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PRFAA director says preliminary agreement

reopening the government until Jan. 30, the proposal includes three appropriations measures that would fund the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Veterans Affairs, military construction projects, and Congress for the remainder of fiscal year 2026.”

The Agriculture Appropriations Act funds critical programs for families in Puerto Rico, including $2,978,891,000 for the Nutritional Assistance Program, or PAN by its acronym in Spanish; $8.2 billion for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, commonly known as WIC; and $37.8 billion for Child Nutrition Programs, including $18.69 billion for the school lunch program and $4.01 billion for the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer, or EBT program.

By THE STAR STAFF

Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration (PRFAA) Executive Director Gabriella Boffelli announced Sunday that the U.S. Senate reached a preliminary bipartisan agreement to reopen the government until Jan. 30, 2026, and detailed the proposal and its impact on Puerto Rico.

The initial agreement must be approved by the Senate, where the first procedural vote requires 60 votes, and then by the House of Representatives. It is expected to be reviewed this week.

“We are optimistic about this preliminary agreement reached by both parties, which should have sufficient support to be approved,” Boffelli stated in a written statement. “In addition to

The second measure to be approved would be the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, versions of which had been passed separately in the House of Representatives and the Senate. That measure provides $19.7 billion for housing, infrastructure, and military facility construction projects, including $155 million to replace the Ramey School in Aguadilla.

The agreement also includes the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, which provides $7 billion in funding for offices in both the House and Senate, as well as agencies that support congressional operations.

“This proposal represents a first step toward finalizing the remaining negotiations on the other nine appropriation projects that would be pending,” Boffelli said. “Since the beginning of this federal budget process, we have focused on doing our job and protecting all the programs that impact Puerto Rico, which, to date, have not suffered cuts, contrary to what has been reported. As the legislative process moves forward, we will remain focused on ensuring this continues.”

Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration Executive Director Gabriella Boffelli

Puerto Rico covers nutritional assistance for November despite court rulings

By THE STAR STAFF

Despite ongoing legal battles in the United States over federal nutrition assistance funding, Family Secretary Suzanne Roig Fuertes confirmed over the weekend that all November payments under the Nutrition Assistance Program (known locally as PAN by its acronym in Spanish) are fully covered in Puerto Rico.

“In light of the ongoing court proceedings regarding whether the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) must fully fund SNAP [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] and PAN benefits for November, we want to reassure our people that, at this time, these decisions do not affect the disbursement plan in Puerto Rico,” Roig Fuertes said in a written statement.

The official noted that the Family Department has sufficient funds thanks to previously identified savings and an additional $150 million provided by the USDA last week. The resources will ensure that all PAN recipients receive their full benefits for the month.

Roig Fuertes remarks were made after the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday night temporarily blocked a lower court ruling

that had ordered the Trump administration to fully fund SNAP. The decision came after two federal judges had directed the administration to continue SNAP payments during the ongoing government shutdown, which began on Oct. 1.

President Donald Trump had indicated he would comply with court instructions on how to distribute the benefits, which the administration claimed had lapsed on Nov. 1 due to a lack of funding. Although partial payments were made, U.S. District Judge John McConnell later ordered the government to fully fund the program, which supports 42 million Americans monthly.

The administration appealed McConnell’s ruling to the First Circuit Court of Appeals, which declined to issue an immediate stay but promised a swift review. The case then moved to the Supreme Court, where Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a temporary stay. She noted that the stay would expire within 48 hours of the First Circuit’s decision on the pending motion.

The funding dispute comes amid a broader budget impasse in Congress. In October, Senate Republicans and Democrats failed to reach an agreement to extend government

funding beyond Sept. 30. While Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate, most legislation requires 60 votes to advance.

A key sticking point remains the extension of healthcare premium subsidies under the

Affordable Care Act, which are set to expire on Dec. 31 unless renewed.

Despite the uncertainty in Washington, Puerto Rico officials emphasized that local PAN recipients will not be affected this month.

Energy regulator seeks detailed list of close to 300 excluded projects

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) has mandated that the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), LUMA Energy, and Genera PR provide comprehensive details about nearly 300 infrastructure projects and damages that were left out of the Consolidated Project List funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under the Accelerated Award Strategy (FAASt).

According to the consolidated list submitted by PREPA, LUMA, as the private operator of PREPA’s transmission and distribution system, has been the most impacted by the elimination of projects. The revised list has cut the number of transmission and distribution projects from 571 down to 282, resulting in the exclusion of 289 projects. The excluded projects have already racked up around $402 million in costs, which may now be deemed ineligible for reimbursement from FEMA.

In a resolution and order, the PREB pointed out that FEMA allocated some $10.7 billion to address damages to PREPA’s assets under the FAASt agreement. However, the PREB expressed concern that the new consolidated list “deviates significantly from FEMA’s original allocation.” In light of this, the PREB is seeking confirmation that the listed projects comply with FEMA

the reasoning behind the exclusion of previously identified damaged projects or those with incurred costs. They must specify whether the exclusions were based on FEMA’s determinations or internal strategic priorities.

In addition, the three entities are required to outline how they plan to finance the costs linked to the 289 inactive projects and assess the potential repercussions on project execution and customer service, particularly if the incurred expenses turn out to be non-reimbursable under FEMA’s current programs.

The PREB has provided the entities with a 20-day deadline to submit a detailed breakdown of specific damages that will be repaired under the consolidated list, categorized by asset type and subcategory, along with those that will not be addressed under the FEMA allocation.

regulations and that all identified damages are duly addressed within the approved funding framework.

The PREB underscored that “any facility or damage not repaired within the scope of the current allocation may remain ineligible for future FEMA disaster funds.” In its resolution and order, the PREB instructed PREPA, LUMA, and Genera to clarify

“The information requested is vital for comparing the projects listed in the consolidated list with the damages acknowledged in FEMA’s allocation,” the resolution states, “to guarantee the optimal use of federal funds, adherence to federal requirements, and protection of ratepayers from potential future costs due to unrepaired assets or unapproved expenses.”

The PREB also emphasized that strict compliance with its directives “is not optional; it’s crucial for advancing the reconstruction and stabilization of Puerto Rico’s energy system.”

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, then a federal judge, is seen testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 22, 2022. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)

According to the consolidated list submitted by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, LUMA Energy, as the private operator of the authority’s transmission and distribution system, has been the most impacted by the elimination of projects. (Facebook via LUMA Energy)

PR’s most vulnerable towns face deepening socioeconomic challenges, study shows

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics has released the results of its latest Municipal Lag Index, a comprehensive study that evaluates the social and economic conditions across the island’s municipalities. The findings reveal stark disparities, with several towns facing significant challenges related to poverty, aging populations and educational attainment.

According to the report released late last week, municipalities such as Maricao, Hormigueros, Guánica, San Germán, Maunabo, Lajas, Rincón, San Sebastián, Vieques, Las Marías, and Utuado ranked lowest on the overall index. Those towns share common issues including population aging, increased age dependency, and in some cases, rising poverty levels. Vieques stood out as the most critical case, showing simultaneous deterioration in poverty, education and demographic indicators. Meanwhile, towns such as Maricao and Lajas demonstrated that improvements in education and employment have not been sufficient to counteract unfavorable demographic trends.

The Municipal Lag Index is composed of five key variables grouped into two dimensions: Economic Mobility and Demographics. The variables include the percentage of people living below the poverty line, unemployment rate, percentage of high school graduates (among those aged 18 and older), age dependency ratio, and median age. The index aims to measure poverty beyond income thresholds by incorporating elements of social lag and relative deprivation.

In contrast, several towns in and around the San Juan metropolitan area, including Culebra, Toa Alta, Gurabo, Juncos, Dorado, Trujillo Alto, Santa Isabel, Canóvanas, Toa Baja, and Las Piedras, demonstrated notable improvements in their relative index scores during the 2019–2023 period.

Dr. Ronald Hernández, project manager for statistical projects at the institute, emphasized that the index is a relative measure, not an absolute one.

“The value of the index is not in pointing out which municipality is better or worse, but in providing an objective foundation for analysis, planning, and decision-making,” Hernández said. “It’s an opportunity for mayors and policymakers to understand their communities’ social and economic realities and develop targeted strategies.”

To create the index, the institute employed rigorous statistical methods, including exploratory factor analysis, normalization, and variable aggregation. Data sources included five-year estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The study underscores the urgent need for integrated public policies that address both economic challenges and demographic shifts.

“While the improvements in several municipalities are encouraging,” Hernández noted, “it is essential to align socioeconomic development efforts with strategies that respond to Puerto Rico’s ongoing demographic transition. This includes enhancing geriatric healthcare services, implementing care policies, retaining young populations, and adapting urban planning to aging communities.”

However, the study also identified clusters of municipalities with higher lag scores -- primarily in Puerto Rico’s central, southern, southwestern and southeastern regions.

The index was calculated for two comparative periods: 2014–2018 and 2019–2023, allowing for an analysis of changes over time. Scores range from 0 to 1, with higher scores indicating greater relative lag. Encouragingly, 42 municipalities showed a decrease in their scores, suggesting improved conditions. Of those, 22 saw reductions greater than 5%.

The Municipal Lag Index is intended to foster evidence-based dialogue among stakeholders and serve as a strategic tool for municipal and central government planning, investment decisions and policy development.

Veterans Day observances set for Tuesday in Bayamón

By THE STAR STAFF

The upcoming observance of Veterans Day promises to be a heartfelt occasion, honoring the countless Puerto Rican veterans who have served with distinction.

Attorney Agustín Montañez Allman of Puerto Rico’s Office of the Veterans Advocate emphasized the remarkable legacy of honor and bravery exhibited by Puerto Rican servicemen and women in various war zones and peacekeeping operations worldwide.

The commemorative events are scheduled to take place at the Bayamón Lions Club this Tuesday.

“Our veterans embody a spirit of discipline and excellence,” Montañez Allman said. “On this special day that holds great significance for all veterans, we aim to acknowledge the vital contributions they’ve made to our communities, leveraging their skills and energy for the greater good.”

The advocate also noted that Jorge Pedroza, the commander of the Vietnam Veterans of America organization on the island, will be recognized during the event. Pedroza has been a steadfast advocate for veterans in Puerto Rico, tirelessly working to secure better benefits and federal medical services, ensuring that those who have served receive the recognition they so richly deserve.

The program will feature a formal ceremony alongside various recognitions. The musical group Son Veterano, comprising veterans themselves, will perform the official anthems.

Additionally, the Honor Guard of the Junior ROTC from Maria T. Cadilla de Martinez High School in Arecibo will present the colors for the important occasion.

Emotional moments are expected as flags representing soldiers who were killed in action and those classified as prisoners of war (POW-MIA) are raised. Montañez Allman, a decorated veteran of the Kuwait War, noted

that Nov. 11 at 11 a.m. originally marked the end of World War I by commemorating the signing of the armistice with Germany in 1919.

Years later, after World War II, veteran Raymond Weeks from Alabama proposed that Armistice Day should honor all veterans of every conflict. The idea was endorsed by President Dwight Eisenhower, leading to the establishment of National Veterans Day.

In addition to the impressive combat records of Puerto Rican veterans, their humanitarian efforts globally deserve special mention. Montañez Allman highlighted peacekeeping initiatives such as constructing roads and water supply systems, providing medical care in underserved regions, and ensuring security in communities affected by turmoil or civil strife.

“As a veteran myself, it brings me immense pride to spotlight our people’s admiration for those who have selflessly served our country, the nation, and the world -- fulfilling their duties with honor, strength, and unwavering determination,” he said.

The Fiesta del Acabe del Café in Maricao in 2014. The western mountain town is among the municipalities ranking lowest in the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute’s Municipal Lag Index, a comprehensive study that evaluates social and economic conditions across the island. (Wikipedia/J & E)

The Veterans Day program at the Bayamón Lions Club on Tuesday will feature a formal ceremony alongside various recognitions.

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Trump administration demands states ‘undo’ work to send full food stamps

By TONY ROMM

The Trump administration told states that they must “immediately undo” any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, in a move that added to the chaos and uncertainty surrounding the nation’s largest anti-hunger program during the government shutdown.

The Agriculture Department issued the command late Saturday in a memo, which The New York Times later viewed. That guidance threatened to impose harsh financial penalties on states that did not “comply” quickly with the new federal orders.

The memo surprised, vexed and frustrated many state leaders, and by Sunday, some had begun to explore their legal options to prevent any further disruptions to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. But the Trump administration held firm in its refusal to fund food stamps in full, telling a court in a strongly worded filing Sunday that states would be “responsible for the consequences” of their actions.

Caught in the middle were the roughly 1 in 8 Americans who depend on monthly federal assistance to purchase groceries — aid that has been imperiled for days as the shutdown approaches its sixth week. Multiple lawsuits to loosen that money remain unresolved, leaving many families at growing risk of hunger and financial hardship.

Some of the 42 million people enrolled in SNAP began to receive their full benefits Friday, after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fully fund the program this month amid the shutdown. States such as New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin raced to release the aid to residents, some of whom had been without nutrition assistance for days.

Soon after, though, the Supreme Court temporarily paused the judge’s order so that an appeals court could further review it, leaving the entire program in legal limbo. That review remains underway, and the outcome could determine whether the government must tap its ample reserves — totaling into the tens of billions of dollars — to preserve full SNAP benefits this month.

The Agriculture Department did not respond to a request for comment. The White House budget office also did not respond.

Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota, the top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, said in a statement that she believed that the Trump administration was “demanding that food assistance be taken away from the households that have already received it.”

“They would rather go door to door, taking away people’s food, than do the right thing and fully fund SNAP for November so that struggling veterans, seniors, and children can keep food on the table,” she said.

The food stamp program is federally funded but largely managed by states. To provide benefits, states send files to processors, which administer the electronic benefit transfer

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Manhattan, Nov. 1, 2025. The Supreme Court late Friday temporarily allowed the Trump administration to continue to withhold some funding for food stamps, the nation’s largest anti-hunger program, the latest twist in a dizzying legal battle with great stakes for millions of low-income Americans. (Marco Postigo Storel/The New York Times)

system, known as EBT. These vendors then make the funds available on EBT cards, which are the primary way that SNAP recipients purchase groceries.

In its guidance, the Agriculture Department late Saturday said states may not send EBT processors the files that would be required to provide full benefits. Rather, the agency said states must only send files for “partial” benefits, meaning that food stamp recipients would see their payments substantially cut.

“To the extent states sent full SNAP payment files for November 2025, this was unauthorized,” wrote Patrick A. Penn, a top official at the Agriculture Department. “Accordingly, states must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025.”

David A. Super, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, said it would not be “legal” for the government to claw back benefits that it had already provisioned without affording people due process.

But, Super added, the federal government sought to thwart the states that hadn’t completed their work to release full SNAP allotments to low-income families. He said the memo

could serve to “scare states partway along the process, and it’s telling the states to turn back.”

Officials in at least one state, Wisconsin, publicly refused to comply with the Trump administration’s new directive, citing the financial harm that it might inflict on residents.

“No,” Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, said in a statement. He said his state would continue to fight “against the Trump administration’s efforts to yank food assistance away from Wisconsin’s kids, families, and seniors.”

Wisconsin officials also criticized the federal government Sunday for trying to obstruct some of the complicated, behind-the-scenes transactions that help to reimburse grocers that accept SNAP. They brought it to the attention of a federal judge in Massachusetts who is considering a request by roughly two dozen states, including Wisconsin, to force the Trump administration to restore all SNAP funds.

As part of that lawsuit, state leaders also asked the judge on Saturday to shield them from any federal punishment over their handling of food stamps during the current period of legal uncertainty. In a filing, they pointed to a series of conflicting instructions from the Agriculture Department, which at one point had signaled that it was preparing to release the funds for full food stamp payments after all.

Lawyers for the Justice Department strongly opposed the states’ request in a formal reply to the court Saturday. Their filing came as the Trump administration also ratcheted up its threats to punish local officials for allocating full food stamp payments.

In its memo, the Agriculture Department said that states could lose access to some federal money to manage the SNAP program if they failed to comply, and may be “liable” for funding full benefits that the federal government did not authorize.

“The cruelty is the point,” said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who leads her party on the chamber’s top agriculture committee. In a post Sunday on social media, she added: “It is their choice to do this.”

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Mamdani, mofongo and rum: Democratic squabbles fade away, for now

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Three days after winning New York City’s bitterly fought mayoral election, Zohran Mamdani strode into the ballroom of a seaside Puerto Rican resort Friday evening dressed in all white, a color for peacemaking. He smiled, the room paused and then dozens of lobbyists, local lawmakers and union reps pressed toward him. Introductions were shouted. Selfies were snapped. Hugs abounded.

After just about two minutes, Mamdani was so overwhelmed that he asked his security detail to pull him from the room for a breather before the night spun on.

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There was a time — as recently as, well, Tuesday — that Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, and much of New York’s political establishment were in an open civil war. He campaigned hard against the old Democratic guard and its transactional politics; they dismissed him as too young, too left, too inexperienced to lead a city of 300,000 municipal workers and a $116 billion budget.

But 1,600 miles away, on the Caribbean beaches where New York’s political class decamps every year for a postelection retreat, both sides seemed ready to cast aside their differences over three days of seminars, soirees and late-night mojitos — at least for now.

Carl E. Heastie, the speaker of the state Assembly who often tangled with Mamdani in his days as an Assembly member, introduced him Friday night as “the man of the hour.”

Labor leaders and business lobbyists, who not long ago steered donations into super political action committees villainizing him, jockeyed for private meetings. Mamdani, in turn, dispatched top aides to attend a reception hosted by major Jewish groups wary of his anti-Israel views.

And at one point Thursday, a couple of hundred people at a union-hosted reception joined Letitia James, the state attorney general, in an off-key adaptation of “Volare,” with the mayor-elect’s name swapped in.

“Mam-dan-i,” they sang under a canopy of palm trees. “Oh-oh-oh-oh.”

If the reconciliation was perhaps a little too swift, or the beachfront venues a little too ritzy for Mamdani’s populist campaign rhetoric, few of the hundreds of participants in New York’s permanent political class seemed to want to talk about it as they munched on mofongo and plotted the city’s future.

litics,” Mamdani told the audience. “A united front.”

But reminders of unresolved political fissures never fall far below the surface at the Caribe Hilton, which played host to the annual Somos conference. How Mamdani navigates those challenges may determine the course of his mayoralty.

When Hochul took the stage just before Mamdani on Thursday night, she was greeted with chants of “tax the rich.”

They were a reference to Mamdani’s calls for the state to levy billions of dollars in new taxes on the city’s wealthiest residents and corporations. The revenue would go to fund the free buses, free child care and other ambitious campaign promises that helped him win the election.

“I hear you,” she said with a note of irritation. “I’m the type of person — the more you push me, the more I’m not going to do what you want.”

Elsewhere at the hotel, the two leading candidates for City Council speaker, Julie Menin of Manhattan and Crystal Hudson of Brooklyn, hosted rival receptions to try to woo colleagues. Many attendees believe Menin, a longtime city official, would put a check on Mamdani’s leftist impulses, while Hudson would lock arms with him.

Another potential high-wattage fight was brewing poolside. Brad Lander, the city comptroller, was not so secretly laying the groundwork for a primary challenge against Rep. Dan Goldman, often with a beer in hand. Both men are liberal Democrats, but Lander is a Mamdani ally and Goldman is not, having voiced concerns about the mayor-elect’s harsh criticism of Israel.

Mayor-elect of New York City Zohran Mamdani greets people after speaking at the Labor Breakfast organized by Somos Inc., the NY Senate Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force, and the NY Labor Council for Latin American Advancement at the Somos conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Saturday, November 8, 2025. (Erika P. Rodríguez/The New York Times)

than a barb.

“To be honest, I wish I had some cold water right now,” he said as sweat dripped down his brow in the Caribbean sun while he wore a long-sleeved guayabera shirt. (He did stop at one point to get a coconut drink from a roadside vendor.)

After years of easy access to Adams and his inner circle, lobbyists were busy trying to get intel on Mamdani’s small inner circle and secure meetings with Elle Bisgaard-Church, his top adviser, and Ali Najmi, his counsel.

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“It went from a morgue to a victory party,” said Todd Shapiro, who as Mayor Eric Adams’ campaign spokesperson, spent months trying to stop Mamdani. “A lot of people are giving the new mayor the benefit of the doubt.”

He paused before adding: “It might have been the alcohol that helped, too.”

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In a handful of short speeches, Mamdani did drop references to the “tens of millions of dollars” spent against him and the “politics of small imagination” that has prevailed under his Democratic predecessors.

Mostly, though, he sought to paper over divisions. He agreed to be the guest of honor Friday at an invite-only reception hosted by Gov. Kathy Hochul at a former casino in Old San Juan, where guests were entertained by masked dancers on stilts.

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Still, by far most of the attention was on the new mayor, who darted around San Juan with the same speed that characterized his campaign.

Mamdani touched down Thursday afternoon in a window seat on JetBlue. (It was a stark contrast with Adams, who arrived in Puerto Rico four years ago as mayor-elect on a private jet owned by a crypto billionaire.)

He skipped out on late-night parties, but visited hotel workers at the El San Juan who just won a new contract, pattered in well-accented Spanish and attended Friday prayers at a mosque far from the beachfront parties, where a Palestinian flag was hoisted behind stacks of canned goods and fruit that were part of a food distribution event.

Mobbed by reporters, Mamdani studiously refused to make news. When one asked if Hochul was “throwing cold water” on his victory, Mamdani offered a joke rather

“I tell everyone — civic organizations, businesses, interests groups — just breathe and wait,” said Emily Giske, a top lobbyist for Bolton-St. Johns. “People want to know before anyone else does — and that’s ridiculous.”

During breaks from the partying, fixtures of the city’s permanent government seemed to have very different assessments of the moment.

John Samuelsen, the international president of the Transport Workers Union, urged Democrats to fully unite behind Mamdani’s vision — even if just for their own sake.

“The midterm elections are riding on his success,” he said. “I think that’s the unspoken, extremely important thing.”

But others came away frustrated that flash was blotting out substance.

“He is being treated like one of the Beatles,” said Jay Martin, an executive at the New York Apartment Association, a trade group representing rent-stabilized landlords.

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By NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Ihave great news for President Donald Trump! He has expressed such outrage at attacks on Christians in Nigeria that he has threatened military intervention there, and the Pentagon has obligingly prepared plans for attack. Trump’s concern for Nigerians is welcome, but here’s the awkwardness: Trump’s aid cuts are killing far more Nigerian Christians than Islamic terrorists are.

So if Trump wants to save the lives of Nigerian Christians, the good news is that he doesn’t need to spend billions of dollars on charging (as he put it) “into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing.’” Rather, all Trump has to do is restore the American aid that was estimated to be saving the lives of more than a quarter-million Nigerians each year.

The president’s threat to attack Nigeria seemed a response to heated talk in certain circles lately about killings or even genocide of Christians in Nigeria. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has denounced “the mass murder of Christians” in Nigeria, and Bill Maher claimed that more than 100,000 Christians have been killed there since 2009.

“If you don’t know what’s going on in Nigeria, your media sources suck,” Maher said.

But Maher himself doesn’t seem to know what’s going on in Nigeria. Nor apparently does Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who announced that the Pentagon was “preparing for action” in Nigeria.

There have indeed been killings of Christians (and Muslims alike) in Nigeria by murderous jihadi groups like Boko Haram and Islamic State. More broadly, insecurity is an immense problem in Nigeria, with 8,000 civilians of all faiths killed so far this year. It’s also true that several northern Nigerian states have blasphemy laws that can be used to terrorize Christians or nonobservant Muslims.

Trump’s attention to all these problems would be most welcome. But to call the situation a genocide is to mock the victims of actual genocides.

Right-wing claims of tens of thousands of deaths of Christians appear far off the mark. Rigorous reporting by Armed Conflict Location and Event Data, an independent monitoring group, says that there have been 33 deaths so far this year in attacks against Christians in which religion was reported to play a role. The equivalent figure for Muslims is higher, 88 deaths.

Since January 2020, the data initiative counts 475 people killed in attacks targeting Christians, and 404 deaths in attacks targeting Muslims.

It is possible that these figures significantly understate the totals, because it’s often unclear whether a victim’s religion was a factor in the killing. Some killings involve Muslim Fulani herders who have conflicts with settled Christian farmers. It’s difficult to know when such a killing is rooted in religion or when it’s a dispute about a herder’s cow eating a farmer’s crop.

It’s also not clear whether Muslims or Christians are suffering more casualties. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said in its report last year that “violence affects large numbers of Christians and Muslims” alike.

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aid workers live that principle; one such heroic figure, a missionary aid worker named Kevin Rideout, was recently kidnapped in Niger, where for 19 years he had committed himself to improving the well-being of local people. But chest-beating about a nonexistent Christian genocide strikes me as puerile and performative.

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Another reason to be skeptical of claims of a genocide against Christians in Nigeria is that many top Nigerian officials are Christian, and the first lady is not only a Christian but also a pastor.

In any case, the number of killings in Nigeria — while tragic — pales beside the 400,000 people believed to have died in Sudan’s civil war over the last two and a half years. If Trump cares about atrocities in Africa, he should call up his friends and business partners in the United Arab Emirates and ask that country to stop financing the Rapid Support Forces militia responsible for mass murder and mass rape in Sudan.

There’s something else that I find offensive about the Trump/Hegseth bombast about Nigeria: If you care about religious repression of only your sect, you don’t really care about religious repression. Persecution of Christians, Muslims, Baha’is, Ahmadis and others is a global scourge and deserves more attention, but some of the most urgent cases today involve Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and Uyghur Muslims in China.

A radical theme of Jesus’ teachings, as the scholar Bart Ehrman notes in a forthcoming book, “Love Thy Stranger,” was his emphasis on empathy for all people, including strangers outside one’s circle. Some missionaries, nuns and

My New York Times colleague Helene Cooper reported that in response to Trump’s threat, the U.S. military has drawn up options for intervening in Nigeria in three variations: light, medium and heavy. None seems likely to accomplish much except waste money — just as Trump’s forgotten campaign against Yemen in the spring squandered $1 billion in the first month alone and achieved nothing obvious.

Trump might also reflect that while jihadis have been unable to kill tens of thousands of Nigerian Christians, his own administration appears to be doing just that. The Center for Global Development in Washington calculated earlier this year that before Trump took office, U.S. humanitarian aid was saving about 270,000 lives a year in Nigeria.

It’s too soon to predict confidently just how many Nigerian Christian children will die because Trump cut off their access to vaccines, AIDS medications, food assistance and other essentials. But the number killed by jihadis is very likely to pale beside the number dying from Trump aid cuts. So if Trump cares about Christians or anyone else in Nigeria, all he needs to do is restore aid and let babies live.

Contact Kristof at Facebook.com/Kristof, Twitter.com/ NickKristof or by mail at The New York Times, 620 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10018.

PPD supera los $500,000 en recaudos y se prepara para nuevo evento

SAN JUAN – El secretario general del Partido Popular Democrático (PPD), Manuel Calderón Cerame, anunció hoy que la colectividad ha superado los $500,000 en recaudos durante este año, y agradeció a todos los que han contribuido al proceso de Refundación del Partido Popular Democrático. “Uno de los principales objetivos que me encomendó el presidente, Pablo José Hernández Rivera, cuando asumimos la gerencia del partido en febrero de este año, fue fortalecer las finanzas del PPD. Hoy podemos afirmar con satisfacción que las finanzas del

Partido Popular Democrático están estables”, expresó Calderón Cerame.

De acuerdo con el secretario general, el PPD recaudó $258,836.26 durante el primer trimestre (enero a marzo), $143,233.47 en el segundo trimestre (abril a junio) y $96,578.03 en el tercer trimestre (julio a septiembre). Con las más recientes gestiones de recaudación realizadas en el trimestre en curso, el 1 de noviembre el tesorero del PPD informó al presidente y al secretario general que la colectividad había superado la cifra de medio millón de dólares en recaudos.

“Estos números son extraordinarios para el Partido Popular. Recordemos dónde estábamos hace exactamente un año, tras una derrota electoral contundente. Hoy, gracias a la organización, la disciplina y la confianza de nuestra gente, el PPD está de pie, fortalecido y convertido en la única alternativa real para derrotar al PNP en el 2028”, añadió Calderón Cerame.

El secretario general también destacó el éxito del Fondo de Refundación Popular, conocido popularmente como la “Pava Card” o “Tarjeta Popular”, que genera más de $25,000 mensuales en aportaciones recurrentes de más de 1,600 populares que donan un promedio de $22 cada mes.

“El Fondo de Refundación ha sido un éxito des-

de su lanzamiento el 1 de abril de este año. Es una lección de cómo recaudar fondos de forma honesta, transparente y sin depender de los grandes intereses. Este partido se está financiando con muchos dando poco, en lugar de pocos dando mucho, como vimos recientemente en el costoso cumpleaños de la gobernadora”, puntualizó el líder popular.

Finalmente, Calderón Cerame anunció que la colectividad celebrará el domingo, 16 de noviembre de 2025, la primera edición del evento “Forjadores de Puerto Rico”, a las 10:00 a.m. en el Salón San Gerónimo del Hotel Caribe Hilton.

Durante el evento se reconocerán figuras emblemáticas del Partido Popular Democrático y del servicio público, entre ellos Luis Muñoz Marín, Inés María Mendoza, Lila Mayoral de Hernández, Dr. Antonio Fernós Isern, Samuel R. Quiñones, Ernesto Ramos Antonini, Felisa Rincón de Gautier, Teodoro Moscoso, Rafael Buscaglia y Antonio J. Colorado (padre).

“Este evento busca rendir homenaje a hombres y mujeres ilustres que, desde el servicio público, el sector privado, las artes, la cultura y la filantropía, han contribuido al desarrollo de Puerto Rico. Toda persona interesada en apoyar el evento puede acceder a ppdpr.net/forjadores”, concluyó.

Radican medida para crear marco regulatorio en las escuelas para el uso de aplicaciones de Inteligencia artificial

SAN JUAN – El expresidente de la Cámara de Representantes, José Aponte, anunció la radicación del Proyecto de la Cámara 968 el cual crea la ‘Ley sobre el uso ético de la inteligencia artificial en instituciones educativas de Puerto Rico’ para, además de implementar un marco regulatorio, establece las bases o guías para que las instituciones educativas, tanto públicas como privadas, creen un reglamento sobre el uso de inteligencia artificial en el proceso de aprendizaje del estudiante.

La medida, igualmente requiere al Departamento de Educación, así como toda institución educativa privada, establecer políticas que incorporen normas éticas sobre el uso de algoritmos de inteligencia artificial, incluyendo aplicaciones como ‘Copilot’ y ‘ChatGPT’, entre otros, y radicar las mismas en el Departamento de Estado, como es la normativa para instituciones educativas privadas.

“Esta tecnología de inteligencia artificial (AI por sus siglas en inglés) es revolucionaria y promete cambios únicos en nuestra vida, pero también conlleva una serie de retos y desafíos que son necesario atender, sobre todo cuando se trata de poblaciones más vulnerables como

son nuestros niños y jóvenes. Por ello, es urgente establecer normativas éticas que orienten su implementación de manera responsable en contextos educativos, pues su uso, sin una regulación ética adecuada, puede generar riesgos significativos”, expresó el también Presidente de la Comisión de Asuntos Federales y Veteranos de la Cámara Baja.

De acuerdo con Aponte, la utilización de algoritmos de AI en la educación debe “estar guiada por principios éticos que permitan proteger la privacidad y la información sensible del uso indebido y el acceso no autorizado, garantizar la equidad y fomentar un aprendizaje responsable. Los marcos éticos deben precisar la responsabilidad y la rendición de cuentas. También deben promover la transparencia y la autonomía. El aprovechamiento de la inteligencia artificial en el ámbito educativo representa una oportunidad para transformar los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje. Sin embargo, se debe integrar dentro de un marco ético robusto, capaz de orientar sobre su uso responsable. Dichos marcos resultan indispensables para enfrentar los retos y complejidades inherentes a estas tecnologías”.

La pieza legislativa fue sometida, por consenso, de

los miembros del grupo de trabajo, creado por Aponte, para delinear la nueva política para el uso del AI en las escuelas.

El ‘Task Force’ se comprende de representantes del Departamento de Educación, la Asociación de la Educación Privada en Puerto Rico, el Departamento de la Familia, la Cámara de Representantes, la Coalición de Inteligencia Artificial de Puerto Rico, la Universidad de Puerto Rico y la Oficina de Innovación y Servicios de Tecnología (PRITS por sus siglas en inglés)

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Lady Gaga performs at Madison Square Garden in New York on Aug. 22, 2025. She is among the top nominees for the 68th annual Grammy Awards in February 2026. (The New York Times)

By BEN SISARIO

Rap will be front and center at the 68th annual Grammy Awards in February, with Kendrick Lamar; Bad Bunny; Doechii; and Tyler, the Creator among the top nominees.

Lady Gaga, Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish and Chappell Roan are also in competition for the most prestigious awards, according to nominations released Friday by the Recording Academy. But after several cycles of warring pop divas, the biggest storylines on Grammy night may be centered on men.

Lamar, the rap king who took both record and song of the year at the most recent ceremony with his slam-dunk dis track “Not Like Us,” is the year’s top nominee with nine nods, most for his latest album, “GNX.” Lady Gaga has seven and Carpenter, Bad Bunny and Leon Thomas, a singer, songwriter and producer, each have six.

Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, better known as Bad Bunny, is up in all the top allgenre categories for his latest album, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” which mingles traditional Puerto Rican styles like plena with his more familiar reggaeton and trap. That raises the possibility of a major spotlight just a week before he is set to make history with the first all-Spanish perfor-

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mance at the Super Bowl halftime show.

The Grammys ceremony will be held Feb. 1 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. (Taylor Swift’s recent blockbuster “The Life of a Showgirl” was not up for consideration — it was released after the eligibility window for next year’s awards had closed.)

In a rarity, three rap LPs are up for album of the year: “GNX,” Tyler, the Creator’s “Chromakopia” and “Let God Sort Em Out,” the first entry in 16 years by the veteran rap duo Clipse. Whether any of them win is a choice for the academy’s voters, but for a genre that has long fought for recognition from the Grammy establishment, the nominations alone are significant. (Until 2019, the ballot allowed no more than five entries per category.)

In addition to “GNX,” “Let God Sort Em Out,” “Chromakopia” and “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” (“I Should Have Taken More Photos”), the ballot for album of the year includes Lady Gaga (“Mayhem”), Carpenter (“Man’s Best Friend”), Justin Bieber (“Swag”) and Thomas (“Mutt”).

Record and song of the year, the Grammys’ two top trophies for individual tracks, were once seen as very different contests, with separate batches of songs in competition — record of the year recognizes the performance and recording of a single track, while song of the year focuses on the craft of songwriting.

But those categories have been gradually converging, and this year they are almost identical, coalescing on a batch of seven tracks that are nominated for both awards: Carpenter’s “Manchild,” Lady Gaga’s “Abracadabra,” Bad Bunny’s “DtMF,” Eilish’s “Wildflower” and Doechii’s “Anxiety,” along with “Luther” by Lamar with SZA and “Apt.” by Rosé and Bruno Mars.

The record category rounds out its eight-slot ballot with Roan’s “The Subway.” Song of the year adds “Golden” from the hit soundtrack to

the Netflix animated film “KPop Demon Hunters.”

Up for best new artist are Alex Warren and Sombr, who have had breakout years on streaming services; Addison Rae, a star social-media influencer who released her debut album this year; and Katseye, a girl-group sextet created in a reality competition series. The category also includes Thomas, who has written hits for artists including Ariana Grande and SZA before breaking out as a solo act; Olivia Dean, an English singer-songwriter with a neo-soul sound; indiepop band the Marías; and Lola Young, who bared her insecurities in the viral song “Messy.”

In other key contests, best pop vocal album will pit Bieber’s “Swag,” Lady Gaga’s “Mayhem” and Carpenter’s “Man’s Best Friend” against Miley Cyrus’ “Something Beautiful” and “I’ve Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 2)” by Teddy Swims, a best new artist contestant last year (he lost to Roan).

In best rap album, “GNX,” “Chromakopia” and Clipse’s “Let God Sort Em Out” are up against GloRilla’s “Glorious” and JID’s “God Does Like Ugly.”

This year’s nominations for big rap stars such as Lamar and Tyler, the Creator came even as rap has seen a dip in the charts. For two weeks this fall, there were no rap songs among the Top 40 slots of Billboard’s Hot 100 all-genre singles chart for the first time since 1990.

Best rock album, which often holds a spot or two for boomer icons, instead has 1990s and 2000s-era alternative fixtures (Deftones, a reborn Linkin Park), hardcore punk (Turnstile), a pop-punk provocateur (Yungblud) and pop-rock sister group Haim.

Some controversy surrounds the country field this year. Morgan Wallen, a streaming behemoth who is by far Nashville’s biggest new star, boycotted the Grammys by declining to

submit his latest blockbuster, “I’m the Problem” — which logged 12 weeks at No. 1 on the allgenre Billboard 200 album chart — for consideration.

Wallen gave no reason, but with only two previous nominations — as a guest on another artist’s song — he has been conspicuously snubbed. Four years ago, Wallen was caught on video using a racial slur; he was rebuked, and then apologized. But while that episode was intensely covered in the news media, Wallen’s commercial ascent was unabated.

The academy also split the best country album category into two awards: contemporary and traditional. Coming just months after Beyoncé took the prize for “Cowboy Carter” — a release that stoked debate about genre and racial barriers, yet was largely ignored by the Nashville establishment — the move immediately raised eyebrows in the industry.

Harvey Mason Jr., the CEO of the Recording Academy, was quoted in trade publications saying that the change had been proposed a number of times in the past. “The community of people making country music in all different subgenres,” Mason said, “came to us with a proposal and said they wanted more variety in how their music is honored.”

The traditional country ballot includes 92-year-old Willie Nelson, along with Margo Price, Charley Crockett, Lukas Nelson and Zach Top. Contemporary has Kelsea Ballerini, Tyler Childers, Eric Church, Miranda Lambert and one notable boundary-crosser: Jelly Roll, the tattooed performer who started off as a rapper.

The ceremony will be broadcast for the last time on CBS, the Recording Academy’s broadcast partner for more than 50 years — and on Paramount+ — before moving to ABC, Hulu and Disney+ in 2027, as part of a new deal with Disney.

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Stock market hits speed bump but investors stay on bullish path

The stock market’s recent weakness marked a speed bump in a rally that had driven stocks to a series of record highs, but many investors view the pullback as a breather rather than a sign of deeper trouble.

The S&P 500 has fallen 2.4% over the last eight sessions as investors fretted over the state of the U.S. economy and elevated valuations of artificial intelligence and technology stocks — sectors that have powered the market this year.

“It’s a speed bump. It’s not a wall that you’re going to ram the car into and have a bit more damage than anyone is planning for,” said Raheel Siddiqui, senior investment strategist at Neuberger Berman Global Equity Research Department.

“Whether it’s something more than a simple correction, a recession or a bear market or something more sinister? I don’t believe we have the preconditions for that,” he said.

Despite jitters over valuations and market concentration, the bull market has strong underpinnings that encourage risktaking: the Federal Reserve’s easing of financial conditions, the AI-driven boom in capital expenditures, and a supportive economic backdrop, investors said.

“I don’t really see a significant change in positioning; I don’t see a significant change in sentiment,” said Chris Dyer, co-head of Eaton Vance Equity and portfolio manager for global equity portfolios in London.

“That’s not to say that that couldn’t happen. I just don’t think that we’re seeing it at this point.”

Part of the reason the stock market pullback has drawn attention is that market drops have been rare since the tariff-induced selloff in April subsided, investors said. The S&P 500 has not fallen more than 3% from its most recent high since April.

The selloff was “just a reminder that volatility exists and is normal,” said Mike Reynolds, vice president of investment strategy at Glenmede Wealth Management.

The volatility does not stem from a fundamental shift in the outlook for stocks, investors said.

“What we are starting to see now is some fear of heights and profit taking,” said Tobias Hekster, co-chief investment officer at True Partner Capital. “I don’t think we are seeing any meaningful unwinding yet.”

The bigger risk is overreacting to the market weakness, said David Wagner, head of equities and portfolio manager at Aptus Capital Advisors. “I legitimately think one of the biggest risks that an investor could do right now is to take money off the

table.”

While near-term worries may have buffeted stocks in recent sessions, the longer-term outlook remains positive, said Phil Orlando, chief market strategist at Federated Hermes.

“Could there be a little chop, a little increased volatility over the course of the next couple of quarters? Absolutely, but we would view that as a buying opportunity.”

The U.S. economy argues against a market crash, investors said, with faster second-quarter growth than previously estimated amid strong consumer spending. Surging business investment is expected to offset weaker

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“When you look at the fundamentals in the economy around the world, the U.S., emerging markets are experiencing strong growth and while there is some weakness that is at a healthy level,” said Victor Zhang, chief investment officer for American Century Investments, which manages around $300 billion.

However, with the S&P 500 up 14% for the year and the Nasdaq up 19%, analysts broadly agreed that the selloff risks picking up steam and news on the economy could turn negative.

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Trump officials accused of bullying tactics to kill a climate measure

By LISA FRIEDMAN, MAX BEARAK and JEANNA SMIALEK

More than 100 nations were poised last month to approve a historic deal to slash pollution from cargo ships. That’s when the United States launched a pressure campaign that officials around the world have called extraordinary, even by the standards of the Trump administration’s combativeness, according to nine diplomats on its receiving end.

An ambassador from Asia was told that, if he voted in favor of the plan, his country’s sailors would no longer be allowed to disembark at American ports. Caribbean diplomats were told that they could be blacklisted from entering the United States. And Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, personally called officials in several countries to threaten financial penalties and other punishments if they continued to support the agreement to cut ship pollution.

These and other threats, including tariffs, sanctions and the revocation of diplomats’ U.S. visas, effectively killed the deal, according to the nine American, European and developing-nation diplomats directly involved in the negotiations. They spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution from the Trump administration.

The White House, the State Department and the Energy Department strongly denied that American officials made personal threats or intimidated diplomats. In statements and interviews, they acknowledged derailing the deal and repeated their opposition to international efforts to address climate change. They said the shipping fee would have hurt the American economy.

A State Department senior official also noted that the U.S. worked with Saudi Arabia to defeat the shipping fee and that helped other nations that had reservations about the agreement to vote against it.

But foreign diplomats said they were stunned by what they described as “nasty” and “very personal” threats made by State Department officials, which were mostly aimed at leaders from poorer or small countries that are economically dependent on the United States. Some of the delegations were summoned to the U.S. Embassy in London for these discussions, these people said.

Most countries had been ready to vote for the plan, which would have imposed a fee on heavily polluting vessels to push the industry to clean up. It was negotiated over several years by the International Maritime Organization, a United Nations agency that oversees

that the science was developed by “stupid people.”

Senior Trump officials said that the administration was upfront about its opposition to the shipping fee, and detailed the potential ramifications for nations that supported it, including visa restrictions, port fees on ships and sanctions “on officials sponsoring activist-driven climate policies that would burden American consumers.”

conclusion, and took it as a challenge. Early on, State Department officials recognized the shipping fee as a winnable battle that would excite Trump.

shipping policy.

But the Trump administration was able to block the vote, the nine diplomats said, after numerous countries backed away in the face of the threats from the Americans.

David Goldwyn, a former American diplomat and U.S. Energy Department official during the Obama and Clinton administrations, said the Trump administration’s tactics were over the top. “This was not a matter of dire national security, this wasn’t a resolution on al-Qaida,” Goldwyn said. “Talk about the disproportionate use of force. This is really using a cruise missile, you know, to redress a traffic violation.”

The Trump administration has made clear its opposition toward global climate policies that it believes harm fossil fuel interests. Promoting the sale of U.S.-produced oil, gas and coal is a top administration priority.

“It was like a bunch of gangsters coming into the neighborhood and smashing windows and threatening shop owners,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., who was briefed on the events by negotiators who were directly involved. Whitehouse called the Trump administration’s strategy a “shock-and-awe thuggery approach.”

Details of the Trump administration’s actions, some of which were reported earlier by The Financial Times, come as world leaders meet in Belem, Brazil, for three weeks of United Nations climate negotiations.

For the first time in 30 years, the United States is not sending high level representatives to the annual U.N. climate talks, and may not dispatch any technical staff, either. President Donald Trump is withdrawing the U.S. from the 2015 Paris agreement, the global pact among countries to rein in climate change. He has called global warming the “greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” and said

“President Trump was clear, the United States will not adhere to any bogus international climate agreement that is not in the best interest of the American people,” Taylor Rogers, a White House spokesperson, said in a statement. She said it was the IMO, not the Trump administration, that pressured nations to accept a bad policy. Trump “will not allow the IMO to bully our country into propping up their Green Energy Scam,” she said.

The State Department did not respond to a request for confirmation of Rubio’s calls to other nations, but said the accusations of bullying and intimidation were false.

The nine diplomats said the Americans directed the most forceful language toward smaller or less powerful nations. One European official who has been attending IMO meetings for nearly two decades called the tactics “unprecedented” and said negotiators from Caribbean and Pacific nations were rattled by them.

The diplomats reported that Rubio personally contacted several small Caribbean and Latin American nations to promise retaliation unless they joined the United States in opposing the shipping fee.

Another European diplomat described a conversation with a negotiator from the Philippines whose country was warned that its sailors would be denied docking rights in American ports if the Philippines voted in favor of the pollution restrictions. A negotiator from Jamaica was told he would never be able to visit the United States again, according to the European diplomat and an American close to the negotiations.

Officials from the Philippines and Jamaica could not immediately be reached for comment.

Chris Wright, the energy secretary, said he and other Trump administration officials were told the approval of the maritime fee was a foregone

“We decided to lean in,” Wright said on Oct. 22 at a talk at the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank aligned with the Trump administration. Wright said he personally spoke with officials in about 20 countries, and “enlisted” Rubio and Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, to also make calls.

In August Rubio, Wright and Lutnick issued a statement outlining the administration’s opposition. It foreshadowed what was to come, saying that countries “should be on notice” that the U.S. would “not hesitate to retaliate” against those who disagreed with the administration.

A week before the agreement was expected to pass, Rubio, Wright and Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, ratcheted up the warnings, releasing a statement that promised all manner of visa restrictions, fees and penalties against any nation that supported what they called “this European-led neocolonial export of global climate regulations.”

Wright took credit for writing a message denouncing the maritime plan that Trump “edited three or four words of” before he posted it on social media the day before the vote.

The efforts yielded results. On Oct. 17, nations voted 57-49 to delay a decision by one year, a vote that effectively killed the deal for the foreseeable future.

“I will tell you that the ‘it’s going to happen’ crowd was very disappointed,” Wright recounted during his appearance at the America First Policy Institute.

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Jamaicans have been turning to solar power. It paid off after the storm.

By HIROKO TABUCHI

The morning after Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica, Jennifer Hue, a retired tax auditor living close to hardhit Treasure Beach, woke up to devastation. Her mango, breadfruit and papaya trees were lost, their tops snapped off by 180 mph winds. There was water everywhere.

But her roof was intact, and just as importantly, so were the solar panels she had installed two years ago. Most of her neighbors didn’t have electricity. But she did.

Neighbors began stopping by to charge their phones, to take a cool drink from the refrigerator, to message loved ones to let them know they were safe. Hue is still hosting a cousin and his mother, as well as two medical students from the local university, whose accommodations were damaged.

“The wind was like a tornado, and water came through every crevice,” Hue said. “But we didn’t lose any solar panels, and the next morning, the sun was shining bright and early,” she said. “We had our power back.”

A small but vibrant market for rooftop solar panels in Jamaica has long been seen as a promising way to wean the nation off imported fossil fuels. The country is reliant on oil and gas from abroad for its power plants, which not only is polluting but also makes Jamaica’s electricity some of the priciest in the world per kilowatt-hour.

But now, solar power is also seen as a way for Jamaica and other nations in one of the world’s most hurricane-prone regions to become more resilient to ever-intensifying storms.

Rooftop solar has grown significantly in Jamaica over the past decade, from less than 1.4 megawatts in 2015 to nearly 65 megawatts in 2023, a significant amount for a small island, experts say. Overall, solar and other forms of renewable energy made up about 10% of Jamaica’s power generation in 2023.

The hope is that growth will start to cut down on Jamaica’s dependence on imported oil and liquefied natural gas, which is shipped in tankers to the island nation, at a time when ports, refineries, power plants and transmission lines are becoming vulnerable to extreme weather worsened by a warming planet.

Wide swaths of the country remain without electricity after Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica as a Category 5 storm last week, killing at least 32 people and destroying an untold number of buildings and homes. “You’re talking about restoring a very lengthy, complex and expensive infrastructure,” said David Gumbs, an expert on energy in the Caribbean at the Rocky Mountain Institute and the former CEO of the Anguilla Electricity Co.

“With solar, you maintain some ability to continue generating electricity” without relying on hundreds of miles of damaged power lines, he said. “And in the Caribbean context, when the hurricane passes, if I have rooftop solar and batteries and if I can keep my refrigerator running, my entire neighborhood benefits.”

The solar panels must survive the high winds, of course. Jason Robinson, who runs Solar Buzz, an installer based in Kingston, Jamaica’s capital, has been surveying the damage this past week, navigating roads on the west side of the island strewed with downed trees and power lines. “With nearly 200 mph winds, you’re in the universe’s hands,” Robinson said.

But so far, none of his nearly 300 clients have reported extensive damage, he said. Panels installed flat against the roof, in particular, fared well. Some rooftop solar owners have taken to removing their panels before strong winds. Many were already back online.

“As long as you install to code, and your roof stays on, you have a chance of surviving extremely long power outages,” Robinson

said. “Resiliency is becoming even more important than lowering your bill.”

Solar panels remain beyond the reach of many Jamaicans, but prices are falling rapidly as Chinese gear floods into the market. In recent years the Jamaican government has also started providing a solar income-tax credit, and banks have begun to offer more financing. Jamaica’s electric utility also now compensates solar households for excess electricity they put back into the grid.

That’s helping Jamaica make progress toward its goal of generating 50% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030.

Annabelle Todd manages an oceanfront guest villa on Treasure Beach, where two dozen panels and battery storage were installed 2 1/2 years ago. The panels survived, apart from one that was punctured by flying debris. She had electricity and air conditioning the morning after the storm, much to the envy of her neighbors.

The system wasn’t cheap, costing about $30,000. But it has virtually eliminated electricity bills that used to top $1,000 a month, because her guests “would run that AC morning and noon and night,” she said. “Honestly, we could pay it off in two, three years,” she said.

More than that, not losing power has been a relief, she said. It’s the second year in a row that the seaside community, known for its black sand beaches, has been ravaged by a hurricane.

“Now everyone who runs villas here wants solar. I already see solar suppliers driving up and down Treasure Beach,” Todd said. “They got hit two years in a row, and they’re not going to fool around anymore.”

Twila-Mae Logan, deputy executive director of the University of the West Indies’ business school, spent about $20,000 to install panels

at her Kingston home two years ago. The capital was spared the worst of Hurricane Melissa, but even then, her neighborhood lost power, making her home one of the few with electricity. Before the storm, her brother and her niece rushed to her home to store food in her freezer so it wouldn’t spoil.

“We’re a third-world country and our government is significantly under-resourced, but I really do think our government has put some fair degree of priority behind solar,” she said. “Most people would go solar, save for the expense.”

Leaders across the Caribbean have demanded more financial assistance from the world’s rich countries to help Jamaica contend with the consequences of climate change. Caribbean island nations will suffer the most from climate change, despite being least responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the world, they say. The International Monetary Fund says the region requires about $100 billion in economic investment to build resilience to climate-fueled disasters.

Hue, the retired tax auditor, doesn’t expect to quickly make back the tens of thousands of dollars she paid for her solar panels in 2023. But “it was never about that,” she said. “It was about having very reliable power, and having peace of mind.”

Residences damaged by Hurricane Melissa, one with rooftop solar panels, at Treasure Beach in Jamaica, Nov., 2025. Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. (Abbie Townsend/The New York Times)

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Why the price of electricity is spiking around the country

By BRAD PLUMER, HARRY STEVENS and REBECCA F. ELLIOTT

Millions of Americans have watched with dismay as their electricity bills have spiraled upward over the past few years. The rising price of power is squeezing households and businesses, and voter fury over higher costs is jolting elections in New Jersey, Virginia and Georgia.

President Donald Trump, who as a candidate promised to cut electric bills in half within 18 months, has blamed wind and solar power for soaring costs. Democrats say the problem is Trump’s throttling of renewable energy, while others point to the rapid spread of energy-hungry data centers.

But the factors driving electricity rates are often more complicated and depend on where you live, according to a comprehensive new study by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Not all states are suffering equally. Over the past six years, the average retail price of electricity has risen faster than inflation in 26 states. But rates have stayed flat or even declined in the rest of the country in real terms (that is, they’ve grown more slowly than overall inflation).

Many states that have seen a major expansion of wind and solar power, like Nevada or North Dakota, have seen prices stay flat or decline, although there are some important exceptions to this rule. California is a leader in renewable energy but has seen some of the largest electricity rate increases in the country, in part because devastating wildfires have imposed steep costs on utilities, which often get passed onto households. In the Northeast, states have struggled with high natural gas prices.

“There are so many different factors that can drive up electricity prices, depending on where you live,” said Ryan Hledik, a principal at the Brattle Group, a research firm based in Boston that contributed to the study. “It’s a more nuanced story than what you often see in the headlines.”

Inflation is part of the story.

The simplest factor behind surging power prices is inflation. Since 2021, as a result of post-pandemic disruptions, virtually everything has gotten significantly more expensive: food, cars, lumber, equipment, labor. For the most part, the increase in electricity rates nationwide has been in line with overall inflation, although there has been a noticeable acceleration this year.

National averages can obscure a lot,

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Houston, Sept. 20, 2023. Millions of Americans have watched with dismay as their electricity bills have spiraled upward over the past few years. But not all states are struggling equally, and the reasons why are diverse.

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though, and many states have seen electricity rates rise even faster than inflation, suggesting that there is more to the story.

In California, average retail prices have risen by a staggering 34% since 2019 — even after adjusting for inflation. In New Jersey, prices jumped 11% in the past year. In states like Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, prices are rising significantly faster than inflation.

‘It’s really poles and wires.’

The two biggest factors that influence power prices are the cost of generating electricity at a power plant and then delivering those electrons to homes and business through large regional power lines (known as transmission) and the smaller wires snaking through cities (known as distribution)

“When you look at what’s driving electricity bills, it’s really poles and wires,” said Charles Hua, the founder of PowerLines, a nonprofit organization focused on modernizing utility regulations to cut power bills.

Since 2005, the cost of generating power has declined significantly, partly because the fracking boom has made it much cheaper to extract and burn natural gas, the nation’s largest source of electricity.

But over that same period, utilities have nearly tripled the amount they spend annually on the network of poles, wires, substations and transformers that deliver power to customers. Large portions of the electric grid are nearing the end of their 50-year life spans and need replacing. Utilities are also hardening lines and equipment to deal with storms, fires and heat waves, particularly as climate change fuels bigger weather disasters.

Various types of grid equipment — such

as transformers — have been in short supply globally and have gotten more expensive. Some critics have accused utilities of overspending on power lines, since they can recoup the costs from customers and earn a guaranteed return, although this can be difficult to quantify.

Renewables aren’t a big factor (mostly).

In recent years, the United States has seen swift growth in wind and solar power, which together produce 17% of the nation’s electricity. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has blamed renewable energy for increasing electricity costs because it can’t run at all hours and requires fossil fuel backup.

Yet the Lawrence Berkeley study found a more nuanced story. In regions that have great wind and solar resources — such as the gusty Great Plains or sunny Southwest — renewable energy has boomed, and retail electricity prices have either flattened or fallen, after adjusting for inflation. Many of these states, like Iowa or South Dakota, don’t require anyone to use more renewable power; companies build it because it is often the cheapest option to put additional electrons onto the grid.

But there are exceptions: Several states that aren’t especially windy and sunny have required utilities to buy more electricity from large-scale wind or solar farms, such as Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts and New York. These requirements, which are often adopted to lower greenhouse gas emissions, can add a noticeable surcharge to bills.

Many states — including California, Maine and Massachusetts — have also offered incentives for homeowners to install rooftop solar panels. These policies can raise prices for other customers, because solar households pay less to the utility but still rely on it for backup power. That shifts the cost of maintaining the grid to other households, utilities say. (Solar proponents disagree, saying that this argument ignores many benefits of rooftop panels, such as avoided transmission costs.)

Rooftop solar policies accounted for roughly one-quarter of the increase in retail electricity prices in Maine and California since 2019, the Lawrence Berkeley study concluded. More recently, California and some other states have begun paring back their home solar incentives.

Gas spikes and data centers also matter.

What travelers need to know about the flight cuts tied to the shutdown

Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, Ga. following mandated cuts to flight traffic on November 7, 2025. The Federal Aviation Administration has required airlines to cut flights to reduce the strain on air traffic controllers, who have gone weeks without a paycheck.

(Nicole Craine/The New York Times)

By CHRISTINE CHUNG, CLAIRE FAHY and GABE CASTRO-ROOT

After the Trump administration announced it would cut 10% of air traffic at 40 of the busiest airports in the country, airlines, airports and travelers are scrambling to adjust their plans.

The reductions began Friday with a planned 4% reduction in affected markets and were set to expand over the weekend until they reach a 10% decrease by next Friday, the Transportation Department and Federal Aviation Administration said.

The list of 40 affected airports was released late Thursday evening. The Transportation De-

partment said airlines could decide which flights to cancel, and that international flights don’t need to be canceled.

Some U.S. airlines have indicated that their reductions will target regional trips and routes that operate more frequently that don’t fly between hub airports. This means that the cuts could have an outsize impact on smaller airports that prioritize domestic and regional flights.

The cutbacks follow a drumbeat by Trump administration officials and travel industry organizations, raising concerns about the fragility of the air travel system and the possibility of chaos at airports as the shutdown stretches toward Thanksgiving, one of the busiest travel periods of the year.

At a news conference Wednesday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the cuts are meant to “alleviate the pressure” on air traffic controllers, who are among the federal employees working without pay during the shutdown. Although flight disruptions have largely been minimal, air traffic control facilities across the country have experienced an elevated absence rate. That includes the New York area, where the FAA reported last Friday that nearly 80% of air traffic controllers were absent.

Geoff Freeman, the president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association, an industry organization, said that while safety is the top priority, the reductions would “come at the cost of the traveler experience, in terms of reliability, efficiency, just the smoothness of the system.”

Here’s what travelers should know.

What do I do if my flight is canceled or delayed?

Airlines have begun to announce cancella-

tions. Delta Air Lines said that while it will operate the vast majority of its flights, it will cancel 170 flights scheduled for Friday. A spokesperson for United Airlines said the airline had canceled fewer than 200 flights on both Friday and Saturday; the airline published a list of all flights canceled this weekend on its website.

American Airlines will cancel 220 flights per day from Friday through Monday, a spokesperson said.

If you receive a notice that your flight is canceled, check your airline’s website for next steps. Most carriers will rebook you on a later flight or offer you a waiver for change fees or the price of the missed flight. According to the Department of Transportation, you can turn down your rebooked flight and request a refund if you prefer.

If your flight is delayed, arrive at the airport as scheduled. Security lines are likely to be long as the disruption continues, and flight times can change on a dime. If you choose to travel on a significantly delayed flight, you waive your right to a refund or any monetary rewards, the DOT said.

What are the airlines doing to help out?

Many major airlines are waiving cancellation or change fees in response to the flight reductions.

United Airlines passengers can receive a full refund if they choose not to fly while the reductions are in place, even if their flight was not directly affected, said Scott Kirby, the airline’s CEO, in a letter to airline employees. The policy includes nonrefundable and basic economy tickets.

American Airlines said on its website that customers can change their flights or request a refund with no penalty if they choose not to travel or their flights are canceled.

Delta is waiving fare differences for passengers who rebook and issuing refunds upon request to passengers who choose not to travel, the airline said on its site.

Most JetBlue passengers affected by the reduction will automatically be rebooked, the airline said on its site. Passengers whose flights are canceled can request a full refund if they decide not to travel.

Frontier Airlines is also waiving change and cancellation fees, though passengers who rebook must still pay the fare difference. Those who cancel will receive a travel credit, according to the airline’s website.

What best practices should travelers adopt?

Even if your flight is not affected, you may

still feel the effect of the reductions, said Katy Nastro, a travel expert for Going.com, adding that almost 70% of domestic flights are either to or from one of the 40 affected airports.

Check your airline’s website or app to see where your plane is coming from and whether it took off on time, which are factors that could affect whether your flight is delayed, Freeman said. Nastro also recommended checking your flight’s seat map on the airline’s website or app; if there are a number of empty seats, prepare for the possibility that the flight could be canceled. Also be aware that flights to smaller cities are vulnerable to cancellation.

Websites like FlightRadar24, FlightAware and the National Airspace System Status can help you figure out whether your airline or your airport are experiencing, or may experience, problems. The MyTSA app may also help you anticipate how long you may have to wait in security lines (although during the shutdown, the app has been updated less frequently). Some airports also list security wait times on their websites.

Freeman cautioned that travelers should not believe everything they read.

“Don’t believe the commentators on social media that think they have it all figured out,” he said. “The airlines are making complex decisions right now.”

In a post on LinkedIn on Thursday, Barry Biffle, the CEO of Frontier Airlines, suggested that travelers who really needed to get somewhere should purchase a backup ticket on a different carrier as insurance. Make sure to buy a fully refundable ticket, he added.

Will travel insurance help?

Read the fine print in your policy, said Mark Friedlander, a senior director at the Insurance Information Institute, an industry research and education organization.

If your flight is canceled because of staffing shortages, most policies characterize that as a “common carrier issue” that would be covered.

However, most policies have a standard “known event” clause, which excludes coverage for events that are publicly known at the time the policy is purchased, such as a hurricane, a pandemic and — most often — a government shutdown.

So, if you purchased your policy last week, when the shutdown was already in effect, claims for a canceled trip are likely to be denied. But if you bought your policy in September, your flight will probably be covered, even if it’s canceled because of the shutdown, Friedlander said.

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Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles 9425 Penfield Ave Chatsworth CA 91311

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es): Steiner & Libo, Professional Corporation 11845 W. Olympic Blvd., Ste. 910W, Los Angeles, CA 90064

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DATE (Fecha): 03/27/2024

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Civil Núm.: MZ2025CV01535. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. CITACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS.

Por la presente se le cita a fin de que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho sobre la siguiente finca: UNO - RÚSTICA:

Parcela de terreno compuesta de UNA CUERDA Y TREINTA Y DOS CÉNTIMOS, equivalentes a cincuenta y una áreas, ochenta y ocho centiáreas y doce miliáreas, sita en el barrio de Llanos Tuna, término municipal de Cabo Rojo; colinda por el NORTE, con un camino servidumbre; por el ESTE, con terrenos de Carlos E. Torres Pagán, antes, hoy Eloísa Ferrer viuda de Ramírez, o sea, la finca letra “A”; por el SUR, con terrenos de Radamés Ramírez Ferrer; terrenos de José Antonio Díaz Torres; y en parte con terrenos de Pedro Camacho, y los de Eladio Zapata, antes, hoy de Antonio Díaz Torres. Número de Catastro 356-069253-48-000. DOS - “RÚSTICA”: Parcela de terreno compuesta de UNA CUERDA Y VEINTICINCO CÉNTIMOS, equivalentes a cuarenta nueve áreas y trece centiáreas; sita en el barrio Llanos Tuna, término municipal de Cabo Rojo; y colinda, por el NORTE, con un camino vecinal, por el ESTE, con terrenos de la Sucesión de María América Díaz Torres; por el SUR, con terrenos de Radamés Ramírez Ferrer; y por el OESTE. Con terrenos de Carlos E. Torres Pagán, antes, hoy Eloísa Ferrer Viuda de Ramírez, ósea la Finca letra “B”. Número de Catastro 356-069-253-48-000. TRES -“RÚSTICA”: Porción de terreno compuesta de UNA CUERDA, equivalentes a treinta y nueve áreas y cuarenta

miliáreas, radicada en el Barrio Llanos Tuna, término municipal de Cabo Rojo, y colinda; por el Norte con terrenos de Leona Padilla y otros de José Díaz; por el Este, con don José Díaz; por el SUD, con terrenos de Jacobo Cabassa y otros de Virginio Cruz y por el Oeste con camino vecinal. Tendrán un plazo improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, los interesados y/o las partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados, podrán comparecer ante el tribunal, a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la contestación de ésta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogado el Lcdo. Saúl Zapata Ripolls a PO Box 6086. Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 0681, teléfono 787-450-5850 a fin de alegar lo que en derecho proceda. Extendido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 7 de octubre de 2025. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. EVELYN GONZÁLEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SUBSECRETARIA. ***

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Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV11358. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: SUCESIÓN DE SANDRA HERNÁNDEZ RIVERA COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE

INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM): Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBAN: Apartment number eight (8). Horizontal Property. Residential two level apartment of regular shape, located at Building “Higuero of Parque Centro Condominium” New San Juan Center, Hato Rey Ward, Municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Said apartment has an area of one thousand eighty eight point sixty nine square feet (1,088.69 s.f.), equivalent to one hundred one point fourteen square meters (101.14 m.) and its boundaries are as follows: Lower level: at the NORTH, in seventeen feet four and a half inches (17’ 4 1/2”) with open space, on the SOUTH, in twenty feet, ten and a half inches (20’ 10 ½”), with open space. At the EAST, in eight feet eight inches (8’-8”), with apartment number seven (7), four feet six inches (4’-6”), with common space, four feet (4’0”), with apartment number seven (7) and twelve feet two inches (12’-2”), with common stairs. At the WEST, in twenty seven feet (27’0”), with open space. Upper level: at the NORTH, in seventeen feet four and a half inches (17’- 4 ½”), with open space. At the SOUTH, in twenty feet ten and a half inches (20’-10 ½”), with open space; at the EAST, in ten feet, three inches (10’-3”), with apartment number seven (7), two feet eleven inches (2’-11”), with common space, four feet one inch (4’1”) apartment number seven (7), and twelve feet two inches (12’-2”), with common stairs; and at the WEST, in twenty seven feet (27’-0”), with open space. This apartment comprises: at the first level: hall, kitchen, one closet, dining, living, toilet and metal stairs up to the second level and two balconies; at the second level, hall three bedrooms, five closets

and bathrooms. A parking space pertaining to this apartment, located at the West side of the building second floor. The entrance to the apartment is located at the North boundary, conecting with the building common stairs. Le corresponde a este apartamento un porcentaje equivalente a 0.0044248% en los elementos comunes generales. Finca número 32,997, inscrita al folio 221 del tomo 1154 de Río Piedras Norte. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de San Juan. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Condominio Parque Centro Higüero, Apartamento #08, San Juan PR 00918. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $81,667.42, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #29, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 22 de junio de 2015, ante el notario Roberto C. Latimer Valentín, e inscrita al folio 98 del tomo 1636 de Río Piedras Norte, finca número 32,997, inscripción 6ta. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 25 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2025 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $81,667.42. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 3 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2025 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $54,444.94. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 10 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2025 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $40,833.71. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: La suma de $73,542.44, la cual se desglosa a continuación: una suma principal de $66,062.02, más inte-

reses a razón del 5.50% anual, desde el 1 de junio de 2024, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más una suma principal diferida (piggyback) por la suma principal de $7,480.42, la cual no genera intereses, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más adelantos para el pago de seguros y contribuciones, entre otros; más una suma de $8,166.74, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 22 de octubre de 2025. MARÍA DE LOURDES LÓPEZ MOREIRA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #251.

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UNITED STATES

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT A/C/C LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES Demandante Vs. HÉCTOR MANUEL DÍAZ ALEJANDRO E IRIS YOLANDA GRILLASCA Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2025CV00829. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 11 de agosto de 2025, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 30 de septiembre de 2025 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Lote 5; Predio de terreno ubicado en el Barrio Santa Olaya, del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 752.6391 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.19149 cuerdas; colinda por el NORTE, con lote Número Seis a segregarse, en una distancia de 47.4983 metros; por el SUR, con el lote Número Cuatro, a segregarse, en una distancia de 37.0808 metros; por el ESTE, con terrenos propiedad de Segundo Montañez, en Cuatro alineaciones de 3.6538 metros, 9.4910 metros, 8.6398 metros y 1.666 metros; por el OESTE, con camino dedicado a uso público en Dos alineaciones de 2.0717 metros y 14.1805 metros. Finca Número 73,837, inscrita al folio 51 del tomo 1,802 de Bayamón Sur. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón. Dirección Física: BARRIO SANTA OLAYA, LOTE 5, CARR. 830 KM 5.2, BAYAMÓN PR 00956. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 8 DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Bayamón. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado

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 Cayey, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal, 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 Cayey, Puerto Rico, hoy día 31 de octubre de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS JULIO RIBOT VEGA, COMPUESTA POR: CARLOS JUAN RIBOT; NEREIDA RIBOT; NORA RIBOT T/C/C NORAT RIBOT Y NAOMÍ RIBOT T/C/C NAOMÍ

LAROCHELLE: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE CARLOS JULIO RIBOT VEGA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2025CV00171. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA.

EMPLAZAMIENTO Y MANDAMIENTO DE INTERPELACIÓN JUDICIAL POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: CARLOS JUAN RIBOT; NEREIDA RIBOT; NORA RIBOT T/C/C NORAT RIBOT COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS JULIO RIBOT VEGA Y JOHN DOE Y

RICHARD DOE, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE CARLOS JULIO RIBOT VEGA.

Por la presente se les notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda Enmendada en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. La abogada de la parte demandante es la Lcda. Lisa M. Aponte Valderas, Rivera-Munich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, PR 009364908; Tel. (787) 622-2323 / Fax (787) 622-2320. Se les 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 Segunda Demanda Enmendada 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 de Fajardo, Sala Superior de Fajardo, con copia a la abogada de la parte demandante dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del edicto, se les anotará la Rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Segunda Demanda Enmendada sin más citarles ni oírles, disponiéndose además, que en los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, la parte demandante les dirigirá por correo certificado con acuse se recibo, copia de la Segunda Demanda Enmendada y del “Emplazamiento y Mandamiento de Interpelación Judicial por Edicto” a las últimas direcciones postales conocidas de los codemandados, Carlos Juan Ribot Ribot como miembro de la sucesión de Carlos Julio Ribot Vega a Urb. Vista del Mar, B-6 Calle D, Río Grande, PR 00745; PO Box 3522, Río Grande, PR 00745; y 130 W King St., Holyoke, MA 01040. Nereida Ribot Ribot como miembro de la sucesión de Carlos Julio Ribot Vega a Urb. Vista del Mar, B-6 Calle D, Río Grande, PR 00745; PO Box 3522, Río Grande, PR 00745; y 2621 Sandt Ln, Orlando, FL 32818; Nora Ribot t/c/c Norat Ribot como miembro de la sucesión de Carlos Julio Ribot Vega a Urb. Vista del Mar, B-6 Calle D, Río Grande, PR 00745; PO Box 3522, Río Grande, PR 00745; y 92 Brattle St., Worcester, MA 01606 y y John Doe y Richard Doe, como posibles herederos desconocidos de Carlos Julio Ribot Vega a Urb. Vista del Mar, B-6 Calle D, Río Grande, PR 00745 y PO Box 3522, Río Grande,

PR 00745. Además, se les interpela judicialmente, a tenor con el Artículo 959 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A § 2787 y/o el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. § 11021, para que en un término de treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este edicto, excluyendo el día de su publicación, acepten o repudien, mediante instrumento público o comparecencia judicial especial, la participación que les corresponde en la herencia del causante Carlos Julio Ribot Vega, apercibiéndoseles que de no expresarse dentro de dicho término, se tendrá por aceptada la herencia. B.B.V.A. v. Latinoamericana, 164 D.P.R. 689 (2005), por lo que responderán por las cargas de dicha herencia. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 09 de octubre de 2025. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Parte Demandante Vs. MARTÍN RODRÍGUEZ COLÓN, ELIZABETH VEGA RAMOS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada UNITED STATES ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

Parte con Interés Civil Núm.: CG2025CV02038. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: MARTÍN RODRÍGUEZ

COLÓN, ELIZABETH

VEGA RAMOS 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: F-10 Urb. Monticielo, Caguas, PR 00725; C Santa María M4 #2188, Urb. Bairoa, Caguas, PR 00725; 15 C Daguao, Urb. Parque del Río, Caguas, PR 00725; y PO Box 4956, Caguas, PR 00726-4956. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 23 de septiembre de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA

LA SUCESIÓN DE NACIONCENO PANTOJA NEGRÓN, COMPUESTA POR NANCY PANTOJA ESTADES Y DAISY PANTOJA ESTADES; LA SUCESIÓN DE SANTA ESTADES CAMACHO, COMPUESTA POR CARMEN SANTA ESTADES; NANCY PANTOJA ESTADES Y DAISY PANTOJA

ESTADES Y LA SUCESIÓN DE RAMONA ORTEGA ESTADES,

COMPUESTA POR DEBBIE NÚÑEZ ORTEGA, JEANELLE VEGA

ORTEGA Y SU VIUDO, HÉCTOR LUIS JIMÉNEZ JIMÉNEZ

Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL ORTEGA ESTADES, COMPUESTA POR ÁNGELA ORTEGA STANLEY; VANESSA ORTEGA STANLEY; ÁNGEL ORTEGA STANLEY; MILAGROS ORTEGA STANLEY; LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ ORTEGA ESTADES COMPUESTA POR JOSÉ ANTONIO ORTEGA VÉLEZ; Y LA SUCESIÓN DE JESÚS MANUEL ORTEGA ESTADES COMPUESTA POR CHAMALI ORTEGA RODRÍGUEZ; CHARLIE ORTEGA RODRÍGUEZ; JAY CHAM ORTEGA RODRÍGUEZ; JESÚS MANUEL ORTEGA RODRÍGUEZ

Demandado Civil Núm.: CA2025CV02497. Sala: 407. Sobre: DIVISIÓN DE COMUNIDAD HEREDITARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO Y MANDAMIENTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SUCESIÓN DE JESÚS MANUEL ORTEGA ESTADES COMPUESTA POR CHAMALI ORTEGA RODRÍGUEZ; CHARLIE ORTEGA RODRÍGUEZ; JAY CHAM ORTEGA RODRÍGUEZ Y JESÚS MANUEL ORTEGA RODRÍGUEZ.

La publicación de tal Edicto se hará, una sola vez, en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico. Tendrá que cumplir con todos los requisitos de la Regla 4.6 de Procedimiento Civil. SE ORDENA además remitir por correo certificado con acuse de recibo una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de la última residencia conocida de la parte demandada dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del Edicto. Ello a los efectos de los demandados presenten cualquier oposición a la Demanda dentro término de treinta (30) a contarse de la publicación del edicto y advirtiéndole que de no hacerlo así se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle.

De igual manera, se ordena a que en el edicto a publicarse se interpele a la Sucesión de Jesús Manuel Ortega Estades compuesta por Chamali Ortega Rodríguez; Charlie Ortega Rodríguez; Jay Cham Ortega Rodríguez y Jesús Manuel Ortega Rodríguez, que notifique si acepta o repudia la herencia de Santa Estades Camacho dentro del plazo de 30 días contados a partir de la notificación de la presente orden. Ello a tenor con el art. 1578 del Código Civil. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer en dicho término a aceptar o repudiar la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. LCDA. ADRÍN I. PÉREZ GARCÍA TS 9898 RÚA 8636 CALLE CALDERÓN MUJICA #72 CANÓVANAS, PUERTO RICO 00729 TELÉFONO: 876-8838; adrin_72@hotmail.com

EXPEDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 30 de octubre de 2025. LIC. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DENISSE TORRES RUIZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA LA SUCESIÓN DE NACIONCENO PANTOJA NEGRÓN, COMPUESTA POR NANCY PANTOJA

ESTADES Y DAISY PANTOJA ESTADES; LA SUCESIÓN DE SANTA

ESTADES CAMACHO, COMPUESTA POR CARMEN SANTA ESTADES; NANCY PANTOJA ESTADES Y DAISY PANTOJA ESTADES Y LA SUCESIÓN DE RAMONA ORTEGA ESTADES, COMPUESTA POR DEBBIE NÚÑEZ ORTEGA, JEANELLE VEGA

ORTEGA Y SU VIUDO, HÉCTOR LUIS JIMÉNEZ JIMÉNEZ

Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL ORTEGA ESTADES, COMPUESTA POR ÁNGELA ORTEGA STANLEY; VANESSA ORTEGA STANLEY; ÁNGEL ORTEGA STANLEY; MILAGROS ORTEGA STANLEY; LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ

ORTEGA ESTADES COMPUESTA POR JOSÉ

ANTONIO ORTEGA VÉLEZ; Y LA SUCESIÓN DE JESÚS MANUEL

ORTEGA ESTADES COMPUESTA POR

CHAMALI ORTEGA RODRÍGUEZ; CHARLIE ORTEGA RODRÍGUEZ; JAY CHAM ORTEGA RODRÍGUEZ; JESÚS MANUEL ORTEGA RODRÍGUEZ

Demandado

Civil Núm.: CA2025CV02497. Sala: 407. Sobre: DIVISIÓN DE COMUNIDAD HEREDITARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL ORTEGA ESTADES, COMPUESTA POR MILAGROS ORTEGA STANLEY; ÁNGEL ORTEGA STANLEY; ÁNGELA ORTEGA STANLEY Y VANESSA ORTEGA STANLEY.

POR LA PRESENTE se le NOTIFICA Y EMPLAZA que ante este tribunal se ha radicado una acción en el caso de epígrafe mediante la cual la parte demandante solicita la División de Comunidad Hereditaria habida entre ustedes. Usted tiene treinta (30) días para contestar la presente demanda contados a partir de la publicación del presente 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://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar 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 eI remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio. de su sana discreción, Io entiende procedente.

LCDA. ADRÍN I. PÉREZ GARCÍA TS 9898 RUA 8636

CALLE CALDERÓN MUJICA #72 CANÓVANAS, PUERTO RICO 00729 TELÉFONO: 876-8838; adrin72@ hotmail.com

EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y sello del Tribunal, hoy 23 de octubre de 2025. LIC. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. DENISSE TORRES RUIZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

GILBERTO SANTIAGO

TPC: GILBERTO

SANTIAGO QUILES POR SÍ Y COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ROSA

MARRERO ARZUAGA

Demandante Vs. WALESKA RIVERA RODRÍGUEZ, JOANNA RIVERA RODRÍGUEZ, RICARDO RIVERA RODRÍGUEZ POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ROSA MARRERO ARZUAGA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: JU2025CV00009. Salón: 801. Sobre: DIVISIÓN DE HERENCIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LO ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JOANNA RIVERA RODRÍGUEZ - JARDINES DE CEIBA NORTE, CALLE 4, E-4, JUNCOS, PUERTO RICO 00777. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a usted, que se ha presentado ante este Tribunal una Demanda sobre División de Herencia, con el fin de disponer a favor de GILBERTO SANTIAGO QUILES del restante 16.67% de la propiedad ubicada en la calle 4 E-4 de la Urbanización Jardines de Ceiba Norte en el pueblo de Juncos, Puerto Rico. 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. Dentro del término de treinta (30) días desde la publicación del presente edicto usted, la parte peticionada, deberá presentar ante este Tribunal original de su contestación a dicha demanda y notificar con copia de la misma al Lcdo. Gabriel Pagán Sánchez, cuya dirección es la siguienteː 10 Teodomiro Delfaus, Juncos, Puerto Rico. Su número de teléfono 787734-7000 y correo electrónico: gabrielpagan.law@gmail.com. Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo, se le anotará la rebeldía y se podrá dictar sentencia en su contra, concediendo los remedios solicitados o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejer-

beldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA E. COLLAZO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Parte Demandante V. ROSHELY GUZMÁN CRUZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2025CV00336. 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: ROSHELY GUZMÁN CRUZ - COND TORRE LOS FRAILES 2080 CARR 8177 APT 7-I, GUAYNABO PR 00966-3744. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puer-

to Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. BRENDA G. ZAMOT SALGADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Parte Demandante Vs. PABLO L PENA

ANTONMARCHI

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: TJ2025CV00308. 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: PABLO L PENA

ANTONMARCHI - URB VILLA DE CANEY B1

CALLE ARACIBO STE

2, TRUJILLO ALTO PR 00976-3508.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colón cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de septiembre de 2025. LCDA. KANELLY ZA-

YAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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SALA DE YAUCO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. EMANUEL

RODRIGUEZ CRUZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: YU2025CV00173.

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: EMANUEL

RODRIGUEZ CRUZBO BARINAS SECTOR

CIENAGA, YAUCO PR 00698-9622; HC 3 BOX 13590, YAUCO PR 006989622; 2000 ROCK MAPLE BND, KISSIMMEE FL 34746.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colón cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramosorf-law. com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Yauco, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de septiembre de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. EDUARDO RAMOS FERRER Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2025CV01939. 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: EDUARDO RAMOS FERRER - BO VILLA JUSTICIA 1355 CALLE RIVERA, CAROLINA PR 00985-5473; 190 E CHELTENHAM AVE, PHILADELPHIA PA 19120. 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 CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de septiembre de 2025. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. MARIA E

MIRANDA RIVERA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CM2025CV00345. 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: MARIA E MIRANDA RIVERA - EXT VILLA DEL CARMEN G4 CALLE G, CAMUY PR 00627-2825. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO

BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en HATILLO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de septiembre de 2025. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. BRENDA LIZ TORRES MUÑIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

EDGAR HANS

FRANK COMAS

Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE JOHANNA

ROSA RICCA DE FRANK TCC JOHANNA

R. FRANK, JOHANNA

ROSE RICCA, JOHANNA

ROSA RICCA, JOHANNA

ROSA RICCA COLÓN, JOHANNA R. RICCA

COLÓN Y JOHANNA

ROSE MC CONNAUGHY

COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS EDGAR

ANTHONY FRANK RICCA,

TCC EDGAR A FRANK

STEPHANIE ANN FRANK RICCA, TCC STEPHANIE

ANN FRANK Y DESIREE

ANN FRANK; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE JOHANNA ROSE MC CONNAUGHY

Demandados

Caso Civil Núm.: GB2025CV00778. Sobre: CUMPLIMIENTO ESPECÍFICO DE ACUERDO DE LIQUIDACIÓN DE SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE.

Queda emplazado y notificado de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda de cumplimiento específico de acuerdo de liquidación de sociedad legal de gananciales en su contra. Se les notifica que deberán 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.poderjudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcdo. Jorge García Rondón Rua #12,562 267 Calle Sierra Morena, PMB 538 San Juan, PR 00926 Tel: (787) 203-5222 Email: jafgrondon@outlook.com

Se les apercibe y notifica que si no contestan la demanda radicada en sus contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citárseles, ni oírseles. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 18 de septiembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. VIVÍAN J. SANABRIA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. ELIU ADORNO SANTOS, MILAGROS DE GRACIA FIGUEROA, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CA2025CV02098.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ELIU ADORNO SANTOS, MILAGROS DE GRACIA FIGUEROA, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda 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, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PO Box 366276, San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr. com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Bo. La Gloria, Carr. 941 Camino Los Adornos, Trujillo Alto, PR 00977-1971; PO Box 19871, Trujillo Alto, PR 00977-1971. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en Carolina,

Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de octubre de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. YASHMIR PABÓN ORTIZ, SUBSECRETARIA.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO POR SÍ Y COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE POPULAR MORTGAGE, INC. Demandante V. JOSÉ LUIS LÓPEZ MUÑOZ COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ LUIS LÓPEZ ADORNO Y DE LA SUCESIÓN DE REGINA MUÑOZ VICÉNS T/C/C MININA MUÑOZ VICÉNS T/C/C MANINA MUÑOZ VICÉNS Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2025CV02482. (Salón: 701). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. BELMA ALONSO GARCÍAOFICINABELMAALONSO@GMAIL. COM.

A: SUTANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE JOSÉ LUIS LÓPEZ ADORNO, PERENCEJO DE TAL POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE REGINA MUÑOZ VICÉNS T/C/C MININA MUÑOZ VICÉNS T/C/C MANINA MUÑOZ VICÉNS, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de octubre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se

considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de octubre de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 30 de octubre de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARIEL CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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CENTRO MĖDICO DEL TURABO, INC., H/N/C HOSPITAL HIMA-SAN PABLO CAGUAS Y RED MEDICA HIMA-SAN PABLO

Demandante Vs. MIGUEL A. MALAVE

MALAVE, SU ESPOSA FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Y LOURDES

MALAVÉ MALAVÉ

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2025CV02804. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO

- PROCEDIMIENTO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. A: LOURDES MALAVÉ MALAVÉ - BARRIO LIRIOS, SECTOR CUATRO CALLES, CARR. 183, KM 4 HM 8 SAN LORENZO, PUERTO RICO, 00754.

Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante Centro Médico del Turabo, Inc., h/n/c Hospital HIMA San Pablo Caguas y h/n/c Red Medica ha presentado ante este Tribunal, demanda contra usted, solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: COBRO DE DINERO. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:

Lcdo. José A. Miranda Daleccio Apartado 4980 Caguas, Puerto Rico 00726-4980 Tel. (787) 653-6060

E-Mail: jamiranda@himapr.com

Se le apercibe que si no compareciere usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDA BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, HOY 29 DE OCTUBRE DE 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ELBIA IRIS MATIAS SERRANO; MELVIN RIVERA RODRIGUEZ

Parte Demandante V. ISABEL RODRIGUEZ

MELENDEZ

Parte Demandada

Caso Núm.: AR2025CV01782. Salón Núm.: 102. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO (MATERIA O ASUNTO). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ISABEL RODRIGUEZ MELENDEZ

(Nombre de la parte demandada que se emplaza) SE DESCONOCE

(Dirección de la parte demandada que se emplaza) 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://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, según enmendada, conocida coma Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para laSeguridad, 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, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023).

Se le advierte que el Tribunal estará citando para la vista de

Ratificación de Custodia, según dispone el Artículo 34 de la Ley Núm. 57-2023 y se exige su comparecencia. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los cases que proceda. JORGE L COUTO GONZALEZ

Nombre del (de la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante, o de la parte, si no tiene representación legal 8958 Número ante el Tribunal Supremo (RUA), si es abogado(a) PO BOX 197 MANATI PR 00674 Dirección 787-884-3303 Número de teléfono; número de fax coutolawyer@gmail.com Correo electrónico Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, el 9 de octubre de 2025. Vivian Y Fresse Gonzalez, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. Carmen J Rosario Valentin, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE CARMEN DELIA

JORGE ALBIZU

Peticionarios EX PARTE

Civil Núm.: PO2025CV02780. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE DESIGNÁNDOSE COMO DESCONOCIDO, A ANTERIORES DUEÑOS Y SUS HEREDEROS PERSONAS AUSENTES QUE DE NO ESTARLO DEBIÁN SER CITADOS EN PERDONA O POR CORREO CERTIFICADO CUALQUIER PERSONA CON INTERÉS, QUE PUEDA PERJUDICARLE ADVERSAMENTE, ESTE PROCEDIMIENTO. POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere que contesten la petición a los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación del edicto. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la peticionaria de epígrafe ha presentado una Petición para que se declare a su favor el dominio de la siguiente finca: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno con un área superficial de CUATRO CIENTOS CUARENTA Y SIETE PUNTO CUATRO MIL SEISCIENTOS OCHENTA Y SEIS METROS CUADRADOS (447.4686 m/c), equivalentes a 0.1138 cdas, radicado en el Barrio Clausells del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico. Colinda por el NORTE, en varias alineaciones con las

propiedades de Aurelia Banch Gutiérrez y Ana Luciano Banch; por el SUR, con un uso público que es la calle identificada como ocho (8); por el ESTE, con un uso público que es la calle identificada como ocho y media (81/2); y por el OESTE, con un uso público que es la calle identificada como Central. Este Tribunal ordenó que se publique la pretensión por tres (3) veces, durante el término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para los que tenga algún derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito, las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción y en general a toda persona que desee oponerse dentro del término de veinte (20) días de la última publicación del presente edicto debe notificar con copia de sus alegaciones a la representación legal del promovente, Usted deberá presentar su oposición 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 oposición en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Copia de su oposición deberá ser notificada. Si las partes a las que se notifica presentan sus alegaciones, el peticionario deberá notificarles la prueba que utilizará en la vista en su fondo. Lcdo. Luis M. Barnecet Vélez Urb. Paraíso de Coamo, 608 Calle Paz, Coamo, PR 00769, Tel. 787-603-2396 email: barnecet@hotmail.com EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 29 día de octubre de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KEILENE RODRÍGUEZ MELÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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RAFAEL GARCÍA DE JUAN Y SU ESPOSA MARÍA JULIA CABEZA

HERNÁNDEZ, LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES

GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

REPRESENTADOS POR MARÍA TERESA GARCÍA CABEZA

Demandantes V. PRUDENTIAL MORTGAGE, CORP., JOHN DOE, RICHARD ROE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2025CV05168.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: PRUDENTIAL MORTGAGE, CORP., JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ.

Por la presente se les notifica que se ha radicado una Demanda donde se solicita se cancele el siguiente pagaré, el cual está extraviado, así como la hipoteca que garantiza su pago: Un pagaré a favor de PRUDENTIAL MORTGAGE, CORP., o a su orden, por la suma principal de CUARENTA MIL SETECIENTOS DÓLARES ($40,700.00) devengando intereses al 8.3⁄4%, vencedero el 1 de mayo de 2008, según escritura #273, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 7 de abril de 1978, ante el Notario Público Raúl E. Casasnovas Balado. Inscrita al folio 79 del tomo 518 de Bayamón. Inscripción 3ra. Por la presente se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique al Lcdo. Javier José Díaz Rivera, DIAZ LAW GROUP, Westgate Industrial Park, #515, Calle 2, Cataño, Puerto Rico, 00962, teléfono (787) 361-9200, Email: javier@diazlawgrouppr. com, abogado de la parte demandante, con copia de vuestra contestación a la Demanda radicada en este caso contra ustedes, dentro de un término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este Edicto. Por la presente se le apercibe que de no comparecer a formular alegaciones dentro de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia de acuerdo con lo solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 30 de octubre de 2025.

ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA E. COLLAZO, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

MARIA JULIA GARCIA CABEZA Y OTROS

Demandante V. ARIELA HEREDIA

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BY2025CV00224. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA.

JAVIER JOSÉ DÍAZ RIVERAJAVIER@DIAZLAWGROUPPR.COM.

A: ARIELA HEREDIA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 07 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de octubre de 2025. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA POR ORDEN DEL TRIBUNAL. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 29 de octubre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE UTUADO SALA SUPERIOR DE UTUADO YARITZA ROMAN MORENO Y OTROS

Demandante V. EXPARTE

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: LR2025CV00084. (Salón: 10). Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. CYNTHIA V. ROSARIO GONZÁLEZCVIONNETTE@YAHOO.COM. A: (1) PERSONAS IGNORADAS O DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCION DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD Y TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE. (2) MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION RAMON RAMOS LOPEZ. (3) MIEMIBROS DE LA

SUCESION DE EMILIO RAMOS. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 de noviembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 03 de noviembre de 2025. En Utuado, Puerto Rico, el 03 de noviembre de 2025. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA. MARIELA QUILES BORRERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAMILIA Y MENORES DE SAN JUAN ANTONIO RAMIREZ SANDOVAL TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO ANTONIO RAMIREZ Demandante Vs. LORENZA ACOSTA MORA Demandada

Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV07879. Sobre: DIVISIÓN DE SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LORENZA ACOSTA MORA - 751 N 12TH ST. READING PA 19604-2515.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: httrs://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. LCDO. EDGAR A. MOLINA JORGE PO Box 733, Sabana Seca PR. 00952 Tel. (787) 472-3444

E-mail: emolinalaw@gmail.com

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de octubre de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

RAFAEL ORLANDO GONZALEZ RIVERA Demandante V. SANTANDER MORTGAGE CORPORATION Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: MZ2025CV01213. (Salón: 306). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEVAMCOLON@WWCLAW.COM. A: JOHN DOE, RICHARD ROE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 31 de octubre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 03 de noviembre de 2025. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 03 de noviembre de 2025. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. YAHAIRA TORRES MATÍAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Manatí leads BSNF Finals 2-1 over Moca

By THE STAR STAFF

The Atenienses of Manatí defeated the Expolosivas of Moca 80-75 on Saturday night in Game 3 of the 2025 Women’s Superior National Basketball League (BSNF by its initials in Spanish) Finals, held at Dr. Juan A. Sánchez Acevedo Coliseum in Moca.

Game 4 is scheduled for today at Juan Aubín Cruz Abreu Coliseum in Manatí. Tipoff is at 7 p.m.

The home team got out to an early 10-2 lead with 6:57 remaining in the first quarter, but the Atenienses (Athenians) responded with a jaw-dropping 22-0 run, capped by a threepointer from Jessica Jackson, to take a 29-15 lead with just 12 seconds left in the frame, which ended with the visitors up 29-18.

In the second quarter, Jackson again helped extend the lead, to 35-19, on a jump shot with 7:30 remaining. The Atenienses went into intermission leading 49-37.

Manatí led 66-53 after three quarters, but the Explosivas rallied in the fourth period as a basket by Hillary Martínez brought the hosts within a possession at 72-69 with 2:27 left in the final quarter. However, Chelsea Mitchell responded with five consecutive points, widening Manatí’s lead to 77-69 and securing the victory.

Mitchell led all scorers with 28 points, followed by India Pagán with 16, Pamela Rosado with a standout performance of 14 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists, and Jackson with 13 points off the bench for Manatí.

Brown led Moca with 25 points, while Samantha Fuehring added 18 points, Ashley Torres 12 and Hillary Martínez 10.

Cangrejeros sweep at Bithorn;

By THE STAR STAFF

The Carolina Giants, Ponce Lions and Santurce Crabbers all notched wins on Saturday night in the opening weekend of the 2025-26 Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League season.

The Crabbers (Cangrejeros) walked off against the Caguas Criollos 4-3 at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in Hato Rey, breaking the attendance record for an opening game with more than 15,000 fans.

First baseman Spencer Packard lined a single to center field, driving in Rubén Castro and breaking a 3-3 tie in the ninth inning.

The Cangrejeros now have a 2-0 record, while the Criollos fell to 0-2.

For the second straight game, the Cangrejeros’ first run

Manatí’s Chelsea Mitchell led all scorers with 28 points.

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came off the bat of Shed Long Jr. This time, he drove in Johneshwy Fargas with a sacrifice fly to left field in the third inning.

The Criollos took control in the fourth inning. Nelson Velázquez led off with a double to left field. A wild pitch from Cangrejeros starter Juan Hillman then advanced Velázquez to third, while Vimael Machín drew a walk. With runners on the corners, Luis Vázquez hit his second home run of the season and Caguas led 3-1.

Santurce evened the score with a pair of runs in the eighth inning. Pinch-hitter Jeremy Arocho and Johneshwy Fargas drove in the runs with a double and a sacrifice fly, respectively.

The win went to Miguel Mejía (1-0) after he pitched one inning, while the loss was charged to José Espada (01), who allowed two hits, gave up Packard’s run, and issued two walks in one inning.

In Carolina, a sacrifice fly by Josh Hatcher in the 10th inning gave the Giants (Gigantes) a 1-0 victory over the Mayagüez Indians (Indios) at Roberto Clemente Walker Stadium.

For the second consecutive night, the tie-breaker rule was activated for the regular season, which places a runner on second base for both teams at the start of each inning, with no outs, if the game is tied at the end of the ninth inning.

The Giants started the bottom of the tenth with Abimelec Ortiz on second base, but he was replaced by pinch-runner Ryuta Hirose. The Indians’ left-handed reliever, Efraín Nieves Jr., walked Deniel Ortiz and then got Jan Hernández to pop out to left field. However, on a tagup play, Hirose reached third, putting Carolina runners on the corners. Ezequiel Pagán then reached first on interference by the Indians’ catcher, Shawn Ross to load the bases. Hatcher’s flyball then allowed Hirose to score the winning run.

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The win went to left-hander R.J. Martínez (1-0) after he pitched a scoreless inning. Nieves Jr. (0-1) took the loss, allowing one run in two and a third innings. During his outing, he struck out two, walked two and gave up one run.

In Ponce, a five-run rally in the ninth inning gave the host Lions a 9-5 victory over the San Juan Senators at Francisco “Paquito” Montaner Stadium.

Four of those five runs came on a grand slam by Anthony Calarco. Ponce improved to 1-1. San Juan fell to 0-3.

The Senators’ (Senadores) first two runs came early in the game on a single to left field by Yariel González and an error by Lions (Leones) catcher Sammy Hernández on a turnaround attempt by Kenen Irizarry at third base.

Ponce figured out Senators starter Taishi Mameda’s pitches in the third inning. The Lions loaded the bases with two outs, and Dalton Guthrie drew a walk to force in the first run for the hosts, making it 2-1.

After that, both teams traded runs before Roby Enríquez homered to left field to give San Juan a two-run lead in the fourth inning. In the bottom half of the inning, Lions designated hitter Yeniel Laboy lined a single to center, driving in Sammy Hernández and making the score 3-2.

San Juan scored its fourth run in the seventh inning when Kenen Irizarry grounded out to second base, driving in Alan Marrero. In the bottom of the seventh, the Lions came knocking again, scoring a run on a single by John Montes to make it 4-3.

An RBI double by Shinya Hasegawa extended San Juan’s lead to 5-3 in the eighth inning. In the bottom of the inning, Edwin Díaz put the ball in play to third base, and a fielding error allowed Jesmuel Valentín to score Ponce’s fourth run.

The win went to Pinto (1-0) after he pitched one-third of an inning, while the loss was charged to Alexander Castro (0-1), who allowed all five runs in the ninth inning.

The Crabbers set an attendance record for an opening game at Hiram Bithorn and are 2-0 to start the winter league baseball season.