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UPR President: Mayagüez Campus Strike Could Jeopardize Pell Grants

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New security equipment bolsters Caguas region’s emergency response capacity

By THE STAR STAFF

The Caguas Emergency Management

Region on Tuesday announced the delivery of new specialized equipment acquired through the Homeland Security Grant Program, as part of ongoing efforts to bolster the preparedness and operational capacity of municipalities in the face of emergency situations. The delivery was presented by Caguas Mayor William Miranda Torres and island Public Safety Secretary Arthur Garffer.

The total investment amounts to $224,970, allocated for the delivery of six command and support trailers to the municipalities of Barranquitas, Caguas, Cidra, Comerío and Corozal, as well as to the Municipal Emergency Management Office of Orocovis.

Public Safety Secretary Artur Garffer, fourth from the left, noted that the new command trailers to be deployed in six Caguas region towns “strengthen our operational capacity and enable us to coordinate with greater agility and precision for the benefit of our communities.”

The acquisitions are part of a broader investment made over the past two years, with federal funds received through the Homeland Security Grant Program totaling $230,055 and $465,072 in 2023 and 2024.

The mayor emphasized the importance of the delivery for regional security, noting that preparedness is the best tool in the face of any emergency.

“The delivery of this equipment represents a firm step toward strengthening our municipal and regional capabilities,” Miranda Torres said. “We will continue to manage and acquire the necessary resources to ensure that our

emergency management offices are equipped with the proper tools to protect our people.”

Garffer noted that the new command trailers “strengthen our operational capacity and enable us to coordinate with greater agility and precision for the benefit of our communities.”

“Through the DSP’s Office of Public Safety Affairs, we will continue to allocate funds to bolster the operational capabilities of our first responders -- both state and municipal -- to ensure a more agile, coordinated, and effective response to any emergency,” the public safety chief added.

By THE STAR STAFF

Cataño Mayor Julio Alicea Vasallo announced on Tuesday the start of construction on the port promenade (paseo del puerto).

“This project ... is part of a strategy aimed at organizing, connecting, and enhancing our spaces, creating the conditions for economic growth, the strengthening of local commerce, and the attraction of visitors,” the mayor stated in written remarks.

Alicea Vasallo noted that the undertaking represents a total investment of $389,835.55, of which $203,116.91 comes from federal Community Development Block Grant funds allocated by the island Housing Department, while $186,718.64 consists of municipal funds.

The project is being developed on land acquired under the administration of former Mayor Edwin Rivera Sierra -land originally intended to connect the waterfront (frente marítimo) with the ferry terminal and the multi-story parking garage. The mayor said the current intervention expands upon that concept, incorporating new spaces and uses designed to enhance the experience for both residents and visitors.

He said the work currently underway includes the construction of a new access road, a pedestrian walkway, recreational areas for children, improvements to existing structures (such as the gazebo), new lighting, and an expansion of the site through the integration of an adjacent lot. According to the project timeline, construction is expected to be completed within 10 months. Alicea Vasallo also noted that all required permits have already been secured.

UPR-Carolina students to discuss ongoing stoppage

Jordán Conde: Mayagüez Campus strike could impact Pell grants

By THE STAR STAFF

Students at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) in Carolina have been convened for a student assembly today to discuss the situation stemming from an ongoing student strike, but it was unclear whether there would be a call for the campus to join the stoppage.

Student leaders have said the protest is driven by demands that UPR President Zayira Jordán Conde resign, criticism of recent administrative decisions -- including the removal and appointment of campus chancellors -- and broader concerns about governance, transparency and long-term funding for the public university system. The Río Piedras and Mayagüez campuses have decreed stoppages.

Jordán Conde warned Tuesday that students at the Mayagüez Campus could lose access to Pell Grants if the ongoing strike continues and the university is required to notify the U.S. Department of Education of an extended disruption of academic activities.

In a radio interview with NotiUno, Jordán Conde said the Mayagüez campus remains without classes and “with no resolution in sight,” prompting university officials to consider reporting a prolonged work stoppage -- an action that could affect Title IV funding, including Pell Grants.

“As a result of all this, it’s now up to us -- it’s up to the chancellor -- to write to the [federal] Department of Education, notifying them that we have an extended work stoppage and that Title IV funding, which is essentially the Pell Grant, could be affected,” Jordán Conde said.

She called the situation “an extremely

serious matter.”

She urged students and other members of the university community who are blocking access and halting operations at campuses in Mayagüez and Río Piedras to end the strike “immediately” to avoid harming students who plan to study over the summer.

Jordán Conde said other campuses could also face consequences, noting that the definition of an “extended” period without classes is not clear in the regulations.

“If we are not offering classes for an extended period, then we must notify the Department of Education,” she said, adding that the federal agency ultimately decides how grant payments are handled.

She said the interim chancellor of the Mayagüez Campus, Miguel Muñoz, is responsible for reporting the situation to federal officials. Jordán Conde also said she does not plan to resign.

On Monday, more than 600 students at the Mayagüez Campus gathered at Isidoro García Stadium for the fifth Extraordinary General Student Assembly convened by the General Student Council, but the meeting failed to reach the 1,072-student quorum required for a deliberative session after more than two hours of waiting.

PDP legislators call for public hearings on minimum wage bill

By THE STAR STAFF

The Popular Democratic Party (PDP) minority leader in the island House of Representatives, Héctor Ferrer Santiago, announced on Tuesday that he has requested public hearings regarding House Bill 1115, which was returned to the Committee on Labor and Labor Affairs.

“This matter directly impacts the wallets and quality of life of thousands of working families,” Ferrer Santiago said in a written statement. “It cannot be addressed behind the people’s backs or in a hasty manner. It is indispensable to hear from all sectors and evaluate the complete information before making decisions.”

Ferrer Santiago sent an official communication, jointly

with Rep. Domingo Torres García, the PDP alternate minority leader, to the committee chairman, Rep. Roberto López Román, calling for a broad and participatory legislative process.

He maintained that the hearings must allow for the participation of workers, union leaders and members of the Minimum Wage Evaluation Commission before the House makes a determination regarding the measure.

Torres García noted that during the previous process, requests for information went unanswered; therefore, in his view, it is appropriate to utilize the available time to demand that data and ensure a responsible discussion.

“It is important that commitments be honored and that a fair, orderly, and participatory process be carried out,” Torres García said. “Puerto Rico deserves transparency and respect.”

Senate reviewing report on investigation into family secretary

By THE STAR STAFF

Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz

stated on Tuesday that he is reviewing the Department of Justice’s report on an investigation involving the Family Secretary Suzanne Roig Fuertes.

The Senate president said he had requested the report from the Department of Justice and that, following initial resistance, Justice Secretary Lourdes Gómez Torres sent it to the Senate.

“I immediately handed it over to my colleagues -- and by ‘colleagues,’ I mean all the senators -- because this was a formal request made on behalf of the Senate of Puerto Rico,”

“If you have a file containing sworn statements, documentary evidence, testimony, and information that -- according to the prosecutor -- exonerates the family secretary, why not turn it over?” Rivera Schatz asked during a press conference.

Rivera Schatz said.

He noted that all senators, across all delegations, have the right to examine the document, and that the Senate will verify its contents.

The Senate president noted that the case originated in 2021, when then-Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López identified a potentially irregular situation.

“Before referring the matter, an attorney named Verdiale -- Miguel Verdiale -- conducted a thoroughly documented investigation,

complete with sworn statements and all the trimmings,” he pointed out.

Rivera Schatz said the case file was forwarded to the Department of Justice, and that in October 2025, a prosecutor determined that no crime had been committed.

“That is the opinion of that specific prosecutor -- of that individual, that representative of the Department of Justice -- regarding what they observed in that file,” he noted. “They could be right, or they could be wrong.”

Treasury Dept. to release tax information on ex-justice chief Sagardía

By THE STAR STAFF

Treasury Secretary Ángel Pantoja Rodríguez announced on Tuesday that he will provide the island Senate with the requested tax information regarding former Secretary of justice Antonio Sagardía de Jesús, following the receipt of express authorization from the taxpayer.

“As Secretary of the Treasury, ensuring the confidentiality of the information that taxpayers submit to the Department of the Treasury is a responsibility I have undertaken with the utmost seriousness and rigor,” Pantoja Rodríguez said in a written statement.

The treasury chief noted that in the exercise of his duties he is bound to uphold the minimum guarantees required by the Taxpayer Bill of Rights and to maintain a balance between the functions of the Treasury Department and the powers of

the Legislative Assembly.

“In this instance -- precisely as required by law -- the taxpayer has provided written notification of their express authorization for the disclosure of the requested tax information,” he stated.

Pantoja Rodríguez said that pursuant to that authorization, the Treasury Department would proceed later on Tuesday to release the requested information.

La Fortaleza Public Affairs Secretary Jean Peña Payano had previously stated that the Justice Department was reviewing the process, given that it is the agency handling the case on behalf of the Treasury Department.

Peña Payano noted that the Senate had issued a request with a 24-hour deadline, but added that a 15-day period exists for filing a motion for reconsideration with the Puerto Rico Supreme Court.

Advocacy group: Move homelessness council out of ASSMCA, into Housing Dept.

By THE STAR STAFF

Solo Por Hoy Inc., one of Puerto Rico’s leading organizations serving people experiencing homelessness, is urging lawmakers to overhaul the island’s institutional framework for addressing homelessness, arguing that the current structure has weakened coordination, distorted public policy and sidelined community expertise.

In a detailed explanatory memorandum submitted to Senate Housing and Social Welfare Committee Chair Jamie Barlucea Rodríguez, the nonprofit called the investigation ordered under Senate Resolution 383 a “critical opportunity” to reassess whether Puerto Rico’s public policy on homelessness is aligned with the agencies best equipped to address it.

At the center of the group’s concerns is the Multisectoral Council in Support of the Homeless Population, created under Law 130 of 2007 to coordinate the government’s response and set integrated public policy. The council was originally housed under the Family Department, but in December 2016 lawmakers transferred it to the Mental Health and Anti-Addic-

tion Services Administration (ASSMCA by its initials in Spanish) without public hearings or input from the sectors represented on the Council.

Solo Por Hoy argues that the move -- initially justified by federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration funding tied to mental health and substance use services -- narrowed the council’s mission and reduced community participation. The funding did not continue beyond the first year, the group noted, and was never intended to redefine the island’s homelessness policy structure.

“Homelessness is not a problem that can be reduced to mental health or addiction,” the organization wrote, emphasizing that many unhoused individuals do not present those conditions. They argue that the issue is fundamentally tied to structural determinants such as access to housing, employment, income stability and essential services.

The nonprofit also criticized what it described as ASSMCA’s “overreach,” saying the agency has treated the council as a direct service provider rather than a public-policy body. According to the memo, the council has even drafted funding

proposals without proper deliberation, diverting attention from its statutory role and undermining its multisectoral nature.

The group contends that the legal mandates of ASSMCA and the Housing Department make the current arrangement untenable. While ASSMCA is legally tasked with mental health and addiction services, the Housing Department is the agency responsible for designing and implementing public policy related to access to adequate housing.

Solo Por Hoy recommends restoring the council’s autonomy, ensuring that agency delegates have real decision-making authority, and reinstating full community representation, including the nine seats assigned to Continuums of Care. It also calls for clearer delineation between the council’s policymaking role and the Continuums of Care’s responsibility for federally aligned strategic planning.

Ultimately, the organization urges lawmakers to remove the Council from ASSMCA and place it under the Housing Department, asserting that doing so would better align Puerto Rico’s homelessness policy with the crisis’ structural nature and strengthen interagency coordination.

Call issued for solutions to telecom infrastructure woes

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Broadband Program (PRBP) has issued a request for proposals seeking suppliers to modernize the island’s telecommunications infrastructure in an effort officials say will strengthen the communications systems used by public safety agencies.

The PRBP said the initiative is aimed at improving the resilience, reliability and coverage of critical networks used by emergency management, law enforcement and other security agencies, particularly during hurricanes and other disasters.

Program materials describe the project as a push to ensure first responders have access to robust, high-speed and secure service, including improved continuity of operations when commercial networks are strained or disrupted.

Puerto Rico’s telecommunications systems have faced persistent challenges in recent years, including service interruptions and fragile network segments that can be damaged by extreme weather, difficult terrain and gaps in coverage outside major population centers. Industry analysts and local officials have also pointed to the need for more redundancy, hardened facilities and backup power to keep communications online

when the electrical grid and fuel supply chain are under stress.

The PRBP is inviting technology providers, infrastructure companies and telecom operators to propose solutions to improve network performance, expand coverage and support public safety operations with modern tools and services.

The request for proposals was published April 24, and submissions are due May 29.

The solicitation comes as Puerto Rico continues to pursue broadband expansion and other digital infrastructure upgrades, supported in part by federal funding streams intended to close connectivity gaps and bolster disaster preparedness.

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At a moment of chaos in Trump’s Washington, the royals come to town

By KATIE ROGERS and MICHAEL D. SHEAR

When King Charles III and Queen Camilla of Britain arrived at the White House for a state visit on Monday afternoon, President Donald Trump pointed to a large hole where the East Wing used to be before taking his guests inside for tea and a private audience with the White House beehive.

Presidents use state visits as an occasion to showcase the best of American culture — and, in this case, perhaps, subtly highlight the resilience of a people who, 250 years ago, rose up and wrested themselves from a king’s control.

The shooting over the weekend at the White House correspondents’ dinner has featured the darker side of the United States at a time when Trump is supposed to be showcasing America’s 250th birthday for the British royalty. For a moment over the weekend, it was unclear if King Charles would travel to Washington at all, before he reassessed and ultimately committed to his plans for a four-day visit to Washington, New York and Virginia.

Threats of violence against public figures in the United States have accelerated so much that administration officials have moved to live in military installations out of fear for their safety. The visit has also highlighted the nature of a president who has opted, time and time again, to show aggression rather than diplomacy when on the world stage.

Shortly before the arrival of the king and queen, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, took the podium inside the briefing room to admonish Trump’s enemies for creating “left-wing cult of hatred against the president,” as she fielded questions and assigned blame for the conditions that caused a gunman to rush toward a ballroom where Trump was scheduled to address members of the Washington news media Saturday night.

She also addressed the rampant skepticism and conspiracy theories questioning the events that led to them: “Hopefully people will believe the truth rather than the lies,” she said.

And Trump, who appeared relatively unfazed after the shooting Saturday evening, spent Monday returning to form, taking to the presidential Truth Social account to attack a latenight television host and share pictures of his latest construction project, which entails cleaning large amounts of goose excrement out of the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. This all complicates the unofficial diplomatic mission that

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, right, greet King Charles III and Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom at the White House in Washington, on Monday, April 27, 2026. Presidents use state visits to show off all that is appealing about American culture, but the shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner has cast a shadow over the visit. (Anna Rose Layden/The New York Times)

lies ahead for King Charles, who will try to soothe ruffled feathers in a relationship between Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer that has gone south rapidly over the past several months.

Early in Trump’s second term, Starmer tried heaping praise on the president, even once bending down to pick up papers the president dropped on the ground. But more recently, the prime minister’s decision not to join the U.S.-Israel war in Iran has darkened Trump’s mood. The president has called Starmer a coward for not entering the fight and has belittled the British navy.

More recently, a memo drafted at the Pentagon suggested that the Trump administration could stop supporting British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.

The conflict has also strained the so-called “special relationship” between the two countries. Officially, the king is above all of that, and few people on either side of the Atlantic expect the monarch to engage in a war of words with Trump. But privately, many British officials hope that this week’s visit could help charm the president into softening his tone.

While they are in the United States, the royal couple will be under protection by the Secret Service, at a moment when there are new questions about the agency’s ability and capacity

to protect public figures in an age of rising threats.

“In some ways I am surprised that the Secret Service would say, ‘Yes, come ahead, King Charles, it’ll be fine,’ and it’s a little bit surprising that he wanted to come,” said Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “On the other hand, this will be a way for him to prove that we have this bond and at that, despite what happened on Saturday night, he is willing to come and possibly risk his life.”

The king and queen hosted Trump for a state visit last September, treating the president to a royal banquet and an overnight stay in Windsor Castle. Trump, a former hotelier, is looking to return the lavish favor.

White House officials were initially planning for the king and queen to stay in the White House residence, according to two officials familiar with the planning, where King Charles’ mother and father, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, once stayed during a visit in 1957. In the end, the royals have opted to stay across the street at Blair House, which is larger and reserved for visiting dignitaries.

The schedule released by the White House before the visit illustrated how sequestered the Trumps have become amid heightened fears about their safety. For past state visits, Trump has traveled the country — or at least left the White House — with his guests. In 2018, the Trumps took a tour of Mount Vernon with President Emmanuel Macron of France and his wife, Brigitte Macron, and Melania Trump took Macron to view art at the National Portrait Gallery. In 2019, Donald Trump visited a factory in Ohio with Scott Morrison, the former Australian prime minister.

This week, the Trumps are not leaving the complex, which Mr. Trump has altered by tearing down the East Wing, festooning the Oval Office with gold and paving over the Rose Garden. Outside of the royal couple’s quarters at Blair House, the bricks in Lafayette Park have been torn out — too easy for protesters to pick them up to throw, the president has said. The fountains in the park have been turned on.

Rather than leaving the White House, the Trumps have opted instead to host “thousands of guests on the South Lawn,” a group that includes members of Trump’s Cabinet. Melania Trump will host Queen Camilla and American students at the White House Tennis Pavilion, where the group will use “A.I.-enabled glasses to learn about American history,” according to a release from the White House.

DeSantis proposes Florida House map that could add four Republican seats

By PATRICIA MAZZEI and NICK CORASANITI

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida proposed a redraw of the state’s congressional districts earlier this week that could give Republicans as many as four new seats, an aggressive gambit that could also endanger some of the party’s incumbents should a blue wave emerge in the November midterms.

The map, which is likely to face legal hurdles, appears to eliminate two Democraticheld districts in South Florida, a third in the Tampa area and a fourth in the Orlando area. That would leave Democrats with perhaps only four of the state’s 28 congressional seats. There are currently seven Florida Democrats in Congress; an eighth, former Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, resigned last week after

being charged with embezzlement. Florida, which does not hold primary elections until August, is the last state aiming to redraw congressional maps ahead of the midterms. A Supreme Court decision expected soon on a key provision of the Voting Rights Act could provide opportunities for other states to do so, but with many holding primaries in the next month or two, time is running out.

DeSantis’ map was first reported by Fox News, which received it before the state Legislature did on Monday morning. Lawmakers are scheduled to meet in a special redistricting session starting Tuesday.

The short turnaround is likely to upset some state lawmakers, few of whom have expressed much interest in redistricting, as well

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Your rights may be affected by the Asbestos Corporation Limited insolvency proceedings if you think you may have a claim against the company as a result of exposure to asbestos mined by the company.

On May 6, 2025, Asbestos Corporation Limited (“ACL”), a Canadian-based company that formerly operated asbestos mines, filed for protection in the Superior Court of Québec, Canada under Canada’s Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (the “Canadian Insolvency Proceeding”) and a case under chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Chapter 15 allows U.S. Bankruptcy courts to provide support and assistance for insolvency proceedings taking place in other countries. If you think you may have a claim resulting from exposure to asbestos mined by ACL or another claim against ACL, this notice is intended to inform you of the upcoming deadline to file this claim in the Canadian Insolvency Proceeding in order to preserve your rights regarding such claim.

Raymond Chabot Inc. was appointed to act as court-appointed monitor in the Canadian Insolvency Proceeding (the “Monitor”).

WHO IS AFFECTED?

This insolvency (“bankruptcy”) affects you if you have a claim against ACL or General Dynamics Corporation or its affiliates and any successors, and/or any of their respective predecessors, current or former employees, directors, officers, agents, representatives, assigns, or any of their respective insurers as a result of asbestos mined by ACL.

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A “claim” means a right to seek payment or other compensation.

• Asbestos Related Claims: If you or someone you know was exposed to asbestos mined by ACL and you have been diagnosed with symptoms or injuries, you must submit a Proof of Claim in the Canadian Insolvency Proceeding by no later than September 10, 2026 (the “Claims Bar Date”). If you are an heir or are representing the estate of a deceased person who was injured as a result of exposure to asbestos mined by ACL, you also must submit a claim by no later than September 10, 2026, THE CLAIMS BAR DATE

If you have an Asbestos Related Claim (defined above) resulting from exposure to asbestos mined by ACL and do not file a claim by the Claims Bar Date of September 10, 2026, you will NOT be able to file a claim or otherwise pursue compensation from ACL or General Dynamics Corporation or its affiliates and any successors, and/or any of their respective predecessors, current or former employees, directors, officers, agents, representatives, assigns, or any of their respective insurers in the future.

• Other Claims: Any other type of non-asbestos-related claim against ACL and/or its directors and officers (but not against General Dynamics Corporation, the insurers or the officers and directors of those entities) is also due no later than the Claims Bar Date. If you do not file any such other claim against ACL by the Claims Bar Date of September 10, 2026, you will NOT be able to file a claim or otherwise pursue compensation from ACL in the future.

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as some members of the Florida congressional delegation, who will have to introduce themselves to new voters between now and the midterms. State lawmakers are not expected to propose any maps of their own, but rather to vote on DeSantis’ redraw as early as Wednesday. It is almost certain to pass, given the Republican supermajorities in the state House and Senate.

DeSantis’ map appears to eliminate the lone Democratic district near Tampa, currently held by Rep. Kathy Castor, a House member for almost two decades.

It also packs Democratic voters in Orlando into a single district, appearing to eliminate the seat held by Rep. Darren Soto, who took office in 2017. The Orlando district that would remain intact under the proposal is held by Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost.

The proposal also appears to eliminate the South Florida districts held by Reps. Jared Moskowitz, who is in his second term, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is in her 11th.

“This clear effort to steal more seats for Republicans shows his total contempt for Florida voters, who voted 2-to-1 in favor of a ban on partisan gerrymandering in our Constitution,” Wasserman Schultz said in a statement, referring to DeSantis. “This nakedly partisan scheme breaks state law.”

Should the map pass, it could give Republicans nationwide a handful of new seats heading into the midterms. That would hardly be the multiseat advantage that President Donald Trump and national Republicans envisioned when they kicked off the national redistricting battle in Texas in the summer.

But should the fight for the U.S. House come down to a few districts, any seat that flips from Democrat to Republican could prove critical. Republicans control the chamber by just a handful of seats.

In 2010, voters in Florida passed the Fair Districts amendments, which effectively ban partisan gerrymandering in the state. DeSantis told Fox News that his proposed map — colored red and blue to indicate the expected political leanings of new districts — “more fairly represents the makeup of Florida today.”

In a letter to legislative leaders Monday,

David Axelman, the governor’s general counsel, reiterated DeSantis’ position that Florida should have received at least one additional congressional seat after the 2020 census.

Axelman also said that the state’s existing map had been “distorted by considerations of race.” In the Voting Rights Act case before the Supreme Court, the court’s conservative majority has signaled that it might prohibit using race as a factor in drawing election districts. Axelman suggested that the voter-imposed ban on partisan gerrymandering would not survive the Supreme Court’s expected decision.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., the minority leader, said last week that if Florida Republicans redrew the state’s congressional map, it would “only create more prime pickup opportunities for Democrats.”

“We will aggressively target for defeat Mario Diaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Giménez, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, Laurel Lee, Cory Mills and Brian Mast,” he said, referring to Republican House members throughout Florida.

In a new statement Monday, Jeffries said, “See you in court.”

Though the new maps would not go before voters, recent polling in Florida showed a majority of likely voters in the state were opposed to drawing new maps before the midterms. A poll from Emerson College this month found that Florida voters, by a slim margin, said it was a “bad idea” to redraw maps in the middle of the decade.

Some Republicans in the state have expressed reluctance to draw new maps this year. Such worries grew after special elections this year in which Democrats flipped a state House district that includes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach and a state Senate district near Tampa.

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL

Political violence isn’t just evil. It’s counterproductive.

By MICHELLE GOLDBERG

Cole Tomas Allen, who was arrested during an attempt to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday, may be America’s first normie liberal terrorist.

The right, naturally, sees Allen as part of a pattern, lumping him in with figures like Thomas Matthew Crooks, who fired on Donald Trump in 2024, grazing his ear; Ryan Wesley Routh, who carried a semiautomatic rifle to one of Trump’s golf courses a few months later; or Tyler Robinson, charged in the killing of Charlie Kirk last year. But all those men had weird or heterogenous politics. Crooks was a nihilistic Republican misfit. Routh had a history of violence and a delusional fixation on Ukraine, where he reportedly tried to join the war effort. Robinson seems to have cooked his brain in online fetish subcultures.

But Allen, who on Monday was charged with attempting to assassinate the president, seemed to be a man with remarkably ordinary political opinions. Social media posts that appear to come from him suggest that he despised U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, cared a lot about Ukraine, and, like the majority of Americans, wanted to see Trump impeached. Far from a radical leftist, he reposted criticisms of pro-Palestinian protesters and left-wing streamer Hasan Piker. He wasn’t exactly a standard Democrat — he was registered to no political party, and at least at one point was an evangelical Christian — but from what we know so

far, before he showed up at the Washington Hilton, he had fairly mainstream beliefs.

This makes Allen’s apparent attempt at political martyrdom particularly convenient for conservatives who want to stigmatize Democratic denunciations of the president. National Review blamed “the feverish opposition to Trump” for allowing “sundry fanatics and losers to resort to political violence.” The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board tied Saturday’s attack to a political culture in which Trump’s opponents have lost “all judgment and proportion.” Some nonpartisan journalists have parroted this framing. On CNN, Dana Bash asked Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., whether he’s thinking twice about “heated rhetoric” against the president, such as calling him “terrible for this country.”

I can’t really blame Republicans for exploiting the attack; Allen has provided them with an irresistible rhetorical cudgel. The problem, of course, is that Trump is indeed terrible for this country. The fact that people have tried to kill him can’t be a reason to eschew frankness about his depravity. Rather, it’s a reason to reiterate that even depravity doesn’t justify political violence, which is morally abhorrent, socially corrosive and counterproductive.

It’s true that the manifesto attributed to Allen contains exaggerated accusations. “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” the manifesto declares. There is no convincing evidence that Trump has ever abused children; all the women who’ve credibly accused him of sexual assault have been adults. Calling Trump a “pedophile” has become a too-common way to describe the president’s intimate relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and coverup of the Epstein files. The manifesto is a reminder that all of us should be more precise in our language. To describe Trump accurately, however, will always sound to some like incitement.

course, no defense for spreading disinformation or indulging in ideological self-delusion. Still, we can recognize that people start such rumors because they correctly intuit that violence often discredits the causes that inspire it. The leftwing terrorism rampant in the 1970s helped usher in Ronald Reagan, not socialist revolution. The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing ended up being a boon to Bill Clinton’s political fortunes. By attempting to kill Trump in 2024, Crooks helped to elect him. Violence isn’t just ethically reprehensible; it’s strategically stupid.

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There’s a fierce argument in America about whether the right or the left is more violent. Until very recently, there was no contest: The right was. (A 2024 study using National Institute of Justice data found that in the United States since 1990, “far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.”) In recent years, however, there’s been an uptick in left-wing terrorist attacks and plots.

A report on this phenomenon from the Center for Strategic and International Studies suggests that there’s a ratchet at work. It noted that both Republicans and Democrats overestimate their foes’ approval of violence, and said, “Widespread polarization and misperceptions that the other side is far more violent than it actually is creates a dangerous environment where extremists can more easily rationalize using violence.” Each act of political violence further frays our threadbare social fabric, laying the foundation for authoritarianism.

After any act of political terror, conspiracists will often make “false flag” accusations, and Saturday was no different; as The New York Times reported, uses of the word “staged” soared on the social platform X. There is, of

At least one person at the White House correspondents’ dinner was elated by the chaos the shooter caused. Describing agents running into the room with guns amid screaming and flipping tables, Dana White, the Trump-supporting head of Ultimate Fighting Championship, said it was “awesome — I literally took every minute of it in.” Perhaps he understood that the attack had given his movement a gift. Whatever evil the would-be assassin thought he was fighting, all he did was feed it.

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SAN JUAN – El alguacil de Estados Unidos para el Distrito de Puerto Rico, Wilmer Ocasio Ibarra, informó el martes que Pedro Rivera Hernández fue arrestado el 23 de abril en Gurabo por violaciones a las condiciones de su libertad supervisada federal.

“Este arresto refleja la fortaleza de nuestras alianzas interagenciales y nuestro compromiso inquebrantable de sacar de nuestras comunidades a individuos peligrosos, como parte de nuestros esfuerzos continuos para mantener seguro a Puerto Rico”, dijo Ocasio Ibarra en declaraciones escritas.

Ocasio Ibarra indicó que Rivera Hernández fue arrestado en una residencia del residencial público Luis del Carmen, en Gurabo, por integrantes del Grupo de Trabajo de Ofensores Violentos de Puerto Rico del Servicio de Alguaciles de Estados Unidos.

El funcionario detalló que el operativo contó con la colaboración de la Oficina de Probatoria de Estados Unidos y la Poli-

cía de Puerto Rico. También participaron dos unidades caninas de la Policía entrenadas en detección de narcóticos y armas.

Durante la intervención, las autoridades ocuparon una pistola modificada con capacidad de fuego automático, cargadores de pistola, municiones y múltiples bolsas con una sustancia blanca en polvo.

Ocasio Ibarra indicó que Rivera Hernández también es considerado persona de interés en múltiples investigaciones de asesinatos en curso en el área de Gurabo por parte de la Policía de Puerto Rico.

Rivera Hernández enfrentará procedimientos federales por violaciones a las condiciones de su libertad supervisada.

“Continuaremos el trabajo junto a nuestros socios federales y locales para garantizar rendición de cuentas y proteger al pueblo de Puerto Rico”, añadió Ocasio Ibarra.

El Servicio de Alguaciles exhortó a la ciudadanía a ofrecer información sobre fugitivos a través de su oficina local al 787-766-6540, el centro de comunicaciones al 800-336-0102 o la aplicación USMS Tips.

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GUAYAMA – La Policía investiga un incidente reportado a eso de las 6:58 de la mañana del martes, que, según el alcalde de Guayama, O’brain Vázquez Molina, se trata de un intento de feminicidio y suicidio, en una residencia ubicada en el barrio Villoda

Según el reporte de la Policía, una llamada al Sistema de Emergencias 9-1-1 alertó a las autoridades sobre disparos en el lugar. Al llegar, los agentes encontraron a un hombre sin signos vitales y a una mujer con heridas de bala.

Tanto el hombre fallecido en el lugar como la mujer, quien no ha sido identificada, fueron transportados a un hospital, donde ella recibe atención médica en condición delicada.

Por su parte, el alcalde Vázquez Molina expresó que, “personal de la administración municipal, así como los compañeros del Programa de Head Start de Guayama se encuentran consternados en la cual una compañera supervisora de Head Start fue herida de gravedad y su esposo se quitó la vida en un incidente que está bajo investigación”. La investigación continúa. Existen herramientas para las víctimas de violencia de género, patrón de abuso, o maltrato. Pueden llamar a la Policía, así como la Oficina de la Procuradora de la Mujer si eres o conoces de una persona que atraviesa un patrón similar. Puedes comunicarte de manera confidencial a la Policía al (787) 792-6734 o (787) 3432020, así como con la Oficina de la Procuradora de la Mujer al (787) 722-2977.

40th Casals Festival follows on heels of symphony season

By PEGGY ANN BLISS

Special to The STAR

The iconic Casals Festival, now heading into its fifth decade, will offer an exciting program honoring the legendary Catalan cellist, composer and conductor Pablo Casals.

The classic work “Las troyanas” (The Trojan Women) directed by Vicente Castro, will highlight a wealth of unique musical presentations across the island.

Named after the world’s most recognized cello virtuoso and educator, whose mother was Puerto Rican, the festival will feature the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra (PRSO) along with actors, dancers, instrumental and vocal soloists and ensembles from across the globe.

This year’s event, in conjunction with the local Spanish Consulate, will also offer several free concerts by a Spanish clarinet virtuoso.

The Spanish cellist behind it Casals, who was born in the Catalonian region of northern Spain to Pilar Defilló from Mayagüez, spent his last 20 years in San Juan married to his young island student Marta Martínez, dedicating those last years to the development of music education and performance.

The festival, still honoring the greatest European geniuses of the past several centuries, has expanded its scope to include a broad contemporary representation from Africa and the Americas.

The event, now celebrating 40 years of continuous music making, will open Saturday, May 23, with a concert by the PRSO featuring two acclaimed Mexican guests serving up two iconic “Fifths” -- the “Fifth Piano Concerto,” known as “The Emperor,” by Ludwig von Beethoven, and the “Fifth Symphony” by Russian 20th-century composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Charismatic conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto, former director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico and the Orchestra of the Americas, will take over the podium. Mexican pianist Jorge Federico Osorio will handle the keyboard gymnastics.

The festival will close on June 6 with an absolute premiere of Roberto Sierra’s “Requiem Isleño,” especially commissioned for this year’s event.

The piece, to be unveiled by the PRSO, will be conducted by Maximiano Valdés, with the Coral Lirica prepared by Jo-Anne Herrero. Soloists are soprano Jessica Rivera and baritone Ricardo José Rivera.

Also on the final program is “Symphony 104” by Joseph Haydn.

The second concert will be the obligatory cello homage to Casals, this time with equal time for the piano. Casals, who died in 1973 at age 96, was an important influence on the island’s musical texture, which continues maturing to this day.

Originally buried on the island, the Catalonian patriot’s remains were transferred to his native Vendrell after Spanish dictator Francisco Franco ceased to be a threat to Spain’s freedom.

The annual de rigueur cello concert honoring Casals’ legacy will be served up this year by German-Swiss virtuoso cellist Emanuel Graf and Swiss-Canadian pianist Teo Gheorghiu.

Graf, who will perform on his 1690 Stradivarius instrument, has been principal cellist of the Bavarian State Orchestra since 2015.

The Swiss-born (1992) Gheorghiu, a recognized child prodigy since age 12, will interpret Frederic Chopin’s “Polonaise Brilliante.”

The two musicians will play the famous variations on the love duet between Pamina and Papageno from Amadeus Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute,” among the sonatas and variations of compositions recorded by Casals in a supremely successful action to popularize them.

The duo will also interpret the “Sonata for Piano and Cello” by German composer Richard Strauss.

Also on the program are the famous folk works by Robert Schumann, recorded by Casals in 1952 with North American pianist Leopold Mannes, founder of the conservatory which bears his name.

Greek theater updated

A cantata, “Las troyanas” will present a contemporary version of the ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides about women’s resistance after the Trojan War. The piece is to be staged with premier actors by Vicente Castro.

In a departure from conventional theatre, Jorge Luis Ramos will interpret the female role of Hecuba, former queen of Troy, and Jacqueline Duprey will enact the role of Helen of Troy. Other roles are played by Braulio Castillo, Ana Isabelle, Daniella Paredes and Willie Denton.

The music director is Alberto Rodríguez Ortiz, who arranged and directed the score, combining elements of opera, rock and flamenco.

The Borikén (String) Quartet will provide the music with soprano Natalia González Santaliz.

Both performances will be at 8:30 p.m.

All festival presentations will be held in the Pablo Casals Symphony Hall at Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center, unless another venue is specified. Concert times vary but are at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Boston repays the visit

The Boston City Chamber Players are next on the schedule. With the entire PRSO having made a historic visit to the bustling capital of Massachusetts in November 2025, a little reciprocity seems in order. On Sunday, May 31, at 4 p.m., The Boston Symphony Chamber Players will present a varied program of works by North American contemporary composer Samuel Barber, Czech composer Antonin Dvorak and Kennedy Center composer-in-residence Carlos Simon, who specializes in African-American roots and the great migration. He also occupies the inaugural composer chair at the Boston Symphony. Tuesday, June 2 will bring the festival debut of Cuarteto Borikén and a change of venue. The string quartet, made up of PRSO members, concert master Omar Velázquez, cellist Solimar Soto, second violin Fermín Segarra and viola player Edgardo Rosaly, will present works by Dvorak, Maurice Ravel and Puerto Rican composer Raymond Torres Santos. The concert will take place on Tuesday, June 2, at 7 p.m. in the Bertita and Guillermo Martínez Theater of the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music, at 951 Ponce de León Avenue, Stop 15, Miramar.

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Nasdaq, S&P 500 end lower on renewed AI growth worries ahead of big tech earnings

U.S. stocks closed lower on Tuesday, backing ⁠away ⁠from record closing highs as renewed concerns over the ⁠artificial intelligence boom weighed on technology stocks days before five of the sector’s most high-profile companies were due to post quarterly results.

Semiconductor shares, which have surged over 40% so far this year, weighed particularly heavily on the Nasdaq, which suffered its biggest daily percentage loss in a month.

OpenAI missed internal targets for weekly users and revenue, raising concerns over the AI heavyweight’s ability to support its massive spending on data centers, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

Shares of Oracle, whose reliance on OpenAI for its cloud computing ambitions has been under ⁠scrutiny, fell 4.1%.

Chip stocks ⁠also dropped, with Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom down between 1.6% and 4.4%. Nvidia-backed CoreWeave slid 5.8%.

“(OpenAI) is giving investors more food for thought, whether the growth is slowing and what that means for capex spending,” said Chuck Carlson, chief executive officer at Horizon Investment Services in Hammond, Indiana. “You’ve got major hyperscalers coming out with results tomorrow, which probably gives investors even more reason to take a few chips off the table.”

First-quarter earnings season shifts into overdrive this week, with five of the companies in the Magnificent Seven group of AIrelated megacap firms expected to post results. On Wednesday, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta Platforms and Microsoft are slated to report, with Apple on deck for Thursday.

The ⁠companies ⁠expected to report this week account for ⁠about 44% of the S&P 500’s total market capitalization, according to Raymond James.

General Motors advanced 1.3% after the automaker beat quarterly profit estimates and lifted its full-year earnings forecast, boosted by a resilient U.S. car market and an expected tariff refund.

United ⁠Parcel Service shares dropped 4.0% after the package delivery company reiterated its full-year revenue target as spiking fuel costs offset underlying business improvement.

Coca-Cola rose 3.9% following its better-than-expected quarterly report. The beverage giant played down the impact of high oil prices and raised its annual earnings target.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 25.86 points, or 0.05%, to 49,141.93, the S&P 500 lost 35.11 points, or 0.49%, to 7,138.80 and the Nasdaq Composite lost 223.30 points, or 0.90%, to 24,663.80.

Of the 11 major sectors in the S&P 500, tech shares were down the most, while energy enjoyed ⁠the biggest percentage

gain.

The U.S. Federal Reserve has convened for what is likely to be Jerome ⁠Powell’s last monetary policy meeting as chair of the central bank. While the Fed is likely to leave its key interest rate unchanged on Wednesday, the accompanying statement and Powell’s subsequent press conference will be parsed for policymakers’ views on inflation risk related to the war-related energy price spike.

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U.S. President Donald Trump said he is unhappy with Iran’s latest peace proposal because it would delay negotiations on the nuclear issue, dampening optimism that the conflict, which has rattled world markets and sent energy prices soaring, could be close to resolution.

In another blow to oil-exporting countries, the United Arab Emirates announced on Tuesday ⁠it was withdrawing from OPEC.

Iraq’s prime minister-designate thrust into US-Iran power struggle

By ERIKA SOLOMON and FALIH HASSAN

Ali al-Zaidi has no political experience, has never worked in international affairs, and even inside his own country is a relative unknown.

Now, as Iraq’s newly designated prime minister, he faces the daunting task of cobbling together the next coalition government of a country caught in the middle of the war between the United States and Iran.

Yet the choice of al-Zaidi, a wealthy businessperson who owns a popular television station and holds lucrative state contracts for foodstuffs, has managed to break months of political gridlock. And — no small matter — his nomination appears to have gone unchallenged by the Trump administration, at least initially.

“He’s so far from even the usual ideas of a compromise candidate,” said Renad Mansour, an Iraq analyst at the London-based think tank Chatham House. “He’s the first that has had no political role or experience in government. That’s why many are surprised with the choice.”

Against a backdrop of rising U.S. pressure, al-Zaidi’s nomination is in some ways puzzling. He is an owner of Al-Janoob Islamic Bank, which is under U.S. sanctions. It was banned from U.S. dollar transactions in 2024 over American accusations that it was laundering money, in particular on behalf of Iran and powerful Iraqi militias allied to the Iranian government.

Unlike several other candidates whose names were floated for the job since elections last November, alZaidi, 43, enjoys good relationships across Iraq’s political spectrum, according to people involved in the deliberations, including leadership figures close to both Washington and Tehran.

Whether he can manage to form a government within the 30 days allotted to him remains unclear, Mansour said.

That a candidate had to be found so far outside the political field speaks to the serious deadlock inside Iraq’s largest political bloc, the Coordination Framework, which represents the country’s Shiite Muslim majority.

It is also a symptom of the broader power struggle in which Iraq is mired.

Since the U.S. invasion of in 2003, the central government in Baghdad has struggled to strike a balance between the interests of its former occupier and those of Iran, the regional Shiite power next door. That balancing act has grown increasingly tenuous since late February, when the United States and Israel attacked Iran, turning neighboring Iraq into one of the war’s battlegrounds.

Even before the war, Washington had been ratcheting up pressure on Baghdad to rein in the Iranian-linked militias in Iraq. After the conflict began, many of those militias joined in solidarity with Iran, lobbing missiles and drones at U.S. diplomatic and military targets in Iraq, as well as at Washington’s Iraqi partners and, at least once, at Iraqi military forces themselves.

Iraq’s Shiite militias, first formed with Iranian backing to fight the U.S. occupation, grew in influence after

Forces from Iraq walk to a gathering thanking them for their resistance efforts during the conflict with the U.S. and Israel in Tehran, Iran, on Thursday, April 23, 2026. As Iraq’s newly designated prime minister, Ali al-Zaidi faces the daunting task of cobbling together the next coalition government of a country caught in the middle of the war between the United States and Iran. (Arash Khamooshi/ The New York Times)

joining the international fight in 2014 against the jihadi Islamic State group. They leveraged their popularity to establish political parties and vied for parliamentary seats, enmeshing themselves into Iraq’s economy and politics in the process.

Some of the militias’ political wings controlled ministries in the last government. And in Iraqi elections in November, even as U.S. officials warned they would not tolerate militia influence in the next government, militiaaffiliated parties gained a still greater share of parliamentary seats.

The situation grew even thornier after the war against Iran began, and continues to simmer even with an indefinite ceasefire in place.

Iraqi officials are under heavy U.S. pressure over their apparent reluctance or inability to stop the recent militia attacks. Last week, Washington suspended funds to Iraqi

security forces and even cut the flow of U.S. dollars to Iraq.

Yet just this week, a day after Washington issued a reward for information about a militia leader it accused of being behind attacks on U.S. targets, that commander was photographed at a political bloc meeting for selecting a prime minister nominee.

Some Iraqi officials see the formation of Iraq’s government as “a protective shield,” said Ghaith Shaba, a lawmaker from the political bloc.

“We are living in the heart of the storm,” he said, “and our greatest fear as civil and national powers is that Iraq will transform from a state of institutions into an arena for settling scores.”

U.S. officials appear likely accept al-Zaidi’s nomination despite the sanctions against his bank, said Victoria J. Taylor, who led Iraq policy at the State Department during the Biden administration, and is currently at the Atlantic Council, a think tank.

“They’ve clearly decided they want to see a government formed sooner rather than later,” she said.

“They likely see the path ahead with a new prime minister as providing an opportunity to press this new government to take stronger action against the militias,” she said.

The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad declined to comment on the nomination.

In addition to banking, al-Zaidi also owns a popular television channel, Dijlah TV, and held the contracts to provide food to the Iraqi military and food baskets to the population paid for by Iraq’s trade ministry.

Iraqi political analysts say he enjoys close relations with two of the most powerful figures inside Iraq’s largest political bloc: Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, the current prime minister, and the head of Iraq’s supreme judicial council, Faiq Zaidan, who is seen as close to Washington.

But though he enjoys friendly relations across much of Iraq’s political spectrum, ultimately the standard by which both Washington and Tehran will judge him is how he confronts the militias.

“He will have to confront and clash with the issue of disarmament and restricting weapons to the hands of the state,” said Sarmad al-Bayati, a political scientist in Baghdad. “This is the biggest challenge he will face.”

Will communist Cuba ever pay back the billions it confiscated?

By FRANCES ROBLES

Teo A. Babún, Jr., has fond memories of the large blue and white corner house in Santiago de Cuba where his grandmother, a wealthy matriarch in prerevolutionary Cuba, hosted family gatherings for her eight children and 21 grandchildren.

The Babúns were industrialists who, like about 200,000 other affluent Cubans, fled the island after Fidel Castro took power. The Babúns left behind a railroad, sawmill, shipyard and cement factory — and the grand estate called “La Mesquita.”

For a time, Raúl Castro, Fidel’s brother and the former president, lived there. Nearly seven decades later, the Cuban government uses it to house an Arab civic association.

Known as “Casa del Arabe,” the house, which includes a restaurant, is among thousands of properties seized by the Communist government from people who left Cuba, some with just the clothes on their backs, and never received compensation.

Cuba’s system appears to be on the edge of collapse, and the United States government is eager to hasten the fall.

As the two sides negotiate in secret, a decades-old thorny issue has resurfaced: the untold billions of dollars’ worth of homes, factories, farms, sugar mills and other businesses confiscated in the years after a socialist revolution nationalized businesses and instituted sweeping land policies.

“If you own something and someone took it away from you without any kind of compensation or resolution, it’s just not fair,” Babún said. “My family just wants justice.”

If the United States has a hand in negotiating Cuba’s future, former property owners are hopeful that the issue will be addressed.

Resolving confiscations is complicated and would take years. But experts say there is plenty of precedent around the world, from Vietnam to Germany to China, that offers a road map.

For years, Babún’s late father, Teófilo Sr., dedicated himself to helping exiles take up arms against the Castro government, including in the

failed Bay of Pigs invasion.

The younger Babún, 78, ran a religious nonprofit financed by the U.S. government and tried to create a registry of properties taken from Cubans, hoping the U.S. State Department would lobby the Cubans over those losses.

But the endeavor proved too time-consuming and difficult and his project ended with 8,000 claims registered, a small fraction of potential cases. (He said many people seemed hesitant, fearing that joining a pooled claim would nullify their ability to negotiate larger individual deals with the Cuban government.)

His family hired consultants in 2018, who estimated the value of the family’s holdings by that point at $874.2 million, including $9 million for the house, he said.

Before 1959, Cuba was run by a dictator, Fulgencio Batista, and known as a playground for American elites. Wealthy Cubans were often regarded as oligarchs who exploited the poor.

The Castro brothers, seeking to end rampant corruption, severe economic inequality and dependency on the United States, led an armed guerrilla movement that toppled Batista.

A few months after they took over, an agrarian law expropriated farmlands more than 1,000 acres and forbade foreign land ownership. In 1960, Cuba confiscated American-owned oil refineries and nationalized large businesses.

As payback, the United States announced a crippling trade embargo against Cuba that remains in place.

A U.S. government commission documented losses by U.S. companies and citizens, certifying nearly 6,000 claims with a value of $1.9 billion. With 6% interest the commission tacked on, the claims are now estimated to be worth about $9 billion, an amount Cuba would be hard-pressed to pay.

Five of the top 10 claimants were U.S. sugar companies. Others included Exxon, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive and Woolworth’s.

By U.S. law, for the embargo to be lifted, the Cuban government must return property or businesses or compensate American owners whose confiscations were certified by the U.S. government.

A book about Cuban property owners at Nicolás Gutiérrez’s home in Miami, April 20, 2026. With Cuba in dire economic crisis, people whose properties were seized by its Communist government say it’s time to resolve thorny compensation claims. (Scott McIntyre/The New York Times)

U.S. officials meeting with Cuban leaders for secret talks have made clear that compensation for Americans and U.S. companies remains a key priority.

Cuba’s foreign ministry did not respond to requests for comment for this article.

While the U.S. government negotiates on behalf of Americans or American firms with certified claims, that is not technically the case for the many Cuban exiles who left homes and businesses behind.

Cuba considered those “abandoned” and they were taken as the government ostensibly set out to redistribute wealth. But the government held on to many itself. Only Cubans who stayed were compensated for lost properties, said Lisandro Pérez, a Cuba scholar at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City who wrote a memoir about his family’s home in Cuba.

No official tally has ever been made public of confiscations by the Cuban government. There is no reliable estimate of how many there are or how much exiles could be owed.

“We were not supporters of Batista, were not political or committing crimes — we should get it back,” said Nicolás J. Gutiérrez, a Cuban American lawyer in Miami whose family lost a fortune estimated in the early 1960s at $50 million. Their holdings included two sugar mills, 15 cattle ranches, a rice mill, a coffee plantation, a bank, an insurance company and a wholesale food distribution company.

works as a consultant for other families whose properties were taken and is involved in a lawsuit against Expedia for booking customers to hotels the Cuban government built on confiscated beach property.

Expedia claims that the plaintiffs had no standing to sue though the case continues.

Gutiérrez, 61, has never been to Cuba. But he says if the government returns his family’s properties, the family will put them back into production and help Cuba’s battered economy.

“Not everyone in the family will rush back. I will rush back,” he said. “My view is that Cuba is in such a deep hole that in order to get out of that hole, it’s going to need to get serious new foreign investment.”

Experts have offered a variety of proposals, including setting up public-private funds to rebuild Cuba’s energy grid and using part of the profits to compensate former property owners, said Jason Poblete, a lawyer who represents American and Cuban property owners.

Experts point to Vietnam and Germany, which in the 1990s used frozen assets in the United States to pay property claims. But in the Soviet Union and China, property owners received only a fraction of the value of confiscated properties.

In other countries, compensation funds were generated by the privatization of state-owned companies.

But Cuba says it also has claims against the United States.

In 1999, a Cuban court found the U.S. government liable for deaths and damage caused by its “aggressive policies” against Cuba, including the Bay of Pigs invasion and the U.S. trade embargo. The tab then: $181 billion.

Richard Feinberg, a fellow at Florida International University who has studied property claims, said tackling the issue was important to normalizing diplomatic relations and establishing a trusted business environment in Cuba.

The topic was the subject of two meetings between Cuba and the Obama administration, but with no resolution. Feinberg held discussions with Cuban officials as part of his research and said they did not seem interested.

“The Cuban government didn’t seem to get it,” he said. “They would say to me: Richard, why are you making such a big deal about something that happened 50, 60 years ago?”

Gutiérrez, the corporate secretary of the National Association of Cuban Landowners in Exile, also

“It’s indicative of how little the Cuban government understood economics and capitalism,” he added. “They didn’t get private property.”

Enrique Carrillo, whose family owned the Santa Cruz rum distillery east of Havana, said he was anxious for Cuban families to be compensated and to help the country rebuild.

Budget airlines ask Trump administration for billions as fuel costs rise

By KAROUN DEMIRJIAN and LAUREN HIRSCH

Atrade group representing low-cost airlines said Monday that it was asking the Trump administration for $2.5 billion to offset some of the cost of fuel, which has surged because of the war with Iran.

Jet fuel prices climbed to about $4.10 a gallon in North America at the end of last week, an increase of about 88% from the same time last year, according to industry data. That has led many airlines to raise ticket prices.

“Since February, jet fuel prices have increased by nearly 100% and are placing significant financial pressure on value airlines,” the trade group, the Association of Value Airlines, said in a statement. The group added that the $2.5 billion “liquidity pool” it was seeking would be “used exclusively to offset incremental fuel costs, as a necessary and targeted measure to stabilize operations and keep airfares affordable during this period of volatility.”

Separately, one of the trade group’s members, Spirit Airlines, is negotiating a loan of up to $500 million from the Trump administration. Under the developing deal, the government would have the right to purchase ownership stakes in the airline through financial instruments known as warrants. The government could end up owning as much as 90% of the company, which is in its second bankruptcy in two years.

At a bankruptcy court hearing last week, Spirit’s lawyer, Marshall Huebner of the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell, confirmed the discussions with the government, stressing that time was of the essence. “The cash actually available to Spirit to fund ongoing operations is not going to last for very much longer,” he said.

Huebner also said he had begun having conversations with Spirit’s creditors about the proposed deal, which would give the government a more senior claim to Spirit’s assets than the loans the airline has taken from other lenders.

“The discussions are underway with all three of those groups that we hope will lead to consensus and support on all sides,” Huebner said.

A lawyer for one of the creditor groups, Michael Stamer of the law firm Akin & Gump, said it had received a copy of the proposed term sheet for the government deal.

A spokesperson for the Transportation

A Spirit Airlines flight taxis at LaGuardia Airport in New York, Jan. 26, 2026.

Spirit is negotiating a loan of up to $500 million from the Trump administration. (Angelina Katsanis/The New York Times)

Department referred questions to the White House about the proposal from the budget airlines trade group.

“The White House is aware of outreach that was made by a group of budget airlines to the Department of Transportation, and the administration continues to monitor the health of the U.S. aviation industry for passengers and airline employees,” Kush Desai, a White House spokesperson, said in a statement. He dismissed any discussion about the potential of such a deal.

The trade group — which also represents Allegiant Air, Avelo Airlines, Frontier Airlines and Sun Country Airlines — also has been seeking emergency measures from Congress. The group wants lawmakers to temporarily waive a 7.5% excise tax and $5.30 per-segment fee that airlines are required to pay per passenger. The charges are typically incorporated in the cost of an airline ticket and deposited into a federal fund that pays for aviation programs.

But it is unclear whether those efforts will gain traction.

The budget airlines’ group said Monday that the infusion of $2.5 billion would be “temporary government support to preserve vital industry competition,” likening it to the billions of dollars Congress approved for airlines during the coronavirus pandemic.

That relief, however, was directed to major airlines and low-cost carriers. This time, the major airlines have not joined the budget airlines’ request for relief.

There is also skepticism among lawmakers and government officials about whether all of the budget airlines need a cash infusion, according to people familiar with the discussions. While Spirit Airlines has filed for bank-

ruptcy twice since late 2024, the other budget airlines do not appear to be in the same severe financial distress.

Even the deal the government is negotiating with Spirit has received a mixed reception within the Trump administration.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been the main champion of the deal, according to people familiar with the negotiations. But Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has publicly expressed concern about whether the Spirit deal would be a good investment.

“What we don’t want to do is put good money after bad, and there’s been a lot of money thrown at Spirit, and they haven’t found their way into profitability,” Duffy told Reuters during an interview last week.

A representative for the Commerce Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

It is unclear whether the administration will be able to finalize a deal with Spirit without buy-in from Congress, where the idea of a

bailout faces stiff headwinds from both political parties.

Last week, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, chair of the committee that oversees aviation, called the rescue effort “an absolutely TERRIBLE idea.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., criticized the administration for attempting to orchestrate a bailout when “Donald Trump’s war with Iran caused the sky-high fuel prices that finally did Spirit Airlines in.”

“What do the American people get out of this taxpayer bailout?” she said.

There are vanishingly few scenarios in which the administration would be able to circumvent lawmakers to make a deal with Spirit, according to experts. One option under consideration, according to the people familiar with the negotiations, is for the president to invoke the Defense Production Act. However, doing so would require the president to make the determination that bailing out Spirit is in the national security interests of the United States.

April 29, 2026

Jet fuel shortages could make travel a ‘total mess’ this summer

By CHRISTINE CHUNG

This summer is shaping up to be an expensive and uncertain time to fly, especially if you’re planning a European vacation.

Volatile fuel prices because of the war in Iran are straining airlines around the world, but perhaps nowhere as much as in Europe, where jet fuel supplies could run low by midMay. European airlines like Lufthansa and KLM have announced they are cutting flights, and others could follow.

Carriers everywhere are increasingly passing costs on to passengers wherever they can by raising airfares, charging more for bags and tacking on additional charges for fuel. Some are canceling flights.

For travelers, the prospect of a reasonably priced summer vacation is growing dimmer by the day.

“There is a level of uncertainty here that we have not seen since COVID when it comes

to travel,” said Katy Nastro, a travel expert at Going.com, a membership service for finding cheap flights, adding, “This will be a challenging year for the average traveler hoping to take an affordable summer vacation.”

Cutting capacity

U.S. airfares — both domestic and international — have continued to climb since the war began at the end of February, according to an analysis of economy round-trip tickets by the travel search engine Kayak. On April 13, an average international trip cost $1,064, compared with $776 on Feb. 23, and a domestic U.S. trip cost $358, compared with $335 on Feb. 23.

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Lufthansa aircraft at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, Dec. 29, 2021. Facing sky-high fuel costs linked to the war in Iran, airlines are cutting routes and raising prices. European vacations are looking a lot less affordable. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)

Global prices of jet fuel have soared by more than 70% since the start of the war, according to the Platts Jet Fuel Price Index. This situation has U.S. carriers expecting

to spend billions extra on fuel this year, and at least one, Spirit Airlines, already in bankruptcy, has asked the government for a bailout. Jet fuel is one of the largest operating costs for airlines.

Rob Britton, an adjunct professor of crisis management at Georgetown University and a retired American Airlines executive, emphasized that even when the war ends, it will take months for fuel prices and airfares to stabilize.

“It won’t happen overnight,” Britton said. “It’s a total, total mess.”

While domestic airlines noted in earnings reports this month that consumer demand has remained steady, some said they were bracing for it to taper off. Some are scaling back routes through the end of the year and reconsidering planned growth for next year if jet fuel remains so costly.

Andrew Nocella, United’s chief commercial officer, said in an earnings call Wednesday that the airline had raised prices “across the board” five times since the start of the war. He also said United was “proactively” canceling lower-demand flights like red-eyes as well as those on off-peak days like Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday, ultimately removing 5% of capacity through the rest of the year.

Airlines have levers they can pull, such as consolidating several low-demand flights into fewer, fuller flights, said Mike Arnot, a spokesperson for Cirium, an aviation analytics firm. Across U.S. airlines, domestic capacity is down by up to 2% this summer compared with before the war, Cirium data shows.

For now, airlines are making small adjustments largely tied to regional flights, Nastro said. This means that while international

nonstop routes may not be as affected, multi-leg journeys to small cities or flights booked on separate carriers could be riskier for travelers, she added.

Europe as a ‘leading indicator’

The outlook for U.S. carriers is rosier than that of European and Asian airlines, which rely far more heavily on oil from the Middle East, aviation analysts said. The United States has significant oil reserves and refining infrastructure.

For European airlines, fuel supplies are currently guaranteed to the middle or end of May, according to a J.P. Morgan report published this past week. However, fuel shortages and continued high prices will “likely lead to summer capacity cuts from June onwards, starting with domestic and marginal routes,” the report said. The bank’s analysts flagged Britain as higher risk relative to other European countries because of its reliance on Middle Eastern oil imports.

“Europe is going to be like this leading indicator. Any of the issues that are going to sort of hit the U.S. traveler, we’re going to see those roll out in Europe first,” said Christopher Anderson, a professor of services management at Cornell University. “If this persists, air travel is going to get way more expensive and with way less flexibility to get there.”

In recent days, European and Asian airlines have made notable flight reductions.

German airline Lufthansa announced it would remove 20,000 flights over the next six months in a bid to conserve jet fuel. Dutch carrier KLM said it would ax 160 flights from destinations it serves with multiple daily flights, such as London and Düsseldorf, Germany. Norse Atlantic Airways, a low-cost Norwegian carrier, canceled its flights to Los Angeles. Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific is eliminating 2% of its flights from early May through the end of June, a move that the airline called a “last resort.”

Experts advised that travelers planning to fly this summer and fall book now, if they haven’t already, stressing that nobody knows how long the fuel shortage will last and how much worse the pressures on airlines could become.

“At some point, the cost of the trip, including the price of fuel, will exceed the revenue that can be earned,” Arnot said.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

JUANA GARCÍA GUZMÁN

Peticionaria EX- PARTE

Civil Núm.: BY2025CV01243.

Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.

UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE, PERSONAS IGNORADAS A QUIENES PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN SOLICITADA O A CUALQUIER PERSONA QUE TENGA INTERÉS EN DICHO BIEN Y QUE PUEDA SER PERJUDICADA POR DICHA INSCRIPCIÓN.

Por la presente se les notifica que la parte peticionaria ha presentado en este Tribunal una acción para inscribir la propiedad que se describe como sigue: “RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Cedro Abajo del término municipal de Naranjito, Puerto Rico, compuesta de MIL METROS CUADRADOS (1,000 mc). En lindes por el NORTE, con un camino municipal; por el SUR, ESTEY OESTE, con terrenos de la Sucesión de Daniel García Guzmán. En dicha parcela de terreno enclava una casa dedicada a vivienda de construcción mista y mide veinte pies de frente (20 pies) por veinte pies de fondo, contiene dos cuartos dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina y servicio sanitario”. Que la Propiedad antes descrita no está inscrita en el registro de la propiedad. Se le notifica ademas a toda persona que tenga algún derecho real sobre el inmueble anteriormente descrito o cualquier persona ignorada que pueda ser perjudicada por esta inscripción y en general a todo el que tuviere motivo para oponerse, que tendrá que presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de 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, en un término de veinte (20) días, a partir de la fecha de publicación del último edicto, excluyendo el día de su publicación. Repre-

senta a la parte peticionaria, el abogado cuyo nombre y dirección se consigna de inmediato: LCDO. HÉCTOR M. MARRERO MARRERO

RUA NO. 7747

95 CALLE GEORGETTI, SUITE 1 APARTADO POSTAL 283 NARANJITO, PUERTO RICO 00719 TELEFONO: 787-869-0806

Emil: marreroh@gmail.com En Bayamón, Puerto Rico a 31 de marzo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA INTERINA. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SUB-SECRETARIA. ***

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAMUY EMERITO AQUINO RAMOS; EVELYN BURGOS PEREZ

Peticionario

EX-PARTE

Civil Núm.: CM2026CV00234. Sala: 404 CIVIL. 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. A: JOSÉ LUIS BURGOS AQUINO. A: JASON BURGOS AQUINO. Por la presente se les notifican para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los siguientes veinte (20) días contados a partir desde la publicación de este Edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMACA) 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 expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la Parte Peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende precedente. RUSTICA: Solar con residencia de concreto en el barrio Cibao del término municipal de Camuy, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1145.9348 metros cuadrados equivalente a 0.2916 Cuerdas. En lindes por el Norte, en varias alineaciones de 12.622 metros, con una curva compuesta girando a la derecha con una longitud de arco de 12.121m, con un radio de 52.521m, con otra curva compuesta girando a la derecha con una longitud de arco de 9.205m, con un radio de 25.855m, otra alineación de 3.778 metros, 6.637 metros y 5.983 metros con el camino municipal; por el Sur en varias alineaciones de 17.461 metros, 0.491metros y 4.075 metros con solar perteneciente a Sonia Ramos; por el Este en varias alineaciones de 4.957 metros, 9.684 metros y 9.697 metros con solar perteneciente a Nilda Aquino y por el Oeste en varias alineaciones de 16.701 metros y 17.977 metros con solar perteneciente a Sonia Ramos. Los lindes fueron determinados por los muros, verjas y postes de metal existentes y siendo confirmados por el Peticionario. La abogada de la Parte Peticionaria es la Lcda. La abogada de la Parte Peticionaria es la Lcda. La abogada de la Parte Peticionaria es la Lcda. Carolina Garriga Cesani, RUA 15227. 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 cgarriga@titlesecuritygroup. com. También se le informa que el Tribunal ha señalado Vista en este caso para el — de — de 2026 a las — mediante videoconferencia a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la Petición. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas o en su defecto, los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar desde la fecha de la publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni

oírle. En Camuy, Puerto Rico a 23 de abril de 2026. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SANDRA DÍAZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

CARIBE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

Demandante V. JOSÉ RAMÓN FEIJO

OTERO, JANE DOE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: GB2023CV00871.

(Salón: 402 SUPERIOR CIVIL).

Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ANDREA CAROLINA

CHAVÉS FIGUEROA - LCDA. CHAVESFIGUEROA@GMAIL.COM.

A: JOSÉ RAMÓN FEIJO

OTERO, JANE DOE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - PUNTA SALINA, 16 CALLE CARIBE, TOA BAJA, PR 00949.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de enero de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 22 de abril de 2026. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 22 de abril de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. KAREN M. ACEVEDO ACEVEDO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL

TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR SUCESION DE ISIDRO HERNANDEZ HERNANDEZ

Peticionarias EX-PARTE

Civil Núm.: AG2025CV02265.

Salón: 601. Sobre: (EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO). EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A: Personas ignoradas y desconocidas a quienes perjudica la inscripción dominio a favor de la parte peticionaria en el registro de la propiedad de la finca que más adelante se describirá y a toda persona en general que con derecho para ello desee oponerse a este expediente. Por la presente se le notifica para comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro del término de veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a su derecho convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá́ presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá́ presentar su alegación en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. RUSTICA: Remanente radicada en el Barrio Naranjo de del término municipal de Moca, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de CUATRO MIL DOSCIENTOS SESENTA Y DOS UNO PUNTO SEIS MIL SESENTA Y NUEVE METROS CUADRADOS (4,262.6069 M.C.). En lindes al NORTE, con Hilario Méndez antes, ahora Juan Miranda Ruiz, Ana López Vargas y Luis Alfredo Hernán-

dez; al SUR, con Edwin Beltrán Cabán, con carretera 404; al ESTE, con Antonio López antes, ahora Ana López Vargas y al OESTE, con Yamaira Cortés Valle. Libres de Cargas y Gravámenes. Catastro número:098-083-415-55-000.

Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 22 DE MAYO DE 2026, A LAS 1:15 DE LA TARDE, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni orle. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 25 de marzo de 2026. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ARLENE GUZMÁN PABÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

Parte Demandante Vs. JULIO RAFAEL DE JESÚS SOTO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AI2025CV00604. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: JULIO RAFAEL DE JESÚS SOTO.

Queda emplazado y notificado de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda en su contra sobre Cobro de Dinero. Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el

presente caso. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.poderjudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Centro Judicial de Aibonito, Sala Superior, y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcda. Karina P. Cintrón Narváez; PO Box 193813, San Juan, PR 00919; kcintron@esqlegalpr. com. Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la demanda, sin más citársele ni oírsele. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal a 23 de abril de 2026. MAYRA L. CABRERA GARCÍA, SECRETARIA GENERAL. VANESSA COLÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT PUERTO RICO, LLC COMO AGENTE DE MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT, INC.

Parte Demandante Vs. ALBERTO BERNARD Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CY2025CV00431. 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: ALBERTO BERNARD - PO BOX 371833, CAYEY PR 00737-1833.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar

su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colon cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de marzo de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Part Demandante Vs. OMARILYN LOZADA COLON Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SL2025CV00405. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. Sala: 702. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: OMARILYN LOZADA COLON - URB BOSQUE LLANO, 702 CALLE GUAMA, SAN LORENZO PR 00754-9888. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más

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.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. WILIAM M. ROMÁN LASALLE

Demandado

Civil Núm.: SS2025CV00776. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: WILLIAM M. ROMÁN LASALLE.

POR LA PRESENTE: Se le notifica que contra usted se ha presentado la Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero de la cual se acompaña copia. Por la presente se le emplaza a usted y se le requiere para que dentro del término de TREINTA (30) días desde la fecha de la Publicación por Edicto de este Emplazamiento presente su contestación 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 de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Sebastián, P.O. Box 1571, San Sebastián, P.R. 00685-1571 y notifique a la LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, personalmente al Condominio Las Nereidas, Local 1-B, Calle Méndez Vigo esquina Amador Ramírez Silva, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680; o por correo al Apartado 2342, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-2342, Teléfonos: (787) 832-9620, Abogada de la parte demandante, apercibiéndose que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado

en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal hoy 5 de marzo de 2026. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. PEGGY SÁNCHEZ LÓPEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL

GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AGUADILLA

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. OBISON JOSÉ ROSADO

Demandado

Civil Núm.: AG2025CV02158.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: OBISON JOSÉ ROSADO. POR LA PRESENTE: Se le notifica que contra usted se ha presentado la Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero de la cual se acompaña copia. Por la presente se le emplaza a usted y se le requiere para que dentro del término de TREINTA (30) días desde la fecha de la Publicación por Edicto de este Emplazamiento presente su contestación 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 de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, P.O. Box 7185, Ponce, P.R. 00732-7185 y notifique a la LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, personalmente al Condominio Las Nereidas, Local 1-B, Calle Méndez Vigo esquina Amador Ramírez Silva, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680; o por correo al Apartado 2342, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-2342, Teléfonos: (787) 832-9620, Abogada de la parte demandante, apercibiéndose que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal hoy 31 de marzo de 2026. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. AWILDA CABÁN SÁNCHEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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SALUD (MEDICOOP)

Demandante Vs. MARISOL V. DEL VALLE BETANCOURT

Demandada

Civil Núm.: JU2026CV00033. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: MARISOL V. DEL VALLE BETANCOURT. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO, se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero, en la que se alega adeuda la suma de $5,055.30 de principal, intereses al 8.25% anual, desde el día 30 de agosto de 2025, hasta su completo pago, más un 33% del principal del Pagaré estipulado para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado y recargos acumulados todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que el caso sea un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte que de no comparecer en autos dentro del término de los treinta (30) días siguientes a partir de la publicación de

este Edicto, se le anotará la Rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle, debiendo radicar el original de su contestación en este Tribunal, enviando copia a la abogada de la parte demandante: Lcda. Adela Surillo Gutiérrez, Bufete Collazo & Surillo, LLC, P.O. Box 11550, San Juan, PR 00922-1550; Teléfono: (787) 625-9999. Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en Juncos, Puerto Rico, hoy 7 de abril de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. GLORIMAR RIVERA RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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PENTAGON FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

Demandante Vs. JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CA2026CV01126. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN 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: 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 cancelación un pagaré extraviado, otorgado el 4 de abril de 2008, a favor de PENTAGON FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, por la suma principal de $110,000.00 de principal, con intereses al 6.250% anual y otros créditos accesorios, vencedero el 1 de mayo de 2038, testimonio número 6140. Para garantizar el pago de dicho pagaré se constituyó hipoteca voluntaria mediante la escritura número 21, otorgada el 4 de abril de 2008, ante el Notario Osvaldo Toledo Martínez, sobre el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar: 11-G. URBANIZACIÓN ESTANCIAS DE SAN FERNANDO de Carolina Sur. Cabida: 501.99 Metros Cuadrados. Colindando por el Norte, en

una distancia de quince punto setecientos dieciocho (15.718 m.) con los solares cuatro (4) y cinco (5) del mismo bloque; por el Sur, en una distancia de veintiuno punto cuatrocientos setenta y cuatro metros (21.474 m.) con la calle número nueve (9); por el Este, en una distancia de veintisiete punto cero metros (27.00 m.) con el solar número diez (10) del mismo bloque; y por el oeste, en una distancia de veintisiete punto cero metros (27.00 m.) con el solar número doce (12). Aparece construido una casa de hormigón y bloques de dos (2) plantas.” Inscrita al folio 253 del tomo 1094 de Carolina Sur, finca 46,687, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II. La hipoteca antes mencionada consta inscrita al folio 209 del tomo 1424 de Carolina Sur, finca 46,687, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II, inscripción 5ª. 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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de abril de 2026. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SUBSECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GURABO ASOCIACIÓN DE RESIDENTES VISTALAGO, INC. Parte Demandante V. FRANCISCO M. VILLANUEVA ACEVEDO Y MARIGLORIA

RIVERA CRUZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GR2025CV00441. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: MARIGLORIA RIVERA CRUZ. POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y requiere para que notifiquen a: GONZÁLEZ & MORALES LAW OFFICES, LLC PO BOX 10242

HUMACAO, PR 00792

TELÉFONO: (787) 852-4422

FACSÍMIL: (787) 285-4425

Email: jrg@gonzalezmorales.com abogados de la parte demandante, cuya dirección es la que deja indicada, con copia de su Contestación a la Demanda, copia de la cual le es servida en este caso, 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:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Debe saber que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 10 de abril de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. ZAIDA AGUAYO ÁLAMO, SUBSECRETARIA.

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Parte Demandante V. KEYSHLA MARIE NEGRÓN MELÉNDEZ T/C/C KEYSHLA MARIE NEGRÓN COMO MIEMBRO CONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE EDWIN IVÁN NEGRÓN TORRES; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE EDWIN IVÁN NEGRÓN TORRES

Parte Demandada Caso Núm.: CA2026CV00993. Acción Civil De: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO E INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE EDWIN IVÁN NEGRÓ TORRES - F-27 RÍO GRANDE ST. RIVERA VALLEY DEV., CANÓVANAS, PR 00729; HC-1 BOX 5228, CANÓVANAS, PR 00729; F27 RÍO GRANDE SR. RIVERA VALLEY, CANÓVANAS, PR 00729; SOLAR F-27 URB. RIVERA VALLEY BO. CANÓVANAS, CANÓVANAS, PR 00729; F27 CALLE 11 URB. RIVER VALLEY, CANÓVANAS, PR 00729; 27 F CALLE RÍO GRANDE URB. RIVER VALLEY, CANÓVANAS, PR 00729; URB. RIVER VALLEY HC 01 BOX 5228, CANÓVANAS, PR 00729; URB. RIVER VALLEY, F27 CALLE 11 BLOQUE Q-F27, CANÓVANAS, PR 00729; 524 SPRUCE ST. LANCASTER, PA 17603. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico /, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la mismas al (a Ia) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal. en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se la apercibe que, en Ios casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2029, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menos fuera

de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcdo. Javier Montalvo Cintrón, RUA #17,682, Delgado Fernández, LLC, T Mobile Center at San Patricio, 87 Tabonuco St. Suite 1000, Guaynabo, PR 00968. Tel. [787] 274-1414, jmontalvo@delgadofernandez.com. Oriental Bank ha presentado una Demanda en la cual se reclama que la parte demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Préstamo Hipotecario al no pagar las mensualidades vencidas el 1 de noviembre de 2025 y las que han vencido subsiguientemente, por lo que la parte demandante ha declarado vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a $86,992.17 de principal, más $1,492.45 de intereses al 3.500%, computados desde el 1 de octubre de 2025 hasta el 1 de abril de 2026, que continuarán acumulándose hasta el saldo total a razón de $8.0306 diarios, más $196.04 de cargos por demora, $13.52 de otros cargos, $176.87 de reserve escrow y $13,712.50 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora. El inmueble gravado mediante la hipoteca en garantía del préstamo hipotecario es: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización River Valley, localizado en el Barrio Canóvanas del término municipal de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Número del solar F-27, área de solar 558.701 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE: en varias distancias que suman 32.67 metros lineales, con el remanente de Ia finca principal de Ia cual se segrega, por el SUR, en una distancia de 9.75 metros lineales, con la calle #11 de la Urbanización, por el ESTE, en una distancia de 27.92 metros lineales, con el solar #26 del mismo bloque y por el OESTE, en varias alineaciones continuas que suman 25.15 metros lineales, con el solar #28 del mismo bloque. Enclava casa. Finca 14386 inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 337 de Canóvanas, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, sección III. Se dicta Orden de conformidad con el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico de 2020, para que los miembros de la Sucesión de Edwin Iván

Negrón Torres expresen si han de aceptar o rechazar formalmente la herencia del causante Edwin Iván Negrón Torres en el término de treinta (30) días, dispuesto en ley. Se advierte a los miembros de la Sucesión de Edwin Iván Negrón Torres que al haberse presentado el pleito en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en contra de la causante antes mencionada, de no recibirse contestación en el término de treinta (30) días a partir de la notificación de esta orden, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada y los herederos responden por las obligaciones del causante, por los legados y por las cargas hereditarias exclusivamente hasta el valor de los bienes hereditarios que recibe. (Artículo 1587 31 LPRA Secc. 11041). Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 13 de abril de 2026. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL

GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA ORIENTAL BANK

Parte Demandante V. KEYSHLA MARIE NEGRÓN MELÉNDEZ

T/C/C KEYSHLA MARIE NEGRÓN COMO

MIEMBRO CONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE EDWIN IVÁN NEGRÓN TORRES; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE EDWIN IVÁN NEGRÓN TORRES

Parte Demandada Caso Núm.: CA2026CV00993. Acción Civil De: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO E INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. A: KEYSHLA MARIE NEGRÓN MELÉNDEZ

T/C/C KEYSHLA MARIE NEGRÓN COMO MIEMBRO CONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE EDWIN IVAN NEGRÓN TORRES - F-27 RÍO GRANDE

ST. RIVERA VALLEY DEV., CANÓVANAS, PR 00729; HC-1 BOX 5228, CANÓVANAS, PR 00729; F27 RÍO GRANDE SR. RIVERA VALLEY, CANÓVANAS, PR 00729; SOLAR F-27

URB. RIVERA VALLEY BO. CANÓVANAS, CANÓVANAS, PR 00729; F27 CALLE 11 URB. RIVER VALLEY, CANÓVANAS, PR 00729; 27 F CALLE RÍO GRANDE URB. RIVER VALLEY, CANÓVANAS, PR 00729; URB. RIVER VALLEY HC 01 BOX 5228, CANÓVANAS, PR 00729; URB. RIVER VALLEY, F27 CALLE 11 BLOQUE Q-F27, CANÓVANAS, PR 00729; 524 SPRUCE ST. LANCASTER, PA 17603. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico /, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la mismas al (a Ia) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal. en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se la apercibe que, en Ios casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2029, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menos fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcdo. Javier Montalvo Cintrón, RUA #17,682, Delgado Fernández, LLC, T Mobile Center at San Patricio, 87 Tabonuco St. Suite 1000, Guaynabo, PR 00968. Tel. [787] 274-1414, jmontalvo@delgadofernandez.com. Oriental Bank ha presentado una Demanda en la cual se reclama que la parte demandada

incurrió en el incumplimiento del Préstamo Hipotecario al no pagar las mensualidades vencidas el 1 de noviembre de 2025 y las que han vencido subsiguientemente, por lo que la parte demandante ha declarado vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a $86,992.17 de principal, más $1,492.45 de intereses al 3.500%, computados desde el 1 de octubre de 2025 hasta el 1 de abril de 2026, que continuarán acumulándose hasta el saldo total a razón de $8.0306 diarios, más $196.04 de cargos por demora, $13.52 de otros cargos, $176.87 de reserve escrow y $13,712.50 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora. El inmueble gravado mediante la hipoteca en garantía del préstamo hipotecario es: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización River Valley, localizado en el Barrio Canóvanas del término municipal de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Número del solar F-27, área de solar 558.701 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE: en varias distancias que suman 32.67 metros lineales, con el remanente de Ia finca principal de Ia cual se segrega, por el SUR, en una distancia de 9.75 metros lineales, con la calle #11 de la Urbanización, por el ESTE, en una distancia de 27.92 metros lineales, con el solar #26 del mismo bloque y por el OESTE, en varias alineaciones continuas que suman 25.15 metros lineales, con el solar #28 del mismo bloque. Enclava casa. Finca 14386 inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 337 de Canóvanas, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, sección III. Se dicta Orden de conformidad con el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico de 2020, para que los miembros de la Sucesión de Edwin Iván Negrón Torres expresen si han de aceptar o rechazar formalmente la herencia del causante Edwin Iván Negrón Torres en el término de treinta (30) días, dispuesto en ley. Se advierte a los miembros de la Sucesión de Edwin Iván Negrón Torres que al haberse presentado el pleito en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en contra de la causante antes mencionada, de no recibirse contestación en el término de treinta (30) días a partir de la notificación de esta orden, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada y los herederos responden por las obligaciones del causante, por los legados y por las cargas hereditarias exclusivamente hasta el valor

de los bienes hereditarios que recibe. (Artículo 1587 31 LPRA Secc. 11041). Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 13 de abril de 2026. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante Vs. EDVILY CORTIJO SUÁREZ

Demandado(a)

Civil Núm.: HU2026CV00354. Sala: 302. 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: EDVILY CORTIJO SUÁREZ - DIRECCIÓN: URB. PALACIOS DEL SOL, 314 CALLE HORIZONTE, 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 14 de abril de 2026. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ELIZABETH COTTO ALVELO, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE

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Demandante Vs. ROBERT RIVERA FERNANDINI

Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: TB2026CV00121. Sala: 201B. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: ROBERT RIVERA FERNANDINIDIRECCIÓN: URB. LEVITTOWN LAKES, AT24 CALLE LILIAN ESTE, TOA BAJA, PUERTO RICO 00949-4632.

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 7 de abril de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.

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Parte Demandante V. FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO, ANTES FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD

ROE COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: GB206CV00238. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. Sala: 202. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO.

Se emplaza y notifica que se ha presentado una demanda en este caso en la cual en síntesis la PARTE DEMANDANTE alega que el 29 de junio de 1979 se suscribió un pagaré hipotecario a favor de FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS, por la suma principal de $97,000.00, con intereses al 9 ¼% por ciento anual, y vencedero el 1º de julio de 2009, suscrito ante el Notario Manuel Ledesma Dávila, sin constar el número de testimonio en la inscripción del Registro, a tenor con lo dispuesto en la escritura de hipoteca número 442, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 29 de junio de 1979 ante el Notario Manuel Ledesma Dávila, inscrita al folio 30 del tomo 623 de Guaynabo, finca 25,380, inscripción primera del Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. La obligación garantizada por dicha hipoteca fue pagada en su totalidad y está vencida, quedando solamente por cancelar el pagaré que la garantizaba. El demandante manifestó que nunca recibió el pagaré original para su cancelación y desconoce su paradero, por lo que concluyó que el pagaré estaba extraviado. Pueden examinar la demanda en su totalidad en los autos de este Tribunal. El abogado de la parte demandante es: LCDO. JOSEORLANDO MERCADO GELY RUA: 12257

P.O. BOX 270386

SAN JUAN, PR. 00927 TEL. 765-3027, 3423 Deberán notificar su contestación dentro de los próximos treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Ustedes deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se les apercibe que, de así no hacerlo, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda. La parte codemandada deberá radicar el original de la contestación de la demanda en este Tribunal, con copia a la parte demandante. EXPEDIDO

bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, a 8 de abril de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.

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Demandante Vs. HECTOR CESAREO MAYSONET Y SU ESPOSA JANETTE GONZALEZ RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2026CV01250. (702). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: JANETTE GONZALEZ RIVERA, POR SÍ Y COMO CO-ADMINISTRADORA DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES QUE CONSTITUYE CON SU ESPOSO HECTOR CESAREO MAYSONET. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria, en la que se alega adeuda la suma principal de $15,940.96, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.00% anual, desde el día 1ro de septiembre de 2025, hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $4,000.00, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, así como cualquier otra suma estipulada en el contrato de préstamo, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta es: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número Trescientos Veintidós (322) en el plano de parcelación de la COMUNIDAD RURAL SAN JOSÉ II del Barrio Media Luna del término municipal de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de TRESCIENTOS ClNCUENTA PUNTO CERO CERO (350.00) METROS CUADRADOS; en lindes por el NORTE, con parcelas números Trescientos Veintiuno (321) y Trescientos Cincuenta y Cuatro (354) de la Comunidad;

DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. EMANUEL RESTO MARCANORESTOMARCANO@GMAIL.COM.

A: TODAS LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR O QUE TUVIERAN ALGUN INTERES EN LA INSCRIPCION SOLICITADA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de 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 21 de abril de 2026. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 21 de abril de 2026. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. ALEXANDRA ÁLVAREZ NATAL, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. SUCESION PABLO APONTE MUÑOZ Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CG2025CV03110. (Salón: 803 - CIVIL). Sobre: USUCAPIÓN. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GERARDO E. TIRADO MENÉNDEZGERARDOETIRADO@YAHOO.COM.

A: SUCESION PABLO APONTE MUÑOZ, ADELINA MASA Y CARDONA COMPUESTA POR JANE DOE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 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 20 de abril de 2026. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 20 de abril de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA TRINIDAD CAÑUELAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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CENTURION INSURANCE AGENCY, POR SÍ Y COMO PARTE INTERESADA

Demandante V. POPULAR MORTGAGE, INC Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CA2026CV00145. (Civil: 403). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ERIKA F. MORALES MARENGOEMARENGO16@YAHOO.COM.

A: JOHN DOE, RICHARD DOE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 23 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 consi-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

derará 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 23 de abril de 2026. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 23 de abril de 2026. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MILLIANIE RIVERA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ISLAND PORTFOLIO

SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante V. EMILY ZAYAS ZAYAS Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: HU2025CV01485. (Salón: 302). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ -NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: EMILY ZAYAS ZAYAS, A LAS ULTIMAS DIRECCIONES

CONOCIDAS: HC 7 BOX 32735, CAGUAS PR 00725 Y URB. LAS LEANDRAS K4 CALLE 19, HUMACAO PR 00791-3048. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de 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 21 de abril de 2026. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 21 de abril de 2026. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. LISA M FIGUEROA RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. WILCA Z LOPEZ SOLIS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: YB2025CV00278. (Salón: 302). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM. A: WILCA Z LOPEZ SOLIS - DIRECCION: URB JAIME C RODRIGUEZ B43 CALLE 2, YABUCOA PR 00767-3004.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 DE 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 21 de abril de 2026. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 21 de abril de 2026. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. DALISSA REYES DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE

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Parte Demandante Vs. VIVIAN E FLORES MERCED Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2025CV03847. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA-

DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: VIVIAN E FLORES MERCEDURB MARIOLGA F10 CALLE SAN ALEJO, CAGUAS PR 00725. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie. bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de febrero de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. CARMEN L. SOTO PLANAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Cangrejeras are a win away from LVSF championship

By THE STAR STAFF

With their ninth consecutive set win, the Cangrejeras of Santurce moved to within just one victory of hoisting the Women’s Superior Volleyball League (LVSF by its initials in Spanish) championship trophy on Monday night after defeating the Leonas of Ponce in three sets in the third match of the Finals series held at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in Hato Rey.

Ponce once again faced the night without the services of their top attacker, Sherridan Atkinson, or their starting setter, Raymariely Santos -- both sidelined by physical ailments. Atkinson has not seen any action in the series, while Santos has been out since the third set of Match 1.

The final scores for Match 3 were 25-16, 25-19 and 25-18.

The Cangrejeras’ offense was distributed among Madison Kingdon, Andrea Rangel and Helena Grozer, who tallied 16, 13 and 12 points, respectively. Nataly García led Ponce with 14 points, while Claire Chaussee added nine points, and Stephanie Enright had eight.

Euphoria

Santurce prevailed in most statistical categories: 43-36 in attacks, 12-1 in blocks, 3-1 in aces, 56-49 in digs, and 19-17 in assists. The Leonas held the edge in passing, 34-30.

Match recap

Holding a one-set lead, Santurce secured the second set by pulling away to a 23-17 advantage following a block by Neira Ortiz on García. Set point arrived at 24-18 on a successful spike by Rangel from Zone 2, and Grozer closed out the set 25-19 with an attack from Zone 4.

The third set followed the exact same script. The Cangrejeras reached the second technical timeout leading 16-11 following an attack by Rangel, and then locked down the set, reaching set point at 24-18 with a spike by Kingdon. Kingdon herself sealed the match with a direct ace.

Reactions from both sides

After the match, Enright acknowledged that the absence of key players hasn’t benefited Ponce’s rhythm, though she emphasized that that cannot serve as an excuse.

“Sometimes we come out with low energy,” the veteran hitter said. “I don’t know

Santurce prevailed in most statistical categories on Monday night: 43-36 in attacks, 12-1 in blocks, 3-1 in aces, 56-49 in digs and 19-17 in assists. Ponce held the edge in passing, 34-30. (Heriberto Rosario Rosa – FPV)

if it’s due to the fact that we are missing two major players from our team, but that cannot be an excuse. We have to give credit where it’s due to Santurce, which has a very complete team, from their starting lineup right down to their reserves.”

Looking ahead to tonight’s fourth match (8 p.m.) at Juan “Pachín” Vicéns Auditorium

in Ponce, Enright was clear about the message in the locker room.

“We have to come in with nothing to lose,” she said. “We’ve displayed our best volleyball all season long through practice, gameplay and sacrifice. We have to leave it all out on the court.”

Cangrejeras captain Andrea Rangel highlighted that the key to Santurce’s dominance has been internal cohesion.

“I think it comes down to confidence and consistency,” she said. “Each player has her own role and job, and everyone is doing her part. When we bring it all together, it helps us achieve our objective: winning every game.”

“It’s going to be a challenge because it’s a different venue; we haven’t played there very much,” Rangel added regarding the expectation of closing out the series on the road tonight. “But we have confidence in our work -- work we’ve been building all season long to reach this very moment. We are focused on achieving our goal: the championship.”

If Ponce should extend the series, a fifth match would be played this Friday at Roberto Clemente Coliseum.

in Kenya after Sabastian Sawe’s record-breaking win

By MATTHEW MPOKE BIGG and JOHN ELIGON

When Eliud Kipchoge ran a sub twohour marathon seven years ago, it sparked an explosion of national pride in his home country, Kenya, as the culmination of more than half a century of distance-running dominance.

But there was an asterisk.

Kipchoge had run without competition and with a series of pacemakers, so it was not recognized as an official record. Now the milestone has been breached without an asterisk and, once again, it has been done by a

Kenyan.

Sabastian Sawe came in a full 30 seconds below that once unthinkable barrier at the London Marathon on Sunday. He smashed the world record -- also set by a Kenyan -by more than a minute. The reaction in Kenya has been euphoric.

“This is more than a win; it is a defining moment,” Kenyan President William Ruto said in a post on the social media platform X. “Your triumph places you firmly among the greats of global athletics and reaffirms Kenya as an enduring force at the pinnacle of distance running.”

The achievement has resonated nowhere more than in the Rift Valley, which has yielded many of Kenya’s champions. Runners from around the world go to train in the area, part of a geographical feature that bisects the country from north to

south, attempting to capitalize on the high altitude and the chance to train among the best of the best.

To make the point clear, Iten, a town in the Rift Valley famous for high-altitude training, welcomes visitors with an arch along the main road declaring it the “Home of Champions.”

Scores of runners and fans in Iten gathered in sports clubs and restaurants to watch the race Sunday. They jumped and screamed with joy as Sawe approached the finish line. Among those cheering with the crowds was John Korir, who won the 2026 Boston Marathon and lives near Iten.

As he watched Sawe trying to hold off a rival from Ethiopia toward the end of the race, Korir said he was filled with national pride.

“I didn’t want it to go to Ethiopia,” he said in an interview after his return from the United States. “I wanted it to stay in Kenya.”

Sawe’s sub-two-hour finish has inspired him, Korir said.

“I felt like it could be me doing that,” he said. “For now, it’s Sawe’s time. I think my time will come soon.”

Sawe trains in the town of Kapsabet, around 40 miles southwest of Iten, but he is considered a local hero.

Kenya’s emergence as a global running power effectively began in 1968, when its athletes swept gold in the 1,500-meter and 10,000-meter events and the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Mexico City Olympics. The country has maintained its dominance ever since, in women’s as well as men’s competitions.

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