Tuesday Aug 26, 2025

PDP Senators: Entering Peak Hurricane Season, LUMA Is Far Behind Schedule on Brush Clearing Along Power Lines

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PDP senators: LUMA has yet to clear all power lines in peak hurricane season

By THE STAR STAFF

The Popular Democratic Party (PDP) Senate delegation warned on Monday that, with the peak month of the hurricane season approaching, LUMA Energy is significantly lagging in clearing power lines. They also criticized the administration of Gov. Jenniffer González Colón for not adequately overseeing the situation, which they said poses a safety risk at a critical time for the island.

“On January 27, 2025, the PDP Senate delegation submitted a formal request for information, asking LUMA Energy to disclose the funds allocated to them by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for line clearance,” Minority Leader Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz said. “We also requested information regarding the allocated funds by region and municipality, the number of miles cleared, the remaining miles, and the work schedule for the coming months.”

Alternate Minority Leader Marially González Huertas noted that LUMA responded to the information request, indicating that as of February 2025, only 72 out of the 684 miles required for the San Juan Group A project had been cleared, leaving 612 miles still needing attention with federal funds.

“LUMA informed us that they had submitted 36 Detailed Scopes of Work (work routes), but only one had been approved, amounting to $18 million for that work,” the Ponce District senator said. “This project includes San Juan, Guaynabo, Trujillo Alto, Carolina, Canóvanas and Río Grande.”

Sen. José Luis Dalmau Santiago pointed out that “You, the press, will remember the information request made in January. Why is what we’ve uncovered so alarming? Because on September 12, 2023, LUMA claimed they would clear 16,000 miles of power lines throughout Puerto Rico. Yet, by February 2025, a year and four months later, they had only cleared 72 miles of that total. Alarmingly, those 72 miles in Group A of San Juan cost a total of $12.9 million. Each mile of clearance cost $179,166.67, nearly $180,000 per mile.”

As of February 2025, LUMA Energy had four additional projects in progress, with the closest one scheduled to begin in April 2025 in Caguas. However, the former Senate president said, reports indicate that LUMA has only cleared 74 miles -just two more miles than what they reported at the beginning of the year.

represents over 50% of the interruptions affecting customers on the island.”

González Huertas added, “We have information that Jenniffer González’s administration only issued a notification to LUMA at the beginning of the year, essentially requiring them to submit updated information to the Public-Private Partnerships Authority (P3A) regarding the vegetation clearing process and the measures being taken given the impending hurricane season.”

“If LUMA Energy responded at all, we don’t know, and naturally, La Fortaleza should address that issue,” she said.

Sen. Josian Santiago Rivera said the PDP delegation has filed legislation calling for P3A Executive Director Josué Colón Ortiz, Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority Executive Director Mary Carmen Zapata Acosta and LUMA Energy President Juan Saca to appear before the Senate.

“We want to learn about the details of the vegetation clearing process throughout Puerto Rico, including a breakdown by region and municipality, as well as the procedures and steps taken by government entities to ensure that the consortium [LUMA Energy] provides a prompt and efficient response regarding vegetation clearing,” he said. “We demand that LUMA Energy be held accountable and that the government entities responsible for overseeing this consortium fulfill their obligations.”

Hernández Ortiz also announced an additional request for information whereby the P3A submits to the Senate all communications exchanged between the central government, through the P3A, and the LUMA Energy consortium related to the P3A notification dated July 22, 2025.

“The country cannot continue to bear the consequences of a company that, rather than working toward establishing a strong and sustainable electrical grid, shows negligence and a lack of action on critical issues, including the urgent need for vegetation clearing,” Dalmau stated. “Why is this issue important? In the same press release where LUMA promised to clear 16,000 miles of vegetation, they stated that vegetation is the leading cause of service interruptions in Puerto Rico and

Sens. Marially González Huertas and Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz

Gov’t cancels ‘unfair and onerous’ ports scanning contract

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Jenniffer González Colón an-

nounced on Monday the cancellation of the contract for the cargo scanning system at the Port of San Juan under the company S2PR, after concluding that the agreement was onerous, inefficient and without results in security or tax collection.

“More than $168 million has been invested with no proportional results in safety or collections,” González Colón said at a press conference at La Fortaleza. “Furthermore, Puerto Rico is the only jurisdiction in the United States with this type of unfair and onerous contract. The cancellation is a savings for the people and future generations; it represents immediate relief for the economy, eliminates an unfair burden on consumers, and reaffirms our commitment to efficiency, transparency,

and the proper use of public funds.”

The governor was accompanied by Ports Authority Executive Director Norberto Negrón, Police Commissioner Joseph González, Treasury Secretary Ángel Pantoja and representatives from private sector entities such as the Chamber of Commerce, the Food Marketing, Industry and Distribution Chamber, the Shipping Association, and companies such as Tote Maritime.

According to official information, between 2011 and 2024, the contract financed through the Enhanced Security Fee, which imposed an average monthly charge of $1.2 million. Despite the expenditure of over $168 million, more than 3,400 inconsistencies were detected in manifests, with no seizures reported or any increase in revenue.

The Ports chief noted that after evaluations and inspections with other sectors, it was

“More than $168 million has been invested with no proportional results in safety or collections,” Gov. Jenniffer González Colón said. (Facebook via Jenniffer González Colón)

determined that the scanning system for trucks was ineffective and had become a constant burden on the supply chain “and [...] on the economic sector, particularly our consumers.”

The cancellation will take effect in December of this year. The government gave assurances that it will continue to ensure security at the docks through the police and direct inspection protocols.

“The cost that was paid for an ineffective service is now being passed on as savings to the people,” Negrón added.

The contract, originally signed in 2009, had five amendments and was projected to extend until 2033, with an estimated annual impact on the supply chain of $65 million. The Financial Oversight and Management Board had only approved its validity until December, which paved the way for the final decision to cancel it.

Preliminary hearing in case of Aibonito teen’s slaying is postponed

By THE STAR STAFF

The preliminary hearing for Elvia Cabrera Rivera, 40, and her 17-year-old daughter, Anthonieshka Avilés Cabrera, who are accused of the shocking stabbing death of 16-year-old Gabriela Nicole Pratts Rosario in Aibonito on Aug. 11, has been postponed to Sept. 18.

As previously reported, it was anticipated that the hearing would experience delays since the newly appointed lawyers for the defendants may need more time to prepare their defenses. The lawyers were appointed last week.

On Aug. 20, the Puerto Rico Supreme Court authorized the transmission of the proceedings; however, Aibonito Judge Marielem Padilla Cotto ruled in open court that television and

still photography cameras would not be allowed to broadcast or take images inside courtroom 004 of the Aibonito Judicial Center during the trial. She stated that journalists would have a designated area for coverage, but video and photographs of the proceedings would be prohibited.

During the abbreviated preliminary

hearing, prosecutors Brenda Lee Soto Santiago, Edwin Ortiz Rivera III and Lourdes Cruz Vélez confirmed that they were ready to begin proceedings. However, the defense requested an extension.

Attorney Rocío Revelles, from the Legal Assistance Society, will represent Avilés Cabrera, who will be prosecuted as an adult.

Attorney Jesús Roberto Ramos Puca will represent Cabrera Rivera. Revelles said she had not yet been able to speak with her client, necessitating additional time to conduct required interviews before commencing the current stage of the proceedings.

The judge has also scheduled a status hearing for Sept. 3. In Puerto Rico, the preliminary hearing is a critical point in the criminal process for those facing felony charges. It is a phase during which the prosecution must present sufficient

evidence to determine if the case should proceed to trial -- not a complete trial in itself.

Both women face serious charges, including first-degree murder and violations of the Weapons Law, with bail set at an eye-opening $1 million each. With Avilés Cabrera being tried as an adult, both defendants could face up to 99 years in prison if convicted.

Aibonito Prosecutor Ernesto Quesada confirmed that a police officer will testify in the investigation, strengthening the case against the defendants. Initially, six suspects were identified -- four minors and two adults -- with the victim’s mother, Lisandra Rosario, stepping forward as a key witness in the tragic event that has deeply affected the community..

The incident occurred in the early hours of Aug. 11 near the Roberto Colón intersection with highway PR-14. The victim and the defendants were classmates at Bonifaciow Sánchez Jiménez High School.

Woman’s death in Hatillo parking lot is under investigation

By THE STAR STAFF

Authorities are investigating an incident reported at around 9:15 p.m. Sunday in the parking lot of the La Ceiba shopping center on Highway PR-2 in the Pueblo

neighborhood of Hatillo as a femicide.

According to the police report, a 911 call was received about a person lying on the pavement.

At the scene, authorities found the body of Marilyn González Rivera, 53, a Hatillo

resident. Emergency Medical personnel determined that the woman had no vital signs.

The woman allegedly jumped out of the white Jeep while it was moving.

Her 53-year-old husband was arrested at the scene for driving while intoxicated. An alcohol test was performed on him, which showed 11.5%.

The case is being investigated by agents from the Arecibo Criminal Investigation Corps and prosecutor Evelyn Trinidad Martell.

Mayor resigns as PDP municipal president in Juana Díaz

By THE STAR STAFF

Juana Díaz Mayor Ramón Hernández Torres announced on Monday that after 27 years as the municipal president of the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) in the southern coastal town, he will resign from that position effective Dec. 31.

“These have been years of great challenges, but also of victories, unity, and unwavering commitment,” Hernández Torres said in a written statement. “These achievements cannot be explained by a single person, but rather by collective sacrifice, the passion of our members, and faith in the popular ideal.”

The municipal executive clarified that his resignation applies exclusively to the presidency of the local committee and that he will continue in his duties as mayor, a position he has held for the past 25 years.

In his letter to PDP President Pablo José Hernández Rivera, Hernández Torres stressed that each electoral victory achieved by the party in Juana Díaz reaffirmed the fighting spirit of grassroots activism and its confidence in social justice and democracy.

“When the time comes to bid farewell to the Municipal Presidency, I will do so with the satisfaction of a duty accomplished, with the joy of having been part of a historic chapter, and with the hope that new leaders, with the same passion and dedication, will take up this task to lead the Popular Party in Juana Díaz to new victories,” the mayor wrote.

Hernández Torres expressed his gratitude for the trust he has received over nearly three decades and emphasized that his departure from the municipal PDP presidency “does not represent a farewell, but rather the continuity of a shared history with the grassroots of this municipality.”

SESA calls out LUMA on unilateral request for limits to energy exports

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Solar and Energy Storage Association (SESA) publicly criticized LUMA Energy on Monday for its unilateral request to the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) to limit energy exports from solar customers.

In a petition submitted on Aug. 20, LUMA Energy requested that the PREB approve revisions to smart inverter settings, which it had initially proposed on June 20. The private grid operator stated that the growth of distributed energy resource systems in Puerto Rico is occurring at an exponential rate, with a 16% increase in the number of systems, bringing the total to more than 165,000 between November 2024 and May 2025. LUMA expressed concerns that the rapid expansion is causing widespread voltage violations and believes that the proposed changes will help prevent costly upgrades to feeders and substations.

On Monday, SESA urged LUMA to resume

direct and collaborative dialogue to define smart inverter adjustments together, allowing solar systems to remain connected more frequently and contribute to stabilizing Puerto Rico’s electrical grid.

“What is needed is not bureaucracy or unilateral proposals; what is needed is diplomacy,” said Javier Rúa Jovet, SESA’s director of public policy. “In any other conflict, the absence of dialogue would never produce solutions. All that is required is for LUMA to invite us to sit down and work together on a proposal for evaluation by the Energy Bureau.”

SESA indicated that on June 20 of this year, LUMA submitted a proposal for inverter parameters to the PREB without consulting SESA or the solar industry, despite the PREB’s instruction to conduct collaborative processes. Since that time, SESA said, it has asked LUMA to restart the dialogue more than 10 times, without receiving a productive response from the company.

SESA noted that when voltage exceeds cur-

rent limits, solar systems go offline, preventing solar customers from exporting energy to the grid and receiving their net metering credits. With appropriate adjustments, inverters can remain online and help restore voltage to safe levels, benefiting both solar and non-solar customers.

As an example, SESA pointed out that a similar challenge was faced in Hawaii, where the utility collaborated closely with the solar industry and national laboratories to expand inverter parameters. That approach helped avoid unnecessary disconnections while improving grid stability.

“What we propose is a responsible path: direct dialogue between LUMA and the solar industry to develop a coordinated proposal that results in effective

‘Cuentos Rodantes’ reading initiative kicks off today at

By THE STAR STAFF

The Integrated Transportation Authority (ATI by its initials in Spanish) announced on Monday the launch of the “Cuentos Rodantes” (Rolling Stories) initiative, a project designed by Manuel Frontera and the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón to promote reading and creativity among students and the community. The Universidad Urban Train Station will be transformed today into a space themed around various stories written by Frontera. The writer

himself will present and read his literary works to those present at 10 a.m. The platform, open to the public free of charge, seeks to offer young talents the opportunity to showcase their creations while promoting the value of literature as an essential part of academic and cultural education.

The Cuentos Rodantes initiative is based on the conviction that reading is a powerful tool for personal and collective well-being, in that it helps exercise memory, organize ideas, awaken the imagination and improve communication.

solutions,” Rúa Jovet said. “It is unfair to conduct a unilateral process that only wastes customers’ time and money.”

Universidad train station

Furthermore, studies show that reading just 10 minutes a day can reduce stress and lower the risk of neurodegenerative diseases.

The collaboration was born from the desire to increase access to literature by installing stories, poems, and short phrases in high-traffic spaces. The main objective is to turn the initiative into a cultural movement that transforms everyday spaces such as stations, airports, and hospitals into living platforms for literature, creating a future where reading is part of daily life.

“At ATI, we believe in the transformative

power of education and culture,” ATI Executive Director Josué Menéndez Agosto said. “We want our stations to become centers of encounter, creativity, and growth for all.”

Frontera added: “Words, like trains, need rails to move forward. Sometimes those rails mark a narrower course than one would like. However, along the way, there are always guides who provide great professionalism [...].”

“For me, this journey means opening a space where Puerto Rican literature can be explored and spark an interest in reading,” he said.

Deportations reach new high after summer surge in immigration arrests

By ALBERT SUN

President Donald Trump’s campaign promise of mass deportations may be coming closer to reality. Until June, deportations had lagged behind immigration arrests and detentions. By the first week of August, deportations reached nearly 1,500 people per day, according to the latest data, a pace not seen since the Obama administration.

With an infusion of cash from Trump’s domestic policy bill signed in July — an additional $76 billion that Immigration and Customs Enforcement can spend over a little more than four years — the agency appears poised to scale its operations even further.

At least 180,000 people have been deported by ICE under Trump so far. At the current higher pace, the agency is on track to deport more than 400,000 people in his first year in office, well more than the 271,000 people ICE removed in the year ending in September but still short of the administration’s stated goal of 1 million deportations a year.

(The Department of Homeland Security says the total number of deportations so far under Trump is much higher — at 332,000. That figure includes people who are turned around or quickly deported at U.S. borders by Customs and Border Protection.)

ICE now uses about a dozen charter planes every day to conduct deportations and move detainees around the country, almost twice as many as in January, according to data collected by Tom Cartwright, an immigration activist who tracks ICE flights. In May, ICE modified its contract with CSI Aviation, its primary air charter company, to increase the number of flights per week. It has also resumed using a limited number of military planes.

ICE’s expanded operations have drawn nationwide protests, fierce backlash and an endless series of legal challenges. But officials have pressed forward with their aggressive tactics.

Not just criminals

Trump may be catching up to President Barack Obama, whom immigrant activists called the “deporter in chief,” but the nature of Trump’s immigration enforcement has been very different. The hundreds of thousands of people removed under Obama were mostly recent border-crossers, and ICE focused its arrests in the interior of the country on criminals.

In late May, Stephen Miller, a White House deputy chief of staff and a top immigration policy adviser, ordered ICE leaders to escalate arrests across the board, even if it meant broadening its focus beyond immigrants with a criminal record.

Since then, almost all of the increase in arrests has been of people without prior criminal convictions. Immigration arrests of people with a past violent criminal conviction increased to about 1,900 in June from about 1,100 in December. At the same time, arrests overall tripled to more than 28,000 and arrests of people with no past conviction or charges increased by almost 20 times.

But the summer surge experienced in much of the

country did not last. Arrests peaked at an average of almost 1,200 per day in early June, but the pace has since fallen back to levels seen in April.

It is unclear why arrests dropped, but in Los Angeles, high-profile street arrests and raids triggered a backlash that led to protests and the deployment of the National Guard and the Marines.

In response to a lawsuit accusing ICE of illegal racial profiling, a federal court issued a temporary restraining order blocking the government from arresting someone based on their race or ethnicity and presence at a certain location. The Trump administration has appealed the order.

Between the start of the surge and the court order, ICE arrested more than 2,000 immigrants in the Los Angeles area who had no criminal records. A majority were from Mexico or Guatemala.

New York City also saw a spike in arrests of non-criminals this summer, many at immigration court and ICE checkins, tactics that prompted their own backlash and lawsuit.

New detention centers

With 60,000 people now in custody, the Trump administration has stretched the capacity of the immigrant detention system, arresting more people and releasing far fewer on bond, parole or supervised release.

That’s a deliberate tactic to boost deportations, said Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, because people held in detention are

more likely to have their cases end with a removal order and are also more likely to abandon their cases and agree to be deported.

The Laken Riley Act also expanded the types of immigrants whom ICE is required to keep in detention to include many who have been accused of low-level crimes, like shoplifting.

To hold them all, ICE has had to seek more and more detention space. In addition to holding more people at existing facilities, ICE has added at least 50 new detention centers since Trump took office Jan. 20. At the end of July, these facilities held more than 6,000 people.

More funding

Because deporting people who are in the country unlawfully is logistically challenging, ICE will likely need to hire more agents not only to arrest people but also to ensure due process, said Blas Nuñez-Neto, who was a homeland security adviser to President Joe Biden. The agency will also need to procure more detention space to hold people for several weeks while their removal is arranged, he said, and contract for more aircraft for removal flights.

Flush with new money on top of its 2025 budget of $10 billion, ICE is preparing to spend to address each of those chokepoints. Tricia McLaughlin, a DHS spokesperson, said the new funding would go toward hiring 10,000 ICE agents and adding 80,000 new detention beds. Some $45 billion is designated for expanding detention, and $14 billion is set aside for transporting people out of the country.

ICE also intends to expand detention partnerships with state and local governments, like the one for the facility Florida has named “Alligator Alcatraz,” McLaughlin said.

About the data

Data comes from Immigration and Customs Enforcement reports and data obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests by the Deportation Data Project, a repository of immigration enforcement data at the law school at the University of California, Berkeley.

Arrests in charts are administrative arrests — arrests in which ICE is seeking to deport rather than criminally prosecute the arrestees — that were conducted by the agency’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division and that led to a book-in to detention. The charts do not include criminal arrests, arrests by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations division or arrests by Customs and Border Protection.

Deportations are removals and enforcement returns conducted by ICE.

For the chart of arrests by field office, the Los Angeles field office covers Los Angeles County and surrounding counties from San Luis Obispo to Riverside counties. The New York City field office covers the five boroughs, Long Island and the Hudson Valley. The Boston field office covers all six New England states. The Miami field office covers Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Chicago field office covers Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas and Wisconsin. The San Antonio field office covers central Texas spanning from near Del Rio to Austin.

Democrats criticize Trump’s push for National Guard in more cities

By ALYCE McFADDEN

Democrats pushed back Sunday against President Donald Trump’s characterization of blue-state cities as crime-ridden and lawless, which the White House has used to justify calling up National Guard troops and sending federal law enforcement agents to Washington streets.

Trump said Friday that he was considering using the same playbook in other major U.S. cities, and that Chicago could be next. The administration has not indicated when the National Guard could be sent to Chicago, New York or any of the other cities the president has mentioned.

Rahm Emanuel, the former mayor of Chicago, said on CNN on Sunday that Trump’s threat was more a reflection of the president’s animus toward Chicago’s Democratic leadership and desire to crack down on immigration than a considered strategy to take on crime.

“When you look at what he did in D.C., he’s not going to actually deal with crime,” Emanuel said. “This is an attempt to deal with cities that are welcoming cities, known as sanctuary cities, and deal with immigration.”

Violent crime in Chicago, Washington and other major cities has fallen in recent years.

Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois said in a statement Saturday, “There is no emergency that warrants the president of the United States federalizing the Illinois National Guard” or sending in federal agents. The governor said he had not received any communication from the White House about such a deployment and added that the president was “attempting to manufacture a crisis.”

Trump said Friday that New York City would be the next target for a federal policing effort, after Chicago.

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee in New York’s mayoral race, said in a telephone interview Sunday that New Yorkers were not looking for law enforcement help from Washington.

What New Yorkers want, Mamdani said, is “not to see the National Guard across the five boroughs. It’s to know that they could still have the same health care that they have today. It’s to know that they could still afford their groceries.”

He called federal cuts to social services “the crisis that D.C. is creating” and said there was not a single problem “they would be coming to solve.”

On Sunday morning, Trump wrote on social media that he was also considering

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York and Baltimore. State and local leaders say they have crime under control. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times)

sending National Guard troops to Baltimore, describing the city as “out of control” and “crime ridden.” In an appearance on CBS, Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland, a Democrat, pointed out that homicides in the city had dropped significantly and said the president was relying on “tropes” and “1980s scare tactics.”

a statement. “The Department is a planning organization and is continuously working with other agency partners on plans to protect federal assets and personnel.”

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In an Aug. 21 letter, Moore invited the president to join him on a “safety walk” in the state next month. Trump answered with a resounding “no” Sunday, writing in the social media post that he would send National Guard troops to “clean up the crime disaster” before setting foot in Baltimore.

The city’s mayor, Brandon Scott, said in a statement Friday that he and Baltimore residents “are not interested” in having the president “roll into Baltimore purely to stage a photo op.” But Scott also called for additional resources for FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Baltimore to continue the “investigatory work they are already doing in partnership with the Baltimore Police Department.” Moore said he would “absolutely” back Scott’s support for additional federal resources for those agents.

The Pentagon on Sunday deflected questions about plans to send National Guard troops to cities besides Washington.

“We won’t speculate on further operations,” the Defense Department said in

Even as they push back on Trump’s dire descriptions of unfettered violence and lawlessness in blue cities, Democrats have been careful not to outright dismiss concerns about crime.

In Chicago, Emanuel said that prosecutors should pursue penalties for gun crimes and that law enforcement should continue to work to combat carjackings. But city leaders are treading the right path already, he said, and do not need the kind of assistance the federal government is offering.

“We have a strategy for fighting crime: more police on the beat and getting kids, gangs and guns off the street,” he said. “And that’s what has to be done.”

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., the House minority leader, said his party understood that voters wanted to see crime rates continue to drop in their communities. But he added that Trump had “no basis, no authority” to send federal troops or agents to Chicago.

“The American people understandably want safer communities,” Jeffries said. “We want to continue to make sure that crime can go down as it’s doing in Chicago, in New York, in Washington, D.C., and other places, and to do that we should support local law enforcement.”

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The rise of right-wing nihilism

By DAVID BROOKS

Democratic friends, let’s try a thought experiment. Imagine you woke up one morning and all your media sources were produced by Christian nationalists. You sent your kids off to school and the teachers were espousing some version of Christian nationalism. You turned on your sports network and your late-night comedy, and everyone was preaching Christian nationalism.

That’s a bit how it feels to be more conservative in the West today — to feel drenched by a constant downpour of progressive sermonizing. What would you do in such circumstances? Well, at least at first, you’d probably grit your teeth and take it while silently seething.

In 2018, I happened to watch the Super Bowl at a sports bar in West Virginia. President Donald Trump was about a year into his first term, and the corporate advertising world was churning out ads with vaguely progressive messages. I watched the guys in the bar sort of hunch over, grim-faced, their body language saying: This is the crap we have to put up with to watch a football game.

The next year I helped organize a conference of people building local communities. We made sure that at least 30% of the participants were from red states. But during our discussions, the progressives in the room seemed to assume that everybody there thought like them. They dominated the conversation and left almost no space for other opinions. I watched the red-state

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This progressive/conservative disconnect — which is also, frequently, an elite/non-elite disconnect — is a problem across the West. For reasons I don’t fully understand, educated elites are more socially progressive than non-elites.

German economist Laurenz Guenther studied survey data across 27 European countries. He found that members of parliament were not more progressive than the general public on economic issues, but they tended to be significantly more progressive on social issues. This was true across nearly all countries, on nearly all cultural issues, among nearly all establishment parties. Guenther writes that populist parties are rising because they fill the gaps that the establishment parties are not representing.

Most of us, when you put us in an environment with a stifling political orthodoxy, just learn to cope. Forest Romm and Kevin Waldman are psychology researchers at Northwestern University. They conducted 1,452 confidential interviews with undergrads at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan.

They found that an astounding 88% of the students said they pretended to be more progressive than they are in order to succeed academically or socially. More than 80% of the students said they submitted class work that misrepresented their real views in order to conform to the progressive views of the professor. Many censored their own views on cultural issues — on gender and family issues, for example.

Northwestern and Michigan are not exactly hot houses of wokeness, but these interviews suggest that many, if not most, students feel compelled to publicly lie in order to conform to progressive orthodoxy, even while privately questioning it.

Other people, of course, don’t just cope; they rebel. That rebellion comes in two forms. The first is what I’ll call Christopher Rufo-style dismantling. Rufo is the right-wing activist who seeks to dismantle DEI and other culturally progressive programs. I’m 23 years older than Rufo. When I was emerging from college, we conservatives thought we were conserving something — a group of cultural, intellectual and political traditions — from the postmodern assault.

But decades later, with the postmodern takeover fully institutionalized, people like Rufo don’t seem to think there’s anything to conserve. They are radical deconstructors. In a 2024 dialogue between Rufo and polemicist Curtis Yarvin, published by the magazine IM-1776, Rufo acknowledged, “I am neither conservative by temperament nor by political ambition: I want to destroy the status quo rather than preserve it.” This is a key difference between old-style conservatism and Trumpism. But there’s another, even more radical reaction to progressive cultural dominance: nihilism. You start with the premise that progressive ideas are false and then conclude that all ideas are false. In the dialogue, Yarvin played the role of nihilist. He ridiculed Rufo for accomplishing very little and for aiming at very little with his efforts to purge this university president or that one.

“You are just pruning the forest,” Yarvin said dismissively.

He countered that everything must be destroyed: In general, Yarvin is a monarchist, but in this dialogue he played a pure nihilist. One version of nihilism holds that the structures of civilization must be destroyed, even if we don’t have anything to replace them with. He argued that all of America has been a sham, that democracy and everything that has come with it is based on lies.

The Rufo/Yarvin dialogue was sent to me by a friend named Skyler Adleta. Skyler had a rough childhood but has worked his way up to become an electrician and is now a project manager for a construction firm. He lives in southern Ohio, in a community that is mostly Trump-supporting. He himself generally supports the president. I know him because he is also a fantastic writer who contributes to Comment, the magazine my wife edits.

Skyler told me that in his community he is watching many people lose faith in the Rufo method and make the leap into pure nihilism, pure destruction. That is my experience, too. A few months ago, I had lunch with a young lady who said, “The difference is that in your generation you had something to believe in, but in ours we have nothing.” She didn’t say it bitterly, just as a straightforward acknowledgment of her worldview.

Apparently, the FBI now has a new category of terrorist — the “nihilistic violent extremist.” This is the person who doesn’t commit violence to advance any cause, just to destroy. Last year, Derek Thompson wrote an article for The Atlantic about online conspiracists who didn’t spread conspiracy theories only to hurt their political opponents. They spread them in all directions just to foment chaos. Thompson spoke with an expert who cited a famous line from “The Dark Knight”: “Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

This may be where history is leading. Smothering progressivism produced a populist reaction that eventually descended into a nihilist surge. Nihilism is a cultural river that leads nowhere good. Russian writers like Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote about rising nihilism in the 19th century, a trend that eventually contributed to the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Scholar Erich Heller wrote a book called “The Disinherited Mind” about the rise in nihilism that plagued Germany and central Europe after World War I. We saw what that led to.

It’s hard to turn this trend around. It’s hard enough to get people to believe something, but it’s really hard to get people to believe in belief — to persuade a nihilist that some things are true, beautiful and good.

One spot of good news is the fact that more young people, and especially young men, are returning to church. I’ve been skeptical of this trend, but the evidence is building. Among Gen Z, more young men now go to church than young women. In Britain, according to one study, only 4% of 18- to 24-year-olds went to church in 2018, but by 2024 it was 16%. From the anecdotes I keep hearing, young people seem to be going to the most countercultural churches — traditionalist Catholic and Eastern Orthodox.

Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico presenta su temporada 2025-2026 “Máximo Movimiento” dedicada al Maestro Maximiano Valdés

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SAN JUAN – La Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico (OSPR) presentó oficialmente su nueva temporada de conciertos 2025-2026 titulada Máximo Movimiento, dedicada a la trayectoria y legado de su director titular, el Maestro Maximiano Valdés. Tras 18 años al frente de la institución, Valdés se despide con esta temporada, marcando un capítulo trascendental en la historia de la orquesta.

“Con Máximo Movimiento celebramos 18 años de excelencia artística bajo el liderazgo del maestro Maximiano Valdés, quien concluirá su trayectoria como director titular al finalizar esta temporada. Su dirección ha sido fundamental para el crecimiento y proyección de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico. Esta programación es, al mismo tiempo, un tributo a su legado y una invitación al público a acompañarnos en un recorrido que exalta nuestra identidad musical y marca un nuevo horizonte para la orquesta,” expresó Melissa Santana, directora ejecutiva de la Corporación de Artes Musicales.

La identidad visual de la temporada, creada por el equipo de Muuaaa Design Agency, se inspira en los movimientos de la batuta y en las manos de los directores de orquesta. El diseño rinde homenaje al legado artístico de Maximiano Valdés y a esta etapa trascendental de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico.

La temporada clásica comenzará este sábado, 30 de agosto de 2025, a las 7:00 p.m. en la Sala Sinfónica Pablo Casals en el Centro Bellas Artes Luis A. Ferré en Santurce (CBA). Bajo la batuta del maestro Valdés, la OSPR interpretará la imponente Sinfonía núm. 6 en la menor “Trágica” de Gustav Mahler, obra monumental que abre un ciclo de catorce conciertos sinfónicos hasta mayo de 2026.

El recorrido incluirá presentaciones de reconocidos directores y solistas internacionales, como François Ló-

pez Ferrer acompañado de la violinista Nancy Zhou, José Luis Gómez junto al chelista Jonathan Swensen, y Guillermo Figueroa con el organista Andrés Mojica. El Maestro Valdés regresará en varias ocasiones, destacando su colaboración con la pianista Muza Rubackyté en el Concierto para piano núm. 2 de Liszt, y con el pianista José Ramos Santana en un programa que une a Falla, Debussy y Ravel.

Otros momentos memorables incluyen el debut del joven chelista colombiano Santiago Cañón Valencia con la OSPR, en un programa que estrenará en Puerto Rico la obra

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Luis Quintana. Además, el repertorio contará con figuras de relevancia como Enrico Fagone, José María Moreno, Manuel Hernández Silva y la directora estadounidense JoAnn Falletta, quienes traerán propuestas diversas y vibrantes que abarcan desde Schumann, Strauss y Beethoven hasta Copland, Bernstein y Shostakovich.

La temporada cerrará el 9 de mayo de 2026 con la Sinfonía núm. 2 “Resurrección” de Gustav Mahler, bajo la dirección del Maestro Maximiano Valdés. Esta obra colosal, que une orquesta, coro y solistas, será un cierre majestuoso y simbólico para despedir al director que ha

marcado una era en la historia de la OSPR. Como parte de la temporada, la OSPR vivirá momentos inolvidables con una variedad de conciertos especiales. El 14 de noviembre de 2025, la orquesta realizará su debut en el Boston Symphony Hall, en el marco de la serie E Pluribus Unum: From Many, One, y durante la época navideña, el público podrá disfrutar de dos conciertos tradicionales bajo la batuta del Maestro Roselín Pabón: Navidad Sinfónica (20 de diciembre de 2025) y Reyando con tu Sinfónica (5 de enero de 2026), ambos en la Sala de Festivales del Centro de Bellas Artes Luis A. Ferré.

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At Lady Gaga’s Mayhem Ball, a pop star is reborn

By LINDSAY ZOLADZ

Can a pop concert be eligible for a Tony nomination for best musical?

It was a question repeatedly prompted Friday night at Madison Square Garden, where Lady Gaga brought the New York debut of her theatrical, spectacular Mayhem Ball, a hit-filled, deliciously campy extravaganza she’ll perform five more times there over the next few weeks.

“I’m sure you can tell if you listen to the music that I’m from here,” the New York native, 39, told the sold-out crowd, becoming visibly emotional. “Everything about my artistry, I think, was born in this town.”

Lady Gaga performs at Madison Square Garden in New York on Aug. 22, 2025. The singer and songwriter proved she’s operating at the peak of her powers during a two-and-a-half-hour set that drew sharp connections between her past and present. (The New York Times)

Ostensibly a showcase for her latest album, the nostalgically catchy, playfully lurid “Mayhem,” the nearly 2 1/2-hour set drew sharp connections between Gaga’s past and present while demonstrating a significant leveling up in the cohesion and polish of her stage show. Nearly two decades into her shape-shifting career, the Mayhem Ball is a crowning moment: Lady Gaga has fully arrived as a live performer operating at the peak of her powers.

As she hammed it up during elaborate set pieces — indulging in some light high jinks with a skeleton while writhing in a shallow grave during the snarling rocker “Perfect Celebrity”; emerging twitching and defibrillated from beneath a white sheet at the beginning of a showstopping “Bad Romance” — Gaga also seemed to be having more fun onstage than she has in years. Death becomes her!

It is now almost de rigueur for an arena pop show to be broken into acts — don’t call them eras — and structured as a kind of epic heroine’s journey. Throughout the Mayhem Ball, Gaga both indulged in such grandiosity and impishly poked fun at it. Before she arrived onstage, a prerecorded image of the pop star hovered above the set in a red Elizabethan collar, writing by hand with an enormous red feather pen. The show’s subtitle soon flashed on the screen in Gothic script: “The Art of Personal Chaos.”

But she sold the show’s overall narrative — incorporating multiple, conflicting aspects of oneself into a gloriously messy whole — with a flair for drama and comedy. Before a punchy rendition of “Poker Face,” one of the 2008 electro-pop anthems that first made her a star, Gaga was confronted onstage by a doppelgänger dressed as she once did in those days: head to toe in face-obscuring lace and a pointy, imperial crown. “Ugh,” presentday Gaga sighed with an exaggerated verbal eye roll. “What is she doing here?”

The first act was the most impressive: a relentless sensory overload of fiery colors and visual surprises that drew stylistic connections between some of the best tracks on “Mayhem” with the harder-edged material on the 2011 album “Born This Way.”

Opening with “Bloody Mary” — a deep cut that got a boost

in 2022 after the Netflix horror-comedy “Wednesday” turned it into a TikTok sensation — Gaga emerged from the center of the stage trilling operatic high notes and looking like Klaus Nomi sitting atop a dress fashioned as a two-story crimson birthday cake. Her massive skirt then parted to reveal a cage housing seven dancers ready to launch into the frenetic choreography of her wickedly infectious recent hit, “Abracadabra.”

A transformation of Gaga’s 2009 bop “Paparazzi” into a gorgeously sung piano ballad was a highlight of the second act, tightening the focus just to Gaga; as she lurched down the catwalk that split the arena on metallic crutches, the seemingly endless train of her white gown billowed behind her. When she reached the edge of the stage, the fabric was lit up like a rainbow — the first of several nods to her devoted queer fan base. “Born This Way,” her ally’s anthem, felt extra jubilant and hit hard during this moment of rollbacks in LGBTQ+ rights.

But for a show stuffed with unrelenting excess, it’s impressive what a high percentage of it works: The “Beetlejuice” drag that accompanied the “Mayhem” banger “Zombieboy”; the telenovela-like staging of “Alejandro”; even the Andrew Lloyd Webberesque moments when several ballads, including the “Star Is Born” blockbuster “Shallow,” become impressionistic duets with Gaga’s shadow self.

Still, as ever, Gaga knew when to dial back the maximalism and forge a more direct connection with her fans (many of whom had embraced the album’s macabre, black-and-red dress code). Toward the end of the show, she settled in at a piano perched on the edge of the catwalk and performed a solo rendition of her 2024 Bruno Mars duet “Die With a Smile,” along with a special number she’d chosen for the hometown crowd: “Hair,” a heartfelt and decidedly Broadway-ready song of self-acceptance from “Born This Way,” an album she said was particularly indebted to the city.

For all its outrageous artifice, one of the most memorable moments of the Mayhem Ball was its most stripped down. During what was less an encore than a postcredits sequence — after innumerable names flashed onscreen, crediting the village it took to put on this show that Lady Gaga directed herself — a camera showed the star backstage in a wig cap and black leotard, wiping off her makeup. As she sang the bubbly “Mayhem” track “How Bad Do U Want Me,” she began to maneuver through the labyrinthine halls beneath the stage, gathering dancers as she went.

Still belting the song, and in an oversize jean jacket emblazoned on the back “Born This Way,” she and her troupe came to the surface for one last triumphant curtain call as “Heavy Metal Lover” from “Born This Way” played over the speakers. She was from here, all right — not just New York but the stage. And she didn’t want to leave.

El peticionario, JJ Petroleum Distributors Services, cuya dirección postal es PO Box 1916, Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico 00977-1916, representado por el Sr. Noel De Jesús, Presidente, ha solicitado al Área de Calidad de Agua (ACA) del Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA) la renovación del permiso de operación (UIC-15-71-0015), para un (1) sistema de inyección subterránea (SIS) Clase VC-1, bajo las disposiciones del Reglamento para el Control de la Inyección Subterránea (RCIS) y la Ley Federal de Agua Potable Segura, según enmendada 42 USC 300f et seq. (LFAPS).

El SIS consiste en dos (2) tanques sépticos, el primer tanque séptico es de 5.66 pies de ancho por 9 pies de largo por 4 pies de profundidad líquida con una capacidad de 1,500 galones y el segundo tanque séptico es de 10 pies de ancho por 10 pies de largo por 6.5 pies de profundidad líquida con una capacidad de 4,862 galones, los cuales van estar conectados en serie a un (1) pozo filtrante de 20 pies de largo por 12 pies de ancho por 9 pies de profundidad líquida con un área de percolación de 576 pies cuadrado, para la disposición de 515 galones por día aguas usadas provenientes de los baños de la estación de gasolina, oficina y restaurante chino. El referido SIS está ubicado en las instalaciones de JJ Petroleum Distributors Services, localizado en la Carretera PR-8860, Km 0.7, Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico. Luego de realizada la evaluación correspondiente de los documentos sometidos, el DRNA tiene la intención de renovar el permiso de operación para la instalación antes indicada en conformidad con los requisitos del RCIS y de la LFAPS.

Esta notificación se hace para informar que el DRNA, ha preparado el borrador del permiso de operación de forma tal que el público interesado pueda someter sus comentarios con relación al mismo. El permiso contiene las condiciones y prohibiciones necesarias para cumplir con los requisitos reglamentarios aplicables.

Copia de la solicitud de permiso de operación que radicó el peticionario ante el DRNA, el borrador del permiso y otros documentos relevantes estarán a la disposición del público para ser examinados, a petición del interesado mediante el envío de un correo electrónico a vanessadelmoral@drna.pr.gov, o visitando el ACA, cuya oficina está localizada en el Piso 3, Ala A, del Edificio de Agencias Ambientales Cruz A. Matos, Carretera PR-8838, Km 6.3, Sector El Cinco, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. Copia de dichos documentos pueden adquirirse en el ACA, entre las 8:00 a.m. y las 4:00 p.m. de lunes a viernes o escribiendo a la siguiente dirección postal: Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales, San José Industrial Park, 1375 Avenida Ponce de León, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926.

Las partes interesadas o afectadas pueden enviar sus comentarios por escrito a la Sra. Vanessa Del Moral Rosario, Secretaria Interina de la Secretaría Auxiliar de Cumplimiento Ambiental, o solicitar una vista pública por escrito al Secretario del DRNA, a la dirección postal o correo electrónico antes indicado.

Los comentarios por escrito o la solicitud de vista pública deberán ser sometidos al DRNA no más tarde de treinta (30) días a partir de la fecha de publicación de este aviso. La fecha límite para someter comentarios puede ser extendida si se estima necesario o apropiado para el interés público. La solicitud para una vista pública deberá señalar la razón o las razones que en la opinión del solicitante ameritan la celebración de esta. De realizarse una vista pública los interesados o afectados tendrán una oportunidad razonable para presentar evidencia o testimonio sobre si se emite o deniega el permiso, si el Secretario determina que dicha vista es necesaria o apropiada.

En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 11 de agosto de 2025.

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Wall Street ends down as traders focus on Nvidia, Fed after last week’s rally

Wall Street stocks ended lower on Monday as investors parsed the outlook for U.S. interest rates and looked ahead to AI chipmaker Nvidia’s quarterly earnings this week while digesting a rally on Friday that lifted the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a record high close.

On Friday, stocks jumped after U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hinted at the Jackson Hole Symposium that an interest-rate cut could be considered at the central bank’s September meeting, citing recent labor market weakness.

“The market has a Jackson Hole hangover,” said Jake Dollarhide, CEO of Longbow Asset Management in Tulsa, Oklahoma. “Investors are taking a little bit of a breather.”

The Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index - the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge - is due to be released on Friday, while official nonfarm payrolls data is expected next week. The reports will be crucial, especially after Powell said a rate cut was not certain.

“The focus right now is the labor market,” said Brian Klimke, investment director at Cetera Investment Management.

“We have the job market that’s rolling over a little bit and the economy is weakening, so the Fed needs to act sooner than later and they’re seeing it too.”

Nvidia climbed 1% ahead of its quarterly report on Wednesday, which will be one of Wall Street’s most closely watched events of the week and a crucial test of the scorching AI trade.

With Nvidia making up about 8% of the S&P 500, results of the world’s most valuable company affect vast numbers of Americans who use index investment funds to save for retirement.

“This is an incredibly important event from a market participant standpoint,” said Michael Green, portfolio manager at Simplify Asset Management.

Powell’s comments on Friday nudged major brokerages to revise their expectations, with Barclays, BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank currently seeing a 25-basis-point reduction in borrowing costs next month.

Traders now see an 84% chance of a Fed rate cut in September, according to CME Group’s FedWatch tool. Remarks from policymakers John Williams and Lorie Logan later in the day will be scrutinized to see if they share Powell’s policy outlook.

The S&P 500 declined 0.43% to end the session at 6,439.32 points.

The Nasdaq declined 0.22% to 21,449.29 points, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.77% to 45,282.47 points.

Nine of the 11 S&P 500 sector indexes dropped, led lower by consumer staples, down 1.62%, followed by a 1.44% loss in health care.Friday’s optimism helped the blue-chip Dow close at a record high for the first time since December 2024, and the benchmark S&P 500 logged its strongest one-day gain since May.

On Monday, Jefferies became the latest brokerage to raise its year-end target for the S&P 500.

Beverage company Keurig Dr Pepper tumbled 11.5% after saying it would buy JDE Peet’s for $18.4 billion in cash.

Furniture retailers RH and Wayfair each declined more than 5% after U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday his administration would investigate furniture import tariffs.

Intel fell 1% after Trump said the U.S. government was taking a stake in the chipmaker. He also said he would make other deals similar to the one with Intel.

Volume on U.S. exchanges was relatively light, with 14.2 billion shares traded, compared to an average of 17.1

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billion shares over the previous 20 sessions. Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones within the S&P 500 by a 4.0-to-one ratio.

The S&P 500 posted 17 new highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq recorded 125 new highs and 39 new lows.

Jefferies raised its year-end target for the S&P 500 index to 6,600, citing robust second-quarter corporate earnings, easing concerns about the health of the U.S. economy.

Previously, the brokerage’s target was 5,600, and was the sole firm projecting the benchmark index below the 6,000 mark.

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20 killed in Gaza hospital strikes. Netanyahu cites ‘tragic mishap.’

By ISABEL KERSHNER, AARON BOXERMAN and AMEERA HAROUDA

Twenty people were reported killed in the Gaza Strip on Monday, among them medical workers and journalists, when two Israeli strikes hit a hospital in what Israel’s prime minister later described as a “tragic mishap.”

The Gaza Health Ministry, which provided the death toll, also said dozens more people had been wounded. The five journalists had worked for media outlets including Reuters, The Associated Press and Al Jazeera, according to their employers.

The Israeli military said it had carried out a strike in the area of Nasser Hospital, without saying what the target was. In a statement, the military said it regretted “any harm to uninvolved individuals.”

Later in the day, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a rare statement of contrition about the strike.

“Israel deeply regrets the tragic mishap that occurred today at the Nasser Hospital in Gaza,” he said. “Israel values the work of journalists, medical staff and all civilians. The military authorities are conducting a thorough investigation. Our war is with Hamas terrorists. Our just goals are defeating Hamas and bringing our hostages home.”

The war in Gaza that began nearly two years ago has been one of the deadliest conflicts anywhere for journalists, with at least 192 killed since it began, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

The Israeli government has barred international journalists from entering Gaza to freely report throughout the war. That has left much of the world relying on Palestinian journalists — reporting amid bombardment and hunger — to understand the situation in Gaza.

The Gaza Health Ministry and hospital officials said the first Israeli strike hit the fourth floor of Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis. It was followed by a second attack as ambulance crews arrived to retrieve the dead and wounded, the ministry said in a statement.

A live video feed from Al-Ghad TV, a pan-Arab broadcaster based in Cairo, captured the aftermath of a blast on the southeastern facade of Nasser Hospital.

The video, which was verified by The New York Times, showed emergency responders and others moving a white body bag on a staircase. Shortly after, a second strike is captured live on camera, leaving a cloud of dust and smoke.

The Israeli military did not immediately respond to questions as to whether its forces had conducted a “double tap” strike, meaning a double strike at the same location. Rights groups have deplored such attacks, which can put rescue workers and other civilians gathering to help the wounded in danger.

Another video shared by a witness on social media shows about a dozen bodies, covered in dust and blood and apparently lifeless, piled along a staircase between the third and fourth floors of Nasser Hospital. The footage, verified by the Times, also shows men in civilian clothes inspecting the bodies after the second strike.

Gaza’s Civil Defense rescue service said one of its crew had been killed and seven other crew members were injured.

Hamas, the Palestinian group which seized full control of Gaza in 2007, named the five killed journalists as Hussam al-Masri, Mohammed Salama, Mariam Dagga, Moaz Abu Taha and Ahmad Abu Aziz.

Reuters news agency confirmed that al-Masri was a contractor for Reuters and said a second contractor, photographer Hatem Khaled, had been injured in the attack.

Reuters added in a statement that Abu Taha was a freelance journalist whose work had been occasionally published by the agency. Reuters said it was “devastated” to learn of the losses, adding that it was “seeking more information from Israeli authorities about these latest strikes.”

Al Jazeera said Salama, a cameraman, was one of its journalists. The Qatariowned channel, which has frequently clashed with Israel, accused the Israeli military of killing its reporters as part of a “systematic campaign to silence the truth.”

Online outlet Middle East Eye identified Abu Aziz as a contributor to “dozens of reports” since the war in Gaza began in late 2023.

The Israeli military said in its statement that it “does not target journalists as such.”

The Associated Press said that Dagga,

Tents of displaced people in Gaza City, on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. Twenty people were reported killed in the Gaza Strip on Monday, among them medical workers and journalists, when two Israeli strikes hit a hospital in what Israel’s prime minister later described as a “tragic mishap.” (Saher Alghorra/The New York Times)

33, was a visual-media journalist who had freelanced for the agency, as well as other news outlets, throughout the war in Gaza, which was set off by the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

The agency said it was “shocked and saddened to learn” of her death, along with several other journalists, and added that her 12-year-old son had been evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war.

The Associated Press added that Dagga “frequently based herself at Nasser Hospital, most recently reporting on doctors struggling to save children with no prior health issues who were wasting away from starvation.”

The Foreign Press Association in Israel, which represents journalists working for the international media in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, said the strikes hit an exterior staircase of the hospital where journalists frequently stationed themselves with their cameras and that the strikes came with no warning. The association said in a statement that it was “outraged and in shock.”

Israel has argued in the past that it struck medical facilities and hospital compounds in Gaza because Hamas routinely uses them for military purposes. Hamas has denied these claims.

Mohammad Saqer, a Gaza health official at Nasser Hospital, said the first of the two strikes hit the fourth floor of a hospital building, prompting first responders and medical workers to rush to the scene. The second strike came several minutes later, killing and wounding some of them, he said.

“We are trying to preserve this hospital,” Saqer said. “If the Israelis think there’s been any violation here, they should talk to us, and we can solve the problem.”

“Instead, they’re bombing,” he said. Ayat Al-Haj, the hospital’s public relations coordinator, described a scene of choking smoke and dust. “We couldn’t see anything,” she said in a trembling voice, speaking by phone from her office after the strikes. “All we could hear were screams.”

Trump relies on personal diplomacy with Putin. The result

By DAVID E. SANGER

“Nothing’s going to happen,” President Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One in mid-May, “until Putin and I get together.”

Trump was making the argument that, for a problem as contentious as the Russian war in Ukraine, the only solution was a meeting of the minds of the leaders of the two superpowers, who could strike deals, knock heads and make it happen.

Now, nine days after that meeting happened at a U.S. air base in Anchorage, Alaska, all the outward signs are that any real progress has ground to a stop. Trump had hinted that President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine would meet one on one and then together with Trump; neither meeting has been scheduled. “The agenda is not ready at all,” Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, said on NBC on Sunday.

And while Trump insisted to European leaders that Putin had agreed to allow a peacekeeping force inside Ukraine, by midweek the Russians were describing a very different construct, one in which Russia would participate in security guarantees for the country it invaded in February 2022. If ever there was a geopolitical fox-guarding-the-henhouse problem, that seemed to describe it.

On Monday, when asked what the security guarantees would entail, Trump said “we haven’t even discussed the specifics.”

It is all symptomatic of the strategic incoherence of the past 10 days or so. At times, Trump portrays himself as a mediator, someone who can use his influence to extract concessions from Putin, then get Zelenskyy to offer up some land and strike a deal. In other moments, he sounds like an ally of Ukraine, promising to help secure it from future attack. Last week, he wrote a social media post saying Ukraine had “no chance of winning” without being allowed to attack deep inside of Russia, blaming his predecessor, Joe Biden, for not permitting Ukraine to “fight back, only defend.”

After declaring in Anchorage that Putin wants peace,

he now admits to doubts, and says he will figure out which side is to blame for failure, if it comes to that. “We’ll know which way I’m going, because I’m going to go one way or the other,” he told reporters Friday.

For Trump, consistency is less important than the trappings of leader-to-leader diplomacy. And he is hardly alone among presidents in believing that his own powers of personal persuasion are the central element of success in U.S. foreign policy — and ending wars. Theodore Roosevelt was convinced of the same, and he brokered an end to the Russo-Japanese war 120 years ago. That conflict ended with the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth on American soil, and resulted in Roosevelt winning a Nobel Peace Prize, exactly the outcome Trump has not been shy about saying he is seeking.

is a strategic muddle.

But so far, at least, this negotiation with Russia is not following the Roosevelt model. Instead, Trump’s session with Putin in Anchorage is beginning to invite comparisons with his face-to-face diplomacy with Kim Jong Un of North Korea seven years ago: friendly, full of handshakes and made-for-TV moments and warm exchanges — Putin sent Trump a photo of their meeting — but not progress. At the end of the day, North Korea gave up not a single nuclear weapon, and has dramatically expanded its nuclear arsenal since.

“Trump went into this meeting with a relatively unified Western position, saying there needed to be a ceasefire first,” said Ivo Daalder, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO who is joining the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. “Then, they finally get together, Trump abandons the position and rather than moving the ball forward, he scores a own goal.”

“He said he wouldn’t be happy if there wasn’t a ceasefire, that there would be severe consequences, and there were none,” he added.

Trump said his goal was to “go direct to a Peace Agreement,” he wrote on social media, “which would end the war” because ceasefires “oftentimes do not hold up.”

Trump now says he will know in two weeks whether Putin is serious — the same period of time

he gave the Russian leader a few months ago to stop the fighting, a deadline he then ignored. (Two weeks is the standard unit of time for Trump to demand results, whether it is diplomacy or the creation of a new health care plan. Extensions are routine.)

But in the case of Ukraine, Trump always leaves himself an out, saying maybe there will be no peace, and maybe the United States will just have to pull back and let the Ukrainians and the Russians fight it out. Washing his hands of the conflict, declaring he can lead Putin and Zelenskyy to the negotiating table but cannot make them agree, gives him an escape hatch if his negotiations collapse.

But that creates a huge dissonance, an uncertainty about what the U.S. role is in this effort. Sometimes Trump and Vice President JD Vance sound like neutral mediators just trying to bring the sides together — as Roosevelt did — and sometimes they sound as if the United States has strong national interests in making sure that Ukraine remains a free, independent nation.

Trump took the second approach over the past week. He declared that the United States would join European leaders in creating security assurances for Ukraine, though he was quick to add, in interviews, that there would be no U.S. troops on the ground. He said if there were troops they would likely come from “a couple” of countries, including Britain, France and Germany, and the United States might provide intelligence and air support.

But the security assurance essentially means that the United States is committing to come to Ukraine’s defense if Russia attacked again, even if it is not a member of NATO — a move Trump opposes, as did Biden.

The

Fed officials try to keep focus on economy as Trump intensifies attacks

By COLBY SMITH

At first glance, this year’s Jackson Hole conference proceeded a lot like in years past. Attendees of the storied economics conference in Wyoming, who mostly hail from central banks around the world, engaged in a healthy debate about the outlook for monetary policy, the latest developments in inflation and structural shifts across the labor market.

But increasingly hostile attacks from the White House against the Federal Reserve, including President’s Donald Trump’s threat to fire a sitting governor if she did not resign, created an inescapable distraction. As a result, officials at the central bank were left with little choice but to profess an unwavering focus on just doing their jobs.

“It is more than a full-time job to be focusing on the data and the analytics,” Susan Collins, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, said in an interview on the sidelines of the conference. “There is a huge amount to do.”

The central bank’s congressional mandate is to set interest rates with an aim of keeping inflation low and stable and fostering a healthy labor market. It strives to make its decisions free of political influence to ensure that the best economic outcome is reached rather than one that will most directly benefit the person in the Oval Office.

Trump does not agree with that approach and has spent the past seven months trying to chip away at the Fed’s independence in an attempt to get the rock-bottom interest rates he desires.

Most of his fury has centered on Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, whom he has called on to resign and has considered firing. But in a sign of the president’s commitment to systematically disrupt the institution, Trump has turned his attention to other members of the Board of Governors, to pressure them to leave so he can install loyalists who will acquiesce to his demands.

The board has seven seats, and all members vote at every policy meeting alongside a rotating group of presidents from the 12 regional banks. Trump has already appointed one governor after Adriana Kugler recently vacated her post

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, and Lisa Cook, center, a Fed governor, speak at Spelman College in Atlanta, Dec. 1, 2023. President Donald Trump said on Aug. 22, 2025 that he would fire Cook if she did not resign. (Kendrick Brinson/The New York Times)

months before her term was set to expire in January.

Just before the conference kicked off Wednesday, Lisa Cook became the latest mark. By Friday, Trump told reporters that he would fire the governor if she did not resign over allegations that she falsified bank records to obtain favorable mortgage terms before she joined the Fed.

As much as officials wanted to stick to the policy debate at hand during the three-day conference, the ferocity of the White House’s attacks on the institution inevitably diverted some of their attention. When asked how much time he was spending on studying the Fed’s legal protections, Alberto Musalem, president of the St. Louis Fed, said he had been reading up on the issues and consulting with his staff. Collins said she was in close contact with the Boston Fed’s board of directors, which ran the search process and appointed her to the position in 2022, about all internal matters.

The Federal Reserve Act stipulates that the president can dismiss members of the board only for cause, which is generally interpreted to mean gross professional negligence or malfeasance. It is a broad term that has little legal precedent, meaning it could be a high bar to prove.

To suspend or remove any of the regional reserve bank presidents, whose

appointments are approved by the board, the law says the cause must be “communicated in writing.” Those presidents are up for reappointment every five years, when a majority of the board could replace any of them, although that has never happened. The next vote on reappointing all the regional presidents will be in February.

The central bank has taken some comfort in the recent assurances by the Supreme Court, which signaled in a ruling in May that it viewed the institution differently from other independent agencies whose top ranks the president has dismantled. But Fed policymakers also wonder whether the court will move to reaffirm that special status.

The political haze has deepened even though the central bank is likely to soon restart interest rate cuts that have been on pause since January.

In a hotly anticipated speech Friday, Powell sent his strongest signal yet that the Fed would soon begin lowering borrowing costs. The policy pivot is aimed at preventing the labor market from deteriorating as the supply of workers shrinks. But even as he cleared the path for a rate reduction at the central bank’s next meeting in September, Powell indicated that a steep drop was not likely in light of lingering worries about inflation as a result

of Trump’s tariffs.

Powell’s remarks underscored the tough balancing act facing Fed officials now that their two goals of stable inflation and labor market strength are in tension. That clash has stoked an intense debate within the Fed about the path forward for monetary policy, with two Trump-appointed policymakers splitting from Powell at the July meeting and supporting a quarter-point cut. As a result, Powell could face an uphill battle to forge a consensus about how much to cut in his remaining meetings as chair until his term expires in May.

For participants at the conference, which is hosted annually by the Kansas City Fed, there appeared to be no greater risk to the world’s largest economy and global financial system than the efforts to erode the Fed’s independence and curtail its ability to make the right decisions at the right time.

Karen Dynan, a professor at Harvard who was the chief economist at the Treasury Department during the Obama administration, warned that a politicized Fed could risk stoking inflation and significantly harming the labor market, as a central bank would likely need to raise interest rates more than it would otherwise in order to win back its credibility.

“The demise of Fed independence may not happen all at once, but over time, independence is not at all assured,” added Maurice Obstfeld, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics who was formerly the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. “We have seen this type of institutional degradation in other countries, with uniformly awful results.”

ment in favor of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority. (ii) Easement in favor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, for use and benefit of the Department of Natural Resources of Puerto Rico. (iii) Perpetual easement of way in favor of property number 9,183 as dominant property over property number 7,712 as servient property. (iv) Mention of perpetual easement of way in favor of property number 12,668 as dominant property over property number 12,671 as servient property. (v) Mortgage I securing a mortgage note in favor of Doral Bank, or to its order, in the principal amount of EIGHT HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS

($825,000.00), property number 15,939 responding for the amount of FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS

($425,000.00) with interest at Prime Rate, due on its presentation, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 411 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the eleventh (11) of November two thousand four (2004) before Notary Public Elaine Villanueva-Martínez, recorded at page 178 of volume 387 of Canóvanas, property number 12,754, 7th recording. (vi) Mortgage I securing a mortgage note in favor of Doral Bank, or to its order, in the principal amount of EIGHT HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS

($825,000.00), property number 15,939 responding for the amount of FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS

($400,000.00) with interest at Prime Rate, due on its presentation, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 411 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the eleventh (11) of November two thousand four (2004) before Notary Public Elaine Villanueva-Martínez, recorded at page 167 of volume 387 of Canóvanas, property number 7,712, 15th recording. Property 15,939 is encumbered by itself: (vii) Easement in favor of the Puerto Rico Telecommunications Regulatory Board, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 26 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the twenty-fourth (24) of April two thousand six (2006) before Notary Public Rodney W. ColónOrtiz, recorded at page 124 of volume 389 of Canóvanas, property number 15,939, 2nd recording. (viii) Easement in favor of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, with a value of $1.00, per Certification dated May 18, 2006, recorded at page 124 of volume 389 of Canóvanas, property number 15,939, 3rd recording. (ix) Restrictive covenants and easement in equity, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 35 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the twenty-eighth (28) of June two thousand six (2006) before Notary Public Rodney W. Colón,

recorded at page 124 of volume 389 of Canóvanas, property number 15,939, 4th recording. (x) Mortgage II securing a mortgage note in favor of its bearer, or to its order, in the principal amount of SIXTEEN MILLION, SIX HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS

($16,675,000.00), with annual interest at 6%, due on its presentation, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 63 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the twentieth (20) of December two thousand six (2006) before Notary Public Manuel Correa- Calzada, recorded at page 183 of volume 391 of Canóvanas, property number 15,939, 5th recording. (xi) The rank of the mortgage that encumbers this property by its origin, for the amount of EIGHT HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS

($825,000.00) (Mortgage I) was equaled in rank to that of the mortgage for SIXTEEN MILLION, SIX HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($16,675,000.00) (Mortgage II), pursuant to the terms of deed 64, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the twentieth (20) of December two thousand six (2006) before Notary Public Manuel Correa-Calzada, recorded at pages 124 and 183 of volumes 389 and 391, agora of Canóvanas, property number 15,939, on the margin of the 1st recording. (xii) A notice of complaint presented on May 18, 2017, which complaint was dated September 4, 2009, issued by the Court of First Instance of Puerto Rico, San Juan Division, Civil Case Num. KAC2009-0837, followed by Doral Bank against Vistas de Canóvanas I, Inc., in the principal amount of $6,412,431.29, which notice of complaint is recorded at the Karibe volume of Canóvanas, Property 15,939, Annotation A. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on September 19, 2025, at 9:15 a.m. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $17,500,000.00 which is the sum of the minimum bid for Mortgage I ($825,000.00) and the minimum bid for Mortgage II ($16,675,000.00), which Mortgages were equaled in rank. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a

SECOND public auction shall be held on September 26, 2025, at 9:15 a.m. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $11,666,666.67, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale, specifically, the sum for Mortgage I ($550,000.00) and the minimum bid for Mortgage II ($11,116,666.67), which Mortgages were equaled in rank. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on October 3, 2025, at 9:15 a.m., the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $8,750,00.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid for the first public sale, specifically, the sum for Mortgage I ($412,500.00) and the minimum bid for Mortgage II ($8,337,500.00), which Mortgages were equaled in rank.1602568The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the Property to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), or certified or bank manager checks, except in case the Property is sold and adjudicated to Bautista, in which case the amount of the bid made by Bautista shall be credited and deducted from its credit; Bautista being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. If the third auction is deserted, Bautista REO may proceed to coordinate the execution of a deed of conveyance with the Marshal within twenty (20) days of the public sale, to take title of the Property in full satisfaction of the Judgment. WHEREAS: said sale to be conducted by the Special Master pursuant to the Order of Execution. Compliance with all foreclosure proceedings are subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico pursuant to article 107 of the Registry of the Property Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, (30 L.P.R.A. § 6144), and the corresponding deed of conveyance and possession to the Property will be executed and delivered by the Special Master after delivery of such Order of Confirmation. Once the Property is adjudicated in payment of the credit guaranteeing the mortgage, and the price does not exceed the value thereof, all junior liens must be canceled provided that said junior creditors be notified of the public sale of said property. For further information, reference is made to the Judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on August 14, 2025. By: Joel Ronda, Special Master. Ronda Legal Services, LLC, rondajoel@me.com, 787-565-0515.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ

ACEVEDO ACEVEDO T/C/C JOSÉ ÁNGEL

ACEVEDO ACEVEDO COMPUESTA POR JOSÉ ACEVEDO PÉREZ, FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO, SUCESIÓN DE ANA MARÍA PÉREZ ACEVEDO T/C/C ANA MARÍA PÉREZ VIRUET COMPUESTA POR JOSÉ ACEVEDO PÉREZ, FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO

MIEMBROS DE NOMBRE

DESCONOCIDO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES, Y LOS

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CA2025CV00088. Sala: 403. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

A: SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ

ACEVEDO ACEVEDO

T/C/C JOSÉ ÁNGEL

ACEVEDO ACEVEDO COMPUESTA POR JOSÉ ACEVEDO PÉREZ, FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO

MIEMBROS DE NOMBRE

DESCONOCIDO, SUCESIÓN DE ANA MARÍA PÉREZ ACEVEDO T/C/C ANA MARÍA PÉREZ VIRUET COMPUESTA POR JOSÉ ACEVEDO PÉREZ, FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES, Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, LESLYE A. TORRES ÁLVAREZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 16 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y

cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada el día 10 de junio de 2025, notificada y archivada en autos el 12 de junio de 2025. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 23 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 30 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 23d e julio de 2025, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 18 del bloque BT de la URBANIZACION JARDINES DE COUNTRY CLUB, localizado en el Barrio Sabana Abajo del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área de 211.38 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 22.25 metros, con el solar número 19 del mismo bloque; por el SUR, en 22.25 metros, con el solar número 17 del mismo bloque; por el ESTE, en 9.50 metros, con el solar número 27 del mismo bloque; y por el OESTE, en 9.50 metros, con la calle número 123. Enclava una casa construida de concreto armado y bloques, para fines residenciales. Esta afecta por su procedencia esta afecta a: Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico; b. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico; c. Servidumbre a favor del municipio de Carolina; d. Condiciones restrictivas sobre edificación y uso. Finca número 15,256, inscrita al folio 15 del tomo 399 de Carolina. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Carolina. Dirección de la Propiedad: BT-18 123St. Jardines de Country Club, Carolina PR 00983. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $92,790.21, de balance principal del préstamo, con intereses ajustable al 4.621% anual y gastos, cual acumulan a un total de $168,986.82 a la fecha de 31 de mayo de 2025, los cuales continúan acumulándo-

se, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $21,750.00 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 147 otorgada el día 23 de noviembre de 2016, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Jose Garcia Noya y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Carolina Norte, finca número 15,256, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I de Carolina. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de los Estados Unidos, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $217,500.00, con intereses al 4.621% anual, vencedero el día 11 de julio de 2087, constituida mediante la escritura número 148, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de noviembre de 2016, ante el notario José García Noya, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Carolina Norte, finca número 15,256, inscripción 6ta. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $217,500.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de

$145,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $108,750.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 29 de julio de 2025. LESLYE A. TORRES ÁLVAREZ, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAROLINA. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE GUO WET SANG, SU ESPOSA ENA CEN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandante Vs. JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: GB2025CV00710. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. Sala: 202. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE, RICHARD DOE. Quedan ustedes notificados que la demandante de epígrafe ha radicado en este Tribunal una Demanda contra ustedes como co-demandados, en la que se solicita la cancelación vía judicial de un Pagaré Hipotecario extraviado ante el Notario Público Gustavo J. Umpierre Pontón, bajo affidávit número 2,811, a favor de Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $70,000.00, con intereses al 6% anual, sobre el interés prevalecientes publicado en periódicos de circulación general como el Wall Street Journal (Prime Rate) y vencedero a la presentación, suscrito el día 11 de diciembre de 2012, garantizado por hipoteca constituida en virtud de la Escritura Número 58, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Gustavo J. Umpierre Pontón, inscrita al Folio 62 del Tomo 1291 de Guaynabo, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Guaynabo, Finca Número 33,566, inscripción 10ma. El mencionado pagaré hipotecario grava una propiedad inmueble, que se describe como sigue: “URBANA: Solar marcado con el número diecinueve (19) de la Urbanización La Colina, radicada en la carretera estatal número ochocientos treinta y tres (833) en el Barrio Frailes del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Compuesto de mil quinientos veinticinco punto ciento cuarenta y cuatro (1,525.144) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con los solares doce y trece, en distancia de veintisiete punto cero sesenta y ocho (27.068) según documento y según plano en distancia de 27.062 metros lineales; por el SUR, con la Calle B, en distancia de veintisiete punto doscientos sesenta y cinco (27.265) metros lineales; por el ESTE, con el solar dieciocho, en distancia de cincuenta y

DE DINERO - ORDINARIO.

GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM

NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO

A: IVAN M. TORRES

DURAN, FULANA DE TAL & LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 DE AGOSTO DE 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 22 de AGOSTO de 2025. En AÑASCO, Puerto Rico, el 22 de AGOSTO de 2025. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, Secretario(a). f/ LUZ N. CHICO ACEVEDO, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR AURELIO COTTO TRINIDAD Peticionarios EX-PARTE

Civil Núm.: CG2025CV01555. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: Todos los que tengan cualquier derecho real en la finca que más adelante se describe, las personas ignoradas, naturales o jurídicas, a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción de dicha finca a favor de los Peticionarios y a las personas desconocidas, naturales o jurídicas, que tuvieren derecho a oponerse o se creyeron con derecho a oponerse a la inscripción del inmueble que se describe

más adelante.

POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que se ha presentado ante este Tribunal el expediente arriba mencionado con el fin de justificar el dominio a favor de los Peticionarios de la siguiente entidad registral: “RUSTICA: Parcela radicada en el Barrio Cañaboncito, de Caguas Puerto Rico. Mide veinte metros de frente por veinticinco metros de fondo, iguales a una superficie de quinientos metros cuadrados. Colinda por el Norte con Blas Cotto, separado por camino; Sur con Juan Cotto Rivera; Este con Juan Cotto Rivera; y Oeste con Luis Cotto Trinidad. El Peticionario adquirió la propiedad antes descrita por compraventa de Juan Cotto Rivera desde el 1968. Al momento de la adquisición de la propiedad objeto de la presente petición el Peticionario era mayor de edad, casado bajo el régimen de la sociedad legal de gananciales con Angelina Hernández Sánchez, ya fallecida, obrero y vecino de Cidra, Puerto Rico. El Peticionario adquirió la antes descrita propiedad Compraventa de Porción de Finca Rústica, según surge de la afidávit 7786 otorgada el cinco (5) de agosto de 1968, otorgada ante el Notario Manuel S. Santiago Álvarez.

Y SE LE NOTIFICA A USTED que este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le cite como persona que está en posesión de parte o todos los predios colindantes de la finca descrita, o tenga interés para que haga oposición a este expediente, si se viere perjudicado con la inscripción solicitada; advirtiéndole que de no hacer oposición dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar desde que fuera notificada esta citación, los Peticionarios podrán obtener que se apruebe este expediente y se mande a inscribir a su nombre la finca antes descrita en el Registro de la Propiedad, sección de Caguas. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC) al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// tribunalelectronico.ramajudicial. pr/sumac2018 salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal, notificando a la representación legal en la dirección de récord.

LCDA. XIOMARA MENDEZ BAEZ PO BOX 6463

CAGUAS, PR 00726-6463

TEL. 787-286-6666

EMAIL: lcdaxiomaramendez@ yahoo.com

POR ORDEN DEL HONORABLE HON. ANTONIO NEGRÓN VILLARDEFRANCO, Juez de este Tribunal, expido la presente en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy a 13 de agosto de 2025, bajo mi firma y sello oficial. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA TRIBUNAL SUPERIOR. LIZ

WHARTON ROSA, SUBSECRETARIA TRIBUNAL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA VAPR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

Demandante V. MELVIN VAZQUEZ MORALES

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: VA2025CV00035.

(Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ADELA SURILLO GUTIÉRREZADELA.SURILLO@GMAIL.COM. A: MELVIN VAZQUEZ MORALES.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 18 de agosto de 2025. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 18 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

Demandante V.

ELISA TORRES TORRES

T/C/C ELISA TORRES

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: PO2025CV00820.

(Salón: 406 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE

SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. BELMA ALONSO GARCÍA -

OFICINABELMAALONSO@GMAIL. COM. MARINILDA RIVERA VARGASMRIVERAVARGAS@YAHOO.COM.

A: ELISA TORRES TORRES T/C/C ELISA TORRES.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 20 de agosto de 2025. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 20 de agosto de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. MARIELY FÉLIX RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

CARIBE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

Demandante V. NARCISO RODRÍGUEZ CORREA, LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ÉSTE Y JANE DOE Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: YU2025CV00026. (Salón: 1 SALA SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ANDREA CAROLINA CHAVES FIGUEROA - LCDA. CHAVESFIGUEROA@GMAIL.COM. A: NARCISO RODRÍGUEZ CORREA, JANE DOE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - P/C LCDA. ANDREA CAROLINA

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia

Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 18 de agosto de 2025. En Yauco, Puerto Rico, el 18 de agosto de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

INGRID RABELO BREGÓN

Demandante V. HERIBERTO RODRÍGUEZ REYES; HRR CONSTRUCTION L.L.C., ASEGURADORAS B, C, D “X,Y,Z”

Demandada Civil Núm.: HU2025CV00555. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO; INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS; ENRIQUECIMIENTO INJUSTO. SALA: 702. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO. A: HERIBERTO RODRÍGUEZ REYES. Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte demandante INGRID RABELO BREGÓN una Demanda sobre COBRO DE DINERO; INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS; ENRIQUECIMIENTO INJUSTO. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// tribunalelectronico.ramajudicial. pr/sumac2018/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio,

en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparece deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del término de treinta (30) días desde su publicación, 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. La representación legal de la parte demandante es la Lcda. Ketsy Ann Lozada Serrano, con dirección postal Estudio Legal & Notarial Abogadas-Notarias, PO Box 1274 Las Piedras, Puerto Rico 00771, teléfono: 787-3946306 y correo electrónico lozadaserranoketsy@gmail.com. Expido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 14 de agosto de 2025. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 14 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN INGRID RABELO BREGÓN

Demandante V. HERIBERTO RODRÍGUEZ REYES; HRR CONSTRUCTION L.L.C., ASEGURADORAS B, C, D “X,Y,Z”

Demandada Civil Núm.: HU2025CV00555. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO; INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS; ENRIQUECIMIENTO INJUSTO. SALA: 702. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO. A: HRR CONSTRUCTION L.L.C. POR CONDUCTO DE HERIBERTO RODRÍGUEZ REYES.

Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte demandante INGRID RABELO BREGÓN una Demanda sobre COBRO DE DINERO; INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS; ENRIQUECIMIENTO INJUSTO. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede

acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// tribunalelectronico.ramajudicial. pr/sumac2018/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparece deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del término de treinta (30) días desde su publicación, 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. La representación legal de la parte demandante es la Lcda. Ketsy Ann Lozada Serrano, con dirección postal Estudio Legal & Notarial Abogadas-Notarias, PO Box 1274 Las Piedras, Puerto Rico 00771, teléfono: 787-3946306 y correo electrónico lozadaserranoketsy@gmail.com. Expido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 14 de agosto de 2025. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 14 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante V. HERBERT MASSARO Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: VB2025CV00323.

(Salón: 201 CM, TR Y CR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JESSICA D. MARTÍNEZ BIRRIELJMARTBIRR@YAHOO.COM. A: HERBERT MASSARO, LOUISE MARIE MASSARO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los térmi-

nos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 19 de agosto de 2025. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 19 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA centro judicial de Bayamón SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. Demandante V. ROBERTO CAMACHO FIGUEROA Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: VB2025CV00324. (Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFCACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JESSICA D. MARTÍNEZ BIRRIELJMARTBIRR@YAHOO.COM. A: ROBERTO CAMACHO FIGUEROA, DORIAN XAE PIÑERO RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 19 de agosto de 2025. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 19 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Juncos is a win away from another Double-A title

By THE STAR STAFF

After defeating the Patillas Leones 8-2 on Sunday at Francisco “Paquito” Montaner Stadium in Ponce, the Juncos Mulos are one step away from winning their 11th championship in the Double-A Superior Baseball League. Star right-hander Rubén Ramírez pitched seven strong innings for Juncos, scattering five hits, allowing one run and striking out seven to earn his second win of the series. Kenny Burgos went the rest of the way in relief.

The Juncos offense racked up 13 hits and took control of the game in the first inning with a three-run rally. Luis Román opened the scoring with a single that drove in Gerardo “Coco” Velázquez, followed by another RBI single by Jan Rivera and a groundout by Jean Ortiz that brought in the third run.

In the third inning, a sacrifice fly by Rivera extended the lead to 4-0. The Leones (Lions) responded in the sixth inning with their first run when Ozzie Martínez grounded into a double play.

Ortiz drove in the Mulos’ (Mules’) sixth run in the seventh, and Román sealed the deal with a two-run triple in the eighth. Patillas added its second run in the ninth, on Reymond Fuentes’ two-out single.

Román went 4-for-5 with three RBIs and three runs scored, along with two triples, for Juncos.

Starter Christian Bonilla took the loss for the Leones, after allowing three runs in just two innings.

The series will continue this Friday at 8 p.m. with Game 6 at Mariano “Niní” Meaux Stadium in Juncos.

As his team crumbles, Ryan is having a season worthy of a Cy

By AARON GLEEMAN

Joe Ryan had his shortest start of the season last Tuesday in Minneapolis against the Athletics, failing to complete five innings for the first time. He gave up two earned runs in four innings, and the Minnesota Twins’ shaky defense led to another three unearned runs scoring in the eventual 6-3 loss.

The night was a rare blemish on a season full of consistent excellence. Despite the rest of the Twins’ starting rotation, overall roster and season as a whole crumbling around Ryan, a first-time All-Star, he has performed like a legitimate Cy Young Award contender. Six weeks still remain for him to bolster his credentials.

Ryan is 12-6 with a 2.77 ERA and 159 strikeouts versus just 28 walks in 143 innings, holding opponents to a .205 batting average and a .611 on-base plus slugging percentage. When he is on the mound, the Twins have played like an 85-win team, compared to a 72-win pace when he is not pitching.

Detroit Tigers ace Tarik Skubal is heavily favored to capture a second consecutive American League Cy Young Award, but Ryan has placed himself firmly in the down-ballot mix. And he continues to climb the rankings of the Twins’ best seasons by starting pitchers since 2000.

Ryan is one win off the AL lead and trails only Skubal in strikeout-to-walk ratio. He also ranks among the AL’s top five in ERA, opponents’ batting average, walks and hits per inning pitched, strikeout rate, walk rate, wins above replacement and win probability added. He is in the top 10 for just about every other category.

Ryan was a Triple-A prospect with a low90s fastball and no other reliable pitch when the Twins got him from the Tampa Bay Rays for Nelson Cruz at the 2021 trade deadline. Four years later, his fastball averages 94 mph and he throws four other pitches, each with a sub-.250 batting average allowed.

“I think Joe is enjoying being really good at what he does,” manager Rocco Baldelli said.

“He takes a lot of pride in being the type of pitcher that we’re seeing right now. I think this is what it looks like for Joe Ryan as he pours more and more into this and wants to reach new heights in his career.”

Ryan is the first Twins pitcher with an ERA below 2.80 in at least 140 innings through the first 127 games of a season since Frank Viola in his Cy Young-winning 1988 campaign.

Focusing on the past 25 seasons, nearly every Twins pitching leaderboard is dominated by Johan Santana’s amazing run from 2004 to 2006, in which he won two Cy Youngs and merited three. Ryan is building a compelling case for the Twins’ best season by a pitcher other than Santana since 2000.

Ryan has averaged about 1.1 wins above replacement per six outings, as calculated by Baseball Reference, which puts him on a pace for 5.7 WAR. That would be the Twins’ best figure since Santana’s 7.6 in 2006, just ahead of Sonny Gray’s 5.6 for his Cy Young runner-up season in 2023.

Ryan fares even better in win probability added, which measures performance based on the context in which it occurred to analyze the actual effect on wins and losses. He ranks No. 7 in WPA among Twins starters since 2000. At his current pace, Ryan would finish with 3.5 WPA, again narrowly ahead of Gray’s standout 2023 for the Twins’ best mark since Santana in 2006.

Ryan is 29, and under team control for two seasons after this one, which is part of why he was highly sought at the trade deadline. At one point, Ryan thought he had been traded when an erroneous report made the social media rounds.

“I obviously thought I got traded for several minutes,” Ryan said. “Then I was like: ‘Is this going to happen? What’s the deal?’ That was a weird mix of emotions.”

Young Award

Minnesota Twins ace Joe Ryan is 11-4 with a 2.48 ERA in his past 20 outings, including a 2.34 ERA in his past 10. (Instagram via @ thejoeryanexperience)

At the time, Ryan was with pitcher Griffin Jax, who is now with the Rays. “It was just weird,” Ryan said. “Then he didn’t think he was going to get traded. And he got traded, and I didn’t.”

Despite last-minute pushes from several teams, including the Boston Red Sox, the Twins opted to keep Ryan. For now, at least. Trade speculation will undoubtedly start to swirl around Ryan again this winter, particularly after the Pohlad family pulled the Twins off the market amid more payroll cuts.

After a deadline-day experience he called sobering because of the uncertainty, Ryan has been able to put the emotions and speculation aside to continue pitching at a high level for an otherwise makeshift Twins rotation that desperately needs any sort of consistent quality innings.

Ryan admitted to being “frustrated at times and a little confused” about the Twins’ defensive issues, but he has kept pitching well in increasingly difficult circumstances and has shown little sign of slowing. He is 11-4 with a 2.48 ERA in his past 20 outings, including a 2.34 ERA in his past 10.

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