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Bad Bunny lands leading role in historical epic ‘Porto Rico’

By THE STAR STAFF

Some 10 days after delivering an all‑Spanish Super Bowl halftime show celebrating his Puerto Rican heritage, global music star Bad Bunny has been cast in the lead role of the upcoming film “Porto Rico,” a historical epic centered on the island’s origins.

Bad Bunny, born Benito Martínez Ocasio, will headline the project, according to multiple outlets, though details of his character remain under wraps. The film is expected to explore Puerto Rico’s colonial past and, per reporting from Deadline, will draw inspiration from the life of José Maldona do Román, the Puerto Rican revolutionary known as Águila Blanca (White Eagle).

The production brings together high‑profile talent behind the camera. Puerto Rican rapper Residente is directing and co writing the film with Alexander Dinelaris, the Oscar‑winning screenwriter of “Birdman.” “Birdman” director Alejandro G. Iñárritu is set to executive produce.

The cast also includes Spanish actor Javier Bardem and American actors Edward Norton and Viggo Mortensen, whose roles are reportedly tied to the histories of their home countries. Norton praised the film’s creative leadership, calling the collaboration between Residente and Bad Bunny “a flame finding the stick of dynamite that’s been waiting for it.”

Bad Bunny’s casting follows his widely praised Super Bowl performance earlier this month, which attracted more than 128 million viewers. The show incorporated imagery referencing Puerto Rico’s colonial history and the island’s status as a U.S. territory, including depictions of sugar cane fields once worked by enslaved people and later controlled by American companies, as well as electrical utility poles symbolizing the island’s chronic blackouts.

Bad Bunny’s casting as the lead in the upcoming film “Porto Rico,” a historical epic centered on the island’s origins, follows his widely praised Super Bowl performance, which attracted more than 128 million viewers. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

He also carried a light er‑blue Puerto Rican flag, com monly associated with the island’s independence movement. Ending the performance, he declared “God bless America,” listing every country in North and South America while holding a football labeled “Together we are America.”

Although celebrated by critics and followed by a major spike in streams and sales, the performance drew criticism from conservative groups. Turning Point USA staged an alternative halftime event featuring Kid Rock, and former President Donald Trump described Bad Bunny as a “terrible” choice for the show. The White House had also publicly criticized the musician days earlier for comments on immigration enforcement during his Grammy appearance.

“Porto Rico” marks Bad Bunny’s first leading film role. The 31‑year‑old has previously appeared in supporting roles in “Bullet Train” (2022), “Happy Gilmore 2” (2025), and “Caught Stealing” (2025).

The casting continues a career‑defining year for the artist, coming on the heels of his Grammy win for Album of the Year with “Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” the first Spanish‑language album to receive the honor.

By THE STAR STAFF

n response to the most recent cases of sexual exploitation of minors using social networks and online video game platforms, Rep. José Aponte Hernández on Wednesday called an emergency meeting with several agency heads, as well as personnel from the FBI.

The purpose of the meeting is to evaluate the protocols for prevention, detection and intervention in cases of sexual approaches by adults to children through electronic means.

Those cited would include Family Secretary Suzanne Roig Fuertes, Education Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés, Con sumer Affairs (DACO by its acronym in Spanish) Secretary Hiram Torres Montalvo, Justice Secretary Lourdes Gómez Torres, Police Superintendent Joseph González and Office of Innovation and Technology Services (PRITS) Executive Director

Poincaré Díaz Peña, as well as members of the Child and Adult Human Exploitation Group of the Office of Homeland Security Investigations.

“Since 2012, we have been raising awareness about how online video games and social media serve as a gateway for unscrupulous and immoral adults to access and make contact with our children,” Aponte said. “Today, more than ever, these platforms are a favorite tool for sexual predators to meet minors. Therefore, we will be convening an emergency meeting to evaluate protocols for the prevention, detection, and intervention in these types of cases, and to determine what we, as the Legislative Assembly, can do to support efforts and propose new solutions to address these issues.”

Last week, the FBI warned of a “historic” increase in cases of “sextortion,” which is when an adult shares sexually explicit material with a minor.

Gov’t will not appeal acquittal in slaying of environmentalist

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it will not appeal a Feb. 6 ruling issued by Judge Ángel Llavona Folguera, in which he acquitted a nurse who argued he killed his neighbor, Roberto Viqueira Ríos, in self-defense.

The decision against appealing the Pueblo v. Eduardo Meléndez Velázquez acquittal follows what the agency described as a “thorough and responsible evaluation” led by Solicitor General Omar Andino Figueroa.

Justice Secretary Lourdes Gómez Torres met earlier Wednesday with the widow of Roberto Viqueira Ríos, Moshayra Vicente Cruz, and members of her family, accompanied by the solicitor general and Chief of Prosecutors Juan Ramos García. During the meeting, officials personally explained the decision not to pursue an appeal, emphasizing that the choice was made out of respect for the family and after rigorous legal review.

The Justice Department stressed that the prosecutorial team acted with “rigor, professionalism, and firm commitment” in its pursuit of justice for Viqueira Ríos and his relatives. While the agency reiterated its disagreement with the court’s ruling, it affirmed that the Constitution and the independence of the judiciary must be respected.

As the case comes to a close, the Justice Department pledged continued support to the victim’s family through the Office of

Compensation and Services to Crime Victims and Witnesses. The statement concluded by underscoring that the death of Roberto Viqueira Ríos “will not be relegated to silence” and that prosecutors will honor his memory “with rigor, transparency, and an unwavering commitment to the justice the People of Puerto Rico demand.”

Viqueira Ríos, 49, was a marine biologist and director of the environmental organization Protectores de Cuencas. Meléndez Velázquez, 45, is a nurse and neighbor of the victim.

The two were longtime neighbors in the Estancias de Yidomar community in Yauco and reportedly had an ongoing dispute dating back to at least 2020.

In the original charges, on July 15, 2025, Meléndez allegedly entered the couple’s residence armed and fired shots, killing Viqueira Ríos and endangering his wife. Prosecutors charged him with first-degree murder, attempted murder, aggravated burglary, and weapons violations. However, conflicting evidence in the form of videos showed Viqueira Ríos firing first from his home. Meléndez then fired back from the sidewalk near his own home.

The court concluded Meléndez acted in legitimate self-defense, responding to being shot at. The judge emphasized that Meléndez had fired from a public sidewalk, not inside the victim’s home, according to video evidence. Despite acknowledging Meléndez’s extreme response (22 bullets), the judge ruled that the legal threshold for self-defense had been met.

Governor urges federal judge to return lawsuit to invalidate LUMA Energy contract to local courts

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Jenniffer González Colón urged a federal judge this week to return her lawsuit seeking to invalidate the extension of LUMA Energy’s contract to Puerto Rico’s local courts, arguing that the case centers solely on enforcing commonwealth law and not on political or financial motives.

In a filing submitted this past Monday to U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain, the governor and the Puerto Rico government said the lawsuit falls under the island’s traditional policy and regulatory powers protected by Section 306 of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), the federal statute overseeing Puerto Rico’s debt restructuring.

“The Governor’s lawsuit deals with the application of Puerto Rico law. Nothing more, nothing less,” the filing states, emphasizing that the case belongs in the Puerto Rico Court of First Instance, where it was originally filed.

The government contends the legal challenge does not attempt to assert contractual rights or secure any economic advantage over other creditors of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA). Instead, it seeks a judicial determination on whether the Public-Private Partnerships Authority (P3A) acted within Puerto Rico law when it approved the “Extension Letter” continuing LUMA’s operation and maintenance agreement for the island’s power grid.

According to the filing, the lawsuit seeks declaratory and injunctive relief for alleged violations of Puerto Rico’s PublicPrivate Partnerships Act of 2009 and the 2018 law governing the transformation of the electrical system. González Colón argues that while nullifying the contract extension might have financial repercussions for PREPA, such consequences are incidental and not the purpose of the suit — meaning it should not be treated as a financial claim in PREPA’s Title III bankruptcy case.

The government also pushed back on assertions from LUMA and the Financial Oversight and Management Board that the lawsuit is politically motivated. Citing U.S. Supreme Court precedent, the filing argues that bankruptcy courts should not probe the political intent behind a government’s exercise of regulatory powers.

Keeping the case in the Title III forum, the governor argued, would improperly sideline Puerto Rico’s own courts from interpreting novel and highly consequential matters of local law involving the island’s sole electric power transmission and distribution system. The filing stresses that the claims arise exclusively under Puerto Rico law and do not require interpreting PROMESA or the federal Bankruptcy Code.

The government further asserts that the lawsuit is not a “core” proceeding of PREPA’s bankruptcy case and, even if the court found a related jurisdictional basis, abstention doctrines — including Burford and Thibodaux — would support sending the case back

to the local judicial system.

Responding to warnings that voiding the extension could trigger operational chaos, the filing notes that LUMA’s own contract includes transition procedures, including “Back-End Transition Services,” designed to ensure an orderly handover if the agreement is terminated early.

Energy groups oppose 900% hike in residential fixed charge

By THE STAR STAFF

Puerto Rico’s solar and energy‑storage advocates are urging regulators to reject a proposal by LUMA Energy that would raise the residential fixed charge from about $4 per month to more than $40.

The Puerto Rico Solar and Energy Storage Association (SESA) and Solar United Neighbors (SUN) filed a motion before the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) opposing the request, which comes as part of LUMA’s rate design restructuring in the ongoing rate review case.

The basic rate has not been revised in years. An increase is needed to pay for PREPA’s $9 billion debt and pensions.

Javier Rúa Jovet, SESA’s public policy director, said the utility is attempting to overhaul its rate structure by imposing higher monthly fixed charges on all customers -- an increase he warned would disproportionately affect low-income house holds, low-consumption users and solar customers. He said regulators should immediately reject the increase to ensure just and reasonable rates and to protect consumers from unjustified hikes. Rúa Jovet added that LUMA’s proposal undermines the gradual and predictable transition that rate‑design principles are meant to guarantee.

Rúa Jovet said the proposed fixed charges would deal a

heavy economic blow to people living alone, residents of small or energy-efficient homes and customers who have in stalled solar panels. Instead of being penalized, he said, these customers should be rewarded for contributing to the island’s energy-efficiency and renewable-transition goals.

SESA and SUN argued that LUMA’s request violates the principle of gradualism in rate design, which the PREB itself has

promoted to ensure rate revisions are predictable and phased in to avoid sudden increases in customer bills. They added that high fixed charges tied to demand force low-consumption customers to subsidize heavier users, penalizing those who invest in energy-efficiency measures.

Another concern raised by the groups is that the proposed fixed charges violate Section 4(c) of Law 114-2007, because they effectively impose illegal indirect charges on renewable generation from “prosumers” and discourage net-metered solar adoption by undermining the value proposition of solar energy -- something the law prohibits.

David Ortiz, senior director of SUN’s Puerto Rico program, concurred that such a drastic increase in fixed charges would unfairly punish low-income families, low-usage consumers and those who have invested in solar power. He said the proposal conflicts with rate equity and discourages solutions that strengthen Puerto Rico’s energy resilience.

Both organizations said they are willing to provide recom mendations to help build a more efficient and resilient energy system and urged regulators to keep the current fixed charge in place. They also proposed exploring alternative mechanisms to ensure revenue stability, such as inclining block rates (IBRs). They further called on the PREB to begin a formal proceeding that would result in an IBR proposal for review and deliberation.

Senators trade barbs as water service boilover continues

By THE STAR STAFF

Guayama District Sen. Wilmer Reyes Berríos on Wednesday accused atlarge Sen. Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz of portraying himself as the watchdog of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Au thority (PRASA) and the current administra tion, despite having left the Municipality of Villalba, where he had served as mayor, with a critical financial situation that includes a $3.6 million debt with the water utility.

Reyes Berríos maintained that the PRASA debt is only one part of the fiscal situation the municipality inherited after the departure of the then-mayor.

“We are not talking about an isolated figure,” he said. “We are talking about an administration that left millions in accumu lated debt and a deficit that the citizens of Villalba are still paying for today.”

Reyes Berríos is a freshman senator af filiated with the governing New Progressive Party. Hernández Ortiz, also a freshman senator, is the Popular Democratic Party minority leader in the upper chamber and has been an outspoken critic of the slow pace of response by PRASA to water service woes afflicting the San Juan metro area and other parts of the island.

Reyes Berríos pointed out what he sees as the contradiction of someone who failed to meet basic payment obligations now at tempting to position himself as an authority on matters of administrative efficiency.

“The same person now demanding explanations about PRASA, when he was responsible for administering it [in Villalba], allowed millions in debt to accumulate,”

Reyes Berríos said. “Good management isn’t demonstrated by attacking from the Senate; it’s demonstrated by managing correctly when you have the power to do so.”

Reyes Berríos added that the more than $3.6 million owed to the PRASA repre sents resources that could have been used to strengthen pumping stations, improve infrastructure, and address urgent needs in Villalba, Corozal and other municipalities in the Guayama District that face supply challenges.

“Instead, debt accumulated, and he didn’t even make any payments to the PRASA in his last year in office,” he said. “Now the former mayor talks about responsibility, but he didn’t practice it before.”

Reyes Berríos noted that the information regarding the debt comes from official docu mentation requested by his legislative office.

“The problem isn’t auditing,” he said.

“The problem is doing it without moral authority.”

Hernández Ortiz fired back later in the day.

“It seems that the government has been hurt by our oversight on the issue of PRASA and the [drinking water service] crisis in the metropolitan area (and in many municipali ties) that they have sent colleague Senator Wimer Reyes to attack and defame me,” he said. “Bringing the crisis that thousands of families are experiencing, due to the water situation in the country, to an attack on this servant with incomplete and false information does not advance anything. You may be a novice to public service, but I’ve been fighting for our people for a long time. And I’m going to do it no matter what it costs me. Including the political attacks of people sent by his government.”

Hernández Ortiz went on to “take this opportunity to clarify several points: the first is that the municipality of Villalba, like many towns

that you represent, suffered from overbilling and inefficient services by PRASA.”

“We have been in that battle for years,” he said. “These are numbers objected to by several administrations and that in the end a payment plan was achieved. Perhaps some mayors [in the Guayama District] have already brought that situation to him [Reyes Berríos]. The question is: what has he done to solve it?”

Republicans, braced for losses, push more voting restrictions in Congress

By ANNIE KARNI

The strict voter identification measure that Republicans have pushed through the House is just their opening salvo in a broader legislative effort aimed at keeping control of Congress this fall and helping to amplify the president’s false claims of mass voter fraud in the event that they lose.

The GOP’s relentless focus on the bill and an even more restrictive measure making its way through the House — both of which face a steep uphill path to becoming law — is aimed chiefly at intensifying pressure within their own ranks to muscle through new voting restrictions and seek to reshape the electorate in their favor.

But it also allows Republicans to hammer President Donald Trump’s falsehoods about widespread illegal voting particularly by immigrants in the country illegally, helping them build a case, however groundless, that any Democratic victories in November will be a result of cheating.

“As President Trump told me last week, it really will save America,” Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., recently told a right-leaning media outlet in Florida, of the push to enact the measure that passed the House. “If we don’t, we lose the midterms and we lose the country.”

Next up is a measure from Rep. Bryan Steil of Wisconsin, the chair of the Committee on House Administration, whose “Make Elections Great Again Act” would go even further in imposing federal control over elections than the Save America Act, which squeaked through on a near-party-line vote last week. That bill would require proof of American citizenship to register to vote and allow the Department of Homeland Security to have access to voter rolls.

Republican proponents of Steil’s legislation have begun referring to it as the Save America Act, but on steroids.

Steil’s bill would ban universal voting by mail and prohibit the counting of ballots

Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) speaks alongside Republican lawmakers and activists during a news conference on the “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act” at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Feb. 11, 2026. Steil’s bill would ban universal voting by mail and prohibit the counting of ballots received after Election Day. (Eric Lee/ The New York Times)

received after Election Day. It would ban ranked-choice voting for federal elections and would prohibit voters from giving sealed mail ballot packets to someone else for delivery, a practice allowed in 18 states.

It also would grant far more authority to the Department of Homeland Security to obtain information about voters from states.

And it would reinforce the House-passed bill’s voter ID requirements, including establishing citizenship by requiring people to show a passport or a birth certificate to register and identification to vote.

“Elections should end on Election Day,” Steil said at a hearing last week, echoing an assertion Trump made repeatedly after his 2020 election loss.

At the hearing, Steil brought in three election deniers to make the case for the changes: Chuck Gray, the secretary of state of Wyoming,

who claimed the 2020 presidential race was “illegitimate”; Ann Bollin, a state representative from Michigan who in 2020 signed a letter requesting an audit and investigation of election results in her state; and a senior lawyer with Judicial Watch, a conservative organization that has represented individuals challenging state election laws.

Democrats fear the bill could get fasttracked to the floor, depending on what Trump tells House Republicans he wants them to do.

And Speaker Mike Johnson has already stated that questioning the security of the upcoming elections is an issue he does not plan to let fade from voters’ minds.

“That is something that’s going to be a continuing theme here; it’s something we’ll continue to push,” Johnson told reporters earlier this month.

Johnson, who played a lead role in the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, has raised questions in recent days about three House Republican candidates from California who held leads on Election Day in 2024. He said they saw their advantages “magically whittled away,” when more mail-in ballots came in and were counted.

“It looks on its face to be fraudulent,” Johnson said without offering any evidence, even though none of those Republicans leveled any accusations of fraud when they conceded their races.

Johnson did not mention that Republicans also won districts in 2024 in part because of ballots that came in after Election Day. Rep. Gabe Evans, R-Colo., for instance, won his seat in Colorado’s 8th District in 2024 in a tight race that wasn’t called for days as votes continued to come in and be counted.

Other Republicans in tight races in swing districts, like Rep. Young Kim of California, saw their leads grow substantially with votes tallied after Election Day.

Democrats argue the bills would disenfranchise millions of Americans by making it more difficult for some of their key constituencies — including women, legal immigrants, lower-income Americans and others who may lack the necessary documentation to meet the new requirements — to vote.

“The Make Elections Great Again Act is one strand of spaghetti, the Save America Act is another strand,” Rep. Joe Morelle of New York, the ranking Democrat on the House Administration panel, said in an interview. “They’re going to throw the whole bowl at the wall.”

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said he saw the congressional efforts as part of a larger pattern that has included the president’s recent talk of nationalizing elections and his regret about not seizing voting machines in swing states after his loss in 2020. He said those efforts also included intimidating poll workers and most recently, dispatching Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, to Fulton County, Georgia, to elevate false claims of voter fraud.

“We need just to face it head on,” Blumenthal said. “There’s no trick solution here. We have to tell voters that the way to overcome it is to turn out massively and make majorities large enough that he has no credible argument.”

Still, Senate Republicans are under increasing pressure from the hard right to do whatever is necessary to break through a filibuster and ram through the Save America Act on a simple majority vote over Democratic opposition.

So far, only two of the usual group of Republican holdouts to Trump’s agenda — Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky — have not signed on as co-sponsors of the bill, meaning it would have more than enough support to pass on an up-or-down vote.

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Judge orders Trump administration to restore displays about slavery at Washington’s house

By ANUSHKA PATIL

Afederal judge earlier this week ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore displays about George Washington’s ownership of enslaved people at a monument on the site of his former house in Philadelphia. The judge said the government’s claim to have the power to erase and alter historical accounts at the country’s monuments echoed George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984.”

In a 40-page opinion, Judge Cynthia M. Rufe granted a preliminary injunction to the city of Philadelphia, which had sued the Interior Department and the National Park Service over their decision to remove the displays. The order means the government must put the materials back up while the underlying lawsuit proceeds in court.

Last month, National Park Service workers arrived unannounced at the President’s House Site, a monument on the spot of a home used by Washington and President John Adams in the early days of the nation, and took down panels, displays and video exhibits describing the local history of slavery and commemorating the nine enslaved people Washington kept there while he was president.

The park service has said that the displays were taken down to ensure “accuracy, honesty and alignment with shared national values.” The move was part of a far-reaching effort by the Trump administration to rewrite American history along ideological lines at national mon-

uments and parks across the country.

“As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s ‘1984’ now existed, with its motto ‘Ignorance Is Strength,’ this court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts,” Rufe wrote. “It does not.”

“Each person who visits the President’s House and does not learn of the realities of founding-era slavery, receives a false account of this country’s history,” added Rufe, who was appointed by President George W. Bush.

The order bars further alterations to the President’s House Site but does not set a deadline for restoring the displays. The Interior Department said it planned to file an appeal, but unless stayed by a higher court, the injunction will remain in effect until Rufe enters her final ruling. The preliminary injunction signals that she believes the city has a strong case and is likely to prevail.

The Interior Department and the Park Service said in a statement Tuesday that the ruling was an “unnecessary judicial interven tion” and that plans had been in the works to update the displays with “a fuller account of the history of slavery” at the site. The department did not immediately elaborate on what the updated materials would have said, or what had been determined to be missing in the original account of slavery. The city of Philadelphia did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Visitors at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, Jan. 31, 2026, a week after the Trump administration ordered the removal of all interpretive signs. A federal judge on Monday, Feb. 16, ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore displays about George Washington’s ownership of enslaved people at a monument on the site of his former house in Philadelphia. (Hannah Yoon/The New York Times)

Hospital Menonita Aibonito

Acreditados como Centro de Excelencia de Reemplazo Total Avanzado de Cadera y Rodilla

The Trump administration has extended its ideological battles to many national monuments, museums and parks, ridding them of what the president sees as liberal viewpoints. At the Muir Woods National Monument in California and Fort Sumter in South Carolina, for instance, signs about climate change were removed.

At Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts, employees were ordered to stop showing films about the grueling conditions endured by mill workers, many of them women and immigrants, in the early 19th century. And at the Stonewall National Monument in New York City, long seen as the birthplace of the national LGBTQ+ rights movement, the Pride flag was removed last week.

Acreditado por The Joint Commission, el Hospital Menonita Aibonito se posiciona como líder en Puerto Rico, siendo el único hospital acreditado como Centro de Excelencia de Reemplazo Total Avanzado de Cadera y Rodilla. Un logro que reafirma nuestro compromiso con la excelencia, la calidad y la medicina de Calibre Mundial en Puerto Rico.

What the American right wants from Europe

By ROSS DOUTHAT

It tells you something notable about the world of the 2020s that Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech to the Munich Security Conference earned a brief standing ovation. Put the same speech in the mouth of any Republican politician from the Iraq War through the late 2010s, and its themes and flourishes would have been seen as essentially reactionary — maybe understandably so, given American piety and jingoism, but certainly not a tone that sophisticated and progressive Europeans ought to welcome.

“It tells you something notable about the world of the 2020s that Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech to the Munich Security Conference earned a brief standing ovation,” writes New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. (Shannon Lin/ The New York Times)

Now, though, a call to control borders and rebuild military and industrial might and to prioritize national interests over international institutions and Western civilization over global citizenship — all rooted in a vision of the trans-Atlantic relationship as an extension of Europe’s Christian heritage and its empire-building and missionary-sending past — well, if that right-wing vision of the European-American relationship is what it takes to keep the United States invested in NATO, then at least some European elites are willing to stand up and applaud.

This is, in fact, the rough bargain that the American right is offering to Europe at the moment. There has been a lot of talk about the potential abandonment of our European alliance by an American populism that supposedly holds the Old World in disdain. But it’s closer to the mark to say that the American right often identifies powerfully with Europe, but the Europe it wants to love is not the Europe that’s been built over the past few generations, so American conservatives are trying to alter the beloved as the price of their affection.

Which leaves European elites with a complicated set

of options. If they join the applause for Rubio at Munich — saying, in effect, “I don’t care why you love me, as long as you love me” — they are continuing in a relationship knowing that their partner expects them to change, to become more nationalist, religious, free-market-oriented and better armed. They can actually try to make that kind of change (the preference of some of the Continent’s nationalists), or they can wait and hope that the American demand will change or soften over time (with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Munich tour a source of hope for that potential future). Or more radically, they can refuse the relationship entirely and look for partners who seem to love them as they are (like India, with which the European Union just concluded a big trade-and-migration deal).

As an American conservative with Europhilic tendencies, I naturally think the first option is the best for Europe’s future. Just because a message is associated with President Donald Trump doesn’t make it worth ignoring, and Europe would be better off in almost every way if it moved in the direction suggested by the Rubio address: more politically stable if it successfully limited mass migration, more dynamic if it chose deregulation over deindustrialization, more optimistic and creative and fecund if it recovered religious faith, more capable of defending its ideals if it spent more money on defense.

But American conservatives should also be clear about the tensions inherent in their appeal for European change. The obvious one divides Rubio from his boss: When the secretary of state says, “We Americans may sometimes come off as a little direct and urgent in our counsel,” he’s pretending that we didn’t just have a pointless mini-crisis over Greenland in which the Trumpian ask wasn’t “direct and urgent” so much as immoral and destructive, less a demand for healthy change than an abusive demand for submission.

A more general tension is that American conservatives tend to downplay how much of the European transformation — the shift, over time, to weakness from power, to decadence from self-belief — was actively encouraged by American power brokers. As my colleague Christopher Caldwell put it in December, if Europe today seems “vitiated” and “enfeebled,” this destiny was imposed and not just chosen: “It was at America’s urging that they undertook this work of self-destruction in the first place.”

In his Munich speech, Rubio told a story about the post-World War II moment in which the trans-Atlantic allian-

ce saved Europe from both Communist victory and postimperial decay. But the reality is much more complex. From Franklin Roosevelt pressuring Winston Churchill to weaken the British Empire to Dwight Eisenhower treating France and Britain coldly in the Suez crisis, American policy often encouraged Europe’s retreat from global power. And the same pattern continued, in varying ways, through the post-Cold War era and the war on terrorism, when Bush-era conservatives imagined that they could run a global imperium more efficiently if they ignored or overruled Old Europe.

In effect, then, today’s American conservatives are suggesting that past American elites were often wrong and that Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, and for that matter, Jacques Chirac, were often right. (Indeed, JD Vance said that explicitly last year.) Even if that new advice is good counsel, it still can feel like a betrayal given the radically different demands that came before.

And Europeans could be forgiven for wondering if the new advice is completely different from the old advice because American conservatives can’t always decide which kind of right-wing Europe they would like to see.

“We do not want our allies to be weak,” Rubio said in Munich. For the trans-Atlantic relationship to change in the way that he desires, that promise needs to be proved out. Because from the Eisenhower era to the age of Trump, we have often given Europeans good reason to think otherwise.

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Presidente de la Cámara hace entrega de Medalla Presidencial a 87 policías destacados por su valor y desprendimiento

ques y Culebra celebrada en el área de la Rotonda del Capitolio.

SAN JUAN – El presidente de la Cámara de Representantes, Carlos ‘Johnny’ Méndez, hizo entrega de la Medalla Presidencial, la más alta distinción que otorga dicho Cuerpo Legislativo, a unos 87 hombres y mujeres de la Policía de Puerto Rico por su desempeño en el deber y vocación cívica.

“Nuestros policías, nuestros héroes; esos hombres y mujeres que todos los días colocan su vida en la línea para proveernos seguridad merecen todo nuestro respeto y admiración. Por eso esta Cámara de Representantes se encuentra evaluando unas 30 medidas dirigidas a mejorar sus condiciones de trabajo. Pero hoy queremos reconocer a unos 87 agentes del orden público de la región este de la Isla que, por su desempeño y compromiso comunitario, se destacaron durante el año pasado”, comentó el Presidente de la Cámara.

“El trabajo de estos excepcionales policías ha sido sentido en las comunidades que sirven, por eso entendemos más que meritorio hacer entrega de la Medalla Presidencial, el más alto reconocimiento que confiere la Cámara de Representantes de Puerto Rico, a ustedes, nuestros héroes. Gracias por todo el sacrificio que hacen a favor de nuestro Pueblo”, añadió Méndez.

Las expresiones del líder legislativo se dieron durante la ceremonia de reconocimiento a los policías de los municipios de Río Grande, Luquillo, Fajardo, Ceiba, Vie-

El agente Juan Madera, adscrito a la División de Patrullas de Carreteras de Ponce, y quien ofreció un emotivo mensaje de superación y fe. Madera fue herido de bala y estuvo al borde de la muerte, sin embargo ‘Dios tuvo un propósito conmigo’ y tres semanas más tarde regresó al servicio.

Entre los homenajeados se encontraban el capitán Roberto Román, el capitán Edwin Collazo, el teniente II Miguel Soto, Eliot García, la teniente Enid Patiño y William Feliciano, los sargentos Juan Rodríguez y Daina Rodríguez, el inspector Juan Madera, el teniente Ángel Baerga, así como los agentes Emily Valentín, Diego Carrasquillo, y Merarlys López.

Los tenientes Solano Burgos, Miguel Soto, Leslie Rodríguez y Cesar Ramos también fueron reconocidos por el Presidente Cameral.

Igualmente se reconocieron a los sargentos Rene Irizarry, Glenda Méndez, Carmen Rivera, Rafael Claussell, Miguel López, Miguel Alvarez, Félix Vega, Víctor Muñiz, Libardo De Jesús, Clemente Hernández y Maritza De Jesús, los agentes Carlos Rodríguez, Lizbeth Soler, Joshua Alicea, Adimari Rodríguez, Luis García, Pedro Echevarría, Zoraida Mercado, Ana Meléndez, Valery Rodríguez, Víctor Santos, Santos Rivera, Miguel Siberton, Noraida Lebrón, Edelmirio Lebrón, Jayleen Ocasio, José Quiñones, Giselle Rivas, José Lebrón, Jumariel Carrión, Jeanette

Morales, Jesús Sánchez, Charmain Morales, Luis Berberenna, Teófilo Lion, Jenny Del Valle, Kristian Amado, Miguel López, Merith Casanova y Giovanni Cuadrado.

También recibieron la distinción Presidencial los agentes Olga Cordero, Luis Murga, Angel Nieves, Erick Toro, Arlene Rivera, Juan Madera, Ruth Monge, Carlos Ocana, Angel Ocasio, Milton Sánchez, Félix De Jesús, Karla Faris, Angel Arce, Suann Matias,, Angel Cruz, Nitza Acevedo, Miguel Losa, Betzali Tirado.

Los sargentos Alina González, Omar Cuevas, Edwin Soto, Richard Medina, Abraham Sánchez, Mercedes Guzmán, Nelson Rivas y Luz López fueron, de la misma forma, reconocidos.

Guánica lanza campaña turística como Ciudad del Sapo Concho

POR EL STAR STAFF

GUÁNICA – El alcalde de Guánica, Ismael ‘Titi’ Rodríguez Ramos celebró una conferencia de prensa en la mañana de hoy para el lanzamiento de una iniciativa turística municipal, con el apoyo de la Compañía de Turismo de Puerto Rico, denominada ‘Guánica, Ciudad del Sapo Concho: historia, visión y futuro’, a los fines de promocionar las atracciones de este litoral costero del sur borincano.

“No todos saben que el hogar del sapo concho es Guánica, particularmente la Reserva Bosque Seco, patrimonio universal de la humanidad. Este es nuestro embajador, al ser la única especie de sapo endémica de Puerto Rico”, señaló el alcalde

Durante la rueda de prensa celebrada en la sede del Museo Histórico Pedro Juan Vargas Mercado, edificio que resistió estructuralmente los terremotos del año 2020, los presentes disfrutaron de una sala de exposición en donde los visitantes podrán disfrutar de una decoración típica

puertorriqueña y una sala virtual donde el visitante tendrá la experiencia de visitar los distintos lugares turísticos de Guánica, apoyando también de manera promocional a los comerciantes guaniqueños.

“Gracias a Bad Bunny, el mundo entero ahora conoce a nuestro sapo concho y esa promoción es magnífica de hecho, el herpetólogo puertorriqueño Rafael Joglar declaró a la revista National Geographic España que está pasando es maravilloso. Señaló que Bad Bunny está haciendo un gran trabajo, porque combina música, talento y arte, con la ciencia y la protección a nuestras especies amenazadas”, añadió el alcalde.

La oferta turística de Guánica es impresionante “porque tiene de todo”, señaló Rodríguez Ramos, mientras invitó a los puertorriqueños a prepararse con tiempo para los días libres de Semana Santa y verano y hacer turismo interno en la ciudad sureña que el próximo 11 de marzo celebra 112 años de emancipación, pues en el pasado fue parte de Yauco, su municipio vecino.

Algunos de los atractivos que resaltó durante la pre-

sentación fueron la histórica Hacienda Santa Rita, hogar de la Madre Dominga Guzmán, así como el Fuerte Caprón en el Bosque Seco, declarado por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) como Reserva de la Biosfera, un lugar único en el mundo entero.

“Mucha gente no conoce que en Guánica tenemos 27 las playas que han contado los visitantes, y cada cual descubre su rincón favorito cada vez que viene”, añadió el alcalde.

OnMed expands presence in Puerto Rico

Plans to set up

10

CareStations across island by end of year

By THE STAR STAFF

OnMed, a tech-enabled hybrid health care company, is expanding its presence in Puerto Rico with plans to install 10 OnMed CareStations across the island by the end of 2026 through a partnership with health insurer Triple-S.

The move builds on the company’s first Puerto Rico installation, launched in November 2025 at Plaza Las Américas. OnMed officials say early use of the station shows strong demand for accessible, high-quality care.

“These results validate what we’ve long believed: when you meet people where they are with high-quality, convenient care, they will use it and outcomes improve,” OnMed CEO Karthik Ganesh said.

He noted that Puerto Rico’s ongoing physician shortages, aging population and geographic barriers make the island a key market for demonstrating scalable health care infrastructure.

Nearly 25% of Puerto Rico’s 3.2 million residents are over 65, while 44% live below the poverty level. Many rural

and mountainous communities are more than 30 minutes from hospital care.

OnMed’s CareStation, an 8-by-10-foot “clinic-in-abox,” can be deployed in about 30 days and costs significantly less than traditional facilities. Each unit offers oneon-one virtual consultations supported by staff, real-time diagnostic tools, scans and vital sign monitoring in community-based locations.

Five CareStations are scheduled for deployment through the end of the first quarter of 2026, with five more planned later in the year. Installations include high-traffic retail centers and pharmacies, with additional employer and community locations under consideration.

Triple-S members eligible for the program can access MiConsulta MD — the local name for the service — at no cost and in their preferred language.

“The first MiConsulta MD station has been exceptionally well received,” said Michael Muchnicki, president of Triple-S Salud. He said the Plaza Las Américas installation has earned a 4.96 out of 5 satisfaction score since its Nov. 20 debut.

“Based on the strong adoption by our members, we plan to install eight additional care stations across Puerto Rico, reaching a total of 10 by year end,” Muchnicki said.

OnMed’s CareStation, an 8-by-10-foot “clinic-in-abox,” can be deployed in about 30 days and costs significantly less than traditional facilities. Each unit offers one-on-one virtual consultations supported by staff, real-time diagnostic tools, scans and vital sign monitoring in community-based locations. (X via OnMed)

ASORE & EDB sign pact to facilitate financing for restaurants

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Restaurant Association (ASORE by its acronym in Spanish) and the Economic Development Bank for Puerto Rico (EDB) signed a collaborative agreement Tuesday to facilitate access to financing options, business guidance, and growth capital for food and beverage

businesses on the island.

“The restaurant sector is a major driver of economic activity, job creation, and entrepreneurship in Puerto Rico,” EDB President Josué Rivera Castro said in a written statement. “With this collaborative agreement, the EDB reaffirms its commitment to facilitating access to capital and supporting entrepreneurs with financial tools that allow them to grow, expand, and operate sustainably on the island.”

The signing of the memorandum took place during the presentation of the 2026 Projections economic report and the swearing-in of the new ASORE board of directors.

The agreement stipulates that the ASORE will refer members interested in financing to the EDB, while the institution will offer financial guidance, credit evaluation, and access to loans and lines of credit, subject to current requirements.

“This alliance represents a firm step toward our commitment to providing our members with real tools so they can develop their businesses, create jobs, and contribute even more to Puerto Rico’s economic development,” ASORE President Sonia Navarro González said.

It was reported that the EDB has granted more than $5.3 million in financing to 29 businesses linked to the restaurant industry for operational expansion, infrastructure improvements, and equipment acquisition.

The agreement will be in effect until Dec. 31, 2027, and includes guidance efforts and educational activities aimed at strengthening the sector’s entrepreneurial capacity.

S&P 500 ends higher, lifted by Nvidia and other AI stocks

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The S&P 500 ended higher on ⁠Wednesday, ⁠lifted by gains in Nvidia, Amazon ⁠and other technology-related heavyweights following recent jitters about artificial intelligence.

Nvidia climbed after the world’s most valuable company said it had signed a multi-year deal to sell to Meta Platforms millions of its current and future AI chips.

Sandisk, Western Digital and Seagate Technology Holdings climbed for much of the session, adding to strong gains in recent months ⁠fueled by massive ⁠AI-related demand for their storage technology.

AI-related stocks lost ground earlier this month as investors

muted in holiday-thinned trading, with Japan’s Nikkei ⁠slipping ⁠after yesterday’s lower-than-expected GDP print. Those ⁠figures showed the Japanese economy grew at an annualised 0.2% in the fourth quarter, well below a forecast 1.6% gain.

That weighed on the yen on Monday, with the currency easing 0.4% against the dollar after ⁠last week’s almost 3% rise, before reversing its losses on Tuesday.

Amazon and Microsoft rose on Wednesday.

“At a certain point, weakness in tech was bound to bring in the marginal buyer. These are still high-growth names. They were expensive and they’ve gotten cheaper,” said Ross Mayfield, an investment strategy analyst at ⁠Baird ⁠in Louisville, Kentucky. “There are still ⁠a lot of people who want to be exposed to tech for the next several years.”

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worried about high valuations and how long it might take for AI investments to boost revenue growth.

As U.S. markets reopen on Tuesday, stock futures were slightly in the red ahead of the bell, with traders perhaps still wary of the wild AI-related swings in various parts of the tech sector last week.

Despite that, the broader mood remains upbeat. Bank of America’s monthly global fund manager survey for February continues to suggest investor sentiment is “uber-bullish” on the economy and earnings for the year - albeit with red flags still flying about possible overspending on AI infrastructure.

Elsewhere, global stocks were steady. In Asia, the mood was

Palo Alto Networks dropped after trimming its annual profit forecast.

According to preliminary data, the ⁠S&P 500 gained 37.05 points, or 0.56%, to end at 6,880.27 points, while the Nasdaq ⁠Composite gained 170.88 points, or 0.76%, to 22,749.27. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 123.44 points, or 0.25%, to 49,656.63.

Federal Reserve officials were in nearly unanimous agreement to keep interest rates on hold at their meeting last month, but remained split over what might happen next, according to minutes of their January 27-28 meeting released on Wednesday.

Traders are pricing in a roughly 50% chance of a rate cut of at least 25 basis points by the Fed’s June meeting, according to CME’s FedWatch Tool.

Data released on Wednesday showed solid business spending and U.S. economic growth in the ⁠fourth quarter.

Analog Devices rose after the chipmaker forecast secondquarter results above Wall Street estimates.

Global Payments jumped after the payment technology firm projected annual adjusted profit above expectations.

Moderna climbed after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration agreed to review its influenza vaccine, reversing an earlier decision rejecting the application.

The behind-the-scenes search for compromise on territory in Ukraine talks

By ANDREW E. KRAMER and ANTON TROIANOVSKI

The latest round of talks to end the war in Ukraine concluded Wednesday without any sign of meaningful progress.

But behind the scenes, negotiators have been trying to find a compromise on one of the biggest obstacles to a peace deal: control of territory in eastern Ukraine.

Russia has demanded that Ukraine hand over the land it controls in the Donetsk region as a condition for ending the war. This is a strip of territory about 50 miles long and 40 miles wide that includes dozens of towns and villages, and sits between the front line and the administrative border of the region.

Ukraine has refused to withdraw unilaterally, saying that ceding land would embolden Russia to attack again, in Ukraine or elsewhere. Kyiv has asked for security guarantees to deter Moscow from violating any ceasefire.

Ukraine’s 148th Artillery Brigade fires toward Russian targets in the Zaporizhzhia region of eastern Ukraine, Oct. 14, 2025. Ukrainian and Russian officials met this week, in Switzerland for a new round of U.S.-brokered peace talks, but hopes of a breakthrough to end the war were low. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)

ited it from deploying military forces there. Putin said the details needed to be discussed.

In negotiations over recent weeks, officials have discussed the idea of forming a demilitarized zone controlled by neither army, according to three people familiar with the talks who would only speak anonymously to discuss sensitive negotiations.

This revives a proposal that was included in prior peace plans, including a 28-point one floated by the Trump administration in November.

Over the past week, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine has repeatedly downplayed the prospects of surrendering land for peace. “Allowing the aggressor to take something is a big mistake,” he wrote on social media Monday.

In the fall, President Vladimir Putin of Russia was noncommittal when asked about forming a demilitarized zone in the Donbas region. The 28-point plan would have put Russia in charge of the area but prohib-

The Russian president’s foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, was later more positive, saying Russia could accept the formation of such an area if Russian police or national guard soldiers were allowed to patrol it.

A demilitarized zone could become part of a viable settlement, said William B. Taylor, a fellow at the Atlantic Council, a think tank, and a former U.S. ambassador to Kyiv. But Ukraine’s interests would have to be protected, he said, and that would require the Trump administration to apply additional pressure on Russia.

“It is important that it be a real solution — not a forced solution, not an unbalanced solution,” Taylor said. “Any forced solution will not be stable. It will not last.”

To make it easier for both sides to accept the idea, negotiators have also discussed forming a free-trade zone in any possible demilitarized area, though invest-

ment possibilities seem limited in a territory that would be wedged between two armies, even with a ceasefire in place. Most industry in the area is in ruins, with only one coal mine still operational, and the risk that the conflict could be rekindled would loom for years.

Zelenskyy has also cast doubt on such an arrangement.

Another issue is the withdrawal of troops from the front line. In December, Zelenskyy suggested Ukraine would not withdraw troops from the front line unless Russia withdrew by an equal distance.

At talks held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, this month, the Ukrainians discussed options for a partial Russian withdrawal from the front line that would not necessarily be symmetrical, two of the three people familiar with the talks said. This would signal a softening of Ukraine’s position.

How a demilitarized zone would be governed has also been a sticking point. Ukraine has pressed for an international peacekeeping force to be deployed to the region, which is home to 190,000 civilians, including 12,000 children, according to the area’s Ukrainian governor.

The negotiators discussed forming a civilian administration to rule the area after the war, two of the three people familiar with the talks said. This could include both Russian and Ukrainian representatives, one of the people said, but the person noted that the sides are far from an agreement.

Another issue that has reemerged recently is the sequencing of the various steps, including accepting a demilitarized zone, formalizing security guarantees, creating a framework for postwar reconstruction funding and holding elections in Ukraine.

Last week, Zelenskyy said Ukraine wanted an agreement on security guarantees before committing to an election or any agreement on withdrawing forces from the Donbas.

“I would very much like us to sign security guarantees first and then sign other documents,” he said. “In my view, that would be a good signal. This is not even a matter of fairness, but a matter of trust. More trust in partners — if guarantees come first and then everything else.”

Zelenskyy said Ukrainians must “know — not just believe, but know — that in the future Russian aggression will be impossible or that if it does happen, we will not be alone.”

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

In re: THE FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT AND MANAGEMENT BOARD FOR PUERTO RICO, as representative of THE COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, et al., Debtors.1

PROMESA Title III No. 17 BK 3283-LTS (Jointly Administered)

NOTICE OF ENTRY OF ORDER GRANTING MOTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO FOR AN ORDER, PURSUANT TO BANKRUPTCY CODE SECTION 105 AND FEDERAL RULE OF BANKRUPTCY PROCEDURE RULE 2002, (A) MODIFYING CERTAIN DEADLINES PERTAINING TO THE SPECIAL EDUCATION OFFER, AND (B) ESTABLISHING NOTICE PROCEDURES IN CONNECTION WITH PROPOSED SPECIAL EDUCATION INFORMATION REQUESTS THIS NOTICE RElATES TO (I) EACH MEMBER OF A FAMIlY UNIT (EACH INDIVIDUAllY A “ClAIMANT” AND TOGETHER “ClAIMANTS”), WHICH, FOR PURPOSES OF THE SPECIAl EDUCATION ClAIM PROCEDURES, SHAll INClUDE (A) CHIlDREN WHO WERE STUDENTS ENTITlED TO RECEIVE SPECIAl EDUCATION SERVICES FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (THE “DOE”), BUT CONTEND THEY DID NOT RECEIVE SUCH ADEQUATE SPECIAl EDUCATION SERVICES DURING THE PERIOD UP TO AND INClUDING OCTOBER 31, 2016 (“CHIlDREN”) AND (B) lEGAl GUARDIANS, INClUDING, BUT NOT lIMITED TO, MOTHERS, FATHERS AND CARETAKERS OF SUCH STUDENTS WHO WERE ENTITlED TO RECEIVE SPECIAl EDUCATION SERVICES FROM THE DOE DURING THE PERIOD UP TO AND INClUDING OCTOBER 31, 2016 (“lEGAl GUARDIANS” AND TOGETHER WITH CHIlDREN, A “FAMIlY”), WHO TIMElY AND APPROPRIATElY FIlED PROOFS OF ClAIM IN THE TITlE III CASE OF THE COMMONWEAlTH (THE “COMMONWEAlTH’S TITlE III CASE”), EITHER THROUGH ClAIMS FIlED ON THEIR OWN BEHAlF, OR THROUGH ClAIMS FIlED BY THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNSEl, WHICH REMAIN PENDING FOR RESOlUTION BEFORE THE TITlE III COURT, AND (II) ARE A PARTY TO THE CIVIl lITIGATION CAPTIONED ROSA lYDIA VÉlEZ AND OTHERS V. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, CIVIl CASE NO. KPE-1980-1738 (THE “SPECIAl EDUCATION lITIGATION”), PENDING BEFORE THE SUPERIOR COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF SAN JUAN (THE “COMMONWEAlTH COURT”), OR TO ONE OF SEVERAl lITIGATIONS THAT WERE CONSOlIDATED WITH THE SPECIAl EDUCATION lITIGATION (THE “CONSOlIDATED SPECIAl EDUCATION lITIGATIONS”).

THIS NOTICE DOES NOT APPlY TO ANY ClAIMANT WHO HAS PREVIOUSlY RECEIVED AND ACCEPTED THIS SETTlEMENT OFFER PURSUANT TO THE SPECIAl EDUCATION ClAIM PROCEDURES. THE DEADlINE TO RESPOND (“RESPONSE”) TO THIS NOTICE IS APRIl 15, 2026 (THE “MODIFIED SUBMISSION DEADlINE”.)

Starting on February 13, 2025, a Settlement Offer of $25,000.00 was proposed to each Family, collectively. Responses to the proposed Settlement Offer were due by June 3, 2025.

The June 3, 2025 deadline to respond to the Settlement Offer proposed in accordance with the Special Education Claim Procedures disseminated by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has been extended to April 15, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. (Atlantic Standard Time) for certain parties, as further detailed below. Please review this notice carefully. IF YOU FIlED A PROOF OF ClAIM IN CONNECTION WITH THE SPECIAl EDUCATION lITIGATION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE, YOU SHOUlD READ THIS NOTICE CAREFUllY AND DISCUSS IT WITH YOUR ATTORNEY. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE AN ATTORNEY, YOU MAY WISH TO CONSUlT ONE.

If you have any questions, please contact Kroll by emailing puertoricoinfo@ra.kroll.com or by phone at (844) 822-9231 (toll free for U.S. and Puerto Rico) or (646) 486-7944 (for international callers), available 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Atlantic Standard Time) (Spanish available).

Background

On November 14, 1980, Ms. Rosa Lydia Vélez and eight other plaintiffs (the “Original Plaintiffs”), initiated litigation against the Puerto Rico Department of Education (the “DOE”) on behalf of a class of minors and parents of minors who participated in the DOE’s Special Education Program. Following decades of litigation and a multitude of procedural events, the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico (the “Supreme Court”) determined that parents, guardians and caregivers of children enrolled in the Special Education Program in Puerto Rico, along with children, could present claims for damages in the Special Education Litigation. The Supreme Court issued a public edict explaining how to present claims and instructing any party who was seeking to prove his or her damages pursuant to the Special Education Litigation to do so on or before October 31, 2016.

On May 3, 2017, the Financial Oversight and Management Board for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (the “Oversight Board”) issued a restructuring certificate pursuant to PROMESA Sections 104(j) and 206, and filed a voluntary petition for relief for the Commonwealth pursuant to PROMESA Section 304(a), commencing a case under Title III, therefore. Shortly thereafter, the Commonwealth Court issued a judgment declaring the damages phase of the Special Education Litigation2 stayed pursuant to the Commonwealth’s Title III case.

Pursuant to an order, dated January 18, 2022 [ECF No. 19813] (the “Confirmation Order”), the Modified Eighth Amended Title III Plan of Adjustment for the Commonwealth or Puerto Rico, et al., dated January 14, 2022 [ECF No. 19784] (as amended, supplemented, or modified, the “Plan”), was confirmed by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico (the “Court”).

The Effective Date of the Plan occurred on March 15, 2022, and the Notice of (A) Entry of Order Confirming Modified Eighth Amended Title III Plan of Adjustment of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. Pursuant to Title III of PROMESA and (B) Occurrence of the Effective Date [ECF No. 20349] (the “Effective Date Notice”) was filed and served in connection therewith.3

On May 24, 2018, a master proof of claim, Proof of Claim No. 29477, was filed on behalf of all plaintiffs in the Special Education Litigation who agreed to be represented by Lead Counsel, Mr. José E. Torres Valentín (“Torres Valentín”) of Torres Valentín Estudio Legal, LLC (the “Vélez Master Claim), asserting liabilities arising from the complaint filed in the Special Education Litigation. In addition, approximately, 1,345 proofs of claim (the “Other Special Education Claims,” and together with the Vélez Master Claim, the “Special Education Claims”), were filed in the Commonwealth Title III Case by claimants who are parties to either the Special Education Litigation or the Consolidated Special Education Litigations, but who had opted not to be represented by Lead Counsel. In total, approximately 1,346 proofs of claim were filed by or on behalf of approximately 18,667 Claimants in the Special Education Litigation.

On February 10, 2025, the Commonwealth Court entered the Order Granting Motion of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for An Order, Pursuant to Bankruptcy Code Section 105 and Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure Rule 2002, Regarding Notice Procedures in Connection with Proposed Special Education Settlement [ECF No. 28846] (the “Special Education Procedures Order”), approving the dissemination and form of a Settlement Offer (the “Settlement Offer”) to (i) each Family who timely and appropriately filed a proof of claim in the Commonwealth’s Title III Case, either through claims filed on their own behalf, or through claims filed by their respective counsel, which remain pending for resolution before the Title III Court and (ii) are a party to the Special Education Litigation or the Consolidated Special Education Litigations. Settlement Offer

The Settlement Offer proposes each Family who properly and timely filed a proof of claim in the Commonwealth Title III Case on their own behalf, or through claims filed by their respective counsel, asserting liabilities in connection with the Special Education Litigation shall be granted an allowed claim collectively against the Commonwealth in the amount of $25,000.00, which such allowed claim will be treated in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Plan. Each Family will be granted an allowed claim in the amount of $25,000.00 collectively, with such amount to be distributed pro rata amongst the members of the Family associated with the relevant Special Education Claim and who accept the Settlement Offer. The Settlement Offer amount is not proposed on an individual basis to each member in the Family associated with the relevant Special Education Claim. Pursuant to the Plan, each Family will be treated as a holder of an allowed general unsecured claim, held against the Commonwealth, in Class 58 (CW General Unsecured Claims) and be entitled to recover its pro rata share of the CW GUC Recovery up to the GUC Recovery Cap. See Plan §§ 1.181, 1.261, 1.285, 62.1. Thus, the amount each Family will actually receive may NOT equal $25,000.00. By agreeing to accept the $25,000.00 allowed claim, Claimants agree to release the Commonwealth, including its agencies, related entities constituting the central government, as listed at ECF No. 2828, and its covered territorial instrumentalities, approved by the Oversight Board at its September 30, 2016 meeting (ECF No. 1299-15 in Case No. 17-3567), together with their respective current or former board members, directors, principals, agents, officers, employees, advisors and professionals, from any claim or cause of action, whether known, unknown, asserted or assertable directly or derivatively, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, in law, equity or otherwise, and whether asserted or unasserted, that arose, in whole or in part, prior to the Plan Effective Date, including, without limitation, claims arising from or relating to the Special Education Litigation. By choosing to reject the $25,000.00 allowed claim, Claimants forego the right to share pro rata in the recovery for a Family’s allowed general unsecured claim of $25,000.00 against the Commonwealth, and instead, will retain the right to pursue the claim in connection with the Commonwealth’s claims reconciliation process.

Unanimous acceptance of the Settlement Offer by all Claimants in a Family is not required. Each Claimant in a Family who chooses to accept the Settlement Offer will receive their pro rata share of the distribution in connection with the Settlement

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Offer. Any Claimant in a Family who chooses to reject the Settlement Offer will forgo their ability to share pro rata in the distribution in connection with the Settlement Offer, and instead, will retain their right to pursue their claim in connection with the Commonwealth’s claims reconciliation process.

Modification of the Submission Deadline

Pursuant to the Order Granting Motion of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for an Order, Pursuant to Bankruptcy Code Section 105 and Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure Rule 2002, (A) Modifying Certain Deadlines Pertaining to the Special Education Offer, and (B) Establishing Notice Procedures In Connection with Proposed Special Education Information Requests [ECF No. 30518] (the “Modification Order”), the deadline for submitting a response to the Settlement Offer has been extended to 11:59 p.m. (Atlantic Standard Time) on April 15, 2026 (the “Modified Submission Deadline”).

IF YOU FIlED A PROOF OF ClAIM IN CONNECTION WITH THE SPECIAl EDUCATION lITIGATION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE, YOU SHOUlD READ THIS NOTICE CAREFUllY AND DISCUSS IT WITH YOUR ATTORNEY. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE AN ATTORNEY, YOU MAY WISH TO CONSUlT ONE.

If you have any questions, please contact Kroll by emailing puertoricoinfo@ra.kroll.com or by phone at (844) 822-9231 (toll free for U.S. and Puerto Rico) or (646) 486-7944 (for international callers), available 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Atlantic Standard Time) (Spanish available).

When You Should Submit A Response

1. You did not previously submit any Response to the Settlement Offer.

2. You previously submitted a rejection to the Settlement Offer but now wish to submit an acceptance to the Settlement Offer. When You Should NOT Submit a Response

1. You should not submit a Response if you have previously accepted the Settlement Offer. All prior acceptances are final and a Response will not be considered if you have previously submitted an acceptance to the Settlement Offer.

2. You should not submit a Response if your claim is deemed resolved and allowed against the Commonwealth

3. The following Responses will not be counted:

a. Any Response that does not contain an election to accept or reject the Settlement Offer.

b. Any Response by the same family member that contains elections to accept and reject the Settlement Offer.

c. Any Response that is unsigned.

d. Any Response that is illegible or contains insufficient information to permit the identification of the Claimant.

e. Any Response that fails to include both the Claimant’s name and contact information requested in the Response.

f. Any Response that is received by Kroll after the Modified Submission Deadline.

g. Any Response submitted by a party that does not hold a Special Education Claim.

h. Any Response submitted by facsimile, email, or other means of electronic transmission other than Kroll’s dedicated online portal.

The Modified Submission Deadline is intended only to allow those Claimants who have not already accepted the Settlement Offer additional time to do so. For the avoidance of doubt, Claimants who have previously submitted a Response accepting the Settlement Offer will be deemed to have accepted the Settlement Offer and their Response accepting the Settlement Offer shall supersede any subsequent submission or revocation. For the avoidance of doubt, Claimants who have previously responded as rejecting the Settlement Offer are permitted to supersede and revoke any prior Response with an acceptance on or before the Modified Submission Deadline.

Where and How to Respond to the Settlement Offer

Upon completion of the below Settlement Offer form, every Response to the Settlement Offer should be submitted to Kroll. There are two methods that you can use to submit your Response to the Settlement Offer to Kroll:

1. Online Portal. To submit your Response electronically, you must complete and submit your Response to the Settlement Offer through Kroll’s dedicated, online portal (the “Online Portal”). To submit your Response through the Online Portal, access the Commonwealth’s restructuring website at https://cases.ra.kroll.com/puertorico, click on the “Settlement Offer” section of the website on the left-hand navigation panel and follow the instructions to submit your Response.

IMPORTANT NOTE: You will need your Unique ID# provided to you in your individualized Notice of Settlement Offer. To the extent you have not received a Unique ID# from Kroll, please contact Kroll by emailing puertoricoinfo@ra.kroll.com or by phone at (844) 822-9231 (toll free for U.S. and Puerto Rico) or (646) 486-7944 (for international callers), available 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Atlantic Standard Time) (Spanish available) to retrieve your Unique ID#.

2. By Mail. To submit your Response by mail, you must complete and mail your Response to the Settlement Offer to Kroll in the return envelope provided or otherwise by regular mail, overnight courier, or hand delivery to the following address: PUERTO RICO SETTlEMENT OFFER PROCESSING C/O KROll RESTRUCTURING ADMINISTRATION llC

(F/K/A PRIME ClERK llC) 850 THIRD AVENUE, SUITE 412 BROOKlYN, NY 11232

To arrange for hand delivery of this Response, please send an email to puertoricoinfo@ra.kroll.com (with “Puerto Rico Response to Settlement Offer” in the subject line) at least 24 hours before your arrival at the address above and provide the expected date and time of your delivery.

You must deliver your Response to the Settlement Offer in the manner described above. If you are submitting the Response using the Online Portal you should NOT also submit a paper copy of the Response.

The Online Portal is the sole manner in which Responses will be accepted by electronic or online transmission. Responses submitted by facsimile, email, or other means of electronic transmission will not be counted. Further, as provided for in the Special Education Claims Procedures, counsel representing one hundred (100) or more Claimants have the option to submit a Master Response in lieu of submitting Responses through Kroll’s Online Portal or via mail or hand-delivery in accordance with the Special Education Claims Procedures.

The Response must actually be received by Kroll no later than the Modified Submission Deadline, April 15, 2026. IF YOU FAIl TO RESPOND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS NOTICE OR IF YOUR FAMIlY REJECTS THE SETTlEMENT OFFER, THE DEBTOR MAY OBJECT TO YOUR PROOF OF ClAIM PURSUANT TO THE PROCEDURES ESTABlISHED FOR THE COMMONWEAlTH TITlE III ClAIMS RECONCIlITATION PROCESS.

If you have any questions, please contact Kroll by emailing puertoricoinfo@ra.kroll.com or by phone at (844) 822-9231 (toll free for U.S. and Puerto Rico) or (646) 486-7944 (for international callers), available 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Atlantic Standard Time) (Spanish available).

1 The Debtors in these Title III cases, along with each Debtor’s respective Title III case number listed as a bankruptcy case number due to software limitations and the last four (4) digits of each Debtor’s federal tax identification number, as applicable, are the (i) Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (the “Commonwealth”) (Bankruptcy Case No. 17-BK3283 (LTS)) (Last Four Digits of Federal Tax ID: 3481), (ii) Employees Retirement System of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (“ERS”) (Bankruptcy Case No. 17-BK-3566 (LTS)) (Last Four Digits of Federal Tax ID: 9686), (iii) Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority (“HTA”) (Bankruptcy Case No. 17-BK-3567 (LTS)) (Last Four Digits of Federal Tax ID: 3808), (iv) Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation (“COFINA”) (Bankruptcy Case No. 17-BK-3284 (LTS)) (Last Four Digits of Federal Tax ID: 8474), (v) Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (“PREPA”) (Bankruptcy Case No. 17-BK-4780 (LTS)) (Last Four Digits of Federal Tax ID: 3747), and (vi) Puerto Rico Public Buildings Authority (“PBA”) (Bankruptcy Case No. 19-BK-5523 (LTS)) (Last Four Digits of Federal Tax ID: 3801). On October 30, 2024, the Title III case for the Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation (“COFINA”) (Bankruptcy Case No. 17-BK-3284- LTS) was closed.

2 Unless otherwise defined in this Notice or the Motion, capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Special Education Claim Procedures.

3 Any party in interest wishing to obtain copies of the Confirmation Order, the Plan, and related documents should contact Kroll Restructuring Administration LLC (“Kroll”), by telephone at (844) 822-9231 (toll free for U.S. and Puerto Rico) or (646) 486-7944 (for international callers), available 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Atlantic Standard Time) (Spanish available), or by email at puertoricoballots@ ra.kroll.com, or may view such documents by accessing either https://cases.ra.kroll.com/puertorico/ or the Court’s website, https://www.prd.uscourts.gov/. Please note that a Public Access to Court Electronic Records (“PACER”) (http://www.pacer.psc. uscourts.gov) password and login are needed to access documents on the Court’s website.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA

NELSON GUTIERREZ

RODRIGUEZ; ALICE

SANABRIA LOPEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE HIPOLITO

GONZALEZ TORRES, COMPUESTA POR

JOHN DOE Y JANE

DOE, SUCESION DE JUANA TORRES ORTIZ, COMPUESTA POR

JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE, MARÍA TORRES

ORTIZ LUZ TORRES ORTIZ, JOHN TORRES

VAZQUEZ, SUCESION

AGUSTIN TORRES

ORTIZ COMPUESTA POR

JUAN ROE Y JUANA DOE, SUCESION JUAN

ANTONIO TORRES

ORTIZ COMPUESTA POR LUCY TORRES

FIGUEROA, MARGIE

TORRES FIGUEROA, MARIO TORRES

FIGUEROA, SYLVIA TORRES FIGUEROA, Y LUCENIA FIGUEROA

MERCADO, JOHN DESCONOCIDO Y RICHARD

DESCONOCIDO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AG2025CV02189. Sobre: INFORMATIVO DE DOMINIO CONTRADICTORIO Y SOLICITUD DE NUEVA INSCRIPCIÓN. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

A: SUCESION DE HIPOLITO GONZALEZ, TORRES, COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE, SUCESION DE JUANA, TORRES ORTIZ, COMPUESTA POR JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE, MARIA TORRES ORTIZ, LUZ ESTHERTORRES

ORTIZ, JOHN TORRES , VAZQUEZ, SUCESION

AGUSTIN TORRES

ORTIZ COMPUESTA POR JUAN ROE Y JUANA DOE, SUCESION JUAN

ANTONIO TORRES

ORTIZ COMPUESTA

POR LUCY TORRES

FIGUEROA, MARGIE

TORRES FIGUEROA, MARIO TORRES

FIGUEROA SYLVIA

TORRES FIGUEROA, Y LUCENIA FIGUEROA

MERCADO, JOHN DESCONOCIDO Y RICHARD DESCONOCIDO.

POR LA PRESENTE: : Se le notifica que contra usted se ha presentado una demanda de Informativo de Dominio Contradictorio y Solicitud de Nueva Inscripción. Se le emplaza y requiere para que presente su Contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, notificando copia de la misma al abogado de la parte demandante, quien interesa adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Solar ubicado en el Barrio Galateo Bajos del término municipal de Isabela, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de CUARENTA Y OCHO MIL DOSCIENTOS CINCUENTA PUNTO OCHENTA Y UNO METROS CUADRADOS

(48,250.81 M.C.). En lindes al Norte, con Lucrecio González y solar segregado y marcado en el plano de inscripción con el numero dos (2) y con Agustín Torres; al Sur, con Saro Vélez y Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto rico; al Este, con solar segregado y marcado en el plano de inscripción con el numero dos (2); Aurea Torres y Saro Vélez; y al Oeste, con Sucesión González y Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla, al folio 44, Tomo 374, Finca 20,219. Número Catastro 026-012-343-70-000. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte demandante en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, así lo entiende procedente. El abogado de la parte demandante

es el Lcdo. Ismael Pérez Nieves, con dirección postal: PO BOX 534, Isabela, Puerto Rico 00662, teléfono (787) 872-1500 y dirección de correo electrónico: perezcorderolaw@gmail. com. Expedido bajo mi firma y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy, 2 de febrero de 2026. Sarahí Reyes Pérez, Secretaria Regional. Arlene Guzmán Pabón, Secretaria Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

EL GOBIERNO

MUNICIPAL AUTÓNOMO DE SAN JUAN, REPRESENTADO POR SU HONORABLE

ALCALDE, MIGUEL

ROMERO LUGO

Parte Peticionaria Vs. ADQUISICIÓN DE PROPIEDAD DE 338.368

METROS CUADRADOS

LOCALIZADA URB. LAS VIRTUDES, 731 CALLE CARIDAD, SAN JUAN, 00924; AUREA

RODRÍGUEZ GONZÁLEZ, CONCEPCIÓN

RODRÍGUEZ GONZÁLEZ, EMMA RODRÍGUEZ

GONZÁLEZ, JUAN

RODRÍGUEZ GONZÁLEZ, PABLO RODRÍGUEZ

GONZÁLEZ, REGINO

RODRÍGUEZ GONZÁLEZ, ARCÁNGEL RODRÍGUEZ

OSORIO, ILIA MARÍA

RODRÍGUEZ OSORIO, JOSUÉ ÁNGEL

RODRÍGUEZ OSORIO, JAIME RODRÍGUEZ

MARCANO, ENID RODRÍGUEZ MARCANO, FELICIA RODRÍGUEZ

GONZÁLEZ; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES

Partes con Interés Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV08660. Sala: 1002. Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: AUREA RODRÍGUEZ

GONZÁLEZ, CONCEPCIÓN

RODRÍGUEZ GONZÁLEZ, EMMA RODRÍGUEZ

GONZÁLEZ, JUAN

RODRÍGUEZ GONZÁLEZ,

PABLO RODRÍGUEZ

GONZÁLEZ, REGINO

RODRÍGUEZ GONZÁLEZ, ARCÁNGEL RODRÍGUEZ

OSORIO, ILIA MARÍA

RODRÍGUEZ OSORIO, JOSUÉ ÁNGEL

RODRÍGUEZ OSORIO, JAIME RODRÍGUEZ MARCANO, ENID

RODRÍGUEZ MARCANO Y FELICIA RODRÍGUEZ GONZÁLEZ.

RE: Adquisición en pleno dominio y a título absoluto de la propiedad de 338.368 metros cuadrados localizada Urb. Las Virtudes, 731 Calle Caridad, San Juan, 00924. DESCRIPCIÓN AMPLIA DEL SUJETO EXPROPIADO SUFICIENTE PARA SU IDENTIFICACIÓN:

Urbana: BARRIO SABANA

LLANA de Sabana Llana. Solar: S-1. Cabida: 338.368 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, Solar 2. Sur, Calle Q. Este, Solar S-20. Oeste, Calle Q. Por el Norte: con el solar dos (2) en quince metros, cuarenta y un centímetros. Por el Sur: con la calle Q, en catorce metros sesenta y nueve centímetros. Por el Este: con el solar S-veinte (S-20) en veintidós metros con doce centímetros. Por el Oeste: con la servidumbre de paso de la calle O, en veintiún metros con veintiocho centímetros. Es segregación de la finca número ocho mil seiscientos siete. Finca Número 8958, inscrita al Folio 171 del Tomo 199 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. Número catastral de la propiedad según el CRIM: 063-077-274-13001. ENTIDAD EXPROPIANTE Y CITAR LA LEGISLACIÓN EN VIRTUD DE LA CUAL SE EXPROPIA: El procedimiento de Expropiación Forzosa se instituye por el Municipio de San Juan, conforme a la Autorizada de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa del 12 de mayo de 1903, según enmendada, el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, Ley 107 del 14 de agosto de 2020, según enmendada; la Ordenanza Núm. 1, Serie 20212022 y la Resolución Núm. 30, Serie 2025-2026 de la Legislatura Municipal de San Juan. El interés y el fin para el cual el Municipio de San Juan se propone a adquirir la propiedad es para mejorar el área eliminando un estorbo público declarado por el Municipio. Quedan emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda de Expropiación Forzosa. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Pablo Guerrero Sanfilippo cuya dirección postal es: 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, PMB 270, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, 00966 cuyo

número de teléfono es (787) 273-0611 y su correo electrónico es: pguerrerosanfilippo@ gmail.com. Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma en el Tribunal, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarles ni oírles. Este Tribunal ha señalado para el 12 de mayo de 2026 a las 9:00 de la mañana, Sala 1002 del Centro Judicial de San Juan, el cual ubica en Hato Rey, PR, para la Vista del caso, en cuyo día se determinará el justo valor de la propiedad y las partes a ser compensadas y a cuya vista podrán ustedes comparecer y ofrecer prueba de valoración, aunque no hayan contestado la Petición. Expedido por Orden del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 29 de enero de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ

COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN E. GARCÍA

FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

EL GOBIERNO

MUNICIPAL AUTÓNOMO DE SAN JUAN, REPRESENTADO

POR SU HONORABLE

ALCALDE, MIGUEL

ROMERO LUGO

Parte Peticionaria Vs. ADQUISICIÓN DE PROPIEDAD DE 356,0982 METROS CUADRADOS LOCALIZADA EN 277 CALLE CONVENTO, SANTURCE, SAN JUAN, PR 00912; DEPARTAMENTO DE LA VIVIENDA; FERNÁNDEZ VDA CABRERO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Partes con Interés Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV09960. Sala: 1002. Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: FERNANDEZ VDA. CABRERO.

RE: Adquisición en pleno dominio y a título absoluto de la propiedad de 338.368 metros cuadrados localizada 277 Calle Convento, Santurce, San Juan, PR 00912. DESCRIPCIÓN AMPLIA DEL SUJETO EXPROPIADO SUFICIENTE PARA SU IDENTIFICACIÓN: Urbana: BARRIO SANTURCE de Santurce Norte. Solar: Cabida: 356.0982 Metros Cuadrados. Parcela de terreno radicada en el barrio Santurce del término municipal de San Juan, con un área superficial de 356.0982 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a .0906 cuerdas, según mensura realizada por el Departamento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, en lindes; por el NORTE, con la parcela 208-18, por el SUR, con la parcela 20816; por el ESTE, con la parcela 208-10 y por el OESTE, con la calle Convento. Sobre dicha parcela enclava la siguiente estructura; Estructura número 208-17, de dos plantas construida de hormigón. Techada de hormigón, con un área de construcción de 2,176 pies cuadrados. Dedicada a residencia. Finca Número 9,011, inscrita al folio 136 del tomo 226 de Santurce Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de San Juan. CODIFICACIÓN NÚM: 040-070-208-17-001. ENTIDAD EXPROPIANTE Y CITAR LA LEGISLACIÓN EN VIRTUD DE LA CUAL SE EXPROPIA: El procedimiento de Expropiación Forzosa se instituye por el Municipio de San Juan, conforme a la Autorizada de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa del 12 de mayo de 1903, según enmendada, el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, Ley 107 del 14 de agosto de 2020, según enmendada; la Ordenanza Núm. 1, Serie 20212022 y la Resolución Núm. 9, Serie 2025-2026 de la Legislatura Municipal de San Juan. El interés y el fin para el cual el Municipio de San Juan se propone a adquirir la propiedad es para mejorar el área eliminando un estorbo público declarado por el Municipio. Quedan emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda de Expropiación Forzosa. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Pablo Guerrero Sanfilippo cuya dirección postal es: 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, PMB 270, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, 00966 cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 273-0611 y su correo electrónico es: pguerrerosanfilippo@ gmail.com. Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original

de la misma en el Tribunal, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarles ni oírles. Este Tribunal ha señalado para el 12 de mayo de 2026 a las 9:00 de la mañana, Sala 1002 del Centro Judicial de San Juan, el cual ubica en Hato Rey, PR, para la Vista del caso, en cuyo día se determinará el justo valor de la propiedad y las partes a ser compensadas y a cuya vista podrán ustedes comparecer y ofrecer prueba de valoración, aunque no hayan contestado la Petición. Expedido por Orden del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 27 de enero de 2026. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Carmen E. García Figueroa, Secretaria De Servicios A Sala.

LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO PHALANX

CAPITAL SERIES 5 REAL ESTATE, LLC

Plaintiff V. Valentin Cruz Ayala a/k/a Valentin Ayala Cruz

Defendant

Civil No.: 19-1205 JAG. COLLECTION OF MONEY AND MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: VALENTIN CRUZ

AYALA A/K/A VALENTIN AYALA CRUZ, GENERAL PUBLIC, AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.

WHEREAS, on February 5, 2024, Judgment was entered for the total outstanding principal balance in the amount of $113,996.52 with interest accrued until full payment, plus mortgage and risk insurance premiums, late fees and any other amounts agreed in the mortgage deed, from the date stated above until full payment thereof, plus 10% for attorney’s fees and costs. The records of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said Judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda-Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right

to redemption to the highest bidder at his office located in 441 E Street, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, PR 00969 (coordinates 18.3698579 –66.1124836) the following property: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Condominio Miradores Del Yunque de Rio Grande. Apartamento C-117. Cabida: 122.6797 metros cuadrados. Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la primera planta del edificio, localizado en la Carretera PR número tres (#3), Kilómetro 23.6, en el Barrio Ciénaga Baja, del término municipal de Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, el cual se describe en la Escritura Matriz de Dedicación al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal con el área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Área total: se compone del área principal que constituye la unidad de vivienda, más dos (2) porciones de terreno discontinuas, que son los estacionamientos asignados, totalizando todo ello un área de: mil trescientos veinte pies cuadrados con cinco mil ochenta y ocho centésimas partes de otro (1,320.5088 p.c.), equivalentes a ciento veintidós punto seis mil setecientos noventa y siete metros cuadrados (122.6797 m.c.). Área total de la vivienda: mil veinticuatro pies cuadrados con seis mil quinientos veintiocho milésimas partes de otro (1,024.6528 p.c.), equivalentes a: noventa y cinco punto mil novecientos treinta y siete metros cuadrados (95.1937 m.c.). Los linderos del área de vivienda son los siguientes: Por el NORTE, en dieciséis pies diez y media pulgadas (16’ 10 1/2”), con área común; por el SUR, en veintiún pies cinco pulgadas (21’ 5”), con patio posterior; por el ESTE, en cuarenta y cuatro pies cuatro con siete octavos de pulgadas (44’ 4 7/8”), con patio lateral; y por el OESTE, en treinta y cinco pies nueve pulgadas (35’ 9”), con pared que colinda con el apartamento ciento dieciocho (118). Tiene su puerta de entrada y salida por su lado Oeste, que da al área del pasillo que conduce a las escaleras que le brindan acceso al edificio. Consta de sala-comedor, un (1) balcón; un pasillo que brinda acceso a las siguientes áreas: un (1) dormitorio con closet, área de lavandería; cocina, un (1) dormitorio con un closet, un (1) baño completo de uso general; un (1) dormitorio principal (“master bedroom”) en la cual ubican un área de “closet” y un (1) baño completo. Le corresponde a este apartamento dos (2) estacionamientos como anejo exclusivo y privado del mismo; identificado con los números ciento diecisiete (117) y ciento diecisiete A (117A). Área

espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 3 de febrero de 2026. ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

Demandante V. KAI CREMATA

Demandada Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00052. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 9 de enero de 2026 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB

VACACIONAL HACIENDA

DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: B-409

WEEK 20. Cabida:101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: B-409 SEMANA 20. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned unit A-304 and includes the right to use such unit during the 20th week of each year until December 31, 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 20th saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon ofthe same day of the following week coupled with

the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a sucesor Club o a sucesor Club notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in unit B-409, the use ofsaid unit during described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period on time prior to the commen cement ofsaid interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owner of Vacation Club right in the Hacienda del Mar Vacation Club Regime and other owners ofthe timeshare or Vacation Club right in resort throunghout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club may use the unit to which this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this Vacation Club Regime and such other affiliated resort, as more fully described in the deed of dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 14864 inscrita en virtud de la Escritura Pública número 135 otorgada en San Juan a 13 de octubre de 2021 ante el Notario Público IAN lan Marini, inscrito en Sistema Karibe, según inscripción 5ta. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $8,257.20 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad B409-20. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 5 DE MARZO DE 2026, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja.

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

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

OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante V. RAWSON MANAGEMENT, LLC

Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00053. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 12 de enero de 2026 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: VACATION CLUB

RIGHT: Unit week 20. Vacation Club Right corresponding to Unit B507 of Hacienda del Mar, Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-507 and includes the

right to use such unit during the 20 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12.00 noon on the 20 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B-507, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 18,244 inscrita al folio 1 móvil del tomo 105 de Vega Alta, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $12,498.30 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad B507-20. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 5 DE MARZO DE 2026, A LAS 10:10 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20)

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

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

HACIENDA DEL MAR

OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante V. RANDI MERYL ZIMMERMAN

Demandado

Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00056. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 9 de enero de 2026 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: Propiedad Horizontal: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL

MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento: B-307 SEMANA 15. Cabida: 101.47 Metros Cuadrados. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit 15 and includes the right to use such unit during the 15 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 15 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B-307, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2194% in the facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 16279 inscrita en virtud de la Escritura Pública número 3 otorgada en San Juan a 7 de junio de 2010 ante el Notario Público Yahira Caro Dominguez, inscrito en Sistema Karibe, según inscripción 5ta. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $12,068.55 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad B307-15. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 5 DE MARZO DE 2026, A LAS 10:20 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del in-

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

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

OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante V. JOSÉ ALEJANDRO RODRÍGUEZ GARZA

Demandado

Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00487. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 28 de enero de 2026 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de

epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: UNIDAD A-304. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Vacation Club

Right: Unit Week 30 VACATION CLUB RIGHT corresponding to unit A-304 of HACIENDA DEL MAR, Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A304 and includes the right to use such unit during the 30, week of each year until December 31 of the Year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 30, Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-304 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the HACIENDAS DEL MAR, VACATION CLUB REGIME and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132 % in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Se separa del Régimen Vacacional Haciendas del Mar, inscrito al folio 45, del tomo 232 de Vega Alta; Finca número 12640. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 13,023 inscrita al folio 1 del tomo de hoja móvil 48 de Vega Alta, inscripción 4ta en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 11 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de febrero de 2026. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 11 de febrero de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA.

MYRNA D. VILLEGAS TRINIDAD, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO NAYDA ESTHER

RIVERA JIMÉNEZ

Demandante V. CARLOS ALEXIS

SERRANO VEGA

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: FA2025RF00169. (Salón: 202 SUPERIOR). Sobre: PATRIA POTESTADPRIVACIÓN, SUSPENSIÓN O RESTRICCIÓN. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. CARLOS A. ROSARIO RIVERAROSARIOCAR@GMAIL.COM. A: CARLOS ALEXIS SERRANO VEGA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual

puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de febrero de 2026. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 10 de febrero de 2026. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. NORANGELY RIBOT AGUIAR, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. ORIENTAL BANK Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: MZ2025CV01788. (Salón: 307). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. BELMA ALONSO GARCÍAOFICINABELMAALONSO@GMAIL. COM. A: MARIA HERMINIA

COTTO NIEVES T/C/C

MARIA H. COTTO NIEVES, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de febrero de 2026. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 11 de febrero de 2026. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. ANNETTE GUZMÁN MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

ESTHER MARIE CHARRIEZ PEREZ

Demandante V. JUAN ANTONIO VÁSQUEZ

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BY2025RF01773.

(Salón: 3006 FAMILIA Y MEORES). Sobre: PATRIA POTESTAD - PRIVACIÓN, SUSPENSIÓN O RESTRICCIÓN. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARISEL RODRÍGUEZ LÓPEZ - MARISEL_RODRIGUEZ@ SERVICIOSLEGALES.ORG. A: JUAN ANTONIO VÁSQUEZ.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 06 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 09 de febrero de 2026. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 09 de febrero de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. YARITZA ROBLES ACEVEDO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION POR CONDUCTO DE SU AGENTE RESIDENTE Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: AR2025CV01938.

(Salón: 403 - CIVIL). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITU-

CIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. BELMA ALONSO GARCÍAOFICINABELMAALONSO@GMAIL. COM. A: MASTER MORTGAGE CORPORATION A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: URB. HERMANAS DÁVILA, AVE. BETANCES #24, BAYAMÓN, PR 00959 Y URB. HERMANAS DÁVILA, AVE BETANCES #67, BAYAMÓN, PR 00959. 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 06 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de febrero de 2026. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 11 de febrero de 2026. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. PILAR H. MERCADO GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE TRUJILLO ALTO

VAPR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

Demandante Vs. JOSE NOMAR CRUZ DIAZ Demandado Civil Núm.: TJ2025CV00643. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JOSE NOMAR CRUZ DIAZ. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO, se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero, en la que se alega adeuda la suma de $25,918.98 por concepto de principal, más $2,897.47 de intereses al 8.00% anual acumuladas, al 13 de noviembre de 2025 y de esa fecha en adelante acumula intereses a razón de $5.68 diarios hasta su completo pago, más un 5% de honorarios de abogado, más gastos y costas todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. 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: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que el caso sea un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera 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 de no comparecer en autos dentro del término de las treinta (30) días siguientes a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la Rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle, debiendo radicar el original de su contestación en este Tribunal, enviando copia a la abogada de la parte demandante: Lcda. Adela Surillo Gutiérrez, Bufete Collazo & Surillo, LLC, P.O. Box 11550, San Juan, PR 00922-1550; Teléfono: (787) 625-9999. Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por

el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, hoy 28 de enero de 2026. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. IDA L. FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

ELIETTE LEONOR

VELAZQUEZ

RODRIGUEZ

Demandante V. ZORAIDA VELAZQUEZ TORO Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SG2025CV00368. (Salón: 0200). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTIRUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. CAREN A. RUIZ PÉREZRUIZCAREN@YAHOO.COM.

A: ZORAIDA

VELAZQUEZ TORO, JOHN DOE, JANE DOE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 de septiembre 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 10 de febrero de 2026. Notas de la Secretaría: LA SENTENCIA ORIGINALMENTE EMITIDA FUE ENMENDADA, A LOS FINES DE CORREGIRSE LAS MEDIDAS O LA CABIDA DE LA PROPIEDAD INMUEBLE OBJETO DE LA PRESENTE ACCIÓN CIVIL. En San Germán, Puerto Rico, el 10 de febrero de 2026. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. MILITZA LORENZO VEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante V. RAFAEL ANGEL SOTO RIVERA

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2025CV06193. (Salón: 603). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GETZEMARIE LUGO RODRÍGUEZGLUGO@MPMLAWPR.COM. LUIS C. MARINI BIAGGILMARINI@MPMLAWPR.COM. A: RAFAEL ÁNGEL SOTO RIVERA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 13 de febrero de 2026. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 13 de febrero de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ARELYS RIVERA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

Demandante V. WILLIAM MIGUEL TORRES CARABALLO

Demandado

Civil Núm.: PO2025CV02942. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GRAVAMEN MOBILIARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: WILLIAM MIGUEL

TORRES CARABALLO. Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Jean Paul Juliá Díaz, Rivera-Munich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, PR 00936-4908; Tel. (787) 6222323 / Fax (787) 622-2320. Se le advierte que este Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior, Sala de Ponce, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. En un término de diez (10) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante le notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias del Emplazamiento por Edicto y de la Demanda a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: D-20 Calle Quetzal, Bo. Punta Diamante, Ponce, PR 00728; y HC 2 Box 14507, Guayanilla, PR 00659. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 10 de febrero de 2026. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. HILDA J. ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. PREFERRED MORTGAGE CORPORATION Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: GB2025CV00897. (Salón: 202). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. BELMA ALONSO GARCÍAOFICINABELMAALONSO@GMAIL. COM. JOHN DONATO OLIVENCIAVIZCARRONDOLAW@HOTMAIL. COM.

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Women’s Superior Softball League to operate with administrative autonomy

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Women’s Superior Softball League will operate the 2026 season under an autonomous administrative structure endorsed by the Puerto Rico Softball Federation following a reorganization initiated last August, it was revealed this week.

“My vision is to position the Women’s Superior Softball League as the premier women’s league in Puerto Rico,” said Jeanc Rodríguez, chairman of the league’s board of directors, in a written statement. “I will strive for it to be recognized for its competitive balance and media presence.”

Rodríguez was selected as general manager in December 2025 and assumed the leadership of the league’s governing body in January 2026. The board also includes Dr. Iván Rivera as vice president, Alex Javier Ramos as treasurer, Yaitza López as secretary, and board members César Hernández and Manuel Vega.

The Puerto Rico Women’s Superior Softball League will operate under an autonomous administrative structure endorsed by the Puerto Rico Softball Federation when it opens a new season on May 17. “My vision is to position the Women’s Superior Softball League as the premier women’s league in Puerto Rico,” said Jeanc Rodríguez, center, chairman of the league’s board of directors.

meeting last August to establish the new administrative structure.

Federation President Tommy Velázquez spearheaded the reorganization along with six team owners who began

For the 2026 season, several competitive changes were

approved, including authorization to sign up to three reinforcement players per team. Athletes called up by the federation for international tournaments may be replaced during their absence. The draft for new players will be held on March 18 and will be limited to players participating in national team selection processes.

The schedule will run from Wednesday to Sunday. From Wednesday to Friday, there will be single games of seven innings. Doubleheaders of six innings per game will be played on Saturdays and Sundays. In the postseason, all games will be single games. Teams will broadcast their home games on digital platforms.

The season will begin on May 17 with the Valencianas of Juncos visiting the defending champion Bravas of Cidra. The league’s nine teams will be divided into three sections named after Ivelisse Echevarría, Clara Vázquez and Betty Segarra.

“For me, it’s important to recognize these players who paved the way to where we are today,” Rodríguez added. “Our national team is currently ranked third in the world, and I hope these players can see action on their home island.”

A dominant Neira Ortiz leads LVSF Week 5 All-Star Team

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rican Volleyball Federation presented the All-Star Team for Week 5 of the 2026 Women’s Superior Volleyball League (LVSF by its initials in Spanish), highlighting the most consistent and impactful players in their respective positions.

The week was marked by difference-making performances, led by Neira Ortiz, middle blocker for the Cangrejeras of Santurce, who was a force at the net and was also selected as Player of the Week.

Ortiz, a key player in the Santurce system, also earned the Best Blocker award, reaffirming her domi-

nance at the net and her ability to change the rhythm of matches with her defensive presence.

The Cangrejeras and Ortiz extended their perfect record in Week 5, leading the standings with a 9-0 record and 24 points.

They defeated the Valencianas of Juncos twice, once in straight sets and once in four, but they had to dig deep to preserve their undefeated record, splitting points in five-set matches against the Leonas of Ponce and the Criollas of Caguas. In both matches, they came from behind to secure the victory.

Ortiz remains the league leader in blocks with a total of 52 in 36 sets played, for an average of 1.44 per set. She also had two outstanding nights, recording 11 blocks against Ponce and nine against Caguas.

On the offensive side, Juncos’ Haley Bush was recognized as Best Attacker, while Ponce reinforcement Jordan Wilson also earned notice in this category thanks to her consistent and explosive production from the outside.

Best Setter went to Raymariely Santos of Ponce, whose rhythm control and precise distribution made her the best of the week.

The Best Opposite award went to Emily Elliot of the Atenienses of Manatí, who stood out for her power

and efficiency in key moments.

In aerial defense, Abby Akey of Ponce was selected as Best Blocker, sharing the spotlight at the net with Ortiz.

Caguas’ Okiana Valle earned the distinction of Best Libero, thanks to her game reading, passing control, and stability in the defensive line.

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