chomet said that some of Pagnol’s characters fit that profile, like Aimable, the bread-maker whose wife abruptly abandons him in Pagnol’s film “The Baker’s Wife.”

Chomet said that part of the reason he had stepped away from animation for so long was to spend time with his children while they were young. That was on top of the challenge of financing films and finding hand-drawn animators who meet his standards.

But he’s back for good now, he said.

His next project, already in the works, is a spinoff of “The Triplets of Belleville.” Based on a story that Chomet wrote more than two decades ago, the new film will follow the triplets as they visit their 100-year-old father, who doesn’t know that they sidestepped conventional careers and became cabaret singers. For his birthday, they are telling him the truth.

“It has the same feeling as my previous ‘Triplets’ film,” Chomet explained. “It’s completely mad, and it’s quite a baroque movie with brand-new, very cartoony characters. I’m going back to the basics, back to silent movies, because they are automatically universal.”

Nicolas Pagnol, who knew his grandfather only via his writings and anecdotes from his grandmother Jacqueline Pagnol, said that “A Magnificent Life” was not a hagiography, but an “accurate portrayal” of a man who had “some dark parts of his character.”

Watching the movie was “the first time I saw my grandfather and my grandmother together,” Nicolas said. “It’s very special, because the moment you accept the animation, it becomes more realistic than if it was live action.”

Because these characters are based on real people and exchange substantial dialogue, Chomet changed his approach to animation. To capture the physicality of people engaged in conversation and how their clothes affect their movement, Chomet shot reference material for every scene with actors wearing period-appropriate outfits.

“A Magnificent Life” also reaffirms Chomet’s predilection for narratives set in the mid-20th century. “Since the late ’70s or ’80s, there’s no more beauty,” he said. “There’s a lot of ugliness in the world, and no more nice design. I prefer that period, because it was more authentic.”

His recurrent affinity for protagonists who are storytellers or performers is also on display. “I like artists when they are quite pathetic,” Chomet said. “I like the idea of losers as characters. They’re much more interesting than superheroes.”

When asked if there were any recent animated films he’s enjoyed, Chomet pointed to Pixar’s “Wall-E” as a good example. (It came out in 2008.) Most 3D computer animation is indistinguishable to him, he said. And although he enjoys Japanese animation, he said that other filmmakers were copying the Japanese style instead of developing their own.

“Globalization is basically having no taste in anything anymore,” he said. “Hand-drawn animation should still be full of different styles.”

“It’s really sad,” Chomet added, but then he smiled. “I’m going to carry on doing my films, because at least I’ll be very original.”

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Dow confirms correction as traders worry about war

The Dow Jones ⁠Industrial ⁠Average fell 1.7% on ⁠Friday as investors worried about the global economic impact of the war in Iran, leaving the blue-chip index down 10% from its record high close on February 10 and confirming it has been in a correction since then.

In a ⁠broad Wall ⁠Street selloff fueled by uncertainty about the U.S. and Israeli war with Iran, the Dow in recent days has suffered its worst decline since April 2025, when U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” global tariff announcement sent global markets into a tailspin.

On Thursday, the tech-heavy Nasdaq confirmed it has been in a correction since its record high ⁠close ⁠on October 29. The S&P ⁠500 is down about 9% from its record high close on January 27.

While investment funds are generally not ⁠benchmarked to the Dow, the price-weighted index of 30 companies is well known among Main Street investors and its steep decline reflects a broad deterioration of investor sentiment.

With the selloff driven by fears the Middle East conflict ⁠will cripple the global economy, investors are weighing whether the downturn is ⁠a temporary dip, similar to the recovery that followed the 2025 selloff, or the start of a sustained period of risk tied to the war.

Global financial markets have tumbled and oil prices have surged since the U.S. and Israel launched a war against Iran on February 28. The Dow has lost over 7% since the attacks began. Sky-high oil prices have sparked fears of inflation, with ⁠traders expecting the Federal

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Reserve to be more likely to raise interest rates by year-end than cut rates, according to CME’s FedWatch tool.

A 2.4% decline in Goldman Sachs Group weighed more on the Dow on Friday than any other stock.

The Fort Worth, Texas-based company had been pursuing an IPO since 2021, but shelved the plans in late 2022 when economic uncertainty crushed the new listing markets.

The filing comes as market volatility amid the ⁠ongoing conflict ⁠in the Middle East threatens to once again delay the long-awaited U.S. IPO rebound.

Still, some issuers have flipped their prospectuses public in recent days, giving them the optionality to move ahead with the IPO roadshow launch when conditions improve.

Israel vows to seize more territory in Lebanon and strikes hit Iranian port

By AARON BOXERMAN and SANAM MAHOOZI

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said he had ordered his forces to increase the territory they control in southern Lebanon, as 2,500 U.S. Marines arrived in the Middle East, the latest sign that the monthlong war in the region was far from winding down.

The U.S.-Israeli bombardment of Iran continued Sunday, with strikes on a TV station in Tehran, the capital, and a port in the country’s south, where at least five people were killed. Iran fired repeated volleys of ballistic missiles at Israel without causing casualties, although a fire was reported at an industrial park in southern Israel that includes a hazardous waste facility.

Diplomats from across the region convened for talks in Pakistan, whose mediators had passed along to Iran a 15-point U.S. plan to end the conflict. But Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s parliament, accused President Donald Trump on Sunday of engaging in a front of diplomacy while “secretly planning a ground invasion.”

The Israeli-U.S. military campaign has yet

Mourners at the funeral of the journalists Ali Choeib, Fatima Ftouni, and Mohammad Ftouni, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, in Beirut, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times)

to compel Iran to accept U.S. demands on the country’s nuclear program or to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial oil shipping route. Iranian forces have successfully blockaded the waterway — through which about one-fifth of the world’s oil transits — sending the price of oil soaring by more than 50%.

Here’s what else we’re covering:

— Lebanon: The Israeli military said Sun-

day that troops were “expanding the security zone” over the border in southern Lebanon, from which the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia has launched attacks in solidarity with Tehran. Netanyahu said his country was determined to “fundamentally change the situation,” further raising fears that a protracted Israeli occupation may be looming.

— Palm Sunday: All the major holy sites in Jerusalem’s Old City have been mostly closed to the public since the war began a month ago, and Israeli police on Sunday prevented two of the most senior Christian representatives in Jerusalem from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where they had planned to celebrate Palm Sunday Mass.

— Pakistan talks: Foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey convened on Sunday in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, for further discussions aimed at ending the war. But the warring parties did not take part in the talks.

— Lebanese journalists killed: Crowds of mourners gathered in Beirut on Sunday for the funeral of three Lebanese journalists killed in an Israeli airstrike. They were Ali Choeib, a well-known televi-

sion presenter for the Hezbollah-owned Al Manar channel; Fatima Ftouni, who worked for Al-Mayadeen, another channel close to Hezbollah; and her brother, Mohammad Ftouni, also a journalist. The Israeli military said Choeib was a member of Hezbollah’s armed wing. It declined to comment on the killing of the other two journalists.

— U.S. options: Trump has been weighing several options to escalate the conflict, each of which could have far-reaching consequences, analysts say. He could carry out his ultimatum to bombard Iranian power plants unless Iran opens the Strait of Hormuz by April 6, which experts say that could constitute a war crime. Another option would be a risky ground assault to seize Iran’s enriched uranium, which U.S. officials say could one day be used in a nuclear weapon.

— Yemen: The Houthis, an Iran-allied rebel group in Yemen, joined the widening war on Saturday with an unsuccessful missile attack on Israel. The Houthis could further ensnarl global shipping, already under stress by the Iranian stranglehold over the Strait of Hormuz, by threatening vessels passing through the nearby Red Sea.

There are now more than 50,000 US troops in the Mideast

By HELENE COOPER

The arrival of 2,500 Marines and another 2,500 sailors is keeping the number of U.S. troops in the Mideast region at more than 50,000 — roughly 10,000 more than usual — as President Donald Trump decides on his next step in his month-old war in Iran.

While it is still unclear just what the Marines, from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, will be charged with, U.S. officials say the president is weighing whether to try a larger attack, like venturing to seize an island or other ground as part of Trump’s effort to open the Strait of Hormuz.

The narrow waterway, through which about 20% of the world’s oil usually traverses, has been largely closed because of attacks by Iranian forces who are retaliating against the U.S. and Israeli war on their country.

Usually there are around 40,000 U.S.

troops scattered at bases and on ships at any time around the region, including in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. But as Trump has escalated the war in Iran, that number has reached more than 50,000, according to a U.S. military official.

The number of troops no longer includes the 4,500 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Gerald Ford, however. That ship has been hobbled by constant mishaps, including a fire that broke out in the laundry. The Ford withdrew from the region March 23 and sailed to Crete. On Friday, it arrived in Croatia. It remains unclear where it is headed next.

Last week, the Pentagon also ordered about 2,000 soldiers from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East to give Trump additional military options.

The location of the Army paratroopers is not public, the military official said. But they will be within striking distance of Iran. The paratroopers could be used to seize Kharg

Island, Iran’s main oil export hub in the northern Persian Gulf, where U.S. warplanes bombed more than 90 military targets this month. Or they could be deployed for other ground operations in conjunction with the Marines.

But military experts caution that even 50,000 troops, many of them at sea, is a small number for any kind of major land operation. Israel used more than 300,000

troops for its operations in the Gaza Strip that began in October 2023. The U.S.-led coalition that invaded Iraq in 2003 was close to 250,000 at the beginning. At almost one-third of the size of the continental United States, Iran has about 93 million people. Taking, let alone holding, a deeply complex country of its size and complexity and weaponry with 50,000 troops, military experts say, is not doable.

With Cuba under pressure, the Castro dynasty is making a comeback

By SIMON ROMERO and DAVID C. ADAMS

When President Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba acknowledged this month that his government was engaged in secret talks with the Trump administration, he revealed that the person guiding the negotiations was the “historical leader of the revolution.”

That honorific is reserved for Raúl Castro, 94, who succeeded his brother Fidel Castro as Cuba’s president from 2008 to 2018, before retreating from the public eye to project an image of a civilian transition under Díaz-Canel.

But with Cuba on the brink of economic collapse from a U.S. oil blockade and gripped by a worsening humanitarian crisis, other members of the Castro family have emerged from the shadows.

One has spoken directly with Marco Rubio, the U.S. secretary of state. Another is taking part in the negotiations with the Trump administration. Yet another is the public face of Cuba’s groundbreaking (and tantalizing) decision to allow Cuban exiles to invest in the island.

The family’s new profile reflects a dynasty that never really exited the political scene, but instead evolved.

Even as U.S. officials increase pressure for sweeping economic changes in Cuba and press for the removal of Díaz-Canel, Raúl Castro’s handpicked successor as president, a family long vilified by U.S. leaders is positioning new generations of Castros as the nation’s ultimate power brokers.

“This could produce an absurd case of deCastrofication where the family creates an illusion of change when the real power in Cuba still resides with them and other members of the post1959 elite,” said Andrés Pertierra, a historian of Cuba at the University of Wisconsin.

The Castros have shaped Cuba’s fortunes since 1959, when Fidel and Rául Castro, the sons

of a wealthy sugar plantation owner, led the revolution that toppled an old order aligned with the United States. They moved Cuba into the Soviet orbit, turning the Caribbean island into a central player in the Cold War.

Fidel Castro, who died in 2016, was the Cuban Revolution’s charismatic “Maximum Leader.”

Raúl Castro long maintained a low profile, acting as the main liaison with Moscow and the revolution’s organizational architect, prioritizing bureaucracy, clear hierarchies and administrative efficiency.

The Castro brothers faced many challenges to their rule, including CIA assassination plots, a decades-long U.S. embargo and the collapse of the Soviet Union, once Cuba’s main benefactor. Venezuela had replaced the Soviets, becoming Cuba’s top oil supplier, until U.S. forces captured Nicolás Maduro in January.

Now, with the U.S. ordering Venezuela to halt oil shipments to Cuba, the family faces what may be its greatest challenge: a fuel shortage that has Cuba’s economy teetering, raising questions about the survival of the island’s repressive communist government.

The U.S. fuel blockade is intended to produce a regime pliant to U.S. demands, similar to the way Venezuela shifted from adversary to client state with the removal of Maduro.

Rubio, referring to Cuba, said recently that “the people in charge, they don’t know how to fix it, so they need to get new people in charge.”

Replacing the Castros, if that is what the United States desires, is a tall order.

Raúl Castro, who is said to remain lucid and in relatively good health for a man his age, presides over the family. Since stepping down in 2018, his prestige and power remain rooted in his status as Cuba’s most powerful military figure. As defense minister under Fidel Castro, he oversaw the creation of GAESA, a sprawling military-run business conglomerate that is Cuba’s most impor-

tant economic force.

Raúl’s children and grandchildren have more prominent official roles in today’s Cuba than Fidel’s descendants, one of whom is an Instagram celebrity known for flaunting a life of luxury in Havana.

One of Raúl Castro’s grandsons, Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, 41, has emerged as a new player in the crisis. Known as Raúlito, he is also called “El Cangrejo” — the Crab — a reference to being born with six fingers on one of his hands.

Guillermo Rodríguez has been part of his grandfather’s security detail, but these days mostly serves as his personal aide. He was once a fixture in Cuba’s elite social circles, hanging out with popular musicians such as the Charanga Habanera, who attended his 2008 wedding at an elite military club.

Now Raúlito also has a role as a messenger in the negotiations with the administration of President Donald Trump, meeting with Rubio’s team at a recent event in St. Kitts and Nevis where Caribbean nations had convened.

Stunning those who had grown accustomed to his operating behind the scenes, Raúlito appeared this month on state television sitting alongside the regime’s highest-ranking members when Díaz-Canel disclosed the talks with Washington.

Raúl’s only son, Alejandro Castro Espín, 60, is also resurfacing after largely disappearing from public life when his father stepped down as president. An engineer educated and trained in Cuba and the Soviet Union, and a brigadier general in Cuba’s army, he has held leadership roles in Cuba’s intelligence apparatus and has written books critical of the United States such as “The Empire of Terror.”

Now Castro Espín is also taking a leading part in the talks with U.S. officials, according to news media reports. Such a role is not new for him: In 2014, he led Cuba’s side in secret talks with the Obama administration that produced a brief thaw in relations with the United States.

Another Castro family member suddenly rising in prominence is Óscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, 54, a soft-spoken engineer and grandnephew of Raúl and Fidel Castro. He is currently Cuba’s deputy prime minister and minister of foreign trade and foreign investment.

Pérez-Oliva leaped into the spotlight this month after announcing potentially one of the biggest policy shifts since the Castros seized power in 1959: allowing Cuban exiles to own businesses and invest in Cuba.

That showcased Pérez-Oliva as a public face of the regime’s survival strategy. It also ignited talk about whether he could be the Cuban version of Venezuela’s new Trump-friendly leader, Delcy Rodríguez, a younger insider more amenable to the United States who can speak the language of international business and yield to Washington’s

People look on as the remains of Cuban leader Fidel Castro are driven along The Malecon, Havana’s seaside promenade, on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016. (Mauricio Lima/The New York Times)

demands.

Those attributes, along with not having “Castro” in his name, could make him palatable to an administration in Washington that prizes regime compliance over regime collapse, some political analysts say.

At the same time, his family ties could allow him to shore up political support among those within Cuba’s power structures who view the Castros as a source of stability and revolutionary legitimacy.

The involvement of so many Castros in the regime’s survival strategy underscores one of the Cuban Revolution’s contradictions: While its communist leaders sought to create a classless, egalitarian society, many of them become members of an elite class.

Still, the possibility of the family at the helm of Cuba’s authoritarian political system retaining its power would disillusion many Cuban exiles in the United States. Some have been pushing for decades for the Castros to be completely sidelined, along with erasing any communist influence in Cuba.

The Castros are known as shrewd negotiators, extricating themselves from tough spots in the past, said Ricardo Zúniga, a former U.S. official who helped broker former President Barack Obama’s opening with Cuba and also served under Trump.

The Obama talks took 18 months, partly because the meetings were held in secret, mostly in Canada, and the negotiating teams were tiny. Those expecting a Venezuela-style outcome in Cuba could also be surprised. Venezuela’s political elite, divided into camps with different economic objectives, was relatively fractious before the capture of Maduro, making it easier for Trump officials to settle on someone like Rodríguez, a technocrat who had already introduced marketoriented reforms aimed at improving Venezuela’s economy.

Cuba’s elite, in contrast, is far more cohesive after decades of purges and counterintelligence operations that detected even the smallest signs of dissent. Members of the Castro family have consistently benefited from this system.

How clean energy firms are trying to survive the Trump era

By BRAD PLUMER

Clean energy isn’t dead in the Trump era. But it does look different these days.

Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has dismantled federal efforts to fight climate change and vowed to stop new wind turbines from going up. His administration has canceled billions of dollars in funding for technologies that might one day help reduce planet-warming emissions, and it has instead pushed to expand domestic oil and gas drilling.

Those moves have taken a brutal toll on America’s budding clean energy industry, including canceled offshore wind farms, shuttered electric-car factories and layoffs at climate technology startups.

Yet many clean energy executives say they are finding ways to adapt, and some promising technologies that might help slow global warming are moving forward.

Some industries, such as geothermal energy or nuclear power, still receive support from the Trump administration. Startups that could help cut emissions from factories are figuring out how to survive without federal support. Others, like battery companies, are looking to pitch themselves as a solution for the artificial intelligence and data center boom.

More than 300 startups attended a major annual energy industry summit last week, known as CERAWeek by S&P Global, showcasing ideas for investors and policymakers like advanced batteries that can store power for multiple days and loweremission jet fuel.

“We’ve just gone through an era of radical uncertainty” for clean energy, said Alex Kizer, an executive vice president at the Energy Futures Initiative, a Washington nonprofit organization. “And for a lot of companies, there are big questions on how they’ll evolve going forward.”

‘Wishful thinking’

One big shift is how the industry seeks investments for ideas that could bring major climate benefits. Many executives said they were no longer counting on government subsidies or the goodwill of environmentally minded politicians to support their business.

tics would entirely reorient itself around stopping carbon dioxide emissions, and that’s how we were going to make money,” said Cody Finke, the founder of a startup called Brimstone. “And I think that was wishful thinking.”

When Brimstone was founded in 2019, the company aimed to produce cement with half the carbon dioxide emissions of regular cement by using carbonfree silicate rocks instead of limestone. The Biden administration awarded the company a $189 million grant as part of its push to reduce carbon emissions from heavy industry. But the Trump administration abruptly canceled the grant last year.

Finke said Brimstone hasn’t been deterred. The company recently announced that it had refined its process so it can harvest those same silicate rocks to produce both cement and other valuable industrial materials like alumina, a precursor to aluminum that the United States typically imports. The bet is that by producing multiple products together, Brimstone can become economically competitive with traditional cement-makers.

“If you’re going to solve the climate problem,” Finke said, “you’re going to have to find solutions that just have fundamentally better economics.”

Other companies are making similar bets that they can displace fossil fuels even without government subsidies.

Another startup, AtmosZero, is developing giant heat pumps that can be used instead of gas-fired boilers to generate steam for industrial facilities. The company is testing its technology at a brewery in Fort Collins, Colorado, trying to demonstrate that electrifying can make financial sense for companies — while also being cleaner.

“A decade ago, you might’ve called us clean tech or climate tech, but we’re really focused on the value of electrification,” said Addison Stark, the startup’s CEO. “We want our technology to be cost effective no matter which way the policy pendulum swings.”

New energy winners

Other clean energy firms are increasingly billing themselves as a solution to the AI boom.

Wind turbines near Mart, Texas, Aug. 5, 2023. Renewable energy leaders said their industry got “rolled” in President Donald Trump’s tax bill. Many executives say they are finding ways to adapt, and some promising technologies that might help slow global warming are moving forward. (Mason Trinca/The New York Times)

Google, Microsoft and Amazon say they are still committed to reducing their overall carbon emissions. That has provided a boost to wind and solar firms that have otherwise faced major obstacles from the Trump administration.

“The reality is that renewables are often the fastest energy source we can deploy,” said Sandhya Ganapathy, CEO of EDP Renewables North America, a leading wind and solar developer. “So even if we have not had very favorable clean energy policy in the last 12 months, we continue to see significant amounts of procurement from corporates and utilities.”

Batteries are also benefiting. Last week, Crusoe, a data center developer, announced major partnerships with Form Energy, which has developed a new type of iron-air battery that can store 100 hours’ worth of electricity, far more than traditional batteries, as well as with Redwood Materials, which is recycling old electric car batteries to provide grid storage.

The Trump administration has largely scorned wind and solar power and has sought to promote fossil fuels like natural gas and coal as the most important nearterm solutions to rising electricity demand. Yet officials have also provided support and money to low-emissions energy sources like advanced nuclear power and next-generation geothermal.

ally, geothermal production was limited to a handful of locations, such as Iceland or California, where companies could easily tap underground hot water reservoirs close to the surface.

But in recent years, some startups — most notably a company called Fervo Energy — have sought to adapt modern drilling techniques from the oil and gas industry to tap underground heat in more places. This has raised hopes that geothermal could offer a vast new source of emissions-free power that, unlike wind and solar, can run at all hours. The industry has also received significant investments from oil and gas firms that have experience with large-scale drilling.

And casualties, too

Trump’s return to office has also brought a lot of clean energy casualties.

Last month, Sublime Systems, a Boston-based clean tech startup, announced that it was laying off two-thirds of its workers. The company had developed a novel process to make carbon-free cement using electricity and signed a deal to produce more than 600,000 tons of cement for Microsoft. With the help of an $87 million grant from the Biden administration, it was building its first factory in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

The Trump administration terminated that grant last year as part of billions of dollars in cuts to Biden-era funding. In a statement, Sublime said the cancellation created “compounding challenges” for financing, and work on the Holyoke facility has paused. The company says it still hopes to build its first factory, whether in North America or Europe, and continues to talk to the Energy Department about restoring its award.

Another technology that has faltered is known as “green hydrogen,” the production of clean-burning hydrogen fuel using wind or solar power. Many firms have abandoned those efforts, in part because the Trump administration has cut funding and because the process requires vast amounts of cheap electricity — electricity that is now being diverted to data centers.

“For years, the clean tech world had a lot of idealistic founders who felt that the rules of capitalism had changed, that poli-

“If you’re a clean energy technology that was depending on cheap grid power for your business, you’re in a lot of trouble right now,” said David Crane, who served as the undersecretary for infrastructure at the Energy Department in the Biden administration. “Especially with how much the hyperscalers are willing to pay for that electricity.” The San Juan Daily Star

Electricity demand is rising for the first time in decades as tech giants build hundreds of energy-hungry AI data centers. Although many are being powered by new natural gas plants, big tech companies like

Geothermal energy, in particular, is emerging as one of the big renewable energy winners of the current era. Tradition-

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMER INSTANCIA SALA DE SUPERIOR DE CANÓVANAS MUNICIPIO DE CANÓVANAS, REPRESENTADA POR SU ALCALDESA LORNNA J. SOTO VILLANUEVA

Peticionario V. ADQUISICIÓN DE FINCA 11694 DE LA CALLE PEPITA ALBANDOZ, DEL TÉRMINO MUNICIPAL DE CANÓVANAS; VALENTÍN HACE GONZÁLEZ, ET ALS.

Partes con Interés Civil Núm.: CN2025CV00365. Sobre: PROCEDIMIENTO SUMARIO DE EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA DE ESTORBO PÚBLICO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: VALENTÍN HACE GONZÁLEZ, CARMEN LUISA MONTAÑEZ, también conocida como CARMEN LUISA CRUZ VELÁZQUEZ y como CARMEN LUISA CRUZ DE MONTAÑEZ, por sí y como miembro de la sociedad legal de gananciales compuesta por Carmen Luisa Montañez y Nicolás Montañez Claudio; y NICOLÁS MONTAÑEZ CLAUDIO, por sí y como miembro de la sociedad legal de gananciales compuesta por Carmen Luisa Montañez y Nicolás Montañez Claudio, JOHN DOE, dueños desconocidos y/o cualquier persona con algún posible interés.

Se le emplaza y notifica que, con el fin público de erradicar el abandono y peligrosidad de propiedades declaradas estorbos públicos, el Municipio de Canóvanas ha radicado en esta Secretaría una Petición de Expropiación Forzosa al amparo de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa del 12 de marzo de 1903, según enmendada; la Ley Núm. 107 de 14 de agosto de 2020 conocida como el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, en su Artículo 2.018 [21 L.P.R.A. § 7183]; la Ordenan-

za Núm. 32, Serie 2024-2025, aprobada por la Legislatura Municipal de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico el 24 de junio de 2025; y, firmada por su Alcaldesa el día 26 del mismo mes; bajo el procedimiento sumario de expropiación forzosa de estorbos públicos que establece el Artículo 4.012A del Código Municipal establecido mediante la Ley Núm. 114 del 29 de junio de 2024, para adquirir la siguiente Finca: URBANA: Solar: CALLE PEPITA ALBANDOZ de Canóvanas. Cabida: 96 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: NORTE, en seis metros cuarenta centímetros con la calle Pepita Albandoz. SUR, en seis metros cuarenta centímetros con un solar ocupado por la familia Correa. ESTE, en quince metros con otro solar ocupado por la señora Valentina López. OESTE, en quince metros con otro solar ocupado por la familia. Enclava una casa de madera y techo de zinc destinada a vivienda. FINCA 11694 inscrita al FOLIO 238 del TOMO 259 de Canóvanas. USO PÚBLICO: “CASA PILAR”, proyecto de vivienda digna para envejecientes sin hogar. CATASTRO NÚM.: 089086-034-07-001. JUSTA COMPENSACIÓN: $40,000, a ser consignados a tenor con el Art. 4.012A(f) del Código Municipal. No habiéndose podido emplazar personalmente a las partes con interés antes relacionadas, por desconocer su paradero, este Tribunal ha ordenado que se les emplace por edicto, el cual se publicará una (1) vez por semana, durante 3 semanas consecutivas en un periódico de circulación diaria en Puerto Rico. Se le notifica que, si usted desea presentar objeción o defensa a la incautación de las estructuras descritas, debe presentar su contestación en este Tribunal dentro del término improrrogable de 30 DÍAS, contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto, debiendo notificar con copia de la misma a la parte peticionaria, a través de la LCDA. JOSEPHINE M. RODRÍGUEZ RÍOS

- RUA 15,736: PO BOX 889 FAJARDO, PR 00738 Email: josephine.rodriguez@gmail.com.

De usted no comparecer en el término aquí fijado, el Tribunal le anotará la rebeldía y dictará Sentencia en un término no mayor de 5 días. De usted comparecer o contestar la Petición, el Tribunal citará para juicio, el cual será celebrado en un término no menor de 15 días ni mayor de 30, de haberse contestado la Petición. Expedida por Orden del Tribunal, en Canóvanas, Puerto Rico a 16 de

marzo de 2026. LIC. KANELLY

ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. DENISE TORRES RUIZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

MARISOL LOPEZ ROMAN

Parte Peticionaria EXPARTE

Civil Núm.: CM2026CV00065. Sala: 401. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A: FELIX VARGAS RIVERA, LUIS

ANTONIO VARGAS

RIVERA, HERIBERTO VARGAS RIVERA, HERMINIO ROMAN VARGAS, SUCESIÓN DESCONOCIDA DE JOSE DEL CARMEN VARGAS RIVERA, JOHN DOE, JANE DOE, RICHARD DOE, 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 DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE. POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe 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.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se presente 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 solicitando en la petición o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. RUSTICA: Solar ubicado en el Barrio Piedra Gorda de la Municipalidad de Camuy, Puerto Rico con un área de quinientos seis punto mil cincuenta y cuatro (506.1954) metros cuadrados equivalentes a cero punto uno nueve cinco cuatro cuerdas (0.1288 cdas), en lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de veintiuno punto ocho seis uno dos metros (8.8612 mtrs) con faja de terreno dedicada a uso público, para futuro ensanche de carretera Municipal, por el SUR, en una distancia de veintidós punto dos tres uno cuatro metros (22.2313mts), con el remanente de la finca de la cual se segrega; por el ESTE en una distancia de veintidós punto cinco tres seis seis metros (22.5366 mts), con el remanente de la finca de la cual se segrega y por el OESTE, en una distancia de veintitrés punto cuatro cinco ocho cero metros (23.4580 mts) con el remanente de la finca de la cual se segrega. Contiene una casa para fines residenciales. Número de Catastro: 027-089-003-01-001. Valor de la propiedad es de Cien Mil Dólares ($100,000.00).

La abogada de la parte peticionaria es la Lcda. Lizibel Salazar Acevedo, con oficina en la Avenida Ponce de León 452, Edif. Asociación de Maestros, Oficina 514, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918-3412, dirección postal P.O. Box 367265, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936, Tel. 787-475-2288. Se le informa además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el XXX, a las XXX en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de Lajas, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo. Se identificará en letra tamaño 10 punto y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afecta-

dos en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación de edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 9 de marzo de 2026. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. VANESSA M. GONZÁLEZ MALAVÉ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Parte Demandante Vs. MIGUEL A. MONTALVO COLLAZO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV09264. Sala: 905. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: MIGUEL A MONTALVO COLLAZO - 319 CALLEJON QUINONES, SAN JUAN PR 009123518.

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

a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de enero de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DIANA C. PÉREZ SIERRA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

Parte Demandante Vs. LUZ M FRANCO RODRIGUEZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV10441. 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: LUZ M FRANCO RODRIGUEZ - RR 18 BOX 1186 SAN JUAN 00926. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colon cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5

de febrero de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NELLY MARTE MARCANO, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

Parte Demandante Vs. ZULMANETTE

PAGAN CASAS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2025CV02006. 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: ZULMANETTE

PAGAN CASASURB BONNEVILLE HTS

112 CALLE CAYEY, CAGUAS PR 007274907; URB RIO GRANDE EST G28 CALLE 7, RIO GRANDE PR 00745-5095.

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, 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@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de febrero de 2026.

IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. CARMEN L. SOTO PLANAS, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA. LEGAL NOTICE

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

MARITZA VIERA ROSA EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE ROSELIX ANGELIS ORTIZ REYES Y K.S.O. Parte Demandante Vs. EDUARDO ESCRIBANO LÓPEZ

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: SJ2025RF01681. Sala: 705. Sobre: FILIACIÓN. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: EDUARDO ESCRIBANO LÓPEZ - 740 DETROIT AVE., YOUNGSTOWN OH 44502. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en Rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. LCDA. YAMILEÉ SEPÚLVEDA ARROYO (abogada de la parte demandante) RUA 16362 ysepulveda@servicioslegales.org (787)765.4525 (787)763.5103 / FAX: (787)2740784 SERVICIOS LEGALES DE P.R, INC. CALLE GONZÁLEZ #1061, SANTA RITA SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00925 (dirección física) APARTADO 21370, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00928-1370 (dirección postal). Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted contestando dicha Petición EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, a 12 de marzo de 2026. SRA. GRISELDA

RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA MUNICIPAL CARIBE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

Parte Demandante Vs. LUZ HERENIA GUZMÁN TORRES

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2026CV00480.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROREGLA 60. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: LUZ HERENIA GUZMÁN TORRES.

Queda emplazada y notificada de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda en su contra sobre Cobro de Dinero.

Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación 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 responsiva en la Secretaría del Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Municipal, y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcda. Karina P. Cintrón Narváez; PO Box 193813, San Juan, PR 00919; kcintron@esqlegalpr.com. Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la demanda, sin más citársele ni oírsele. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal a 13 de marzo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ELSIE PRATTS MELÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE NATHALEE ANN ORTIZ DEGRO

Demandante V. CARLOS RUBEN

LOPEZ RODRIGUEZ

Demandado

Civil Núm.: PO2026RF00213.

Sobre: CUSTODIA CON FACULTADES TUTELARES. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: CARLOS RUBEN LOPEZ RODRIGUEZ2323 FARLING AVE 6, GREEN BAY, WI 54302, E.U..

POR LA PRESENTE se emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC) al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

LCDA. LUISA FERNANDA LUNA SOLER

Nombre de la abogada de la parte demandante 23,440 Número ante el Tribunal Supremo SERVICIOS LEGALES DE PUERTO RICO INC. PO BOX 331109, PONCE, P.R. 00733-1109 Dirección 787-844-7335 Teléfono lluna@servicioslegales.org Correo electrónico Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, el 16 de marzo de 2026. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NAYELI M. GONZÁLEZ ALVARADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

EFRAIN

SANTOS ALVAREZ

Demandante Vs. IVANIA LISSETH ALVARADO MUÑOZ Demandada

Caso Núm.: HU2026RF00102. Sobre: DIVORCIO RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. EMPLAZA-

MIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: IVANIA LISSETH ALVARADO MUÑOZ16435 E. RADELIFT PL, APT. A, AURORA, CO 80015-7088 O SEA, LA PARTE DEMANDADA

ARRIBA MENCIONADA. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica formalmente que la parte demandante Efraín Santos Álvarez, ha presentado un pleito en este Tribunal de Justicia sobre Divorcio por la causal de Ruptura Irreparable, en donde figura como parte demandada Ivania Lisseth Alvarado Muñoz solicitando que el Honorable Tribunal dicte sentencia concediendo los remedios contenidos en la demanda. A esos efectos se le emplaza y requiere a la persona antes indicada para que en los próximos treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto, radiquen el original de su Contestación a la Demanda ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, y notifique copias de esta al abogado del demandante, Lcdo. Benjamín Quiñones Lebrón, P.O. Box 9138, Humacao, Puerto Rico 00792, Tel. (787) 656-8414, cuya dirección es la antes indicada, dentro del mismo término. Se le apercibe además que de no recibirse dicha contestación dentro del término antes señalado, podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya concediendo los remedios solicitados en la Demanda, o cualquier otro remedio que disponga el Honorable Tribunal, sin mayor requerimiento o notificación.

EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 16 de marzo de 2026. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DENISE LÓPEZ DÍAZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

FÉLIX VIERA MERCADO

Demandante V. CÁNDIDA PÉREZ DÍAZ; SUCESION DE CÁNDIDA PÉREZ DÍAZ, COMPUESTA POR JOSÉ

MOJICA PÉREZ, NANCY Y. MOJICA PÉREZ, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE

Demandados

Civil Núm.: LP2026CV00053. Sobre: USUCAPIÓN, LEY 118 - 2022. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS

UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: CÁNDIDA PÉREZ DÍAZ; SUCESIÓN DE CÁNDIDA PÉREZ DÍAZ COMPUESTA POR JOSÉ

MOJICA PÉREZ, NANCY Y. MOJICA PÉREZ, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE; ASÍ COMO CUALQUIER PERSONA QUE ALEGUE POSEER UN INTERÉS PROPIETARIO SOBRE LA FINCA Y QUE PRETENDA DEMOSTRAR Y DEFENDER SU DERECHO.

Por la presente, se le notifica que la parte Demandante de epígrafe ha presentado ante este Tribunal una Demanda de Usucapión, solicitando adquirir su dominio sobre la siguiente finca: URBANA: Solar L-56 del plano de inscripción del Proyecto UM-7-10 denominado Residencial Oriente, radicado en el Barrio Quebrada Arenas de Las Piedras, con cabida de 268.95 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle 18 distancia de 12.81 metros; por el SUR, con el solar L-4, distancia de 12.81 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar L-55, distancia de 21.00 metros y por el OESTE, con el solar L-57, distancia de 21.00 metros. Inscrito al Folio 6 del Tomo 189 de Las Piedras, Finca 9983. Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Humacao. Número de Catastro: 253-080-372-33-000. La parte Demandante se encuentra representada por: LCDA. MARIELI LAUSELL HERNANDEZ, RUA 20530 Calle Resolución #33, Suite 302 San Juan, PR 00920 Teléfono: 787-782-6500 x. 244 Correo electrónico: mlausell@ titlesecuritygroup.com

Se le apercibe y notifica para que comparezca, si lo creyere pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro del plazo improrrogable de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este edicto, a exponer sus derechos en el caso promovido por la Parte Demandante para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca antes descrita. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia, previo escuchar la prueba de valor de la Parte Demandante, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda o cualquier otro si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende pertinente. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al

cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. En Humacao, Puerto Rico a 16 de marzo de 2026. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

LISA M. FIGUEROA RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. RAFAEL LOPEZ LEONOR

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CA2025CV02897. (Civil: 409). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA

POR EDICTO. JAIME RUIZ SALDAÑALEGAL@JRSLAWPR.COM. A: RAFAEL

LOPEZ LEONOR.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 19 de marzo de 2026. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 19 de marzo de 2026. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. IDA L. FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

HR MORTGAGE, CORP.

Parte Demandante Vs. DEPARTAMENTO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO DE EE. UU., REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC; JOHN DOE Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2026CV00842. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO E HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A La Parte Demandada: JOHN DOE - DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA. Se le emplaza y requiere para que, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados, Por la presente se le emplaza para que, presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 contados a partir de la publicación del 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 el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría de este Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, inciso 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. Lcda. Leslie J. Hernández Crespo Nombre de la abogada de la parte demandante 12,559 Número ante el Tribunal Supremo (RUA)

P.O. Box 10338

San Juan Puerto Rico 00922 Dirección Postal 787-344-2853

Número de Teléfono ljhc_99@yahoo.com Correo electrónico

EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 11 de marzo de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

DESARROLLOS

INMOBILIARIOS DE HATO TEJAS LLC. Demandante Vs. NUESTRO SAZÓN, INC.; YSABEL CRISTINA MERCEDES DE ORTIZ

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV10097. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: NUESTRO SAZÓN, INC.; YSABEL CRISTINA MERCEDES DE ORTIZ - ESTACIONAMIENTO DEL EDIFICIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE EDUCACION, CALLE FEDERICO COSTA #150, HATO REY, PR 00918; DIRECCION POSTAL: CALLE APONTE 242, SAN JUAN PR 00912 Y CALLE LAS FLORES 304, SAN JUAN, PR 00912.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el

remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el inciso de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquiera otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:

BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NUM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law. com

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 19 de marzo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA I. COLÓN RIVERA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE, Island Portfolio Services, LLC como agente de Ace One Funding, LLC PARTE DEMANDANTE VS. JOSE ROMAN RIOS PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. PO2025CV03056. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. Estados Unidos de América El Presidente de los Estados Unidos El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. SS: A: JOSE ROMAN RIOS - 10 RES DR PILA APT 165 , PONCE PR 00716-3925

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, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com y a la dirección: notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIR-

MA y el sello del Tribunal, en PONCE, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de febrero de 2026. Carmen Tiru Quiñones, Secretario(a).

Sandra Gonzalez Rodriguez, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

IN RE: ASOCIACIÓN HOSPITAL DEL MAESTRO, INC.

DEBTOR

CASE NO. 25-03780 (ESL)

CHAPTER 11

NOTICE OF AUCTION AND TRANSFER HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE OF THE FOLLOWING:

1. On August 25, 2025, the above-captioned debtor and debtors-in-possession (the “Debtors”), filed a voluntary petition for relief pursuant to chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”) in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Puerto Rico (the “Bankruptcy Court”).

2. On March 12, 2026, the Debtor filed a motion (the “Bidding Procedures and Transfer Motion”), pursuant to sections 363 and 365 of the Bankruptcy Code and Rules 2002, 6004, and 6006 of the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure (“Bankruptcy Rules”), seeking entry of an order (the “Bidding Procedures Order”) (a) scheduling an auction (the “Auction”) for the Transfer of the Sale Assets or the governance authority of the Organization ( the “Transfer”) on or about April 23, 2026, at 1:00 p.m. and a hearing to approve the Transfer (the “Transfer Hearing”) on or about May 5, 2026, (b) approving procedures (the “Bidding Procedures”)not directing, the Debtor to designate one or more Stalking Horse Bidder(s) and approving procedures to seek appro-

val ofBid Protections for such StalkingHorseBidder(s), (d) approving the form and manner of the notice of the Auction and the Transfer Hearing, and (e) establishing procedures for the assumption and assignment of the Assumed Contracts (as defined in the Bidding Procedures and Transfer Motion) to any transferee and approving the manner of notice thereof (the “Assumption and Assignment Notice”). 3. On March 20, 2026, the Bankruptcy Court entered the Bidding Procedures Order at Docket 168. Pursuant to the Bidding Procedures Order, if at least two (2) Qualified Bids with regard to the Transfer are received by the Bid Deadline (as defined below), the Debtors will conduct the Auction. The Auction shall be held on April 23, 2026, starting at 1:00 p.m. (Atlantic Standard Time), or such other time as the Debtor shall designate, and notify all Qualified Bidders and all creditors who request access to the Auction prior to the Bid Deadline of April 6, 2026 by contacting the counsel to the Debtors, Lugo Mender Group, LLC, 100 Carr. 165 Suite 501 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968, (Attn:Wigberto Lugo Mender (wlugo@lugmender.com) and Alexis Betancourt Vincenty (a_betancourt@lugomender. com). 4. Professionals and principals for the Debtor, each Qualified Bidder, each Consultation Party, the U.S. Trustee, any creditors that request access to the Auction prior to the Bid Deadline, and any other parties the Debtor deems appropriate shall be permitted to attend and observe the Auction. Only parties that have submitted a Qualified Bid (as defined in the Bidding Procedures), by no later than April 6, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. (Atlantic Standard Time) (the “Bid 5. Promptly following the conclusion of the Auction, but in no event later than 24 hours following the conclusion of the Auction, the Debtor shall file a notice on the Bankruptcy Court’s docket identifying (with specificity) the Successful Bidder(s) for the Transfer and the Next- Highest Bidder(s), if any, the amounts bid by the Successful Bidder(s) and the Next-Highest Bidder(s), and if either is a credit bidder, what portion of the bid is a credit bid and what portion (if any) is cash, and if any Successful Bidder or Next-Highest Bidder is a special purpose entity, the identity of the primary equity holders, or those who otherwise control, the special purpose entity (the “Notice of Successful Bidder(s)”). If no Auction takes place, but there is a Successful Bidder(s), the Debtors shall file the Notice of Successful Bidder(s)”) no later than 24 hours after the Successful

Bidder(s) is/are identified. 6. The Transfer Hearing to consider approval of the Transfer to the Successful Bidder(s), will be held before the Honorable Enrique S. Lamoutte, United States Bankruptcy Judge, José V. Toledo Federal Building & US Courthouse, 300 Calle del Recinto, San Juan, PR 009011964 on or aroundMay 5, 2026 at 10:00 (Atlantic Standard Time), or at such other time thereafter as counsel may be heard. The Transfer Hearing may be adjourned by the Debtor from time to time without further notice to parties in interest other than by announcement of the adjournment in open court on the date scheduled for the Transfer Hearing or by including such adjournment on any agenda filed with the Bankruptcy Court and/or by the filing of a notice with the Bankruptcy Court. 7. Objections to approval of the Transfer (with the exception of objections related solely to the conduct of the Auction, identity of any Successful Bidder, and ability of any Successful Bidder to provide adequate assurance of future performance, whichmust be received by a different deadline, the Auction Objection Deadline, defined below), must be in writing, state the basis of such objection with specificity, and be filed with the Bankruptcy Court, Clerk’s Office, 300 Calle del Recinto S STE 109, San Juan, PR 00901-1964, and served before April 10, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. (Atlantic Standard Time) (the “Transfer Objection Deadline”) by the following parties (collectively, the “Notice Parties”): a) counsel to the Debtors, Lugo Mender Group, LLC, 100 Carr. 165 Suite 501 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968, (Attn: Wigberto Lugo Mender (wlugo@lugmender.com), and Alexis Betancourt Vincenty (a_betancourt@ lugomender.com)); b) counsel to the Secured Creditor, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, Marini Pietrantoni Muñiz, LLC, 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918, Attn: Luis C. Marini-Biaggi, Esq. (lmarini@mpmlawpr.com) and Carolina Velaz-Rivero, Esq. (cvelaz@mpmlawpr.com); Deadline”) may bid at the Auction. Any party that wishes to submit a Bid (as defined in the Bidding Procedures) for all or any portion of the Assets must submit a Bid prior to the Bid Deadline and in accordance with the Bidding Procedures. c) the Office of the United States Trustee for the District of Puerto Rico (the “U.S. Trustee”), Edificio Ochoa, 500 Tanca Street, Suite 301 (Attn: Monsita Lecaroz- Arribas (USTP.Region21@ usdoj.gov)). Service on the Notice Parties may be made through the CM/ECF system with courtesy copies by email.

Objections related solely to conduct at the Auction, identity of any Successful Bidder, and adequate assurance of future performance by a Successful Bidder must be in writing, state the basis of such objection with specificity, and be filed with the Bankruptcy Court and served on the Notice Parties on or before 4:30 p.m. (Atlantic Standard Time) four (4) business days after the auction (the “Auction Objection Deadline”). UNLESS AN OBJECTION IS TIMELY SERVED AND FILED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS NOTICE, THE BANKRUPTCY COURT MAY GRANT THE RELIEF REQUESTED WITHOUT FURTHER HEARING AND NOTICE. 8. This Transfer Notice is subject to the Bidding Procedures and Transfer Motion and the Bidding Procedures Order, with such Bidding Procedures Order controlling in the event of any conflict. The Debtor encourages all parties-in-interest to review such documents in their entirety. Copies of the Bidding Procedures and Transfer Motion and the Bidding Procedures Order, form of Non-Profit Transfer Agreement and form of proposed Transfer Order, are on file with the Clerk of the Bankruptcy Court, 300 Calle del Recinto S STE 109, San Juan, PR 00901-1964, and are available on the on the Lugo Mender Group, LLC website: https://lugomender.com/publicdocuments/. 9. Pursuant to the Bidding Procedures Debtor reserves its rights, to modify the Bidding Procedures in good faith, through a notice or an informative motion filed before the Bankruptcy Court, without the need for additional publications or notice.

Dated: March 20, 2026

San Juan, Puerto Rico Lugo Mender Group, LLC

Attorneys for Debtor 100 Carr. 165 Suite 501 Guaynabo, P.R. 00968-8052

Tel.: (787) 707-0404

Fax: (787) 707-0412

S/ Alexis A. Betancourt Vincenty

Alexis A. Betancourt Vincenty USDC-PR 301304

a_betancourt@lugomender. com

LEGAL NOTICE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ACTING THROUGH THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Plaintiff V. JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE AS UNKNOWN MEMBERS OF THE ESTATE OF EDNA BELEN SANTIAGO ORTIZ

Defendants Civil No.: 21-1023. FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE; COLLECTION OF MONEY, NOTICE OF SALE.

To: JOHN DOE and RICHARD ROE as unknown members of the Estate of EDNA BELEN SANTIAGO ORTIZ

WHEREAS: Judgment in favor of the United States of America for the principal aggregate amounts: a) On the $22,470.23 Note: 1. The sum of $22,970.23, of principal. 2. The sum of $68,671.22, of interest accrued, and thereafter until its full and total payment, which interest amount increases at the daily rate of $6.1359. 3. Plus, insurance premium, taxes, advances, late charges, costs, court costs expenses, disbursements and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following property will be sold at public auction: I. RÚSTICA: Se describe según el documento presentado, observándose que los tomos donde se describe están en estado de deterioro: RÚSTICA: “B”: Compuesta de 59.100 cuerdas luego de hechas 2 segregaciones de 12.00 y 3.00 cuerdas; de Rústica: de 74.00 cuerdas, equivalentes a 20 hectáreas, 8 áreas y 50 centiáreas de terreno radicada en el barrio Coabey de Jayuya, en lindes: NORTE, Soledad Rivera; SUR, Francisco y Monserrate Ortiz y Juan Bautista Rivera; ESTE, Soledad Rivera y Rosario Canales hoy su Sucesión; y OESTE, Río Jayuya, llamado Saliente. Property 974, recorded at page 221 of volume 3 of Jayuya, Property Registry of Utuado, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Property #974 is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: a) None. Junior Liens: a) None. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on MAY 1ST, 2026 AT 9:00 AM and the minimum bid for the first public sale for property #974, that will be accepted is the sum of $20,000.00. In the event, said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on MAY 8, 2026 AT 9:00 AM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is two thirds of the minimum bid for the first public sale as to both mortgages respectively. If said second auction does not result in the adjudica-

tion and sale of the property, a THIRD AUCTION will be held on MAY 15, 2026 AT 9:00 AM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is half the minimum bid for the first public sale as to both mortgages respectively. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following property will be sold at public auction: II. RÚSTICA “A”: Parcela de terreno con el #1 del caso T-1642 radicada en el barrio Jayuya Arriba, lugar de Coabey, término municipal de Jayuya, compuesta de 3.00 cuerdas, equivalentes a 1 hectárea, 17 áreas, 92 centiáreas y 5,138 diez milésimas de otra, en lindes; NORTE y ESTE, con la finca principal de la que se segrega, propiedad de Emiliano Rivera; SUR, Carlos Santiago y finca principal de la cual se segrega; OESTE, Carlos Santiago y finca principal de la cual se segrega. Está separada en parte de sus colindancias Sur y Oeste por una quebrada. Tiene acceso por un camino de la finca que partiendo de su esquina Noroeste en dirección Norte, Oeste y Sur, empalmando sucesivamente con un camino vecinal y con el camino Coabey, en una distancia aproximada de 6 kilómetros, 5 hectómetros de la carretera insular #15 sección de Adjuntas-Ciales. Property 1,067, recorded at page 32 of volume 22 of Jayuya, Property Registry of Utuado, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Property #1,067 is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: a) None. Junior Liens: a) None. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on MAY 1ST, 2026 AT 9:15 AM and the minimum bid for the first public sale for property #1,067, that will be accepted is the sum of $2,470.23. In the event, said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on MAY 8, 2026 AT 9:15 AM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is two thirds of the minimum bid for the first public sale as to both mortgages respectively. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD AUCTION will be held on MAY 15, 2026 AT 9:15 AM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is half the minimum bid for the first public sale as to both mortgages respectively. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For

further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. Other liens: Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master designated by the Court is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. Nonetheless, the deed of conveyance and possession to the property can be executed and delivered before such confirmation, as per Puerto Rico Mortgage Law. In Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, this 19 day of March, 2026. MICHEL A. RACHID FOURNIER.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

SENIOR MORTGAGE BANKERS, INC.

Demandante V. REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC Y OTROS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CD2025CV00268 (SALON 802). Sobre: CANCELACION O RESTITUCION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. SALOMON LEVIS SALOMONLEVIS@GMAIL.COM

A: “JOHN DOE”, “, JANE DOE” Y CUALQUIER OTRA PERSONA DESCONOCIDA

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual

puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 20 de marzo de 2026. En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, el 20 de marzo de 2026. VIVIAN Y FRESSE GONZALEZ, SECRETARIA. F/BRUNILDA HERNANDEZ MENDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

SENIOR MORTGAGE BANKERS, INC Demandante V. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: MV2025CV00151. (Salón: 101 SALA SUPERIOR). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

SALOMÓN LEVISSALOMONLEVIS@GMAIL.COM.

A: JOHN DOE, JANE DOE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de 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 24 de marzo de 2026. En Ciales, Puerto Rico, el 24 de marzo de 2026. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. BRUNILDA HERNÁNDEZ MÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

Monday, March 30, 2026

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE NARANJITO.

CARMEN MILAGROS

VAZQUEZ LOPEZ, IRAIDA VAZQUEZ LOPEZ, HECTOR LUIS VAZQUEZ LOPEZ Y OTROS

Parte Demandante V. HIRAM JUNIEL GEIGEL , KATHERINE MARIE GONZALEZ BATISTA

Parte Demandada Caso Núm.: NJ2025CV00110. Sala: Salón 703. Sobre: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDACIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. Sentencia Final. Evaluado el cuaderno particional (Entrada Núm. 24) presentado por la parte demandante y la anuencia presentada por la defensora judicial del menor Hiram Juniel Geigel, se aprueba el mismo y se dicta sentencia de conformidad sobre la liquidación de herencia de las causantes Laura María López Santiago y María de Lourdes Vázquez López. Ambos caudales se forman de un bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: ----RÚSTICA: BARRIO CEDRO ABAJO de Naranjito. Solar: 1. Cabida: 1,720.789 Metros Cuadrados. LINDEROS: NORTE, con propiedad de Ricardo Lozada, hoy día denominado como Centro Comercial Plaza Cedro Abajo. SUR, con propiedad de Antonia Otero que le separa de la carretera estatal 809 que conduce de Naranjito a Comerío. ESTE, con el remanente de la finca principal. OESTE, con Toño López y lote segregado y vendido a Antonia Otero López. Se segrega de la finca # 3977, inscrita al folio 85 del tomo 55 de Naranjito. ---Consta inscrita al folio 139 del tomo 986 de Carolina, finca número 13,059 en el Registro Propiedad de Barranquitas. ---Número de Catastro: 195-027-183-09-000. Se autoriza la venta de este bien inmueble por la cantidad de $100,000.00 y que se apliquen los créditos descritos en el cuaderno particional. De conformidad con lo anterior, de la venta se le adjudica al menor Hiram Juniel Geigel la cantidad de $11,884.00, de cuya cantidad se le pagará a la defensora judicial, Lcda. Rose Coreano, el 25% por concepto de honorarios de abogado. La cantidad restante deberá ser consignada en el tribunal. Notifíquese. Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 18 de marzo de 2026. KARLA S. MELLADO DELGADO, Juez(a).

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE YAUCO

SUPERIOR ROOFING & REPAIR INC.

Demandante V. RAISING ARTS PROJECT INC.

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: YU2025CV0532. (Salón: 1 SALA SUPERIOR).

Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JEAN G. VIDAL FONTJVIDAL@FERRAIUOLI.COM. JORGE ERNESTO COLBERG VILANOVA - JCOLBERG@ FERRAIUOLI.COM.

A: RAISING ARTS PROJECT INC., P/C LCDO. JORGE ERNESTO COLBERG VILANOVA.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 25 de marzo de 2026. En Yauco, Puerto Rico, el 25 de marzo de 2026. CARMEN G. TIRÚ

QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

MARISOL LUZ PARRENO

Demandante V. JORGE ELIGIO

PEREZ ORTIZ

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: AG2025RF00676. (Salón: 401 RF). Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. LORIEL VALLE RODRÍGUEZ -

LVALLE@SERVICIOSLEGALES.ORG.

A: JORGE ELIGIO PEREZ ORTIZ - PARCELAS

RAFAEL HERNANDEZ, CALLE ROMANCE, CASA # 117, BO GUERRERO

AGUADILLA PR 00603.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 20 de marzo de 2026. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 20 de marzo de 2026. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. LISSY S. MATÍAS VEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE CARLOS ANDRÉS POSTIGO MÁRQUEZ Y ALEXIS POSTIGO MÁRQUEZ

Demandante Vs. ORIENTAL BANK, SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE ORIENTAL BANK AND TRUST; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE

Demandado Civil Núm.: MZ2026CV00274. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE, RICHARD DOE.

Quedan ustedes notificados que la demandante de epígrafe ha radicado en este Tribunal

una Demanda contra ustedes como co-demandados, en la que se solicita la cancelación vía judicial de un Pagaré Hipotecario extraviado ante la Notario Público Laura A. Dahdah de Surillo, bajo affidávit número 948, a favor de Oriental Bank and Trust, o a su orden, por la suma de $84,000.00, con intereses al 7.375% anual y vencedero el 1ro de marzo de 2026, suscrito el día 22 de febrero de 1996, garantizado por hipoteca constituida en virtud de la Escritura Número 18, otorgada ante la Notario Público Laura A. Dahdah de Surillo, inscrita al Folio 1 del Tomo 1352 de Mayagüez, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Mayagüez, Finca Número 24,512, inscripción 5ta El mencionado pagaré hipotecario grava una propiedad inmueble, que se describe como sigue: “RUSTICA: Porción de terreno situado en el Barrio Quebrada Grande de Mayagüez, con una cabida de 1.136 cuerdas, equivalentes a 4,464.923 metros cuadrados, colindante por el Norte y Este, con Parcela de uso público; al Sur, con franja dedicada a uso público y al Oeste, con la Parcela B-1 propiedad de Carlos Delfín Pérez Postigo. PRIMERA PLANTA: Estructura de uso residencial construida en hormigón reforzado y bloques de cemento que mide CUARENTA Y DOS PIES de frente por CUARENTA Y CINCO PIES (42’x45’) de fondo. La misma consta de un (1) cuarto dormitorio, un baño, comedor, cocina y sala. En el frente de la casa un garage para un vehículo de motor y la parte izquierda trasera otro garage para un vehículo de motor. SEGUNDA PLANTA: Mide VEINTICINCO PIES de frente por CINCUENTA Y CUATRO PIES (25’x54’) de fondo y consta de tres (3) cuartos dormitorios, un baño, sala, comedor, cocina en una misma pieza, laundry y balcón a su lado izquierdo. En su lado derecho consta con escalera que da acceso de la primera planta a la segunda planta. Valorada en $ 150,000.00. Según Escritura # 67, otorgada en Hormigueros el 23 de junio de 2025 ante Carlos Acevedo Semidey, inscrita al Tomo Karibe, inscripción 7.” Consta inscrita al Folio Ochenta y Dos (82) del Tomo Ochocientos Cuarenta y Cuatro (844) de Mayagüez, Finca Número Veinticuatro Mil Quinientos Doce (24,512), Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Mayagüez. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lic. Antonio A. Hernández Almodóvar, Rivera - Munich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, Puerto Rico 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 en el Tribunal de Mayagüez, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de 0703527440 Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, 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. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 19 de marzo de 2026. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. ANNETTE GUZMÁN MEDINA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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

DLJ MORTGAGE

CAPITAL INC

Parte Demandante Vs. JOSÉ ANTONIO COLÓN ROSA, NANCY SÁNCHEZ FEBLES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AR2025CV02098. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOSÉ ANTONIO COLÓN ROSA, NANCY SÁNCHEZ FEBLES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. Las abogadas de la parte demandante son: Lcda. Lisa M. Aponte Valderas, RiveraMunich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, PR 00936-4908; Tel. (787) 622-2323 / Fax (787) 6222320. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general de la Isla de Puerto Rico 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 Superior de Vega Baja, con copia a las abogadas 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, disponiéndose además, que en los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, la parte demandante le dirigirá por correo certificado con acuse se recibo, copia de la Demanda y del Emplazamiento por Edicto a sus últimas direcciones conocidas en: HC 02 Box 7987, Barceloneta, PR 00617; Box 7987, Barceloneta, PR 00617; y PR 664 Km 3.7, Sabana Hoyos Ward, Arecibo, PR 00612. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy 18 de febrero de 2026. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. ALEXANDRA ÁLVAREZ NATAL, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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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. INES S AQUINO LANZAR

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: GB2025CV00952. (Salón: 202). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JEAN PAUL JULIÁ DÍAZJPJULIA@RMMELAW.COM. A: INÉS S. AQUINO LANZAR. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos

de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de marzo de 2026. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 24 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 VEGA BAJA

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante V. LUIS ANTONIO LIZARDI BENITEZ, DORIS ALICIA RAMIREZ LA FONTAINE; T/C/C/ DORIS RAMIREZ; Y LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2024CV00401. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 24 de febrero de 2026 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: URBANIZACIÓN HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: A-205. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Unit Week 39 Vacation Club Right corresponding to Unit A-205 of Hacienda del Mar, Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-205 and includes the right to use such unit during the 39 week of each year until December 31, 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 39 Saturday of each calen-

dar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in the Unit A-205, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Hacienda del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 12,848 inscrita al folio móvil del tomo 45 de Vega Alta, según inscripción 3ra en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $16,607.68 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A205-39. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 24 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado

el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 24 de marzo de 2026. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante V. PAUL DENNIS SCAGLIONE, NORMA SCAGLIONE T/C/C NORMA KAY SCAGLIONE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: VB2024CV01079. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 24 de octubre de 2025 por

la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: VACATION CLUB RIGHT: Unit week 48. Vacation Club Right corresponding to Unit A-504 of Hacienda del Mar, Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-504 and includes the right to use such unit during the 48 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12.00 noon on the 48 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-504, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 13,400 inscrita al folio 1 del Tomo de Hoja Móvil 53 de Vega Alta, según inscripción 1ra en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $5,457.41 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A504-48. La fecha y hora de

la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 24 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 9:20 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 24 de marzo de 2026. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante V. DAVID JOHN HOLLOWAY; Y DAVID PAUL WITTLETON

Demandados

Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00031. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 13 de febrero de 2026 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL

HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: B-212 WEEK 18. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-212 and includes the right to use such unit during the 18th week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 18th Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B-212, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime to

the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2194% in the facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Se separa del Régimen Vacacional Haciendas del Mar, inscrita al folio 61 del tomo 257 de Vega Alta finca 14143. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 18,310 inscrita al folio 1 del tomo de hoja móvil 105 de Vega Alta, inscripción primera en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $11,210.18 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad B212-18. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 24 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente

colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 24 de marzo de 2026. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante V. STEVEN CRAIG ELLIS, JULIA ANNE ELLIS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00057. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 6 de febrero de 2026 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: Apartamento Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Unit Week 45, VACATION CLUB RIGHT corresponding to unit B311, of HACIENDA DEL MAR, Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-311, and includes the right to use such unit during the 45, week of each year until December 31 of the Year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 45, Saturday of each calendar year

and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B311, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the HACIENDAS DEL MAR, VACATION CLUB REGIME and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2194% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Se separa del Régimen Vacacional Haciendas del Mar, inscrito al folio 86, del tomo 257 de Vega Alta; Finca número 14147. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 15,003 inscrita en virtud de la escritura número 2233 otorgada en San Juan a 16 de noviembre de 2001 ante el Notario Público Frances R. Ramírez Sánchez, inscrito en Sistema Karibe según inscripción 1ra. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $13,612.29 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad B311-45. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 24 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 9:40 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador

acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 24 de marzo de 2026. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC. Demandante V. JOHN HANNA ABIHABIB; SONIA MARIE ABI-HABIB; Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandados

Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00197. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO.

AVISO DE

SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS

F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL

AUXILIAR #888, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 13 de febrero de 2026 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL

HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: B 211 WEEK 17. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados.

This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-211 and includes the right to use such unit during the 17 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 17 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B-211, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Se separa del Régimen Vacacional Haciendas del Mar, inscrita al folio 195 del tomo 232 de Vega Alta finca 12,670. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 17,911 inscrito en hoja móvil al folio 1

tomo 101 de Vega Alta, según inscripción 1ra en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $18,227.28 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad B211-17. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 24 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 9:50 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo

mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 24 de marzo de 2026. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante V. JOHN TROIA, ANISSA TROIA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00497. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 13 de febrero de 2026 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL

HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: A-804 WEEK 27. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados.

This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-804 and includes the right to use such unit during the 27 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 27 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-804, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime

and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 13,529 inscrita al folio 1 del Tomo de Hoja móvil 55 de Vega Alta, inscripción 4ta en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $14,619.13 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A804-27. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 24 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y

para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 24 de marzo de 2026. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante V. HAROLD CARDONA, ELISA IVETTE CARDONA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00571. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 10 de marzo de 2026 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: B 512 WEEK 49. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Unit Week 49, VACATION CLUB RIGHT corresponding to unit B-512, of

HACIENDA DEL MAR, Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-512, and includes the right to use such unit during the 49, week of each year until December 31 of the Year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 49, Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B-512, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the HACIENDAS DEL MAR, VACATION CLUB REGIME and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2575% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 15514 inscrita al folio móvil 1 del tomo 86 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $10,973.33 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad B512-49. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 24 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 10:10 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtu-

viere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 24 de marzo de 2026. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante V. HARVEY T. COCHIEN

T/C/C/ HARVEY COCHIEN

Demandado

Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00036.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 10 de marzo de 2026 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento: B-510, SEMANA 1. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Propiedad Horizontal: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento: UNIDAD B-510, SEMANA 1. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-510 and includes the right to use such unit during the 1th week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12.00 noon on the 1th Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B-510, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2194% in the Facilities and

common expenses of vacation club regime. Se separa del Régimen 1479. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 18,642 inscrita al folio móvil 106 de Vega Alta, inscripción 4ta en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $7,680.56 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad B510-1.

La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 24 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 10:20 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a

la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 24 de marzo 2026. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante V. CHRISTOPHER DAVID WHITE, MEG MILLER WHITE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2024CV01042. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 10 de marzo de 2026 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: Vacation Club Right: unit week (35) Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A801 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A-801 and includes the right to use such unit during the first (35) week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the FIRST (35) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-801, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights

during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 13,694 inscrita al folio 216 del tomo 249 de Vega Alta, según inscripción 1ra en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $16,603.09 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A801-35. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 24 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte

demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 24 de marzo de 2026. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante V. JAIME JUAN JUSINO SANTIAGO JR., ANA MERCEDES TORRES

CARABALLO T/C/C ANA JUSINO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: VB2024CV01091. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 10 de marzo de 2026 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Mul-

tivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: A-603 SEMANA 42. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-603 and includes the right to use such unit during the 42nd week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 42nd Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-603, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 17,856 inscrita al folio 1 del Tomo de Hoja Móvil 100 de Vega Alta, según inscripción 1ra en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $7,854.93 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A603-42. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 24 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 10:40 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su

oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 24 de marzo de 2026. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA. HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC. Demandante v. PATRICIA LORRAINE

HUNT, JOHN HUNT Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00903. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, Luis F. Ortiz Rosa, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 24 de octubre de 2025 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: Vacation Club Right: unit week (19) Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B508 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B-508 and includes the right to use such unit during the first (19) week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the FIRST (19) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B-508, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2194% in the Facilities and common expenses of vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 16,512 inscrita al folio 282 del tomo 276

de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $15,650.19 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad B508-19. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 24 de abril de 2026, a las 9:10 a.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de

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Atenienses blank Criollas, keep semifinal hopes alive

By THE STAR STAFF

In a Women’s Superior Volleyball League (LVSF by its initials in Spanish) Section B quarterfinal match on Saturday night, the host Atenienses of Manatí halted the momentum of the Criollas of Caguas, securing their first victory in three matches and keeping their hopes of advancing to the semifinals alive.

Caguas, which was looking to punch a direct ticket to the next round, dropped to 2-1 and will have another opportunity on Wednesday, when they face the Leonas of Ponce.

The winning set scores for Manatí were 25-21, 25-12 and 27-25.

Third set: Pure drama at the finish

The third set was the most closely contested of the match, with both squads trading the lead point for point:

* 19-19: Shaylee Myers of the Atenienses tied the set with a spike from Zone 4.

* 20-19: Emily Elliot gave Manatí the lead with a spike from Zone 2, followed by a 21-19 score with a block against Ana Sofía Jusino.

* 22-19: Elliot struck again from Zone 2.

* 22-21: Caguas closed the gap with a spike by Génesis Collazo from Zone 4.

* 22-22: Collazo blocked Myers, who was attacking from Zone 4.

* 23-22: Solimar Cestero responded with an effective spike from Zone 3, giving the Atenienses back the lead.

* 24-22: Myers scored on the serve to give Manatí set point.

* 24-23: Collazo produced once again from Zone 4, bringing Caguas closer.

* 24-24: Jusino blocked Karla Santos to even the set.

* 25-24: Caguas earned a set point with a block against Cestero.

* 25-25: Elliot tied the score once again for Manatí from Zone 2.

* 26-25: Collazo missed an attack from Zone 2, handing set point to the Atenienses.

* 27-25: Elliot sealed the set -- and the match -- with another spike from Zone 2.

Offensive leaders

Elliot (22 points) and Santos (10) led the way for Manatí, while Jenaisya Moore led Caguas with 13 points. Statistical comparison Attacks: Manatí 44, Caguas 32. Service Aces: Manatí 6, Caguas 1. Digs: Manatí 83, Caguas 70. Passes: Manatí 35, Caguas 25. Blocks: Caguas 9, Manatí 7. Assists: Caguas 16, Manatí 12.

Up next in Section B LVSF quarterfinal play continues today, when the Leonas of Ponce (1-1) host the Atenienses (1-2) at Salvador Dijols Arena at 8 p.m.

A victory for the Leonas would eliminate the Atenienses, leaving Wednesday’s Caguas-Ponce matchup as the final remaining quarterfinal contest.

Section A outlook

Section A quarterfinal play was to continue Sunday night at Rafael G. Amalbert Arena in Juncos, where the Valencianas (0-1) were to host the Pinkin of Corozal (0-2) starting at 7.

The Cangrejeras of Santurce (3-0) currently lead the group and have already secured their spot in the semifinals.

Caguas & San Germán notch victories in BSN

By THE STAR STAFF

The Criollos of Caguas and the Atléticos of San Germán were winners on Saturday night to cap off the first week of the 2026 Superior National Basketball (BSN by its initials in Spanish) season.

At Juan “Pachín” Vicens Auditorium in Ponce, the Criollos of Caguas defeated the Leones of Ponce 99-98 in overtime.

Caguas set the pace from the start with an 8-0 run and closed the first quarter leading 23-16, bolstered by their efficiency from the perimeter with five three-pointers in the opening 10 minutes. However, the Leones rallied in the second quarter and took the lead, prompting a constant back-and-forth battle that extended through the contest, which featured 31 lead changes.

In the final seconds of regulation, Travis Trice put the Criollos ahead from the free-throw line; however, Ponce responded following a called timeout, tying the score with less than six seconds remaining and sending the game into overtime.

In the extra period, Trice once again stepped up, this time with a four-point play that gave Caguas the lead. In the closing moments, Louis King scored the basket that put the Criollos in front, and although Ponce had one final opportunity after recovering the ball, they failed to convert their last-ditch attempt.

King led the Criollos with 25 points and 11 rebounds, while Trice had 23 points and 7 assists. Alejandro Vázquez led the Leones with 21 points, and Jordan Murphy had 20 points and 12 rebounds.

In San Germán, meanwhile, the Atléticos secured their first home victory by defeating the Indios of Mayagüez 93-72 in a game where the hosts took control in the first quarter and never let up. With the victory, San Germán improved to 3-0 to start the season, while the Indios suffered their second defeat in as many games.

The Indios opened with a 7-2 run, but the Atléticos responded quickly with an 11-2 surge that shifted the momentum of the contest. San Germán closed out the first quarter with a 23-13 lead that it extended to 50-34 at halftime.

The Atléticos stayed in control throughout the second half, building a lead of up to 26 points and entering the final quarter with the game well in hand. As a team, San Germán shot 51% from the field, dominated the boards 40-33, and got 31 points from the bench.

Nick Perkins led the Atléticos with 18 points, while Montrezl Harrell and George Alexander Hamilton added 13 points apiece. Sam Waardenburg led the way for the Indios with 20 points and 7 rebounds.

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