Tuesday May 5, 2026

House to Honor Derby Winner Ortiz, Other Island Jockeys Who Competed

Striking a Balance

Medical Science Campus Clinics Trim Appointments as UPR Students & Allies Take to Streets in Systemwide Stoppage

Labor Dept. Activates Response to Assist Employees Impacted by Spirit Shutdown

US Warns China Over Iranian Oil as Sanctions Fight Intensifies

May 5, 2026

2 GOOD MORNING

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House to honor Derby-winner Ortiz, other island jockeys who competed

By THE STAR STAFF

The island House of Representatives on Monday announced it will pay tribute to Puerto Rican jockey José Luis Ortiz, who, riding the three-year-old Golden Tempo, won the 152nd edition of the Kentucky Derby this past Saturday.

The achievements of the other six jockeys from the island who participated in the race that forms the first leg of the Triple Crown -- Irad Ortiz, Manuel Franco, Edwin Maldonado, Jaime Torres, Christian Torres and John Velázquez -- will also be recognized.

The announcement was made by the House Speaker Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, along with Rep. Pedro Julio “Pelle” Santiago and Recreation and Sports Committee Chairman Rep. Luis “Josean” Jiménez Torres.

“In the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, we celebrate the participation of seven Puerto Rican jockeys in one of the most important events in the world of horse racing, the 152nd edition of the Kentucky Derby,” the House speaker said. “This feat alone would be enough to warrant recognition, but we must also add that another Puerto Rican, José Luis Ortiz, took the coveted first place in the so-called ‘Race of Races.’ The passion, perseverance, dedication, and excellence of the seven Puerto Rican jockeys is a legacy that is reflected not only on the world stage of horse racing but also in the hearts of the public who celebrate them.”

Puerto Rican jockey José Luis Ortiz, riding the three-year-old Golden Tempo, at left, won the 152nd edition of the Kentucky Derby this past Saturday. (Facebook via The 812)

Jaime Torres, who until 2020 was a track and field athlete and has only four years of jockey experience, guided the horse Incredibolt to an unexpected sixth-place finish. U.S. Racing Hall of Famer Velázquez, riding Further Ado, earned an 11th-place finish in one of the most competitive Derbys in recent decades.

Christian Torres, who began his career six years ago and was participating in his first Kentucky Derby, rode Robusta to a 14th-place finish, followed by Franco, a Carolina resident who placed 15th aboard Albus, and Maldonado, participating in his first Derby and riding Pavlovian, finished in 18th place. Details of the recognition event will be announced in the coming days.

Amgen investing $300 million to expand facility in Juncos

By THE STAR STAFF

Amgen is investing an additional $300 million to expand its biologics manufacturing facility in Juncos, deepening a decades-long presence on the island and reinforcing its role in the company’s global supply chain.

According to MarketWatch, the new investment will support production scale-up, the integration of advanced manufacturing technologies, and efforts to ensure an uninterrupted supply of medicines. The expansion is also expected to create new jobs, including construction roles, highly skilled manufacturing positions, and opportunities tied to local workforce development initiatives.

The latest commitment builds on Amgen’s $650 million investment announced last year, which was projected to generate roughly 750 jobs. With Monday’s announcement, the company’s recent capital commitments in Puerto Rico approach $1 billion. Medicines produced at the Juncos site are distributed to patients in more than 60 countries, and the campus ranks among the largest biologics manufacturing facilities in the world.

Amgen’s footprint in Puerto Rico dates back more than three

decades. The company established its Juncos manufacturing operation in the early 1990s as it transitioned from small-scale clinical production to large-scale commercial manufacturing of biologic therapies. What began as a single building with a small workforce has since grown into a multi-building manufacturing complex employing thousands, supporting the production of more than two dozen medicines across multiple therapeutic areas.

The expansion in Puerto Rico comes as part of a broader push by global drugmakers to increase domestic manufacturing capacity amid rising trade pressures. Under an executive order issued by President Donald Trump in April, branded pharmaceuticals imported into the U.S. could face tariffs of up to 100% unless manufacturers either enter into government drug-pricing agreements or shift production to U.S.-based facilities.

Beyond Puerto Rico, Amgen has announced significant U.S. investments in recent months, including a $600 million science and innovation center in California, more than $1.5 billion in North Carolina, and $900 million in manufacturing expansion in Ohio, underscoring a company-wide strategy to strengthen its domestic manufacturing network.

Medical Science Campus clinics streamline appointments due to strike

By THE STAR STAFF

The University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus (RCM-UPR) announced on Monday that the clinics of the Intramural Medical Practice Plan would only see patients with scheduled appointments while students at the UPR Río Piedras campus marched as part of a systemwide strike to demand the resignation of UPR President Zayira Jordán Conde.

The Intramural Medical Practice Plan clinics are located in the Reparto Metropolitano shopping center.

Appointments at the School of Dental Medicine Clinic and the Psychiatry Clinic, located in the Guillermo Arbona building on campus, were previously rescheduled.

The RCM-UPR urged everyone to stay tuned to its official social media channels for updated information.

Meanwhile, island Health Secretary Víctor Ramos Otero issued warnings -- which were rejected -- about the impact the work stop-

page would have on patients with complex conditions.

The decision comes after Ramos Otero asked the unions and organizations calling for the strike last Friday to exclude the Intramural Clinic from the work stoppage, noting that it is an access point to specialized services for some 800 patients who already have scheduled appointments, many of whom have waited between eight and 10 months to be seen.

The official warned that the interruption of those services could cause additional delays of equal or greater duration, as well as complications in delicate clinical cases, including biopsies, adjustments to anticoagulant treatments, and pre-surgical evaluations.

The strike at the RCM was part of a day of protests by various sectors, as the Health Department has insisted on the need to keep essential services operational to avoid interruptions in specialized medical care.

Also on Monday, Jordán Conde held a meeting with Gov. Jenniffer González Colón as part of coordinated efforts to address the

current situation of the university system and continue advancing solutions aimed at strengthening its academic, fiscal, and operational stability.

In that context, the president presented the main elements of the explanatory memorandum submitted to the Legislative Assembly as part of the budget request for fiscal year 20262027, in a strategic management aimed at ensuring the continuity of academic operations and the institutional development of UPR.

As part of the budget proposal, an additional allocation of $118 million is contemplated for the Classification and Remuneration Plan for teaching, non-teaching and management staff, a measure aimed at addressing salary equity, strengthening talent retention and ensuring the operational stability of the institution.

“This effort responds to an urgent need for the university,” the UPR president said. “We have initiated a process that had been under evaluation for years, and today we present it as a clear priority to ensure the continuity and quality of our academic services.”

Gov’t misses budget deadline imposed by fiscal board, seeks extension

By THE STAR STAFF

The communications office of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico reported Monday that the island government failed to submit its required budget report on May 1 and instead requested an extension.

Rep. Eddie Charbonier Chinea, chairman of the House Treasury Committee, responded in a radio interview, stating that the oversight oard must issue a public letter explaining why the executive branch failed to meet the established deadline. He said the executive branch, which is responsible for enforcing and complying with the law, should clarify

why the budget submission was delayed after previously stating that everything was in order.

Charbonier also questioned whether the executive branch complied with Section 204 of the law related to economic and tax relief measures, noting that residents are still waiting for progress. He emphasized that while the Legislature met its responsibilities, further action from the executive branch is necessary.

Separately, the oversight board warned last month that the government’s proposed fiscal year 2027 budget, although aligned with the certified fiscal plan in overall dollar amounts, remains noncompliant. The board said the budget was prepared using accounting standards that differ from the modified accrual

basis agreed upon for the General Fund.

In an April 24 letter to Gov. Jenniffer González Colón, the oversight board’s executive director, Robert F. Mujica Jr., outlined weeks of discussions with the administration regarding funding priorities, agency risks and supporting documentation.

Under the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, commonly known as PROMESA, the island government is required to submit a proposed commonwealth budget for board review and certification. According to the letter, the government initially submitted its fiscal year 2027 budget proposal on March 6 and provided revisions, including an updated version on April 21.

District 17 legislator concludes educational initiative with incentives

By THE STAR STAFF

District 17 (Aguadilla and Moca)

Rep. Wilson Román López on Monday celebrated the culmination of his “Tutors of Excellence” initiative.

With the distribution of $20,000 in

incentives, the legislator recognized and rewarded the outstanding performance of dozens of students and tutors at a wellattended event.

“With great satisfaction, we concluded the distribution of incentives and the presentation of workshops to the graduating

classes of various public and private high schools, positively impacting our students in District 17,” the lawmaker said. “We continue working to support, recognize, and open opportunities for those who are the present and future of Puerto Rico. … Congratulations to all the graduates!”

Although the revised proposal met General Fund targets, the oversight board said it did not allocate sufficient resources to cover certain operating risks. It also warned that some proposed reductions could threaten the continuity of essential services, including public safety, education, health and social programs.

Despite further negotiations and accepted reductions, the oversight board maintained that the budget remains noncompliant because it was not developed using modified accrual accounting standards.

The board has set June 30 as the target date to certify the fiscal year 2027 commonwealth budget.

Labor Dept. activates response to assist employees impacted by Spirit shutdown

A Spirit Airlines commercial flight takes off from Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Nov. 21, 2024. The island Labor and Human Resources Department is mobilizing its resources to guide laid‑off Spirit workers through available benefits and employment services. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times)

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Department of Labor and Human Resources (DTRH by its initials in Spanish) activated an emergency re sponse on Monday to assist employees affected by the sudden shutdown of Spirit Airlines’ operations on the island.

Labor Secretary María del Pilar Vélez Casanova said the agency is mobilizing its resources to guide laid‑off workers through available benefits and employment services, in line with an initiative supported by Gov. Jenniffer González Colón.

The DTRH made its digital platform available to those affected to file applica tions for unemployment insurance. Workers can access trabajo.pr.gov and complete the process in the “Initial Unemployment Claim” section. Subsequently, they must submit the required documentation through the portal in the “Document Submission” section.

“The situation faced by these workers and their families is complex, and from the department, we are focused on providing them with immediate support and clear guidance so that they can access the available aid,” Vélez Casanova said.

In addition to the unemployment process, the agency mobilized staff across its offices on the island to provide direct guidance on employment programs and market opportunities. Those efforts include advisory services for job search, registration on the Employment and Recruitment Portal to Facilitate Labor Integration, or PERFIL by its acronym in Spanish, and other recruitment initiatives to facilitate their transition to new job opportunities.

Spirit Airlines, the ultra‑low‑cost

carrier known for its bright yellow aircraft and discount fares, ceased all operations immediately on Saturday, after announcing an “orderly wind‑down” of the company. The decision followed years of financial instability, including two bankruptcy filings since 2024, mounting debt, and unsuccessful efforts to secure new financing or a federal rescue.

According to the airline, the shutdown was precipitated by a sharp increase in jet fuel prices, which it attributed to geopolitical instability related to the war involving Iran, combined with already weakened finances.

Federal officials, however, noted that Spirit had been in severe financial distress well before the fuel price surge, citing more than $2.5 billion in losses since 2020 and a business model that struggled to compete in a crowded low‑cost market.

Spirit’s collapse came after several failed recovery attempts, including a blocked merger with JetBlue in 2024 and negotiations in recent days for a $500 million federal bailout, which ultimately fell apart when creditors and the government could not reach an agreement. With no new funding available, the compa ny canceled all remaining flights and began liquidating assets to repay creditors.

The airline had operated in Puerto Rico since 2001, serving San Juan and other des tinations as part of a broader network across the Caribbean and Latin America. Its shutdown left thousands of passengers stranded and some 17,000 direct and indirect employees unemployed worldwide, including an unde termined number of workers on the island.

Puerto Rico officials have stated that while the impact on tourism is expected to be limited, the employment consequences of the airline’s closure are still being assessed.

Agriculture Dept. launches Puerto Rican Land Week

By THE STAR STAFF

The Department of Agriculture on Sunday announced the start of the 71st Puerto Rican Land Week, which is being observed all of this week under the theme: “Where the land flourishes, livestock thrives, and water offers us fish; harvest, raise livestock, and fish.”

The celebration brings together a diverse agenda of educational, cul tural and recognition activities aimed at highlighting the importance of the agricultural sector, the conservation of natural resources, and the value of the island’s farmers, ranchers and fishermen, reaf firming the agency’s commitment to sustainable development and local production.

In a first for the commemoration, La For taleza (the Governor’s Mansion), the Capitol Building and the Department of Agriculture’s central building in San Juan will be illuminated in green throughout the week as a symbolic tribute to Puerto Rican land and all the farmers who sustain food production every day. The gesture represents institutional support for the growth of agriculture and those who are an essential part of the industry.

This year’s official poster was designed by Briana Armijo Serralta, a student at the Central School of Visual Arts, who was selected after a competition involving 25 students.

Agriculture Secretary Irving Rodríguez Torres emphasized that the celebration rep resents an opportunity to strengthen the bond between the community and the agricultural sector, while also recognizing the efforts of those who work the land.

“Earth Week is an opportunity to recon nect with who we are: a productive, resilient land brimming with agricultural talent,” he said. “This year, we are taking that message to every corner, promoting the consumption of locally produced goods and recognizing the work of our farmers, ranchers, and fishermen.”

As part of the initiatives, the agency will be promoting public participation in spaces like “La Placita en Plaza” at Plaza Las Américas, where citizens are invited to support local products.

This year, the Agriculture Department headquarters takes on greater significance as it opens its doors to what has always been the farmer’s home to celebrate Agricultural Night,

an event featuring musical performances, tradi tional activities and gathering spaces designed for family enjoyment, highlighting the island’s traditions and the rich culture linked to the agricultural sector.

Below is the official schedule of activities starting today:

Tuesday, May 5

Activity: Tree and Youth Day

Time: 8 a.m. 4 p.m.

Location: Finca Semilla / Cacao 360, Barceloneta

Description: Educational workshop for young people focused on planting, sustainability and modern agriculture.

Thursday, May 7

Activity: La Placita en Plaza – A Tribute to Our Agricultural Traditions

Time: 10 a.m. 1 p.m.

Location: Plaza Las Américas

Description: A space to promote the consump tion of products grown, raised, and fished in Puerto Rico, strengthening the connection between consumers and farmers.

Friday, May 8

Morning activity: Farmer and Conservationist Day

Time: 10 a.m.

Location: La Fortaleza, San Juan

Description: Official recognition of outstanding farmers and conservationists.

Afternoon/evening activity: Agricultural Night Time: 5 p.m. 8 p.m.

Location: Department of Agriculture, San Juan

Description: Cultural event with music and traditional activities celebrating our traditions.

Behind voting rights case, a clash over the reality of racism

By RICHARD FAUSSET

In 1965, the year Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, it did not take much detective work to discover how some of the South’s most powerful white politicians felt about their Black neighbors.

Sen. James Eastland, D-Miss., who wanted to kill the landmark legislation, once openly stated that Black people were an “an inferior race.” During his 1963 inauguration speech, Gov. George Wallace of Alabama, a Democrat, infamously declared, “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”

These days, such racism, at least when directed at Black people, is rarely openly expressed by white Southern politicians, who consider it to be immoral, bad politics, bad manners — or all of the above.

But a question central to the Southern experience lingers: Has anti-Black racism eased, or has discrimination against African Americans simply become more subtle, disguised as a web of rules embedded in regular partisan politics?

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court strode once again into this fraught territory with a decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act, the law that allowed many Black Southerners to finally participate in American democracy after decades of systemic oppression and exclusion.

At issue was the way in which the courts should determine whether a legislative map is racially discriminatory. Writing for the six-judge conservative majority, Justice Samuel Alito stated that from now on, anyone who wished to challenge a map on such grounds must show proof that the mapmakers had “intentionally” drawn legislative districts to disadvantage a given racial group.

In a blistering dissent, Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the liberal minority, argued that under the ruling, a plaintiff would have to show “that the legislators were ‘motivated by a discriminatory purpose,’” which was contrary to the “clear text and design” of the Voting Rights Act.

Congress has long known, she wrote, that trying to find smoking-gun evidence of racist motives is “well-nigh impossible.”

Indeed, such proof may be harder than ever to find. For Gerald Griggs, a civil rights lawyer in Georgia, the old measures of racism — some stomach-turning tally of crosses burned, of people lynched — does not apply so much anymore. Griggs, who is Black, said that subtler discriminatory forces have “gotten into the system and corroded the arteries of the system,” and will require particularly nuanced legal challenges to “ferret out.”

“What we’re dealing with now is less overt racism,” said Griggs, a past president of the Georgia NAACP.

Some Black Southerners still feel that kind of racism deeply. But proving it in a courtroom is another matter.

The Supreme Court’s requirement that there must be some proof of an intent to discriminate has taken form in other areas of the law — with serious implications in the South and beyond, said Stephen Bright, who teaches law at Georgetown and Yale universities.

The problem of “proving” racial discrimination has also bedeviled the South when it comes to racially lopsided juries,

Bright said. In a 1986 case, Batson v. Kentucky, the Supreme Court established that a judge must find “purposeful discrimination” to determine that racial discrimination had been present in the jury selection process.

“You have to prove that the prosecutor, in using peremptory strikes, intentionally discriminated,” Bright said. “You can’t possibly know that unless the prosecutor tells you.”

This is one reason, he said, that all-white juries remain common in many parts of the South — “even in places with very substantial African American populations.”

The Supreme Court’s ruling on Wednesday nullified a majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana, one of two in the state. The district, long and intermittently bulbous, had been created by state lawmakers who felt pressured by the courts to draw a map that carved out two districts with a majority of Black voters, in order to meet the requirements of the Voting Rights Act.

Alito, writing the decision, made the case that the South had come a long way since 1965, particularly on Black voter participation, an assertion that is highly contested.

“Black voters now participate in elections at similar rates as the rest of the electorate, even turning out at higher rates than white voters in two of the five most recent presidential elections nationwide and in Louisiana,” he wrote.

Some conservative African Americans last week welcomed the ruling, viewing it a fitting response to real racial progress in the United States. To them, the Voting Rights Act, which often forced state legislatures to draw majority-minority districts around the country, had merely put Black Americans into archaic race-based boxes.

Among those approving of the ruling was Josh Williams, a Republican state representative of a majority-white district in Ohio.

“The idea that Black Americans need special districts carved out just for them is complete non-

sense,” Williams posted on social media last week, noting that he was currently running for Congress in a district that is also majority-white. “It’s a violation of the law and blatantly unconstitutional.”

Wednesday’s ruling is of a piece with the Supreme Court’s decisions to move to what some justices have called a “colorblind Constitution.” In 2023, the court effectively ended affirmative action in college admissions, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing, “eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.”

The second Trump administration, meanwhile, has used its executive power to try to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the public and private sectors.

The stakes in the voting-rights case, Louisiana v. Callais, are arguably bigger, potentially reconfiguring the very architecture of national political power just as a polarized country is barreling toward midterm elections. Some states are already considering whether to redraw their maps.

In today’s redistricting efforts, it has been a struggle, at times, to tease out whether a redrawn electoral map is a result of partisanship or old-fashioned racism. Complicating matters is the fact that the Supreme Court, in 2019, ruled that federal judges have no power to hear challenges to gerrymanders carried out purely for partisan advantage.

Stephen Menendian, an academic researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, has described the mess as “the problem of entanglement.” In a 2023 law review article, he warned of a big risk: “that unconstitutional racial gerrymanders will escape judicial review under the cover of partisanship.”

The court’s conservative majority sees it the opposite way. In the opinion, Alito wrote that plaintiffs could challenge a partisan gerrymander by claiming it is actually a racial gerrymander. Alito warned that litigants should not be able to get around the rules “by dressing their political-gerrymandering claims in racial garb.”

Quin Hillyer, a white conservative opinion writer who lives in Alabama, believes that these days, Republican mapmakers would welcome any Black voters into a district if it would bolster their party’s strength.

“If there were an enclave, or a neighborhood, that was 100% Black, but that voted 80% Republican,” he said, “I think that the white Republicans would gladly take those people.”

Rudy Giuliani remains in critical condition with pneumonia

By JONAH E. BROMWICH

Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, was still in critical condition as he recovered from pneumonia in a Florida hospital on Monday, his spokesperson said.

The spokesperson, Ted Goodman, said that the lung infection had overwhelmed Giuliani and that he had required a ventilator to breathe. But as of Monday, Goodman said, Giuliani was breathing on his own “with his family and primary medical provider at his side.”

“Mayor Giuliani is the ultimate fighter — as he has demonstrated throughout his life — and he is winning this battle,” Goodman said in a statement, adding, “Please keep the prayers coming.”

On Sunday, Goodman had announced that Giuliani was in a Florida hospital in critical condition, but did not elaborate on the cause or the former mayor’s symptoms.

It is unclear when Giuliani, 81, was taken to the hospital.

President Donald Trump, in a post on Truth Social on Sunday, called Giuliani a “True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR.” He used the occasion to again advance his false claim that Democrats “cheated” in the 2020 election.

vertebra. After that, Giuliani made at least one public appearance in a wheelchair.

On Monday, Goodman said that Giuliani had been diagnosed with restrictive airway disease stemming from his proximity to ground zero in Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, and that the condition made respiratory illnesses more threatening.

It is unclear whether Giuliani has publicly mentioned such a diagnosis before. But the former mayor has noted that he was a frequent presence at ground zero, and in recent years his lawyers have alluded to potential lung disease related to toxicity from the attacks.

Giuliani became mayor in January 1994 after he defeated Mayor David Dinkins, who was running for a second term. He remained in office until December 2001 and helped lead the city in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Later, he became a personal lawyer to Trump during the president’s first term and quickly became embroiled in a number of investigations related to the presidency.

“They cheated on the Elections, fabricated hundreds of stories, did anything possible to destroy our Nation, and now, look at Rudy. So sad!” he wrote.

Giuliani has struggled with legal and financial problems in recent years, and in the summer of 2025, he was involved in a car crash in New Hampshire in which he suffered a fractured

FEMA is reversing job cuts made under Kristi Noem

By SCOTT DANCE

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is reversing job cuts that former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had overseen before she was fired last month.

FEMA has reinstated 14 people who had signed a public letter that became known as the Katrina Declaration, which warned that the agency risked repeating mistakes learned during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, said Abby McIlraith, one of the reinstated workers and an emergency management specialist. Another 21 people who signed their names are no longer at the agency, McIlraith said.

The agency has also begun calling disaster workers who were let go in January to offer them their jobs back, according to two people familiar with the actions, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the move publicly. The agency parted ways with some 200 workers who served in temporary roles when their assignments

came up for renewal in January. It was a major departure from past practices, and prompted unions to file a lawsuit against the agency, arguing that the dismissals violated FEMA’s statutory requirement to maintain readiness for disasters.

The agency is taking steps to “stabilize” its workforce before hurricane season, which begins in June, and the World Cup, with soccer matches to be held across the United States, Canada and Mexico in June and July, said Victoria Barton, a FEMA spokesperson.

“Under new leadership, FEMA is addressing outstanding personnel actions to ensure workforce stability and a strong, deployable surge force for upcoming national events and potential disasters,” Barton said in an email.

Giuliani was a crucial part of the team that helped Trump advance the claim that he won the 2020 election. After Trump left office, Giuliani was indicted several times and contended with a number of costly defamation suits related to those efforts. Now disbarred, he has kept a far lower profile during Trump’s second term in office.

among senior leaders about their decisions to cut staffing. Judge Susan Illston of U.S. District Court for the District of Northern California on Thursday ordered FEMA to immediately search the personal cellphone of Joseph Guy, a former top aide to Noem, before he leaves federal employment Thursday.

Illston, who was nominated to the bench by President Bill Clinton, also recently ordered depositions of Guy and Kara Voorhies, a former FEMA contractor and aide to Noem whose actions are being scrutinized as part of an inspector general’s investigation into how the Homeland Security Department handled contracts under Noem and her senior adviser Corey Lewandowski.

Documents released as evidence in that court case show that Karen Evans, the acting FEMA administrator, was taking cues from Voorhies on agency operations and personnel decisions.

Markwayne Mullin, a former Republican senator from Oklahoma, took over as homeland security secretary in late March. FEMA is part of the Homeland Security Department.

FEMA had about 18,500 people in its incident management workforce as of Thursday, according to a daily briefing on its operations, which is nearly 2,000 fewer than it had at the end of last year.

At the same time, a federal judge is placing increasing pressure on FEMA to release documents and communications

FEMA officials did not respond to questions about how its decisions to reverse the dismissals could affect that litigation, in which the plaintiffs are seeking the reinstatement of those workers.

McIlraith said that getting her job back after being fired for signing the protest letter is a vindication. But she said that the agency “is arguably in a worse state than it was back in August when I signed the Katrina Declaration.”

“A hiring freeze is still in effect, FEMA still has no legally qualified administrator, money isn’t getting to states that need it, we have wildfire and hurricane seasons coming up, and as a result the public is in severe danger,” McIlraith said.

Trump is the one without the cards at the poker table NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

President Donald Trump often falls back on poker metaphors. He told President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine that he had “no cards” when it came to standing up to Russia. Trump told Iran’s leaders that they had “no cards” when it came to standing up to him.

Would somebody please tell me when it’s poker night at the Trump White House. Because I’d really like a seat at that table.

Trump is betting that by blockading Iran to prevent it from exporting its oil he can force Tehran to negotiate on his terms. But some experts think Iran has enough income and can store enough oil to hold out for at least several months.

Meanwhile, Iran is betting that by choking off the Strait of Hormuz — and driving up gasoline and food prices for Americans and all their allies — it can force Trump to eventually act in accord with his TACO label: Trump always chickens out. This is painful to watch. Trump and Tehran are each saying: “I will hold my breath until you turn blue.” We’ll see who gasps first.

The real question is: How in the world has Iran’s regime lasted this long — two months — against the combined military might of Israel and America? The answer: Trump does not understand how much asymmetric warfare has reshaped geopolitics in just the last few years.

But I don’t want to be too hard on our president. He is not alone. Iran is to Trump what Ukraine is to Vladimir Putin, what

Hamas and Hezbollah have been to Benjamin Netanyahu and — wait for it — what the next generation of cyberhackers will be to China and America and every other nation-state.

Think about it: Last June, Ukraine smuggled 117 cheap drones into Russia hidden inside trucks and destroyed or damaged about 20 of Russia’s strategic aircraft, including multimilliondollar long-range, nuclear-capable strategic bombers.

This year, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard used $35,000 Shahed-136 drones to strike two Amazon Web Services data centers, costing tens of millions of dollars, in the United Arab Emirates (a third Amazon data center, in Bahrain, was damaged in a nearby strike), knocking them offline and disrupting banking and other services across the Persian Gulf region.

Previously, Hamas commanders said that they fashioned small rockets from piping from abandoned Israeli settlements, unexploded Israeli bombs and other munitions and even parts from a sunken British World War I warship off the Gaza Strip coast. Israel was forced to use Patriot missiles costing $4 million each to intercept them.

In other words, we’re already in a new era in which small powers and small groups can leverage information-age tools — guided by GPS and digitally controlled — to gain asymmetric advantages.

“We have always thought of power in terms of the ability to create mass destruction,” John Arquilla, a former professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School and the author of the forthcoming “Troubled American Way of War,” said in an interview. In an interdependent world, “the many and the small now have the ability to create mass disruption in the physical or the virtual world” — from the Strait of Hormuz to cyberspace.

Artificial Intelligence will drastically increase the power of small states and groups in conflict with the great powers. (Evan Hume/The New York Times)

Claude, Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT — can now be directed by humans with a single command, and they will autonomously execute, and self-optimize, multistage cyberattacks on their own.

To put it differently, information-age tools vastly amplified trained operators within organizations, including terrorist organizations. Intelligence-age tools replace trained operators with vastly more intelligent, autonomous and skilled AI agents with more destructive reach at little cost.

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Trump recklessly started this war without allies, without any scenario planning and, obviously, without any real understanding of Iran’s assets in asymmetric warfare. Nevertheless, it would be a disaster for the region and the world if Iran’s malign regime emerges from this war intact and unreformed, because an even more powerful asymmetric tool kit for bad guys is just arriving.

Here’s what’s truly new and disturbing: We are rapidly moving from the age of asymmetric warfare based on information-age tools that can wreak mass disruption to what my technology tutor, Craig Mundie, a former head of research and strategy at Microsoft, calls an age of asymmetric warfare based on “intelligence-age tools” that can cheaply wreak disruption at a much larger scale anywhere on demand.

This is a very important distinction. The age of information — that is, the period of computers, smartphones, the internet and GPS — gave us tools that amplify the power and reach of a trained operator. It vastly increased the power of any one coder, drone operator, ransomware thief, hacker, social media influencer or disinformation specialist. It made any small unit more powerful, but humans needed to have some basic knowledge to operate these digital tools. And human intent always directed them.

In the age of intelligence, artificial-intelligence agents that are built on large language models — like Anthropic’s

These intelligence-age “capabilities that can superempower individuals, that many thought were 18 months or two years away, are now here,” Mundie told me. “When the dual-use nature of these AI technologies becomes fully democratized — and that is where we are heading soon — they will present a material threat to all developed societies” by superempowered actors “who historically never had any cards to play before at all.”

In other words, everybody with an AI chatbot/agent is potentially going to have cards. What could that look like? Check out a recent New York Times story by Gabriel J.X. Dance. It begins:

“One evening last summer, Dr. David Relman went cold at his laptop as an AI chatbot told him how to plan a massacre. A microbiologist and biosecurity expert at Stanford University, Dr. Relman had been hired by an artificial intelligence company to pressure-test its product before it was released to the public. That night in the scientist’s home office, the chatbot explained how to modify an infamous pathogen in a lab so that it would resist known treatments. Worse, the bot described in vivid detail how to release the superbug, identifying a security lapse in a large public transit system.”

My translation: You’ve read a lot about how Iran has used cheap $35,000 drones to close the Strait of Hormuz. Wait until you see how it can leverage large language models and their AI agents at a very low cost.

Presidente de la Cámara insiste que se asignen los $100 millones para reconstruir sistema de agua potable y alcantarillado

en base Roosevelt Roads

SAN JUAN – El presidente de la Cámara de Representantes, Carlos ‘Johnny’ Méndez, insistió que la Autoridad de Redesarrollo Local para Roosevelt Roads (Autoridad) identifique y asigne una partida de $67 millones que faltan para completar los 100 millones de dólares que se requieren para colocar al día el sistema de agua y alcantarillado en los terrenos de dicha antigua base naval en Ceiba.

“¿Cuando se va a poner al día el sistema sanitario y el sistema de agua potable en la antigua base Roosevelt Roads?” preguntó el líder legislativo al director ejecutivo de la Autoridad, Carlos J. Ríos, durante el proceso de vista pública de la Comisión de Hacienda de la Cámara celebrada en la mañana de hoy sobre el nuevo presupuesto 2026-2027 del Departamento de Desarrollo Económico y Comercio, el cual incluye la Autoridad.

La respuesta del funcionario fue “un total de seis millones de dólares”. Acto seguido, Ríos admitió que lo que tiene disponible la Autoridad de Redesarrollo Local para Roosevelt Roads en este momento para ese importante proyecto es la cantidad de $23 millones. El Director Ejecutivo también dijo que espera lograr la suma mediante los Fondos de Inversión en Mejoras Permanentes, mejor conocidos como ‘Capex’, por sus siglas en inglés.

“El Director Ejecutivo nos indicó, en vista pública, que cuando venga la versión final del presupuesto operacional del Gobierno para el año fiscal 2026-2027 estará incluida la partida de los $67 millones para así completar el monto de 100 millones de dólares que requiere, de acuerdo a estudios, el proyecto de agua potable y sistema sanitario en la base, eje central de cualquier desarrollo en esa zona. Llevamos 23 años desde su cierre (base) es hiora de trabajar para dejar de hablar de potencial y crear proyectos de envergadura para mover la

economía, no solo en Ceiba, sino en toda la región este de la Isla”, dijo el también Representante por el Distrito #36, el cual comprende los municipios de Río Grande, Luquillo, Fajardo, Ceiba, Vieques y Culebra.

La infraestructura de agua potable en la antigua base naval operó como sistema de tratamiento y distribución. El 31 de marzo de 2004, la antigua base cerró sus operaciones. El proceso de transferencia de la propiedad de la Marina de Estados Unidos al Gobierno de Puerto Rico se retrasó por más de una década. Durante ese período el sistema de agua fue objeto de vandalismo y deterioro debido a la falta de mantenimiento y supervisión.

La distribución de agua potable en Roosevelt Roads es completamente independiente de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados. El sistema de agua potable, en general, consiste en una planta de filtración de agua potable con una capacidad de diseño de 4.0 millones de galones por día, un mecanismo de distribución con siete estaciones de bombeo, cinco tanques de almacenamiento y una red de 64 millas de tuberías de distribución. El sistema actual logra su cometido de llevarles agua a los inquilinos actuales en Roosevelt Roads, pero debemos recalcar que es un sistema altamente ineficiente debido a válvulas averiadas, fugas y bombas en mal estado y no se encuentra diseñado para toda la extensión territorial de la antigua base naval.

Red por la Niñez alerta sobre violencia que afecta a menores

donde una parte significativa de la niñez vive en condiciones de pobreza y vulnerabilidad.

JUAN – El presidente de la Red por los Derechos de la Niñez y la Juventud de Puerto Rico, Marcos Santana Andújar, advirtió el lunes sobre el impacto de varios hechos violentos ocurridos el fin de semana que involucraron a menores en distintos municipios.

“En un periodo de horas, se reportó un niño de 7 años apuñalado en Barranquitas en condición crítica, un menor de 16 años herido de bala en Fajardo y una balacera en Cayey que dejó personas muertas y heridas, incluyendo un menor de edad”, dijo Santana Andújar en declaraciones escritas.

Santana Andújar planteó que estos casos reflejan la exposición constante de la niñez a escenarios de violencia y no deben analizarse como eventos aislados.

“Lo ocurrido este fin de semana no puede verse como eventos aislados. Es una manifestación clara de un entorno que no está protegiendo adecuadamente a nuestra niñez”, expresó.

Más de 17,000 referidos de maltrato infantil se reportan anualmente en Puerto Rico, en un contexto

Ante ese panorama, la organización señaló que el aumento en el costo de vida añade presión a las familias y puede elevar los factores de riesgo asociados a la violencia.

“Cuando las familias enfrentan mayores niveles de estrés económico y menos acceso a recursos, aumentan los factores de riesgo”, sostuvo Santana Andújar.

Planteó que la respuesta a la violencia debe ser integral, con intervenciones en el entorno familiar, comunitario y en política pública, más allá del sistema de justicia criminal.

“Reiteramos la importancia de la implementación del Plan de Reconstrucción Social y Prevención de la Violencia como hoja de ruta integral”, añadió.

También urgió avanzar en la implementación del Plan Decenal para erradicar la pobreza infantil y en reformas a la Ley 57 de 2023 para fortalecer los sistemas de protección.

“La violencia no es inevitable. Es prevenible. Pero

requiere acción. No podemos seguir reaccionando después del daño”, concluyó Santana Andújar.

In ‘Our Land,’ an eminent filmmaker turns her camera on a killing

“Our Land” makes liberal and thoughtful use of drones, gliding repeatedly over the area occupied by the Indigenous Chuschagasta people in Tucumán province, Argentina. (Strand Releasing)

By ALISSA WILKINSON

Drone footage is common (perhaps too common) in documentaries, and it can feel gimmicky, like the filmmakers got a little too fond of a toy. But for her first nonfiction feature, “Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)” (in theaters), celebrated Argentine director Lucrecia Martel makes liberal and thoughtful use of drones, gliding repeatedly over the area occupied by the Indigenous Chuschagasta people in Tucumán province, Argentina. The effect is twofold: We get a sense of the vastness and beauty of the territory. And we become aware of the technology itself — at one point, a bird slams into a drone, knocking it off course.

The intersection of recording technology, history and human lives is the crux of “Our Land,” which was many years in the making. It tells a harrowing story of crime and a hunt for justice. In 2009, three white Argentines — a landowner, Dario Amin, and two former police officers, Luis Humberto Gómez and Eduardo José Valdivieso — went to Chuschagasta territory, seeking access to the community’s quarry and saying they owned the land. An altercation ended with Amin shooting and killing Javier Chocobar, an activist and leader of the community, and injuring several other Indigenous people.

Amin filmed Chocobar’s killing and posted the unedited footage to YouTube. The video spread online, reaching people around the world. It caused outrage in Argentina, where Indigenous people have struggled to gain recognition of their ownership of ancestral lands and have experienced centuries of land theft and violence. The fury led Martel to make a film about Chocobar, but it took nine years for the case to come to trial.

Martel takes a collage approach, trusting the audience to piece together the story as she weaves together different types of footage. There’s some video shot inside the courtroom, where we hear the men on trial as well as character witnesses and others in the community talk about their ideas of what happened. There’s a low-fi reenactment of the killing, filmed in the spot where it happened. Indigenous community members and Chocobar’s family talk about his life and their history. And Amin’s choppy, almost indiscernible footage of the killing is here, too — you can barely tell what’s happening, just that something horrible did happen.

Occasionally Martel pulls back to slow, elegant drone footage of the landscape, which accrues new meaning as a site of violence and dispute as the film goes on: racism, prejudice, the desire for justice and recognition are all present in this place. Drawing attention to the filming technology, Martel implicitly reminds us that Chocobar’s case only came to trial because it was filmed and uploaded to the internet in the first place. Undeniable visual evidence raised awareness of one man’s death. But the stories that Chuschagasta men and women tell Martel in “Our Land” bear witness to other Indigenous people who, like Chocobar, suffered or died defending their ancestral land, but without cameras there to watch, and only the community left to tell their stories.

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US equity fund inflows ease to a six-week low

U.S. equity fund ⁠inflows ⁠ebbed to a ⁠six-week low in the week through April 29 as investors concerned over a surge in crude oil prices exercised caution ahead of a monetary policy ⁠decision ⁠by the Federal Reserve.

According to LSEG Lipper data, investors bought just $911 million worth of U.S. equity funds in their smallest weekly net purchase since March 18.

The Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady last ⁠week, but ⁠three board members ⁠voted to drop the central bank’s easing bias, adding a layer of uncertainty ⁠around the Fed’s policy direction.

The S&P 500, meanwhile, hit a record high of 7,272.52 last Friday, bolstered by upbeat earnings from several ⁠major U.S. tech companies.

Investors pumped $1.43 billion into technology stocks, ⁠extending a run of net purchases into a fourth successive week. They also offloaded $1.06 billion from healthcare funds.

U.S. bond funds saw an uptick in demand as inflows surged to $4.87 billion, from approximately $3.41 billion in the prior week.

U.S. government bond funds, high yield bond ⁠funds and short-to-intermediate investment-grade funds attracted $2.73 billion, $1.97 billion and $1.48 billion, respectively.

Money market funds, meanwhile, faced a third successive weekly outflow to the tune of $13.02 billion.

Oil prices spiked by around 5% on Monday after Iran ⁠said it had turned back a U.S. warship trying to enter the Strait of Hormuz, though the U.S. denied Iranian reports it had been struck by missiles. That came after President Donald Trump said the U.S. would begin assisting ships stranded in the strait.

Meanwhile, the yen briefly jumped against the dollar again, with traders on the lookout for further buying from Japan’s Ministry of Finance after suspected intervention last week.

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Before the reports of a U.S. warship being turned back from the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, President Trump had on Sunday described a plan to free stranded vessels in the strait as a “humanitarian gesture”. He left the mechanics of the operation vague, but U.S. Central Command gave a sense of its scale, saying it would provide 15,000 military personnel and more than 100 land and sea-based aircraft.

Oil markets spiked on the reported U.S. warship incident, with

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Brent trading at around $112/bbl and WTI at around $106/bbl. Iran had previously warned that any foreign armed forces entering the strait would be attacked.

Meanwhile, Iranian state media ⁠have reported ⁠that Washington has sent a response, ⁠via Pakistan, to Tehran’s 14-point proposal to end the war - a plan that Trump said on Saturday he was likely to reject.

The lack of progress on a peace deal - with a key sticking point being the timing of nuclear talks - ⁠means the broader stalemate and disruption in the Gulf look set to continue for now.

Elsewhere, the yen strengthened abruptly again on Monday, touching 155.7 against the dollar before paring its gains. That’s fuelling speculation of another round of Japanese buying after last week’s apparent intervention, which may have seen the authorities spend up to $35 billion to prop up the flagging currency.

By ALAN RAPPEPORT

The United States on Monday urged China to push Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and said that its purchases of Iranian oil amounted to funding global terrorism, delivering a stern rebuke before President Donald Trump’s meeting in Beijing this month with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

The warning came from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who will be participating in the high-stakes meetings. Bessent has been leading an aggressive campaign to cripple Iran’s economy with a blitz of new sanctions. He has also been working to devise ways to increase oil supplies around the world to blunt the impact of soaring energy prices. Gasoline hit an average of $4.45 per gallon Monday.

“Let’s see if China — let’s see them step up with some diplomacy and get the Iranians to open the strait,” Bessent said on Fox News on Monday. “Iran is the largest state sponsor of terrorism, and China has been buying 90% of their energy, so they are funding the largest state sponsor of terrorism.”

Tension between the United States and China has eased since a year ago, when the Trump administration triggered a trade war by hiking tariffs on Chinese imports and China retaliated with export controls on critical minerals. But the Iran war has opened a new front in their rivalry, as Chinese purchases of Iranian oil keep Iran’s economy afloat.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testifies during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the 2027 budget request for the Department of the Treasury on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 22, 2026. The United States on Monday, May 4, 2006, urged China to push Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and said that its purchases of Iranian oil amounted to funding global terrorism, delivering a stern rebuke ahead of President Trump’s meeting in Beijing this month with the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)

In recent weeks, the Treasury Department has intensified economic pressure on China. It has specifically been targeting China’s independent “teapot” refineries with sanctions and warning financial institutions that they will face penalties for facilitating oil sales between Iran and China.

The Treasury Department on April 24 im-

posed sanctions on an independent Chinese refinery, Hengli Petrochemical Refinery, which is one of Iran’s largest customers for crude oil and other petroleum products. Hengli has purchased billions of dollars’ worth of Iranian crude from the Revolutionary Guard, which wields military, political and economic clout throughout Iran.

But China responded over the weekend, ordering its companies not to comply with the U.S. sanctions. China’s Ministry of Commerce invoked a 2021 “blocking measure” that protects its firms from foreign laws that the Chinese government believes violate international norms and unfairly restrict trade.

U.S. sanctions are far-reaching economic tools that can block transactions and freeze the international assets of companies around the world, essentially cutting them off from Western financial services providers. China’s order to disregard the sanctions will create a new point of tension between the world’s two largest economies and could set the stage for additional decoupling of their financial systems.

China has been making other provocative moves before the meeting between the two leaders.

Last Monday, the Chinese government said it would require the unwinding of Meta’s acquisition of Manus, a Singapore-based artificial intelligence company with Chinese founders, in a move that could chill other Chinese entrepreneurs from seeking alliances with foreign partners.

Bessent suggested that Iran would be high on the agenda when Trump meets with Xi.

“The threat of attacks from Iran has closed the strait — we are reopening it,” Bessent said. “So I would urge the Chinese to join us in supporting this international operation.”

US warns China over Iranian oil as sanctions fight intensifies Strikes in UAE, Oman and at sea strain Iran truce to the breaking point

By AARON BOXERMAN, ISMAEEL NAAR and SANAM MAHOOZI

Violence flared anew in and around the Persian Gulf on Monday, as the United Arab Emirates said Iran had fired missiles and drones at its territory and the U.S. military said it sunk several Iranian military boats, straining the fragile ceasefire in the Middle East.

UAE authorities blamed Iran for attacks on a major oil port and an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, injuring three people in the first such attacks in the UAE since the truce began four weeks ago. Oman also reported an attack that injured two people in the coastal town of Bukha, near UAE territory, without identifying the perpetrator.

Loud booms shook the UAE city of Dubai

as air defense missiles detonated high overhead. U.S. Central Command said it had shot down Iranian missiles and drones aimed at U.S. military and commercial ships and around the strait.

It was not clear if the attacks signaled the collapse of the strained truce and a resumption of active warfare. Iran did not officially confirm or deny that it had resumed attacks, and a senior military official denied on state media that its boats had been sunk.

Iran has frequently targeted energy infrastructure in Gulf countries that host U.S. military bases since Israel and the United States attacked in late February, beginning the war. But those attacks on Iran’s Gulf neighbors more or less came to a halt when a ceasefire went into effect on April 8.

At least three Indian citizens were injured

when an Iranian drone struck an oil industrial zone in Fujairah, a UAE port in the southern end of the Strait of Hormuz, local authorities said. Oman, without assigning blame, said a residential building near the strait had been struck, with two people injured.

No casualties were reported in the attack on a UAE oil tanker. South Korea’s government confirmed an explosion and fire in the same area on a ship belonging to a South Korean company, but did not say it had been attacked.

Negotiations between Iran and the United States, mediated by Pakistan, on a comprehensive deal to end the war have stalled, as both sides have drawn seemingly incompatible red lines. The Trump administration had sought to pressure Iran to end its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf with a new military operation to help commercial ships stuck

in the waterway to leave.

Central Command said Monday that several U.S. Navy vessels had steamed through the strait, and that they had accompanied a few commercial ships. Iranian officials threatened to retaliate against U.S. warships or other vessels that sought to run their blockade.

Iran’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz, a vital route for oil and gas, has rattled markets and sent energy prices skyrocketing worldwide. In response, the United States has imposed its own blockade of Iranian ports.

President Donald Trump had initially conditioned the ceasefire with Iran on the end of the Iranian blockade. But Iran has effectively prevented most traffic from traveling through the waterway, and Iran continues to assert that it has the right to control which ships can pass and also to assess tolls on them.

The US set off a corruption scandal that is gripping Mexico

By JACK NICAS

If there had been odds on which Mexican politician was colluding with the cartels, the favorite might have been Rubén Rocha Moya.

Rocha, the governor of Sinaloa, has long been dogged by accusations of protecting his state’s dominant criminal organization, the Sinaloa Cartel, a prolific supplier of fentanyl and ruthless purveyor of violence.

Those accusations reached a fever pitch in 2024 when the U.S. authorities arrested the cartel’s co-founder, who then said he thought he had been on his way to meet Rocha.

Yet, instead of investigating, Mexico’s leaders rushed to Rocha’s defense. The president at the time, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, quickly joined hands with Rocha on a stage in Sinaloa. “I came to pledge to continue fighting alongside you,” Sheinbaum said.

That promise just got a lot more complicated.

On Wednesday, U.S. prosecutors unsealed an indictment that put teeth behind the years of accusations against Rocha. It painted a picture of years of collusion among the Sinaloa Cartel, Rocha, and nine other current and former officials in Sinaloa, in which the cartel leaders delivered bribes and votes in exchange for impunity.

The charges detonated a political bomb in Mexico, dominating the national conversation and largely splitting the country into two camps: those thrilled to see consequences for what they viewed as endemic corruption in Mexico and those repulsed by what they viewed as illegal intervention by the United States.

Rocha, 76, denied the charges, calling them a U.S. ploy to undermine Morena, the leftist political party to which he and Sheinbaum belong. Then, on Friday night, he abruptly announced he would temporarily step down from his position to focus on his defense.

For Sheinbaum, the moment presented her with a crisis — or an opportunity. She could use the indictment as a turning point to crack down on corruption or, as Mexican leaders have often done in the past, close ranks in the face

A view of Culiacán at sunset in Mexico’s Sinaloa state, Oct. 31, 2025. The U.S. indictment of a Mexican governor has spotlighted cartel corruption, strained cross-border relations and handed President Claudia Sheinbaum a thorny choice. (Paul Ratje/The New York Times)

of accusations from their neighbor to the north.

“I do believe she wants justice,” said Enrique Acevedo, lead anchor of “En Punto,” Mexico’s biggest nightly newscast. “But every time she’s had to make a decision that could politically hurt the movement she represents, she’s been shown to be restrained.”

He added, “If no one is above the law, it’s time that the president recognizes this and acts upon it.”

Sheinbaum has decided against going after Rocha in the past. Before the indictment, her government had debated investigating Rocha and ultimately declined, concluding there was not enough evidence to warrant it, according to two people briefed on the decision who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal discussions.

Since the indictment, she has also acted with restraint. She denied the U.S. request to arrest Rocha and other accused officials, saying it lacked sufficient evidence. She said that Mexico’s attorney general would instead investigate the case. And she added that if the probe found no basis for the U.S. accusations, her government would view the indictment as

meddling in Mexico’s sovereignty.

“We cooperate and coordinate with the United States, but I’ve said it many times: We will never subordinate ourselves, because that is a matter of dignity,” she told reporters on Friday.

All eyes are now on how her government handles Rocha.

Viri Ríos, a prominent Mexican political analyst, said that Sheinbaum’s effort to slowwalk the extradition request is a smart political strategy. Immediately detaining Rocha and sending him north could embolden the Trump administration to indict more Mexican officials and destabilize her government, she said.

But, she added, Sheinbaum should also capitalize and truly investigate Rocha. “The Rocha case presents an opportunity for Sheinbaum to demonstrate her willingness to pursue corrupt politicians,” Ríos said. “And she has more internal support within Morena to do so than is widely assumed.”

But in recent history, Mexican officials have hesitated to investigate their own, said Gina Parlovecchio, a former U.S. prosecutor who led several high-profile prosecutions of Mexican cartel leaders, including that of Joaquín Guzmán, known as El Chapo. “We had little to no cooperation from the Mexican government in any of our investigations, including against public officials,” she said.

of a mayor. Some members of Morena, her party, also accuse Washington of pushing a narrative of widespread corruption in Mexico to undermine the country.

The U.S. government wants “to dictate whatever they want on our territory, overriding our independence and sovereignty,” said Gerardo Fernández Noroña, a Morena senator who was president of the Mexican Senate until last year.

Some Mexicans have also questioned whether the U.S. government truly cares about fighting the drug trade when President Donald Trump recently pardoned the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandéz, who had been imprisoned in the United States for helping to smuggle drugs into the country.

U.S. prosecutors have charged Mexican officials with corruption before, but typically when they have already left office — and after arresting them inside the United States.

In 2019, U.S. prosecutors charged Genaro García Luna, Mexico’s former security chief, with aiding cartels. López Obrador, the Mexican president at the time, was his political rival and did not dispute the charges. García Luna is now serving a 38-year prison sentence.

In 2020, U.S. prosecutors charged Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, a former Mexican defense minister, of doing the same. But the response from the Mexican government was very different. López Obrador was a close ally of Cienfuegos and threatened to expel U.S. agents from Mexico unless he was released.

Concerned about the bilateral relationship and strength of the case, William Barr, then the U.S. attorney general, sent the general back to Mexico, where the government quickly exonerated him.

“That was hugely devastating,” said Parlovecchio, who helped lead the case against Cienfuegos. “But it just gives you an example of how the tide has turned. That was during ‘Trump One’ and a different attorney general, and they certainly weren’t taking as muscular a posture toward the cartels as they are now.”

Sheinbaum is feeling that heat. Even while praising her personally, Trump has routinely threatened military strikes on the cartels in Mexico. Under that pressure, Mexico has ramped up collaboration with the U.S. authorities. The efforts have led to a reduction in homicides and the capture of several top leaders.

Sheinbaum has said her government fights corruption, pointing to its bust of a sprawling fueltheft ring inside the Mexican navy and the recent arrest

In highly unusual moves, Sheinbaum’s government has also sent 92 high-level cartel operatives to the United States outside the typical extradition process. U.S. authorities are now probably mining those cartel members for information, Parlovecchio said, which could eventually lead to more indictments of Mexican officials.

Spirit Airlines’ demise could help other airlines

By NIRAJ CHOKSHI

Spirit Airlines was once a potent force in the U.S. aviation industry. Its demise will reveal how strong that influence had been in recent years when air travel had already begun moving away from the lowfare model that Spirit pioneered.

The airline’s shutdown on Saturday after years of financial troubles resulted in the loss of 17,000 part-time and full-time jobs, and disrupted the plans of tens of thousands of travelers. But aviation experts say it is not entirely clear whether Spirit’s absence will have a significant, long-term impact on the industry, travelers or the U.S. economy.

Airlines will probably have an easier time raising fares and many will absorb Spirit’s gates, check-in counters and other assets at airports in the New York area, Las Vegas, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and elsewhere. But the effect may not be huge, aviation experts said, because Spirit had shrunk a lot recently and was in its second bankruptcy in two years.

“By the time the plug was pulled, Spirit was no longer a major player,” said Michael Boyd, an aviation consultant with the Boyd Group International. “Half the fleet was parked and sold off.”

In May 2024, the airline operated 3.4% of all domestic flights, according to Cirium, an aviation data firm. It filed for bankruptcy later that year and again in 2025. Before it shut down, Spirit’s schedule for May would have amounted to just 1.1% of domestic flights.

The airline’s diminished business was a major reason many analysts and economists were befuddled by the Trump administration’s efforts to save Spirit, which ultimately went nowhere because the government and the airline’s creditors could not reach a deal.

Most airlines are temporarily offering discounted fares to Spirit’s customers. But many experts believe the company’s absence will result in somewhat higher fares over time, though how much prices will rise is hard to predict.

Spirit’s presence at an airport helped keep fares down, a phenomenon that was studied by economists and earned the name the “Spirit effect.” Even in its reduced state, the company played an important role in forcing other airlines to keep fares low, some experts said.

“It’s at the low-fare end of the spec-

A Spirit Airlines airplane sits near a hangar at Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida on May 2, 2026. Even in its reduced state, the company played an important role in forcing other airlines to keep fares low, some experts said. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times)

trum where the market price is established,” said Robert Mann, an aviation industry consultant and a former airline executive. “And it’ll make it easier for everyone else to raise prices at that level.”

But some aviation experts said the consequence may be overstated. Other airlines have spare seats and can absorb many of the customers Spirit catered to. And many people who flew on Spirit tended to travel only when they found very low fares, so they may simply choose not to fly as often now.

Fares would most likely have risen with or without Spirit, some analysts said. Airlines started raising prices in March to make up for higher fuel costs caused by the Iran war, and many have warned further increases are coming.

“It is the industry that is the big winner as unprofitable domestic capacity is further reduced,” William Swelbar, an aviation consultant and economist, wrote in an email. “Fares have to increase or we will lose more airlines to bankruptcy/consolidation.”

Spirit’s slow decline in recent years had broadly helped other airlines, most notably larger carriers like American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines. The cities where Spirit flew most included Atlanta, Los Angeles, Detroit, Dallas, Houston, Miami and Newark, New Jersey. Those urban areas are home to important airports for those large airlines.

Those carriers had found an effective

way to compete against Spirit: “basic economy fares.” In the 2010s, American, Delta and United introduced these fares, which were cheaper than standard economy tickets but did not include things like the ability to pick a seat or bring multiple bags on the plane. In recent years, use of these fares has grown, reducing demand for tickets from low-fare carriers like Spirit.

Some smaller airlines also stand to gain by Spirit’s absence, notably JetBlue Airways. JetBlue had already been expanding at Spirit’s home base, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, just north of Miami.

JetBlue said last month that it had added nonstop flights to 21 cities from Fort

Lauderdale over the past year, which it views as its third big hub airport after Kennedy International in New York and Boston Logan International. On Saturday, after Spirit shut down, JetBlue said it would add flights from Fort Lauderdale to 11 more destinations.

“It is full steam ahead in Fort Lauderdale,” JetBlue CEO Joanna Geraghty said on a call with investors and analysts last month.

Frontier Airlines, perhaps Spirit’s biggest competitor in the low-fare segment of the industry, stands to benefit, too. But it is facing many of the same challenges as Spirit did.

“The data suggests that Frontier will win because of its route overlap with Spirit,” Swelbar said. “But that overlap is also filled with basic economy seats.”

Spirit may help other airlines in another way. Its demise has suddenly made thousands of experienced airline workers available, including more than 2,000 pilots and hundreds of mechanics. United Airlines this weekend began an effort to recruit Spirit employees, saying it would pay special attention to their applications. Demand for pilots, mechanics and other professionals has been high for years.

But Spirit’s assets — planes, airport gates and other real estate, including at LaGuardia Airport in New York — won’t become available immediately. Many of those assets were used as collateral for Spirit’s loans, meaning they will be distributed through bankruptcy court proceedings, which could take some time.

“It’s not going to happen by Monday,” Mann said, “or next month, or probably for several months.”

175-70-R13

235-70-R16 4x-$372.00

205-40-R17 4x-$298.00

205-50-R17 4x-$314.00

215-45-R17 4x-$318.00

235-45-R17 4x-$338.00

225-60-R17 4x-$348.00

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195-50-R15 4x-$249.00

195-65-R15 ....... 4x-$252.00

235-75-R15 4x-$379.00

265-70-R15 4x-$499.00

205-55-R16 4x-$276.00

195-45-R16 4x-$296.00

205-60-R16 4x-$286.00

215-70-R16 ....... 4x-$344.00

225-65-R17 4x-$345.00

235-65-R17 4x-$396.00

265-70-R17 ....... 4x-$496.00

245-65-R17 4x-$399.00

225-40-R18 4x-$356.00

225-45-R18 4x-$365.00

225-55-R18 4x-$399.00

235-60-R18 4x-$444.00

225-40-R19 ....... 4x-$459.00 235-40-R19

LEGAL NOTICE

TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO.

LUZ VIRGINIA CARRILLO CONCEPCIÓN

PETICIONARIA

EX - PARTE

CIVIL NÚM.: FA2025CV1327.

SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S.

A: Las Personas

Ignoradas Y Desconocidas A Quienes Pudiera perjudicar La Inscripción Del Dominio A Favor De La Parte Peticionaria En El Registro De La Propiedad De La Finca Que Mas Adelante Se Describirá Y A Toda Persona En General Que Con Derecho Para Ello Desee Oponerse A Este Expediente. Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se ha presentado ante este Tribunal el expediente arriba mencionado, con el fin de justificar e inscribir a favor de los Promoventes el dominio que tiene sobre la siguiente finca: --URBANA: Solar radicado en la Avenida General Calero #459, situado en el Barrio Pueblo Sector Media Luna del término municipal de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de verificación de mensura con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Solar Número 459. Área del Solar: Doscientos Cincuenta y Seis con Sesenta y Nueve centímetros Cuadrados (256.69 M.C.) equivalentes a Cero Cuerda con Seiscientos Cincuenta y Tres diez milésimas de otra Cuerda (0.0653 Cuerda). En lindes por el NORTE, con Ornas Corsino Borrero, en una distancia de diez punto veinticuatro metros (10.24m); por el SUR, con la carretera estatal PR-194 (Avenida General Calero), en una distancia de doce punto ochenta y cuatro metros (12 .84m); por el ESTE, con el Lote #457, en una distancia de veintiuno punto cuarenta y tres metros (21.43m); y por el OESTE, con Antonia Carrillo Medina, en una distancia de tres punto veintitrés metros (3 .23m), más diecinueve punto sesenta y uno metros (19.61m). Numero de Catastro 00-000-000-000-00. La abogada de la parte peticionaria es la Lcda. Ericka Acevedo Torres, Calle Palmer #1 Lares, Puerto

Rico 00669; Teléfono (939)2250640, (787)566-3605 También, se le informa que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el N/A de N/A de 20N/A, a las N/A mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Se le notifica a usted que este Tribunal ha ordenado su citación, para que presente oposición a este expediente, si se viesen perjudicados con la inscripción que se solicita; advirtiéndole que de no hacerlo dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar desde que fuera usted notificado de esta citación, la parte peticionaria podrán solicitar y obtener la aprobación de este expediente de dominio y la correspondiente inscripción a su nombre en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de N/A, el dominio de la finca anteriormente descrita. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. poderjudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Petición, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Por Orden de este Tribunal, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello oficial. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 23 de ABRIL de 2026. WANDA SEGUI REYES, Secretario(a) Regional. AIXA M MONTES MORALES, Secretario (a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. ANGEL MANUEL COLÓN DE JESUS T/C/C ANGEL M. COLÓN DE JESUS

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2019CV02066. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA.

EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de Caro-

lina, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 5 de agosto de 2019, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 18 de marzo de 2026 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBAN: Horizontal Property: Apartment #133 of The Residences at Parque Escorial Condominium, located in San Antón Ward, Carolina, located on the first and second floors of building #1 of the condominium. The apartment has an area of 192.82 square meters. The third floor is bounded on the NORTH by the wall that separates it from apartment #232 in a distance of 6.24 meters and the wall that overlooks the terrace in a distance of 1.19 meters; on the SOUTH, where the entrance is located, by the wall, hallway, the stairwell and common elements that separates it from apartment #132, in a distance of 6.39 meters and the wall that overlooks the terrace, in a distance of 1.04 meters; on the EAST, by the wall that separates it from the apartment #131, in a distance of 10.85 meters and on the WEST, by the wall that overlooks the back yard in a total distance of 10.85 meters. The fourth floor is bounded on the NORTH, by the wall that separates it from the apartment #232 in a distance of 6.24 meters and the wall that overlooks the terrace in a distance of 1.19 meters; on the SOUTH, by the wall that separates it from apartment #132 in a distance of 6.24 meters and the wall that overlooks the terrace in a distance of 1.19 meters; on the EAST, by the wall that separates it from apartment #131 in a distance of 12.13 meters and on the WEST, by the wall that overlooks the back yard in a total distance of 12.13 meters. The fifth floor is bounded on the NORTH and SOUTH by the open horizontal roof area which is a common element limited to this apartment; on the EAST, by the wall that separates it from apartment #313 and the WEST, by the wall that overlooks the back yard. This third floor of this apartment consists of living and dining areas, kitchen, laundry, bathroom, balcony and the staircase leading to the fourth floor. The fourth floor consists of 3 bedrooms with a closet each, 2 bathrooms,

a hallway and the staircase leading to the third and fifth floors.

The fifth floor consists of a roofed area measuring 7.43 meters by 3.53 meters and the landing area for the staircase leading from the fourth floor measuring 2.20 meters by 1.11 meters. The entrance to this apartment, located on its southern boundary, communicates with the hallway and stairwell of the building that lead to the sidewalk. Tiene una participación en los elementos comunes generales de 0.6229%, una participación en los elementos comunes limitados de 13.08% y una participación en los elementos comunes de 0.5596%. Le corresponde un estacionamiento de 2 carros. FINCA NÚMERO: 54,432, inscrita al folio 224 del tomo 1268 de Carolina, sección II de Carolina. Nota aclaratoria: En el Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II, la descripción registral consta tal y como fue transcrita anteriormente. En la Escritura número 143, otorgada el 29 de febrero de 2012 y en la Escritura número 304 de Modificación y Ampliación de Hipoteca, otorgada el 26 de junio de 2015, se omitió incluir que el Apartamento #133, tiene una participación en los elementos comunes de 0.5596%. Dirección Física: PARQUE ESCORIAL CONDOMINIUM (THE RESIDENCES AT PARQUE ESCORIAL COND.) APT. 133, BOULEVARD MEDIA LUNA, CAROLINA PR 00987. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 8 DE JUNIO DE 2026, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Carolina. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $138,323.31. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 15 DE JUNIO DE 2026, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $92,215.54. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 23 DE JUNIO DE 2026, A LAS

9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $69,161.65. Si se declare 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 mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $135,530.54 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 4.0000% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Por la presente, también se notifica e informa a la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, bajo el Programa de Mi Nuevo Hogar, por éstos tener condiciones restrictivas por un término de 10 años por conceder la suma de $7,950.00 para sufragar gastos al demandado de epígrafe. Además, se notifica e informa a Popular Mortgage, Inc., por éstos contar con una hipoteca por la suma principal de

$10,000.00, con intereses al 5.50% anual, desde el décimo aniversario de la fecha del pagaré y vencedero el día 1 de marzo de 2042, constituida mediante la escritura número 144, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de febrero de 2012, ante el notario Héctor M. Lúgaro Figueroa, e inscrita al folio 201 del tomo 1,495 de Carolina Sur, finca número 54,432, inscripción 7ma. También, se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. 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. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 31 de marzo de 2026. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA, * LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Gretchen Raya Rodríguez, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association,

Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 12 DE MAYO DE 2026 a las 9:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de TEOBALDO ANTONIO CONTRERAS ALMAZAR Y ANGIE ENID LUGO MUÑOZ sobre la unidad B310 semana 26 que a continuación se describe: VACATION CLUB RIGHT: UNIT

WEEK TWENTY-SIXTH (26th)

Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B dash Three Hundred Ten (B-310) of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned unit B dash Three Hundred Ten (B-310) and includes the right to use such unit during the Twenty-sixth (26th) week of each year until December thirty first (31st) of the year two thousand seventy (2070), such week commencing at twelve noon (12:00pm) on the Twentysixth (26th) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at twelve noon (12:00pm) of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in unit B dash Three Hundred Ten (B310) the use of said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Hacienda del Mar Vacation Club Regime and other owners of the timeshare or Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to which this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club’s right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facili-

ties and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,913.41 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 23 de abril de 2026. Gretchen Raya Rodríguez Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Gretchen Raya Rodríguez, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 12 DE MAYO DE 2026 a las 9:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de EDGAR MARIO LLORENS ARRIETA Y CARMEN GONZALEZ GERENA sobre la unidad B312 semana 27 que a continuación se describe: VACATION CLUB RIGHT: UNIT WEEK TWENTY-SEVENTH (27th) Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B dash Three Hundred Twelve (B-312) of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned unit B

dash Three Hundred Twelve (B-312) and includes the right to use such unit during the Twenty-seventh (27th) week of each year until December thirty first (31st) of the year two thousand seventy (2070), such week commencing at twelve noon (12:00pm) on the Twenty-seventh (27th) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at twelve noon (12:00pm) of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in unit B dash Three Hundred Twelve (B-312) the use of said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Hacienda del Mar Vacation Club Regime and other owners of the timeshare or Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to which this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club’s right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $24,474.05 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los

licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 23 de abril de 2026.

Gretchen Raya Rodríguez

Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646

Yo, Gretchen Raya Rodríguez, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 12 DE MAYO DE 2026 a las 9:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ANGEL LUIS FIGUEROA

ORTIZ Y MILAGROS ESQUI-

LIN FIGUEROA sobre la unidad B408 semana 33 que a continuación se describe:

VACATION CLUB RIGHT:

UNIT WEEK THIRTY-THIRD (33rd) Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B dash Four Hundred Eight (B-408) of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned unit B dash Four Hundred Eight (B-408) and includes the right to use such unit during the Thirty-third (33rd) week of each year until December thirty first (31st) of the year two thousand seventy (2070), such week commencing at twelve noon (12:00pm) on the Thirty-third (33rd) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at twelve noon (12:00pm) of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in unit B dash Four Hundred Eight (B-408) the use of said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Hacienda del Mar Vacation Club Regime and other owners of the timeshare or Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to which this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation

club’s right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,869.70 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 23 de abril de 2026.

Gretchen Raya Rodríguez Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646

Yo, Gretchen Raya Rodríguez, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 12 DE MAYO DE 2026 a las 9:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ALAN W ROTHSCHILD Y ANN SILVERMAN ROTHSCHILD

sobre la unidad B412 semana 9 que a continuación se describe: VACATION CLUB RIGHT: UNIT

WEEK NINETH (9th) Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B dash Four Hundred Twelve (B-412) of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the

Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned unit B dash Four Hundred Twelve (B-412) and includes the right to use such unit during the Nineth (9th) week of each year until December thirty first (31st) of the year two thousand seventy (2070), such week commencing at twelve noon (12:00pm) on the Nineth (9th) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at twelve noon (12:00pm) of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in unit B dash Four Hundred Twelve (B412) the use of said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Hacienda del Mar Vacation Club Regime and other owners of the timeshare or Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to which this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club’s right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,867.06 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 23 de abril de 2026. Gretchen Raya Rodríguez Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Gretchen Raya Rodríguez, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 12 DE MAYO DE 2026 a las 9:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de MICHAEL STEVEN AKEY Y MARILYN RUTH AKEY sobre la unidad B412 semana 17 que a continuación se describe: VACATION CLUB RIGHT: UNIT WEEK SEVENTEENTH (17th) Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B dash Four Hundred Twelve (B-412) of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned unit B dash Four Hundred Twelve (B-412) and includes the right to use such unit during the Seventeenth (17th) week of each year until December thirty first (31st) of the year two thousand seventy (2070), such week commencing at twelve noon (12:00pm) on the Seventeenth (17th) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at twelve noon (12:00pm) of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in unit B dash Four Hundred Twelve (B412) the use of said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Hacienda del Mar Vacation Club Regime and other owners of the timeshare or Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to which this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come,

first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club’s right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,864.42 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 23 de abril de 2026. Gretchen Raya Rodríguez Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646

Yo, Gretchen Raya Rodríguez, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 12 DE MAYO DE 2026 a las 9:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ANTONIO LUIS CORRETJER PIQUER Y MARIA ELENA HERNANDEZ NEVAREZ sobre la unidad B412 semana 22 que a continuación se describe: VACATION CLUB

RIGHT: UNIT WEEK TWENTYSECOND (22nd) Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B

dash Four Hundred Twelve (B-412) of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned unit B dash Four Hundred Twelve (B-412) and includes the right to use such unit during the Twenty-second (22nd) week of each year until December thirty first (31st) of the year two thousand seventy (2070), such week commencing at twelve noon (12:00pm) on the Twenty-second (22nd) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at twelve noon (12:00pm) of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in unit B dash Four Hundred Twelve (B412) the use of said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Hacienda del Mar Vacation Club Regime and other owners of the timeshare or Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to which this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club’s right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,954.51 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 23 de abril de 2026.

Gretchen Raya Rodríguez Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Gretchen Raya Rodríguez, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 12 DE MAYO DE 2026 a las 9:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ROQUE ANTONIO REDONDO MIRANDA Y GLADYS GRISELLE GONZALEZ SEGARRA sobre la unidad B412 semana 27 que a continuación se describe: VACATION CLUB RIGHT: UNIT WEEK TWENTYSEVENTH (27th) Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B dash Four Hundred Twelve (B-412) of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned unit B dash Four Hundred Twelve (B-412) and includes the right to use such unit during the Twenty-seventh (27th) week of each year until December thirty first (31st) of the year two thousand seventy (2070), such week commencing at twelve noon (12:00pm) on the Twenty-seventh (27th) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at twelve noon (12:00pm) of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in unit B dash Four Hundred Twelve (B412) the use of said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Hacienda del Mar Vacation Club Regime and other owners of

the timeshare or Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to which this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club’s right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,954.51 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 23 de abril de 2026.

Gretchen Raya Rodríguez

Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646

Yo, Gretchen Raya Rodríguez, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 12 DE MAYO DE 2026 a las 9:15 A.M. en los Predios

Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de THOMAS OWEN LINDER Y GAIL ELLEN LINDER sobre

la unidad B507 semana 13 que a continuación se describe: VACATION CLUB RIGHT: UNIT WEEK THIRTEENTH (13th) Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B dash

Five Hundred Seven (B-507) of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned unit B dash

Five Hundred Seven (B-507) and includes the right to use such unit during the Thirteenth (13th) week of each year until December thirty first (31st) of the year two thousand seventy (2070), such week commencing at twelve noon (12:00pm) on the Thirteenth (13th) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at twelve noon (12:00pm) of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in unit B dash Five Hundred Seven (B-507) the use of said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Hacienda del Mar Vacation Club Regime and other owners of the timeshare or Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to which this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club’s right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,867.06 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas-

ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 23 de abril de 2026.

Gretchen Raya Rodríguez

Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA

DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION,

301 Carr 693

INC.

Dorado PR, 00646

Yo, Gretchen Raya Rodríguez, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 12 DE MAYO DE 2026 a las 9:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de MICHAEL STEVEN AKEY Y MARILYN RUTH AKEY sobre la unidad B512 semana 18 que a continuación se describe: VACATION CLUB RIGHT:

UNIT WEEK EIGHTEENTH

(18th) Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B dash Five Hundred Twelve (B-512) of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned unit B dash Five Hundred Twelve (B-512) and includes the right to use such unit during the Eighteenth (18th) week of each year until December thirty first (31st) of the year two thousand seventy (2070), such week commencing at twelve noon (12:00pm) on the Eighteenth (18th) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at twelve noon (12:00pm) of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in unit B dash Five Hundred Twelve (B-512) the use of said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other

owners of vacation club rights in the Hacienda del Mar Vacation Club Regime and other owners of the timeshare or Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to which this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club’s right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,733.83 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 23 de abril de 2026.

Gretchen Raya Rodríguez Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646

Yo, Gretchen Raya Rodríguez, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 12 DE MAYO DE 2026 a las 9:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés

indiviso de 100% titularidad de HELAINE GEISMAR KATZ Y ZORLAND KATZ sobre la unidad B609 semana 23 que a continuación se describe: VACATION CLUB RIGHT: UNIT WEEK TWENTY-THIRD (23rd) Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B dash Six Hundred Nine (B-609) of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned unit B dash Six Hundred Nine (B-609) and includes the right to use such unit during the Twenty-third (23rd) ) week of each year until December thirty first (31st) of the year two thousand seventy (2070), such week commencing at twelve noon (12:00pm) on the Twentythird (23rd) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at twelve noon (12:00pm) of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in unit B dash Six Hundred Nine (B609) the use of said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Hacienda del Mar Vacation Club Regime and other owners of the timeshare or Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to which this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club’s right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,869.70 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Ow-

ners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 23 de abril de 2026.

Gretchen Raya Rodríguez Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Gretchen Raya Rodríguez, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 12 DE MAYO DE 2026 a las 9:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de JOSE A YERO Y MARLENE YERO sobre la unidad B610 semana 21 que a continuación se describe: VACATION CLUB RIGHT: UNIT WEEK TWENTYFIRST (21st) Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B dash Six Hundred Ten (B-610) of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned unit B dash Six Hundred Ten (B-610) and includes the right to use such unit during the Twenty-first (21st) week of each year until December thirty first (31st) of the year two thousand seventy (2070), such week commencing at twelve noon (12:00pm) on the Twenty-first (21st) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at twelve noon (12:00pm) of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in unit B dash Six Hundred Ten (B-610) the use of said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of time prior to the commencement of

said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Hacienda del Mar Vacation Club Regime and other owners of the timeshare or Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to which this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club’s right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,954.51 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 23 de abril de 2026.

Gretchen Raya Rodríguez Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646

Yo, Gretchen Raya Rodríguez, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 12 DE MAYO DE 2026 a las 9:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado

Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ELLIOT BERMAN sobre la unidad B612 semana 43 que a continuación se describe: VACATION CLUB RIGHT: UNIT WEEK FORTY-THIRD (43rd) Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B dash Six Hundred Twelve (B-612) of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned unit B dash Six Hundred Twelve (B-612) and includes the right to use such unit during the Forty-third (43rd) week of each year until December thirty first (31st) of the year two thousand seventy (2070), such week commencing at twelve noon (12:00pm) on the Forty-third (43rd) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at twelve noon (12:00pm) of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in unit B dash Six Hundred Twelve (B-612) the use of said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Hacienda del Mar Vacation Club Regime and other owners of the timeshare or Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to which this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club’s right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,869.70 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Ow-

ners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 23 de abril de 2026.

Gretchen Raya Rodríguez Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Gretchen Raya Rodríguez, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 12 DE MAYO DE 2026 a las 9:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ALAN W ROTHSCHILD Y ANN SILVERMAN ROTHSCHILD sobre la unidad B705 semana 10 que a continuación se describe: VACATION CLUB RIGHT: UNIT WEEK TEENTH (10th) Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B dash Seven Hundred Five (B-705) of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned unit B dash Seven Hundred Five (B705) and includes the right to use such unit during the Tenth (10th) week of each year until December thirty first (31st) of the year two thousand seventy (2070), such week commencing at twelve noon (12:00pm) on the Tenth (10th) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at twelve noon (12:00pm) of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in unit B dash

Seven Hundred Five (B-705) the use of said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of time

prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Hacienda del Mar Vacation Club Regime and other owners of the timeshare or Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to which this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club’s right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,867.06 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 23 de abril de 2026.

Gretchen Raya Rodríguez Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646

Yo, Gretchen Raya Rodríguez, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 12 DE MAYO DE 2026 a las 9:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners

Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ALVIN SANTIAGO Y CYNTHIA SANTIAGO sobre la unidad B708 semana 46 que a continuación se describe: VACATION CLUB RIGHT: UNIT WEEK FORTY-SIXTH (46th)

Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B dash Seven Hundred Eight (B-708) of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned unit B dash Seven Hundred Eight (B-708) and includes the right to use such unit during the Forty-sixth (46th) week of each year until December thirty first (31st) of the year two thousand seventy (2070), such week commencing at twelve noon (12:00pm) on the Forty-sixth (46th) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at twelve noon (12:00pm) of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in unit B dash Seven Hundred Eight (B-708) the use of said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Hacienda del Mar Vacation Club Regime and other owners of the timeshare or Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to which this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club’s right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.”

El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,869.70 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes

al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 23 de abril de 2026. Gretchen Raya Rodríguez Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Gretchen Raya Rodríguez, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 12 DE MAYO DE 2026 a las 9:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de MICHAEL SIDNEY GOODMAN Y BARBARA FREUDIG GOODMAN sobre la unidad B805 semana 4 que a continuación se describe: VACATION CLUB RIGHT: UNIT WEEK FOURTH (4th) Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B dash Eight Hundred Five (B-805) of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned unit B dash Eight Hundred Five (B805) and includes the right to use such unit during the Fourth (4th) week of each year until December thirty first (31st) of the year two thousand seventy (2070), such week commencing at twelve noon (12:00pm) on the Fourth (4th) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at twelve noon (12:00pm) of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in unit B dash Eight Hundred Five (B805) the use of said unit during the described time interval is

subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Hacienda del Mar Vacation Club Regime and other owners of the timeshare or Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to which this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club’s right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,954.51 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 23 de abril de 2026.

Gretchen Raya Rodríguez Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. RAYMOND J. OVIEDO, FULANA DE TAL Y SU SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE

GANANCIALES

Demandado Civil Núm.: CG2026CV00453. Sala: 803. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; 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: RAYMOND J. OVIEDO, FULANA DE TAL Y SU SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES - CARR 156 RAMAL 794 KM 0.9, BO SUMIDERO, AGUAS BUENAS PR 00703; HC 2 BOX 13170, AGUAS BUENAS PR 00703-9817. 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/tribunal-electronico/, 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 15 de enero de 2026, el demandado le adeuda a FIRSTBANK por la tarjeta de crédito xxxx-xx-xxxx-4252 la cantidad en pérdida de $6,186.06, más una suma equivalente al 10% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogados y por el préstamo personal xxxx-xxxxxx-9378 la cantidad en pérdida de $13,192.39, más una suma equivalente al 10% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogado según pactado. 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 FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 7 de abril de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA J. TRINIDAD CAÑUELAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN MCS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

Demandante Vs. MARCELINO

VAZQUEZ PLATA LLC

Demandada

Civil Núm.: SJ2026CV01028. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (R.60). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A: MARCELINO VAZQUEZ PLATA LLC - PO BOX 1813, CIDRA, PR 00739; PO BOX 360296, SAN JUAN, PR 00936.

Por la presente se le emplaza y se le notifica de la presentación de una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero incoada por la parte demandante. Este caso fue presentado a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC). Deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través de la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar cualquier documento relacionado al caso en la secretaria del tribunal; con constancia de haber servido copia de la misma (a la) abogado (a) de la parte demandante o a esta si hubiera comparecido por derecho propio. Se le apercibe y advierte que de no contestar o alegar en contra de la Demanda, radicando el original de su contestación ante este Honorable Tribunal y notificando con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, licenciado Juan C. Ortiz Arocho, RUA 15,352, a la dirección Urbanización Roosevelt, 315 Calle Juan B. Rodríguez, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918, teléfonos 787-282-8120 / 787-200-7378, correo electrónico; juankortiz@ aol.com, dentro de los veinte (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, el cual será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedida bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 16 de abril de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. GREISHKA CARTAGENA RÍOS, SECRETARIA CONFIDENCIAL DEL TRIBUNAL 1.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE YAUCO EN SABANA GRANDE ANA MARTA VEGA CRUZ Peticionaria EXPARTE

Civil Núm.: YU2026CV00186. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO - LEY 118 - 2022. CITACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA AFECTAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBE Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.

Por la presente se le notifica que la parte Peticionaria de epígrafe ha presentado ante este Tribunal una solicitud de Expediente de Dominio, solicitando adquirir su dominio sobre la siguiente finca: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Susua Alta del término municipal de Yauco, con una cabida de 327.8757 m.c. equivalentes a 0.0834 cuerdas. Colindando por el NORTE con carretera estatal PR-368, por el ESTE con Julio Madera Vega, por el SUR, con Lilianet Vélez Madera y otros y por el OESTE con Sucesión María de Jesús Madera y Pedro Vélez Irizarry. La abogada de la Parte Peticionaria es la Leda. Marieli Lausell Hernández, RUA 20530. La dirección postal es Calle Resolución #33, Suite 302, San Juan, PR 00920 y el número de teléfono es 787-782-6500 x. 250. El correo electrónico es mlausell@titlesecuritygroup. com. Se le apercibe y notifica para que comparezca, si lo creyere pertinente, ante este Tribunal dentro del plazo improrrogable de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este edicto, a exponer sus derechos en el expediente de dominio promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca antes descrita. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia, previo escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Petición o cualquier otro si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende pertinente. Usted

deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Dada en Yauco en Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico a 13 de abril de 2026. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN

SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE LA INDUSTRIA BIOFARMACÉUTICA

Demandante Vs. ÁNGEL

GONZÁLEZ MESTRE

Demandado(a)

Civil Núm.: VB2026CV00137. Sala: 101. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (ORDINARIO). EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: ÁNGEL

GONZÁLEZ MESTREDIRECCIÓN: HC 15 Box 16549, Humacao, Puerto Rico 00791.

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y se le notifica que una Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero ha sido presentada en su contra y se le requiere para que conteste la misma dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación del edicto, radicando el original de su contestación en el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando con copia de la misma a la parte demandante a la siguiente dirección:

BUFETE APONTE & CORTES

LCDA. ERIKA MORALES MARENGO PO Box 195337 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919 Tel. (787) 302-0014 / (787) 239-5661 Email: emarengo@apontecortes.com

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio. Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo, el tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal,

hoy día 17 de abril de 2026.

ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. CHRYSTHINE FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SALINAS FRIDMA CORPORATION

Parte Demandante Vs. JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: SA2026CV00132. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS.

POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Marjaliisa Colón Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787843-4168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cancelación de pagaré extraviado. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que se extravió un pagaré que consta en el testimonio número tres mil ciento noventa y cuatro (3194) de la escritura número ocho (8) otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico veintitrés (23) de diciembre de dos mil quince (2015) ante el notario Alfonso Fernández Cruz, a favor del portador o a su orden, o a la persona natural o jurídica a quien le pudiere ser endosado yen cuyo poder se encontrare esta obligación, por la suma principal de cuarenta mil dólares ($40,000.00), intereses a seis por ciento (6%) con vencimiento a la presentación. Según inscripción cuarta (4ta) de asiento abreviado (Ley doscientos dieciséis guión dos mil diez (216-2010). Finca número ocho mil trescientos cincuenta y siete (8,357) de Salinas. Que grava la propiedad que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela número ocho (8)

del Barrio Lapa del término municipal de Salinas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de punto seis mil ciento treinta y tres (.06133) cuerdas, equivalentes a dos mil cuatrocientos punto ochocientos (2,400.900) metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con finca de Víctor Torres; por el SUR, con camino dedicado a uso público; por el ESTE, con parcela número nueve (9) y por el OESTE, con parcela número siete (7). Parcela localizada en la carretera número uno (1). lnscrito al folio treinta y dos (32) noventa y siete (97) de Salinas. Finca número ocho mil trescientos cincuenta y siete (8,357). SE LES APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Salinas, Puerto Rico, a 15 de abril de 2026. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. DANIELLA E. RAMOS CÁCERES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR I.

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

NILKA DESIREE HEREDIA LÓPEZ

Demandante Vs. ELVIS LEONEL RUIZ

ACEVEDO T/C/P ELVIS

RUIZ ACEVEDO

Demandado Civil Núm.: AG2026RF00256.

Sobre: DIVORCIO (R. I.). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A Parte Demandada: ELVIS LEONEL RUIZ

ACEVEDO T/C/P ELVIS

RUIZ ACEVEDO - 5238

LANAI DR, ORLANDO, FLORIDA 32812. 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 publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, notificando copia de la misma a la abogada de la parte demandante a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaria del

Tribunal Superior, y notificando copia de la misma a la parte demandante. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y concede el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Debe notificar con copia de su contestación a la demanda a:

LCDA. MARISELA PEREZ REISLER SERVICIOS LEGALES DE P. R., INC. APARTADO 910, AGUADILLA, P.R. 00605-0910

TELS.: (787) 891-1275 / 1200 marperez@servicioslegales.org notificaciones-aguadilla@ servicioslegales.org

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, el 20 de abril de 2026. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARÍA VALENTÍN RAMÍREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA NEIDA ANGÉLICA MALDONADO MOJICA

Demandante Vs. CARLOS M. RIVERA LOPEZ

Demandado

Civil Núm.: AG2026RF00246. Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTU-

RA IRREPARABLE. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A Parte Demandada: CARLOS M. RIVERA LÓPEZ - DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: 18551 NW 82 AVE., HIALEAH, FLORIDA 33015. 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 publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, notificando copia de la misma a la abogada de la parte demandante a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaria del Tribunal Superior, y notificando copia de la misma a la parte demandante. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y concede el remedio solicitado en

la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Debe notificar con copia de su contestación a la demanda a:

LCDA. MARISELA PEREZ REISLER

RUA: 15,691 COLEGIADA: 17,036 SERVICIOS LEGALES DE P. R., INC. APARTADO 910, AGUADILLA, P.R. 00605-0910

TELS.: (787) 891-1275 / 1200 / 1213 FAX: (787) 882-2960 marperez@servicioslegales.org notificaciones-aguadilla@ servicioslegales.org

EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y sello Tribunal en Aguadilla Puerto Rico hoy 21 de abril de 2026. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. IDITH N. GONZÁLEZ NÚÑEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN LONGBRIDGE FINANCIAL, LLC. Demandante Vs. SUN WEST MORTGAGE

COMPANY, INC.; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO

Demandados SUCESION RODOLFO

HERRERA NOGUEIRA

T/C/C RODOLFO HERRERA COMPUESTA POR RAFAEL

HERRERA BOLIVAR, RODOLFO HERRERA

BOLIVAR, MARIA CRISTINA HERRERA BOLIVAR, ROBERTO

HERRERA BOLIVAR, PATRICIA HERRERA

BOLIVAR; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION PATRICIA BOLIVAR TAQUECHEL

T/C/C PATRICIA BOLIVAR COMPUESTA POR RAFAEL HERRERA

BOLIVAR, RODOLFO

HERRERA BOLIVAR, MARIA CRISTINA

HERRERA BOLIVAR, ROBERTO HERRERA BOLIVAR, PATRICIA

HERRERA BOLIVAR; JOHN ROE Y JANE

ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Parte con Interés Civil Núm.: SJ2026CV01495. (603). Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA,

EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: RODOLFO HERRERA

BOLIVAR, MARIA

CRISTINA HERRERA

BOLIVAR, ROBERTO HERRERA BOLIVAR, PATRICIA HERRERA

BOLIVAR; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION RODOLFO HERRERA NOGUEIRA T/C/C RODOLFO HERRERA; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION PATRICIA BOLIVAR TAQUECHEL T/C/C PATRICIA BOLIVAR; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. En dicha demanda se reclama la sustitución o restitución de una pagaré extraviado, otorgado el 18 de julio de 2012, a favor de Sun West Mortgage Company, Inc, por la suma principal de $502,500.00, con intereses al 4.99% anual y otros créditos accesorios, vencedero el 5 de marzo del 2087, suscrito ante la Notario Lizbet Avilés Vega, testimonio número 5853. Para garantizar el pago de dicho pagaré se constituyó hipoteca voluntaria mediante la escritura número 147, otorgada el 18 de julio de 2012, ante la Notario Lizbet Avilés Vega, sobre el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 107 de la Urbanización Altamira, radicada en el Barrio Monacillos del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de quinientos cuatro metros, ochenta y siete decímetros cuadrados (504.87 m/c). En linderos: NORTE, en treinta y cinco metros (35.00 m), con la calle número cuatro (4) de la urbanización; SUR, en treinta y cinco metros (35.00 m), con el solar ciento seis (106) de la urbanización; ESTE, en catorce punto cincuenta metros (14.50m), con el solar ciento veinticuatro (124) de la urbanización; OESTE, en catorce punto cincuenta metros (14.50m), con la calle número tres (3) de la urbanización. Haciendo esquina este solar a las calles número tres (3) y número cuatro (4) de la urbanización.” Enclava una casa

para fines residenciales. Finca número 3,518, inscrita al folio 229 del tomo 97 de Monacillos, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: HTTPS://WWW.PODERJUDICIAL.PR/INDEX.PHP/ TRIBUNAL-ELECTRONICO/ [poderjudicial.pr] salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. Greenspoon Marder, LLP Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622

TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 Telephone: (954) 343 6273 Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com

Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 17 de abril de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KEREN OLIVERAS PADILLA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE ARECIBO MARÍA RIVERA MERCADO, REYNALDO RIVERA MERCADO, ANA DOLORES

RIVERA MERCADO, CARMEN LUISA RIVERA MERCADO; TODOS POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL LUIS RIVERA

GONZÁLEZ Y COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN JULIA MERCADO MUÑIZ; LYDIA MARGARITA

GONZÁLEZ ROSARIO EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE AMARILIS RIVERA T/C/C AMARILIS RIVERA GONZÁLEZ E IGNACIO RIVERA

JR. T/C/C IGNACIO

RIVERA GONZÁLEZ, POR SÍ Y TODOS COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE IGNACIO

RIVERA MERCADO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO

POR IGNACIO RIVERA Y ULISES RIVERA

Demandantes Vs. ELIZABETH PASCUAL RIVERA, POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL LUIS RIVERA GONZÁLEZ; ABIMAEL RIVERA SERRANO, ÁNGEL LUIS RIVERA SERRANO, BRENDA LIZ RIVERA COLÓN, EDGARDO RIVERA COLÓN, POR SÍ Y TODOS COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE IGNACIO RIVERA MERCADO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO POR IGNACIO RIVERA Y ULISES RIVERA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: AR2025CV02494. Sobre: LIQUIDACIÓN Y ADJUDICACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD DE HEREDITARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A: SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL LUIS RIVERA GONZÁLEZ SUCESIÓN DE IGNACIO RIVERA MERCADO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO POR IGNACIO RIVERA Y ULISES RIVERA Y AQUELLOS HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, JANE DOE, JOHN DOE. Se ha radicado en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Arecibo, en el caso de epígrafe, una Demanda sobre LIQUIDACIÓN Y ADJUDICACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD DE HEREDITARIA, por MARÍA RIVERA MERCADO, REYNALDO RIVERA MERCADO, ANA DOLORES RIVERA MERCADO, CARMEN LUISA RIVERA MERCADO; todos por sí y como miembros de la sucesión de Ángel Luis Rivera González y como miembros de la sucesión de Carmen Julia Mercado Muñiz, LYDIA MARGARITA GONZÁLEZ ROSARIO en representación de AMARILIS

RIVERA T/C/C AMARILIS RIVERA GONZÁLEZ E IGNACIO

RIVERA JR. T/C/C IGNACIO

RIVERA GONZÁLEZ, por sí y todos como miembros de la Sucesión de Ignacio Rivera Mercado, también conocido por Ignacio Rivera y Ulises Rivera, contra ustedes para que se liquide la comunidad de bienes existente al día de hoy entre las partes de epígrafe y que se pueda vender el inmueble, que ordene al señor Alguacil comparezca en representación de los demandados de epígrafe en el instrumento sobre compraventa y se pueda presentar dicha sentencia con los documentos complementarios que se incluyen con la presente demanda y así se le ordene

al Registrador de la Propiedad que la misma sea inscrita y emita cualquier pronunciamiento que proceda en derecho. Las abogadas de la parte demandante son la Lcda. Cynthia Vionnette Rosario González y la Lda. Mitxi I. Molina Santiago, Urb. Villamar Calle Domingo Rubio 34, Arecibo, Puerto Rico 00612; Tel. (787) 400-6376 / (787) 878-9633, correo electrónico: cvionnette@yahoo.com y mitxi.Iaw@gmail.com Se ordena a la Secretaria del Tribunal a expedir los emplazamientos por edicto correspondientes. Por el presente se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a las abogadas de la parte demandante antes mencionadas, copia de la Contestación a la Demanda, dentro de un plazo de treinta (30) días, la original deberá ser radicada en el Tribunal de epígrafe, si no radica la contestación en dicho término, se podrá anotar la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, sin más citarle ni oírle, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. NOTIFÍQUESE. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de abril de 2026. YELITZA TRINIDAD MARTÍN, JUEZA SUPERIOR. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de abril de 2026. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. PILAR H. MERCADO GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

Demandante V. CONCONCRETO, INC.;

RAMON J. FIGUEROA RIVERA

Demandada

Civil Núm.: PO2022CV00653. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO, COBRO DE DINERO Y REPOSESIÓN. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; A LA PARTE DEMANDADA Y A LOS TENEDORES

DE GRAVÁMENES

POSTERIORES.

YO: EDGARDO ALDEBOL

MIRANDA, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, al público en general: CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Cumpliendo con un Mandamiento de Venta de Ejecución de Sentencia del Secretario del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, venderé en pública subasta al mejor postor en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos, el cual se encuentra en el Lote de Firstbank localizado en: Centro Industrial Rio Cañas, Calle North, Lote 1516, Carr. 175, Entrada Carrraízo, Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 22 de mayo de 2026a las 10:00 de la mañana el siguiente bien mueble: MARCA: NISSAN.

MODELO: KICKS. AÑO: 2018. VIN: 3N1CP5CU3JL540874.

TABLILLA: JEF-516. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer hasta donde sea posible, para responder por las siguientes cantidades a la parte demandante el balance de $23,061.64 de principal; más $258.53 de cargos por mora; más $519.00 por concepto de una penalidad; más $713.84 correspondiente a otros cargos. Por tal razón dicho producto será consignado judicialmente para que su desembolso esté condicionado a la ulterior resolución por el Tribunal con competencia sobre el caso de epígrafe. Se apercibe a todos los interesados que el vehículo objeto de la subasta se encuentra localizada en el Centro Industrial Rio Cañas, Calle North, Lote 1516, Carr. 175, Entrada Carrraízo, Caguas, Puerto Rico, por lo que todo aquel que quiera participar de su subasta podrá pasar por dicha localización, en horas laborables, previo a su celebración, para inspeccionarlo físicamente. La subasta se llevará a cabo el día y a la hora señalada habiendo las personas interesadas inspeccionado o no el mencionado bien. En adición, por la presente se informa que siendo la propiedad a subastarse un bien mueble no habrá tipo mínimo en la misma, por lo que el vehículo será adjudicado al mejor postor en ese momento. La forma de pago deberá ser en efectivo, giro o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Si se declarase desierta la subasta, se dará por terminado este procedimiento pudiendo adjudicarse el acreedor el vehículo dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la subasta, y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuere mayor. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes

al procedimiento incoado estarán manifiestos en la Secretaría del Tribunal con competencia sobre el caso de epígrafe durante horas laborables. De acuerdo con el mejor conocimiento de la parte demandante, la propiedad antes descrita que ha de venderse en subasta no tiene gravámenes anteriores, ni posteriores. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas preferentes, si alguna continuará subsistente; entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad del mismo, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Para la publicación de este Edicto en un periódico de circulación general una vez por semana durante dos (2) semanas consecutivas, y para la colocación del mismo en tres (3) sitios públicos visibles del municipio en que se celebre la subasta, al igual que en el municipio en que reside la parte demandada, libro el presente en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 28 de abril de 2026. EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

JULIA GRISELLE LOZADA RODRÍGUEZ

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE JUSTINA

LOPEZ CASTRO; JANE Y JOHN DOE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JUSTINA

LÓPEZ CASTRO

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2026CV01778.

Sala: 501. Sobre: USUCAPIÓN. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE UU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.

A: SUCESIÓN DE JUSTINA LOPEZ CASTRO; Y JANE Y JOHN DOE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JUSTINA

LÓPEZ CASTRO. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la demandante del caso de epígrafe ha presentado ante este Tribunal Demanda de Liquidación de Herencia. Representa a la parte peticionaria la abogada cuyo nombre y dirección se consigna de inmediato: Lcda. Mónica Eunice Burgos Bermúdez RUA Núm.: 19399 #42 Calle Carazo, Oficina 1- A bajos Guaynabo, P.R. 00969 Tel. 787-789-1198 / 939-266-2801

Email: monicaburgosbermudez@ gmail.com

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, 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. En la ciudad de Bayamón, P.R. a 20 de abril de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SUBSECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA

PRISCILLA

ÁLVAREZ GONZÁLEZ

Demandante Vs. JOSÉ FRANCISCO RÍOS

FIGUEROA H/N/C JR DESIGN; JANE DOE; SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES; ASEGURADORA X

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CA2026CV01159. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; DAÑOS CONTRACTUALES. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTA-

DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: (I) JANE DOE; (II) SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES; Y (III) ASEGURADORA X.

POR LA PRESENTE queda emplazado y notificado de que en este Tribunal se ha presentado una Demanda de incumplimiento de contrato y daños contractuales en su contra. Se le notifica que usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en el término de treinta (30) días a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica https://tribunalelectronico. ramajudicial.pr/sumac2018, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Carolina y enviando una copia a la parte demandante: Lcda. Janet Natal Cabrera, DESPACHO 402, PO BOX 41307, SAN JUAN, PR 00940, teléfono: (787) 434-3387, correo electrónico: jnatal@despachocervoni.com. Se le apercibe y notifica que, si no contesta la Demanda presentada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará una sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la Demanda, sin más citar, ni oír. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 14 de abril de 2026. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LOURDES DÍAZ MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

LEGAL NOTICE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ACTING THROUGH THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Plaintiff V. ANGEL DAVID LIZASUAIN PEREZ A/K/A ANGEL DAVID LIZASUAIN IN HIS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND AS A MEMBER OF THE ESTATE OF CARMEN MARIA RAMOS SANABRIA; MARICARMEN

LIZASUAIN RAMOS AND GLORIMY LIZASUAIN RAMOS AS KNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE; JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE AS UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE

Defendants Civil No.: 25-01142. (MAJ). Re: FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE; COLLECTION OF MONEY. NOTICE OF JUDGMENT BY PUBLICATION.

To: ANGEL DAVID LIZASUAIN PEREZ A/K/A ANGEL DAVID LIZASUAIN IN HIS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND AS A MEMBER OF THE ESTATE OF CARMEN MARIA RAMOS SANABRIA; MARICARMEN LIZASUAIN RAMOS AND GLORIMY LIZASUAIN RAMOS AS KNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE; JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE AS UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE.

THE CLERK OF THIS COURT hereby notifies you that on April 10, 2027, this Court notified an amended default judgment in favor of plaintiff. Said judgment has been duly registered and the terms of such judgment are available for review in the Clerks’ office. THEREFORE, this notice is hereby given to you that judgment has been entered against you in the instant proceedings. Notice will be deemed effective, and the thirty (30) day term to file the notice of appeal will begin the day this judicial notice is published in a newspaper of general circulation. A copy of the Notice of Judgment by Publication and Judgment in this case will be sent by plaintiff to the defendant’s last known address by certified mail, return receipt requested within ten (10) days of the one and only publication of this judicial notice. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 28th day of April, 2026. ADA I. GARCIARIVERA, ESQ., CLERK OF THE COURT. ANA DURAN, DEPUTY CLERK.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA MUNICIPAL CARIBE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

Demandante Vs. CARLOS ALBERTO LIZARDI RODRÍGUEZ, JANE DOE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2026CV00292. 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: CARLOS ALBERTO LIZARDI RODRÍGUEZ, JANE DOE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda en su contra sobre Cobro de Dinero. Se les notifica para que comparezcan 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 les 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 deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Centro Judicial de Fajardo, Sala Municipal, y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcda. Karina P. Cintrón Narváez; PO Box 193813, San Juan, PR 00919; kcintron@esqlegalpr.com. 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 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 28 de abril de 2026. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA GENERAL. SANDRA L. PADILLA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

MILLISEN MARIE

MARTINEZ MEDINA

Demandante V. JESUS MANUEL RIOS GUZMAN

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CY2026RF00022. (Salón: 503). Sobre: PATRIA POTESTAD - PRIVACIÓN, SUSPENSIÓN O RESTRICCIÓN. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ASLIN RIVERA LIMBERTA-RIVERA@SERVICIOSLEGALES. ORG.

A: BO. JUAN ASENCIO, SECTOR EL PARQUE, CARRETERA 156 RAMAL 790 KM 41, AGUAS BUENAS.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que

el 27 de abril 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 29 de abril de 2026. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 29 de abril de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. YARELIS BURGOS ORTIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN GERMÁN SONIA MARÍA TORO NAZARIO

Demandante Vs. DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE POSIBLE TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS Caso Número: SG2026CV00263. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE. Por la presente se notifica a todos los demandados que se ha presentado Demanda sobre Cancelación de Pagaré Extraviado. Por la presente se le emplaza y se le apercibe de que usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo (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 Secretaria del Tribunal dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general, por orden del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Ponce. De repre-

sentarse por derecho propio deberá notificar copia de su alegación al Lcdo. Luis M. Barnecet Vélez, Urb. Paraíso de Coamo, 608 Calle Paz, Coamo, Puerto Rico 00769, Teléfono (787) 603-2396, email: barnecet@hotmail.com. Se le apercibe que si dejare de hacerlo se dictará sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Germán, Puerto Rico, hoy 28 de abril de 2026. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA GENERAL. CAROLINE HERNÁNDEZ VALENTÍN, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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

PHALANX

CAPITAL SERIES 5 REAL ESTATE LLC

Demandante Vs MIGUEL JESÚS VELÁZQUEZ

ROSADO, LEIZA RODRÍGUEZ ROSARIO Y LA SOCIEDAD DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2026CV00022. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (“IN REM”). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LEIZA RODRÍGUEZ ROSARIO, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON MIGUEL JESÚS VELÁZQUEZ ROSADO. Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Jean Paul Juliá Díaz, Rivera-Munich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, PR 00936-4908; Tel. (787) 6222323 / Fax (787) 622-2320. Se le advierte que este Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por

derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior, Sala de Vega Baja, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. En un término de diez (10) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante le notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias del Emplazamiento por Edicto y de la Demanda a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: Bo. Indiera Fría, Carr. 366 Km. 4.5, Maricao, PR 00606; Urb. Villas de la Playa, B8 Calle Boquerón, Vega Baja, PR 00693 y 335 Glenneyre Cir, St. Augustine, 32092 FL, Ponte Vedra. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 27 de abril de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SUBSECRETARIA.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. ASHLEY MARIE LÓPEZ VILLEGAS

Demandada

Civil Núm.: CN2026CV00002. 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: ASHLEY MARIE LÓPEZ VILLEGAS.

Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Jean Paul Juliá Díaz, Rivera-Munich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, PR 00936-4908; Tel. (787) 6222323 / Fax (787) 622-2320. Se le advierte que este Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación

responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior, Sala de Carolina, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. En un término de diez (10) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante le notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias del Emplazamiento por Edicto y de la Demanda a su última dirección postal conocida: P.O. Box 2002, Canóvanas, Puerto Rico 00729. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 27 de abril de 2026. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. IDA L. FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT A/C/C

LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES

Demandante V. NELLIE DE LEON RODRIGUEZ T/C/C NELIDA DE LEON Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CG2025CV04192. (Salón: 705). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FASJCFORTUNO@FORTUNO-LAW. COM. A: NELLIE DE LEÓN RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C NELIDA DE LEÓN Y LUIS OSVALDO PAGÁN SANTIAGO; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO - 86 4 SR PR-1 66.1, PASTO VIEJO COMMUNITY, CAYEY PR 00736.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de abril 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 29 de abril de 2026. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 29 de abril de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. YAMAIRA RÍOS CARRASCO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

MUNICIPIO DE CANÓVANAS

Demandante V. RAMÍREZ DE ARELLANO Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CN2025CV00427. (Civil: 407). Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR

EDICTO. JOSEPHINE M RODRÍGUEZ RÍOSJOSEPHINE.RODRIGUEZ@GMAIL. COM.

A: RAMÍREZ DE ARELLANO, JOHN DOE Y DUEÑO(S) DESCONOCIDO(S). (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de abril 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 28 de abril de 2026. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 28 de abril de

2026. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. DENISSE MINERVA TORRES RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC Demandante, V. GLORIA ESTHER RODRÍGUEZ

SOTOMAYOR, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO GLORIA E. RODRÍGUEZ

SOTOMAYOR, GLORIA RODRÍGUEZ

SOTOMAYOR, GLORIA ESTHER RODRÍGUEZ, GLORIA E. RODRÍGUEZ. GLORIA RODRIGUEZ, MATILDE RODRÍGUEZ

SOTO, MATILDE RODRÍGUEZ-SOTO, Y COMO MATILDE RODRÍGUEZ, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2026CV00381. 604. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A: GLORIA ESTHER RODRÍGUEZ

SOTOMAYOR, TAMBIÉN

CONOCIDA COMO GLORIA E. RODRÍGUEZ

SOTOMAYOR, GLORIA RODRÍGUEZ

SOTOMAYOR, GLORIA ESTHER RODRÍGUEZ, GLORIA E. RODRÍGUEZ, GLORIA RODRÍGUEZ, MATILDE RODRÍGUEZ SOTO, MATILDE RODRÍGUEZ-SOTO, Y COMO MATILDE RODRÍGUEZ. Queden emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que dcbe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto y deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), el cual podrá acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, 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 Secretaria del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al licenciado Andrés Sáez Marrero, 623 Ponce de León Avenue, Executive Building, Ste. 1100A-2, San Juan, PR 00917, Tel. (561) 338-4101, correo electrónico, asaez@tmpllc.com, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. 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. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Protección 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. Expido este edicto bajo mi finna y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 21 de abril de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. GREISHKA CARTAGENA RÍOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR MARÍA MERCEDES PAGANI MELÉNDEZ Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN GONZÁLEZ REY, COMPUESTA POR SU ÚNICA Y UNIVERSAL HEREDERA, ROXANA PAGANI GONZÁLEZ; HOY REPRESENTADA POR LA SUCESIÓN DE ROXANA PAGANI GONZÁLEZ, COMPUESTA POR SUS HERMANOS: SUCESIÓN DE GLORIA MARÍA PAGANI MELÉNDEZ, COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS MIGUEL VILLAMIL PAGANI, FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL; SUCESIÓN DE LUIS AGUSTÍN PAGANI

MELÉNDEZ, COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS JAVIER PAGANI, FULANO II Y SUTANO II DE TAL; SUCESIÓN DE LUIS ORLANDO PAGANI MELÉNDEZ, COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS LUIS ORLANDO PAGANI GONZÁLEZ Y HÉCTOR PAGANI GONZÁLEZ; Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2026CV01715. Sobre: DIVISIÓN DE COMUNIDAD HEREDITARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN GONZÁLEZ

REY, COMPUESTA POR SU ÚNICA Y UNIVERSAL HEREDERAROXANA PAGANI GONZÁLEZ; HOY REPRESENTADA POR LA SUCESIÓN DE ROXANA PAGANI GONZÁLEZ, COMPUESTA POR SUS HERMANOS: SUCESIÓN DE GLORIA MARÍA PAGANI MELÉNDEZ, COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS MIGUEL VILLAMIL PAGANI, FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL; SUCESIÓN DE LUIS AGUSTÍN PAGANI

MELÉNDEZ, COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS JAVIER PAGANI, FULANO II Y SUTANO II DE TAL; SUCESIÓN DE LUIS ORLANDO PAGANI

MELÉNDEZ, COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS LUIS ORLANDO PAGANI GONZÁLEZ Y HÉCTOR PAGANI GONZÁLEZ; POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte demandante una Demanda, cuyos hechos se detallan en la misma, la cual puede ser examinada en la secretaría de este Tribunal. REPRESENTA a MARIA MERCEDES PAGANI

MELÉNDEZ, el bufete RIVERA COLON, RIVERA TORRES & RIVERA RIOS (Lcdo. Víctor M. Rivera Torres) con dirección en Ave. Fernández Juncos #1420, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00909, teléfonos (787) 727-5710, email: victor.rivera@rcrtrblaw. com. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparece en el término de treinta (30) días desde su publicación, el demandante podrá solicitar que se dicte sentencia en rebeldía, declarándose con lugar las contestaciones, sin más citarle

ni oírle. EXPEDIDO, bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy día 20 de abril de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. VIVIAN J. SANABRIA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAMILIA Y MENORES SALA DE BAYAMÓN ARLETTE IRASEMIS SÁNCHEZ

Parte Demandante Vs. MARIO EDGARDO TORRES VÁZQUEZ

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: BY2026RF00504. Sala: 3003. Sobre: NOMBRAMIENTO DE TUTOR, CUSTODIA Y PRIVACIÓN DE PATRIA POTESTAD. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: MARIO EDGARDO TORRES VÁZQUEZ.

Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado una Demanda contra usted a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC) por lo que se le requiere notifique a la Lcda. Vilmarie Negrón Marrero, abogada de la parte demandante, a su dirección postal P.O. Box 675, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico 00951 con dirección electrónica: vnegronmarrero@gnlawpr. com y cuyo teléfono es (787) 784-0806; con una copia de su contestación a la demanda, dentro de treinta (30) días a partir de 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:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal, apercibiéndole que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en rebeldía en contra suya concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda. De no contestar dentro del plazo antes señalado, radicando el original de su Contestación a la Demanda ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Hatillo, con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la Rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 7 de abril de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARÍA A. RUIZ QUIÑONES, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Gigantes, Capitanes notch wins in BSN

By THE STAR STAFF

The Gigantes of Carolina-Canóvanas and Capitanes of Arecibo were winners in a pair of Superior National Basketball League (BSN) games on Sunday night.

At Carlos Miguel Mangual Coliseum in Canóvanas, the Gigantes defeated the Santeros of Aguada, 98-69.

After an even first quarter, the Gigantes held the Santeros to 12 points in the second frame to build a 43-28 halftime lead, and didn’t look back in the second half.

Tremont Waters led the Gigantes’ offensive charge with 19 points and eight assists, followed by Scottie James, a 6-foot-8-inch power forward from Indiana and Florida who enjoyed a stellar debut with 18 points and 15 rebounds. Jaylen Nowell contributed 15 points, Hunter Tyson added 14, and Daniel Rivera scored 10 points to go along with six rebounds.

John Holland and Giancarlos Rosado led the Santeros with 10 points each.

At Arquelio Torres Ramírez Coliseum in San Germán, meanwhile, the Capitanes defeated the host Atléticos, 90-85.

Justin Reyes was Arecibo’s top scorer with 22 points and

9 rebounds. Derrick Walton contributed 19 points and 11 assists. Timothy Soares added another 19 points, and Jack Edward McVeigh chipped in 15.

For the Atléticos, Nick Perkins scored 23 points, while Montrezl Harrell led the team in rebounds with 8, and André Curbelo led in assists with 5.

Wembanyama refuses burden of hiding emotions

By JARED WEISS / THE ATHLETIC

To be an NBA player is to be a professional in compartmentalization. When you come up short, you don’t fail just in front of the people you see, but also the abstract world at large. Success and failure hinge on split-second decisions as you try to focus on trusting the training rather than fearing judgment.

The weight of internal expectations and

upholding the responsibility to the team is already enough pressure to push an NBA player to his breaking point.

There are no questions about how Victor Wembanyama feels. His actions have backed up his words all season. He is cold and calculated most of the time but vicious and primal on occasion.

All of this culminated in an emotional moment on the bench with his teammates as the San Antonio Spurs eliminated the Portland Trail Blazers last week, delivering him and many of his teammates their first playoff series victory. After the game, he was asked in French by L’Equipe’s Maxime Aubin about how he

turns his whole range of emotions on the court into a strength, and why he thinks that is so rare for elite athletes in general.

“That’s a tough question. I think it’s first and foremost a fear of judgment,” Wembanyama said in French, according to Aubin. “Like, this feeling that you have to act a certain way, social codes, I guess. Personally, I refuse to carry the burden of having to hide my emotions.”

What makes Wembanyama special is that he is chasing his own definition of greatness even while the existential implications of his pursuit may be on his mind. He is pushing himself to his own limits, even though those limits may be greater than those of any other person. When he shows his emotions, it reminds the world that he is, in fact, as human as everyone else.

“Being the best player out there, it’s good for him to show that,” his teammate Julian Champagnie said. “It’s good for him to express that. It’s good for the sport of basketball to show that guys actually care and want to

win, and want all these great things.”

Champagnie loves seeing Wembanyama unafraid of vulnerability, saying that the game is emotional and nobody truly understands it unless they are on the court.

Back in March, when the final buzzer sounded on a 25-point Spurs comeback against the Los Angeles Clippers, Wembanyama threw his head onto the shoulders of his teammates De’Aaron Fox and Keldon Johnson, overwhelmed with emotion. As he remained there, more Spurs came to celebrate him with joy.

“I was about to pass out from the first quarter from exhaustion,” Wembanyama told ESPN in his walk-off interview moments later. “That’s close to being the hardest game of my life.”

In December, after the Spurs’ NBA Cup final loss to the New York Knicks, Wembanyama went to the postgame news conference podium in tears. He said he had lost someone that morning (later revealed to be his maternal grandmother) and took one question before excusing himself for the evening.

Most players would take the night off from media duties when they were grieving a loved one. He could have done so, and the media in attendance would have respected it. But he understood the value of the news conference to the sport and to his own career. He recognized that, as the star of the team and a face of the league, he was responsible for showing up and taking accountability after such a high-profile loss.

He tried, willing to step to the podium while crying, hoping he could fulfill this mandate to carry the game forward, one that has been bestowed upon him as much as he has reached out for it. As his profile has skyrocketed and his career arc has suddenly shifted from budding talent to star, the external expectations have only caught up to his own.

Wembanyama has brought a refreshing honesty to the job over this past year. He answers questions transparently while keeping his emotions level most of the time. Yet the reason he has won so many hearts and minds, particularly this season, is that he gives pieces of himself as an offering to the world. There is this feeling that when you see him, you see the real him. It is a thrill not just to witness someone great through the filter of a screen, but to know that their true self is permeating.

His teammate Luke Kornet noted how the experience of being exposed to the media, television and the internet is strange. People are watching you without being present, yet you can only experience your own presence in that moment. That realization pushed Kornet to get away from social media and focus on carrying himself in a way to fit within the construct of the people to whom he is actually accountable in his world.

“Between my family and then my team, it’s like, that’s enough people to try to have your actions reflect,” Kornet said. “Because otherwise, if you’re caring about so many voices, then the ability to satisfy them is just going to be incomplete at the end of the day and kind of impossible.”

Kornet believes that most media members are trying to honestly represent the players to the public, but he admits that he feels a sense that he is a character in the story of basketball. The key is to understand that his place in that story is told through what he does and not necessarily his intentions.

Kornet appreciates when some athletes like Wembanyama choose to embrace their exposure in the public domain and put their full selves out there, but the goal can’t be to be understood by everyone.

As Victor Wembanyama’s “profile has skyrocketed and his career arc has suddenly shifted from budding talent to star, the external expectations have only caught up to his own,” writes Jared Weiss for The Athletic. (Reddit via r/NBATalk)

“Even your spouse or children or family, no one actually knows your exact interior perspective and experience in everything,” Kornet said. “This is where faith and religion ultimately come in. So obviously, it’s great to have people who do know you closer and feel like they can intimately understand you. But also, to a certain sense, you have to have peace with knowing who you allow close to you and who you’re going to share that with, and you’re cool being misunderstood.”

That distinction helped Kornet develop what he called an awareness of himself in the third person, recognizing that the character the outside world sees will have its own story, and he has to live in his own. This has forced him to make a real decision within himself of how to maintain his own truth.

It is something he can see Wembanyama working out in real time.

“I think that’s where your ultimate peace is,” he said. “To be able to live in that place.”

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