Tuesday Mar 31, 2026

‘A Tragedy That Pains Us as a Community’

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New LUMA CEO outlines her priorities

By THE STAR STAFF

LUMA Energy President & CEO Janisse Quiñones, a native of Caguas, detailed her priorities on Monday as she begins her tenure.

“Returning to Puerto Rico is something deeply personal for me. I was born here, I trained as an engineer here, and today I return with a commitment to put all that experience at the service of the country,” Quiñones stated in written remarks. “I assume this role with great respect for the work that has been accomplished thus far, and with the responsibility to lead this new phase for LUMA -- focused on continuing to advance toward a stronger and more reliable electric system for Puerto Rico.”

Quiñones listed the following priorities:

Listening to act with purpose

The executive emphasized that her first step will be to actively listen to communities, employees, and all sectors that depend on the electric system.

“Promoting open dialogue and transparency is essential to understanding the real needs of the system and the concerns of our people,” she said. “The best solutions are built through listening.”

An operational focus to stabilize the grid

The CEO underscored the importance of maintaining a disciplined approach to system operations, prioritizing worker safety, the execution of infrastructure improvements, and the reduction of service interruptions.

“Operating the system safely and continuing to stabilize the grid are fundamental to achieving the reliability that Puerto Rico needs and deserves,” she said.

Collaboration to transform the electrical system

Acknowledging the magnitude of the island’s energy challenge, Quiñones emphasized that transforming the system requires a joint effort.

“This is a task that cannot be accomplished by a single entity alone,” she said. “It is indispensable to strengthen collaboration with the government, agencies, municipalities, the private sector, and communities so that we may advance together toward a more resilient and modern system.”

Throughout her career, Quiñones has led initiatives involving large-scale electricity systems, driving modernization projects grounded in data, sound engineering, and effective execution. Furthermore, her experience in emergency management -- including her service in the United States Coast Guard -- has enabled her to develop a strategic approach to preparedness, coordination, and response regarding extreme events.

“Puerto Rico faces a reality in which system resilience is essential,” Quiñones said. “Strengthening emergency preparedness and response capabilities will be a key priority in this new phase.”

AES extends deadline for consent solicitation on 2028 notes

By THE STAR STAFF

AES Corporation announced Monday that it has extended the deadline for its ongoing consent solicitation involving its 5.450% senior notes due 2028.

The new expiration time is 5 p.m. (New York City time) on today, March 31, 2026, unless the company decides to end the process earlier. The solicitation had originally been set to expire on March 27.

As of the original deadline, investors holding about 49% of the $900 million total outstanding 2028 notes had submitted valid consents. AES is seeking approval for proposed amendments to the indenture governing those notes.

If AES receives consents from holders representing more than half of the total outstanding principal, and if all other conditions are met, the company will make a total consent payment of $2.25 million. That amount will be shared among all noteholders who submit valid, non-revoked consents before the new expiration time.

Aside from the new deadline, all other terms of the consent solicitation remain unchanged. Investors who have already submitted their consents do not need to take any additional action.

The solicitation is being conducted according to the terms outlined in AES’s consent solicitation statement dated March 5, 2026, and its subsequent supplements issued on March 16 and March 19.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. are acting as solicitation agents. Global Bondholder Services Corp. is serving as the information and tabulation agent.

AES operates a major 454-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant in Guayama, on Puerto Rico’s southern coast, which has been in operation since 2002 and is scheduled to transition to renewable fuel sources after 2027. Additionally, through its affiliate Clean Flexible Energy, AES operates the 20-MW AES Ilumina solar facility in Guayama and is developing the Marahú solar and storage project. As of March 2026, AES Corp. is undergoing a massive transformation and restructuring, culminating in an agreement to be acquired by a consortium led by Global Infrastructure Partners -- part of BlackRock -- and EQT Infrastructure VI. The move, described as a “public-to-private” buyout, is intended to provide the company with greater financial flexibility for its long-term energy transition strategies, rather than undergoing a forced, distressed restructuring due to debt pressure.

14-year-old volleyball player killed in Loíza shooting

Another minor, also 14, is wounded

By THE STAR STAFF

A14‑year‑old girl, identified as Rosniellys Marcano Carrasquillo, was fatally shot and another minor also 14 was wounded in a shooting late Sunday night in the Tocones sector of Loíza.

The attack occurred around 10:40 p.m., shortly after the teenagers had returned from a volleyball game. According to authorities, the girls were traveling in a red Kia driven by the father of the injured girl, identified by police as Héctor Carrasquillo, who has a criminal record. Investigators have not ruled out the possibility that he was the intended target of the shooting.

According to information gathered by police, it was understood at press time that the individuals responsible for the incident were two people riding on motorcycles.

“We believe both minors were innocent victims in this incident,” Lt. José Padín said.

Marcano Carrasquillo died while receiving

medical treatment at UPR Carolina Hospital.

The condition of the surviving girl who Police Superintendent Joseph González Falcón said is the daughter of Héctor Carrasquillo was reported as stable. She has been interviewed

by the police, according to reports.

The North Volleyball Puerto Rico team, to which both teens belonged, expressed its grief on social media following the tragedy.

“We have just been notified that two of

our athletes, upon returning home from a tournament, were struck by gunfire. Sadly, one of them has passed away,” the organization wrote. “They are a family of faith, known for their values and humanity. We lift our prayers that the Lord receive our athlete in His glory, and we ask for the swift recovery of her sister, as well as strength, peace, and comfort for the entire family during this moment of profound sorrow.

The North Volleyball family remains united in prayer and solidarity.”

At a press conference on Monday afternoon, the police superintendent said: “We are investigating various angles because the driver of the vehicle has a criminal record for manslaughter dating back to 2021 and is currently on probation.”

“This is not merely a statistic; this is a tragedy that pains us as a community,” González said. “As superintendent, I state this clearly: this impacts us deeply, but it also compels us to act with even greater urgency and determination. This cannot continue to happen, and we will not accept it.”

2 additional lanes open on PR-52 in front of the Jíbaro monument

By THE STAR STAFF

The Highways and Transportation Authority (ATH by its initials in Spanish) on Monday opened two additional lanes on the PR 52 expressway specifically on the stretch running from Cayey to Salinas, in front of the “Monumento al Jíbaro” as part of ongoing rehabilitation work in the area.

To date, the project represents an investment of $41.6 million in federal funds. The undertaking necessitated design modifications due to ground instability encountered within the affected zone.

The work was initiated following a landslide that occurred in November 2022 an event identified as one of the most significant of its kind ever recorded in Puerto Rico. Following that incident, an assessment of the mountainside was

launched, along with efforts to stabilize the affected terrain.

Among the tasks completed is the stabilization of three slopes situated at various elevations along the mountainside. The dimensions of these areas range from nine to 49 feet, depending on the specific terrain conditions.

Work is currently continuing on the third slope, which has been described as the most complex phase of the project. Throughout this entire process, highway operations have been maintained by rerouting northbound lanes to ensure safety.

The ATH advises motorists to use the Waze app to identify alternate routes and minimize potential travel delays. Drivers are also urged to reduce their speed, remain alert to posted signage, and strictly follow the instructions provided by the traffic control devices installed within the construction zone.

Senator calls for probe into conditions at Mayagüez detention center

By THE STAR STAFF

District 4 (Mayagüez Aguadilla) Sen. Karen Román Rodríguez has filed a resolution seeking a comprehensive investigation into the conditions at the Western Detention Center (Centro de Detención del Oeste) in Mayagüez.

The move follows multiple complaints from inmates and their families regarding treatment and basic services at the facility.

The senator said the resolution aims to address concerns about medical care, food quality, security and rehabilitation programs available to the incarcerated population.

“We’re talking about human beings who, regardless of the reasons they are there, deserve fair and dignified treatment,” Román Rodríguez said. “We cannot ignore the complaints we’ve received.”

The proposed investigation would examine potential

deficiencies in the center’s operations, identify administrative failures, and determine whether the fundamental rights of individuals in state custody are being upheld.

Román Rodríguez stressed that the initiative seeks to promote meaningful reform within the correctional system and ensure that institutions fulfill their responsibility to rehabilitate, not just confine.

The resolution was filed last week, and at press time was expected to be reviewed by the island Senate.

San Juan lays out its Holy Week security plan

By THE STAR STAFF

San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo on Monday announced the activation of a strategic security and preventative surveillance plan for Holy Week, aimed at safeguarding the lives and property of residents, visitors and tourists traveling to the capital city during this period of high traffic.

The special operation will run from this Wednesday through next Monday, April 6, with a reinforced presence of the Municipal Police, Municipal Emergency Management, and support personnel at various points throughout San Juan.

San Juan Mayor Miguel A. Romero Lugo said Municipal Police cadets will also be deployed to support security at religious services, processions and community activities related to Holy Week.

where two command centers will be set up to reinforce surveillance and response capacity. Police will also be present in those areas on foot, on motorcycles, and in 4x4 vehicles capable of traveling on sand.

high tourist and recreational activity due to spring break, including La Placita de Santurce, Cerra Street, Old San Juan and Loíza Street.

“This plan is part of a preventative strategy and involves an active presence in areas where we know there will be greater movement of people,” San Juan Municipal Police Commissioner Juan Jackson Rodríguez said.

“Holy Week is a time when thousands of people travel to the capital city to spend time with their families, participate in religious activities, or enjoy our public spaces,” the mayor said. “Therefore, we have activated a comprehensive and preventative security plan that will allow us to reinforce surveillance, respond quickly to any situation, and provide peace of mind to both our residents and those who visit us during these days.”

Additionally, surveillance in the maritime zone will be reinforced through the implementation of 12-hour shifts, in order to respond more quickly to any incidents that may arise along the capital city’s coastline during the long weekend. The Municipal Police Traffic Unit will also maintain active surveillance on main roads as part of a campaign coordinated with the Traffic Safety Commission, focused on accident prevention and providing guidance to drivers during the period of increased traffic.

As part of the plan, the Municipal Police will establish preventive patrols in areas with high concentrations of people, including the Escambrón and Último Trolley beaches,

Municipal Police cadets will also be deployed to support security at religious services, processions and community activities related to Holy Week. Likewise, continuous surveillance will be maintained in areas of

The San Juan Municipal Office for Emergency Management, meanwhile, will activate additional resources from Thursday to Sunday to respond to incidents on the coasts and other emergencies, including two Kawasakis with paramedics and rescuers, a boat with rescue and paramedic personnel, two ambulances, a rescue unit, a firefighting unit, specialized operational personnel, and aerial and maritime drone equipment to support surveillance and response operations.

“Holy Week requires preparation, presence, and responsiveness,” said Carlos Acevedo, the office’s director.

Police activate security plan for Holy Week at beaches, rivers & lakes

By THE STAR STAFF

Puerto Rico Police Superintendent Joseph González Falcón announced on Monday a security plan for Holy Week that will remain in effect until Sunday, April 5 and will, for the first time, include surveillance at rivers, lakes and ponds.

“The public can rest assured that we will not leave any coastal sector without surveillance,” González said at a press conference. “This is a comprehensive plan, precisely designed, that incorporates maritime, aerial, and ground resources, as well as specialized diving and rescue units.”

“This effort takes a preventive approach,” he added. “We want to prevent accidents, save lives, and also reinforce surveillance to prevent the illegal entry of controlled substances through our coastlines, without neglecting the mission of the Rapid Action Forces Bureau in the fight against drug trafficking.”

González noted that the plan is being executed through

this coming Sunday, April 5, with the objective of safeguarding lives and ensuring public order throughout the island. The strategy covers beaches, public bathing areas, and -- for the first time -- heavily frequented inland bodies of water, such as rivers, lakes and ponds.

The superintendent said the plan will be carried out in coordination with the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources’ Rangers Corps, municipal police forces, and state and federal agencies, including the Coast Guard. He also noted that prior to implementation, an analysis was conducted regarding beaches and public bathing areas -- both those with and without lifeguards -- as well as the most heavily frequented bodies of water.

That analysis facilitated the strategic distribution of vessels, equipment and personnel to maximize coverage and response capabilities. González also urged citizens and visitors to comply with boating regulations and to ensure that their vessels and

personal watercraft are equipped with the required safety gear.

The police chief went on to emphasize the importance of responsible alcohol consumption and urged individuals not to drive while under the influence. He said personnel from the Highway Patrol Bureau will be active across all 13 police districts -- focusing on highways, coastal zones and tourist areas -- to ensure compliance with traffic laws and to intervene with drivers who endanger the lives of others.

González also urged the public to stay alert to weather and sea conditions by consulting official resources, such as the National Weather Service and the “Swim Safe Puerto Rico” platform.

“We do not want to have to respond to tragedies,” he said. “This effort involves everyone, and the responsibility is shared. Our appeal is for you to enjoy this Holy Week in peace, with prudence, within the bounds of the law, and by always prioritizing safety.”

Senator introduces initiatives to dignify pilgrimage, strengthen religious tourism

By THE STAR STAFF

Amid Holy Week, a time when thousands of Puerto Rican families set out with devotion along the island’s roads and shrines, Sen. Roxanna Soto Aguilú introduced on Monday a package of legislative measures aimed at making people’s faith experience safer, more accessible, and more dignified. These measures, the senator noted, align with Gov. Jenniffer González Colón’s vision of positioning Puerto Rico as an authentic and respectful spiritual destination.

“In these days, when so many walk with their hearts fixed on the Virgin or following in the footsteps of Christ, we cannot stop at mere words,” Soto Aguilú said. “We must legislate to ensure that this faith can be lived out with safety and dignity. These measures do not seek to turn the sacred into a business; rather, they honor our people’s devotion and make it easier for pilgrims of all ages to reach the sites that have borne witness to our spiritual history for generations.”

On Feb. 10, Soto Aguilú filed Senate Bill (SB) 1075, which establishes “The Faith Trail” (La Ruta de la Fe) as an official program of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company. The initiative

includes an interactive digital map or mobile application allowing anyone to easily locate historic pilgrimage routes and major religious sites across the island’s six dioceses, while optionally integrating hiking as a way to connect spirituality with Puerto Rico’s natural beauty.

On Feb. 6, she introduced SB 1063, which establishes voluntary guidelines enabling convents, monasteries, and sacred sites that offer temporary lodging to obtain certification based on basic standards of hygiene, safety and sustainability -- all without imposing obligations or costs upon the public treasury, and while fully respecting their spiritual autonomy.

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ICE may remain at airports even after TSA pay resumes, border czar says

By AISHVARYA KAVI

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents could remain at U.S. airports, where President Donald Trump had sent them to respond to a shortage of security employees during a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, even after those employees are paid again, Trump’s chief border official said earlier this week.

“It depends how many TSA agents come back to work,” the White House border czar, Tom Homan, said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” referring to the Transportation Security Administration. “How many TSA agents have actually quit and have no plan coming back to work? I’m working very closely with the TSA administrator and the ICE director to decide what airport needs what.”

Homan added later, in an appearance on CBS, that ICE agents would stay “until the airports feel like they’re 100%” and “normal operations” resume.

Trump signed an executive order Friday to pay TSA employees as Congress remains at an impasse over funding the Department of Homeland Security.

Department officials have said about 50,000 TSA officers should receive paychecks as early as Monday. But it is unlikely that pay will immediately alleviate operational challenges at the agency and at airports around the country.

More than 500 employees have quit, a department spokesperson said last week, with wait times in security lines stretching for hours

at some airports. She added that on Friday, more than 3,560 employees, over 12% of the agency’s workforce, called in sick.

Homan contended on CNN that wait times had decreased since ICE agents arrived, doing identification checks and “plugging the security holes.” But their exact role has been unclear. The head of a union that represents TSA officers said last week that ICE agents were “just getting in the way.”

Critics say ICE personnel at some airports are not carrying out tasks that would alleviate the burden of TSA agents but rather patrolling halls or stationing themselves at checkpoints.

The standoff in Congress over funding the Department of Homeland Security deepened Friday, as House Republicans rejected a bipartisan deal and pushed instead to pass their own plan. They derided a Senate plan that would have funded most of the department but excluded money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, two agencies largely responsible for carrying out Trump’s deportation crackdown that have continued to operate under previously approved funds.

Federal immigration officers stand near exit areas at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on March 23, 2026. Transportation safety officers were set to be paid on Monday, but Tom Homan, the White House’s border czar, said ICE agents may stay where there are shortages. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)

Senate Democrats have refused for weeks to fund the Department of Homeland Security until the Trump administration agrees to guardrails on immigration enforcement after agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis in January. Public anger over the incidents led to a scaling back of ICE’s presence in the city and changes at the Department of Homeland Security, including the replacement of Kristi Noem as its director.

There have been some reports of tension between ICE agents and travelers.

Last week, after a tip from TSA led ICE agents to arrest a woman and her 9-year-old daughter at San Francisco International Airport, local police officers were called in to form a boundary between a growing crowd and the agents escorting the family. They were later deported to Guatemala.

Journey to the moon ‘starting to feel real’ for NASA’s Artemis II crew

By KENNETH CHANG

In a few days, four astronauts could be strapped into a spacecraft for the first crewed trip to head toward the moon since 1972.

“Things are certainly starting to feel real,” said Christina Koch, a NASA astronaut and one of the four members of the Artemis II crew, said during a news conference Sunday morning.

She and her crewmates — Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover of NASA, and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency — spoke from crew quarters at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the days leading up to the launch, they are living in a precautionary physical quarantine to ensure that they do not fall ill before or during their mission.

During a news conference in the afternoon, mission managers said preparations for a launch Wednesday evening are proceeding smoothly.

“We can safely say the crew’s ready,” said Shawn Quinn,

the program manager in charge of the ground systems needed to launch Artemis II. “Rocket’s ready. Spaceship’s ready. Ground systems are ready, and we only need to have the weather cooperate.”

The forecast calls for an 80% chance of favorable weather during a two-hour launch window Wednesday that starts at 6:24 p.m. Eastern time.

The two-day countdown was scheduled to begin Monday.

The Artemis II mission is to take the astronauts on a 10day mission that is to go to the moon, without landing, and then back to Earth, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean. For NASA, it is a major test of the spacecraft (in particular, the life support systems) in the lead-up to trying to land astronauts on the moon in a couple of years.

It is a mission of deep-space firsts. In the 1960s and 1970s, the astronauts in the Apollo program were white American men. Koch will be the first woman to pass over the moon, Glover will be the first Black person and Hansen will be the first Canadian.

“We always say that we are not doing this for the superlatives,” said Wiseman, who is the commander of the mission. Rather, Artemis II is “for all, and by all,” he said.

“This is what NASA embodies.”

Their towering rocket has been sitting at the launchpad for more than a week after NASA fixed problems that scuttled launch opportunities in February and early March.

Hansen said they had prepared to make detailed visual observations of colors and brightness and other features when they pass over the far side of the moon, including swaths of the surface that human eyes have never seen before. As he has waited to launch, he sometimes has gone outside at night and looked up at that bright round object in the sky.

“I really feel like, gosh, that is really far away,” Hansen said. “And it just gives me great appreciation for it.”

Koch added, “It is our strong hope that this mission is the start of an era where everyone, every person on Earth, can look at the moon and think of it as also a destination.”

Deaths in ICE custody are growing. ‘They let him rot in there.’

By JAZMINE ULLOA, ALLISON McCANN and EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA

It started with sharp pain in a tooth. For about a week, Emmanuel Damas sought treatment while he was being held at an Arizona immigration detention center, several detainees later told his family. But Damas, who had migrated from Haiti in 2024 under what was then a lawful U.S. program, was given only ibuprofen, the detainees said.

Soon, one of his brothers received a call that Damas was in a hospital intensive care unit. By the time his relatives were allowed to visit him nine days later, Damas, 56, was on life support, unable to move or speak but still shackled to a hospital bed. An infection had spread throughout his body, and Damas had most likely gone into septic shock, according to federal officials and interviews with his relatives.

“He could not even blink his eyes,” one of his brothers, Presly Nelson, said in an interview. “There was nothing there.”

He died on March 2 — one of 13 people who have died in federal immigration custody in the first three months of this year, and one of 46 who have died since President Donald Trump took office last year and began his mass deportation campaign, according to death reports and news releases made public by ICE.

The Department of Homeland Security and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which have been leading the deportation effort, have faced growing scrutiny over agents’ aggressive, militarized tactics on American streets. And the killing of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota this year helped lead to the ouster of Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary.

But as her successor, Markwayne Mullin, takes over, the number of people who have died in immigration detention has been drawing more attention. The number of immigrants in ICE custody has nearly doubled in the past 14 months, and the detention centers have been strained by the surge.

A spokesperson for CoreCivic, which operates the Arizona detention center where Damas fell ill, said only that the company takes “very seriously” the death of anyone in its care. “The safety, health and well-being of the people in our facilities is our top priority,” the spokesperson, Brian Todd, said.

The Department of Homeland Security maintains that detainees are receiving adequate care. In a statement, Lauren Bis, an agency spokesperson, said Damas was sent to the hospital on Feb. 19 immediately after he reported shortness of breath and that ICE had “higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons.” American

prisons have long had deficiencies of their own in the medical care provided to inmates.

Many ICE detention facilities are run by large private companies, such as CoreCivic and the GEO Group, that also operate many prisons. The companies say that they provide round-theclock medical care and proper diets and that they are subject to government oversight.

But a federal lawsuit and more than two dozen interviews with lawyers, detainees and their family members and elected officials depict acute deficiencies that they believe contributed to the deaths. They describe some of the country’s largest immigrant detention facilities as places where disease and illness are rampant and detainees are often denied sufficient food, clean drinking water, medications and medical care.

Damas’ death has galvanized opposition to collaboration between ICE and local and state authorities in Boston, home to the nation’s third largest Haitian population. “It is reprehensible,” said Ruthzee Louijeune, a Boston city councilor who has helped the Damas family obtain records, plan Damas’ funeral and cope with the fallout from his death. “It is unforgivable that in the United States a man in detention should die from a toothache.”

The 33 deaths in 2025 were the most in a single year on record since the Department of Homeland Security started operating in March 2003 and took charge of the nation’s immigration and border security agencies. During the four years of the Biden administration, deaths in custody ranged from a high of 11 to a low of three, averaging about seven a year. During the eight years of the Obama administration, an average of eight deaths a year occurred.

Even at 33 deaths last year, the death rate since Trump took office is still below historic peaks given the record number of people in ICE detention overall. At the start of this year, around 70,000 people were detained, though that figure had fallen slightly as of early February. (ICE has not released updated figures during the ongoing partial government shutdown.)

In Congress, the debate has been over reining in ICE’s tactics on the streets. Democrats have held up funding for DHS in an effort to secure reforms, like barring agents from wearing masks and requiring them to obtain judicial warrants.

The deaths in detention have prompted calls for congressional investigations, condemnation from leaders of some immigrants’ home countries and at least six lawsuits. And a federal judge has allowed members of Congress to continue to make unannounced inspections of detention sites, over the objections of the Trump administration.

Mourners during the funeral of Emmanuel Damas, 56, whose death has galvanized opposition to collaboration between ICE and local and state authorities in Boston, in Dorchester, Mass., on March 28, 2026. As immigrant detainee deaths have increased, conditions in detention facilities nationwide are coming under more scrutiny. (Sophie Park/The New York Times)

Officials critical of the detention practices say ensuring oversight over quality of care will become more urgent as the nation’s detention system expands. Congress has allocated $45 billion for immigrant detention facilities, more than 10 times the previous budget.

In Southern California, a coalition of legal groups has filed a class-action lawsuit against homeland security officials over conditions at the Adelanto detention center. The facility, in the Mojave Desert, went from holding three detainees to nearly 2,000 in the past year, according to the lawsuit.

In more than two dozen declarations filed with the lawsuit, former and current detainees describe constantly feeling hungry, delirious and ill from rotten food, and lacking access to medication and medical care. The documents also include letters from doctors and lawyers detailing unsanitary conditions and the deteriorating mental and physical health of their clients.

Among the families represented are those of Ismael Ayala-Uribe, 39, and Gabriel GarciaAviles, 56, who died within weeks of each other in the fall. In interviews, their relatives said they were frustrated that their loved ones were already in grave condition by the time the authorities had contacted them.

Garcia-Aviles, a Mexican day laborer who had lived in the country for about 30 years, was picked up in Orange County, California, in October. When family members next saw him, he had been hospitalized for more than a week. In an interview, Mariel Garcia and Gabriel Garcia Jr. said their father had bruises, broken teeth and dried blood on his mouth and forehead.

In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said Ayala-Uribe had not been

denied medical care, and that, according to an autopsy, he had died after complaining of rectal pain for three weeks. A coroner’s report listed the cause of death as complications from a pelvic abscess, according to his lawyer.

The agency said that Garcia-Aviles suffered cardiac arrest tied to alcohol withdrawal syndrome, and his lawyer said a government autopsy is pending. The families said they have also sought independent autopsies and are waiting for results.

“I can tell you that the same questions you have, we have,” Mariel Garcia said, describing her father as a hardworking man who had sacrificed for his family and had no serious criminal history. DHS said he had unlawfully entered the country in 2007 and 2008, and court records show he had six minor offenses related to drinking in public or “performing excretory function in public.” His lawyer said he had been in the process of applying for an immigrant visa at the time of his arrest and had obtained a work permit.

In Massachusetts, Damas had reunited with relatives in Boston. He had legally entered the United States in 2024 under a Biden-era humanitarian program, and worked for his brothers’ transportation company, they said. But his status had been revoked when the Trump administration canceled the program last year, a development his family said he wasn’t aware of until his detention in Arizona.

Damas, a father of two, was a fan of Haitian kompa music and enjoyed a good party. That was also what landed him in trouble with authorities, his brothers said. After a family gathering, Damas was intoxicated and asleep when a neighbor called police to check on his then 12-year-old son, who had been playing outside alone. Though that issue was quickly resolved, Damas became agitated with his son and tried to hit him, Nelson said. Officers arrested Damas, who had no prior criminal record, according to court records, and charged him with domestic violence.

After one of his brothers posted bail, Damas was taken into immigration custody and shuffled through facilities from New York to Arizona, his relatives said. His brothers said they knew something was wrong when he stopped calling home from the detention center to check in.

When his mother last spoke to Damas, in mid-February, he was in so much pain that he could barely talk, Nelson said. After Damas was hospitalized, his brothers spent days trying to obtain permission from ICE to visit him. Like the Garcias and Ayalas, the family has paid for an independent autopsy in hopes of piecing together what happened.

“They let him rot in there and die like he had no family,” Nelson said.

The old man dreaming up wars for young men to fight NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL

By NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Iwas a child during the Vietnam War, and it was impossible to miss anti-war protests. I remember a common sentiment best expressed by Sen. George McGovern: “I’m tired of old men dreaming up wars for young men to fight.”

And here we go again.

President Donald Trump has reached a fork in his Iran war. One path would be diplomatic, and Trump has tried to reassure financial markets that we’re headed that way. Iran is “‘begging’ us to make a deal,” he claimed.

The problem is that Iran is not in fact begging for a deal. On the contrary, it has found fabulous leverage by closing the Strait of Hormuz to most traffic other than its own. Iranians must be thinking that they largely gave up their nuclear program in the accord with President Barack Obama, and they got a measly $400 million for that (later, there was more). This month, all Iran had to do was block the Strait of Hormuz for a few weeks, and the Trump administration lifted some oil sanctions that could amount to upward of $14 billion. No wonder Iran seems to feel it has the upper hand.

So while Trump may want an off-ramp, his conundrum is that any deal reached now would be substantially worse than Iran’s reported offer last month (a three-year pause in all uranium enrichment and strict limits thereafter).

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I’m in favor of the diplomatic path, but let’s be honest: Any deal would be a pretty bad one and would strengthen a brutal regime that oppresses its people and menaces the region.

Because the diplomatic option is so unappealing, Trump seems poised to seize an even worse one: dispatching ground troops to invade Iran. He is sending thousands of Marines and paratroopers to the region, and The Wall Street Journal reports that the Pentagon is considering whether to send another 10,000 ground troops.

“This is a dangerous point,” Vali Nasr, a veteran Iran watcher at Johns Hopkins University, told me. “Maybe Trump has no choice but to go down this path, because to go to the table right now would really admit defeat. But this is the quandary of his own making.”

The most discussed target for seizure is Kharg Island, Iran’s primary oil export base. Yes, the Marines probably could conquer Kharg, even though the Iranians have reportedly laid traps and improved defenses. As Sen. Lindsey Graham, the Trump whisperer, said, “We did Iwo Jima; we can do this.” What Graham didn’t mention was that 26,000 Americans were killed or wounded capturing the Japanese island of Iwo Jima near the end of World War II.

The challenge isn’t just seizing Kharg; the greater nightmare would be protecting troops there day after day, week after week, from drones and other attacks.

The United States has been unable to fully protect its own hardened military bases in the region at much greater distances from Iran, forcing soldiers to evacuate to hotels. “Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable,” my Times colleagues Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt reported. So if we can’t protect our bases, how will we protect Marines dropped off on an Iranian island?

Why seize Kharg anyway? The theory advanced by hawks is that without oil revenue Iran would be forced to surrender. “Control that island. Let this regime die on a vine,” Graham urged.

Unfortunately, that theory is probably wrong.

“Even if we take Kharg, Iran won’t capitulate,” Dennis Citrinowicz, formerly the top Iran watcher in Israel Defense Intelligence, said. “And everything’s going to escalate, and the prices of oil and whatever will be dramatically higher.”

If Trump wanted to seize territory, the better choice might be several small islands — Abu Musa and the Tunb islands — that are also claimed by the United Arab Emirates. A joint American and Emirati force could seize them, and Emiratis could occupy them.

But even that would be a huge escalation. The truth is that any seizure of Iranian-controlled land would most likely lead Iran to retaliate by attacking energy infrastructure around the region — and, more terrifying, desalination plants that provide the water on which some Gulf cities depend. With refineries out of commission, we

U.S. Army personnel during the U.S. Army’s 250th Anniversary Parade along the National Mall in Washington, June 14, 2025. (Mark Peterson/The New York Times)

could face oil and gas shortages for years to come. The Houthis in Yemen might also join the fray by blocking ship traffic through the Bab al-Mandab Strait, which is the Red Sea choke point equivalent to Hormuz on the Persian Gulf.

“I don’t see this ending very soon,” Nasr warned. “I think the risk of this becoming uglier, with a lot of costs to the United States, is quite high.”

Trump’s aim if he dispatches ground troops is probably “to escalate to deescalate,” hoping that he can gain leverage over Iran and get a better bargain. That’s possible. But my guess is the opposite: Collapsing financial markets would give Iran even more leverage than it has now.

Iran’s regime may also have more strategic patience than we do. Remember that after Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, Iran recovered its territory by 1982 but was so enraged that it refused a ceasefire and spent another six years fighting in the hope of overthrowing the Iraqi regime. Do we have the same staying power?

For all the uncertainties, one truth I feel deeply from having seen war up close: Old men should not fix their messes by dispatching young people to die in unnecessary wars.

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ATI listo con plan operacional para Semana Santa

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SAN JUAN – La Autoridad de Transporte Integrado (ATI) informó que, como todos los años, se encuentra lista con su plan operacional para la Semana Santa, con el objetivo de garantizar un servicio seguro, eficiente y confiable para los ciudadanos que se movilizan durante este periodo de alta demanda.

Como parte de este plan, ATI ha reforzado especialmente el servicio marítimo hacia las islas municipio de Vieques y Culebra, aumentando la capacidad con la nueva flota de embarcaciones como La Borinqueña, Flor de Maga y La Preciosa. Estas nuevas unidades, que cumplen con los más altos estándares de seguridad y tecnología marítima, forman parte de la modernización del sistema y reafirman el compromiso de la Autoridad con la continuidad, confiabilidad y calidad del servicio para residentes y visitantes. De igual forma tendrán personal en los terminales para orientar al público sobre el sistema, tarifas y cualquier otra necesidad que tengan.

“El periodo de Semana Santa, típicamen-

te, representa una de las épocas de mayor demanda para el transporte marítimo hacia las islas municipio. En ATI estamos preparados para responder a ese volumen de pasajeros y ofrecer una experiencia de viaje organizada y segura”, expresó el director ejecutivo de ATI, Josué Menéndez Agosto.

Como parte de este esfuerzo, se activará un plan coordinado entre los distintos sistemas de transporte —Tren Urbano, Autobuses del Sistema Intermodal y Lanchas— con el objetivo de ofrecer un servicio integrado, reducir la congestión vehicular y promover el uso del transporte colectivo. El itinerario de Semana Santa para el Tren Urbano y los autobuses del programa Intermodal operará de manera regular.

Del mismo modo, ATI informó que los trabajos realizados por LUMA Energy en el sistema del Tren Urbano fueron culminados con siete días de antelación, por lo cual desde el sábado, 28 de marzo, el tren opera con normalidad en sus 16 estaciones.

En cuanto al transporte marítimo, los itinerarios hacia las islas municipio se encuentran disponibles en la página oficial del operador HMS, www.puertoricoferry.com, donde los usuarios pueden realizar sus reservaciones, así como en las ventanillas ubicadas en Ceiba, Vieques y Culebra.

ATI exhorta a la ciudadanía a planificar sus viajes con anticipación, utilizar el transporte colectivo y mantenerse informados a través de sus canales oficiales para conocer detalles adicionales y posibles ajustes operacionales.

Asimismo, hace un llamado a estar atentos a cualquier cambio relacionado con las condiciones del tiempo o del mar.

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– Las autoridades investigan la muerte de un confinado, reportada a eso de las 11:45 de la mañana del domingo, en la Institución 676, del Complejo Correccional, Las Cucharas, en Ponce.

Según la información provista por la Po-

licía, un oficial custodio fue alertado sobre la situación por varios confinados, al abrir la celda se encontró a Edwin Santiago Gómez, de 48 años, residente de Isabela, el cual se privó de la vida.

Santiago Gómez se encontraba sumariado desde el 2 de diciembre de 2025, por incumplimiento a una Orden de Acecho.

The anomaly of humanity as AI grows inevitable

By YUSSEF COLE

Players take up the role of runners, freefloating consciousness beamed across space into the hollow shells of mindless synthetic bodies, in Marathon, the newest game by the studio behind the sci-fi behemoths Halo and Destiny. These temporary forms have been built as part of a reckless hunt for treasure and answers in a distant colony project that collapsed a hundred years before.

A hundred years is just what it feels like since the game’s precursor series, also called Marathon, was released for the Macintosh Operating System in the mid-1990s.

At that time, artificial intelligence floated safely in the realm of science fiction: the onboard computer HAL 9000, from “2001: A Space Odyssey,” or the philosophical dilemmas presented by Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert and Arthur C. Clarke. The internet was clunky and difficult to access, and video games were played in the darkness of a den with the blinds drawn, or in a home office on a big beige box. Waiting for our modems to crawlingly bring us online to read our five emails, AI seemed like an idea for a distant and unimaginable future.

The contemporary Marathon, a challenging extraction shooter, was released this month into a vastly different context. Video games have burst into the mainstream, with stars like Megan Thee Stallion cosplaying Tekken characters in music videos, and grannies grinding out levels in Bejeweled. Far from being a distant, unlikely concept or a conventional sci-fi villain, AI now seems inevitable. Large language models sit just a prompt away, having infiltrated everything from Word documents to kitchen appliances.

Unlike the colorful game Doom, from which it liberally borrows its mechanics and first-person, quasi-3D approach, the original Marathon was dark and monotonously gray. It was forged from the era’s cold, hard sci-fi aesthetic. Gunmetal walls and brown bulwarks stretch through the cavernous interiors of the moon-size spaceship UESC Marathon. Players control a nameless security officer, sent in vain to rid the colony ship of an alien invasion. Much of the game involves tense shootouts against waves of grunting alien soldiers in narrow, mazelike corridors.

Interspersed are terminals through which players can experience one-sided text conversations with the ship’s intelligences.

The mischievous Durandal, an AI that went rogue after the aliens invaded, spends the game taunting and belittling the player, teleporting them wherever it likes, on a Machiavellian quest to gain independence from its human creators.

In 2026, Marathon has changed with the times. Its setting is the same Tau Ceti solar system, but that is about all that feels familiar.

Day-Glo corporate logos and stylish iconography plaster every surface of the failed colony setting. Aliens have mostly disappeared, replaced by a boxy robotic security force and player-controlled runners who are plumbing the place for loot: fancy new guns, upgrade materials, dazzling colorways for their outfits. Aside from the hulking Destroyer, a throwback nod, these synthetic shells are slick, sexy and sartorially stunning, the bright overabundant future injected into a crumbling past.

Occupying these runner shells feels uncanny. These are bodies which our intervention brings to life, but which cannot actually die. It’s a different take on the necessary immortality of video game heroes. If the security officer of the 1990s games tripped into lava or was crushed by a piston, the camera would fall from its perch on his shoulders followed by the sound of blood hitting the floor, sometimes with a gurgle or a scream. The next instant would find you back at the last terminal where you saved, evidently unkillable.

rection or another — and that dominated the imaginations of the 20th-century science fiction writers is far more incomprehensible and ever-present here, less agentic adversary than systemic reality.

In the original Marathon, humanity was more of an anomaly than an inevitability. The only other beings you saw that weren’t aggressive aliens were weaponless men in jumpsuits running back and forth and yelling for help. A number of them were secretly bomb-implanted booby traps laid by the enemy. It was difficult not to shoot each one on sight, feeling only a little bad to see red blood rather than alien yellow fluid seep from their bodies.

It’s more difficult to classify just what a runner is. Can a person truly be a conscious subject without a permanent form? Runners must give up their original body to join this mission. All that’s left are the memories and behaviors that float from ready-made shell to ready-made shell. Whatever you are is held in thrall to powerful corporate interests, fronted by friendly AI voices. They implore you to go out and finish their contracts, to die again and again in service of their bottom line. It is capitalist dehumanization manifesting literally in the game’s text.

The AI that we feared — big narcissistic personalities driving human actors in one di-

The new Marathon feels truer to this mercurial and aggressively individualistic tone than Bungie’s other games. The reality of playing the game, rife with distrust and secrecy, undermines its bright colors and utopian corporate-speak. This manifests principally in the relationship with other players. Are they friend or foe? Is that speck running across the horizon a security robot I can safely ignore, or a player drawing a bead on me with murderous intent? Do we have individual agency, outside of the tasks assigned to us by our faceless AI overlords, or are we here to murder and be murdered?

Marathon successfully bridges its 30year gap, though its new iteration could only have come out today. It is a game that reflects on our modern flavor of AI: friendly and accessible digital assistants who have replaced murderous and rampant sci-fi villains but are potentially just as insidious. It raises the question of humanity’s place in the universe as we work inexorably against our own interests, replacing ourselves piece by piece with something synthetic, projecting ourselves piece by piece into the invisible beyond.

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Trading day: Growth fears snowball

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit seven-month lows and bond ⁠yields ⁠fell on Monday as the Iran war entered its fifth ⁠week, with investors increasingly spooked by growth fears over inflation concerns even though oil prices rose further above $100 a barrel.

In my column today I look at why the spike in market-based borrowing costs since the Iran war broke out could not have come at a worse time for “Big Tech”, which is increasingly turning to debt to finance its unprecedented AI investment binge. If you have more time to read, here are a few articles I recommend to help you make sense of what happened in markets today.

Today’s Key Market Moves

Today’s Talking Points

* No quarter given

The first quarter draws to ⁠a ⁠close on Tuesday, and it has been ⁠a wild ride. Brent crude oil is up 85%, its biggest rise since 1990; the U.S. “Magnificent 7” megacaps are down 17%, meaning they’ve lost almost 20% from the October high and are now close to a bear market; gold is still up ⁠despite March being its second-worst month in over 40 years.

In some ways, markets have been remarkably calm in light of the damage done to the global energy complex. 17% of Qatar’s gas capacity is offline; 20% of global oil and gas flows are choked off by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz; several Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, have shut energy production fields or refineries. Maybe markets have been too calm.

* A “good place”?

Where is monetary policy, the economy, labor market or bilateral trade relations if not in a “good place”? It seems to be officials’ favorite phrase, with European ⁠Central Bank President Christine Lagarde virtually turning it into a policy communications signal last year.

On Monday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said U.S. policy ⁠is in a “good place”, and officials can “wait and see” how the energy and supply shocks affect both sides of the bank’s dual mandate. Powell was one of the first officials to coin the phrase in January last year, a time when some might argue the economy actually was in a “good place”.

* The art of the deal

Despite rising borrowing costs, heightened uncertainty and increased market volatility sparked by the Iran war, the flow of multi-billion-dollar deals and M&A activity has not stopped.

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On Monday, Sysco said it would buy catering supplier Jetro Restaurant Depot in a $29 billion deal. Unilever is in talks to sell its foods business to McCormick & Company in a deal that would be worth over $30 billion, and earlier this month a consortium led by BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners and Sweden’s EQT AB bought U.S. power company AES Corp for $33.4 billion. Deals are still being done.

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Trump claims progress in talks to end war, then again threatens intense attacks

By DAVID E. SANGER, AARON BOXERMAN, ERIKA SOLOMON and SANAM MAHOOZI

President Donald Trump zigzagged from claims of diplomatic progress to renewed threats of destruction Monday as he sought to pressure Iran to make a deal to end the monthlong war.

Trump said in a Truth Social post that there had been “great progress” in talks with Iran but warned that if they failed to produce an agreement, he would order the bombardment of Iranian power plants, oil infrastructure and potentially desalination plants. The president has repeatedly threatened such attacks in recent weeks, only to back down, as the global economy reels from the risk to energy supplies.

to five weeks, he has alternately narrowed his aims — arguing Sunday that “regime change” in Iran had already been achieved — and raised the prospect of escalation, ordering thousands more U.S. troops to the Middle East, including Marines and Special Operations forces.

On Sunday, Trump said Iran had agreed to allow 20 more oil cargo ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran’s de facto blockade has all but closed a vital route for oil, gas and fertilizer shipments.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, said Iran was “not at all happy that people in other countries are facing difficulties due to fuel and food prices,” and urged those countries to press Israel and the United States to end their attacks on Iran.

from which Iran exports the majority of its oil, if talks on ending the war failed.

Here’s what else we’re covering:

— Pakistan talks: Foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey convened Sunday in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, for further discussions aimed at ending the war. The United States, Israel and Iran were not part of the talks, and it was unclear whether any progress was made.

— Lebanon: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said he had ordered his forces to increase the territory they control in southern Lebanon, adding to fears among many Lebanese of a long-term military occupation of the area. Lebanon’s president has denounced Israel’s campaign there against Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia.

(Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times)

As Trump strains to find an end to a conflict he originally mused would last four

Despite Trump’s claim that the United States is in talks with “a new, and more reasonable, regime” in Iran, however, there has been little apparent progress in the negotiations. Iran has denied holding substantive talks with the United States and has rejected the Trump administration’s conditions as unreasonable. The war has raged on, drawing in much of the Middle East, sending oil and gas prices skyrocketing and fracturing Trump’s political support at home.

On Monday, two Chinese-owned commercial vessels transited the waterway, according to MarineTraffic, a ship tracking platform. The crossings offered an initial indication that Iran could be relaxing its stranglehold over the strait, the platform said. But a short time later, Trump renewed his threats to bombard Iran’s “Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island,”

— Peacekeepers killed: Two United Nations peacekeepers were killed in southern Lebanon on Monday when their convoy was “struck by an explosion of undetermined origin,” according to a U.N. report seen by The New York Times. A day earlier, an Indonesian peacekeeper was killed in a separate attack amid clashes between Israel and Hezbollah.

Iran condemns attacks on its universities, warns of retaliation

By ERIKA SOLOMON and SANAM MAHOOZI

Iranian officials have condemned a string of U.S. military attacks on several universities across the country and warned of possible retaliation against U.S. universities in the region.

The attacks on Iranian academic institutions come as the country’s critical infrastructure increasingly becomes a target in the U.S.-Israeli air war against Iran. Strikes on energy installations have plunged parts of the capital into darkness and enveloped it in toxic fumes. Other recent attacks hit a water reservoir in southwestern Iran and a steel plant in central Isfahan, and set fire to parts of a petrochemical complex in northwestern Tabriz.

The semiofficial news agency Fars reported that 20 universities and dormitories had been attacked in the monthlong war.

“Israel and its partner in crime believe that knowledge can be bombed away,” Iran’s

foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said in a statement that only indirectly referred to the United States — part of Iranian officials’ efforts to portray Washington as serving Israeli interests by starting a war with Iran.

Intentional attacks against educational institutions may be considered a war crime under international law.

Israeli and U.S. military spokespeople did not immediately respond to a request for comment on four separate university attacks in the past two weeks. But on Monday, Israel claimed strikes on a university that it said was being used for military research.

On Sunday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard warned of possible retaliation.

“We advise all staff, professors and students of American universities in the region, as well as residents in their surrounding areas, to keep a distance of at least 1 kilometer from these universities to ensure their safety,” said a statement published by Tasnim, a semiofficial news outlet affiliated with the Guard.

Many American universities in the region had already moved most of their courses online because of the war. But some campuses took further security measures after the warnings. The American University of Beirut said that while it had “no evidence of direct threats,” it had decided to move all classes online for Monday and Tuesday, and it had suspended the few exams and laboratory sessions still being held in person.

Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdistan region — considered one of Washington’s most important regional security allies — closed not only American and international universities, but also all of its schools in response.

Videos posted on March 28 and 29 showed the aftermath of a recent attack on the Iran University of Science and Technology in Tehran, in which an entire building was reduced to rubble, while other classrooms were littered with shards of glass and debris.

Another strike on a research institute at the Isfahan University of Technology damaged several buildings and injured four staff

members, according to the semiofficial news agency Mehr.

Other universities that have been hit, according to United Students, a group run by student activists, are the faculty of pharmacy at Shiraz University, in the south, and both the science and technology campus as well as the veterinary hospital campus at Urmia University in northeastern Iran.

Some universities that have been attacked were the sites of large demonstrations against the government just days before the war began, as students defied a bloody crackdown on protests that had already killed thousands earlier this year.

On Monday, Israel claimed strikes on the Imam Hossein University, which it called the “main military university” of the Revolutionary Guard.

It said the university contained wind tunnels used to test and develop ballistic missiles, as well as a chemistry center used for research and development of chemical weapons.

US to allow Russian oil tanker to reach Cuba, breaking blockade

By JACK NICAS and ERIC SCHMITT

The U.S. Coast Guard is allowing a Russian tanker full of crude oil to reach Cuba, delivering a critical supply of energy to the island nation after months of an effective oil blockade by the Trump administration, according to a U.S. official briefed on the matter.

The tanker, which is carrying an estimated 730,000 barrels of oil and is owned by the Russian government, was within several miles of Cuban territorial waters Sunday evening, according to MarineTraffic, a ship-data provider. At its speed of 12 knots, the tanker could reach its expected destination of Matanzas, Cuba, by Monday night.

The Russian ship’s arrival would shift the trajectory of a rapidly accelerating crisis in Cuba, buying the island nation at least a few weeks before its fuel reserves run out, analysts said.

It would also reduce pressure on a Cuban government facing a looming economic collapse and escalating threats from Washington, and show that, at least for now, the island can still depend on its longtime ally, Russia.

The Trump administration had been enforcing what amounted to an oil blockade around Cuba since January, threatening nations that had been sending fuel to the country and, in one case, escorting a tanker heading toward Cuba away from the island.

The Coast Guard has two cutters in the region that could have attempted to intercept the Russian tanker. Yet the Trump administration did not order those vessels to act, according to a U.S. official briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operations. Barring orders instructing it otherwise, the Coast Guard planned to let the tanker reach Cuba as of Sunday afternoon, the official said.

It was unclear why the White House did not issue orders to block the tanker or whether it would allow future Russian oil shipments to reach the island. The decision avoids a potential thorny confrontation with Russia just off the coast of Florida.

Asked by reporters about this article on Air Force One on Sunday evening, President Donald Trump confirmed it. “We don’t mind having somebody get a boatload, because they need — they have to survive,” he said. “I told them, if a country wants to send some oil into Cuba right now, I have no problem with that. Whether it’s Russia or not.”

But he played down the benefit for Cuba.

“It’s not going to have an impact — Cuba is finished,” he said. “They have a bad regime. They have very bad and corrupt leadership. And whether or not they get a boat of oil, it’s not going to matter.”

The Russian Embassy in Mexico said in a statement that “the Russian Federation expresses its full solidarity with Cuba, considers all restrictions imposed against it to be illegitimate — including those related to the supply of energy resources — and is prepared to provide all necessary

Cuban businesses to prop up a failing energy grid. The crisis had led to small protests — a rarity in Cuba — and was raising questions of how the government would survive.

But the Russian oil will ease that crisis, at least temporarily. The oil can be refined into various products, including diesel, gasoline, jet fuel and fuel oil, which is used to power many Cuban power plants. That should help stabilize the energy grid, reduce blackouts, improve transportation and aid agricultural production, said Jorge Piñón, a former oil executive who studies Cuba’s energy system at the University of Texas.

“It buys them time,” Piñón said. “But this is not a magic wand that all of a sudden, by the arrival of this tanker, all of their problems are solved.”

Piñón said that the oil would take about three weeks to refine into other products and then another week to be distributed around the country.

assistance, including material support.”

Cuban officials did not respond to a request for comment.

The U.S. oil blockade has been choking Cuba, leading to daily blackouts, severe gas shortages, soaring prices and deteriorating medical care. The policy has attracted international criticism, including from the United Nations, that the United States is causing a humanitarian crisis in Cuba. At the same time, White House officials have been threatening the Cuban government publicly, while pushing it privately to remove its president, Miguel Díaz-Canel.

Trump said this month that he believed he will “be having the honor of taking Cuba” and suggested that he could target the island with military force after the Iran war. “I built this great military,” he said at an investment conference Friday. “I said, ‘You’ll never have to use it.’ But sometimes you have to use it. And Cuba is next, by the way.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that the White House wanted new leaders in Cuba. “Cuba’s economy needs to change, and their economy can’t change unless their system of government changes,” he told reporters.

Cuban officials have dug in, saying the nation is prepared to defend itself.

“Our military is always prepared and, in fact, it is preparing these days for the possibility of military aggression,” Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, said on NBC’s Meet the Press last week. “We would be naive if, looking at what’s happening around the world, we would not do that. But we truly hope that it doesn’t occur.”

The oil tanker now nearing Cuba may change the shape of tensions between the countries. Cuba was quickly running out of energy supplies, relying on solar power, domestic oil production and small fuel shipments to private

Diesel he said, is the most critical product for Cuba, as it powers trucks, tractors and many power plants, and is in desperately short supply on the island. Some humanitarian aid has been trapped at warehouses because trucks don’t have diesel to distribute it, farms have been paralyzed with powerless tractors and some power plants have been shut down because of a lack of fuel.

Cuba has kept the lights on — albeit inconsistently — because 40% of its energy grid is supported by power plants that largely run on crude oil that Cuba produces domestically. Cuba has also been racing to install solar panels to prop up the grid. But Piñón said that 40% of the grid depends on smaller power plants that use diesel.

He estimated that Cuba could use up the Russian oil in less than a month. But he expected the government to preserve some energy supplies for its strategic reserves and security forces.

“This is going to give diesel to the police, to the military units, to basically the whole apparatus of the Cuban government,” he said.

The Russian tanker, which is called the Anatoly Kolodkin, left Primorsk, Russia, on the Baltic Sea on March 9. The U.S. government placed sanctions on the tanker and its owner, a Russian state-owned shipping company called Sovcomflot, in 2024.

The Anatoly Kolodkin initially broadcast its destination as “Atlantis, USA,” a possible joke. On Sunday, it was broadcasting its destination as Matanzas, Cuba, according to MarineTraffic.

Carlos Alzugaray, a former Cuban diplomat who lives in Havana, said that the Trump administration had set up the blockade to try to strangle the Cuban government into submission, but that it was taking longer than expected even before the Russian oil neared.

“Trump and Rubio are thinking in terms of this government collapsing on its own,” he said. “But that’s not the way that the Cuban government sees it. The Cuban government is convinced that they can survive.”

This is what happens when the gas runs out

By RIVER AKIRA DAVIS

Countries across Asia are bracing for a complete cutoff in coming days of Middle Eastern liquefied natural gas, a fuel that underpins power generation and industrial output across much of the region.

The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz as well as repeated strikes on the world’s largest LNG export complex in Qatar have knocked roughly 28 million tons of supply from the market this year. That represents nearly the entire global supply growth forecast for 2026. It could take years for the flow of LNG from the Mideast to return to prewar levels.

“It’s a significant tightening of the market — we’re talking reduced production until the end of the decade,” said Henning Gloystein, managing director for energy at Eurasia Group, a political risk research firm. In Asia, in the next week, “that’s when the actual impact, the physical impact, of nondelivery will begin to happen,” he said.

Until now, Asia has been shielded by a buffer of cargoes from the Persian Gulf already at sea before the strait’s closing. But the last of those ships will arrive within the next few days. That will leave Asia, which buys about 90% of the LNG that the Middle East produces, bracing for a gap between supply and how much it needs. That gap will show little sign of easing until at least 2028, when a wave of U.S. gas production is expected to bring new volumes.

Asia’s biggest economies — China, Japan, India and South Korea — and emerging markets such as Vietnam and Thailand all rely significantly on LNG for power. This unexpected disruption threatens the region’s industrial output and may undermine its willingness in the future to rely on the fuel to power its growing energy needs.

Signs of a squeeze are already appearing. Countries across Asia that can are switching to oil- and coal-powered electricity generation and in some cases aggressively curtailing consumption. These measures are likely to intensify as the war’s disruption of energy flows drags on, energy experts say.

Switching fuels

“Basically, when there’s less supply in the market, that means demand will need to come down,” said Daniel Toleman, a research director for global LNG at the energy consultant Wood Mackenzie. As a first resort, “what you’re going to see is countries

switching to other fuels wherever is possible.”

Some nations with ample coal-fired power plants can pivot relatively swiftly. A Wood Mackenzie analysis shows that in South Korea, which imports almost a fifth of its LNG from the Middle East, increasing use of its coal plants could allow it to fill its entire gas gap until summer. In Japan, coal could offset up to 70% of gas-fired power generation.

This retreat to coal power — which releases roughly twice as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as natural gas — risks derailing decarbonization timelines and climate goals. But in the interest of securing immediate industrial survival, many countries are plowing ahead.

In response to energy-supply disruptions, the South Korean government announced plans to lift its cap on coal-fired power plant use that had been in place to help protect air quality. Both Seoul and Tokyo have also indicated they would take steps to bolster nuclear power generation.

India is another major importer of Middle Eastern LNG that is likely to pivot significantly to coal, according to Wood Mackenzie. It has vast domestic reserves,

and since the outbreak of the war, New Delhi has issued directives to maximize coalfired output, ordering coal plants to operate at full capacity for three months starting in April.

China likewise possesses huge domestic coal reserves, which, alongside gas piped in from Russia and a world-leading wind and solar fleet tied to the world’s largest energy storage network, have shielded the country from the worst of the LNG supply shocks.

Other governments in the region have fewer options. Taiwan, which draws roughly 30% of its LNG through contracts with Qatar, has retired much of its coal operations in recent years, and its nuclear capacity has been phased out. A move to bring back mothballed coal plants would be time-consuming and expensive.

Curtailing use

In South and Southeast Asia, for countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh, “it’s going to be more of a story of curtailments,” Toleman said. In that region, “countries really have to choose between the energy costs and effectively paying to import highpriced LNG or slowing the economy and cutting gas demand.”

The industrial toll is mounting. Sectors such as glass, steel and ceramics require high-temperature furnaces that run almost exclusively on gas. Fertilizer production requires natural gas as a primary ingredient for ammonia, making these plants among the first to shutter when supply vanishes.

Steel and fertilizer operations have been affected in Vietnam. In India and Pakistan, a shortage of liquefied petroleum gas has left millions unable to cook daily meals, forcing the closing of thousands of small businesses and restaurants.

Some governments are already starting to ration. The Philippines, which recently declared a national emergency because of surging fuel prices, has experimented with shortened workweeks, and Pakistan has closed schools to conserve energy. In India, gas distributors have reduced supply to one of the world’s largest centers for manufacturing ceramics, to give priority to residential needs.

No return to normal

The longer-term question is whether countries that learn to live with less LNG in the coming months and years will choose to return to a fuel that has recently experienced two major supply disruptions — first during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and now because of the war in the Middle East.

In Asia, LNG has long been marketed as a “bridge fuel” — cleaner than coal, more reliable than renewables and capable of powering a region where, by 2050, energy demand is set to roughly double. Before the outbreak of the war in the Middle East, LNG demand in Asia was also forecast to roughly double by midcentury.

Those projections were set to give rise to a spree of new gas plants and import terminals across the region.

Now, “the entire concept of LNG being a reliable fuel is undermined,” Gloystein said. “It’s basically out the window because of the second serious natural gas crunch in five years.” The crisis is likely to spur more use of alternatives seen as less vulnerable to geopolitical shocks, such as renewable energy and nuclear power, he added.

For importers of LNG, the fundamental calculation has changed, Gloystein said. “Anybody at the moment who’s in a country or company that has plans to do gas-fired power stations is going to have to review these,” he said. “There’s going to be no return to normal even if the war ends.”

By ALEXIS STEINMAN

TThe French Riviera in winter: Sparkle without the glitter

he French Riviera conjures images of sunbaked tourists lounging on palm-lined beaches, bustling cobblestone streets and megayachts anchored in sparkling blue bays. But that’s only in the summer.

This region of southeastern France, also known as the Côte d’Azur, first rose to fame as a winter destination in the late 19th century. Queen Victoria traveled there to find solace from the cold rain of London. Robert Louis Stevenson went to seek relief from a respiratory illness. Claude Monet fled the misty, muffled hues of the north for the Riviera. “I need a palette of diamonds and gemstones for the extraordinary colors and light,” he wrote.

Tourism on this strip of picturesque coast between Menton in the east and, roughly, Hyères in the west, peaks in August, with up to 650,000 visitors during the top weekend, according to 2024 figures from Côte d’Azur Tourism. The numbers fall sharply during the winter months, with only about one-third of the visitors. Though some hotels and restaurants are closed in the offseason, rooms are far less expensive — and reservations are easy to come by.

With mostly sunny skies and daytime temperatures in the mid-50s, winter may not be warm enough for swimming, but it is a perfect time to bathe in history. In late November, I took a road trip from Menton to Antibes, communing with the past in silent ancient streets and exploring coastal paths that had more lizards than humans.

Where the lemons are sweeter

My east-to-west journey began in Menton, a pastel-toned town of about 30,000 that hugs the border with Italy. Primarily under Genoese and Sardinian rule until 1860, Menton still has a Ligurian flair. French and Italian mingle on the streets, and the facades have the luster of orange and lemon gelato.

In fact, Menton proudly calls itself Europe’s lemon capital, and it bursts with Carnivalesque parades at the Fête du Citron every February. I went straight to the source with a tour of Maison Gannac, a lemon farm (12 euros, or about $14). My guide explained the climatic conditions along the Riviera made the local lemons “the world’s sweetest.”

Less posh than nearby Monaco, Menton has a wealth of belle epoque former luxury hotels with names like Balmoral that evoke a once predominantly British clientele. A handful still offer lodging, among them the Royal Westminster (rooms with sea views from 135 euros). The contemporary Hotel Gabriel Menton (from 60 euros) is a more modern option. Menton’s links to the British even extend to its famous gardens. The lush Val Rahmeh Botanical Garden (8 euros) was once a baronet’s holiday estate.

The town’s golden City Hall features murals by another celebrated resident, artist and writer Jean Cocteau. In the marriage hall (entry 2 euros), a betrothed couple sport Mentonnais straw hats and fisherman’s caps. See more of his works at the Jean Cocteau Museum (5 euros), in a 17th-century bastion. The pebble pieces on its walls evoke Menton’s calades, streets paved in mosaic designs.

I discovered plenty of calades in the old town, just up a grand staircase near the Sablettes beach. Elsewhere in town, I found culinary delights: velvety olive oil at the Huilerie St.Michel; a tomato-anchovy pichade tart and barbajuan, a local chard fritter, at Chez Pierrette et Sylvie outside the Halles market; palm-size lemon bars at Mitron Bakery (owned by chef Mauro Colagreco whose three-Michelin-star Mirazur restaurant is worth the splurge).

Modern architecture and medieval times

In the mid-20th-century, the debut of the Cannes Film Festival and stars like Brigitte Bardot and Grace Kelly brought a dose of glamour to the summer months, particularly in Mo-

naco, where Kelly was crowned princess in 1956.

Sandwiched between Menton and Monaco — within walking distance of both — the hillside town of RoquebruneCap-Martin offers a glimpse of life before all the glitter, with a lofty medieval village that feels suspended between sea and sky. I climbed to it from Coco Chanel’s preferred beach, Plage du Buse, via a steep, winding stone staircase. In the summer heat, the ascent would have been brutal.

The medieval village, a labyrinth of cobblestone alleys, archways and postcard-worthy ocher facades, huddled beneath the imposing Château de Roquebrune (entry 5 euros), which soars 1,069 feet above the sea. Standing atop the castle’s crenelations, with the 360-degree panorama of the Mediterranean and mountains, I could see why they had built a fortress here.

My dinner of chestnut soup and the small, oval bits of dark turkey meat known as oysters in tarragon mustard sauce at Au Grand Inquisitor (three-course menu 39 euros) — inside a former stable in the base of the citadel — felt a little like a highend, tame version of Medieval Times theme restaurants. Five minutes away, I reveled in another ancient relic: a more-than2,200-year-old olive tree growing out of a stone wall.

After a night at the 1970s-style Hotel Victoria (sea-view rooms from 120 euros), I set out on a coastal path named for Le Corbusier, a pioneer of Modern architecture who spent his later years in a log cabin near Irish designer Eileen Gray’s E-1027 villa. (Corbusier is buried in a hillside cemetery not far from the medieval village.)

The 1.8-mile walk parallels the coastline, passing among fragrant pines and sumptuous belle epoque mansions like the neo-Byzantine Villa Cypris. The public can visit some of the luxurious homes to the east. In Beaulieu-sur-Mer, the marble and mosaic masterpiece Villa Kérlyos (13 euros) pays homage to the Phocaeans, the region’s first settlers. Set among 17 acres of lavish gardens, the rose Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild (13 euros) features over-the-top rooms, including a monkey-themed boudoir.

In the footsteps of Baldwin and Matisse

The hills above the French Riviera have long been havens for writers and artists. St.-Paul-de-Vence, a wedding-cake of a village about 45 minutes from Antibes, hosted James Baldwin for 17 years. A ceramic Fernand Léger sculpture adorns the patio at the Colombe d’Or hotel and restaurant, where the artist hobnobbed with other famous regulars. The streets are even paved with decorative cobblestones.

A 15-minute walk from town on the Chemin de Ste.Claire, the Fondation Maeght showcases a who’s who of 20thcentury artists, with a space and sculpture garden that celebrates the light that inspired many of them. At the Chapelle Matisse, in nearby Vence, the winter sunlight shone through Henri Matisse’s stained-glass windows, dancing on the pews in blues, yellows and greens.

The evening air had a winter chill, so I was grateful for the toasty fire at La Brouette, (three-course menus starting at 27 euros) where the chef and owner, Michel Bornemann, smokes his own trout, a dish I sampled along with beet soup. He recommended I check out the nearby village of Tourrettes-sur-Loup. Its tumble of storybook stone houses nurtures present-day artisans and invites visitors to stumble on intimate restaurants. On its nearly empty medieval streets, I felt a deep connection to history, one that would not have been possible with tourists swarming.

Summer on the Riviera has its charms, but I’ll take winter’s calm any day.

5 steps to get your blood pressure under control

By NINA AGRAWAL

In the United States, nearly half of adults have high blood pressure. Known as a “silent killer,” hypertension can contribute to heart attack, stroke and heart failure without ever causing symptoms.

Where hypertension was once thought to affect mostly older people, research now shows that an increasing share of people ages 35 to 64 are dying of heart disease related to it.

“Hypertension matters so much because it’s the most modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease, stroke and now, the evidence suggests, this may be true for cognitive decline,” said Dr. Eduardo Sanchez, chief medical officer for prevention at the American Heart Association. Lifestyle changes and medication can help bring blood pressure down, which “changes the trajectory very, very dramatically” when it comes to heart attack and stroke, he added. Even simple steps can help get your blood pressure in check.

Know your numbers.

It sounds obvious, but just knowing your blood pressure is a great place to start. More than half of people with uncontrolled hypertension aren’t aware they have it, according to some estimates.

Blood pressure, the force that blood exerts on your arterial walls, is measured in millimeters of mercury (mm Hg). It is given in two numbers: The top number, systolic pressure, measures the force when blood is pumped out of your heart. The bottom number, diastolic pressure, measures the force between beats, when your heart is filling with blood.

Normal blood pressure is below 120 mm Hg over 80 mm Hg. Above that level, Sanchez said, damage begins to occur to blood vessels and organs they supply, including the kidneys, heart and brain.

It’s important to have your blood pressure checked at least annually, said Dr. Jennifer Cluett, director of the Complex Hypertension Clinic at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Make sure it’s measured the right way: with the right size cuff and when you are sitting with both feet flat on the floor, have your upper arm supported at heart level and are not talking.

“The typical setting in a busy primary care clinic — where somebody’s sitting on an exam table with their legs dangling, and their arm not supported, while somebody’s talking to them — is not the right way,” Cluett said.

Up to 30% of patients also may experience “white coat hypertension,” when blood pressure levels are elevated at the doctor’s office. For this reason, blood pressure management guidelines recommend checking at home, too, to confirm a diagnosis and manage the condition.

Understand your personal risk.

There can be many causes of hypertension, said Dr. Fatima Coronado, associate director for science in the division for heart disease and stroke prevention of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It develops over time as a result of both genetic and environmental factors, includ-

In the United States, nearly half of adults have high blood pressure. Known as a “silent killer,” hypertension can contribute to heart attack, stroke and heart failure without ever causing symptoms. (Jordan Bohannon/The New York Times)

ing smoking, excess weight and poor sleep.

People whose parent or grandparent suffered a heart attack or stroke can be at increased genetic risk for high blood pressure, Coronado said.

Age influences risk because our arteries stiffen as we get older. Hypertension is also more prevalent among Black people and men than among white people and women.

Some women develop high blood pressure during pregnancy, which can be dangerous to the mother and fetus. Dr. Martha Gulati, director of the Davis Women’s Heart Center at Houston Methodist, said that the condition should be treated during pregnancy and women should be followed by a cardiologist afterward because they are at increased risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.

Follow a heart-healthy diet.

You’ve heard it before: Eat healthy for your heart. Specifically, the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, or DASH, diet was found to be the most effective of 22 lifestyle changes and stress-reducing techniques at reducing blood pressure, according to an analysis of more than 100 studies.

One reason may be that it centers foods rich in potassium, an electrolyte that helps your body get rid of sodium and that relaxes your artery walls. Sodium causes the body to retain water, increasing the fluid and pressure inside blood vessels.

Bananas aren’t the only easy source of potassium; one avocado or a cup of diced cantaloupe contain even more of it, and citrus fruits such as oranges and leafy greens such as spinach and Swiss chard are also rich in the electrolyte.

You can lower your blood pressure further if, in com-

bination with DASH, you also reduce your sodium intake, Gulati said. The American Heart Association recommends that people consume no more than 2,300 milligrams of sodium per day — and ideally, much less. In the United States, most of the sodium in people’s diets comes from restaurant meals and processed foods.

Cutting down on these foods — swapping a frozen dinner or a slice of pizza for the salad bar, for example — or making small changes in your food shopping can make a big difference. Look for low-sodium versions of sauces. Rinse canned beans and vegetables, which are often stored in salty water for preservation, before eating.

Alcohol intake is also associated with increased blood pressure. Doctors suggest aiming for total abstinence. The benefits of cutting back seem greatest for those who consume more than two drinks per day.

Get moving and release stress.

Aerobic exercise, which strengthens your heart so it can pump with less effort, was the second-most-effective intervention, after the DASH diet. Isometric resistance exercise — when you contract muscles and hold a position, as in a wall squat and plank — was the third. Isometric exercise may help blood vessels dilate, which improves blood flow. Exercise can also reduce stress, as can meditation and yoga. Other kinds of prayer and religious practice may also reduce stress, Sanchez said.

And while exercise is beneficial even if you don’t lose weight, Cluett said, dropping excess pounds can also reduce blood pressure.

Don’t be afraid of medication.

The goal of treatment is to keep blood pressure below 130/80 mm Hg, though less than 120/80 mm Hg is even better. Often, that requires medication. There are several effective, generic options doctors can prescribe.

Patients may need to take multiple types, which doctors said can sometimes be a deterrent. Single-pill combinations that include two or more blood pressure medications in one tablet make them easier to take. While some medications can cause side effects such as frequent urination or leg swelling, doctors can tweak drug regimens to mitigate those.

Even if you’re on medication, changes to your diet and exercise can still help — and lower your odds of all sorts of negative health outcomes. “Lifestyle changes help more than just your blood pressure number,” Cluett said.

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HONORABLE ALCALDE, MIGUEL ROMERO LUGO

Parte Peticionaria Vs. ADQUISICIÓN DE PROPIEDAD DE 348,9879 METROS CUADRADOS

LOCALIZADA LA URB. COUNTRY CLUB, AVE CAMPO RICO NÚM. 772 DEL BARRIO SABANA

LLANA NORTE, SAN JUAN PR 00921; FERNANDO ORTIZ

T/C/C FERNANDO ORTIZ ISABAT T/C/C

FERNANDO ORTIZ ISOBATS; LYDIA NIEVES FRANQUI; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

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Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV11304. Sala: 1002. Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

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T/C/C FERNANDO ORTIZ ISABAT T/C/C FERNANDO ORTIZ ISOBATS, LYDIA NIEVES FRANQUI.

RE: Adquisición en pleno dominio y a título absoluto de la propiedad de 348,9879 metros cuadrados localizada la Urb. Country Club, Ave Campo Rico Núm. 772 del barrio Sabana Llana Norte, San Juan PR 00921.

DESCRIPCIÓN AMPLIA DEL SUJETO EXPROPIADO SUFICIENTE PARA SU IDENTIFICACIÓN: URBANA: Solar identificado como #772 de la Avenida Roberto Sánchez Vilella (antes número 31 del bloque GM de la Ave. Campo Rico) de la Tercera Extensión de la Urb. Country Club, Bo. Sabana Llana de Río Piedras del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico. El solar tiene cabida superficial de trescientos cuarenta y ocho con nueve mil ochocientas setenta y nueve diezmilésimas (348.9879) de metros cuadrados equivalentes a cero con ochocientas ochenta y ocho diezmilésimas (0.0888) de cuerda. En lindes por el Noreste en distancia de veinticinco

con diez milésimas (25.010) de metros lineales con solar #770 (antes número 30 del bloque GM); por el Suroeste en distancia de veinticinco con noventa y dos milésimas (25.092) de metros lineales con solar #774 (antes número 32 del bloque GM); por el Sureste en distancia de trece con novecientas cincuenta y nueve milésimas (13.959) de metros lineales con la avenida Roberto Sánchez Vilella (antes avenida principal Campo Rico); y por el Noroeste en distancia de trece con novecientas cuatro milésimas (13.904) de metros lineales con los solares #771 y #773 de la Calle Pampero (antes número 14 y 15 del bloque GM). En el solar enclava una estructura de dos niveles de hormigón y bloques para fines residenciales. Finca Número 8,566, inscrita al folio 191, del tomo 191 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección V de San Juan. CODIFICACIÓN

NÚM: 063-090-198-20-001. ENTIDAD EXPROPIANTE Y CITAR LA LEGISLACIÓN EN VIRTUD DE LA CUAL SE EXPROPIA: El procedimiento de Expropiación Forzosa se instituye por el Municipio de San Juan, conforme a la Autorizada de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa del 12 de mayo de 1903, según enmendada, el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, Ley 107 del 14 de agosto de 2020, según enmendada; la Ordenanza Núm. 1, Serie 20212022 y la Resolución Núm. 160, Serie 2024-2025, enmendada por la Resolución Núm. 45, Serie 2025-2026 de la Legislatura Municipal de San Juan. El interés y el fin para el cual el Municipio de San Juan se propone a adquirir la propiedad es para mejorar el área eliminando un estorbo público declarado por el Municipio. Quedan emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda de Expropiación Forzosa. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Pablo Guerrero Sanfilippo cuya dirección postal es: 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, PMB 270, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, 00966 cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 273-0611 y su correo electrónico es: pguerrerosanfilippo@ gmail.com. Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma en el Tribunal, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el

remedio así solicitado sin más citarles ni oírles. Este Tribunal ha señalado para el 20 de mayo de 2026 a las 9:00 de la mañana, Sala 1002 del Centro Judicial de San Juan, el cual ubica en Hato Rey, PR, para la Vista del caso, en cuyo día se determinará el justo valor de la propiedad y las partes a ser compensadas y a cuya vista podrán ustedes comparecer y ofrecer prueba de valoración, aunque no hayan contestado la Petición. Expedido por Orden del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN E. GARCÍA FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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Partes con Interés Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV10269. Sala: 1002. Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

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DESCRIPCIÓN AMPLIA DEL SUJETO EXPROPIADO SUFICIENTE PARA SU IDENTIFICACIÓN: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número dos (2) de la manzana “G” del plano preparado por la Autoridad Sobre Hogares de Puerto Rico para una extensión a la Urbanización Eleanor Roosevelt de Hato Rey, Rı́o Piedras,

con una cabida superficial de Trescientos cincuenta y ocho punto seis tres siete siete metros cuadrados (358.6377 m.c.). Tiene dicho solar las siguientes colindancias: por el NORTE, con el solar número uno (1) de la manzana “G” de dicho plano, distancia de veintiún metros punto noventa ocho metros (21.98 m.); por el SUR, con el solar número tres (3) de la manzana “G” de dicho plano distancia de veintidós punto veintinueve metros (22.29 m.); por el ESTE, con solares de la Urbanización Eleanor Roosevelt, distancia de dieciséis punto treinta y tres metros (16.33 m.); y por el OESTE, con la calle “T” de dicho plano, distancia de dieciséis punto cero ocho metros (15.90 m.). Finca Número 8,689 de Rı́o Piedras Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de San Juan. CODIFICACIÓN NÚM: 062-070-263-12-001. ENTIDAD EXPROPIANTE Y CITAR LA LEGISLACIÓN EN VIRTUD DE LA CUAL SE EXPROPIA: El procedimiento de Expropiación Forzosa se instituye por el Municipio de San Juan, conforme a la Autorizada de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa del 12 de mayo de 1903, según enmendada, el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, Ley 107 del 14 de agosto de 2020, según enmendada; la Ordenanza Núm. 1, Serie 20212022 y la Resolución Núm. 38, Serie 2025-2026 de la Legislatura Municipal de San Juan. El interés y el fin para el cual el Municipio de San Juan se propone a adquirir la propiedad es para mejorar el área eliminando un estorbo público declarado por el Municipio. Quedan emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda de Expropiación Forzosa. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Pablo Guerrero Sanfilippo cuya dirección postal es: 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, PMB 270, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, 00966 cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 273-0611 y su correo electrónico es: pguerrerosanfilippo@ gmail.com: Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que, si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma en el Tribunal, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarles ni oírlos. Este Tribunal ha señalado para el 20 de mayo de 2026 a las 9:00 am,

Sala 1002 del Centro Judicial de San Juan, el cual ubica en Hato Rey, PR, para la Vista del caso, en cuyo día se determinará el justo valor de la propiedad y las partes a ser compensadas y a cuya vista podrán ustedes comparecer y ofrecer prueba de valoración, aunque no hayan contestado la Petición. Expedido por Orden del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 23 de febrero de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN E. GARCÍA FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA. LEGAL NOTICE

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A. VIVES LABOY, ACRIES LYDIA MERCED COLÓN T/C/C LYDIA MERCED COLÓN y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: PO2023CV03650. (406). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. 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 14 de febrero de 2025, notificada el 20 de febrero de 2025, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 12 de mayo de 2025 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 16 de mayo de 2025, en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 22 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Ponce, Sala Superior, en 2150 Ave. Santiago de los Caballeros, Ponce, Puerto Rico, 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 propiedad: URBANA: Solar número 4 del bloque B, radicado en la Urbanización Santa Rita, localizada en el Barrio Sabana Llana del término municipal de

Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 353.42 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE: en 25.20 metros, con el solar número 5 del bloque B de la misma urbanización; por el SUR: en 25.29 metros, con el solar número 3 del mismo bloque B de la urbanización; por el ESTE: en 14.00 metros, con el solar número 11 del mismo bloque B de la misma urbanización; por el OESTE: en 14.00 metros, con la servidumbre de paso de una carretera municipal que la separa de terrenos de la Autoridad de Tierras. Sobre el antes descrito se halla construida una casa de hormigón y bloques para fines residenciales. Servidumbre: Afecta a servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados en un ancho de 3.0 metros a toda lo largo de su colindancia Sur y a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company de 1.52 metros de ancho a todo lo largo de su colindancia Oeste. Inscrita al folio 282 del tomo 394 de Juana Díaz, Finca 14824. Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 289 del tomo 394 de Juana Díaz, Finca 14824. Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I. Inscripción segunda. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: URB. SANTA RITA, B4, JUANA DÍAZ, PR 00795. catastro número: (64) 366-085-291-40-000. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $48,364.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 29 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 9:30 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, $32,242.67. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el 6 DE MAYO 2026, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $24,182.00. 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 $18,231.80 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7% anual desde el 1 de abril de 2021 hasta su completo pago,

más $265.21 de recargos acumulados los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $4,836.40 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a. Anotación de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Miguel Ángel Vives Laboy, también conocido como Miguel A. Vives Laboy y Acries Lydia Merced Colón y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, ante el Tribunal Superior de Ponce, en el caso civil número PO2023CV03650, sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía “IN REM”, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca con un balance de $19,081.05 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 7 de diciembre de 2023. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Juana Diaz. 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 les 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 los mismos, 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. 210-2015. 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 Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy 2 de febrero de 2026. MANUEL MALDONA-

DO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR. MUNICIPIO DE ISABELA Demandante v. Adquisición de PROPIEDAD UBICADA EN LA BARRIADA CORCHADO LOTE 192 CALLE GIRASOL, ISABELA, PR 00662. CATASTRO NÚM.: 003-099-088-97-000 JUAN JOSE OCASIO VALENTIN, ANGELA CORDERO BENIQUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES GANANCIALES; “DUEÑOS DESCONOCIDOS” Demandados NÚM. CASO: AG2025CV01785. NÚM. CASO ADMINISTRATIVO: IS-71. SOBRE: EXPROPIACIÓN SUMARIA (IN REM) ART. 4.012A Ley 107-2020. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: JUAN JOSE OCASIO VALENTIN, ANGELA CORDERO BENIQUEZ, LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, y “DUEÑOS DESCONOCIDOS” POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este Tribunal Demanda de expropiación sumaria (IN REM) contra usted, solicitando al Tribunal que conceda la expropiación de la propiedad que se describe a continuación: Urbana: Solar: 439 DEL PROYECTO MANUEL CORCHADO JUARBE. BARRIO GUAYABOS de Isabela. Cabida: 439.75 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, con los solares #491 y #492 distancia de 14 metros con 4 centímetros. Sur, con camino #13, distancia de 12 metros con 75 centímetros. Este, con solar #438, distancia de 31metros con 55 centímetros. Oeste, con solar #440 distancia de 37 metros con 43 centímetros. Inscrita al folio 232, tomo 315, finca número 16,394 de Isabela, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Aguadilla. Catastro número 003-099-088-97-000. Repre-

en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el 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. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, a tenor con la Orden del Tribunal, hoy día 13 de febrero de 2026. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. BRUNILDA HERNÁNDEZ MÉNDEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. BERENS MORTGAGE

BANKERS, INC., LA SUCESIÓN DE CECIL T. SHIRCLIFFE COMPUESTA POR SUTANEJO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO, MARIAN P. SHIRCLIFFE POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA, LA SUCESIÓN DE THELMA JOY OETKEN COMPUESTA POR PERENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO, WALTER JERRY OETKEN POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA, LA SUCESIÓN DE ALBERT L. SENN SR. COMPUESTA POR SUTANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO, LA SUCESIÓN DE HELEN D. SENN T/C/C

HELEN DELORES SENN T/C/C HELEN DUNN COMPUESTA POR PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO

DESCONOCIDO, AL SENN JR., KENNY SENN, GREGORY SENN, TIMMY SENN, MARY ROSE BOOKER Y LISA

DRURY COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ALBERT L. SENN SR. Y DE LA SUCESIÓN DE HELEN D. SENN T/C/C HELEN DELORES SENN T/C/C HELEN DUNN, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2026CV00120. (301). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: BERENS MORTGAGE BANKERS, INC. A SU ÚLTIMA DIRECCIÓN

CONOCIDA: URB. ALTAMESA, 1694 CALLE SANTA GUADALUPE (SOLAR 3 MANZANA BA), SAN JUAN, PR 00921-3719, MARIAN P. SHIRCLIFFE POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE CECIL T. SHIRCLIFFE A LAS ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES

CONOCIDAS: 8712

LAKERIDGE DR., LOUISVILLE KY 402722404, 1 COND SANDY HLS E APT 8F, LUQUILLO, PR 00773-2113 Y 1 COND SANDY HLS E APT 8E, LUQUILLO PR 00773-2181, WALTER JERRY OETKEN POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE THELMA JOY OETKEN A LAS ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES

CONOCIDAS: 2140

BONNYCASTLE AVE APT 8D, LOUISVILLE, KY 40205-1386, 1 COND SANDY HLS E APT 8F, LUQUILLO, PR 00773-2113 Y 1 COND

SANDY HLS E APT 8E, LUQUILLO PR 007732181, LA SUCESIÓN DE ALBERT L. SENN SR. Y DE HELEN D. SENN

T/C/C HELEN DELORES

SENN T/C/C HELEN DUNN COMPUESTA POR: AL SENN JR. A 5515 LANDCROSS DR., LOUISVILLE, KY 40216-1245, 1 COND

SANDY HLS E APT 8F, LUQUILLO, PR 00773-

March 31, 2026

2113 Y 1 COND SANDY

HLS E APT 8E, LUQUILLO PR 00773-2181 KENNY

SENN A LAS SIGUIENTES

DIRECCIONES: 5621

LANDCROSS DR., LOUISVILLE KY 402161257, 1 COND SANDY HLS E APT 8F, LUQUILLO, PR 00773-2113 Y 1 COND

SANDY HLS E APT 8E, LUQUILLO PR 007732181, GREGORY SENN A LAS SIGUIENTES

DIRECCIONES: 502

EASTLAND DR., DECATUR, GA 300301443, 1 COND SANDY

HLS E APT 8F, LUQUILLO, PR 00773-2113 Y 1 COND

SANDY HLS E APT 8E, LUQUILLO PR 007732181, TIMMY SENN A LAS SIGUIENTES

DIRECCIONES: 11478

CEDAR GROVE RD., COXS CREEK KY 40013-8841, 1 COND

SANDY HLS E APT 8F, LUQUILLO, PR 007732113 Y 1 COND SANDY

HLS E APT 8E, LUQUILLO PR 00773-2181, MARY

ROSE BOOKER A LAS SIGUIENTES

DIRECCIONES: 6413

RIVERS END DR., LOUISVILLE, KY 402585478, 1 COND SANDY

HLS E APT 8F, LUQUILLO, PR 00773-2113 Y 1 COND

SANDY HLS E APT 8E, LUQUILLO PR 007732181 Y A LISA DRURY A LAS SIGUIENTES

DIRECCIONES: 8301

ASPEN AVE # 1, LOUISVILLE KY 402582152, 1 COND SANDY HLS E APT 8F, LUQUILLO, PR 00773-2113 Y 1 COND

SANDY HLS E APT 8E, LUQUILLO PR 007732181.

SUTANEJO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE CECIL

T. SHIRCLIFFE; PERENGANO DE TAL

POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE THELMA JOY OETKEN; SUTANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE ALBERT L. SENN SR.; PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE

HELEN D. SENN T/C/C

HELEN DELORES SENN T/C/C HELEN DUNN,

FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES

DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ.

Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Cancelación de Pagaré Extraviado por la vía judicial. El 21 de mayo de 1980, Cecil T. Shircliffe y su esposa Marian P. Shircliffe, Walter Jerry Oetken y su esposa Thelma Joy Oetken, Albert L. Senn Sr. y su esposa Helen D. Senn t/c/c Helen Delores Senn t/c/c Helen Dunn constituyeron una hipoteca en San Juan, Puerto Rico, conforme a la Escritura núm. 56, autorizada por el Notario Público Jorge Calero Blanco en garantía de un pagaré suscrito bajo el testimonio núm. 2640 por la suma de $43,100.00 a favor de Berens Mortgage Bankers, Inc., o a su orden, con intereses al 6% anual durante los primeros 3 años y al 8½% anual hasta el pago total y vencedero el 1ro de junio de 2010, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBAN: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY:

Residential Apartment marked 8-EI In the eighth floor of Sandy Hills Building I at Matienzo Cintron Street and between Esperanza and Del Carmen Streets, Luquillo, Puerto Rico, measuring approximately thirty four feet one inch (34’1”) wide, equivalent to ten point thirty nine (10.39) meters, by twentyeight feet ten inches (28’10”) long, equivalent to eight point seventy nine (8.79) meters, with a superficial area of eight hundred eighty three point fifty seven (883.57) square feet equivalent to eighty two point zero eight (82.08) square meters, bounding: on the SOUTH, on a distance of twenty four feet two inches (24’ 2”), equivalent to seven point thirty seven (7.37) meters with Apartment eight-FI (8-FI); on the NORTH, on a distance of twenty eight feet ten inches-(28’10”) equivalent to eight point seventy nine (8.79) meters, with Apartment eight-DI (8-DI); on the EAST, on a distance of thirty four feet-one inch (34’1”), equivalent to ten point thirty mine (10.39) meters, with exterior elements of the building and with the lot on which the building is erected; and on the WEST, on a distance of thirty four feet one inch (34’1”), equivalent to ten point thirty nine (10.39) meters, with a common corridor and Apartment eight-PI (8-FI). The Apartment consists of livingdining room, kitchen, bathroom, two (2) bedrooms, bedroom closets, and a balcony on its East Side. The Apartment is equipped with a stainless-steel sink, water heater and stoveoven. The participation of this apartment in the general common elements of the Condomi-

nium is equivalent to point three four six zero percent (.3460%). La propiedad y la escritura de hipoteca constan inscritas al folio 230 del tomo 150 de Luquillo, Finca 8,379. Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. Inscripción primera (1ra). Ese mismo día, el 21 de mayo de 1980, Cecil T. Shircliffe y su esposa Marian P. Shircliffe, Walter Jerry Oetken y su esposa Thelma Joy Oetken, Albert L. Senn Sr. y su esposa Helen D. Senn t/c/c Helen Delores Senn t/c/c Helen Dunn constituyeron una hipoteca en San Juan, Puerto Rico, conforme a la Escritura núm. 58, autorizada por el Notario Público Jorge Calero Blanco en garantía de un pagaré por la suma de $53,000.00 a favor de Berens Mortgage Bankers, Inc., o a su orden, con intereses al 6% anual durante los primeros 4 años y 8½% anual hasta su pago total y vencedero el 1ro de junio de 2010, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBAN: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY:

Residential Apartment marked 8-FI In the eighth floor of Sandy Hills Building I at Matienzo Cintron Street and between Esperanza and Del Carmen Streets, Luquillo, Puerto Rico, measuring approximately thirty five feet four inches (34’4”) wide, equivalent to ten point seventy seven (10.77) meters, by fifty three feet nine inches (53’9”) long, equivalent to sixteen point thirty eight (16.38) meters, with a superficial area of one thousand three hundred three point fifty eight (1,303.58) square feet equivalent to one hundred twenty one point ten (121.10) square meters, bounding: on the NORTH, on a distance of fifty three feet nine inches (53’ 9”), equivalent to sixteen point thirty eight (16.38) meters with Apartment eight-EI (8-EI); with common corridor exterior elements of the building and with the lot on which the building is erected; on the SOUTH, on a distance of fifty three feet nine inches-(53’9”) equivalent to sixteen point thirty eight (16.38) meters, with exterior elements of the building and with the lot on which the building is erected; on the EAST, on a distance of thirty five four inches (35’4”), equivalent to ten point thirty seventy seven (10.77) meters, with exterior elements of the building and with the lot on which the building is erected; and Apartment 8-EI and on the WEST, on a distance of thirty five feet four inches (35’4”), with the exterior elements of the building and with the lot on which the building is erected. The Apartment consists of living-dining room, kitchen, bathroom, three (3) bedrooms, bedroom closets, and a balcony on its East Side. The Apartment is equipped with a stainlesssteel sink, water heater and stove-oven. Le corresponde en

los elementus communes una participación equivalente a cero punto cinco uno cero cinco por ciento (.05105%). La propiedad y la escritura de hipoteca constan inscritas al folio 185 del tomo 150 de Luquillo, Finca 8,370. Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. Inscripción primera (1ra). La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva 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 alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo PR 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 05 de marzo de 2026 en Fajardo, Puerto Rico. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. SHEILA ROBLES HERNÁNDEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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

LUCENITH

CASTRILLO RAMOS

Parte Demandante Vs. FÉLIZ CRUZ FIGUEROA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2026RF00121 (C). Sobre: DIVORCIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: FÉLIZ CRUZ FIGUEROA.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza, se le notifica que una demanda ha sido presentada en su contra y se le requiere que conteste la misma dentro de treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, radicando el original de contestación de la misma ante el Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC) presentada electrónicamente mediante https://tri-

bunalelectronico.ramajudicial. pr/sumac2018/ y notificándole con copia fiel a la representante legal de la parte Demandante: Lcda. Yanira B. Rosado Meléndez, PO Box 817 Trujillo Alto, PR 00977-0817, teléfono y fax (787) 200-6552, 787-462-5115, ybrosado@gmail.com. Se le apercibe que, de no hacerlo, se podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle más. EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA Y EL SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 10 de marzo de 2026. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL. CARMEN ENID MELÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

MUNICIPIO AUTÓNOMO DE SAN JUAN, REPRESENTADO POR SU HONORABLE ALCALDE, MIGUEL ROMERO LUGO

Parte Peticionaria Vs. ADQUISICIÓN DE PROPIEDAD DE 190.5390

METROS CUADRADOS LOCALIZADA LA 1003, AVENIDA FERNÁNDEZ

JUNCOS, SANTURCE, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00907; ANA MARÍA MILLS SEVILLA, CATALINA MILLS

SEVILLA, CONCEPCIÓN MILLS SEVILLA, ELENA MILLS SEVILLA, ERNESTO MILLS

SEVILLA, ISABEL MILLS SEVILLA, JORGE MILLS SEVILLA, JOSÉ MILLS SEVILLA, JULIA MILLS SEVILLA, MARGARITA MILLS SEVILLA, ROSARIO MILLS SEVILLA;

CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Partes con Interés Civil Núm.: SJ2026CV00105. Sala: 1002. Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ANA MARÍA MILLS SEVILLA, CATALINA MILLS SEVILLA, CONCEPCIÓN MILLS SEVILLA, ELENA MILLS SEVILLA, ERNESTO MILLS SEVILLA, ISABEL MILLS SEVILLLA,

JORGE MILLS SEVILLA, JOSÉ MILLS SEVILLA, JULIA MILLS SEVILLA, MARGARITA MILLS SEVILA, ROSARIO MILLS SEVILLA.

RE: Adquisición en pleno dominio y a título absoluto de la propiedad de 190.5390 metros cuadrados localizada la 1003, Avenida Fernández Juncos, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00907, para eliminar un estorbo público declarado por el Municipio.

DESCRIPCIÓN AMPLIA DEL SUJETO EXPROPIADO SUFICIENTE PARA SU IDENTIFICACIÓN: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio de Santurce de esta ciudad con un área superficial de 190.5390 metros cuadrados. Por el Norte, con Jesús Rivera Vega en 28.55 metros; por el Sur, con la Avenida Fernández Juncos en 29.08 metros; por el Este, con Esmeralda Holdings en 6.62 metros; por el Oeste, con la Calle Cerra en 6.61 metros. Finca Número 2759 (Pasa a ser 2759A), inscrita al Folio 231 (Pasa al 197) del Tomo 65 (Pasa al 47) de San Juan Antiguo (Pasa a Santurce Sur), Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección I. ENTIDAD EXPROPIANTE Y CITAR LA LEGISLACIÓN EN VIRTUD DE LA CUAL SE EXPROPIA: El procedimiento de Expropiación Forzosa se instituye por el Municipio de San Juan, conforme a la Autorizada de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa del 12 de mayo de 1903, según enmendada, el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, Ley 107 del 14 de agosto de 2020, según enmendada; la Ordenanza Núm. 1, Serie 20212022 y la Resolución Núm. 71, Serie 2024-2025 de la Legislatura Municipal de San Juan. El interés y el fin para el cual el Municipio de San Juan se propone a adquirir la propiedad es para mejorar el área eliminando un estorbo público declarado por el Municipio. Quedan emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda de Expropiación Forzosa. La abogada de la parte demandante es el Lcda. Angelisse Ortiz Cruz cuya dirección postal es: 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, PMB 270, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, 00966 cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 273-0611 y su correo electrónico es: lcda.angelisseortiz@ gmail.com. Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que, si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma en el Tribunal, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante dentro del término

de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarles ni oírlos. Este Tribunal ha señalado para el 20 DE MAYO DE 2026 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, Sala 1002 del Centro Judicial de San Juan, el cual ubica en Hato Rey, PR, para la Vista del caso, en cuyo día se determinará el justo valor de la propiedad y las partes a ser compensadas y a cuya vista podrán ustedes comparecer y ofrecer prueba de valoración, aunque no hayan contestado la Petición. Expedido por Orden del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 11 de marzo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LIZ MARIE RIVERA DÍAZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. ERNESTO FELIPE RIVERA PUIG, LIZA IVETTE ERAZO

RODRIGUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV10984. Sala: 604. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: ERNESTO FELIPE

RIVERA PUIG Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA CON LIZA IVETTE ERAZO RODRÍGUEZ.

Queda emplazado y notificado de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una Demanda de ejecución de hipoteca In Rem en su contra. Se les notifica que deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.poderjudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcdo. Roberto C. Latimer Valentín

PO BOX 9022512

San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512

Teléfono: (787) 724-0230

Se les apercibe y notifica que si no contestan la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citárseles, ni oírseles. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, a 13 de marzo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

MARIELA O. VIZCARRONDO ROSADO, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE LAS PIEDRAS

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. NICOLLE MARIE COLON SOTO, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON FULANO DE TAL

Demandados Civil Núm.: LP2025CV00300. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. A: NICOLLE MARIE COLON SOTO, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON FULANO DE TAL - FÍSICA: CALLE VALENCIANO 68 URB. VISTAS DEL RIO, LAS PIEDRAS, PUERTO RICO 00777; POSTAL: CALLE VALENCIANO 68 URB. VISTAS DEL RIO, LAS PIEDRAS, PUERTO RICO 00777. Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la demanda de epígrafe. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electroni-

co/, 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 esta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de marzo de 2026. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. LAURA DE JESÚS GONZÁLEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.

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FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. HERICXANDER DE JESUS LOPEZ, FULANA DE TAL Y SU SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2026CV00225. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO. SALA: 802. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: HERICXANDER DE JESUS LOPEZ, FULANA DE TAL Y SU SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES - O12 CALLE 3W, URB REINA DE LOS ANGELES, GURABO PR 00778. De: FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO.

Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Incumplimiento de Contrato y Cobro de Dinero en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene al demandado a pagar Al 14 de noviembre de 2025, por el préstamo de auto xxxx-xx-70214464 la cantidad de $19,821.49 de principal; más $2,532.49 de intereses a razón del 18.45% los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; más $169.32 de cargos por pago tardío y los que se acumulen hasta su total y completo pago; más una suma equivalente al 5% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogados. Además, se solicita se ordene la reposesión del vehículo en controversia y, de no ser suficiente el producto de la venta del mismo para cubrir la suma total adeudada, se solicita la ejecución de la sentencia que en su día se dicte sobre cualesquiera otros bienes del demandado. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.

Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos Número del Tribunal Supremo 16,882

Po Box 0194089, San Juan PR 00919

Teléfono: (787) 296-9500

Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw. com

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIR-

MA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 5 de marzo de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA J. TRINIDAD CAÑUELAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

ROSA MARÍA

RIVERA GONZÁLEZ

Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE ABRAHAM

GARCÍA GARCÍA Y

SUCESIÓN DE LUZ

MARÍA FONTÁNEZ

RAMOS Y OTROS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2025CV00137. Sala: 804. Sobre: ACCIÓN

CONTRADICTORIA DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN-

19 Tuesday, March 31, 2026

TENCIA POR EDICTO. A: SUCESIÓN DE LUIS ÁNGEL ESCOBAR GARCÍA, LUIS ALBERTO ESCOBAR GARCÍA, LUZ

BRANCARLIS GARCÍA PAULINO Y BRYAN JOEL GARCÍA PAULINO.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en el caso CG2025CV00137, del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, sobre Acción Contradictoria de Dominio, presentado por Rosa María Rivera González, demandante, la cual 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 n la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha del 12 de marzo de 2026. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 25 de marzo de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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XIAREMY THAYS QUIÑONES TORRES

Demandante V. JAIRO LIOMAR SERRANO RODRÍGUEZ

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: PO2026RF00050. (Salón: 404 - RF Y MENORES).

Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

MICHELLE MARIE MASSARI

SANTOS - MMASSARI@ SERVICIOSLEGALES.ORG.

A: JAIRO LIOMAR SERRANO RODRIGUEZ

PARA SER NOTIFICADO MEDIANTE EDICTO - P/C LCDA. MICHELLE MARIE MASSARI SANTOS. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

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

QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. MARY ANN LEÓN ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. AUREA LEE VICENTE Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: PO2025RF00852. (Salón: 302 - RF Y MENORES).

Sobre: CUSTODIA - MONOPARENTAL O COMPARTIDA). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GLORIA E. GADEA CASTROGGADEA@SERVICIOSLEGALES. ORG.

A: AUREA LEE VICENTE; ANGEL ANDRE VEGA. (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 edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de marzo de 2026. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 24 de marzo de 2026. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. VIRGEN J. HADDOCK ORTIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante Vs. EDGARDO LUIS SANTIAGO MORALES

Demandado Civil Núm.: SB2026CV00013. Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROREGLA 60. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: EDGARDO LUIS SANTIAGO MORALES.

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

Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.poderjudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Centro Judicial de Yauco en Sabana Grande, Sala Superior, y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcda. Karina P. Cintrón Narváez; PO Box 193813, San Juan, PR 00919; kcintron@esqlegalpr.com. Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la demanda, sin más citársele ni oírsele. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal a 17 de marzo de 2026. CARMEN G.

TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DAISY QUIÑONES VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ROJAS DE JESÚS Demandante V. CECILIA NÚÑEZ Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2025RF01512. (Salón: 702). Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ADALBERTO NÚÑEZ LÓPEZANUNEZ@SERVICIOSLEGALES. ORG.

A: CECILIA NÚÑEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de marzo de 2026. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 24 de marzo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ALONDRA DÍAZ LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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MARIELIS

OCASIO GONZALEZ Demandante Vs. ANGEL ABDIEL CABRERA SILVA Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2025RF01292. (706). Sobre: CUSTODIA, PATRIA POTESTAD, ALIMENTOS. NOTIFICACIÓN - CITACIÓN PARA VISTA POR

EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: ANGEL ABDIEL

CABRERA SILVA.

POR LA PRESENTE se le requiere que comparezca ante el (la) Examinador(a) de Pensiones Alimentarias, Lcdo. Luis A. Figueroa López, para que muestre causa por la cual no deba dictarse sentencia, resolución u orden, según lo solicitado en la Petición presentada por la parte demandante en relación con su obligación de prestar alimentos a favor del menor habido entre las partes:

N.A.C.O. La vista se celebrará por videoconferencia el día 15 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Por ser este un procedimiento expedito de alimentos, se le advierte, que de estar debidamente citado(a) y no comparecer a la vista, el (la) Examinador(a), conforme dispone el Art. 13 inciso C de la Ley Orgánica de la ASUME, podrá celebrar la vista en su ausencia y recomendar que se dicte orden de pension alimentaria. Usted deberá llenar en su totalidad la Planilla de lnformación Personal y Económica (PIPE) (OAT 435) y entregarla a este Tribunal en un término de cinco (5) días antes de la Vista en el (la) Examinador(a). La Planilla deberá ser juramentada antes de entregarla. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 20 de marzo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CHRISMARIE HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. EDDIE TORRES MILLS Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: HU2023CV00585. (Salón: 208). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FASJCFORTUNO@FORTUNO-LAW. COM.

A: CANDIDA YANET PUJOLS LUCIANODIRECCIÓN: URB. VERDE

MAR LOTE 327 CALLE 10 HUMACAO PR 00791; PO BOX 243 NAGUABO PR 00718; URB. VERDE MAR 250 CALLE 10 HUMACAO, PR 00791; SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA

POR

EDDIE TORRES MILLS Y CANDIDA YANET PUJOLS

LUCIANO - DIRECCIÓN:

URB. VERDE MAR LOTE 327 CALLE 10 HUMACAO PR 00791; PO BOX 243 NAGUABO PR 00718; URB. VERDE MAR 250 CALLE 10 HUMACAO, PR. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 25 de marzo de 2026. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 25 de marzo de 2026. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. PATRICIA M. RIVERA TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE

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KARLA MARIE

CEREZO JUARBE

Demandante V. DANIEL LÓPEZ CRUZ

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AG2026RF00022. (Salón: 404 RF). Sobre: ALIMENTOS - EXCÓNYUGES Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ALFREDO III LÓPEZ GARAYALOPEZ@LOPEZASOCIADOSPR. COM. NADJA IVELISSE CARDONA PORTALATÍN - NCARDONA@ LOPEZASOCIADOSPR.COM. A: DANIEL LÓPEZ CRUZSE DESCONOCE.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada

en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 25 de marzo de 2026. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 25 de marzo de 2026. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA DE LOS M. VALENTÍN RAMÍREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. SUGEI DE LOS SANTOS SANCHEZ

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2025CV03644. (Salón: 705). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JEAN PAUL JULIÁ DÍAZJPJULIA@RMMELAW.COM. A: SUGEI DE LOS SANTOS SÁNCHEZ.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido

archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de marzo de 2026. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 24 de marzo de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. CARMEN L. SOTO PLANAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

WILDA MARIA

MERCADO SOTO

Demandante V. LUIS FERNANDO RIVERA MERCADO

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BY2025CV06662. (Salón: 701). Sobre: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDACIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JORGE GARCÍA RONDÓNJAFGRONDON@OUTLOOK.COM.

A: LUIS FERNANDO

RIVERA MERCADO.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de marzo de 2026. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 24 de marzo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR SAN JUAN CONSEJO DE TITULARES DEL CONDOMINIO 410 NORZAGARAY

Demandante V.

KRYSTAL ALEXANDRA CAMPIS BERRIOS

Demandado

Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV10862. Salón Núm.: 903. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR., SALA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA.

A: KRYSTAL ALEXANDRA CAMPIS BERRIOSCOND. 410 NORZAGARAY APT. 202, SAN JUAN, PR 00901.

POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este Tribunal una demanda en cobro de dinero contra la parte demandada antes indicada por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento, solicitando que se dicte sentencia a favor de Consejo de Titulares del Cond. 410 Norzagaray y le condene al pago de la suma de $24,582.09, más intereses, costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. SE LE APERCIBE que si no compareciere usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto, con copia a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, LCDA. ROSAMAR GARCÍA FONTÁN, P.O. Box 871, Guaynabo, PR 00970, Tel. 787-5983313, presentando el original de la contestación a la demanda en la Secretaría del Tribunal, podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. 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/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término de treinta (30) días, 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. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 24 de marzo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARÍA I. COLÓN RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR E.M.I. EQUITY MORTGAGE, INC.

Demandante Vs. EDWIN AMID ROSADO BONILLA Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2026CV00407. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A La Parte CoDemandada: EDWIN AMID ROSADO BONILLA; A LA SIGUIENTE DIRECCIÓN: URB. EXT. LAGOS DEL PLATA N-1 CALLE 14 TOA BAJA, PR 00949. Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra, en la cual se alega entre otras cosas que la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma $117,754.87 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de mayo de 2025, más intereses al tipo pactado de 7.50%anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $11,996.30 y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 6, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de enero de 2024, ante el notario Armando J. Martínez Vilella, finca número 20,244, inscrita al Folio 50 del Tomo 340 de Toa Baja, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Segunda. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente

dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo.Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 625-7001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 27 de marzo de 2026, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA E. COLLAZO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I. LEGAL NOTICE

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

LUGO MENDER GROUP, LLC

Demandante V. CHRISTOPHER SÁNCHEZ FIGUEROA Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: GB2024CV01106. (Salón: 202). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. AMARYS VELLISE BOLORÍN SOLIVÁN - A.BOLORIN@ LUGOMENDER.COM.

A: CHRISTOPHER SÁNCHEZ FIGUEROA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

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

de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 25 de marzo de 2026. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 25 de marzo 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 SALA DE CIALES ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Parte Demandante Vs. MARIELYS DIAZ ROSADO Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CZ2025CV00240. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: MARIELYS DIAZ ROSADO - BO JAGUAS SECT COJOBALES CARR 149 KM 13.8, CIALES PR 00638; PO BOX 565, COROZAL PR 00783-0565. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CIALES, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de enero de 2026. VIVÍAN FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. JANETTE GONZÁLEZ VARGAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.

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Crossword

Juncos bounces back in quarterfinals, hands Pinkin their 3rd loss

By THE STAR STAFF

The Valencianas of Juncos secured their first victory in two outings on Sunday night in the Women’s Superior Volleyball League (LVSF by its initials in Spanish) Section A quarterfinals, defeating the Pinkin of Corozal in a five-set thriller and handing them their third loss in as many matches.

Juncos -- which recently added Puerto Rican setter Jennifer Nogueras and American player Kaleigh Nelson to its roster -- prevailed with set scores of 25-16, 24-26, 24-26, 25-23 and 16-14.

With Nogueras’ arrival, American setter Isabelle Morgan departed the team.

After convincingly dominating the first set, the Valencianas entered a second set that proved to be extremely tight.

The score remained tied from points 20 through 25, but the Pinkin closed out the set with two consecutive points: an effective spike by Adriana Rodríguez from Zone 3 and an attack by Daly Santana from Zone 4, evening the match at a set apiece.

The third set was a carbon copy of the second. Corozal took a 20-16 lead

thanks to two direct service aces from Santana, but Juncos countered with a 4-0 run -- including a running attack by Naya Gross -- to tie the set.

Once again, the score remained tied from 22 to 24, and once again, the Pinkin closed it out in extra points, with Rodríguez delivering effectively from the middle and a block against Leandra Mangual sealing the win.

Juncos staged a comeback in the fourth set, which saw its final tie at 23 points when Mangual successfully attacked from Zone 4 to secure set point. Immediately thereafter, Juncos forced the decisive fifth set following a failed attack by Ivania Ortiz, who sent the ball into the antenna.

In the deciding fifth set, Juncos reached match point at 14-12 thanks to a back-row attack by Kelly Sánchez and a block by Marcelle Báez against

Jordan Iliff. The Pinkin managed to tie the score at 14, but their late rally fell short.

The Valencianas sealed the victory with Mangual’s 25th point -- scored from Zone 4 -- and a spike by Corozal’s Santana that landed out of bounds.

Juncos’ offensive output was distributed among Mangual (25 points), Gross (18), Haley Bush (12) and Báez (11). Iliff led the way for Corozal with 26 points, followed by Ortiz (16) and Santana (15).

Quarterfinal play will resume in Section A today when the group leader, the Cangrejeras of Santurce (3-0), visit the Valencianas at Rafael G. Amalbert Coliseum, starting at 8:30 p.m. A victory for Juncos would earn the team a direct pass to the semifinals.

A Section B quarterfinal match was slated for Monday night at Salvador Dijols Arena in Ponce, with the Leonas (11) hosting the Atenienses of Manatí (12). A win for Ponce would secure their spot in the semifinals and eliminate the Atenienses from the postseason.

The San Juan Daily Star

Winter’s gloomy spirit lifts as baseball’s Blue Jays land

By SHAWNA RICHER

The Toronto Blue Jays played their first opening day 50 years ago in the snow.

Not a flurry, but snow that collected on the brims of people’s hats and accumulated on the field so much that groundskeepers used a hockey rink Zamboni to clear the turf. Blue Jays third baseman Dave McKay, a Canadian, said that April 7, 1977, was the coldest day he had ever played baseball in his life.

Spring in Toronto, and much of Canada, is a paradox. There are a few warm days in March, when rain washes dirty snowbanks into the sewer. Some insane people start wearing shorts. But then it gets cold again. Then warmish. It always snows in April. Last Friday, it was arrogantly winter. The roof of the stadium many Canadians still call the SkyDome won’t open until May.

It’s been the Rogers Centre since 2005, when the telecom giant took full ownership of Canada’s only Major League Baseball team. But the old name, the SkyDome, still suits the bowl with the retractable roof that opened in 1989, even with its recent renovations.

On Friday night, the Blue Jays walked in where they left us last. The sellout crowd stood and roared. We haven’t seen them in forever. That Game 7 World Series loss against the Los Angeles Dodgers feels like yesterday.

Ahead of their 50th season opener, against the Athletics, a crisp blue banner to mark Toronto’s American League pennant was unfurled. It begged for additional context: within two outs of upsetting the defending champions in 11 innings.

It’s difficult to describe how pleasurable — and indelible — last October was, in Toronto and so much of the country, to someone who wasn’t here. In the same way, it’s impossible to adequately explain what it was like in 1977, a new Toronto MLB team playing at windswept Exhibition Stadium in a snowstorm. I know people who were there, and they carry that day inside them.

Everyone in the United States who cared about baseball predicted a Dodgers sweep. But Canadians weren’t having it. Love for the scrappy Blue Jays — a team whose players repeatedly said was built on friendship — overran Toronto. By the time the Blue Jays flattened the Dodgers, 11-4, in Game 1 of the World Series, they had seized the country’s autumn heart.

Sports are not that important. They are so important. It’s just baseball. People are deeply stirred by it. In the grocery store, at the doctor’s office or waiting to cross the street, strangers talked excitedly. There were only two types of days: game days, or waiting-for-the-game days. And Canadians were longing for something to throw their arms around.

It had been a fraught stretch for Canada-U.S. relations. In the preceding 10 months, President Donald Trump had at times suggested that Canada should become the 51st state, called the border an arbitrary line and applied punishing tariffs. Canadians were angry and hurt, and in large numbers, they stopped traveling to the United States and buying American products. The Blue Jays became a natural unifier. The joy of winning baseball has also come to magnify how

agonizing Canada’s national winter game has recently felt.

The Canadian men’s and women’s Olympic hockey teams lost gold medal games to the United States. The Vancouver Canucks are the worst team in the NHL. Some of the loudest cheers the Toronto Maple Leafs have heard all year came last Wednesday night when a half-dozen Blue Jays players attended the game. Only the Edmonton Oilers and the Montreal Canadiens have Stanley Cup hopes.

The Blue Jays won championships in 1992 and 1993, but most years were far from that. When a disappointing regular season concluded, that was it. We wouldn’t have more baseball, but we still had late summer and fall. We had hockey. We leaned gently into winter. Last year, when I left the stadium hours after Alejandro Kirk had grounded into the double play that ended Game 7, it was a freezing November night. Baseball was over. Winter was on the doorstep.

Outside the stadium Friday, it was a few degrees below zero. Inside, the temperature was October. And around 7 o’clock Eastern time, the Blue Jays still had 162 games to win or lose. Three hours later they had a walk-off 3-2 victory.

Opening day was “a little bit different this year,” said John Schneider, the Toronto manager. “You tie in the 50th anniversary and excitement around the team and unveiling some stuff tonight, yeah.”

The Blue Jays aren’t favorites to make the World Series, but they weren’t last year either. It’s as likely as anything, but it won’t feel the same. And I wouldn’t want it to.

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