Tuesday Feb 24, 2026

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Senator calls for PRASA chief to testify as water failures persist across PR

By THE STAR STAFF

Popular Democratic Party (PDP) Sen. Luis Javier Her nández Ortiz on Monday demanded that the head of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) be summoned before the island Senate following a series of ongoing water service failures reported across multiple municipalities.

Hernández Ortiz, the PDP minority leader in the upper chamber, criticized the agency for what he described as widespread breakdowns and an apparent lack of urgen cy in addressing them. He also questioned why, despite millions allotted for infrastructure upgrades, little progress has been made.

“Today we are requesting intervention with the president of PRASA, and we will be submitting a resolution for an investigation,” Hernández Ortiz said. “Eighty‑two percent of the funds, which amount to over $4 million, are being held up. There is a burst pipe in Morovis, residents of Corozal have told me they have been without water for months, and many Puerto Ricans have been complaining about this ordeal. We want the president of [PRASA] to face the public and explain why we are experiencing this situation.”

The senator’s comments come amid heightened public frustration over recurring water interruptions across the island.

San Juan and surrounding municipalities have faced repeated and significant water service disruptions over the past year. In July 2025, a major rupture in a 54‑inch main connected to the Sergio Cuevas water treatment plant dis rupted service across San Juan, Carolina and Loíza, leaving thousands without water for days. Although physical repairs were completed within hours, restoration lagged and many residents remained without service. Officials acknowledged that the incident raised broader concerns about deteriorating infrastructure and poor coordination between PRASA and local governments.

Popular Democratic Party Sen. Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz, second from left, demanded that the head of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority be summoned before the island Senate following a series of ongoing water service failures reported across multiple municipalities.

also criticized PRASA’s leadership Monday, questioning the agency’s decision to restrict legislators and mayors from the telemetry system a platform that shows real‑time water flow across the network.

“I want PRASA to explain whether these recent admi nistrative actions are retaliation or due to incompetence,” Morales said. “I believe it’s a move in response to the public statements made by Mayor Miguel Romero.”

The repeated breakdowns have prompted widespread scrutiny of PRASA’s management. Last year, Gov. Jenniffer González Colón activated the National Guard and declared a state of emergency after water outages affected nearly 180,000 residents, noting that dozens of communities had already been grappling with long‑standing water‑supply problems before the larger failure.

The crisis deepened later the same month when a breakdown at the Sergio Cuevas plant, compounded by another large pipeline failure, left more than 183,000 re sidents without reliable water service. Some communities went weeks without water, forcing businesses to close and prompting San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo to declare a state of emergency. Critics pointed to aging infrastructure and insufficient maintenance as root causes.

By early 2026, PRASA was still carrying out emergency repairs at the Carraízo dam system after additional interrup tions in the metropolitan area. Water pumping had to be halted overnight, again leaving sectors of San Juan without service for hours.

Concerns over access to telemetry data

New Progressive Party Sen. Juan Oscar Morales Rodríguez

With the Senate now considering an investigation and public frustration at a peak, lawmakers across party lines say the agency must provide clear answers and accelerate long‑delayed infrastructure projects.

In the Feb. 12 edition of the STAR a story on reactions to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show erroneously reported that rock guitar master Carlos Santana criticized the show as not being universal and as a “slap in the face of the United States.” The misinformation came from false news posted last October after it was announced that Bad Bunny would perform at halftime of Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, Calif. Santana wasted no time in strongly denying any association with the phony “report” and repudiated the “fabricated comments about Bad Bunny” falsely attributed to him. The STAR apologizes for the error and any confusion it may have caused.

Fishermen’s federations demand action on license delays

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Fishermen and Marine Defenders Federation (FEPDEMAR by its acronym in Spanish) has criticized the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) for delays in renewing fishing licenses, leaving “dozens of” fishermen unable to work and earn a living for their families.

The ongoing delays are especially frustrating now that the Lenten season has begun, the fishermen say. In response, they are urging DNER Secretary Waldemar Quiles to take immediate action.

The fishermen are also seeking a meeting with Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz, who has introduced a bill to address the issue.

“There must be dozens of fishermen who can’t go out to earn a living because they’ve been waiting for months for the Department of Natural Resources to renew their fishing licenses,” FEPDEMAR President Miguel A. Ortiz Serrano said. “We believe that the Department of Natural [and Environmental] Resources must conduct an evaluation. Of course, evaluating is their job, but there’s no reason why, in the 21st century, with the help of the internet, that process should take months.”

“Furthermore,” Ortiz Serrano continued, “we’re not talking about driver’s licenses, for which there may be thousands of drivers requesting renewals. We’re talking about the Department of Natural Resources perhaps having to process around 250 renewals a year, probably fewer.

Right now in Puerto Rico, there are about 1,200 licensed fishermen, including those with current licenses and those in the renewal process; the Department of Natural Resources doesn’t have to process many license renewals.”

“It’s also important to consider that licenses are renewed every four years, not annually, and that fishermen over 60 years of age and those [who are] retirees have lifetime licenses and don’t have to renew them,” the FEPDEMAR president added.

Heriberto Rosa Pérez, president of the Palo Seco Commer-

PREPA seeks dismissal of rate case

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) has asked the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) to dismiss the ongoing electricity rate review case while courts resolve a series of legal challenges seeking to invalidate LUMA Energy’s indefinitely extended supplemental contract.

In a filing submitted as part of a motion for reconsideration of a $25,000 administrative fine imposed for missing a deadline to answer initial rate-design filings, PREPA argued that moving forward with the rate case amid unsettled litigation would undermine regulatory prudence.

Although the utility acknowledged its failure to meet the deadline, it said the delay did not stem from bad faith, but rather from concerns over setting rates based on financial and operational data that may become irrelevant should courts strike down LUMA’s 2022 contract extension for operating the island’s electric power transmission and distribution system. The utility asked for measures with the goal of ensuring its liquidity.

“In the event of any dismissal, structure any provisional rate reconciliation … including amortizing any credit adjustments over a multi-year period sufficient to preserve PREPA’s liquidity and ensure continuity of essential services,” PREPA wrote.

PREPA warned that if LUMA’s contract were nullified and a new operator had to be hired to manage the transmission and distribution system, the PREB would be forced to conduct a second full rate review. Issuing a permanent rate order now, the utility argued, would risk basing customer charges on assumptions tied to an operator whose legal authority remains uncertain.

“The Energy Bureau should not risk establishing a new rate based on financial and operational data that could soon become inapplicable,” PREPA said, adding that dismissing the proceeding without prejudice would prevent unnecessary burdens on ratepayers.

The public corporation further argued that pushing ahead would “penalize” customers by forcing them to absorb costs modeled on an operator that may not remain in place if lawsuits succeed.

The government of Puerto Rico and allied entities have filed multiple legal actions challenging the 2022 extension of LUMA Energy’s supplemental operating agreement, arguing the extension was executed without required regulatory or statutory approvals.

Earlier this winter, Gov. Jenniffer González Colón asked a federal judge to return one of the lawsuits to Puerto Rico’s

cial Fishermen’s Association Inc., said that “[i]n our fishing village alone, there are currently five fishermen waiting for the Department of Natural [and Environmental] Resources to renew their licenses, including our vice president, who has been waiting since last September.”

“It’s hard to believe the government cares about fishermen when we are left in situations like this,” he said. “While we know Senate Bill 1053 has been introduced as a long-term solution, immediate action is also needed -- measures that we know the government has the power to implement.”

Ramberto Hernández Hernández, president of the Parguera Fishermen’s Association Inc., expressed frustration over attempts to meet with the DNER secretary that have so far been unsuccessful.

“Because of this, we took the initiative to draft an administrative order for the secretary to sign, which could immediately resolve the urgent issue of fishermen stranded at the dock due to license renewal delays,” he said. “Last Tuesday, we submitted the draft to the secretary and to the legal division, and we have followed up by phone, but nothing has happened.”

Ortiz Serrano said the fishermen “are also turning to the Legislature for support and to request that they summon the [DNER] to explain what is preventing them from issuing the necessary administrative order.”

“We need immediate help,” he said. “The solution is straightforward: the [DNER] secretary should simply sign the administrative order while legislation is being drafted. It’s quick, inexpensive, and effective.”

courts, insisting the case concerns local law and the limits of the Public-Private Partnerships Authority’s (P3A) power to extend LUMA’s contract.

Separately, the government filed suit in late 2025 in its first formal bid to terminate LUMA’s multimillion-dollar contract entirely, citing outages, slow grid reconstruction and rising customer bills.

The PREB initiated the current rate review in 2023, describing it as a comprehensive examination of PREPA’s revenues and expenditures. The proceeding has drawn in creditors, agencies, and system operators as testimony has detailed liquidity problems, operational constraints, and disputed budgeting across PREPA, LUMA and Genera PR, the private operator of PREPA’s legacy power plants.

Hearings in late 2025 and early 2026 highlighted emergency-funding shortfalls, chronic underfunding of operational accounts, and extensive debates over proposed base and provisional rates — including projections that would significantly increase monthly residential bills.

PREPA emphasized that, despite the advanced stage of the regulatory proceedings, “administrative efficiency and procedural economy” should guide the PREB until the courts determine whether LUMA’s contract extension is valid.

In recent weeks, the government has also asked the Title III bankruptcy court to remand related lawsuits filed jointly by PREPA and the P3A involving the same contract dispute — a move that could accelerate judicial resolution at the local level.

Culinary Festival in Cidra showcases value of vocational education

By THE STAR STAFF

The Department of Education, through the Regional Educational Office (ORE) of Caguas, and the Municipality of Cidra held the Second Culinary Festival 2026 over the weekend, an initiative that highlighted the student talent in the department’s Occupational and Technical Education programs and reaffirmed the joint commitment to academic, creative and economic development of the region.

The event was held in the Plazoleta de la Casa Alcaldía de Cidra under the concept “Aromas that guide, flavor that honors occupational teaching,” bringing together students and teachers of culinary and pastry arts from various vocational schools, along with artistic presentations and technical

exhibitions that demonstrated the comprehensive training that young people receive in public schools.

The festival had the direct support of the Municipality of Cidra, which collaborated in the logistics and organization, thus strengthening educational initiatives that positively impact the school community.

“Occupational and technical education continues to demonstrate that it is a powerful tool for transformation and economic development for our students,” Education

Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés said, while highlighting the scope of the activity and the value of the municipal alliance. “This Culinary Festival evidenced the extraordinary talent that is cultivated in our public schools and the commitment of our teachers.”

Cidra Mayor Delvis Pagán Clavijo said:

“Our government supports the Department of Education because we understand that these spaces complement academic training and open opportunities for our students.”

“We are committed to keeping our young people active outside of school hours, involved in projects that allow them to discover and strengthen skills in technical, vocational and occupational areas,” he added.

Recognitions were also given to district legislators, who have consistently supported occupational and technical programs as key instruments for regional development and the preparation of the workforce of the future.

Vocational schools from Cayey, Comerío, Guayama, Aguas Buenas, Cidra and Aibonito participated, as well as schools specialized in fine arts and music in the region.

Vocational schools from Cayey, Comerío, Guayama, Aguas Buenas, Cidra and Aibonito participated in the Second Culinary Festival 2026, as well as schools specialized in fine arts and music in the Caguas educational region.

Neuroeducation-based learning center marks 10 years

By THE STAR STAFF

Amid an increasingly intense debate about the impact of school stress, academic overload and anxiety in childhood, a story born from the personal experience of a Puerto Rican mother is now consolidating itself as an innovative and sustainable educational proposal.

A decade ago, facing the challenges of raising her children alone while pursuing her career, Haydeliz Ramírez Natal began to question an educational system that, as she observed, was disconnecting children from the true meaning of learning.

What began as a personal quest evolved into At Home Education Center & Afterschool Corp., an educational institution founded by Ramírez that today celebrates 10 years of implementing a model based on neuroeducation, meaningful learning and emotional well-being.

Haydeliz Ramírez Natal, founder of At Home Education Center & Afterschool Corp.

“I didn’t design an academy based on

theory. I designed it based on the real-life experience of a mother who wanted to see her children learn without anxiety,” Ramírez said. “Over time, that concern evolved into an educational model grounded in brain science.”

During the first decade of its existence, the institution has consistently developed and applied an approach that breaks with traditional structures, integrating practices such as:

* Groups of a maximum of 10 students per room.

* 90% of learning completed within the classroom.

* Elimination of unnecessary task overload.

* Curricular integration of art, entrepreneurship and agriculture.

* Multisensory strategies based on neuroscientific evidence.

In a context where specialists warn about

the impact of chronic stress on the cognitive and emotional development of children, At Home Education Center has positioned itself as a benchmark in the practical application of neuroeducation in Puerto Rico.

With campuses in Arecibo and Manatí, as well as a virtual modality, the institution has impacted hundreds of families seeking a balance between academic performance, emotional regulation, and the comprehensive development of their children.

Today, what began as a mother’s concern has become a structured educational model, led by an internationally certified professional and recognized for its innovative, humane and science-based approach.

The center’s 10th anniversary is not just an institutional celebration. It comes at a crucial moment, when more and more families are questioning the traditional model and seeking real alternatives that promote learning without sacrificing their children’s emotional well-being.

Plan approved to remove barge grounded off El Morro

By THE STAR STAFF

The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday approved the final plan to remove the barge Defiant, which has been grounded since Feb. 9 on the rocks off Castillo San Felipe del Morro, at the entrance to the port of San Juan.

“Our operational priority is to protect the maritime transportation system and ensure that the channel remains safe and open,”

said Lt. Cmdr. Ray López in a written statement.

The removal will take place during high tide, once logistical arrangements are complete and weather and sea conditions permitting. Authorities have established a mobile safety zone around the vessel and urged mariners to stay clear of the area.

As part of the preparations, coral and marine life assessments were conducted to mitigate potential environmental impacts. Structural inspections of the barge were also completed.

According to the approved plan, 17 compartments, including the 10 fuel tanks, were pressurized and sealed to allow for air injection, displace accumulated water, and generate positive buoyancy. Two tugboats will participate in the maneuver to detach and stabilize the vessel.

Once freed, it will be reassessed before being moved to Pier 16 or an area outside the bay as a precautionary measure. No injuries were reported in the incident.

Shutdown at DHS extends to cyber agency, adding to setbacks

By ADAM SELLA

In his first term, President Donald Trump established the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to defend the nation’s infrastructure against cyberattacks.

In his second, he has taken aim at the agency.

Trump has sought to chip away at major aspects of CISA, a target of his ire after it undercut his false claims that the 2020 election was rigged. He has dismantled its election-related defenses, and called last year for a “comprehensive evaluation of all of CISA’s activities.”

The lapse in funding for the Department of Homeland Security, CISA’s parent agency, is only the latest setback, temporarily winnowing its already thinning ranks.

In January 2025, CISA employed about 3,400 people. That number has dropped to below 2,400. The shutdown means employees are now furloughed, leaving fewer than 1,000 of them to continue working.

The agency has navigated these cuts while being effectively rudderless without a Senate-confirmed leader. The result is a demoralized workforce concerned about the agency’s ability to ward off threats, according to former agency officials.

Lawmakers have shared those worries.

“You just can’t lose a third of your workforce and accomplish the mission and authorities that you have,” Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said after an oversight hearing in late January.

Thompson, a cosponsor of the law that created CISA in 2018, also cited a lack of resources and diminishing institutional knowledge as causes of the agency’s woes.

Marci McCarthy, CISA’s director of public affairs, said in a statement that “CISA remains unwavering in its mission to protect the systems Americans rely on — strengthening federal networks, empowering businesses and fortifying critical infrastructure nationwide.”

Since Trump’s electoral victory in 2024, chaos has become routine at the agency.

During the transition, the Trump administration ramped up its scrutiny of the agency, asking employees to justify their work, in some cases by pointing to specific statutes and laws, according to one former official who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.

Fear and rumors spread rapidly, including speculation over the possibility of a reorganization.

Senior staff members privately discussed what a reorganization could look like, but politically appointed leaders told them that their input was not needed, and that direction would come from top Trump officials, said one former official with knowledge of the episode. As a result, the official added, senior staff members felt sidelined.

In her statement, McCarthy disputed that employees had been sidelined or had faced reassignments, saying the as -

sertions “mischaracterize routine personnel management.”

“CISA’s staffing decisions are driven by mission need and strategic alignment — not rumor,” she added.

At an oversight hearing in January, Madhu Gottumukkala, the agency’s acting director, pushed back on the idea that the agency had plans to reorganize, even as he acknowledged that it had undergone “a lot of changes in the last year.”

Last February, the administration put more than a dozen of CISA’s election security workers on leave as part of an investigation into its election work, a move that had a chilling effect on the 100 or so people in the division.

In other units, some employees faced a difficult choice: accept unfavorable reassignments, sometimes to locations in different parts of the country or at different agencies entirely, or leave, according to the former officials.

The uncertainty prompted many employees to question whether they wanted to stay or whether the agency could even do its basic work. By the end of the year, about a third of the workforce, including many senior staff members, had decided to leave. The departures were a significant brain drain, said one former official who departed in the spring because of concerns over the agency’s direction.

The former official described being part of “a flood” of departures and recalled how the agency had a dedicated room for employees to return their equipment and badges, with stations set up because of the number of people stepping down.

The exodus comes as the agency awaits a Senate-confirmed director. Trump has selected Sean Plankey, a cyberexpert who served in the first Trump administration,

to lead CISA, but his nomination has languished for nearly a year as a few Republican and Democratic senators continue to block all Department of Homeland Security nominees over concerns about the management of agencies like the Federal Emergency Management Agency and CISA.

The leadership gap has only been exacerbated by reports that Gottumukkala failed a polygraph test after he sought access to sensitive intelligence, lawmakers and former CISA employees said.

The turmoil has also spilled into Congress, where lawmakers have struggled to reauthorize a cyberlaw with broad bipartisan support, in part because its name is similar to CISA’s.

The law protects U.S. companies from cyberthreats by facilitating information sharing between the public and private sectors.

But in June, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said that he would only support reauthorizing the law if it included a clause to stop the agency from engaging in censorship. Trump and his allies have long been aggrieved by the agency’s campaign to counter misinformation, equating it with censorship. Despite bipartisan efforts to get Paul to relent, he has not backed down, and the law lapsed twice during the recent government shutdowns.

While lawmakers passed a short-term reauthorization to the cyberlaw earlier this month, they have yet to agree on a funding deal for the Department of Homeland Security.

CISA’s acting director and former officials said that the agency was likely to be able to continue its most critical work during the shutdown, but that it would not be as prepared to respond if there was a major cyberattack on federal websites or critical infrastructure.

Madhu Gottumukkala, acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, testifies during the DHS oversight hearing in the Cannon House office building on in Washington on Jan. 21, 2026. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times)

Armed man who was fatally shot at Mar-a-Lago liked to draw golf courses

By SONIA A. RAO and CHRISTINA MORALES

The 21-year-old man who was fatally shot after entering Mar-a-Lago with a weapon was a recent high school graduate who started an artwork company last year that specialized in handmade drawings of golf courses.

The man, Austin Tucker Martin, of Cameron, North Carolina, was confronted by the Secret Service and officers from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office inside the north gate of Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s residence and private club in Palm Beach, Florida. Martin was carrying what appeared to be a shotgun and a fuel canister. Officers told him to drop the items, but he put down only the canister and was shot after raising the shotgun to a “shooting position,” authorities said.

Trump was not at Mar-a-Lago at the time of the shooting, which occurred around 1:30 a.m. Sunday. The incident follows two assassination attempts against Trump during his 2024 presidential campaign.

Martin very likely drove from North Carolina to Florida on Saturday afternoon, based on information posted by family members on social media as well as a statement from the sheriff’s department in the rural North Carolina county where he lived.

Family members of Martin, including his mother, Melissa Martin, had posted on Facebook throughout the weekend that he was missing.

Around 7 a.m. Sunday — hours afterAustin Martin was killed by authorities — Melissa Martin posted to her followers, asking them to help “find my boy.” An hour later, she shared an image of a poster with a picture of her son and information about his car, a 2013 silver Volkswagen Tiguan. He had last been heard from at 7:51 p.m. Saturday, the poster said.

Ric L. Bradshaw, the Palm Beach County sheriff, said that the car found near the scene was a silver Volkswagen believed to belong to Austin Martin, and that a box in the back seat appeared to have been carrying the shotgun. Bradshaw said authorities were not sure where Martin obtained the weapon.

On Sunday morning, police were seen surrounding

a silver Volkswagen parked at Midtown Beach, a public area that is about a 30-minute walk from Mar-a-Lago.

Chrissie Fields, a woman who appeared to be Martin’s aunt, also posted on Facebook, saying that he left his home at 1 p.m. Saturday. “This is not like him at all,” she wrote.

Neither Melissa Martin nor Fields responded to multiple requests for comment.

In a statement, the sheriff’s office of Moore County, North Carolina, said that a relative of Austin Martin reported him missing at 1:38 a.m. Sunday, around the same time that the episode at Mar-a-Lago occurred.

The sheriff’s office said that it did not have any record of prior interactions with Martin.

Martin graduated in 2023 from Union Pines High School in Cameron, North Carolina, according to a social media post from his mother.

In June 2025, Martin registered a business called “Fresh Sky Illustrations.” According to its website, it is an artwork company

focused on “bringing to life the hopeful feeling of being on a golf course by illustrating golf course scenes and providing framed copies of handmade works in various golf course gift shops.” The company also took personal commissions, the website said. He was a registered voter, listing his party as unaffiliated, according to state voting records.

Three high school friends of Martin said Sunday that he sometimes expressed traditional conservative views to his classmates.

In Cameron, a town of only about 300 people, politics was often a topic of conversation, and many people expressed Republican viewpoints, the friends said, noting that they lost touch with Martin after graduation.

“He is from a very pro-Trump family and fit into that narrative,” said Clarice Bonillo, 21, who was his officer in the Junior ROTC. “But he wouldn’t go out of his way to bash anybody from the left side or start arguments or anything like that. He had his opinion, and he mostly kept it to himself.”

play golf at Mar-a-Lago on Thanksgiving Day while President Donald Trump speaks with members of the military on the phone nearby, in Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 22, 2018. The 21-year-old man who was fatally shot on Sunday after entering Mar-a-Lago with a weapon was a recent high school graduate who started an artwork company last year that specialized in handmade drawings of golf courses. (Sarah Silbiger/New York Times)

Martin’s classmates described him as a smart student who was kind, helpful and talkative around his trusted group of friends. Bonillo, of Boone, North Carolina, said she remembered that sometimes he was depressed and anxious. She said his friends often tried to lift his spirits. Bonillo said that she was shocked to learn about Martin’s fatal encounter at Mar-a-Lago. “It seems like a very out-of-character thing for him to do,” she said.

Another friend, Dustin Rollins, 20, of Fayetteville, said that Martin was “probably one of the kinder souls that I’ve actually ever met.”

In high school, Martin had dreams of joining the U.S. Air Force, hoping to combine his interests in planes, engineering and mechanics, Rollins said. Martin joined the JROTC program to help with those prospects, but he was later turned away from the Air Force.

In 2023, he was devastated by the death of his sister, Caitlin Renea Martin, at age 21 from a car accident. He was close to his family, especially his brother and sister, and became more reclusive after her death, Rollins said.

“None of us believe he was a terrible kid,” he added, of Martin. “We all love him.”

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL

The case for striking Iran

By BRET STEPHENS

President Donald Trump appears poised to order strikes on Iran — indeed, by the time you read this column, he may already have done so — while barely bothering to spell out his reasons. The lack of explanation is a serious moral and political mistake: At the very least, Americans deserve to know what they’re getting into, why, for how long and for what result.

But it doesn’t mean there isn’t a compelling case for action. Three, in fact.

Iran poses a threat to global order by way of its damaged but abiding nuclear ambitions, its deep strategic ties to Moscow and Beijing, its persistent threats to maritime commerce and its support for international terrorism.

It poses a threat to regional stability, not just through its support for anti-Israel proxies such as Hamas and Hezbollah, but also by its meddling in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and (until the overthrow of the Bashar Assad regime) Syria.

And it’s a mortal threat to the life and safety of its own people, many thousands of whom it slaughtered last month. There was a time not long ago when Americans, both left and right, cared enough about human rights to believe that defending them could, in some circumstances, justify military intervention.

Why is a military attack crucial? Look at what hasn’t worked to change the regime’s behavior.

Dr. Ricardo Angulo Founder

Manuel

María de L. Márquez

Economic engagement hasn’t: Europeans have long sought close commercial ties with Iran, only to have Tehran repay the favor by routinely taking European citizens hostage or carrying out assassinations and terrorist attacks on European soil.

Economic sanctions haven’t: The regime has been under some form of sanction since its earliest months. But while sanctions damage economies, they have little effect on despotic rulers who are indifferent to the well-being of their own people and who can always find ways to enrich themselves through sanctions busting, bribery, cybercrime, drug dealing and other black-market transactions.

International institutions haven’t: The International Atomic Energy Agency spent decades engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with Iran as the regime repeatedly hid its nuclear capabilities and prevaricated about its intentions. Ultimately, that led to an IAEA report last year noting that the regime had failed to provide “technically credible answers regarding the nuclear material at three locations” and that it pursued a “unique and unilateral approach to its legally binding obligation.”

And diplomacy hasn’t.

Whatever one thinks of Trump’s first-term decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal (a good decision about a bad agreement, in my view, though thoughtful people differ), the Biden administration invested months in torturous negotiations trying to entice Iran back into it. They got the back of the ayatollah’s hand. Last year, Trump spent months seeking a diplomatic outcome. It, too, went nowhere, and current negotiations seem to be on a similar course.

The failure of nonmilitary options does not, of course, mean that military ones are destined to succeed. Things will go wrong in any complex operation — there’s a reason the word “fubar” began life as a military acronym — and Iran possesses the means to inflict damage on American personnel and installations throughout the Middle East. The fact that it failed to land effective blows in the June war against Israel and the United States should lull nobody into complacency: Iranians will have learned from their mistakes, and a regime that feels it has its back to the wall will have no reason to pull punches.

In fact, the Iranian regime may want war, on the theory that all it needs to do to win it is survive it. In this view, a U.S. strike that further degraded Iran’s military assets but didn’t fundamentally shake the regime’s grip would rally its domestic supporters, demoralize its brutalized opponents, and demonstrate the futility of future military action as a means of altering the regime’s course.

It’s a bad theory. To listen to the regime’s rhetoric is to be reminded of the Black Knight of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” who loses limb after limb while insisting he’s still winning. The regime has lost much of its nuclear infrastructure; watched its regional proxies be overthrown, decimated and incapacitated; presided over the implosion of its economy; and lost whatever domestic and international legitimacy remained to it.

No wonder protests in Iran have resumed, this

People walk past a domestically built missile “Khaibarbuster,” and banners showing portraits of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, and the late armed forces commanders, at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran, Oct. 1, 2025. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times)

time among university students who are bravely undaunted by the terrifying risk. Their protests seem connected to the 40-day memorials for the victims of last month’s massacres. But it’s not a stretch to assume those protests are also a signal to Trump that his promise last month to Iranians that “help is on its way” hasn’t been forgotten, and that ordinary Iranians are prepared to join the fight for their own liberation.

If so, then there is at least a reasonable chance that a sustained military operation that not only further degrades the regime’s nuclear, missile and military capabilities — a desirable outcome in its own right — but also targets its apparatus of domestic repression could embolden the type of sustained mass protests that could finally bring the regime down. Even more so if the leaders who give the orders, including the supreme leader and his circle, are not immune from attack.

For all of its willfulness and the evil it has wreaked over 47 years, the regime does not stand 10 feet tall. It nearly fell during the 2009 Green Movement against that year’s fraudulent elections. It nearly fell again in 2022 during the Women, Life, Freedom protests.

The difference on those occasions was the absence of external military support. Trump now has a unique opportunity to provide it. Despite the risk that military strikes entail, the bigger risk, in the judgment of history, would be to fail to take it.

AVISO PÚBLICO

La AUTORIDAD PARA LAS ALIANZAS PÚBLICO-PRIVADAS DE PUERTO RICO (la “Autoridad”) es la única entidad responsable de implementar la política pública del Gobierno de Puerto Rico en lo concerniente a la creación de Alianzas Público-Privadas. Bajo las disposiciones de la Ley 29 de 2009 y el Reglamento 9078 de la Autoridad, ésta, en colaboración con la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico (el “Patrocinador” o “AEE”), próximamente comenzará un proceso de Solicitud de Propuestas (“RFP” por sus siglas en inglés) para la selección y eventual contratación, bajo el mecanismo de Alianza Público-Privada, de una (1) entidad privada para desarrollar una nueva instalación de generación en el complejo de la AEE de la Central Eléctrica Costa Sur en Guayanilla, Puerto Rico (el “Proyecto”).

Preliminarmente, la Autoridad, como principal agente de licitación del Patrocinador y a través de su Comité de Alianza para el proyecto (el “Comité”), llevará a cabo un proceso de Solicitud de Cualificaciones (“RFQ”), de libre participación y abierto a todas las partes interesadas. El objetivo principal del proyecto es desarrollar una nueva instalación de capacidad de generación incorporando la mejor tecnología disponible, eficiente y moderna, con el objetivo de mejorar la confiabilidad de los recursos en la isla y asegurar una generación firme para mantener la estabilidad del sistema eléctrico.

Características Generales del Proyecto: La nueva instalación de generación deberá proveer capacidad firme de generación, con unidades individuales de aproximadamente 150 a 200 MW y una capacidad total máxima de 600 MW, permitiendo a la instalación satisfacer la demanda sostenida mientras fortalece la resiliencia general del sistema. Esta planta deberá contar con capacidad de ciclo simple, arranque rápido, capacidad de reducción rápida de carga, así como ser capaz de arranque independiente (black start).

El RFQ está disponible en la página de internet de la Autoridad en la siguiente dirección: www.p3.pr.gov. A través del RFQ, el Patrocinador y la Autoridad solicitan Declaraciones de Cualificaciones (“SOQ”) a empresas y consorcios con capacidad legal, financiera y técnica para implementar el Proyecto.

La Autoridad notifica la emisión de este RFQ toda vez que:

1.El Proyecto cumple con los requisitos de la Ley de Alianzas Público-Privadas, Ley Núm. 29-2009, según enmendada y;

2.El Proyecto cumple con los requisitos de la Ley para Transformar el Sistema Eléctrico de Puerto Rico, Ley Núm. 120-2018, según su enmienda.

A todas las compañías interesadas en participar del proceso se les advierte que deben seguir el protocolo de comunicaciones que se incluye en el RFQ. La Autoridad invita al público en general a visitar con regularidad la página de internet de la Autoridad, www.p3.pr.gov, para obtener información adicional del RFQ.

Ing. Josué A. Colón Ortiz Director Ejecutivo

PUBLIC NOTICE

The PUERTO RICO PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS AUTHORITY (the “Authority”) is the sole entity responsible for implementing the public policy of the Government of Puerto Rico regarding the creation of Public-Private Partnerships. Under the provisions of Act 29 of 2009 and the Authority’s Regulation 9078, the Authority, in collaboration with the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (the “Sponsor” or “PREPA”), will soon commence a Request for Proposals (“RFP”) process for the selection and eventual contracting, under the mechanism of a Public-Private Partnership, of one (1) private entity to develop a new generation facility at the PREPA’s Costa Sur Power Plant complex in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico (the “Project”).

Preliminarily, the Authority, as the Sponsor’s principal bidding agent, and through its Partnership Committee for the project (the “Committee”), will conduct a Request for Qualifications (“RFQ”) process, open and accessible to all interested parties. The principal objective of the Project is to develop a new generation capacity facility incorporating the best-available, efficient and modern technology, with the aim of improving resource adequacy on the Island and ensuring firm generation to maintain the stability of the electric system.

General

Characteristics of the Project:

The new generation facility must provide firm generation capacity with individual units of approximately 150 to 200 MW and a total capacity of a maximum of 600 MW, enabling the facility to meet sustained demand while strengthening overall system resilience. This plant must have simple-cycle capability, fast start and fast rampdown capabilities as well as be able to black start.

The RFQ is available on the Authority’s website at the following address: www.p3.pr.gov. Through the RFQ, the Sponsor and the Authority request Statements of Qualifications (“SOQ”) from companies and consortia with the legal, financial, and technical capacity to implement the Project.

The Authority hereby notifies the issuance of this RFQ on the basis that:

1.The Project complies with the requirements of the Public-Private Partnerships Act, Act No. 29-2009, as amended and;

2.The Project complies with the requirements of the Puerto Rico Electric System Transformation Act, Act No. 120-2018, as amended.

All companies interested in participating in the process are hereby advised to follow the communications protocol included in the RFQ. The Authority invites the general public to regularly visit the Authority’s website, www.p3.pr.gov, to obtain additional information about the RFQ.

Eng. Josué A. Colón Ortiz Executive Director

Justicia y procuradora de las Personas de Edad Avanzada acuerdan facilitar servicios a víctimas de fraude

POR CYBERNEWS

SAN JUAN – La secretaria del Departamento de Justicia, Lourdes Lynette Gómez Torres y la procuradora de las Personas de Edad Avanzada, Yolanda Varela Rosa, firmaron el lunes un acuerdo que ampliará y agilizará los servicios dirigidos a la población de adultos mayores víctimas de delito.

agilizar la respuesta y estar presentes donde más se nos necesita”.

“Como parte de ese acuerdo se le va a dar orientación para varias otras ayudas que ellos pueden solicitar, se le va a dar acompañamiento, se le va a dar orientación en cuanto a alimentación. Yo creo que la ayuda que va a recibir ese adulto mayor es caso a caso, dependiendo de las necesidades que presente”, dijo la secretaria de Justicia en conferencia de prensa.

Según Gómez Torres, en el 2025 se tiene constancia de 825 delitos. De estos 425 ocurrieron en Bayamón, Aguadilla, Ponce y San Juan. Con este acuerdo, se procura que los adultos mayores no tengan que visitar varias oficinas, sino que recibirán los servicios directamente en las fiscalías de esos 4 municipios.

La mayoría de los casos responden a explotación financiera. La oficina de la procuradora de las Personas de Edad Avanzada ha recibido, desde octubre 2024 hasta agosto de 2025 1,911 querellas que incluyen además de explotación financiera, maltrato y negligencia.

Por su parte, Varela Rosa destacó que, “con este acuerdo, llevamos nuestro conocimiento especializado y experiencia trabajando con adultos mayores directamente a las fiscalías para reforzar los servicios que ofrece el Departamento de Justicia y asegurar que cada adulto mayor víctima de delito reciba orientación, apoyo y protección sin dilaciones, y atendiendo sus necesidades particulares. Nuestro compromiso es sumar capacidades,

Habrá cuatro coordinadores de Programas para Envejecientes de la OPPEA en las fiscalías de los distritos de Bayamón, San Juan, Ponce y Aguadilla. Los coordinadores ofrecerán servicios dos días a la semana desde las propias sedes de las fiscalías. A su vez, las demás jurisdicciones podrán coordinar con los técnicos de servicios a víctimas adscritos a estas cuatro regiones, a fin de que ofrezcan estos servicios en otras fiscalías de forma ágil y eficiente.

Entre los servicios adicionales que brindará el personal de la OPPEA se incluyen orientación para el mejoramiento de la calidad de vida, información sobre recursos disponibles, referidos a servicios especializados y asistencia con servicios de nutrición en el hogar. Asimismo, colaborarán con los técnicos de servicios a víctimas del Departamento de Justicia en la orientación y acompañamiento en solicitudes de órdenes de protección y procesos civiles en los tribunales y/o lugares en que se requiera el apoyo.

Con este acuerdo, ambas agencias establecen mecanismos formales para compartir información, estadísticas, informes mensuales, documentación sobre los casos atendidos y adiestramientos conjuntos.

Los referidos para estos servicios serán canalizados por el Ministerio Público o por el personal de las Oficina de Asistencia a las Víctimas y Testigos de Justicia.

El acuerdo no conlleva gastos adicionales para ninguna de las agencias.

The San Juan Daily Star

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Willie Colón: 14 essential songs and albums

By ED MORALES

The music that the world now knows as salsa would probably not exist if not for the vision of Willie Colón. While Eddie Palmieri’s La Perfecta had been plying the two-trombone sound for years, Colón made the instrument central to his band, and the instrument’s ornery, sarcastic, yet often uplifting sound defined not only salsa’s break from the Cuban tradition, but the Nuyorican generation’s countercultural moment.

Colón, who died Saturday at 75, began his career leading a “kiddie band” playing bugaloo at clubs all over the South Bronx in New York City, but everything changed when Fania Records co-founder Johnny Pacheco suggested he take on Héctor Lavoe, a recent migrant from Puerto Rico, as his lead singer. The two bonded over their shared street roots, creating a gangster image for their album covers that predated hip-hop. But their musical impact derived from fusing Colón’s R&B and jazz-influenced style with Lavoe’s traditional jíbaro and bolero roots. Lavoe’s inability to sing well in English prompted Colón to abandon bugaloo, allowing his band to become an indispensable part of Fania’s 1970s salsa explosion.

Lavoe’s erratic lifestyle eventually resulted in a pseudobreakup between the two, with Colón leaving his own band and producing their albums, and Lavoe remaining as lead singer. Colón’s production took center stage in his work with Cuban vocalist Celia Cruz, and finally, his collaboration with Rubén Blades. “Siembra,” the culmination of his Lennon-McCartney-like partnership with Blades and perhaps his own career, became salsa’s biggest selling and most critically appraised album.

Colón went on to a successful solo career, scoring a few significant hit singles, and playing internationally to throngs of devoted loyalists until his death.

Here are 14 essential examples of Colón’s work as a bandleader, vocalist and producer.

‘El Malo’ (1967)

Colón’s first album, “El Malo,” signaled his transition to the rapidly coalescing Fania salsa sound. The title track is an anthem, claiming ownership of the barrio by defining the courage to fight as having “heart,” and dissing pretenders who can’t dance. Bugaloo excursions like “Willie Baby” and “Skinny Papa” share space with Afro-Cuban guaracha and guaguancó on “Borinquen” and “Chonqui.” Colón’s trombone incessantly provokes and distorts as if blown through a bank of Marshall amplifiers.

‘Asalto Navideño’ (1970)

Always looking for new directions, Colón decided to take a break from salsa’s rapid evolution to make this collection of aguinaldos, traditional Christmas songs, for the 1970 holiday season. “Asalto Navideño” allowed Lavoe to dig deep in his reserve of nasal jíbaro vocalizing while also introducing Yomo Toro, who became known as the Jimi Hendrix of cuatro, a rustic stringed instrument. The album is still a holiday fixture in households in San Juan and the Puerto Rican diaspora.

‘Barrunto’ (1970)

Written by Tite Curet Alonso, one of salsa’s master songwriters, “Barrunto,” from the album “La Gran Fuga,” is a brooding, prophetic track that makes a lost-love song a metaphor for Puerto Rico’s continually precarious state. With Colón and

Torres’ piano narrating in counterpoint, you can feel Lavoe’s anguish, melancholy and disillusionment. “If yesterday was happiness, today is sadness,” he sings, echoing “A Felicidade” from the film “Black Orpheus,” knowing a storm is coming from the smell of rain in the wind.

‘Che Che Colé’ (1969), ‘La Murga’ (1970) and ‘Ah-Ah/O-No’ (1972)

One of Colón’s lesser-noted contributions to salsa was his experimentation with non-Cuban rhythms on songs that became some of his biggest hits. “Ah-Ah/ONo,” from “El Juicio” features a whole new melodic feel for Lavoe’s vocals while floating on Puerto Rican bomba sicá rhythms. “La Murga,” a song Colón heard on his first trip to Panama City, sneaks into the “Asalto Navideño” album and “Che Che Colé” is based on a Ghanaian children’s song.

‘Lo Mato’ (1973)

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The album’s cover, a parody of a National Lampoon issue, conveys the wacky instability of Colón and Lavoe on the road, where they often got into fights with clubgoers. Their sound was coming together in explosive fashion, with Colón writing unforgettable trombone melodies, playing off Professor Joe Torres’ edgy piano figures and Milton Cardona’s santería-inflected conga. “Calle Luna, Calle Sol” is a vehicle for Lavoe’s ascension into bad boy heaven. Don’t miss an underrated track: the samba-ish “La María,” with its haunting melody lamenting a shared love affair.

‘Pena de Amor’ (1975)

In 1975, Colón tracked down one of his early influences, the plena/pachanga bandleader Mon Rivera, in Puerto Rico and made the album “There Goes the Neighborhood.” (Rivera’s collaboration with trombonist Barry Rogers in the early 1960s convinced Colón to switch from trumpet to trombone.) “Pena de Amor” is its most memorable track, a celebratory bomba tune about love’s inevitable straying into pain.

‘Usted Abusó’ (1977)

When Colón decided to leave his band to Lavoe in 1974, he sought out new vocalists, including Cuban diva Celia Cruz, with whom he collaborated on “Only They Could Have Made This Album” in 1977. While the whole LP is peak Fania-era salsa, “Usted Abusó” is transcendent both in its seamless production and as a feminist anthem. Ironically, the song was originally written by two Brazilian composers from a male perspective.

‘El Baquiné de los Angelitos Negros’ (1977)

An all-instrumental 1977 soundtrack to a ballet performed on “Realidades,” a television series broadcast on PBS, “El Baquiné de los Angelitos Negros” allows Colón to explore orchestral arrangements of a wide variety of Afro-Caribbean rhythms. Based on the Afro-Caribbean ritual funeral wake for a child who dies at a young age, it is an avant-garde take on sacred tradition.

‘Siembra’ (1978)

A concept album in the tradition of classic rock, “Siembra”

was the arrival of “conscious salsa,” with cinematically crafted songs, co-written by Blades and Colón, that raised street stories to social justice commentary. Featuring “Pedro Navaja,” a song with roots in Kurt Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera,” and “Plástico,” an anthem attempting to unite Latinos around anticonsumerist enlightenment, the album succeeded wildly beyond expectations. The roll call of Latin American nations at the end of “Plástico” was a precursor to Bad Bunny’s flag-waving Super Bowl finale.

‘Canciones del Solar de los Aburridos’ (1981)

Colón and Blades ended their partnership as Blades entered into disputes with Fania over royalties, and this album was put together to satisfy the Panamanian singer’s remaining obligations to the label. Far from a throwaway compilation, it’s packed with some of their best work, like “Tiburón,” a protest against United States intervention in Central America, “Te Están Buscando,” a sarcastic barrio revenge story, and “Ligia Elena,” about anti-Black racism in a middle-class Latin American family.

‘Oh Qué Será?’ (1981)

After the breakup with Blades, Colón set out to prove he could record albums as a lead singer, engaging in direct competition with his former collaborator. Holding his own despite some criticism, Colón scored a hit with this cover of a Chico Buarque proto bossa nova song, featured on the album “Fantasmas,” layering it with a phalanx of heavy strings and a dreamy version of salsa beats.

‘El Gran Varón’ (1989)

Written by Panamanian composer Omar Alfanno, “El Gran Varón” represented a bold move by Colón to shed a light on the LGBTQ+ community during a period of intolerance because of the AIDS epidemic. It’s a straightforward narrative about a trans person whose father visits in the hospital and struggles to recognize them. The character’s tragic death, which is not explicitly attributed to AIDS, generated compassion in a salsa world thoroughly dominated by ultra-masculinity.

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Wall Street ends sharply lower amid AI displacement fears and revived tariff angst

Wall Street stocks ⁠tumbled ⁠on Monday, as ongoing fears of artificial intelligence-related ⁠disruption and the fallout from Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling sent investors fleeing from high risk equities

A broad selloff sent all three major U.S. stock indexes more than 1% lower by the closing bell, as risk appetite was dampened by a combination of persistent fears over potential disruption due to emergent artificial intelligence technology and Trump’s erratic statements on trade policy, which fueled much of the market volatility during the first year ⁠of the president’s ⁠second term.

Financial stocks and software-related firms underperformed the broader market.

“The question about AI is twofold: How much is it going to cost, and who all is going to be disrupted?” said Tom Hainlin, national investment strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management in Minneapolis. “You’ve seen the market react to headlines, it’s ‘sell first, assess later.’”

He added: “It’s a perspective of what may happen as opposed to what has happened.”

On Friday, the top court in the nation issued a 6-3 ruling that Trump overstepped his presidential authority by enacting reciprocal tariffs under an ⁠economic ⁠emergency law, a ruling that provoked ⁠condemnation from the president, who threatened a 15% temporary tariff on all imports, despite having reached trade agreements with many U.S. trading partners.

Gold prices advanced, benefiting from a flight to safety.

“The Supreme ⁠Court decision wasn’t unexpected,” Hainlin added. “But you put these uncertainties on top of each other, the heightened geopolitical situation in the Middle East, tariff uncertainty, and potential AI displacement and that’s leading investors to a broad risk reassessment.”

A powerful winter storm buried much of the U.S. under more than 15 inches of snow and paralyzed travel in the Northeast. At airports in the New York City area, 89% to 98% of flights were canceled, ⁠according to Flightaware. com. Airlines and travel/leisure-related stocks tumbled. Dow Transports also lagged.

With only 77 of the companies in the ⁠S&P 500 yet to post results, fourth-quarter earnings season has neared the finish line, a smattering of high-profile companies are expected to report this week, most notably vanguard artificial

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According to preliminary data, the S&P 500 lost 70.31 points, or 1.02%, to end at 6,839.20 points, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 251.46 points, or 1.10%, to 22,634.61. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 810.81 points, or 1.65%, to ⁠48,815.16.

Among the 11 major sectors of the S&P 500, financials were down the most, while consumer staples enjoyed the largest percentage gain.

Mexico on edge after military operation killed cartel boss

By JACK NICAS and JAMES WAGNER

Authorities in Mexico said Monday they were restoring order to a country on edge after an outbreak of violence left highways blocked, buildings burned and at least 62 people dead.

The nation’s most powerful criminal organization, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, unleashed the chaos across the nation Sunday after a Mexican military raid killed the group’s leader and the nation’s most wanted cartel boss.

Mexico’s defense secretary, Gen. Ricardo Trevilla, said Monday that the authorities had located the cartel boss, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” by tracking one of his romantic partners. After Oseguera Cervantes met with the partner Friday, authorities immediately began planning an operation that they carried out Sunday morning.

That handed President Claudia Sheinbaum — under intense pressure from President Donald Trump to combat the cartels — a momentous decision.

Should she attempt to take out Oseguera Cervantes and potentially open a new chapter of violence across Mexico less than four months before it is to co-host soccer’s World Cup? Or should she leave Oseguera Cervantes free in a bid to maintain the status quo?

Sheinbaum chose to go after Oseguera Cervantes.

The Mexican security force operation that led to his death set off a wave of violence that was even wider than expected. In at least a dozen states, Oseguera Cervantes’ followers wreaked havoc, attacking security forces, blocking highways and setting fire to supermarkets, banks and vehicles.

Airlines and bus companies canceled routes, trapping travelers, including thousands of tourists in beach destinations such as Puerto Vallarta. They were told to shelter in place as they watched plumes of smoke rise from the burning city.

On Monday, Sheinbaum said Mexican authorities were operating from a command center to oversee the response. It appeared that authorities had mostly restored order in cities across

Police officers passing through a Mexican military checkpoint in Naranjo De Chila, Mexico, the hometown of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, on Feb. 24, 2022. Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, also known as “El Mencho,” was the head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and widely regarded as one of the country’s most violent criminal figures. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)

the country, though the atmosphere remained tense. Classes and businesses remained closed in some of the areas hit hardest, and many residents stayed home.

Mexican officials said they had arrested 70 people and killed 34 people suspected of being cartel members in the chaos Sunday, while 25 members of the national guard had been killed. The dead also included a state prosecutor, a security guard and a civilian, officials said. Local news outlets reported the civilian was a pregnant woman who had been caught in a shootout.

In a news conference Monday, Trevilla said the operation against Oseguera Cervantes had taken place in a forested town of about 20,000 called Tapalpa, which is popular with travelers.

Mexican ground forces moved in on Oseguera Cervantes’

bunker early Sunday, backed by six helicopters, and immediately took on fire from cartel members, Trevilla said. Oseguera Cervantes and his inner circle fled into a wooded area, and Mexican special forces pursued them, he said.

“They found him hiding in the brush,” Trevilla said.

Oseguera Cervantes’ team opened fire on the government forces and hit a helicopter, he said, forcing it to land at a nearby military installation. Eventually, the Mexican forces wounded Oseguera Cervantes and two of his bodyguards, he said, and then loaded them onto a helicopter for medical transport, where all three died. Their bodies were later flown to Mexico City.

Here’s what else to know:

— Who is El Mencho? Oseguera Cervantes formed the Jalisco cartel just over 15 years ago after he broke away from the rival Sinaloa cartel. The cartel’s activities include drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping and migrant smuggling, and Oseguera Cervantes had a reputation for attacking security forces and terrorizing communities. The U.S. State Department offered a $15 million reward for information leading to his arrest.

— City on edge: The coastal city of Puerto Vallarta, a popular tourist destination, remained shrouded in smoke after a day of violence that saw Mexicans and visitors alike huddle inside for safety. Officials from at least three cruise ships said the vessels would not make port in the resort city as planned Monday.

— Cartel blow: Killing Oseguera Cervantes is a major victory for Mexican authorities, who recently began a new offensive against drug cartels. It could also help counteract pressure from Trump, who has threatened military strikes against Mexico if it did not do more to fight cartels.

— What’s next? The death of Oseguera Cervantes dealt a major blow to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, but few believe it spells the end of the powerful group. The cartel’s survival depends on how quickly it can appoint a successor and close ranks, or if it fragments as internal factions fight for power.

UK police arrest ex-ambassador to US over Epstein accusations

By STEPHEN CASTLE and LIZZIE DEARDEN

British police on Monday arrested Peter Mandelson, the former British ambassador to the United States, amid allegations that he passed confidential government information to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

In a statement, London’s Metropolitan Police, who began an investigation into Mandelson this month, said, “Officers have arrested a 72-year-old man on suspicion of misconduct in public office.”

The statement did not name Mandelson, in line with British police rules that ban identifying suspects before any charges are

brought. But police confirmed that he was a “former government minister” linked to properties that have been searched in Wiltshire and Camden, north London.

The former minister was arrested and taken to a police station in London to be formally interviewed, police said.

In September, Mandelson, 72, was fired from his ambassadorial job in Washington when the depth of his friendship with Epstein became clear. Mandelson resigned

from the Labour Party on the same day that it was revealed that police were investigating him over accusations that he might have shared sensitive government information. He

has not publicly commented since then but previously said that the documents released by the Department of Justice did not “indicate wrongdoing or misdemeanor on my part.”

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Trump considers targeted strike against Iran, followed by larger attack

By JULIAN E. BARNES, DAVID E. SANGER, TYLER PAGER and ERIC SCHMITT

President Donald Trump has told advisers that if diplomacy or any initial targeted U.S. attack does not lead Iran to give in to his demands that it give up its nuclear program, he will consider a much bigger attack in coming months intended to drive that country’s leaders from power, people briefed on internal administration deliberations said.

Negotiators from the United States and Iran are scheduled to meet in Geneva on Thursday for what appears to be last-ditch negotiations to avoid a military conflict. But Trump has been weighing options for U.S. action if the negotiations fail.

Although no final decisions have been made, advisers said, Trump has been leaning toward conducting an initial strike in coming days intended to demonstrate to Iran’s leaders that they must be willing to agree to give up the ability to make a nuclear weapon.

Targets under consideration range from the headquarters of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to the country’s nuclear sites to the ballistic missile program.

Should those steps fail to convince Iran to meet his demands, Trump told advisers, he would leave open the possibility of a military assault later this year intended to help topple Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader.

There are doubts even inside the administration about whether that goal can be accomplished with airstrikes alone. And behind the scenes, a new proposal is being considered by both sides that could create an off-ramp to military conflict: a very limited nuclear enrichment program that Iran could carry out solely for purposes of medical research and treatments.

It is unclear whether either side would agree. But the last-minute proposal comes as two aircraft carrier groups and dozens of fighter jets, bombers and refueling aircraft are now massing within striking distance of Iran.

Trump discussed plans for strikes on Iran in the White House Situation Room on Wednes-

day. The meeting included Vice President JD Vance; Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Gen. Dan Caine, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; the CIA director, John Ratcliffe; and Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff.

This article is based on conversations with multiple U.S. officials with knowledge of the meeting — including officials with different views of the best course of action. None of them would allow their names to be used, citing the sensitivity of the discussions involving military operations and intelligence assessments.

During the meeting, Trump pressed Caine and Ratcliffe to weigh in on the broader strategy in Iran, but neither official generally advocates a certain policy position. Caine discussed what the military could do from an operational standpoint, and Ratcliffe preferred to discuss the current situation on the ground and possible outcomes of proposed operations.

During the discussions of the operation last month to seize President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, Caine told Trump there was a high likelihood of success. But Caine has not been able to deliver the same reassurances to Trump during the Iran discussions, in large measure because it is a far more difficult target.

Vance, who has long called for more restraint in overseas military action, did not oppose a strike, but he intensely questioned Caine and Ratcliffe in the meeting. He pressed them to share their opinions of the options and wanted more of a discussion of the risks and complexity of carrying out a strike against Iran.

Earlier, the United States had been considering options that included putting teams of special operations forces on the ground that could carry out raids to destroy Iranian nuclear or missile facilities. That included manufacturing and enrichment operations buried far below the surface, outside the range of American conventional munitions.

But any such raid would be highly dangerous, requiring special operations forces to be on the ground far longer than they were for the raid to capture Maduro. Multiple U.S. officials said that for now, the plans for a commando raid had been shelved.

Army, Navy and Air Force officials have also raised concerns about the impact that a protracted war with Iran, or just remaining poised for such a conflict, could have on the

readiness of Navy ships, scarce Patriot antimissile defenses, and overstretched transport and surveillance planes.

The White House declined to comment on Trump’s decision making.

“The media may continue to speculate on the President’s thinking all they want, but only President Trump knows what he may or may not do,” Anna Kelly, a White House spokesperson, said in a statement.

Even before the Iranians submit what appears likely to be their last proposal — officials said they expected it to be transmitted to the Trump administration Monday or Tuesday — the two sides appeared to be hardening their positions. Steve Witkoff, the president’s special envoy, said on Fox News that Trump’s “clear direction” to him and Jared Kushner, his conegotiator and the president’s son-in-law, was that the only acceptable outcome for an agreement was that Iran would move to “zero enrichment” of nuclear material.

But Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, insisted anew in an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday that the country was not ready to give up what he said was its “right” to make nuclear fuel under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. With that statement, the decision about whether the United States was about to attack targets in Iran — with the apparent goal of further weakening the government of Khamenei — seemed to come down to whether both sides could agree to a facesaving compromise about nuclear production that Washington and Iran could each describe as a total victory.

One such proposal is being debated by both the Trump administration and the Iranian leadership. According to several officials, it emanated from Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, a United Nations organization that inspects Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Under the proposal, Iran would be permitted to produce very small amounts of nuclear fuel for medical purposes. Iran has been producing medical isotopes for years at the Tehran Research Reactor, a nearly 60-year-old facility outside the country’s capital that was, in one of the strange twists of modern nuclear history, first supplied to the pro-American shah of Iran by the United States under the “Atoms for Peace” program.

If adapted, Iran could claim that it was still enriching uranium. Trump could make the case that Iran is shuttering all the facilities that would enable it to build a weapon — most of which were left open, operating at low levels, under the 2015 agreement between Iran and the Obama administration. Trump exited that agreement in 2018, leading the Iranians to

President Donald Trump disembarks Air Force One in Richard B. Russell Regional Airport in Rome, Ga., on Feb. 19, 2026. The top negotiators plan to meet in Geneva on Thursday for last-ditch talks, debating a new proposal that could create an off-ramp as two carrier groups massed within striking distance of Iran (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times)

eventually bar inspectors and produce nearbomb-grade uranium and setting the stage for the current crisis.

But it is far from clear whether the Iranians are willing to shrink what is now a vast, industrial-production nuclear program, on which they have spent billions of dollars, to a tiny effort of such limited scope.

And it is also unclear whether Trump would allow nuclear production limited to cancer treatment studies and other medical purposes, given his public “zero enrichment” declarations.

Administration officials have been unclear what their objectives are as they confront Iran, a country of more than 90 million people. While Trump often talks about preventing Iran from ever being able to produce a weapon, Rubio and other aides have described a range of other rationales for military action: protecting the protesters whom Iranian forces killed by the thousands last month, wiping out the arsenal of missiles that Iran can use to strike Israel, and ending Tehran’s support for Hamas and Hezbollah.

But U.S. military action could also result in a nationalistic response, even among Iranians eager to see the end of Khamenei’s brutal hold on power.

aEuropean officials attending the Munich Security Conference this month said they doubted that the military pressure would force the Iranian leadership to give up a program that has become a symbol of resistance to the United States.

‘Murky waters’ for global businesses after Trump’s tariff loss

By PATRICIA COHEN

The watershed U.S. Supreme Court ruling Friday that struck down President Donald Trump’s go-to method of imposing tariffs upended a cornerstone of the administration’s trade policy, heaping additional uncertainty on trading partners and businesses across the globe.

Just how this latest jolt will affect international commerce and filter down to prices, jobs and growth in countries around the world remains a big question mark. So far, the global economy has proved resilient amid the political and economic turmoil wrought by Trump’s unpredictable trade moves since he took office last year.

At the moment, most economists are betting that, whatever the legal consequences, U.S. economic policy will not shift meaningfully. Foreign leaders and business executives are, for the most part, operating under the assumption that as long as Trump is in office, tariffs are here to stay in one form or another.

On Friday, in a news conference after the Supreme Court ruling, Trump said he would invoke a portion of law known as Section 122, which no president has ever used, to impose an across-the-board 10% tariff starting in a matter of days. Then on Saturday, Trump, in a post on Truth Social, said that he would raise his new, global tariff to 15%.

“The Supreme Court ruled on constitutional limits, not trade policy,” Carsten Brzeski, the global head of macro for ING Research, wrote in a note. “Trump’s tariff agenda survives with new legal foundations and a messy transition period.”

Brzeski and several other analysts said they did not expect to immediately alter their forecasts for global growth and trade because of the Supreme Court’s decision.

Trump may not be able to impose tariffs as rapidly or broadly as he has to date, using a 1977 law that gives the president emergency powers. There are other provisions he can use to issue more targeted tariffs, either on his own or in concert with the Republican-controlled Congress.

Foreign governments, so far, have been circumspect in their public comments, saying they were reviewing the decision and its potential impact.

But as tempting as it might be for U.S. trading partners to contemplate reopening tariff negotiations, policy analysts said most were unlikely to take that route. For starters, the chances of wrangling a better deal are slight, and merely asking to renegotiate might irk a president who has already admitted that his policy decisions are sometimes made out of pique.

Trump, for example, admitted that he raised tariffs on Switzerland to 39%, from 31%, because the Swiss president “rubbed me the wrong way.”

Additionally, as unsettling and unwelcome as U.S. tariffs have been, the current rates at least have the virtue of eliminating some of the uncertainty

that enveloped businesses and governments last year, when Trump’s tariff policies sometimes changed between breakfast and dinner.

Nonetheless, uncertainty is likely to continue. As William Bain, head of trade policy at the British Chambers of Commerce, said, the ruling “does little to clear the murky waters for business.”

Other geopolitical concerns have sometimes overshadowed tariffs in relations with the United States. In Europe, national security, the Atlantic alliance and defense cooperation are all pressing priorities given the war in Ukraine, Russia’s aggressive stance toward Europe and Trump’s attempts to acquire Greenland.

Japan and South Korea, which are also dependent on U.S. security guarantees, are interested in preserving their relationship with Washington at a time of rising tensions with China.

With the fate of many trade agreements already agreed upon now up in the air, the court’s ruling will also be a factor in upcoming trade negotiations. The United States-MexicoCanada Agreement, which Trump signed into law during his first term, comes up for review this summer.

Analysts and traders are also considering the impact of the ruling on the large debt that the United States has racked up. Tariffs have generated more than $200 billion in revenue since April.

Raphael Bostic, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said Friday that the economic impact of the ruling would depend on whether companies would receive any tariff refunds. He also said it would depend on how companies changed their operations in light of the decision.

“Is there a requirement to pay back the firms that have paid in the tariffs? If so, that’s a lot of disruption,” Bostic said. Many firms in the United States and elsewhere have already pushed for refunds. The research firm Capital Economics estimated that if the U.S. Treasury was forced to issue repayments, the cost would run to $120 billion, or 0.5% of gross domestic product in the United States.

Juan Pellerano-Rendón, a logistics expert and chief marketing officer at Swap, a software company, said businesses should not expect a windfall. Refunds, if they happen, could take months or years.

“No serious operator is building their year around a potential tariff refund,” Pellerano-Rendón said. Most companies have already taken higher shipping, compliance and supply chain operations costs into account. “There isn’t a hidden 30% margin waiting to be unlocked if tariffs disappear tomorrow,” he said.

Matthew Ryan, head of market strategy at the global financial services firm Ebury, noted that there was a sell-off of the dollar immediately after the Supreme Court’s ruling.

“The move probably reflects heightened fiscal concerns,” he said, “as markets fret that the massive tariff refunds could create a significant U.S. budget shortfall, a higher deficit and an increase in debt issuance.”

The Treasury bond market, though, where the U.S. federal government’s debt is bought and sold by investors, reacted to the news with relative calm. Yields on government debt, a measure of borrowing costs, have barely budged. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in a dissent, warned that the refund process would be a “mess.”

Trump’s wide-ranging tariffs have already begun to reconfigure trade patterns. Agathe Demarais, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, noted that American allies and adversaries had been shifting away from the United States.

“China recorded a $1.2 trillion global trade surplus in 2025, the highest ever on record by any country — highlighting how Chinese firms successfully rerouted exports to other markets,” she said.

Over the past year, countries around the world have stepped up efforts to sign trade agreements that do not include the United States, such as the European Union’s recent deals with four South American nations and with India.

For all of the drama surrounding Trump’s tariffs, global trade still grew 4% overall last year. And the U.S. trade deficit in goods last year reached a record high.

“The point is trade has not collapsed,” said Neil Shearing, group chief economist at Capital Economics.

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“The global economy has proved relatively resilient to tariff uncertainty and rising trade barriers,” said Eswar Prasad, a professor of trade policy and economics at Cornell University, “so the effects on global growth are in any event likely to be quite muted.”

Baboon sibling rivalry suggests monkeys feel jealousy like people

By ANNIE ROTH

Ever been jealous of your brother or sister for getting too much attention from your mom or dad? Scientists believe you’re not the only creature in the animal kingdom to feel that way.

A team of scientists spent the majority of 2021 in Tsaobis Nature Park in Namibia, following chacma baboon families on foot from dusk till dawn. Every day, they would see adolescent baboons trying to steal their mother’s attention while a sibling, often a younger one, was being groomed.

Some would throw tantrums; some would try to wedge their way in between mother and sibling; and some particularly clever baboons would employ trickery. On one occasion, Axelle Delaunay, a behavioral ecologist now at the University of Turku in Finland, described seeing a young female baboon who lured her sister away from her mother with the promise of play, then took her spot in her mother’s arms.

“She played with her for about 10 seconds, just long enough to drive her away from mom,” said Delaunay, who completed the research at the University of Montpellier in France along with colleagues from Namibian and British institutions. “It felt really strategic.”

In a study published last Wednesday in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, scientists hypothesize about the motivation for this arguably annoying behavior.

ers observed siblings competing for maternal attention hundreds of times. Much of the behavior occurred in the context of grooming, which involves the removal of bugs and dirt from another individual’s fur. It strengthens social bonds, much like hugs do for humans.

In a very human twist, the young baboons bothered their mothers far more often when she was grooming a sibling than when she was free. What’s more, the baboons were twice as likely to interfere when the sibling getting the grooming was younger. They also disrupted grooming more when a sibling of the same sex was the one getting groomed.

The researchers also found that the older a baboon grows, the less likely it is to interrupt a sibling’s alone time with its mother.

As those with siblings or children of their own may guess, their answer is jealousy. Whether primates can experience complex emotions such as jealousy has long been debated, but scientists say this new study offers some of the strongest evidence yet.

“It’s totally relatable,” said Joan Silk, a primatologist at Arizona State University who was not involved with the study.

“I have two sisters and two children, so I can relate, but the fact that it’s relatable

doesn’t always mean it’s true.”

In this case, Silk said, the evidence speaks for itself.

“This group of researchers has really pushed the envelope about what we know about relationships between individuals,” she said.

The study also prompts new questions about the evolutionary value of envy.

Chacma baboons, also known as Cape baboons, are a highly social species of monkey found in southern Africa. Roughly the size of a Doberman pinscher, these monkeys live in close-knit multifamily groups, which males leave upon reaching sexual maturity.

Females stay in these groups for life, giving birth to one baby every 1.5 to 2 years. With so many simian siblings growing up side by side, sibling rivalries spring up frequently. But whether these rivalries resemble those in humans has long been a mystery.

Jealousy has been well studied among humans, but only a handful of studies have been done to determine whether primates feel jealousy, all conducted on a small number of captive animals.

During their field work, the research-

Delaunay and her colleagues proposed several theories as to what might be driving this behavior, including a desire for sibling interaction, but after crunching the numbers, the only theory that made sense was jealousy.

The discovery of demonstrable jealousy among Chacma baboons provides some of the strongest evidence yet that primates can feel complex emotions. It also leads to questions about why nonhuman primates might feel these emotions.

While the researchers observed baboons exhibiting jealousy hundreds of times, such behavior was rewarded on only a handful of occasions. Less than 10% of interruptions resulted in an interrupter receiving grooming. The vast majority of the time the interrupter was ignored, and the grooming of the sibling continued.

“Most of the time, interference doesn’t really work,” Delaunay said. “So what are the benefits?” She and her colleagues hope future research will answer this question. They also hope more scientists will take the time to study the diverse array of emotions primates possess.

“While we can’t ask them how they feel, we know that emotions provoke physiological changes, behavioral changes, some cognitive changes — and this you can measure,” she said.

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RODRÍGUEZ; EDNA MARTÍNEZ LATORRE

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Civil Núm.: AI2026CV00022. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: PERSONAS IGNORADAS, SUCN. DE TEÓFILO MATEO HERNÁNDEZ, SUCN. DE CÉSAR MATEO

RODRÍGUEZ, AMELIO COLÓN Y/O SU SUCESIÓN, JUANA FORTIS O SU SUCESIÓN Y ALICIA MATEO

RODRÍGUEZ, 57 BATES

ST. 301, FALL RIVER, MA 02724.

Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se ha presentado ante este Tribunal el expediente arriba mencionado, con el fin de justificar e inscribir a favor de los Promoventes, el dominio que tiene sobre la siguiente finca: “RÚSTICA”: Predio de terreno identificado como parcela uno (1) en el plano de inscripción, y radicado en el barrio Botijas del término municipal de Orocovis, Puerto Rico, compuesto de QUINIENTOS METROS CUADRADOS

que tengan algún derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito, las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción, Sucn. de Teófilo Mateo Hernández, Sucn. de César Mateo Rodríguez, Amelio Colón y/o su sucesión, Juana Fortis y/o su sucesión y Alicia Mateo Rodríguez, 57 Bates St. 301, Fall River, MA 02724, y en general, a todos los que desearen oponerse, entre ellos los colindantes, puedan efectuarlo dentro del término de veinte días a partir de la última publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: Https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su posición en la secretaría del tribunal. Por tanto, libro la presente en Aibonito, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de enero de 2026. MAYRA L. CABRERA GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. MARITZA APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.

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propiedad: RÚSTICA: Solar identificado con el número uno (1) en el plano de inscripción, radicado en el Barrio Marías II del Municipio de Moca, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de ochocientos ochenta y cuatro punto seis mil ochocientos sesenta y cinco metros cuadrados (884.6884 m/c), equivalentes a cero punto dos mil doscientos cincuenta y una cuerda (0.2251 cda). En lindes por el NORTE: con Pedro Soto en el plano de inscripción; por el SUR: con faja de terreno a segregarse y dedicarse a uso público en el plano de inscripción; por el ESTE: con remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; y por el OESTE: con Héctor Loperena en el plano de inscripción. Así surgen los metros cuadrados en palabras y números de la inscripción primera del historial. Inscrita al folio 190 del tomo 330 de Moca, Finca 17339, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 132 del tomo 420 de Moca, Finca 17339, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián. Inscripción sexta. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: RD. 110, KM 7.8 INT, LOT 1, BO. MARÍAS II, MOCA, PR 00676. catastro número: (27) 097-040423-05-000. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $159,951.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 12 DE MARZO DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $106,634.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 19 DE MARZO DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $79,975.50. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $126,315.62 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 3.50% anual desde el 1ro de octubre de 2024 hasta su completo pago, más $166.60 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $15,995.10 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier The San Juan Daily Star Tuesday, February 24, 2026 15

(500.0000 M.C.), equivalente a CERO PUNTO CIENTO VEINTISIETE CUERDA (0.127 CDA.); en lindes por el NORTE, con remanente de la finca principal; por el SUR, con remanente y con parcela dedicada a uso público que la separa de carretera asfaltada; por el ESTE, parcela dedicada a uso público que lo separa de carretera asfaltada y por el OESTE, con remanente de la finca principal. Alega la parte Peticionaria que adquirió la finca descrita mediante escritura número 129 del 14 de septiembre de 1999, otorgada en Orocovis, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Pedro L. Rubero Rivera. Es abogado de la parte Peticionaria: LIC. JORGE M. DIAZ RODRIGUEZ, PO BOX 852, NARANJITO, P.R. 00719-0852, TELEFONO: (787) 869-4042, jorgemdiazrodriguez@gmail.com. Este Tribunal ordenó que se publique la pretensión por tres veces durante el término de veinte días en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que los

Peticionarios EX PARTE Civil Núm.: AG2026CV00046. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. CITACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUEDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE. POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días

contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribual. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. RÚSTICA: Radicado en el Barrio Camaseyes, de Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, compuesto de SEISCIENTOS SETENTA Y TRES METROS CUADRADOS (673 M/C.). En lindes al NORTE con Camino Municipal; por el SUR con William Cortés Rodríguez; por el ESTE con la Carretera Borinquén-Maleza (PR-467); y por el OESTE con Premium Bakery LLC. Enclava una (1) estructura dedicada a vivienda. No consta inscrito en el Registro de la Propiedad. Libre de cargas o gravámenes. Número de Catastro: 005-076012-13-001. El abogado del Peticionario es el Lcdo. Juan José Nolla Acosta, PO Box 7412, Ponce PR 00732-7412. Tel. (787) 645-8805. También, se le informa que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para 11 de septiembre de 2026, a las 4:15 de la tarde, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificaré en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se apercibe que de no comparecer los intereses y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. Por orden de este Tribunal,

expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello oficial. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico hoy 29 de enero de 2026. SARAHI REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ARLENE GUZMÁN PABÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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EDWIN QUIÑONES GARCÍA, HILDA VELÁZQUEZ

MALDONADO

Peticionarios

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Caso Número: PE2025CV00100. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que los peticionarios de epígrafe han presentado una Petición para que se declare a su favor el dominio de la siguiente finca: RURAL: Solar con cabida de Cinco Mil Doscientos Treinta y Dos puntos Siete Cinco Cuatro Ocho metros cuadrados (5,232.7548 m/c), equivalentes a Una Cuerda punto tres mil catorce (1.3314 cdas) en el Bo Macana, Sector Mal Paso, del término municipal de Peñuelas, Puerto Rico. Linderos: Norte, con la Sucesión Eladio Quiñones Cedeño, por el Sur, terrenos propiedad de José Enrique Velázquez, por el Este, con Carretera Municipal, y por el Oeste, con terrenos de la Suen. Eladio Quiñones Cedeño. Enclava dos estructuras de cemento y bloques de tres habitaciones, sala, cocina, un baño y balcón. Este Tribunal ordenó que publique la pretensión de tres (3) veces durante el término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria para los que tenga algún derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito, las personas ignorada quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción y en general a toda persona que desee oponerse dentro del término de veinte (20) días de la última publicación del presente edicto debe notificar con copia de sus alegaciones a la representación legal del promovente, Lcdo. Luis M. Barnecet Vélez, Urb. Paraíso de Coamo, 608 Calle Paz, Coamo, PR 00769, Tel. 787-603-2396 email: barnecet@hotmail.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, hoy día 18 de noviembre de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ,

SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL LUIS FIGUEROA ORTIZ T/C/C ÁNGEL

L. FIGUEROA ORTIZ COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, VICTORIA SOLÍS ESPINOZA T/C/C VICTORIA SOLÍS ESPINOSA T/C/C VICTORIA DEL SOCORRO SOLÍS ESPINOSA POR SÍ Y COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL LUIS FIGUEROA ORTIZ T/C/C ÁNGEL

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MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AG2025CV00692. (603). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 28 de octubre de 2025, la cual fuera notificada el 29 de octubre de 2025; la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 29 de diciembre de 2025 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 30 de diciembre de 2025 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 5 DE MARZO DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina del Alguacil Regional del Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, área del sótano, al final del pasillo, Calle Progreso Número 70, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente

otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar. a. AVISO DE DEMANDA: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. La sucesión de Ángel Luis Figueroa Ortiz también conocido como Ángel L. Figueroa Ortiz compuesta por Fulano y Mengano de Tal, Victoria Solis Espinoza, también conocida como Victoria Solis Espinosa y como Victoria del Socorro Espinosa, Departamento de Hacienda, por conducto de la división de Caudales Relictos y Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Aguadilla, en el caso civil número AG2025CV00692, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $126,315.62 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 21 de abril de 2025. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Moca. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se le advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública

Subasta en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy 2 de febrero de 2026. ANTONIA RIVERA ACEVEDO, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL #763, ALGUACIL REGIONAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA.

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

FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C FANNIE MAE Demandante Vs. VÍCTOR MANUEL SALDAÑA VEGA, SU ESPOSA MYRIAM MALDONADO RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2025CV00900. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 12 de septiembre de 2025, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 27 de enero de 2026 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar E-12 de la Urbanización Portobello en el Barrio Bucarabones del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización, con una cabida 450.00 metros cuadrados, de terreno llano. En lindes por el NORTE, en 20.00 metros, a lo largo con la Calle número Dos; por el SUR, en 20.00 metros, a lo largo con el lote marcado con la letra D-3; por el ESTE, en 22.50 metros, a lo largo con el lote marcado con la letra E-11; y por el OESTE, en 22.50 metros, a lo largo con el lote marcado con la letra E-13. Enclava en dicho solar una casa de vivienda para una sola familia construida en bloques y hormigón reforzado. Finca Número 24,280 inscrita al folio 190 del tomo 485 de Toa

presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Abogada de la parte demandante:

Lcda. Marisel Barreto Viera RUA: 19000

Dirección: Urb. Crown Hills, 138 Ave. Winston Churchill, PMB 224 San Juan PR 00926-6013

Tel: 787-945-5193 / 787-946-7235

Correo Electrónico: mariselbarreto@ gmail.com

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMAy el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de febrero de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA

REGIONAL. ISABEL C. SOUCHET BURGOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO

PROFESSIONAL

CLOSING AGENCY

Demandante V. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE

CORPORATION (FDIC) COMO SINDICO DE DORAL BANK Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: GB2025CV00727. (Salón: 202). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

RAMON J. ABARCA SCHWARTZAPURCELL@AAPRLAW.COM.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO.

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

sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 09 de febrero de 2026. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 09 de febrero de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE JESUS ROMAN RIVERA

Demandante V. FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AR2025CV01849. (Salón: 404 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

ANTONIO A. HERNÁNDEZ

ALMODÓVAR - AHERNANDEZ@ RMMELAW.COM.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de enero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de febrero de 2026. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 17 de febrero de 2026. Vivian Y. Fresse González, Secretaria. Pilar H. Mercado González, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE COMERÍO SALA SUPERIOR YARITZA

COSME CEPEDA

Parte Demandante Vs.

ANGEL MANUEL

VILLEGAS BURGOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AI2026RF00043. Sobre: PRIVACIÓN DE PATRIA

POTESTAD. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: SR. ANGEL MANUEL

VILLEGAS BURGOS1611 HOLLIES DR. 32822

ORLANDO, FLORIDA U.S.

Se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la Demanda que exhibe el epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a la Lcda. Isamillie Meléndez Caraballo, Servicios Legales de P.R., Inc., PO Box 2036, Aibonito, Puerto Rico 00705-2036, representante legal de la parte demandante, copia de su contestación a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC) (según enmendada), SUMAC, al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si dejare de contestar la Demanda radicando el original de la contestación a través de SUMAC y copia a la parte demandante, podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Aibonito, Puerto Rico, a 17 de febrero de 2026. MAYRA LIZ CABRERA GARCÍA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NATALIA BURGOS MALDONADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Plaintiff V. JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE as unknown heirs of the Estate of DELIA JULIA CORDERO ROMAN a/k/a DELIA JULIA CORDERO a/k/a DELIA CORDERO ROMAN

Defendants

CIVIL NO. 3:25-CV-01634 MAJ. Re: Foreclosure of Mortgage. SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION.

TO: JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE as unknown heirs of the Estate of DELIA JULIA

CORDERO ROMAN a/k/a

DELIA JULIA CORDERO a/k/a DELIA CORDERO ROMAN

- Cond. Ponce de Leon Gardens I, Apto. 706, Guaynabo PR 00969

Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publication entered on 02/17/2026 by the United States District Court, you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than thirty (30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff: Attorney Juan C. Fortufio Fas, at PO Box 3908, Guaynabo, PR 00970, telephone number 787-751-5290, email address: dcfilings@fortuno-law. com. This Summons shall be published by edict only once in a newspaper of general circulation in the island of Puerto Rico. Within ten (10) days following publication of this Summons, a copy of this Summons and the Complaint will be sent to defendant party JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE as unknown heirs of the Estate of DELIA JULIA CORDERO ROMAN a/k/a DELIA JULIA CORDERO a/k/a DELIA CORDERO ROMAN, by certified mail/return receipt requested, addressed to their last known address. Should you fail to appear, plead or answer to the Complaint as ordered by the Cami and noticed by this Summons, the Court will enter default against you, as such, proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause against you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint. BY ORDER OF THE COURT, summons is issued pursuant to Fe. R. Civil P. 4(e) and Rule 4.6 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 17th day of February, 2026. ADA I. GARCIA-RIVERA, ESQ., CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT. By: Ana Duran, Deputy Clerk.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

JOSÉ UBALDO ECHEVARRÍA

RODRÍGUEZ Y LUIS

ÁNGEL ECHEVARRÍA

RODRÍGUEZ COMO

MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ

FERMÍN ECHEVARRÍA ORTIZ

Demandantes Vs. JUAN TORRES TORRES, JOSÉ GUILLERMO

PICKARD ECHEVARRÍA

Y CARMEN LEILA REYES

T/C/C CARMEN LEILA

REYES RODRÍGUEZ

COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE BELÉN ECHEVARRÍA VÁZQUEZ; Y COMO PARTE CON INTERÉS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ FERMÍN ECHEVARRÍA ORTIZ, LOURDES MARÍA ECHEVARRÍA RODRÍGUEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y OTROS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: PO2025CV02598. Sala: 601. Sobre: LIQUIDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD HEREDITARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOSÉ GUILLERMO PICKARD ECHEVARRÍA; CARMEN LEILA REYES

T/C/C CARMEN LEILA REYES RODRÍGUEZ. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la Demanda dentro de los 30 días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, presentando la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Lcdo. Juan Rodríguez Martínez RUA 18333 Urb. Quintas Reales H-11 Calle Rey Jorge V Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969 Tel: (787) 966-4994 lcdo.rodriguezmartinez@gmail.com Expedido bajo mi firma y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 16 de enero de 2026. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL. JOAN M. ROSARIO ALBINO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PR

Demandante V. CALIXTO LEBRON MONCLOVA (FALLECIDO) Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2025CV04342.

(Salón: 503). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. BALDOMERO A. COLLAZO TORRES - BCOLLAZO@LAWPR.COM. A: CARMEN MILAGROS VAZQUEZ FELIX; RAFAEL OCHOTECO VAZQUEZ Y SYLVIA MILAGROS LEBRON MONCLOVA COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE CALIXTO LEBRON MONCLOVA; FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE MARIA DE LOS ANGELES VAZQUEZ FELIX. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 19 de febrero de 2026. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA NOTIFICACIÓN A LOS FINES DE INCLUIR NOMBRES DE HEREDEROS DE LA SUCESIÓN. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 19 de febrero de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MIGDALIA CRUZ REYES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. z LEGAL NOTICE

Declaration of Jeffrey Noel House of Camacho for JEFFREY NOEL CAMACHO LEON

Common Law Copyright Notice: All rights reserved re; common-law copyright of trade name/trademark, JEFFREY NOEL CAMACHO LEON© Copyright Num. 00092837-1, as well as any and all derivatives and variations in the spelling of said trade-names/trademarksCopyright 1986, by Jeffrey Noel House of Camacho in North

America, Land of Puerto Rico [WITH TRUST]. I Jeffrey Noel House of Camacho, a living and autochthon original native man. Affiant (hereinafter Registered Owner), being duly sworn, declare and state that I am of the age of majority and fully competent to handle all of my legal, lawful and banking affairs, Trust Estate without the United States. This is the collateral by Trustee/Se-cured Party on behalf of the Trust/Estate; JNC REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST in the Commercial Chamber under the necessity to secure the rights, title (S), interest and value therefrom, in and of the Root of Title from inception, as well as property held in trust including but limiting to DNA, cDNA, cell lines, retnal scans, facial scans, fingerprints, all biometrics and biological data given with or without consent to public or private agencies, companies, governments, and all Debentures, Indentures, Accounts, and all the pledges represented by the same included but not limited to the pignus, hypotheca, hereditaments, res, the energy and all products derived therefrom nunc pro tunc, contracts, agreements, bonds, securities, notes, and signatures and/or endorsements, facsimiles, printed, typed or photocopied, of the owners name predicated on the 'Strawman', Ens Legis/Trust Estate described as the debtor and all property is accepted for value and is Exempt from levy. Lien placed on debtor entities is for all outstanding property still owed but not yet returned to trust from entities such as municipalities, governments, and the like, not on trust entity itself. Trustee is not surety to any account by elicit reservation/ indemnification. The following property is hereby registered and liened in the same: All certificates of Birth Document aka Bond Number or Security :(152-1966-00003-0000002332515-01616556) granted by Puerto Rico, recorded in Pierce County, Washington Recorders Office on Date, Time, Number (202501130125), SSN/ UCC Contract Trust AccountPrepaid Account Number XXXXX-1934; Exemption Identification Number XXXXX1934, is herein liened and claimed at a sum certain $100,000,000.00, in accord with both public policy and the national Uniform Commercial Code. All right, title, interest, proceeds, profits, or adverse claim against other claimants to the Custodial Funds held in the Primary Account of Custodian and identified by or under the CUSIP Identifier(s) XXXXX2366 and XXXXXP663 including the right to request transfer of minor securities to Trust pursuant to 31 CFR 363.27, Title 31 of the Puerto Rico Laws, Chapter 24, Sections 3951-3991. Trustee/Secured Party, Jeffrey Noel House of Camacho, is li-

ving flesh and blood sojourning upon the soil of the land known as Puerto Rico, and not within Fictional boundaries, territories nor jurisdiction of any fictional entity including fictional Federal geometric plane(s). Trespass by any agent(s) foreign or domestic, by such in any scheme or artifice to defraud. Full reverence by ALL AGENTS and CORPORATIONS is ambiguously demanded and required. Culpa est immiscere se rel ad se non pertienti.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

UNITED STATES

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT A/C/C LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES Demandante Vs. NELLIE DE LEÓN RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C NELIDA DE LEÓN Y LUIS OSVALDO PAGÁN SANTIAGO Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2025CV04192. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: NELLIE DE LEÓN RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C NELIDA DE LEÓN Y LUIS OSVALDO PAGÁN SANTIAGO; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO - 86 4 SR PR-1 66.1, PASTO VIEJO COMMUNITY, CAYEY PR 00736. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciatniento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar

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

BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P.

LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS

RUA NUM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970

TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155

E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 19 de febrero de 2026. Irasemis Día Sánchez, Secretaria. Marta E. Donate Resto, Sub-Secretaria. LEGAL NOTICE

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

PR CONSULTANTS LLC., SERIES 11

Demandante V. MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES BALZAC TORRES, COMO ADMINISTRADORA JUDICIAL DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL

BALZAC LIZARDI; SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL

ALBERTO BALZAC LIZARDI COMPUESTA POR SUS MIEMBROS NORKA BALZAC PADILLA, RAFAEL

BALZAC CARPENA, ALBERTO NICOLÁS

BALZAC COLOM, JOSÉ RAFAEL BALZAC

COLOM Y MARIA DE LOS ANGELES

BALZAC TORRES; MARIA EUGENIA

RODRIGUEZ ANDINO

COMO MIEMBRO EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; FULANA DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL; Y LA SUCESIÓN DE MARC

DOUGLAS BALZAC SAGAT COMPUESTA POR JANE DOE, JOHN ROE, SUTANO DE TAL, LOLA DEL PUEBLO Y JUAN DEL PUEBLO Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV09786. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO E INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: JOSÉ RAFAEL

BALZAC COLOM, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL ALBERTO

BALZAC LIZARDI; MARÍA EUGENIA

RODRÍGUEZ ANDINO, COMO MIEMBRO EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCN DE RAFAEL ALBERTO BALZAC

LIZARDI; FULANA DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL; Y LA SUCESIÓN DE MARC DOUGLAS

BALZAC SAGAT COMPUESTA POR

JANE DOE, JOHN ROE, SUTANO DE TAL, LOLA DEL PUEBLO Y JUAN DEL PUEBLO.

Quedan emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre cobro de dinero en la que se alega que la parte demandada, María De Los Ángeles Balzac Torres, como administradora judicial de la Sucesión de Rafael Balzac Lizardi; Sucesión de Rafael Alberto Balzac Lizardi compuesta por sus miembros Norka Balzac Padilla, Rafael Balzac Carpena, Alberto Nicolás Balzac Colom, José Rafael Balzac Colom y Maria De Los Angeles Balzac Torres; Maria Eugenia Rodriguez Andino como miembro en la cuota viudal usufructuaria; Fulana De Tal y Mengano De Tal; y la Sucesión de Marc Douglas Balzac Sagat compuesta por Jane Doe, John Roe, Sutano De Tal, Lola Del Pueblo y Juan Del Pueblo, le adeuda a la parte demandante PR CONSULTANTS LLC. SERIES 11, la suma de $13,239.60 correspondiente a la Suite 1202, por concepto de gastos comunes de mantenimiento adeudados al 31 de julio de 2025, más intereses, penalidades y recargos. Por otro lado, se notifica que en este Tribunal se ha solicitado

y aceptado una interpelación judicial a JOSÉ RAFAEL BALZAC COLOM, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL ALBERTO BALZAC LIZARDI; MARÍA EUGENIA RODRÍGUEZ ANDINO, COMO MIEMBRO EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL ALBERTO BALZAC LIZARDI; FULANA DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL; Y LA SUCESIÓN DE MARC DOUGLAS BALZAC SAGAT COMPUESTA POR JANE DOE, JOHN ROE, SUTANO DE TAL, LOLA DEL PUEBLO Y JUAN DEL PUEBLO, para que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación del presente edicto, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en las Sucesiones. Si los herederos no se expresaren dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de la herencia, ésta se tendrá por aceptada. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que, si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda y además, aceptar y repudiar la herencia esta se tendrá por aceptada, y que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle y se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante, y por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de las herencias conforme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2785. Los abogados de la parte demandante son el Lcdo Alejandro Bellver Espinosa y la Lcda. Alondra Class Hernández, cuya dirección física y postal es: Condominio San Martín, 1605 Avenida Ponce de León, Suite 300, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00909-1822; cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 946-5268 y sus correos electrónicos son alejandro@bellverlaw.com y alondra@bellverlaw. com. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de febrero de 2026. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Jessica Soto Pagán, Secretaria De Servicios A Sala.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. ANGÉLICA

ARENADO TABLADA

Demandada

Civil Núm.: BY2025CV05438. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GRAVAMEN MOBILIARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A:

ANGÉLICA

ARENADO TABLADA. Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe, donde se le reclama el pago de una deuda ascendente al 11 de agosto de 2025 a $28,146.81. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Jean Paul Juliá Díaz, Rivera-Munich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, PR 00936-4908; Tel. (787) 6222323 / Fax (787) 622-2320. Se le advierte que este Emplazamiento por Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior, Sala de Bayamón, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Emplazamiento por Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. En un término de diez (10) días a partir de la publicación de este Emplazamiento por Edicto, la parte demandante le notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias de la Demanda presentada y del Emplazamiento por Edicto a su última dirección conocida, a saber: Sunny Hills, A1 Calle Córcega, Bayamón, Puerto Rico 00956. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 12 de febrero de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. VIVIAN J. SANABRIA, SUBSECRETARIA.

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

ORIENTAL BANK

Parte Demandante V. JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GIDDEL JOSÉ GALLISA BENÍTEZ

Parte Demandada Caso Núm.: SJ2025CV11413. Acción Civil De: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GIDDEL JOSÉ GALLISA BENÍTEZ - 500 CALLE ARRIGOITIA, SAN JUAN PR 00918; PMB 1889 CALLE PARIS 243, SAN JUAN, PR 00917; HATO REY RIO PIEDRAS ARRIGOITIA 500, SAN JUAN, PR 00918; #500 R-1 ARRIGOITIA O ST. ELEONOR ROOSEVELT DEV. SAN JUAN, PR 00818; ELEANOR ROOSEVELT LA MERCED 500 1R ARRIGOITIA ST., SAN JUAN, PR 00918; URB. EXT. ROOSEVELT 500 CALLE ARRIGOITIA, SAN JUAN, PR 009182647.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la mismas al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se la apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2029, titulada Ley

para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menos fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcdo. Javier Montalvo Cintrón, RUA#17,682, Delgado Fernández, LLC, T Mobile Center at San Patricio, B7 Tabonuco St. Suite 1000, Guaynabo, PR 00968. Tel. [787] 274-1414, jmontalvo@delgadofernandez. com. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal enSan Juan, Puerto Rico, a 4 de febrero de 2026. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Brenda L. Báez Acabá, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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

FIGARO CABRERA

Demandante V. JESSICA FIGARO BALBUENA Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AR2024CV01830. (Salón: 803 CIVIL). Sobre: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDACIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JUAN CARLOS ORTIZ AROCHOJUANKORTIZ@AOL.COM. A: JESSICA FIGARO BALBUENA, JOSE FIGARO SANCHEZ, MAGALY FIGARO SANCHEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de enero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic-

to 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 febrero de 2026. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 18 de febrero de 2026. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. Karolyn Rivera Navarro, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA

ARLENE M. ABREU RIVERA

Demandante V. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA ACTUANDO POR CONDUCTO DE LA ADMINISTRACIÓN DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES; JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALQUIERA PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA

Civil Núm.: GB2026CV00081. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ. EMPLAZAMIENTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA ACTUANDO POR CONDUCTO DEL ADMINISTRACIÓN DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES - 654 AVE. MUÑOZ RIVERA, EDIL 654 PLAZA SUITE 601, SAN JUAN, PR 00918-4129 - TEL.: (787) 766-5095. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro,

si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El nombre, dirección y número de teléfono del abogado de la parte demandante es la siguiente: LCDA. SAIDETH CRISTOBAL MARTINEZ RUA 14,554 P.O. Box 9022173 San Juan, PR 00902-2173 Tel.: 787-367-0412 Email: saidethcristobal@gmail.com EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy 12 de febrero de 2026. Marisol Rosado Rodríguez, Secretaria. María M. Cotto Amaro, SubSecretaria.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. JULIO CESAR DELGADO SANCHEZ Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CA2025CV02353. (Civil: 401). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. FERNANDO J. GIERBOLINI GONZÁLEZ - FGIERBOLINI@ MSGLAWPR.COM. A: JULIO CESAR DELGADO SÁNCHEZ.. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 06 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 19 de febrero de 2026. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA A LOS FINES DE CUMPLIR CON LA ORDEN NOTIFICADA EL 19 DE FEBRERO DE 2026. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 19 de febrero de 2026. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. AMARILIS TORRES MÁRQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Bill Mazeroski, 89, whose 9th-inning blast made Pirates champs, is dead

Bucs lifer was Roberto Clemente’s teammate for 17 seasons

By THE STAR STAFF

Bill Mazeroski, who hit the most famous — and surely the most decisive — home run in World Series history, a blast in the bottom of the ninth inning of the seventh game in 1960 that gave the upstart, overmatched Pittsburgh Pirates a thrilling victory over the New York Yankees, died Friday in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. He was 89.

The Pirates announced the death but did not provide further details.

Almost as memorable as Mazeroski’s historic home run — on Oct. 13 at the Pirates’ Forbes Field — was the home run trot that followed.

When Mazeroski hit the ball, he wasn’t sure it would clear the ivy-covered left field fence 406 feet away, so he galloped toward first base. Only when he was halfway to second did he see the umpire, with a circular wave of a hand, signaling that it had.

By the time he reached the bag, the Pirates second baseman began waving his cap wildly. Between second and third, Mazeroski jumped for joy, spreading out both arms as if doing the breast stroke. As he rounded third, he saw delirious Pittsburgh fans, whose team had not won a championship in 35 years, jump onto the field to greet him, forcing Mazeroski to thread his way to home plate.

Mazeroski’s hit, off the Yankees’ Ralph Terry, still marks the only time a seven-game Series has been decided by a home run on the final pitch — a “walk-off,” in current parlance. ESPN proclaimed it the greatest home run ever.

What ended a seesaw contest that afternoon became one of baseball’s most reenacted moments, though Carmen Berra, whose husband was the Yankees left fielder that afternoon, always refused to relive it.

“I still can’t watch that replay,” she later told sportswriter Bill Madden for his 2003

book “Pride of October: What It Was to Be Young and a Yankee.” “The saddest moment I ever had in baseball was sitting in the stands, seeing Yogi standing there in left field, helpless to do anything but watch that ball go over the fence.”

Once they got over their shock, the Yankees and their fans felt robbed. The New Yorkers had won their three games by ridiculously lopsided scores — 16-3, 10-0 and 12-0 — while the Pirates had squeaked by in theirs by a grand total of seven runs.

“What happened to us, for cryin’ out loud?” Roger Maris, the Yankees slugger, asked Berra afterward.

Berra replied, “We just got beat, Roger, by the damnedest baseball team that me or you or anybody else ever played against.”

And Mazeroski was the damnedest sort of hero. Although he hit for more power than many second basemen, what had distinguished his career, and what got him elected to the Hall of Fame in 2001, was his defense.

During a 17-year career — spent entirely with the Pirates — he won eight Gold Gloves and appeared in 10 All-Star games. He still holds the record for most career double plays turned by a second baseman (1,706); most seasons leading the league in double plays (eight) as a second baseman; and most double plays turned by a second baseman in a single season: 161, in 1966.

A career .260 hitter, Mazeroski hit 138 home runs. But in 1960, he had hit only two at Forbes Field since July, though the second of them had won the opening game of the Series and remained the Pirates’ only home run until the finale.

The Pirates led that contest, 9-7, after a five-run rally in the bottom of the eighth, highlighted — at least to Yankees fans — by a sure double play ball that took a freak bounce and hit Yankees shortstop Tony Kubek in the throat.

After the Yankees tied the score in the top of the ninth, Mazeroski led off the bottom of the inning. The first pitch from Terry, New York’s fifth pitcher that afternoon, was high. But the next pitch was just what Mazeroski had wanted: a fastball, or so it seemed, down the middle.

“If the guy threw me a change-up or a curve, I’d have missed the thing by a mile and turned myself around — I swung so hard,” he said. Terry, who had warmed up so often that day that he had little left, later insisted that the fateful pitch was a slider, but he didn’t press the point.

“I don’t know what the pitch was,” he said in the dressing room. “All I know is it was the wrong one.”

“With the crack of Mazeroski’s bat, the problems of the world were forgotten,” reporter Vince Johnson wrote the next day in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “Khrushchev became a noisy, little bore. Ballistic missiles didn’t have the power of a baseball bat. And the

Bill Mazeroski, the Pittsburgh Pirates legend, at home in Pittsburgh on June 17, 2008. Mazeroski, who hit the most famous — and surely the most decisive — home run in World Series history, a blast in the bottom of the ninth inning of a game seven in 1960, died in Lansdale, Pa. on Feb. 20, 2026. He was 89. (Jeff Swensen/The New York Times)

recession took a recess.”

An estimated 300,000 people soon converged in Pittsburgh’s Golden Triangle. More would have come had the police chief not closed off the major roads leading into the city.

William Stanley Mazeroski was born Sept. 5, 1936, in Wheeling, West Virginia, and spent his early years in Tiltonsville, Ohio. His mother was Mayme (Ogden) Mazeroski. His father, Lewis, was a miner and a wellknown sandlot shortstop in eastern Ohio whose own budding professional baseball career ended after he lost part of his right foot in a mining accident.

“When I was old enough to walk, Dad took me in the backyard and taught me baseball,” Mazeroski recalled. “He wanted to make his dream come true through me. He showed me how to charge a ball. I remember he always taught me how to have ‘soft hands’ when going after a ball instead of fighting it.”

After starring in baseball and basketball in high school, Mazeroski signed with the Pirates in 1954. He was a shortstop until Branch Rickey, then the Pirates general manager, decreed that his arm was better suited for second. He joined the Pirates in 1956 and made his first All Star team the next year.

The secret to the double play, Mazeroski once explained, was actually not catching the ball — which took precious time — but letting it hit his glove, then grabbing and releasing as it ricocheted out. “There never was any such thing as a bad hop to Bill Mazeroski,” Dick Groat, his collaborator at shortstop on innumerable double plays, later said.

Mazeroski retired from playing in 1972 and briefly worked as a coach for the Pirates and the Seattle Mari-

ners. In 1987, the Pirates retired his number, 9. Bothered by his comparatively minor offensive output, baseball writers passed him over for the Hall of Fame 15 times.

Only in 2001, and only after six more tries, did a veterans committee — headed by Mazeroski’s former general manager — elect him. The decision left some stars, Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox among them, grumbling.

Breaking down barely two minutes into his prepared remarks at his induction ceremony, Mazeroski set another major league record: for the shortest speech ever at Cooperstown. “Defense belongs in the Hall of Fame — as much as pitching and hitting,” he said.

His wife of 66 years, Milene (Nicholson) Mazeroski, died in 2024. Survivors include two sons, Darren and David, and four grandchildren.

Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 21

As oft-reported, a 14-year-old schoolboy named Andy Jerpe, who had left the game early to help his mother prepare dinner but had lingered outside the fence, retrieved Mazeroski’s home run ball. When he presented it to Mazeroski in the dressing room, the Pirates second baseman signed it, then gave it back.

“You keep it, son,” he told him. “The memory is good enough for me.”

One sunny day the following spring, the boy lost the ball in the weeds during a pickup game. Estimates are it would have fetched up to $1 million today.

Cangrejeras stay unbeaten, Atenienses end skid in LVSF

By THE STAR STAFF

The sixth week of the Women’s Superior Volleyball League (LVSF) season ended Sunday night with the Cangrejeras of Santurce and the Atenienses of Manatí winning their respective matches.

The Cangrejeras (12-0) extended their perfect record by dominating the Leonas of Ponce in three sets, taking all three points to bring their total to 33. The set scores of the match were 25-16, 25-20 and 25-17.

With a two-set lead, Santurce maintained control in the third set, leading at the technical timeouts 8-2 and 16-10. After holding on to a six-point lead (18-12) thanks to a block on Nia Parker Robinson and an effective attack by Helena

Grozer in the fourth zone, the Cangrejeras team extended the advantage to 22-15 with Tamara Otene attacking with precision in the fourth zone, and closed out the set and match 25-17 with Grozer’s 13th attack of the match.

Santurce dominated the team statistics: 51-39 in attacks, 14-3 in blocks, 2-0 in service aces, 47-42 in defense, and 18-8 in assists. Ponce outpassed the Cangrejeras 34-26.

The Cangrejeras offense was split between Kara McGhee with 18 points, and 15 points each for Otene and Grozer. Jordan Wilson led the way for Ponce (5-9, 15 points) with 20 points, all on attacks.

Atenienses break losing skid

In the night’s other match, the Atenienses snapped a twomatch losing streak by defeating the visiting Pinkin of Corozal in three sets ending in identical scores at Juan Aubín Cruz Coliseum.

The set scores were 25-23, 25-23 and 2523. With the win, Manatí earned all three points, improving its record to 5-9 with 17 points, and moving up to fourth place in the standings.

Corozal remained in third place with a 7-7 record and 21 points.

Wednesday’s Week 7 matches

The Criollas of Caguas (7-7, 23 points), currently in second place, visit the Leonas at Salvador Dijols Arena in Ponce at 8 p.m.

The Pinkin again face the Atenienses at Juan Aubín Cruz Coliseum at 8:30 p.m.