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By THE STAR STAFF
Education Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés announced on Tuesday the awarding of $3,000 scholarships to 26 students from 15 public schools who will represent Puerto Rico at the 2026 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Phoenix, Arizona.
“Today, we recognize 26 students who exemplify discipline, talent, and a commitment to excellence,” Ramos Parés said in a written statement. “Each of them represents the fruit of the work being carried out in our public schools.”
Twenty-six students from 15 public schools will represent Puerto Rico at the 2026 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, Arizona.
chemistry, software systems and mathematics.
“This scholarship not only supports their international participation but also validates the collective effort of the students, teachers, and mentors who have guided them through this process,” he added. “We continue to strengthen the fields of science and mathematics as a strategic priority, convinced that this is where the island’s future is built.”
The delegation consists of students from schools within the seven regional education offices located in Arecibo, Bayamón, Caguas, Humacao, Mayagüez, Ponce and San Juan. The participants excel in disciplines such as microbiology, engineering, environmental science, physics,
In highlighting the role of the teachers and educational facilitators who have supported the students throughout the process, Ramos Parés noted that the educators will also participate in professional development experiences related to scientific and mathematical research.
Participation in the Regeneron ISEF offers students the opportunity to present their projects, exchange knowledge, and gain exposure to high-level academic environments. Through the initiative, the Education Department seeks to foster the development of student talent and promote opportunities for students within the public school system to compete on an international stage.
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In response to a significant increase in reported cases of syphilis -- particularly among pregnant women -- Puerto Rico
Health Secretary Víctor Ramos Otero announced on Tuesday the launch of a new multi-channel educational campaign titled “Get Tested and Show Your Love.”
The initiative aims to promote prevention, early detection and timely treatment of the sexually transmitted infection.
Preliminary data from the island Health Department’s Sexually Transmitted Infections Surveillance System show that between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2025, a total of 1,453 syphilis cases were reported in Puerto Rico. Of those, 35.3% involved women, with the highest incidence among individuals ages 20 to 24. The department also recorded 33 cases of congenital syphilis, highlighting the direct impact on newborn health.
“Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection that often presents with no visible symptoms, yet it can have serious consequences if not detected and treated promptly,” Ramos Otero said.
“This initiative seeks to encourage people to get tested, receive treatment, and protect their health and that of their loved ones.”
The educational campaign centers on prevention, early screening, and timely treatment of syphilis, with a particular focus on pregnant women and women of reproductive age.
The health secretary emphasized that timely screening during pregnancy is essential to prevent severe complications, including transmission of the infection to the baby.
Ramos Otero noted that the Health Department has reinforced its response by continuing administrative orders that mandate syphilis screening during pregnancy. In addition, in November 2025, the department issued Administrative Order 626, which prioritizes access to treatment for pregnant women diagnosed with syphilis. The order is designed to protect maternal and infant health and prevent congenital transmission.
The educational campaign rollout will include radio and digital platforms, and will feature educational content on social media, printed materials in clinics and health centers, and tools aimed at prenatal health care providers.
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Following the injury of two rescue workers during a recovery operation at Poza de las Mujeres beach in Manatí, Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) Secretary Waldemar Quiles Pérez, announced a stricter enforcement approach against people who ignore official ocean safety warnings.
The incident occurred last Saturday while rescue personnel were searching for the body of a young man in dangerous surf conditions. The two rescuers suffered injuries due to strong waves and required medical assistance.
Quiles clarified that no fines have been issued directly to individuals who entered the water despite alerts from the National Weather Service and the Puerto Rico Emergency Management Bureau, which had warned of hazardous conditions due to strong swells. However, he
said he has issued a direct order to the commissioner of the Ranger Corps to arrest anyone who refuses to exit the water after being instructed to do so by authorities.
“That was a direct order,” Quiles emphasized.
The DNER secretary noted that the measure is not intended to criminalize beachgoers but rather is preventive in nature.
“Fortunately, it seems the message got through,” Quiles said. “There were a few individuals who, at the moment when rangers took out handcuffs to arrest them, decided to leave the water. We left it at that because our goal is not to arrest people, but to prevent incidents and the loss of life.”
He added that arrest should be considered a last resort, but stressed that the strategy has proven effective when used in past situations.
“This is regrettably the final option, but
we’ve had to resort to it on several occasions, and it has worked when implemented,” the official said.
When asked whether the action could be considered a pilot plan to prevent future accidents -- particularly those involving rescue personnel -Quiles acknowledged that the recent injuries in Manatí were a decisive factor in his decision.
“I’ll be honest: it was because of these rescuers who were injured in Manatí that I felt a moral obligation to give that order,” Quiles said. “We cannot afford to lose rescuers.”
Natural and Environmental Resources Secretary Waldemar Quiles Pérez
He emphasized that emergency responders routinely put their lives at risk to protect
others, including individuals who disregard repeated warnings about dangerous sea conditions.
“At some point, we have to draw a line,” Quiles said. “Those who choose not to value their own lives should at least allow others to value theirs. I’m referring specifically to our rescuers, who expose themselves daily for people who chose not to listen to warnings that the ocean was extremely dangerous.”
The DNER, he added, will continue to urge the public to heed official advisories and avoid entering the water when hazardous marine conditions are reported.
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Police officers and firefighters in Puerto Rico could remain on active duty until the age of 66 under legislation currently under consideration in the island House of Representatives.
The House has placed the measure, House Bill (HB) 600, on its Special Orders Calendar. The proposal was introduced by Rep. Pedro “Pellé” Santiago Guzmán and would allow uniformed public safety person-
nel to extend their careers without needing special waivers, provided they meet regular medical and physical fitness requirements.
Under current law, high-risk public employees may retire at age 55 with 30 years of service, while retirement becomes mandatory at 58. Existing statutes allow extensions through special dispensations until age 62. The new proposal would raise that limit to 66 years old, eliminating the need for discretionary approvals.
The bill requires officers and firefighters
who choose to remain beyond the current retirement age to undergo a medical examination and a physical fitness test every two years. Failure to pass either evaluation would result in immediate mandatory retirement.
HB 600 received a favorable report from the House Retirement Systems Committee, chaired by Rep. Lourdes Ramos Rivera. However, the legislative analysis notes that neither the Puerto Rico Police Bureau nor the Firefighters Bureau was consulted during the drafting of the measure.
Debate over the proposal comes at a time of ongoing complaints about the police retirement system, which critics have described as inadequate. Meanwhile, the proposed Police Retirement Trust Fund has yet to receive funding, as the Police Bureau continues to experience staffing shortages driven by a high number of annual retirements.
The legislation does not include any increases to pension benefits, which have been frozen since the enactment of Law 3-2013.
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Agriculture Secretary Irving Rodríguez
Torres announced on Tuesday a new agreement with the AmeriCounsel Foundation to provide free technical assistance and financing support to eligible farmers and agribusiness owners across Puerto Rico.
“The development of our agricultural sector depends on giving producers access to real tools for growth,” Rodríguez Torres said in a written statement. “This partnership with the AmeriCounsel Foundation represents a concrete opportunity for farmers and agribusinesses to
strengthen their operations, obtain financing, and transition toward more competitive and sustainable models.”
Under the agreement, eligible participants will receive legal, accounting, and human resources services, as well as assistance with business incorporation, government registrations, business documentation, employment contracts, operational regulations, financial projections, financial statements, and the preparation of profit and loss statements.
The initiative will also offer support in identifying financing opportunities and in drafting and submitting competitive proposals
at both the state and federal levels. In addition, participating farmers and agribusiness owners will receive help developing business plans, market studies and feasibility analyses.
“At the AmeriCounsel Foundation, we are committed to supporting farmers and agribusiness owners through high-level technical assistance at no cost,” said Yamil Jaskille Mújica, a representative of the foundation. “Our goal is to facilitate access to capital, strengthen business structures, and help more agricultural projects grow in an organized and sustainable manner.”
Services will be available to eligible agribusinesses with fewer than 50 employees,
annual revenues under $1 million, and operations located in designated municipalities, with priority given to areas recently impacted by severe weather events. The initiative is funded through federal resources received by the AmeriCounsel Foundation via the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development program. Rodríguez Torres encouraged farmers -- particularly small and midsize agricultural entrepreneurs -- to take advantage of the program. Interested individuals may seek guidance through the Department of Agriculture, its regional offices, or by contacting the AmeriCounsel Foundation directly.
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Independent Sen. Joanne Rodríguez Veve announced Monday night that she has formally requested that Gov. Jenniffer González Colón repeal an executive order banning so-called conversion therapies for minors.
The executive order, OE-2019-016, was signed in 2019 by former Gov. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares and prohibits the practice of conversion therapies on individuals under the age of 18.
In a statement posted on social media, Rodríguez Veve argued that the ban is unconstitutional in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
“According to the recent decision of the federal Supreme Court in Chiles v. Salazar, such prohibitions, in the context of talk therapy, are unconstitutional because
they violate the fundamental right to freedom of speech,” the legislator stated.
Conversion therapies refer to practices that attempt to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, typically seeking to make individuals stop identifying as homosexual, bisexual or transgender. The practices are commonly carried out through psychological counseling or religious guidance and have been widely criticized by medical and human rights organizations.
According to ILGA World, at least 20 U.S. states have enacted legislation banning conversion therapies. The ILGA (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association) is an LGBTQ+ rights organization founded in 1978 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
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The island House of Representatives has implemented a series of historic initiatives aimed at improving the services received by children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including unprecedented budgetary allocations to non-profit organizations.
“This House of Representatives has an unwavering commitment to improving the services received by patients diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Puerto Rico,” House Speaker Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez said. “Since being sworn in in January 2025, we -- together with numerous colleagues -- have championed a series of initiatives that have positively impacted this vital segment of our population, including historic allocations of funds to non-profit entities that serve as the driving force behind this effort.”
“Through their gaze and their very presence, these individuals convey a warmth that only they can provide,” the House speaker added. “These individuals are extraordinary human beings. We
currently have four young people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder working here in the House of Representatives, and they do excellent work. Two serve as ushers -- right here in the legislative chamber -- while another works in the Office of Advisors. We will continue to pass legislation to ensure they have every opportunity they deserve. This is my commitment to you and your families.”
Last August, Méndez Nuñez announced a historic contribution of $1.2 million to the Society for Education and Rehabilitation (SER) -- a non-profit entity that, since its founding in 1950, has provided medical, therapeutic, and educational services to individuals with special needs -- including children on the autism spectrum -- to help them reach their full potential.
In September, the legislative leader allocated funds for the construction of two new, modern rooms dedicated exclusively to providing therapy to children diagnosed with autism at the SER center in Ceiba.
On March 15, Méndez Nuñez, along with
House Vice Speaker Ángel Peña Ramírez, announced a recommended transfer of $100,000 to support the operations of the Christian School for Autism and Mentoring Children of Puerto Rico in Las Piedras. The school provides educational services to some 32 children diagnosed with ASD.
Peña Ramírez is also seeking to identify a currently unused school facility to expand the school’s operations.
ASD is described as a range of neurological and developmental conditions that impact how a person behaves, including difficulties with social interaction and communication, among other symptoms.
Currently, more than 11,700 children and around 21,500 adults in Puerto Rico have been diagnosed with autism.
According to data from the island Health Department, one in every 38 eight-year-old children (2.6%) and one in every 21 four-year-old children (4.7%) were diagnosed with autism in 2022.
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Cataño Mayor Julio Alicea Vasallo announced on Tuesday that the municipality has closed its 2024-2025 Single Audit for the Community Development Block Grant-State program with no pending findings, according to a communication from the island Housing Department.
“This result is no coincidence; it is the product of an administration that has instilled order, discipline, and real execution in the management
of federal funds,” Alicea Vasallo said in a written statement.
“Today, we can say not only that we have met
every federal requirement, but also that we are executing more and better than anyone else,” the mayor added. “This translates into public works, services, and tangible economic development for our residents.”
The determination stems from a communication signed by the assistant secretary for the Community Development Block Grant-State program, Kevin Maldonado Barbosa. In that document, the Monitoring Division concluded that the audited report reflects no citations or findings pending
resolution; consequently, the audit for fiscal year 2024-2025 has been officially closed.
The analysis was based on data from the Federal Audit Clearinghouse of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. The certification also states that Cataño did not incur any administrative deficiencies in the implementation of federal funds.
The communication from the Housing Department further notes that the municipality’s monitoring and compliance efforts meet the required standards for the administration of federal funds.
By MIRIAM JORDAN
The newlywed wife of a U.S. soldier who was detained last week at her husband’s Army base was released Tuesday, after spending five days at a detention center with hundreds of other women facing deportation as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
The wife, Annie Ramos, 22, an immigrant who arrived in the United States as a toddler illegally, was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at Fort Polk, Louisiana, on Thursday. She was told she had a final deportation order. It had been issued in April 2005, when she was 22 months old.
The couple had gone to the base to complete paperwork so Ramos could move in with her husband, Staff Sgt. Matthew Blank, 23, who enlisted more than five years ago and is scheduled to begin training at the end of the month for deployment. But within hours, that plan was derailed, and days later, an article about the case by The New York Times quickly spread online.
It is highly unusual for the wife of a soldier to be detained because of her immigration status, and the case highlights how the administration’s mass deportation campaign has extended beyond targeting those with criminal histories.
On Tuesday afternoon, Ramos walked out of the detention facility and into her husband’s arms. Blank put her wedding ring back on her finger, which Ramos had been told to remove when she was detained. She has been fitted with an ankle monitor and has to visit an ICE office every week.
“I am grateful to God for being with me during this hard time, and for having my husband and family supporting me,” Ramos said.
“I feel awesome. Relieved,” Blank said Tuesday. “These have been the worst days of my life.”
The detention came just days after Ramos, a college student with no criminal record, and Blank had celebrated their marriage with family and friends in Houston, where she grew up.
Early Monday, the family and other supporters frantically called ICE offices, to try to prevent Ramos from being deported. They failed to reach anyone who would assist, Blank said.
That afternoon, Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, where Blank’s family is from, called him to say that he would push for Ramos’ release, according to Blank and a spokesperson for Kelly. But Kelly, a retired U.S. Navy captain, cautioned that it could take time.
A few hours later, according to Blank, Kelly called again to say that he had spoken with Markwayne Mullin, the new homeland security secretary, and that Ramos would be released by Tuesday.
The spokesperson for Kelly said he was encouraged to hear that Mullin had already been aware of the case.
On Monday morning, Ramos saw herself on the news while in detention. But hours went by before she was able to speak with her husband, who grew increasingly anxious, said Jen Rickling, his mother.
“We did all the right things in the right way,” Rickling
Staff Sgt. Matthew Blank embraces Annie Ramos, his newlywed wife and an undocumented immigrant who arrived as a toddler, after her release from the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, La., on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. Blank’s mother, Jen Rickling, looks on. Ramos, who was detained last week at her husband’s Army base, was released on Tuesday after spending five days at the detention center with hundreds of other women facing deportation as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. (Lily Brooks/The New York Times)
said, “and we had to believe that would work.”
The episode began Thursday afternoon, when the couple arrived at the base for a scheduled appointment so that Ramos could obtain a military spouse ID and enroll in health and other benefits.
Attendants at the visitor center, where they had to check in, asked about Ramos’ immigration status. The couple explained they had already hired a lawyer and started the process of adjusting her status.
An officer from the base’s criminal investigations division was called, followed by officials from the Department of Homeland Security. Ramos was handcuffed and driven away in a military police vehicle.
She was held in a room until three ICE agents arrived and transported her in shackles to a privately run detention center in Basile, Louisiana, which holds hundreds of women.
When U.S. citizens marry immigrants in the country illegally, their spouses become eligible for legal permanent residency through marriage, and they can apply for citizenship three years after receiving their green card.
Even those with a prior deportation order, often issued when they are children, are not typically detained and are able to adjust their immigration status, legal experts say, even though the process is complicated.
Special programs exist for military spouses to make
it easier for them to adjust their status than it would be for spouses of other U.S. citizens.
Before President Donald Trump started a mass deportation campaign, military couples in the same situation usually would have been allowed to live on base and register for benefits while pursuing legal status, the experts said.
Ramos was just months away from earning a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry when she was detained. Her education was funded by TheDream.US, which provides scholarships for students in the country without legal permission.
She had also applied for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which protects from deportation many children brought to the United States as minors. But new applications have not been processed by the Trump administration.
Now reunited, Blank said he was focused on his future with Ramos.
“I’m complete and ready to serve our country,” he said. “And it’s her country, too.”
By KATRINA MILLER
During their historic lunar flyby Monday, the astronauts of the NASA mission Artemis II were working hard to identify and photograph features on the far side of the moon.
Their accounts went beyond the plain and technical language often associated with science. Instead, they were full of wonder, excitement and reflection.
“I just had an overwhelming sense of being moved by looking at the moon,” Christina Koch, a mission specialist aboard the spacecraft, which the astronauts named Integrity, reported to mission control.
“The moon really is its own unique body in the universe,” Koch, a NASA astronaut, added. “It’s not just a poster in the sky that goes by — it’s a real place.”
Science is often viewed as colorless and objective, to be conducted with little emotion or expression. But as the Artemis II crew members painted lunar hills, valleys and plains in the minds of listeners back home, they provided a model for a poignant approach to scientific inquiry.
The awe emerged over the weekend as they approached the moon.
An
Reid Wiseman of NASA, the mission’s commander, eagerly noted impact craters and a swirl on the lunar surface.
“It’s just everything from the training, but in three dimensions and absolutely unbelievable,” he said. “This is incredible.”
Jacki Mahaffey, a NASA officer in mission control, laughed in response. “Copy, moon joy,” she said.
As the lunar surface grew closer, that moon joy intensified.
Jeremy Hansen, a mission specialist from the Canadian Space Agency, described the view from the spacecraft as mind-blowing.
Victor Glover, the pilot, was particularly enthralled by the magic of the moon’s terminator line, which separates its sunlit side from the part shrouded in darkness. He noted islands of light and valleys of black holes along the divider.
“You’d fall straight to the center of the moon if you
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stepped in some of those,” he said.
Glover was also struck by how sharp the features of the moon looked through his camera lens.
“It was hard to speak,” he told mission control during the flyby. In between more technical descriptions of the moon, he described where his imagination had gone.
“I was walking around down there on the surface, climbing and off-roading on that amazing terrain,” he said.
Down in Houston, mission control cheered. “We just all went on that moonwalk with you,” said Kelsey Young, a lunar expert who is leading the scientific part of the Artemis II mission.
During a news conference Saturday, Young explained that the astronauts underwent extensive training to learn how to give scientific descriptions of the moon, studying everything from flash cards in class to the moonlike terrain of Iceland.
The sentiment in their responses, however, felt unrehearsed. And rather than discourage the emotion, Young seemed to
feel it with them.
That expressiveness came to a height while the crew watched a solar eclipse from space during the final part of their lunar flyby. The sun slipped behind the moon, inducing a halo of light around the lunar rim, while its face shone faintly, lit by the glow from Earth.
“After all of the amazing sights that we saw earlier, we just went sci-fi,” Glover said. “You can actually see a majority of the moon. It is the strangest-looking thing that you can see so much on the surface.”
The crew described a field of stars surrounding a darkened moon, and identified Mars from its reddish hue as well as an orangy Saturn. Earth also glimmered bright.
Wiseman and Hansen reported flashes of light on the lunar surface — meteor strikes in real time — which made Young rise from her seat.
As the sun emerged on the other side of the moon, the astronauts likened the growing spot of light on the lunar horizon to a flame, and the wispy streams of its outer atmosphere to baby hair.
After a while, words just couldn’t suffice.
“No matter how long we look at this, our brains are not processing,” said Wiseman, who jokingly requested that mission control send him a list of new words to expand his vocabulary.
“There’s no adjectives,” he added. “I’m going to need to invent new ones. There’s absolutely no words to describe what we are looking at out this window.”
By ROSS DOUTHAT
Kristi Noem is gone. Pam Bondi is out. If there’s going to be a fall guy for our ill-starred regime-change operation in Iran, it’s likely to be Pete Hegseth, whose prewar overconfidence is being highlighted in hostile leaks from inside the administration, emphasizing how he was “caught off guard” (never a good look!) by the scale and boldness of the Iranian response.
The former secretary of homeland security, the jettisoned attorney general and the embattled secretary of defense have often seemed like President Donald Trump’s ideal Cabinet officials: selected for televisual looks and energy, lacking any political constituency apart from Trump himself, serving without qualm as pure conduits of his will. So their struggles offer a lesson for Republicans contemplating service in this administration’s 33 (but who’s counting?) remaining months: What Trump appears to want and what he actually wants are not exactly the same thing.
The seeming desire of the president is for loyalty, sycophancy and TV-ready swagger. He wants to turn on Fox News and see his top officials performing like reality-show characters in the drama of his administration. He wants to sit in a Cabinet meeting and listen to a litany of his accomplishments. He wants the decisions made in the West Wing or at Mar-a-Lago
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to be simply rubber-stamped in his departmental fiefs. He wants all that, but at the same time he also wants victory rather than defeat, and he definitely doesn’t want embarrassment. His metrics for success are unusual by normal presidential standards: He has a high tolerance for unpopularity, to put it mildly, and a remarkable shamelessness around corruption. But there is a point at which, even inside his cocoon, Trump senses that things aren’t going well for him. And then sycophancy doesn’t work, and it doesn’t matter if you were acting on his orders; you will be punished for that unsuccessful service just as surely as if you’d tried to thwart his aims. That’s the position Noem found herself in after the immigration enforcement debacle in Minneapolis. The fact that the sweeping crackdown in Tim Walz’s state and Ilhan Omar’s city was almost certainly what the president wanted earned the former South Dakota governor no political protection after it all went wrong.
It’s also the position Bondi found herself in after doing the president’s bidding with the Epstein files and various politicized prosecutions. The unpopularity of the former and the courtroom losses of the latter transformed her from sycophant to scapegoat, even though at every step she was expressing Trump’s wishes.
Republican lawmakers, Cabinet members and senior advisers to President Donald Trump applaud during hiss State of the Union address, in the House of Representatives Chamber at the Capitol building in Washington, Feb. 24, 2026. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
Likewise, when Hegseth reportedly told the president “let’s do it” in the run-up to the war, he was merely being an enthusiastic yes-man for a bellicose boss. But there’s no reward for being a loyalist if Trump’s grand plans don’t actually work out. In that case, you own the failure; he does not.
Contrast this pattern with that of the Cabinet officials whose jobs seem reasonably safe, like Scott Bessent and Marco Rubio. They, too, go along with the president in public without complaint or cavil. But then they find ways to manage his preferences, whether in trade policy or Russia-Ukraine diplomacy, such that the results are Trumpy enough to satisfy the boss but aren’t a blind expression of his whims. The fact that they have political capital while the pure sycophants flail implies that Trump prefers a version of that balance, not the more slavish alternative.
What might a more successful balancing act have looked like for an attorney general, defense secretary or homeland security chief? For all the talk about how Bondi tried to do everything Trump asked, it might be that she didn’t need to prosecute a string of the boss’s perceived enemies to stay in his good graces; she just needed a clear lawfare victory somewhere.
Likewise, Hegseth, if he had the sense God gave a goose, could have tried to steer Trump to a purely military campaign against Iran — bombs and missiles without the strikes that targeted its
leaders — satisfying the president’s hawkish impulse without putting the Iranian regime’s back against the wall.
As for Noem, well, maybe her self-dealing and limelight thirst would have doomed her anyway, but in a timeline where the Minneapolis operation was condensed to a few theatrical raids rather than a near-occupation of an American city, she might still be starring in homeland security infomercials.
These alternate scenarios are implausible, of course, because they envision hacks and yes-women suddenly discovering a different set of capabilities. But if there is to be any improvement at all across the (did I mention this number yet?) 33 months of Trumpism ahead of us, it can only come from officials able to learn something from their failures and give the president a taste of what he wants, at a dose the country and the world find easier to take.
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CAROLINA – La gobernadora de Puerto Rico, Jenniffer González Colón, anunció el martes la reapertura del Centro Metropolitano de Investigaciones y Denuncias (CMID) en Carolina, una iniciativa de política pública dirigida a fortalecer el acceso ágil, directo y eficiente a los servicios de justicia en la región este.
“La justicia no puede depender de la distancia y cuando una persona necesita radicar una denuncia, cuando un agente necesita consultar un caso, cuando una víctima necesita ser atendida ese servicio tiene que estar cerca, tiene que ser ágil y tiene que ser digno. Por eso hoy reabrimos el Centro Metropolitano de Investigaciones y Denuncias de Carolina”, indicó la gobernadora.
El centro, adscrito al Departamento de Justicia (DJ), brindará servicios de domingo a sábado en horario de 8:00 a.m. a 10:00 p.m. a los residentes de los municipios de Carolina, Canóvanas, Loíza y Trujillo Alto, con el objetivo de facilitar la radicación e investigación de querellas, así como reforzar la protección de víctimas y testigos. En la ceremonia de apertura, la gobernadora destacó que la operación del CMID permitirá centralizar las gestiones investigativas del distrito, integrando el trabajo de la Policía, el Departamento de Justicia y la Administración de Tribunales para optimizar la respuesta institucional.
En la inauguración estuvieron junto a la gobernadora y la secretaria de Justicia, Lourdes L. Gómez Torres, el alcalde de Carolina José Carlos Aponte Dalmau, la representante del Distrito 38 (Canóvanas, Carolina y Trujillo Alto) Wanda del Valle Correa, la senadora del Distrito de Carolina Marissa “Marissita” Jiménez, el Superintendente de la Policía de Puerto Rico Joseph González Falcón y el Jefe de los Fiscales licenciado Juan Ramos García.
La secretaria de Justicia, Lourdes L. Gómez Torres, indicó que, “la reapertura del CMID en Carolina marca un avance significativo para la región este, al garantizar acceso más rápido, cercano y efectivo a la justicia, en beneficio directo de las víctimas, las comunidades y la seguridad pública”.
Por su parte, el superintendente de la Policía, Joseph González, resaltó que este centro es vital para la operación de la uniformada, permitiendo un ahorro significativo en tiempo y dinero.
Desde este centro, el Departamento de Justicia proyecta atender entre 15 a 20 asuntos variados, incluyendo consultas de casos, órdenes judiciales y denuncias criminales. Asimismo, contará con fiscales de turno y unidades especializadas para atender delitos de mayor incidencia en la región de Carolina, como la conducción bajo efectos de alcohol y la violencia doméstica, áreas en las que el Gobierno de Puerto Rico mantiene una política de cero tolerancias.
Con una inversión de $73,986 provenientes de fondos
estatales, y en colaboración con la Fiscalía Federal para el equipamiento del centro, esta iniciativa optimiza recursos existentes y refuerza la coordinación interagencial entre el Departamento de Justicia, la Policía de Puerto Rico y la Administración de Tribunales.
Como parte de la apertura del CMID de Carolina, el Tribunal de Carolina extenderá su horario de operación hasta las 8:00 p.m., lo que permitirá atender casos el mismo día en que estén listos para su evaluación, agilizando así los procesos judiciales.
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SAN JUAN – El alcalde de la ciudad capital, Miguel A. Romero Lugo, participó el martes en la graduación de la Novena Academia de la Policía Municipal del Colegio Universitario de San Juan, donde se integraron 48 nuevos cadetes al servicio público, incluyendo 46 que se suman a la Policía Municipal de San Juan y 2 al municipio de Ca-
nóvanas. La formación de esta academia representó una inversión aproximada de $2,056,523.65, como parte de los esfuerzos del Municipio para continuar fortaleciendo la seguridad en la ciudad capital.
“Cada nuevo oficial que hoy se gradúa representa una inversión directa en la seguridad de nuestra gente. En San Juan no estamos hablando de seguridad como promesa, la estamos construyendo con reclutamiento, preparación, mejor equipo, tecnología y presencia real en la calle”, expresó Romero Lugo.
La academia se desarrolló entre el 16 de junio de 2025 y el 13 de febrero de 2026, con un currículo de 76 créditos y 1,110 horas de formación, incluyendo adiestramientos especializados en bienestar emocional, atención a poblaciones con Trastorno del Espectro Autista y conocimiento de la zona turística.
“Esta academia no solo preparó nuevos policías, preparó servidores públicos con una visión más amplia de lo que significa proteger y servir”, expresó Juan Jackson Rodríguez, comisionado de la Policía Municipal de San
Juan.
Con esta nueva clase graduanda, el Municipio de San Juan alcanza 94 nuevos policías municipales formados durante este cuatrienio, mientras ya cuenta con 57 cadetes adicionales en proceso de adiestramiento en las academias #50 y #51. La meta establecida por la administración municipal es reclutar 100 policías adicionales durante este año fiscal, como parte del objetivo de alcanzar 400 nuevos efectivos en el cuatrienio. Este esfuerzo ha estado acompañado de mejoras concretas para la fuerza policiaca municipal, incluyendo aumentos salariales, pago puntual de horas extra, bono de Navidad, nuevo equipo y el fortalecimiento de su flota vehicular.
Como parte de la estrategia operacional del Municipio, los nuevos oficiales serán asignados a áreas clave de la ciudad capital, incluyendo 16 al Viejo San Juan y 30 al Cuartel de Miramar Sur. Su integración al cuerpo policiaco comenzará de inmediato con una fase de 160 horas de mentoría práctica, dirigida a fortalecer su transición al servicio activo y su preparación en el campo.
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By MAHOHLA DARGIS
“The Drama” is a clever, deeply unserious movie about male panic in the guise of an edgy romantic comedy. It’s bright and shiny and aggressively nasty, and centers on a couple who meet, fall in love, become engaged and experience a relationship crisis of outlandish proportions. Screen romances tend to be catnip, and that’s certainly true in this case because the lovers are played by Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, both capable, appealing performers whose beauty and natural charisma go a long way toward selling all kinds of nonsense. Their charm does a great deal of work here; it’s also the most believable thing in the movie.
Set in Boston, the story tracks the life and love of Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Pattinson), going back to their first meeting, though it largely focuses on the run-up to their wedding. Almost parodically ideal, the two are hot, young, successful professionals with interesting-sounding jobs — she works as an editor in publishing, he’s a museum curator — and have enough money for the kind of aspirationally bespoke, art-andbook-filled apartment that suggests bohemia but without the struggle. From the outside, their life looks as frictionless as any in a Nancy Meyers romantic entanglement. Of course it’s complicated (to steal one of Meyers’ titles) though in this instance all that perfection turns out to be an elaborate ruse.
Writer-director Kristoffer Borgli (“Dream Scenario”) sets up “The Drama” with crisp, borderline frenzied efficiency and an obvious acquaintance with the formal properties of the classic romantic comedy. He employs the genre’s conventions to shrewd effect, including during the couple’s comically inflected meet-cute at a bustling city cafe. There, Charlie,
with conspicuous anxiety and some screwball-style bungling, approaches Emma. She’s seated alone at the counter reading a novel, “The Damage” (invented for the movie), an unsubtle warning sign that’s meant to put the viewer on alert. After some confusion — she can’t hear because she’s deaf in one ear and has an earbud in the other — the two smile and they’re off.
After the introductions, Borgli, who helped edit “The Drama,” begins toying with the timeline, gently destabilizing a story before gleefully breaking its nice little world into pieces. In short order, it’s the present day, where Charlie is going over his wedding speech with his pal, Mike (Mamoudou Athie). As Charlie voices his ardor for Emma, the story starts jumping around in time, toggling between the present and quick-sketch scenes from the past that illustrate his rhapsodic words. With Mike serving as both his witness and counsel, Charlie shares everything that he loves about Emma, including her harsh, raspy laugh. “You know how it’s very cute, but it’s also kind of,” Charlie says trailing off, prompting chortles.
Romantic comedies depend on some sort of obstacle that the lovers need to overcome on the way to their happily ever after. Some difficulties prove insurmountable, but most are merely trip hazards, like an overly demanding career or cultural differences. The ostensible obstacle in “The Drama” isn’t something as loaded and familiar as race. But it is a doozy, one that emerges while Emma and Charlie are sampling menu options at their wedding venue with Mike and his wife, Rachel (a strong Alana Haim). Amid smiles and clinking glasses, the four begin sharing the worst thing they’ve ever done, a foolish exercise that culminates in a tipsy Emma blurting out that she once came close to committing an unforgivable crime.
Emma’s confession shocks everyone at the table, and both the violence and intensity of her secret jolts the movie into a dark, queasily comedic register. Her disclosure also upends the narrative balance as a story about a romantic partnership of equals rapidly morphs into a cautionary tale about a guy freaking out over his girlfriend. While Emma weepily tries to make things right, she begins to fade in importance and Charlie and his distress take over. He isn’t just disturbed by her secret — what it may say about her, what it might portend for them — he’s unmoored. As Charlie begins spiraling emotionally, his agitation mirrors both the story’s increasingly chaotic events and Borgli’s fractured narrative approach.
Zendaya and Pattinson are both enjoyable to watch, but she’s given too little to do and he’s given
too much. Once Emma makes her shocking confession, Charlie starts to obsess over her past or what he imagines it to have been, instigating a series of fantasy sequences of her as a teenager (Jordyn Curet). The choice to use two performers to play Emma makes a degree of sense, though it also means that Zendaya never gets the opportunity to develop her character with the same complexity or flamboyant expressivity that Pattinson employs with such madcap brio. Unlike Charlie, whose inner life emerges as he falls apart — his raw emotions seeping through the cracks of his being — Emma remains essentially, disappointingly unknowable.
That’s too bad because, among other reasons, it would be nice if a romantic comedy took both lovers with equal seriousness. In the end, Borgli is more interested in kinking up the narrative and tweaking the audience’s sensitivities than digging into tougher material like the nature of love. The most shocking thing about “The Drama,” though, is that despite its roguish humor, flashes of surrealism and bellicose outrageousness, it is finally an old-fashioned story about a guy, who happens to be white, consumed by his fear of a beautiful, intelligent woman who happens to be Black. That Borgli avoids engaging with race — Emma and Charlie never discuss it — is certainly a choice, one that sticks with you longer than anything else onscreen.
‘The Drama’: Rated R for images of violence. Running time: 1 hour 46 minutes. In theaters.
Global markets have entered a period of heightened uncertainty ahead of a deadline set by U.S. President Donald Trump for Iran, with investors weighing various outcomes ranging from a ceasefire to renewed military escalation and their implications for oil, currencies and risky assets.
Iran showed no sign of agreeing to Trump’s demand that it open the Strait of Hormuz by the end of Tuesday or suffer massive attacks on its civilian infrastructure in what would be the biggest escalation yet of the war. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday morning that Iran had cut off direct diplomacy with the U.S.
Trump has given Iran until 8 p.m. in Washington (midnight GMT and 3.30 a.m. in Tehran) to end its blockade of Gulf oil, a move that has upended commodities and financial markets over the past few weeks.
“Markets are dealing with a somewhat binary situation as they try to position themselves ahead of a deadline which will either see a sudden resolution or a swift escalation,” said David Morrison, senior market analyst at Trade Nation.
The benchmark S&P 500 dropped nearly a percent on Tuesday and the dollar and gold slipped, while oil edged higher.
Here’s a look at what could happen next:
A prolonged conflict and severe disruptions in oil supply could push Brent crude prices to around $130, Citigroup said in a recent note.
Equity markets would decline, led by interest rate-sensitive and cyclical stocks as investors price in a sharp economic slowdown and higher inflation.
Airlines led by American Airlines and other travel stocks such as Carnival are most vulnerable to higher fuel costs and weakening demand, while Palantir and CrowdStrike stand out as AI-defense hybrids with the greatest upside if the conflict drags on and volatility spikes, Pete Mulmat of IG North America said.
The U.S. dollar has been a major beneficiary of the safehaven trade spurred by the conflict.
“If expectations shift to high-for-longer oil prices, USD could strengthen further, as this may magnify the inflation and output pressures faced by energy importers,” Steve Englander, FX strategist at Standard Chartered, said.
The move up in the dollar could also pressure the Japanese yen and raise the risk of an intervention by the Bank
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The BOJ would likely intervene if USD-JPY were to quickly rise above 160, toward its July 2024 highs near 162, UniCredit analysts said. The yen was last trading at 159.82.
Trump has abruptly called off similar threats of escalation over the past several weeks, citing what he has described as productive negotiations with unidentified figures in Iran, though Tehran has denied any substantive talks have taken place.
The S&P 500 has rebounded about 4% since hitting a
seven-month low in late March on hopes of a resolution.
“Look for bond yields to decline, oil/energy prices to see a significant decline, USD to sell off, credit spreads to tighten, and equities to rip,” J.P. Morgan analysts said, laying out a scenario in the case of a ceasefire.
Shares of defense, fertilizer and energy companies, which have rallied on expectations of a prolonged conflict and higher input costs, may give up some of the gains. At the same time, beaten-down, oil-sensitive airlines and cruise operators could claw back losses as fuel prices retreat and travel demand expectations stabilize.
By TYLER PAGER, FARNAZ FASSIHI, JULIAN E. BARNES, RONEN BERGMAN and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to wipe out a “whole civilization” and the United States hit military targets on Iran’s main oil export hub, as he ramped up pressure on Iran to fully open the Strait of Hormuz or face devastating strikes on critical infrastructure within hours.
As the clock ticked down to Trump’s 8 p.m. Eastern time deadline, there were competing narratives about the state of negotiations. Three Iranian officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe sensitive diplomacy said that Iran has stopped engaging in indirect talks, mediated by Pakistan, with the Trump administration to halt the fighting.
But hours later, Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, wrote on social media that diplomatic efforts were “progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully.” An Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity, also said talks were making progress. And Iran left open the possibility that Pakistan could serve as a conduit if talks were to resume.
“To allow diplomacy to run its course, I earnestly request President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks,” Sharif wrote, and for Iran to open the strait and for all parties to observe a ceasefire.
Trump is aware of Pakistan’s request and “a response will come,” the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said in a statement.
The United States launched more than 90 strikes on Kharg Island, the oil export hub, early Tuesday. A U.S. military official characterized them as “restrikes” — hitting targets that have been struck before to ensure more damage. He said that the United States was not yet targeting Iranian oil infrastructure on the island, which lies in the Persian Gulf off the country’s southern coast.
The United States and Israel both stepped up their attacks ahead of the 8 p.m. Eastern deadline Trump had set for Iran to allow unimpeded shipping through the strait, a key oil and gas transit route. He issued his grave warning on social media as U.S. forces struck Kharg as part of a broader effort to force Iran to make a deal, according to American and Israeli officials with knowledge of the operations, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” the U.S. president wrote, adding that he hoped “maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen” to avoid the attacks. “We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World.”
But there are often gaps between Trump’s hyperbolic language and reality, and military officials said they were not sure how to reconcile his apocalyptic threat with the concrete mission as they understood it, to degrade Iran’s ability to launch missiles and drones.
On Monday, the president said at a news conference that if Iran did not end its effective blockade of the strait, every bridge in the country would be “decimated,” and every
Textbooks and papers amid the rubble of a building at Sharif University in Tehran, Iran after it was targeted by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes, on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times)
power plant would be “out of business.”
Striking civilian infrastructure could be a war crime under international law. Ebrahim Zolfaghari, a spokesperson for the Iranian military, has said that Iran would retaliate “crushingly and extensively” if its civilian infrastructure were attacked.
Iranians were bracing for the possibility of more strikes, while others were responding to the U.S. threats with a mix of indifference, defiance and bewilderment. Some Iranians on Tuesday formed human chains along bridges and around power plants across the country, videos and photographs posted by state and other local media showed. It’s unclear wheth-
er the demonstrations were spontaneous or planned by the government.
The Israeli military said it had launched airstrikes on eight bridges across Iran, and warned Iranians not to ride railroads until 9 p.m. local time. Iranian state media reported that at least three people were killed when a railway bridge was hit in the central city of Kashan.
Iran targeted energy facilities in Persian Gulf countries allied with the United States. Saudi Arabia’s defense ministry said that debris from an intercepted missile had fallen near energy facilities in the east and that the damage was being assessed. The United Arab Emirates’ defense ministry said missiles and drones had been fired from Iran.
Here’s what else we’re covering: — Condemnation of Trump’s threat: Democratic lawmakers, one Republican senator and some influential right-wing commenters criticized Trump’s talk of the death of Iranian civilization, with some accusing him of threatening a war crime, and even genocide.
— Death tolls: The Human Rights Activists News Agency said at least 1,665 civilians, including 244 children, had been killed in Iran as of Monday. Lebanon’s health ministry on Thursday said more than 1,500 people had been killed in the latest fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. In attacks blamed on Iran, at least 50 people have been killed in Gulf nations. In Israel, at least 20 people had been killed as of Monday. The U.S. death toll stands at 13 service members, with hundreds of others wounded.
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
In the face of threats by President Donald Trump to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages,” the British government on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Keir Starmer remained opposed to American use of British bases for anything other than defensive purposes.
During a media briefing with journalists, the prime minister’s spokesperson declined to say whether British officials had explicitly told the United States not to launch attacks from their territory on civilian targets in Iran like bridges or energy facilities, attacks Trump has threatened.
But the spokesperson said the prime minister had not changed his mind on the previous limits placed on American bombers taking off from British bases, including from RAF Fairford, in a quiet corner of southern England, where B-52 and B-1 bombers have been loaded with munitions before setting off for Iran.
Those limits have enraged Trump, who has spent the past several weeks accusing Starmer of cowardice, belittling the capabilities of the British armed forces, and threatening to take the United States out of NATO in retaliation for what he calls a lack of support by allies in the war against Iran.
Starmer has insisted that Britain will not
join “regime change from the skies,” saying that people in his country do not want a repeat of the government’s support of the United States during the war in Iraq in 2003.
But in an attempt to mollify Trump, the prime minister gave permission to American bombers to attack missile launchers in Iran that were being used to attack British facilities in the Middle East. Starmer later expanded that permission to include Iranian targets that were attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
That compromise does not appear to have worked with Trump, who on Monday compared Starmer to Neville Chamberlain, the former British prime minister who tried to appease Adolf Hitler before World War II.
The president has also mocked the British navy, calling its ships “toys.” And he has said that Britain and other nations in Europe should secure the Strait of Hormuz by themselves, without help from the United States.
The British military is hosting a discussion Tuesday with counterparts from about 40 governments to discuss military options to secure the strait once the war between Iran, the United States and Israel ends.
Britain’s Defense Ministry said the closeddoor meeting was designed to create practical solutions to ensure that shipments of oil, natural gas, fertilizer and other goods will eventually be able to travel through the strait without fear of attacks.
By LARA JAKES and MATE HALMOS
The party of Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary is facing parliamentary elections on Sunday that are expected to be exceptionally close. And the marginalized Roma ethnic minority may prove to be an unexpected swing vote, pivotal to whether his party remains in power.
Over the last 16 years, Orban’s government has doled out public jobs to Roma voters, some in exchange for political loyalty to his party, Fidesz. But it has also overhauled Hungary’s education system in ways that experts and analysts say have systemically trapped Roma in Hungary’s underclass.
“There are many reasons why we won’t vote for Orban,” said Bettina Pocsai, an education expert in Budapest who is Roma and works with Roma people. “Many people in our community face so many challenges that it’s not just the failure of the educational system. But mainly that is what contributes to it.”
Long held back by economic instability and prejudice across Europe, ethnic Roma make up about 8% of Hungary’s population of 9.6 million, according to government officials and experts. But with a range of polls showing Orban’s party trailing in the election, “this is not the best time to risk the Roma vote,” said Gabor Gyori, a political analyst with the Policy Solutions research organization in Budapest.
Since taking office in 2010, Orban has imposed a range of national education initiatives that academics and analysts say have had a disproportionate impact on Roma students, largely limiting them to mediocre or substandard schools that, in turn, lead them toward low-wage jobs.
Orban’s government centralized control of public elementary and secondary schools, taking decisions about how children are educated out of the hands of communities. It shifted public funding to church-run schools that relatively few Roma attend. And it lowered
the mandatory school attendance age from 18 to 16, leading to a significant drop in 17-yearold Roma continuing their educations.
At the same time, government programs have provided low-skills jobs to impoverished or otherwise disadvantaged Hungarians, many of them Roma, to replace some welfare assistance.
Disagreement over whether Orban’s education and employment policies hurt or help Roma has simmered for a long time. It took a profanity-laden remark in January by Orban’s transportation minister, Janos Lazar, to turn the debate into widespread anger.
Speaking at a public forum at a lake resort town west of Budapest, Lazar used a racial epithet for Roma to declare that “someone has to clean the toilets on InterCity trains.”
He later apologized, but the remark created an uproar. Gyori said it reflected how politicians had generally “ignored the problems of the Roma community, thereby effectively cementing racial segregation in parts of Hungary.”
He called it “an instance of the mask slipping.”
Lazar did not respond to a request for comment.
Tisza, the political party challenging Orban and led by opposition politician Peter Magyar, said Orban’s policies had “further deepened social exclusion” of Roma, in part through the advantages for religious schools.
Orban’s allies dismiss the criticism as a campaign ploy and predict that Roma voters will continue to support him.
“I think the Roma in general acknowledge the work that the government is doing,” said Attila Sztojka, who is Roma and is Orban’s state secretary for social opportunities and Roma relations.
In the months since his minister’s disparaging comment, Orban has focused Fidesz’s election campaign on illegal migration and European Union support for Ukraine, presenting them as threats to Hungary’s
sovereignty. That may resonate with Roma voters.
Orban’s education overhaul, starting in 2011, is a particularly sore point among Roma.
Centralized control of public education and the shifting of money has led to an exodus likened to “white flight” to church-run schools by skilled teachers and privileged students, according to a report issued in November by the deputy commissioner for protecting citizens’ fundamental rights. That report, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, has since been taken off the office’s website.
Lowering the mandatory school attendance age, to 16, was part of the Orban government’s efforts to supply the economy with blue-collar workers, according to a 2023 study by Janos Kollo and Anna Sebok, researchers at the KRTK Institute of Economics in Budapest. The study concluded that significantly more Roma students ended their schooling early after the change than did non-Roma.
The study found that the number of 17-year-old Roma children who were attending school in 2016 fell by 21 percentage points from 2011, before the law took effect. By contrast, that number dropped by 5.9 percentage points among non-Roma 17-year-olds in the same time period.
That meant Roma children were more likely to be locked in cycles of low-wage work, Kollo said in an interview Monday.
Sztojka, the Roma government official, defended the government’s education policies.
He said centralized control was established to create a consistent nationwide standard for the country’s schools. And he said that teachers earned the same salaries in church-run and public schools and that those who worked with large populations of economically disadvantaged students, which generally include Roma, were offered 20% raises.
Any school where Roma or other disadvantaged groups are not fairly represented among students risk losing 10% of government funding, Sztojka said.
“We constantly monitor the situation,” he said.
He said the lowering of the mandatory school age did not have a negative effect on Roma graduation rates, pointing to a 2025 study by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights showing that more Roma were attending early-childhood education and graduating from high school than were a decade ago.
Those rates remain far behind those of the rest of Hungary’s students. The study also said slightly more Roma were attending schools that were fully or mostly segregated than in 2016.
Klaudia Kiraly was the only Roma student in her public high school class in Kalocsa, a small city south of Budapest, after rejecting teachers’ suggestions in 2013 that she switch to a vocational school to become a nurse. She said Roma who remained in public schools were often pushed toward trade colleges instead of universities.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT on a laptop in San Francisco, March 21, 2025. As tech companies prepare to release new and more powerful AI systems in the coming weeks, cybersecurity experts have become increasingly vocal in their warnings that A.I. technologies are fundamentally changing cybersecurity.
(Kelsey McClellan/The New York Times)
By CADE METZ and KATE CONGER
Anthropic said late last year that state-sponsored Chinese hackers had used its artificial intelligence technology in an effort to infiltrate the computer systems of roughly 30 companies and government agencies around the world.
In a blog post, Anthropic said it was the first reported case of a cyberattack in which AI technologies had gathered sensitive information with limited help from human operators. Human hackers, the company said, handled about 10% to 20% of the work needed to conduct the attack.
Five months later, that remains the only known example of a cyberattack driven largely by an “AI agent” — technology that can write computer code and use software on its own. But as Anthropic and its chief rival, OpenAI, prepare to release new and more powerful AI systems, cybersecurity experts are increasingly vocal in their warnings that AI is fundamentally changing cybersecurity.
Technology from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and other companies could allow hackers to identify security holes in computer systems far faster than in the past, vastly raising the stakes in the decades-long fight between hackers and the security experts guarding computer networks.
But like other tools from the long history of cybersecurity, the latest AI can be used for both offense and defense. As hackers deploy AI to break and steal, security experts are also leaning on AI to spot flaws in their systems — including some that had gone unnoticed for decades. The question is who finds the flaws first.
“This is the most change in the cyber environment, ever,” said Francis deSouza, the chief operating officer and president of security products at Google Cloud. “You have to fight AI with AI.”
Since last year, the leading open-source software
projects — which provide the underlying infrastructure for sites and services across the internet — have been flooded with messages from people using AI to identify security holes.
Many of these so-called bug reports were erroneous, because of mistakes made by the AI systems. But in recent months, as AI has improved, they have started to identify legitimate bugs at a remarkable rate, and programmers have raced to make fixes.
“These AI models are augmenting what humans can do,” said Daniel Stenberg, who runs an important and popular open source project called Curl. “If you use these tools correctly, they can really raise your ability to find problems in software.”
In February, Anthropic said that it had used its AI technologies to find more than 500 so-called zero-day vulnerabilities — security holes that were unknown to software makers — in various pieces of commonly used open source software. The next month, a researcher at Anthropic revealed that he had used AI to find a serious security vulnerability in the core of the Linux operating system, which is software that powers much of the internet, and is used in computer servers, cloud computing services, Android phones and Teslas.
The bug had existed, apparently undiscovered, since 2003.
Experts disagree on whether one side of this struggle has gained a significant advantage through AI. And they are unsure how the battle will play out in the coming years. But most agree that the companies and governments that do not embrace the latest AI for defensive purposes will leave themselves enormously vulnerable.
Chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT have become very good at writing computer code. These systems can help engineers create new software. They can use internet tools, like email programs and online calendars. And they can probe the weak points in software and online services, looking for security vulnerabilities.
Over the past several months, new AI tools like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex — specifically made for coding — have helped developers create AI agents that can handle a wide variety of tasks largely on their own. That includes identifying and exploiting security holes in software.
“Four or five months ago, we had a step change in what these systems could do,” said Zico Kolter, an OpenAI board member and a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University who specializes in security and AI.
AI is helping attackers in other ways. Some have used chatbots to draft phishing emails and ransom notes, cybersecurity experts said. Others have used AI to parse large quantities of stolen data and determine what information might be valuable. Without help from AI, attackers could sometimes break into com-
puter networks within minutes, deSouza said, but with the help of AI, breaches can take just seconds. Some hackers specialize in breaking into systems and then selling off their access to other attackers. Those handoffs used to take as much as eight hours, as hackers negotiated the sales and passed along the compromised entry points, deSouza said. Now that process has accelerated to about 20 seconds, he said, with hackers sometimes using AI agents to speed up the process.
Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies have tried to add guardrails to their tools to prevent them from being turned into cyberweapons. But attackers have been able to circumvent these barriers by telling the AI systems that they are not actually attacking.
For instance, they will say that they are just playing “capture the flag” games — cybersecurity exercises that simulate real attacks and allow engineers to practice finding and exploiting vulnerabilities.
Some experts argue that the guardrails added by companies like Anthropic and OpenAI can actually provide an advantage to malicious attackers. Guardrails could cause a chatbot to deny help to a user trying to defend a system from an attack, they argue, but persistent hackers could be more diligent about finding vulnerabilities — and keeping those tricks to themselves.
Although AI technologies have put new powers in the hands of offensive hackers, experts are divided over whether these tools give attackers an overall advantage over defenders.
Even after months of steady improvements, AI technologies are still flawed — which means they require the expertise of seasoned cybersecurity experts. In many cases, the tools are still limited by the skills of the people who use them.
“You still need a software architect in the loop with these systems,” Kolter said.
He and others argue that defenders have an advantage because they have the easier job. They just have to find the holes. Offensive hackers must both find and exploit the holes.
“It is easier to find a vulnerability than to meaningfully exploit it,” Kolter said.
By CHRISTINA CARON
As a young girl, Lilli Correll both loved and feared her mother.
In good times, she felt special — her mother affectionately called her Monkey, and they often laughed together. “I was her favorite child,” said Correll, now 55 and living in Austin, Texas.
But at other times her mother, who had bipolar disorder, would abruptly turn violent, once throwing Correll against a wall and threatening to kill her, she said.
Despite the abuse Correll found herself drawn to her mother, only to be rejected again and again. That dynamic would go on to repeat itself in Correll’s marriage, which was emotionally abusive, she said.
It wasn’t until she was in her 40s that she discovered, with the help of therapy, that she had formed a trauma bond with her abusers.
Lately the phrase “trauma bond” has been used online to describe the connection that can grow out of sharing a difficult experience with someone. Videos on TikTok refer to “trauma-bonded besties who overshare” and “trauma bonding instead of going to therapy.” But when it is used as a psychological term, the phrase refers to a victim’s strong emotional attachment toward their abuser.
Trauma experts caution against using the phrase loosely, which can “diminish the real experiences of survivors,” explained Megan Cutter, the chief of victim services at the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. What is a trauma bond?
While there’s no formal definition, experts in domestic violence and sexual violence often use “trauma bond” to describe an attachment between a victim and abuser that is difficult for the victim to leave.
Early references to the term appeared in a 1981 paper about “traumatic bonding” in abuse victims and in the 1997 book “The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships” by Patrick J. Carnes, a counselor with expertise in sexual compulsion and trauma.
“Cycles of abuse followed by kindness” solidify trauma bonds, said Pierluigi Mancini, the interim president and chief executive of advocacy group Mental
Health America. Experts call these cycles “intermittent reinforcement,” he added. Even if victims have experienced abuse, they will feel drawn to the relationship, anticipating that the abuser will eventually show love or empathy once again.
Reconciliation often causes the release of dopamine and oxytocin, neurotransmitters that are associated with pleasure and social bonding, said Mancini, who worked with trauma victims in Atlanta for 20 years.
These positive moments can have a “paralyzing” effect, he said, that can prevent victims from leaving the relationship.
What are the potential signs of a trauma bond?
— Staying in a relationship despite abuse: If a victim continually returns to an abuser or feels they cannot leave, it is a sign that the person is instinctually drawn to seek safety from the abuser, with whom the victim has a strong attachment.
— Rationalizing the abuse: Oftentimes, people who experience abuse will give their abuser the benefit of the doubt, said Janina Fisher, a clinical psychologist with expertise in trauma. They might say, “It’s not who he is, but he just loses it, and he’s so sorry afterward” or “It was my fault — I shouldn’t have asked him to take out the trash,” she said.
— Social isolation: A person in an abusive relationship may become increasingly distant from people with whom they used to spend time, which can signal that they are under pressure to spend most of their time with their abuser. Fisher noted that “I can’t see my family and friends” is different from “I see much less of my family and friends because my relationship is important to me.”
— Fear of abandonment: Although a victim may wish to leave the abusive relationship, the prospect of living without their abuser can seem unbearable. There is a fear that “‘I can’t survive without this person,’” Fisher said. How can a person break a trauma bond?
When counseling a victim in an abusive relationship, the priority is making sure the person is physically and emotionally safe, Mancini said.
Speaking with a therapist who understands trauma as well as post-traumatic stress disorder can help someone who has been abused reconnect with safe relation-
The phrase “trauma bonding” has been used online to describe connections built through shared suffering, but experts say that’s all wrong. (Vanessa Saba/The New York Times)
ships, learn techniques to regulate the nervous system and recognize patterns of abuse. Therapists can also help victims untangle feelings of shame that can accompany abuse, Mancini added.
Not everyone is ready for therapy, though. Some people might be more comfortable calling or texting the National Domestic Violence Hotline or RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline, where they will remain anonymous.
It can be dangerous to leave an abusive relationship, and each step of the process requires careful preparation. Hotlines can connect callers with support services like mental health professionals, domestic violence shelters or lawyers, and guide them in forming a safety plan.
“Maybe they’re not quite ready to leave, or they’re not sure — we honor where they are,” Cutter, of RAINN, said. For some people, she added, this is the first time they learn that there’s a reason they’ve stayed in the relationship.
“The reason you can’t leave is actually this complex psychological dynamic with the person who’s hurting you,” she said. “And you’re not the first person to go through that, and you are not alone.”
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By GENEVIEVE KO
In the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “Oklahoma!,” the signature song opens with: Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain / And the wavin’ wheat can sure smell sweet / When the wind comes right behind the rain.
Those lyrics capture wheat bran at its best — earthy, sweet, invigorating — but even the shimmer of that tune can’t lighten bran’s heavy image. It’s rightfully associated with fiber, but often wrongly assumed to be as scratchy as twine. By extension, bran muffins are vilified both as a form of goodfor-you breakfast torture and as a Trojan horse for unhealthy heaps of sugar.
They can, of course, be both. But they can also be exceptional, a morning underdog to blueberry’s obvious appeal and banana’s brazen charm. Done right, they beat them all. Not only do they taste more complex, they feel like fortitude because, well, they are, slowly doling out energy for hours.
These mahogany treats deliver the toasted nuttiness and hearty chew of wheat bran and avoid whole wheat’s common afflictions of heaviness and bitterness in baked goods. The depth of dates and molasses highlight bran’s natural sweetness, and oil and buttermilk lend a touch of richness.
But the key technique that makes these muffins special, glossy with a floral aroma and fresh burst of citrus, is infusing them with an orange-honey blend right out of the oven. This trick of poking toothpick holes in baked goods, then brushing them with syrup while warm is usually applied to cakes, and it transforms bran muffins, ensuring they stay soft and moist for days.
Another insurance against a cardboard finish is simply adding liquid — a lot of it — to the batter. Soaking the bran before baking not only keeps the muffins from drying out, it also ensures that they end up tender.
To understand how wheat bran arrives at that optimal state is to understand the wheat berry from which it comes. Also known as wheat kernels, wheat berries are encased in husks zipped along the tops of stalks and removed in a process known as threshing. Once the inedible chaff and stalks are removed, the wheat berries remain, each composed of three parts: a hard, thin sheath of bran, which surround a large endosperm and little germ. Grinding the berries, trinity and all, yields whole wheat flour. But the parts can be separated when the berries are milled: The endosperm alone becomes all-purpose (white) flour, and the bran and germ are sold on their own.
Wheat bran is primarily insoluble fiber with a little protein, fat and phenolic compounds. Those compounds give bran its tannic edge, its signature complexity with the dark roast notes of coffee and the deep purple of red wine. In excess, that tannic flavor can lead to the sandpaper
mouth feel you get when you drink oversteeped black tea or the dregs of a wine bottle. Acidic liquids can tame that bitterness. In these muffins, orange juice does just that, while the fruit’s zest perfumes the batter.
Unlike all-purpose flour, bran can absorb two to three times its weight in liquid. Some recipes call for soaking bran in boiling or hot water to speed the grain’s softening, but liquid at any temperature works as well. A good proportion of water is ideal for thoroughly hydrating the bran.
In this recipe, orange juice also douses the bran before and after baking. It makes these muffins just sweet enough to balance robust tannins and just special enough so their healthy fiber content is secondary to how great they taste.
These mahogany treats deliver the toasted nuttiness and hearty chew of bran and avoid whole wheat’s common afflictions of heaviness and bitterness in baked goods. The key to making these muffins tender and keeping them from drying out is simply liquid — in all different forms. Water helps soften the bran along with orange juice, which adds a floral aroma; molasses and honey highlight bran’s natural sweetness; and oil and buttermilk add a touch of richness. Soaking the bran before baking and infusing the muffins with an orange-honey syrup while they’re still warm ensure they stay soft and moist for days. Dates lend a caramel depth to the mix, but if you’re nostalgic for classic bran muffins, you can use raisins instead.
By Genevieve Ko Yield: 12 muffins
Total time: 1 hour
Ingredients:
2 to 3 large navel oranges
2 cups/160 grams wheat bran
1/2 cup/70 grams dates, pitted if needed and chopped (see Tip)
1/2 cup/116 grams buttermilk
Nonstick cooking spray or oil, for the pan
3/4 cup/100 grams whole-wheat flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/4 teaspoon fine salt
2 large eggs
1/3 cup/74 grams canola or other neutral-flavored oil
1/3 cup/100 grams molasses (not blackstrap) 1/2 cup/148 grams honey, divided
Preparation:
1. Zest 2 of the oranges into a large bowl. Into a liquid measuring cup, squeeze the juice from 1 orange (reserve the remaining oranges) and add enough water for 3/4 cup total liquid. Pour over the zest. Add the wheat bran, dates and buttermilk, and stir until well mixed, breaking up any clumps of dates. Let the bran soften while you prepare the other ingredients, at least 5 minutes.
2. Heat the oven to 375 degrees. Grease the top of a muffin tin with cooking spray or oil and line the cups with paper or foil liners.
3. Whisk the flour, baking soda and salt in a small bowl.
4. Stir the eggs, oil, molasses and 1/4 cup/74 grams honey into the soaked bran until well blended. Add the flour mixture and stir until no streaks of flour remain. Divide the batter evenly among the muffin cups, which will end up almost full.
5. Bake until domed and a cake tester or toothpick comes out clean but moist, 20 to 25 minutes.
6. While the muffins bake, squeeze 1/2 cup/113 grams juice from the reserved oranges into a small saucepan. Add the remaining 1/4 cup/74 grams honey and bring to a simmer over medium, stirring occasionally. Simmer until thickened to a syrup, 3 to 5 minutes.
7. Let muffins cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then poke about 8 holes in each muffin from top to bottom using the cake tester or toothpick. Gradually brush all of the honey glaze over the tops, letting each addition soak in before brushing on more.
8. Transfer to a wire rack to cool and serve warm or at room temperature. The muffins keep for up to 4 days at room temperature in an airtight container or for up to 2 months in the freezer.
Tip
Any variety of date tastes great here, and it’s best to start with whole ones and chop them yourself. Store-bought chopped dates work, but disappear into the batter after baking. You also can mix in raisins or dried cranberries or a combination instead.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR. MUNICIPIO DE ISABELA
Demandante v.
Adquisición de CASA AMARILLA UBICADA EN LA CALLE VILLANUEVA, ISABELA, PR 00662 CATASTRO NÚM.: 007-008-095-18 IGNACIO MERCADO MIRANDA; “DUEÑOS DESCONOCIDOS”
Demandados
NÚM. CASO: AG2025CV01829. CASO ADMINISTRATIVO: IS-145. SOBRE: EXPROPIACIÓN SUMARIA (IN REM) ART. 4.012A Ley 107-2020. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: IGNACIO MERCADO MIRANDA, y “DUEÑOS DESCONOCIDOS”
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este Tribunal Demanda de expropiación sumaria (IN REM) contra usted, solicitando al Tribunal que conceda la expropiación de la propiedad que se describe a continuación: “Urbana: Solar ubicado en la carretera ciento trece (113), kilómetro cero punto ocho (0.8) interior, del término municipal de Isabela, Puerto Rico, identificado en el plano como “Solar 1”, con una cabida superficial de setecientos noventa y ocho punto cinco mil ciento noventa y dos (798.5192) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con Sucesión Román Aldarondo; al Sur, con Luz Rosaly; al Este, con Luz Rosaly; y al Oeste, con Carretera Municipal.” No consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad. Catastro número 007008-095-18. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuya información se consigna de inmediato:
Lcdo. Héctor J. Cardona Muñiz
R.U.A. Núm. 17209
100 Emilio González Suite 1 Isabela, Puerto Rico, 00662
Tel/Fax: (787) 410-9185 lcdo_cardona@yahoo.com
Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la si-
guiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que de usted no presentar su alegación responsiva a la Demanda 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. Este edicto deberá ser publicado una vez por semana durante tres (3) semanas sucesivas en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, hoy día 3 de MARZO de 2026. SARAHI REYES PEREZ, Secretario. Nilda Torres Acevedo, Sub-secretario. ***
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
MUNICIPIO DE CANÓVANAS
Demandante V. RAFAEL CALZADA MATTA Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CN2025CV00424
(CIVIL 407). Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
JOSEPHINE M RODRÍGUEZ RÍOS JOSEPHINE.RODRIGUEZ@GMAIL. COM. MARCOS RAÚL CORTÉS REYES MCORTESREYES@GMAIL.COM
A: RAFAEL CALZADA MATTA, JOHN DOE, DUEÑOS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O CUALQUIER PERSONA CON ALGÚN POSIBLE INTERÉS.
(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 marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando
usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 7 de ABRIL de 2026.
Notas de la Secretaría: ENMENDADA A LOS FINES DE CUMPLIR CON LA ORDEN DE LA HON. JUEZA GLORIA DE JESUS. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 7 de ABRIL de 2026. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. F/DENISSE MINERVA TORRES RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. YESSENIA GALARZA DONES Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CG2025CV02731. (Salón: 801). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. JEAN PAUL JULIÁ DÍAZJPJULIA@RMMELAW.COM. A: YESSENIA
GALARZA DONES Y LUIS A. PINTOR JR. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a
partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 31 de marzo de 2026. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA PARA INCLUIR AL DEMANDADO, LUIS A. PINTOR JR. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 31 de marzo de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN BASILIA QUIÑONES ORTIZ; ANGEL QUIÑONES ORTIZ
Peticionaria
Civil Número: BY2026CV01289. Salón: 500. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. A: TODA PERSONA QUE TENGA ALGUN DERECHO REAL SOBRE LA PROPIEDAD QUE SE DESCRIBE ABAJO: POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del 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: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Cedro Arriba de Naranjito, Puerto Rico, compuesto de cuarenta y siete mil quinientos noventa y tres metros cuadrados y dos mil quinientos treinta cien milésimas
de otro (47,593.2530 mc) equivalentes a doce cuerdas y mil noventa cien milésimas de otra (12.1090 cda), colindando por el NORTE la Carretera Estatal PR 809; al SUR, con Terrenos de John Doe; al ESTE con la Carretera Estatal PR 809 y al OESTE con terrenos de Juan Hiram Ortiz Alvelo y terrenos del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico.” El abogado de la parte peticionaria es: Maria M Storer Bello, 1353 Avenida Luis Vigoreaux PMB 512, Guaynabo, PR 00966. Email: mstorer@storerlaw.com y teléfono 787-564-4944. Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 23 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, 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 treinta (30) 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 oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 31 de marzo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.
JOSE BARREIRO
SANTOS Y OTROS
Demandante V. LORNA BARREIRO SANTOS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CA2026CV00350 (CIVIL410). Sobre: DIVISION O LIQUIDACION DE LA COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JAVIER SEVILLANO VICENS SOLUTIONS@SEVILLANOLEGAL. ORG
BARREIRO SANTOS (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 31 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 31 de MARZO de 2026. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 31 de MARZO de 2026. KANELLY ZAYAS
ROBLES, SECRETARIA. f/MILLIANIE RIVERA SANCHEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SALINAS SALA SUPERIOR E.M.I. EQUITY MORTGAGE, INC.
Demandante Vs. LAS SUCESIONES DE TANID MARTINEZ RIVERA Y YEMINA RIVERA ARROYO COMPUESTA POR
CATALINO MARTINEZ, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL; MENGANO Y MENGANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LAS SUCESIONES; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados Civil Núm.: SA2025CV00230. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumpli-
miento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SALINAS, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 5 DE MAYO DE 2026, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SALINAS, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: URB. PARQUE GRABRIELA II S-1 CALLE 9 SALINAS, PR 00751 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Predio de terreno denominado como solar uno (1) del bloque “S” en el Plano de Parcelación de la Urbanización Parque Gabriela II, localizada en el Barrio Aguirre del término municipal de Salinas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos trece punto setenta y dos metros cuadrados (313.72 m.c.), equivalentes a cero punto cero ocho cero cuerdas (0.080 cdas.). En lindes por el NORTE, en diecisiete punto ochenta y cuatro (17.84) metros lineales con la calle nueve (9) de la Urbanización; por el SUR, en quince punto cincuenta y siete (15.57) metros lineales con canal de riego de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica; por el ESTE, en veinte punto doce (20.12) metros lineales con el solar S-2 de la Urbanización; y por el OESTE, en dieciséis punto sesenta y dos (16.62) metros lineales con Camino Municipal existente. Enclava en dicha propiedad una casa propia para vivienda, de una planta construida totalmente de hormigón. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 83 del Tomo 295 de Salinas, finca número 13,099, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $90,900.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 12 DE MAYO DE 2026, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $60,600.00.
Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 19 DE MAYO DE 2026, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $45,450.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 8 otorgada en Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de enero de 2017, ante el Notario Jesús A. Ledesma Amador, la cual consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Salinas, finca número 13,099, inscripción 5ta en el Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido contra la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $75,525.64 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de marzo de 2025, más intereses al tipo pactado de 3.75% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además Las Sucesiones de Tanid Martínez Rivera y Yemina Rivera Arroyo adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $9,090.00. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SALINAS durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presen-
tados que sus acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en el Tribunal en Salinas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de abril de 2026. ROLANDO RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #037, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SALINAS.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. ORVILLE J COLLAZO LOPEZ
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00815. 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: ORVILLE J COLLAZO LOPEZ - URB VILLA DEL ROSARIO C11 CALLE C, VEGA BAJA PR 006934501; 1316 CALLE DELTA APT A SAN JUAN PR 00920-5043.
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, Gabriel Ramos Colón 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@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en VEGA BAJA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de febrero de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
JULIA NIEVES
GONZÁLEZ, GLORIA NIEVES ÁLVAREZ, MARÍA TERESA NIEVES FABRICIO, MONSERRATE VEGA NIEVES, ADÁN VEGA NIEVES, REYNALDO VEGA NIEVES
Demandante V. SUSANA NIEVES GONZÁLEZ, ELENA NIEVES GONZÁLEZ, AUDELÍ NIEVES TIRADO T/C/C AUDELÍ NIEVES
JR. Y AUDELÍ NIEVES, EDGARDO NIEVES
T/C/C EDWARD NIEVES
TIRADO Y EDWUARD NIEVES, ELSIE NIEVES, JOHANNA NIEVES
SUAREZ, JOHANA NIEVES ORTEGA T/C/C
JOHANNA NIEVES
ORTEGA, LUZ MIRIAM
NIEVES ORTEGA T/C/C
LUZ MYRIAM NIEVES
ORTEGA, RIVERO NIEVES FABRICIO,
MARÍA TERESA NIEVES
FABRICIO, BENILDE NIEVES FABRICIO, EFRAÍN NIEVES
SANTIAGO, ZULEYKA
NIEVES SANTIAGO, HILDA LÓPEZ NIEVES, FRANKLYN LÓPEZ
NIEVES T/C/C FRANKLIN
LÓPEZ NIEVES, EFRAÍN
LÓPEZ NIEVES, KAREN
MICHELLE LÓPEZ, MELISSA AILEEN LÓPEZ, FRANCISCO NIEVES HERNÁNDEZ, IKMALIA
NIEVES CAMACHO T/C/C
IKMALIA MARGARITA
NIEVES CAMACHO E IKNALYA MARGARITA NIEVES CAMACHO, MARÍA ARTEMYNIA
NIEVES CAMACHO
T/C/C MARÍA ARTEMIA
NIEVES CAMACHO, YASSIRIS MARIE MAHAN NIEVES T/C/C YASSIRIS
MARIE DEEN, YANIN
MARGARITA MAHAN
NIEVES T/C/C YANIN
MARGARITA MAHAN, MIRNA NIEVES RAMOS T/C/C MYRNA NIEVES
RAMOS, FIDEL ELIU NIEVES RAMOS
Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2026CV00862.
Sala: 403. Sobre: SENTENCIA
DECLARATORIA; RATIFICACIÓN DE COMPRAVENTA DE PARTICIPACIÓN HEREDITARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: Susana Nieves González, Elena Nieves González, Audelí Nieves Tirado t/c/c Audelí Nieves Jr. y Audelí Nieves, Edgardo Nieves t/c/c
Edward Nieves Tirado y Edwuard Nieves, Elsie Nieves, Johanna Nieves Suarez, Johana Nieves
Ortega t/c/c Johanna Nieves Ortega, Luz Miriam Nieves Ortega t/c/c Luz
Myriam Nieves Ortega, Rivero Nieves Fabricio, María Teresa Nieves Fabricio, Benilde Nieves Fabricio, Efraín Nieves
Santiago, Zuleyka Nieves
Santiago, Hilda López Nieves, Franklyn López Nieves t/c/c Franklin
López Nieves, Efraín
López Nieves, Karen
Michelle López, Melissa
Aileen López, Francisco
Nieves Hernández, Ikmalia Nieves Camacho t/c/c Ikmalia Margarita
Nieves Camacho e Iknalya Margarita
Nieves Camacho, María Artemynia Nieves
Camacho t/c/c María Artemia Nieves Camacho, Yassiris Marie Mahan
Nieves t/c/c Yassiris Marie Deen, Yanin Margarita Mahan Nieves t/c/c
Yanin Margarita Mahan, Mirna Nieves Ramos t/c/c Myrna Nieves Ramos, Fidel Eliu Nieves Ramos - Direcciones Desconocidas.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y se notifica a la parte Demandada, que la parte Demandante ha presentado ante este Tribunal la Demanda del caso de epígrafe en su contra. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le cite a usted por Edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. La representación legal de la parte Demandante es:
PATRICIA M. MORRIS SÁNCHEZ
RUA NÚM. 23023
GABRIEL A. ROSA CRUZ RUA NÚM. 22685
BUFETE MORRIS ROSA 911 AVE DE DIEGO REPTO. METROPOLITANO
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00921
787-918-8540
bufetemorrisrosa@gmail.com
VANELLIES SANTIAGO RIVERA RÚA NUM. 23104
VSR LEGAL LLC
911 AVE DE DIEGO REPTO. METROPOLITANO
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00921
787-346-0950
lcda.v.santiago@gmail.com
Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), a la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://tribunalelectronico. ramajudicial.pr/sumac2018/signIn.html salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan y enviando copia a las partes demandantes y/o sus abogados: 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 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, hoy 13 de marzo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. YOLANDA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. JOSEFINA CALIXTO CRUZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CG2025CV01520. (Salón: 802). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARICELI PÉREZ GONZÁLEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ GARCIACHAMORRO.COM. A: JOSEFINA CALIXTO CRUZ POR SI Y COMO HEREDERA CONOCIDA DE LA SUCESION DE ARCADIO DOMINGUEZ ROSARIO Y/O DE LA SUCESION DE RAFAELA DOMINGUEZ CALIXTO; FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE ARCADIO DOMINGUEZ ROSARIO Y/O LA SUCESION DE RAFAELA DOMINGUEZ CALIXTO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 31 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 01 de abril de 2026. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 01 de abril de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. GLORIMAR RIVERA RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V. DAVIDE. COLÓN SÁNCHEZ Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: FA2025CV01008. (Salón: 301). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JAIME RUIZ SALDAÑALEGAL@JRSLAWPR.COM. A: DAVID E. COLON SANCHEZ - URB. ALTURAS DE RÍO GRANDE A38 CALLE 1, RIO GRANDE, PR 007453306.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de marzo de 2026. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 30 de marzo de 2026. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. LYDIA E. RIVERA MIRANDA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA
JANET BARRETO
BOSQUES T/C/C
JANET BARRETO REPRESENTADA POR: MIRAIDA ROSA RIVERA
Peticionaria
EX-PARTE
Civil Núm.: AG2026CV00231.
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: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE. POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referida término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. RÚSTICA: sita el en Barrio Capá de Moca, Puerto Rico, con cabida compuesta de a MIL NOVENTA Y SIETE PUNTO SIETE MIL NOVECIENTOS CINCUENTA Y NUEVE (1,097.7959 m/c) METROS CUADRADOS; en lindes al NORTE, con Carretera Estatal Número cuatrocientos veintiuno (421); al SUR, con remanente de la finca principal, o sea Carmen Lorenzo González; al ESTE, con Samuel Bosques y al OESTE, con uso público que da acceso a carretera 421. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lcdo. Nelson D. Soto Cardona, Box 813, San Sebastián, PR 00685. Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 23 DE OCTUBRE DE 2026, A LAS 3:30 DE LA TARDE, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por aboga-
do 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 20 días a contar de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 13 de marzo de 2026. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ARLENE GUZMÁN PABÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE SALÓN DE SESIONES 602 MIGUEL ÁNGEL TORRES BLASINI Demandante Vs MIGUEL TORRES VÁZQUEZ; MARÍA DEL CARMEN TORRES VÁZQUEZ Demandados Exp. Núm.: PO2026CV00364. Sobre: LIQUIDACIÓN DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: MIGUEL TORRES VÁZQUEZ; MARÍA DEL CARMEN TORRES VÁZQUEZ - DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA. Por la presente se le emplaza y se le apercibe de que usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general, por orden del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Ponce. De representarse por derecho propio deberá notificar copia de su alegación a la Lcda. Yolanda Cappas Rodríguez CAPPAS LAW OFFICE
HC 2 BOX 7884 Guayanilla, PR 00656 Tels. (787) 601-5661 / (787) 677-0199
E-mail: cappaslaw@gmail.com ycappas@yahoo.com
Se le apercibe que si dejare de hacerlo se dictará sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Ponce hoy 19 de marzo de 2026. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA
GENERAL. HILDA J. ROSADO
RODRÍGUEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN GERMÁN
LEONEL ANTONIO
SANTOS MADERA
Demandante V. JULISSA
SANABRIA PADILLA
Demandada
Civil Núm.: SG2026RF00023. Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A: JULISSA
SANABRIA PADILLA.
Queda emplazada y se le notificada de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda sobre Divorcio por Ruptura Irreparable en su contra. Se le notifica que debe presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://tribunalelectronico.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Mayagüez y enviando copia a la parte demandante a través Lcdo. José M. Bracete Almodóvar a su dirección postal #18 Calle Estrella, San Germán, P.R. 00683, o su correo electrónico: jmbracete1@gmail.com. Se le emplaza para que presenten al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes de haber sido publicado el edicto de este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de publicación, notificando copia de esta al abogado 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 concede el remido solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
Lcdo. José M. Bracete Almodóvar
RUA 19,038
18 Calle Estrella San Germán, P.R. 00683
Tel. (939) 630-7077
jmbracete1@gmail.com
Expedido bajo mi firma y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 27 de marzo de 2026. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MILITZA LORENZO VEGA, SECRE-
TARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR CARIBE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Parte Demandante Vs. TAYRI YALIZ RODRÍGUEZ DÍAZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2026CV00725. Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: TAYRI YALIZ RODRÍGUEZ DÍAZ.
Queda emplazada y notificada de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda en su contra sobre Cobro de Dinero.
Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.poderjudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, 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 25 de marzo de 2026.
ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs.
CARMEN M RIVERA RIVERA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV09423. (603). 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: CARMEN M RIVERA
RIVERA - URB CAPARRA TERR 1423 CALLE 20 SW SAN JUAN PR 009212122; URB CAPARRA TERR 1520 CALLE 10 SW SAN JUAN PR 009211527.
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, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de enero de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. CARLA RIVERA CLIMENT, SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. ZULEIKA BERRIOS AGOSTO
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2025CV05431.
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: ZULEIKA BERRIOS
AGOSTO - URB SIERRA LINDA K27 CALLE 5, BAYAMON PR 009572141.
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, 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@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 27 de enero de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. THE MORTGAGE HOUSE, INC.; ORIENTAL BANK COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE RG PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO; FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION (FDIC) COMO SÍNDICO DE RG MORTGAGE CORPORATION y DE DORAL BANK; DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION;
DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION T/C/C DORAL MORTGAGE, LLC; ROBERTO ARCE PÉREZ, LISSETTE CORRETJER CARBIA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2026CV00531. (410). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: THE MORTGAGE HOUSE, INC. A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: COUNTRY CLUB, 915 ROBERTO SANCHEZ VILELLA, SAN JUAN, PR, 00924, AVE. MONSERRATE AB-20, VALLE ARRIBA HEIGHTS, CAROLINA, PR 00983, 915 AVE. CAMPO RICO, SAN JUAN, PR, 00924 Y 954 PONCE DE LEON AVE., SUITE 400, SAN JUAN, PR, 00917. FIRST SECURITY MORTGAGE, INC A URB SAN FRANCISCO, 97 AVE DE DIEGO, SAN JUAN, PR 00927-6310, PO BOX 11693, SAN JUAN, PR 00910-2793.
FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ.
Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre cancelación de pagaré extraviado por la vía judicial. El 22 de octubre de 2001, Roberto Arce Pérez y su esposa Lissette Corretjer Carbia constituyeron una hipoteca en San Juan, Puerto Rico, conforme a la Escritura núm. 1,231 autorizada por la notario Georgette M. Rodríguez Figueroa en garantía de un pagaré suscrito bajo testimonio número 3021 por la suma de $173,615.00 a favor de R&G Mortgage Corporation o a su orden, devengando intereses al 7½% anual y vencimiento el 1ro de noviembre de 2031, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villas de Carraízo, en el Barrio Carraízo del Municipio de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de
Inscripción de la Urbanización, con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Número del solar: once del Bloque “R”. Área del solar: 338.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE con los solares 58 y 59, en una distancia de 13.00 metros; por el SUR, con la calle número 48, em una distancia de 13.00 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número 12, en una distancia de 26.00 metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número 10, en una distancia de 26.00 metros. En este solar se ha construido una casa de vivienda para una familia, de bloques y hormigón reforzado. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 11 del tomo 492 de Trujillo Alto, Finca 25,669 Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 13 vuelto del tomo 492 de Trujillo Alto, Finca 25,669 Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. Inscripción quinta (5ta). La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo, PR 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 10 de marzo de 2026, en Carolina, Puerto Rico. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MILLIANIE RIVERA SÁNCHEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. Demandante Vs. AL JETTE, DIANE URSPRUNG JETTE, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2026CV00181. 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: AL JETTE, POR SÍ Y REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES; DIANE URSPRUNG JETTE, POR SÍ Y REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES; SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
Se les notifica a ustedes que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la parte demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. Se les emplaza y se les requiere que notifiquen a la Lcda. Jessica Martínez Birriel, GARRIGA & MARINI LAW OFFICES, C.S.P., P.O. Box 16593, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00908-6593, teléfono (787) 275-0655, correo electrónico: jmartbirr@yahoo. com, con copia de su contestación a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Dentro del mismo periodo de treinta (30) días ustedes deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Si dejaren de contestar podrá anotarse la rebeldía y dictarse contra ustedes sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarles ni oírles. Además, se les 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 interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se les advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de
abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, a tenor con la Orden del Tribunal, hoy día 5 de marzo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SUBSECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. ARIEL RIVERA RODRÍGUEZ, ARIEL RIVERA ZAMBRANA, ÁNGEL LUIS RIVERA ZAMBRANA y DAVID RIVERA ZAMBRANA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AG2025CV02245. (601). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A La Parte Demandada: ÁNGEL LUIS RIVERA ZAMBRANA Y DAVID RIVERA ZAMBRANA A SUS ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES CONOCIDAS E INFORMADAS: COMUNIDAD RURAL CABAN, 350 CALLE 12, AGUADILLA, PR 006036413, 9507 NEVILLE ABBEY DR APT 101, CHARLOTTE, NC 282620168, 8 MOUND ST # 1, QUINCY, MA 02169-5854. Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega se adeuda las siguientes cantidades: $60,719.05 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.125% anual desde el 1ro de junio de 2025 hasta su completo pago, más $488.54 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $6,900.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 350 en el plano de parcelación de
la Comunidad Rural Caban del Barrio Corrales del término municipal de Aguadilla, con una cabida superficial de 0.882 cuerdas, equivalentes a 346.50 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE: con parcela número 349 de la comunidad; por el SUR: con la parcela número 351 de la comunidad; por el ESTE: con la calle número 12 de la comunidad OESTE: con la parcela número 365 de la comunidad. Edificación: Enclava casa con un valor de $13,000.00, según consta de la escritura #8, otorgada en Aguadilla, el 5 de febrero de 1980, ante el notario Héctor E. Miranda Hernández, inscrita al folio 180 vuelto del tomo 239 de Aguadilla, finca 17521, inscripción segunda (2da). Inscrita al folio 180 del tomo 329 de Aguadilla, Finca 17521, Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Aguadilla, Finca 17521, Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla. Inscripción novena (9na). La demandante es la tenedora por endoso, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo PR 00970-3922, Teléfono: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 5 de marzode 2026 en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ARLENE GUZMÁN PABÓN, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante Vs. ADAM CHARLES PARTON, TAMELA FAWN PARTON, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: VB2026CV00205. 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: ADAM CHARLES PARTON, POR SÍ Y REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES; TAMELA FAWN PARTON, POR SÍ Y REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES; SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
Se les notifica a ustedes que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la parte demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. Se les emplaza y se les requiere que notifiquen a la Lcda. Jessica Martínez Birriel, GARRIGA & MARINI LAW OFFICES, C.S.P., P.O. Box 16593, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00908-6593, teléfono (787) 275-0655, correo electrónico: jmartbirr@yahoo. com, con copia de su contestación a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Dentro del mismo periodo de treinta (30) días ustedes deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Si dejaren de contestar podrá anotarse la rebeldía y dictarse contra ustedes sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarles ni oírles. Además, se les 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 conce-
der se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se les advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, a tenor con la Orden del Tribunal, hoy día 13 de marzo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA MUNICIPAL DE MAYAGÜEZ
COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE CABO ROJO
Parte Demandante Vs GABRIEL VEGA SEDA, SU ESPOSA NATASHA LAGUERRE CESANÍ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MZ2025CV01566. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (REGLA 60). EDICTO. A: NATASHA LAGUERRE CESANÍ.
Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. José F. Giraud Mejías, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-2650335, ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamientos y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida. Puede usted obtener más información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente 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 epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy 10 de marzo de 2026. LIC. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA GENERAL, TRI-
BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ. SALIX Y. MÉNDEZ REYES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA VAPR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Demandante V. JOSE NOMAR CRUZ DIAZ
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: TJ2025CV00643. (Civil: 409). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ADELA SURILLO GUTIÉRREZADELA.SURILLO@GMAIL.COM. A: JOSE NOMAR CRUZ DIAZ.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de marzo de 2026. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 30 de marzo de 2026. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. IDA L. FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE AÑASCO
COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE CABO ROJO
Demandante V. PAOLA MARIE
RIVERA APONTE
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: AÑ2025CV00076. (Salón: 0001). Sobre: COBRO
DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
JOSÉ F. GIRAUD MEJÍASJGIRAUD@MCMLAWPR.COM. MARÍA CRISTINA MAYORAL MALDONADOMCM@MCMLAWPR.COM. A: PAOLA MARIE RIVERA APONTE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de marzo de 2026. En Añasco, Puerto Rico, el 30 de marzo de 2026. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. JOELISSE LORENZO PABÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE WANDA IVONNE VEGA
DENDARIARENA, COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS JESUS AQUINO VEGA Y MARIA CARIDAD AQUINO VEGA Y POR SU VIUDO JUAN AQUINO HERNANDEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; JUAN AQUINO HERNANDEZ
Demandados Civil Núm.: SS2019CV00512. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: SUCESION DE WANDA IVONNE VEGA DENDARIARENA, COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS JESUS AQUINO VEGA Y MARIA CARIDAD AQUINO VEGA Y POR SU VIUDO JUAN AQUINO HERNANDEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; JUAN AQUINO HERNANDEZ; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM).
Yo, LUIS A. NIEVES RIVERA, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL #659, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 5 DE MAYO DE 2026 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Sebastián, San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de San Sebastián durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 12 DE MAYO DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 19 DE MAYO DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Sita en el BARRIO POZOS de San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, compuesto de 3.00 cuerdas, igual a 11,791.20 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el Norte, con David Rivera y Carretera No. 497; por el Sur, con faja verde que la separa del Río Sonador; por el Este, con remanente de la finca, o sea, Eustaquia Rivera; y por el Oeste, con Francisco Rivera y José Luis Irizarry. La hipoteca por $100,000.00 se encuentra inscrita al folio 175 vto. del tomo 546 de San Sebastián, inscripción 11ra, 14ta y 17ta; Hipoteca
por $50,000.00 se encuentra inscrita al folio 176 del tomo 546 de San Sebastián, inscripción 13ra y 16ta.; Hipoteca por $150,000.00 inscrita al folio 176vto. del tomo 546 de San Sebastián, inscripción 15ta, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián, finca número 18317. Modificada la hipoteca de $100,000.00 de la inscripción 11ra., en cuanto al interés que será ahora al 10.99% anual, según la escritura número 223, otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el día 17 de abril de 2009, ante el Notario Público Roberto M. García Rodríguez, inscrita al folio 175 del tomo 546 de San Sebastián, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián, finca 18,317, inscripción 14ta. Modificada la hipoteca de $50,000.00 de la inscripción 13ra., en cuanto al vencimiento que será el día 31 de diciembre de 2039 y el interés que será al 11.99% anual, según la escritura número 485, otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de agosto de 2009, ante el Notario Público Roberto M. García Rodríguez, inscrita al folio 175 del tomo 546 de San Sebastián, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián, finca 18,317, inscripción 16ta. Modificada nuevamente la hipoteca de $100,000.00 de la inscripción 11ra., en cuanto al interés que será al 11.99% anual y vencedero el día 31 de diciembre de 2039, según la escritura número 486, otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de agosto de 2009, ante el Notario Público Roberto M. García Rodríguez, inscrita al folio 175 del tomo 546 de San Sebastián, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián, finca 18,317, inscripción 17ma. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Carr.497 Km. 1.2, Bo. Pozas, San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $264,130.31 de principal, intereses al 6.24% anual, desde el día 28 de abril de 2017, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $30,000.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta será la suma de $100,000.00 más $50,000.00 más $150,000.00 para un total de $300,000.00. Si no produjere remate ni adjudicación la primera subasta, en la segunda subasta servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactado en las escrituras de hipoteca, es decir la suma de $66,666.67 más $33,333.33 más $100,000.00 para un total de $200,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta,
regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado, o sea la suma de $50,000.00 más $25,000.00 más $75,000.00 para un total de $150,000.00. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, a 20 de marzo de 2026. LUIS A. NIEVES RIVERA, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL #659, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
RYAN JOHNSTUN DDS PS 401K PSP POR CONDUCTO DE SU FIDUCIARIO EL SR. RYAN JOHNSTUN Demandante V. ATLANTA DISCOUNT
HOME DEALS, LLC
Demandada \Civil Núm.: CA2025CV00233.
PROCEDIMIENTO SOBRE
EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA
POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA.
A: LOS CODEMANDADOS DE EPIGRAFE Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:
El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 23 de junio de 2025, notificada el 24 de junio de 2025; y de un Mandamiento de Ejecución emitido el día 18 de febrero de 2026, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, procederá a vender en subasta, y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, y/o giro postal, dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra bancaria, con similar garantía de todo título, derecho o interés de los demandados de epígrafe sobre el inmueble que adelante se describe. Se anuncia por la presente que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 26 DE MAYO DE 2026, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el #13 del bloque “GC” del plano de inscripción de la tercera Extensión de la Urbanización Country Club, Tercera Etapa, situada en el barrio Sabana Abajo de la municipalidad de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 418.32 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORESTE, en 21.53 metros con la calle #263 de dicha urbanización; por el SUROESTE, en 25.00 metros con el solar #12; por el SURESTE, en 13.05 metros con la calle #201 de dicha urbanización; por el NOROESTE, en 17.06 metros con terrenos propiedad de Nicolás Iturregui; por el ESTE, en 5.46 metros con la intersección de las calles #201 y #263. Todas dichas colindancias con el mismo bloque GC de dicha urbanización. ENCLAVA: Una casa de concreto, de una planta dedicada en vivienda. a. FINCA: Número 3627, inscrita al folio 131 del tomo 99 de Carolina I (Sección I de Carolina). Dirección física: 13 HC (GC-13) 201 St. Country Club Dev., Carolina, PR 00982. El siguiente pagaré consta inscrito en la propiedad antes mencionada y es el que se pretende ejecutar: HIPOTECA: Por $131,400.00, con intereses al 8% anual, para los primeros 6 meses después de la vigencia del pagaré, el prestatario deberá pagar una comi-
sión de compromiso de 2% del monto del préstamo, si no se ha vendido en 65 meses la tasa de interés continuará en 8% y el prestatario pagará intereses solo por el término completo de la nota. Vencimiento: 7 de octubre de 2025. Según escritura #130, otorgada en San Juan, el 7 de octubre de 2020, ante José R. Vélez Marrero, inscrita al tomo Karibe de la Sección I de Carolina, finca 3627 de Carolina, inscripción 16ta y última, con fecha de 11 de noviembre de 2020. La referida hipoteca grava el bien inmueble antes descrito. La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente según sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por las siguientes sumas: $261,810.85 por concepto de principal, más recargos por atraso, más intereses, los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta su completo pago, más una cantidad estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de Carolina, durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá Libre de Cargas y Gravámenes posteriores. Los tipos mínimos a utilizarse para la subasta son los siguientes: El inmueble antes descrito ha sido tasado en la suma de CIENTO TREINTA Y UN MIL CUATROCIENTOS DÓLARES ($131,400.00) para que dicha suma sirva de tipo mínimo en la primera subasta a celebrarse. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 2 DE JUNIO DE 2026, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha segunda subasta, una suma equivalente a las dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de OCHENTA Y SIETE MIL SEISCIENTOS
DÓLARES ($87,600.00) para la finca antes descrita. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 9 DE JUNIO DE 2026, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha tercera subasta, una suma equivalente a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de SESENTA Y CINCO MIL SETECIENTOS DÓLARES ($65,700.00) para la finca antes descrita. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 24 de marzo de 2026, en Carolina, Puerto Rico. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA
RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAROLINA. LEGAL NOTICE
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Demandante Vs. SUCESION AURELIA
MERCADO TORRES
COMPUESTA POR NORMA GUZMAN
MERCADO, ENRIQUE
GUZMAN MERCADO, NILSA GUZMAN
MERCADO, EDGARDO
GUZMAN HERNANDEZ, HECTOR GUZMAN
HERNANDEZ, EDWARD ALEXIS GUZMAN
CAMACHO, EDWARD
RICARDO GUZMAN
RIVERA; JOHN DOE
Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: PO2025CV03518. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO E INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: NILSA GUZMAN
MERCADO; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION AURELIA
MERCADO TORRES. 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. 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. El Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de 2020, dispone: “Transcurridos treinta (30) días desde que se haya producido la delación, cualquier persona interesada puede solicitar al tribunal que le señale al llamado un plazo, para que manifieste si acepta la herencia o si la repudia. Este plazo no excederá de treinta (30) días. El tribunal apercibirá al llamado de que, si transcurrido el plazo señalado no ha manifestado su voluntad de aceptar la herencia o de repudiarla, se dará por aceptada.” Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al Art. 1578, supra, y el caso Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), les ordena que el término de treinta (30) días, hagan declaración aceptado o repudiando la herencia los herederos de la causante AURELIA MERCADO TORRES. Se les apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada.
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Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de marzo de 2026. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. EREINA AGRONT LEÓN, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAMUY HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante Vs. DAVID RODRÍGUEZ
CORTÉS, ELIZABETH ROLDÁN ROBLES, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: CM2026CV00094. 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: DAVID RODRÍGUEZ CORTÉS, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES; ELIZABETH ROLDÁN ROBLES, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES; SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
Se les notifica a ustedes que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la parte demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. Se les emplaza y se les requiere que notifiquen a la Lcda. Jessica Martínez Birriel, GARRIGA & MARINI LAW OFFICES, C.S.P., P.O. Box 16593, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00908-6593, teléfono (787) 275-0655, correo electrónico: jmartbirr@yahoo. com, con copia de su contestación a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Dentro del mismo periodo de treinta (30) días ustedes deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Si dejaren de contestar podrá anotarse la rebeldía y dictarse contra ustedes sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarles ni oírles. Además, se les 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 interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, a tenor con la Orden del Tribunal, hoy día 13 de marzo de 2026. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. JOHANNA GONZÁLEZ VILELLA, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
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Parte Demandante V. JUSRIN CHARLES STOCK Y OTROS
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: HU2026CV00028. 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: JUSTIN CHARLES STOCK; ADRIANNA N. STOCK; LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
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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 17 de marzo de 2026. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. ARSENIA MARTÍNEZ SÁNCHEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. JOSE M RODRIGUEZ CARABALLO
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV09426. (603). 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: JOSE M RODRIGUEZ CARABALLO - COND PARQUE CENTRO 170 AVE ARTERIAL HOSTOS APT K3, SAN JUAN, PR 00918-5043; URB LAS AMERICAS 965 CALLE QUITO SAN JUAN PR 00921-2337.
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, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.
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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, 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@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Comerío, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de febrero de 2026. MAYRA LIZ CABRERA GARCÍA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. GRISEL D. MÁRQUEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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By KEN ROSENTHAL / THE ATHLETIC
If pro baseball is broken, perhaps someone can explain how the team in MLB’s smallest television market is about to guarantee $50.75 million to a former sixth-round pick who has yet to play in the majors and last season had only a .691 on-base plus slugging percentage in Double-A.
Actually, the explanation is simple.
The Milwaukee Brewers believe they will get more than their money’s worth out of shortstop Cooper Pratt, with whom they completed an eight-year contract last Friday, which includes two club options.
Teams award extensions only to players they project will outperform the contracts, producing surplus value. Team owners crave cost certainty, especially near the end of a collective bargaining agreement. And the expiration of the current deal on Dec. 1 provides even more incentive for MLB franchises to lock up young talent.
Among many possibilities, the team owners might try to tempt the players into accepting a salary cap by offering free agency earlier than the current six-year mark. The Seattle Mariners, in the eight-year, $95 million deal they awarded infielder Colt Emerson last week, bought out a minimum of two free-agent years, and as many as three, if they exercise a club option. The additional control will be even more valuable if players in the next agreement can hit the open market sooner.
Even if the collective bargaining agreement remains unchanged, the Mariners will come out ahead if Emerson’s extension proves a bargain, as these deals often do. For every Scott Kingery or Evan White who underperforms his contract — those two players signed six-year, $24 million extensions with three club options in the late 2010s — there are numerous others whose below-market deals saved their teams many millions.
Thus, more extensions are likely in the coming days and months, particularly with so many rookies making significant impacts in the new season.
The Pittsburgh Pirates have been negotiating with shortstop Konnor Griffin, who is currently at Triple-A. St. Louis Cardinals shortstop J.J. Wetherholt, Cincinnati Reds first baseman Sal Stewart, Detroit Tigers shortstop Kevin McGonigle and Cleveland Guardians outfielder Chase DeLauter are among the other logical candidates for long-term deals.
The Kansas City Royals’ Bobby Witt Jr., the Mariners’ Julio Rodríguez and the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Corbin Carroll are among the other players from revenue-sharing recipients to agree to long-term extensions. And while Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal could land a record contract for a pitcher next offseason, no free-agent position player is likely to approach Juan Soto’s 15-year, $765 million deal on the open market any time soon.
For young players, the chance to secure life-changing money often outweighs the upside of going year to year in arbitration and hitting free agency at a younger age. Carroll, who in March 2023 signed an eight-year, $111 million extension with a club option, recalls advice he received from Evan Longoria, who 15 years earlier had signed an extension six days into his career.
The Milwaukee Brewers believe they will get more than their money’s worth out of shortstop Cooper Pratt. (Instagram via mlbtransactionsdaily)
Longoria told Carroll he could now “play free.”
“I don’t regret that decision for a day,” said Carroll, who had only 40 days of service when he agreed to his contract. “This is a hard game for young players, a lot of ups and downs. Just the stability that has provided for me has made those waters easier to navigate.”
Pratt’s agent, Scott Boras, generally prefers clients to establish their values in free agency. He rarely advises players to accept deals with multiple club options. But Pratt agreed to the fifth-largest contract in Brewers history, and more than twice what Kingery and White received in their predebut deals. Not too shabby, considering he has yet to prove he can hit even minor league pitching.
So what were the Brewers thinking?
Again, it’s simple. The Brewers, the three-time defending National League Central champions, are not about to match the spending of the division rival Chicago Cubs, who in the past three months have signed third baseman Alex Bregman, center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong and second baseman Nico Hoerner for a combined $431 million. The Brewers prefer to make smaller bets. The eight-year, $82 million contract they awarded outfielder Jackson Chourio before his debut was one. The Pratt deal is another.
Pratt, who turns 22 in August, has played only three games at Triple-A. Some club officials, however, compare his defense at shortstop to that of their former All-Star at the position, J.J. Hardy. Citing Pratt’s speed, athleticism and aptitude, they figure his offense will come. And even if Pratt proves only a defense-first type, his floor could be $50.75 million. In that sense, he is similar to Crow-Armstrong, an elite defender and developing hitter whose new Cubs deal is worth $115 million.
This isn’t the Brewers’ first commitment to Pratt. They signed him for $1.35 million, more than $1 million above slot, after making him the 182nd overall pick in 2023. The new contract demonstrates even greater faith in him, particu-
larly at a time when another Brewers minor league shortstop, Jesús Made, 18, is one of the game’s top prospects. Made eventually could end up at second base, third or left field.
Seattle’s Emerson, drafted as the No. 22 pick in 2023, is guaranteed $95 million, only $4.4 million less than the new money the Mariners awarded catcher Cal Raleigh last March, when he was three years from free agency and not yet a 60-homer man. Again, hardly the sign of a sport that is broken.
The best part for the Mariners is that Emerson, according to MLB.com, will earn an average of $15 million per season in the final five years of the deal. If teams continue to sign free agents to shorter contracts with high average annual values — see Kyle Tucker for four years at $60 million per season and Bo Bichette at three years at $42 million per — Emerson’s contract might look better and better.
The Mariners and Brewers are open to cutting similar deals with other prospects, according to sources briefed on their strategies. Some of those players will resist, and perhaps they will regret their decisions if their careers go awry. Others will accept, willing to sacrifice tens of potential millions for long-term security. If the next labor agreement includes a salary floor as well as a cap, such extensions are likely to become even more common.
Clubs do not offer such deals haphazardly. In trying to buy low, they know exactly what they are doing.
Point guard Elliot Cadeau led Michigan with 19 points and was named most outstanding player of the Final Four. (Facebook via Elliot Cadeau)
College Basketball
NCAA Division I Final Four
Men At Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis
Saturday’s Semifinals
UConn 71, Illinois 62
Michigan 91, Arizona 73
Monday’s Final
Michigan 69, UConn 63
Women At PHX Arena, Phoenix Friday’s Semifinals
UCLA 51, Texas 44 South Carolina 62, UConn 48
Sunday’s Final
UCLA 79, South Carolina 51
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