Wednesday Feb 25, 2026

PREPA Should Use All of Pension Fee to Augment System Reserves, Retirees’ Leader Says

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Urban planning contest gives Cayey youth a stake in their town’s future

By THE STAR STAFF

The Municipality of Cayey began the week by welcoming students from various public schools who participated in the conference on the Ninth Urban Planning Contest “Urban Park: Sustainable Mobility,” a space designed to encourage youth participation in the development of innovative proposals for the town.

Cayey Mayor Rolando Ortiz Velázquez noted that the event’s welcoming message, delivered at the Municipal Theater by Jessie Gabriel Gutiérrez Cordero, interim director of the Municipal School of Fine Arts, emphasized “the importance of youth actively getting involved in planning and projects that promote collective well-being, environmental sustainability, and a better quality of life for all.”

Gutiérrez Cordero stressed that urban parks “strengthen community life by becoming meeting points for sharing with family and friends.”

Arts in Cayey, said opportunities such as the municipally sponsored Urban Planning Contest “allow young people to express how we would like our city to develop over the years.” (Facebook via Cayey Ciudad Verde)

“They promote physical activity through walking, cycling, sports, and recreational activities, fostering healthy lifestyles,” he said. “They also offer positive alternatives for children and young people, helping to reduce violence and strengthening a sense of belonging and community.”

Regarding how towns face major challenges such as traffic congestion, environmental pollution, traffic accidents, and inefficient use of public space, the mayor highlighted sustainable mobility as an essential component of modern

urban development.

“Given this reality, we are promoting the creation of safe bike lanes, the effective integration of public transportation, the strengthening of pedestrian infrastructure, and the promotion of micromobility, such as the use of bicycles and electric scooters,” Ortiz Velázquez said.

As part of the opening of the event, several young participants from the previous edition of the urban planning competition addressed the audience and shared their experiences. Among them were Yenzen Rodríguez and Fabiola Quiñones, from the Miguel A. Julia Collazo Specialized School of Fine Arts, and Efraín Ortiz, from the Benjamín Harrison Vocational School.

Rodríguez said it was not only rewarding to share his own proposal, but also to learn about those of his fellow competitors.

“This way we can find inspiration, learn about different ideas, and see the opportunities that exist to improve our park,” he said. “It opens minds and allows new initiatives to emerge for our city.”

Quiñones emphasized the importance of the spaces for youth participation.

“I think they are excellent spaces,” she said, while urging other Cayey youth to participate. “They allow young people to express how we would like our city to develop over the years. [...] These kinds of experiences help us imagine, create, and even adopt small projects that can become big changes in the future.”

ACPR annual luncheon to spotlight citizen involvement in public safety

By THE STAR STAFF

As part of its citizen dialogue and education initiatives on health and civic issues, the Citizen Alliance for Puerto Rico (ACPR by its initials in Spanish) will hold its February Lunch Meeting today starting at noon at D’Paellas Restaurant in Hato Rey.

This year’s event will feature a keynote address by prominent Puerto Rican physician and researcher Dr. Fernando Cabanillas, who will present on the topic “Chronic Stress: The Invisible Epidemic of the 21st Century,” addressing, from a scientific and social perspective, one of the main health challenges facing the population today.

In addition, as part of the celebration of Puerto Rico Police Week, the ACPR will give institutional recognition to the Puerto Rico Police Bureau, through its superintendent,

Col. Joseph González, in gratitude for the commendable work that the police perform and for their commitment to residents’ safety and quality of life.

González will deliver a brief presentation titled “How Can We Play a More Proactive Role in Neighborhood Safety?” aimed at fostering a relationship of collaboration, respect and shared responsibility between citizens and law enforcement.

“It is becoming increasingly necessary for citizens to get involved in everything related to our collective well-being and safety, so we urge leaders to participate in initiatives like these,” ACPR President José Varela Fernández said.

The ACPR is a non-profit social action organization made up of leaders from various professional and social sectors, dedicated to promoting constructive dialogue, citizen engagement and the comprehensive development of Puerto Rico.

PREPA should use all of pension fee to augment system reserves, retirees’ leader says

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) charges customers $1.92 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) to fund its Employees Retirement System. However, PREPA only pays out the amount needed each month for its 12,000 pension beneficiaries and keeps the rest, according to Johnny Rodríguez Ortiz, president of PREPA’s Retirees Association.

If PREPA contributed the full amount collected, the retirement system could build up its reserves and reinvest the surplus. Over time, this would strengthen the fund, ensure timely pension payments, and eliminate the constant worry retirees face about receiving the money they need for essentials, Rodríguez said.

He went on to note that PREPA serves 1.4 million customers. “Suppose customers use 1,000 kilowatt-hours; that would generate about $30 million, but on average, we paid out only $24 million in pensions,” he said. “Where is the rest of the money?”

The pension system covers 12,000 beneficiaries, including 2,000 former PREPA employees who now work for other agencies but still contribute to the plan. Currently, PREPA has just 117 active employees, and no new participants are entering the system.

The $1.92 per kWh fee was imposed on all power customers in October as there was no money to pay pensions.

PREPA did not answer requests for comment. Nonetheless, the utility has acknowledged that it uses the fee to cover operational costs.

In the petition PREPA filed before the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau to suspend proceedings aimed at revising basic rates pending the resolution of cases to end the LUMA Energy contract, the utility warned that dismissal of the current case, coupled with the reversion to the prior baseline rate, would result in a discreet and immediate financial triggering event with consequences for the pensions.

“PREPA would experience an immediate and material reduction in available operating liquidity,” the document notes, adding that an “imminent” crisis in funding would be caused by “[t]hat reversion, not the historic pension deficit itself …”

In its request to suspend the rate case, PREPA emphasized the need to safeguard pension payments by implementing a temporary rate while the courts rule on two lawsuits challenging the LUMA contract as void.

PREPA added that if the rates revert to the pre-provisional baseline rate, it would immediately file a petition for relief under Article 6.25 of the Puerto Rico Energy Transformation and Relief Act of 2014, specifically seeking an emergency temporary rate adjustment, since the situation cannot wait for an ordinary process.

Last year, Rodríguez said the Retirees Association proposed having PREPA pay $500 million, divided into annual payments to revitalize the retirement system’s investment plan. He said that would solve two problems: first, the public would not have to keep paying for something they already paid for, and second, “our members would not have to worry about whether they would get paid.”

CRIM doesn’t directly say if it will raise property taxes

By THE STAR STAFF

Municipal Revenue Collections Center (CRIM by its acronym in Spanish) Executive Director Javier García Cintrón outlined several new initiatives Wednesday at the monthly meeting of the Mayors Federation in Gurabo but did not say whether property taxes will be raised.

García Cintrón said the agency is advancing projects aimed at improving property tax records and taxpayer services across Puerto Rico. Among the initiatives is the hiring of appraisers and investigators to help municipalities address so-called “John Doe” cases and update tax records.

As part of the “CRIM in Your Municipality” program, officials will visit towns to provide direct service to taxpayers unable to travel to regional offices. Residents will be able to receive certifications, make payments by card, and request services on the spot by presenting the required documentation, García Cintrón said.

The official also announced two new administrative orders. Order 2026-002 authorizes the retroactive issuance of invoices on previously assessed property improvements, while Order 2026-003 seeks to identify cases where structures are built on land belonging to others but form part of a main property and lack proper title for tax registration.

García Cintrón emphasized that this initiative is solely for tax purposes and does not constitute legal recognition of ownership before other government agencies.

Additionally, CRIM is addressing the Municipal Property Registry for tax purposes and the corresponding exemptions, García Cintrón said.

The primary goal of expanding the registry is to increase revenue for municipalities. CRIM aims to generate additional millions annually by targeting thousands of unregistered properties. While property taxes might rise generally, investors under Act 60 would still benefit from an exemption on real and personal property.

According to the Progress and Poverty Institute, raising property taxes in Puerto Rico, often driven by the CRIM’s efforts to register thousands of properties and stabilize municipal finances, will likely cause a significant social and legal crisis, particularly for residents in informal settlements facing potential displacement. It may increase the cost of living and, if implemented unevenly, accelerate the trend of local residents being priced out of coastal and urban areas by investors, a situation already under scrutiny.

Residents, particularly in popular coastal areas, could face higher housing costs, potentially pricing out long-term locals due to increased property values and tax liabilities. Increased enforcement, such as taxing previously unreg-

Gov’t launches livestock traceability system

Also distributes more than 100 tablets to boost efficiency

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture announced two major initiatives Tuesday aimed at modernizing the island’s agricultural sector, including the rollout of a cattle traceability system and the delivery of more than 100 electronic tablets to agronomists and inspectors.

Public Affairs Secretary Jean Peña Payano and Agriculture Secretary Irving Rodríguez Torres said the moves are part of Gov. Jenniffer González Colón’s push to increase efficiency and transparency across government agencies.

A total of $190,709 has been allocated for the launch of the Rumitrace system, Puerto Rico’s first bovine traceability platform. The funding, facilitated through a collaborative agreement between the Agriculture Department, the Agricultural Development Innovation Fund (FIDA by its acronym in Spanish), and the Beef Industry Promotion Fund, will also support training and educational programs for

livestock producers.

Rumitrace uses ruminal boluses -- inserted electronic devices -- with unique global identification numbers that stay with each animal for life, ensuring secure and permanent identification. The system is designed to automate the registration of births, movements, processing and slaughter, which officials say will reduce errors and boost efficiency throughout the supply chain.

“With this investment, we’re delivering a strategic tool to protect our herds, support local production and raise standards for oversight,” Rodríguez Torres said. “It’s part of our commitment to a modern, data-driven agriculture.”

Rosely Hernández, executive director of the Beef Industry Promotion Fund, said the project would offer permanent and secure identification for cattle, building confidence in local production and deterring livestock theft.

“This is a decisive step for our industry,” Hernández said.

Officials said Rumitrace will also help with inventory management, production planning for meat and milk, and transparency in agricultural incentive programs. Integration with

smart hardware such as reading antennas, handheld readers and electronic scales will allow for real-time data collection on farms and at slaughterhouses.

In addition, the Department of Agriculture began distributing 105 electronic tablets to agronomists, market inspectors, and both state and federal inspectors across its eight regional offices. The move will help digitize processes, speed up inspections, and improve the accuracy of data collection, Rodríguez Torres said.

“We’re bringing technology directly to the field, where it’s needed most,” he said. “These tools will enable our teams to work faster and more precisely, strengthening the support we offer to farmers in every region.”

The Rumitrace system’s automated alerts for unauthorized movement help reduce the millions of dollars lost annually to cattle rustling. The system also ensures farmers can prove

ownership and herd size for insurance and federal claims in the event of a natural disaster.

Both the Rumitrace investment and the tablet distribution are part of the administration’s broader effort to modernize government operations and drive economic development in agriculture, officials said.

House measure would review Education Dept. payments to suppliers

By THE STAR STAFF

District 14 (Arecibo and Hatillo) Rep. Edgar Robles Rivera, who chairs the Consumer Affairs Committee in the island House of Representatives, filed Resolution 628 on Tuesday “to have the [House] Northern Region and Education Committees […] investigate the processes for filing, certifying, and disbursing payments to suppliers providing services to the Department of Education” in the district he represents.

With the filing of the resolution, Robles Rivera said he seeks to guarantee transparency in the use of public funds, as well as protect the continuity of essential services for students.

The legislation proposes examining potential administrative deficiencies, breaches of contract, and failures in the timely disbursement of public funds related to services already rendered by suppliers serving various essential areas of the education system.

The resolution stipulates that legislative

committees must evaluate, among other matters:

• The average number of days between invoice submission, administrative certification, and actual payment disbursement.

• The total number of invoices with due dates exceeding 30, 60, and 90 days.

• The total amount owed and the administrative or budgetary reasons for the delays.

• The existence of monthly contractual limits and their budgetary justification.

• The obligation to have sufficient funds

to cover all contracted services.

• The source of the committed funds, whether state or federal.

“We are taking this important step because it is our responsibility to ensure how public funds are being used,” Robles Rivera said. “We cannot stand idly by while administrative failures jeopardize essential services for our students. What we are asking for here is clarity and accountability. Transparency is not optional, and the continuity of services must be a priority.”

Grounded barge Defiant moves 30 feet after refloating attempt

By THE STAR STAFF

The U.S. Coast Guard reported Tuesday that a tugboat attempted to refloat the barge Defiant at high tide early in the morning and moved it nearly 30 feet from its original grounding position.

“In close coordination with our partners, we made gradual and positive progress in removing the barge,” Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Ray López said in a written statement.

“The vessel moved approximately 30 feet, and in the next operational window, we expect an increase in swell to assist in refloating,” he added. “Our priority is to safely remove the barge without risk of further damage to the environment or the waterway.”

The Coast Guard said the response personnel and salvage teams would meet during the day to reassess the plan and make adjustments before a second tugboat-assisted refloating attempt during the next high tide today.

The U.S. Coast Guard said response personnel and salvage teams would meet Tuesday to reassess the plan for freeing the still-grounded fuel barge Defiant and make adjustments before a second tugboat-assisted refloating attempt during the next high tide today.

Supreme Court considers fate of docks and other assets seized by Cuba in 1960

By ANN E. MARIMOW

More than 60 years ago, Fidel Castro rose to power in Cuba and began confiscating the assets of all American-owned businesses, including the Havana Docks Co.. The port business was seized at gunpoint by revolutionaries and never compensated for its lost property.

But a change in policy during the first Trump administration allowed the company to sue major cruise lines for parking ships at the docks and bringing nearly a million people to Havana after rules were loosened in 2016 to allow tourism to the island. Filed in 2019, the case, and another involving similar claims from Exxon Mobil over its confiscated oil and gas assets, were heard Monday by the Supreme Court.

The cases land at a fraught time for U.S.-Cuba relations. The Trump administration has ratcheted up political and economic pressure on the communist country by crippling its tourism industry and cutting off access to fuel shipments.

The two cases involve discrete, narrow legal questions about the extent to which thousands of Americans can get compensation in U.S. courts from the entities that currently hold or profit from property taken by the Cuban government. But if the Supreme Court sides with the companies, it could also give the administration more leverage over Cuba.

“President Trump will be listening for the outcome,” said John S. Kavulich, president of the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council. A ruling that clears the way for the lawsuits, he added, could lead to less investment in the island and put “pressure on Cuba to make the changes Trump wants.”

During a lively discussion, the justices waded into contentious questions of presidential power and diplomatic relations with Cuba over the decades.

But after three hours, it was not entirely clear how the justices would resolve the distinct issues presented in the cases. Justices from across the ideological spectrum seemed sympathetic to Havana Docks’ claims that the company should be able to move forward with its lawsuit against the cruise lines.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who is often in the majority, referred to the seized assets as “kryptonite” and essentially off-limits for commercial use until the company has been compensated by the Cuban government. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson agreed, calling the argument “pretty straightforward.”

Justice Department lawyers filed briefs in support of the port business and Exxon, telling the court that the suits, first authorized by Congress in the 1990s, have become an important foreign-policy tool for discouraging investment in Cuba.

The lawsuits “deter private actors from collaborating with that government to exploit expropriated property, deprive the Cuban government of funds that undermine the United States’ long-standing embargo of Cuba, and increase economic pressure to achieve democratic reforms in Cuba,” wrote D. John Sauer, the solicitor general.

The cruise industry says it acted lawfully and was following the lead of the Obama administration, which encouraged travel to Cuba during a brief period of renewed diplomatic relations starting in 2016. Cruise itineraries for Havana included visits to Ernest Hemingway’s home outside the city and outings to

see dance performances. President Barack Obama declared the tours an opportunity for Americans to appreciate “the incredible history and culture of the Cuban people.”

A decade later, the Trump administration has taken a different tack, announcing tariffs against any country that sends oil to Cuba, stifling tourism and announcing that the communist government is “going down for the count.”

Before the Cuban revolution, American companies owned or controlled 90% of the island’s electricity generation, its telephone system, much of its mining industry, sugarcane fields, and many oil refineries and warehouses. Most confiscated assets were transferred to state-owned companies controlled by the government.

After the seizures, American investors filed claims with the U.S. government through the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, an agency at the Department of Justice. In 1971, the commission certified Havana Docks’ claim of $9.1 million, or nearly $100 million adjusted for inflation, which remains unpaid. In total, the commission certified $1.9 billion in claims held by almost 6,000 claimants or about $9.3 billion in current value, according to the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council.

In 1996, Congress tightened the U.S. trade embargo after Cuban fighter jets shot down two planes flown by members of the Cuban exile group Brothers to the Rescue. Three U.S. citizens and one permanent resident were killed.

The Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act, also known as the Helms-Burton law, also included language declaring that resolution of the property claims should be a key condition for restoring economic and diplomatic ties with Cuba.

It included a provision at issue in Monday’s court cases that provided a path for Americans to sue in federal court over the “trafficking” or use of assets seized by the Cuban government. Known as Title III, it also gave presidents an on-off switch to suspend or activate the litigation stipulations, which were politically and diplomatically controversial.

Until 2019, presidents of both parties had suspended that provision. The Trump administration chose to activate it, opening the door to the lawsuits. The decision came despite an intensive lobbying effort by Carnival Corp. and a team that included Pam Bondi, then a lobbyist who had just finished her second term as Florida’s attorney general and had developed a close relationship with Trump. European officials also objected, arguing that the move would harm their businesses.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio reaffirmed the administration’s commitment to allowing such lawsuits early last year.

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Tasa mínima, promedio ponderado, y máxima para préstamos personales pequeños otorgados para la semana que terminó el sábado, 21 de febrero de 2026

Power outages remain in New England after record snowfall

By JACEY FORTIN and ANDY NEWMAN

Ablizzard that buried much of the Northeast and New England left a heavy blanket over the region Tuesday, as well as lingering dangers and difficulties — including a quarter million households without power.

Trees and electricity lines throughout the regions were down, and the snowy streets made it difficult for repair crews to move quickly.

Much of eastern Massachusetts was still dark — and cold. According to data compiled by the state’s emergency management agency, nearly 250,000 utility customers did not have power as of Tuesday afternoon. That included a majority of the households on Cape Cod.

Gov. Maura Healey of Massachusetts, who implored people Monday to stay home to allow snowplows to clear the roads and enable line crews to restore power, lifted a formal travel ban at noon Tuesday, but she asked people to remain at home if possible.

Shoveling snow outside of a laundromat in Queens, on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026. The powerful winter storm pummeling a vast swath of the Eastern Seaboard left a heavy blanket over the region Tuesday, dumping snow at a furious rate and strangling major metropolitan areas at the dawn of the workweek. (José A. Alvarado/The New York Times)

“We know that there are still many households without power,” Healey said in a statement Tuesday, “and the utilities are working hard to assess damage and restore power as quickly and safely as possible.”

About 3 feet of snow fell on parts of Rhode Island over Sunday and Monday, including in Providence, the capital,

where city plows were knocked out of commission for several hours. In Massachusetts, hundreds of vehicles were stranded on icy roads.

“This appears to be the most historic blizzard we’ve received,” said Josh Estrella, a spokesperson for the city of Providence.

The heaviest snowfall reported by the National Weather

Service during the blizzard was at T.F. Green International Airport in Warwick, Rhode Island, where a spotter measured 37.9 inches.

The wet snow and strong winds snapped tree limbs and bedeviled battalions of shovelers. At the storm’s peak, well over half a million homes and businesses in the Northeast were without power, including nearly 300,000 in Massachusetts and about 100,000 in New Jersey, according to PowerOutage. us, which tracks outages.

Boston residents had hunkered down well, Michelle Wu, the city’s mayor, said Monday evening, noting that there were “fewer EMS and fire calls than usual.” But city officials warned that the streets could take a long time to clean up, especially since more snow was expected Wednesday.

In New York City, nearly 20 inches of snow fell in Central Park — the ninth-highest total on record. On Tuesday morning, work crews cleared streets under blue skies, and public schools reopened. Mass transit in the region, which was drastically curtailed during the blizzard, was slowly getting back on track. Thousands of flights were canceled because of the storm, and the ripple effect will be felt for days. But major U.S. airlines said Tuesday that they would add flights at airports across the Northeast to speed up operations and make up for the cancellations.

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS

Television news anchor Savannah Guthrie said Tuesday that her family is offering up to $1 million for information that leads to finding her mother, Nancy, who was abducted from her home more than three weeks ago.

Guthrie, a “Today” show host, made the new offer in a four-minute video posted on Instagram in which she acknowledged that her 84-year-old mother may already be dead, but said the family was holding out hope for a miracle. If Nancy Guthrie has died, she said, the family still needs to know where she is.

The family is also donating $500,000 to the National

Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a nonprofit group that works to find missing children and stop children from being sexually exploited.

The reward of $1 million is in addition to a current FBI reward of $100,000, and both would be paid to anyone offering information that leads to locating Guthrie. There is also a $100,000 reward being offered by a Tucson, Arizona-based crime hotline.

“If you’ve been waiting and you haven’t been sure, let this be your sign to please come forward,” Guthrie said. “Tell what you know, and help us bring our beloved mom home, so that we can either celebrate a glorious, miraculous homecoming, or celebrate the beautiful, brave and courageous and noble life that she has lived.”

The family’s reward will be paid “only for recovery of Nancy Guthrie,” consistent with the FBI’s own criteria, Savannah Guthrie said in the caption of her Instagram post. The FBI has said its reward is for information “leading to the location” of Guthrie or the conviction of anyone involved in her abduction.

Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her home just north of Tucson early in the morning on Feb. 1 — “taken in the dark of night from her bed,” Savannah Guthrie said in her newly posted video.

The FBI and local sheriff’s department have received tens of thousands of tips, but have offered few clues about who might have taken her. The key evidence so far has been 44

seconds of footage from Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell camera that showed a masked, armed man approaching her door shortly before her abduction.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department publicly ruled out Guthrie’s family — including Nancy Guthrie’s children and their spouses — as suspects last week. Hundreds of investigators from the department and the FBI are assigned to the case, authorities have said.

Savannah Guthrie’s video Tuesday was the first time in more than a week that she had spoken publicly. She and her siblings had released several other videos early in the investigation, offering to negotiate a ransom payment to any abductor.

Since then, however, there has been little discussion from authorities or the family about any purported ransom demands. Over the past two weeks, the focus of investigators and the family appears to have turned to trying to generate tips.

In her video Tuesday, Guthrie said she also hoped that people would give their attention to other cases of missing people who are not tied to celebrities like her.

“We are hoping that the attention that has been given to our mom and our family will extend to all the families like ours, who are in need,” she said.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which is headquartered in Virginia, said on social media that it was grateful to the Guthrie family “for turning their personal heartbreak into a commitment to helping others.”

What trafficked girls think of Epstein

By NICHOLAS KRISTOF

As the world follows the drip-drip of sensational revelations about Jeffrey Epstein, here’s a number to ponder: Last year the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children received more than 113,000 reports of child sex trafficking.

Yiota Souras, the center’s chief legal officer, says that while no one knows the actual number of children trafficked annually in the United States alone, “the real number is absolutely higher” than that. Most of the victims reported to her organization are 15, 16 or 17, she said, but some are as young as 11 or 12.

“This is happening in every community, in every city and state,” she added.

I’ve been speaking in the past few days with survivors of sex trafficking and those who work with them, and they’re thrilled that the Epstein files are bringing more attention to trafficking. But they’re also frustrated that the focus has been tightly on Epstein and his circle — and not on the victims or on the way we as a society enable the abuse.

We rightly condemn powerful associates of Epstein’s for their indifference to young girls being sexually assaulted. But collectively we show the same indifference, in a way that I fear leaves us complicit.

“If you told me 20 years ago that the word ‘trafficking’ and the concept of it would be on the nightly news every single night and be the national obsession, I wouldn’t have believed you,” Rachel Lloyd, who was trafficked as a teenager and once was

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of the trafficked girls helped by GEMS have been in foster care. There are no reliable numbers, but after decades of reporting on trafficking, I find it plausible that a girl in foster care is more likely to be trafficked than she is to graduate from college.

nearly strangled to death by her pimp, told me. “But it’s bizarre to me that we’re having a national conversation about trafficking and yet it hasn’t made any difference.”

Lloyd, who now runs GEMS, an outstanding program for trafficked young women and girls, said of the increased attention: “It’s not elevating the lives of my young women. It’s not shining a light on their vulnerabilities and the things that they go through or the gaps in the systems. It’s not doing any of that.”

It’s terrific to see the scrutiny of Epstein’s world, and I hope that there’ll be investigations of allegations made against President Donald Trump and many others, even as we acknowledge that, for now, they are lacking in evidence. If Britain can arrest the former Prince Andrew and Norway can charge a former prime minister, how is it that the United States has barely taken action?

Lloyd says she is not surprised that Epstein’s friends appear to have gotten away with raping children: In her experience and that of the girls she has worked with, she said, predators almost always get away with their abuse.

Why is there so little accountability? In part, it’s that when we see girls who have been trafficked, they’re not chained in dungeons or being held at gunpoint. Rather, they’re often wearing provocative clothes and seeking customers, so we assume that this is their choice and move on.

Yet remember that the average age of minors who are trafficked, one study found, is 15. Most are runaways, and often these kids have good reasons to flee their homes.

“You can’t just look at someone and say, ‘Oh, she must be promiscuous,’” Tiffany Simpson told me, and she should know, for she has felt those stares and endured the stigma.

Simpson grew up in a chaotic household: She said that her dad was in prison for murder, her mom wrestled with alcoholism and a relative sexually assaulted her. So she ran away from home at 16 — and into the arms of a pimp who exploited her. That’s often what happens, and usually the only people looking for hungry, scared runaways at bus stations are not social workers but pimps.

The police and prosecutors often have other priorities. I once visited, in Boston, the frightened parents of a 15-year-old ninth grader who had run away from home three months earlier; they were frantic, but the police had been unhelpful. I pulled out my laptop in their dining room, and in two minutes I found an ad online for a “mixed Latina catering to your needs,” with photos of a seminude girl.

The mother screamed. It was her daughter.

I passed on the ad and the pimp’s phone number to the Boston police, and they raided the hotel in New Hampshire where the pimp was keeping the girl. She testified against him, and he went to prison, but this should have happened much earlier.

If we actually want to help prevent the next Jeffrey Epstein, there are several things we could do.

For starters, we could try to improve the broken foster care system. Although there are plenty of outstanding foster parents, foster care as a whole is a national scandal. Only about 4% of foster youth end up earning a bachelor’s degree, and four-fifths

We should also create accountability, by aggressively prosecuting traffickers. Instead, I fear that we’re retreating: There has been little outcry as Trump has diverted federal law enforcement officers from catching child predators so the officers could take part in his immigration crackdown. As a result, this may be a good time to be a trafficker.

Accountability means prosecuting not only traffickers but also anyone who buys sex from a child, with no excuse along the lines of “I thought she was older.” Right now there is virtually zero prospect that someone who pays for sex with a minor will be arrested. But if customers feared paying for sex with kids, the business model would collapse and pimps wouldn’t bother to traffic children.

Why doesn’t that happen? Police and prosecutors sometimes don’t have much empathy for the girls — who, in fairness, may curse their would-be rescuers — while the johns may include respected businessmen, teachers and officials. Most communities don’t have the stomach to arrest people like that.

And that’s not on Epstein or his associates. That’s on us.

“The main monster is that our social system fails our most vulnerable girls,” said Andrea Powell, who has worked with survivors of sex trafficking for more than 20 years and now leads a group called the June Coalition.

“We are losing the plot with the Epstein files,” Powell added. “We can’t just look at the abusers. We have to look at the society that enables them.” Contact Nicholas Kristof at Facebook.com/Kristof, Twitter. com/NickKristof or by mail at The New York Times, 620 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10018.

Federación de Alcaldes exige nombramiento de director regional de la AAA para la zona metro

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GURABO – El presidente de la Federación de Alcaldes, Gabriel Hernández Rodríguez, informó el martes que el gremio solicitó al presidente ejecutivo de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados la designación de un director regional para la zona metropolitana.

“Fue una reunión exitosa con una asistencia mayoritaria y muchos reclamos de los alcaldes. Principalmente, con las carreteras porque este cuatrienio ningún municipio ha firmado un acuerdo con la agencia sobre la repavimentación de carreteras estatales”, dijo Hernández Rodríguez en declaraciones a la prensa.

“Así que pedimos a la gerencia que atienda esto con prioridad porque es un asunto muy importante

para los gobiernos municipales. Solamente hemos firmado acuerdos para mantenimiento de áreas verdes”,

añadió el también alcalde de Camuy.

Hernández Rodríguez indicó que la Federación, que representa a 31 gobiernos municipales, respaldó la posición del alcalde de San Juan, Miguel Romero, en cuanto a la situación del servicio de agua en la región metropolitana.

Señaló que solicitaron la designación de un director regional en la zona metro para dar estabilidad al equipo operacional y garantizar el servicio. Añadió que, por el momento, no pedirá la renuncia del titular de la corporación pública, pero evaluará su desempeño si no ejecuta las solicitudes de los alcaldes. Por otro lado, confirmó que el secretario del Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas, Edwin González Montalvo, no acudió a la reunión porque fue citado de emergencia a La Fortaleza.

Presidente AAA afirma el 99 por ciento tiene suministro de agua potable

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– El presidente de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados, Luis González Delgado afirmó el martes que no existe una crisis de agua potable en el país y aseguró que el servicio en San Juan estaba restablecido en 99.9 por ciento.

“Pues mira, es que ahora mismo no hay crisis. ¿Quién cree que no hay crisis? Ahora mismo todo el mundo está con agua. O sea, en este momento la gente está con agua”, dijo González Delgado a preguntas de la prensa.

“Hoy por la mañana se levantó el 99.9% el servicio en área de San Juan. En los reportes iniciales de

esta mañana con nuestro equipo de operaciones de San Juan, nos indicaban que en la parte de Santurce había agua y había presión”, añadió.

El funcionario sostuvo que conforme a los informes operacionales recibidos en la mañana, muchos de los sectores señalados como afectados contaban con servicio. Indicó que la corporación valida cada reporte ciudadano para confirmar si existe o no interrupción en la red.

Sobre la alegada falta de mantenimiento en la infraestructura, expresó que desde 2014 la Autoridad perdió acceso a los mercados de bonos, lo que limitó los trabajos de mantenimiento. Señaló que ahora, con fondos federales de la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de

Emergencias y otros programas, se impulsan mejoras en plantas y sistemas, aunque reconoció una acumulación de trabajos pendientes.

Casos de influenza se mantienen por debajo del umbral epidémico por segunda semana

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SAN JUAN – El secretario del Departamento de Salud, Víctor Ramos Otero, informó el martes que en la Semana Epidemiológica 6 se reportaron 2,070 casos nuevos de influenza, para un total acumulado de 52,713 en la temporada 2025-2026.

“El comportamiento actual de la influenza demuestra que una respuesta oportuna, articulada y basada en evidencia científica tiene resultados”, dijo Ramos Otero en declaraciones escritas.

“Desde la declaración de epidemia, hemos fortalecido la vigilancia epidemiológica, ampliado el acceso a la inmunización y coordinado esfuerzos con el sistema hospitalario, el sector educativo y otras agencias. Esta

reducción sostenida refleja el impacto de una gestión técnica responsable y del compromiso del pueblo con las medidas de prevención”, añadió.

Según el informe, por segunda semana consecutiva los casos se mantienen por debajo del umbral epidémico y del promedio histórico. Durante esta semana, las regiones de Caguas y Bayamón registraron la mayor cantidad de casos.

La principal oficial de epidemiología, Miriam Ramos Colón, indicó que “aunque estamos por debajo del umbral epidémico, el virus sigue circulando, por lo que debemos continuar las estrategias de prevención para disminuir al máximo el número de contagios”.

Ramos Colón señaló que la tendencia es favorable, pero requiere consistencia en las medidas preventivas y

en la protección de las poblaciones vulnerables. Informó que el 47.8 por ciento de los casos acumulados corresponde a personas de 0 a 19 años y que se han identificado 23 brotes asociados a instituciones educativas.

A la fecha se han administrado 420,172 dosis contra la influenza, lo que representa 73,008 dosis más que en el mismo periodo de la temporada anterior. El Registro Demográfico elevó a 162 el total acumulado de muertes asociadas a influenza durante la temporada.

Del total de defunciones, el 95.1 por ciento no tenía registro de inmunización y el 77.8 por ciento corresponde a personas mayores de 70 años. La principal oficial médico, Iris Cardona, expresó que “la identificación temprana y la consulta oportuna con un proveedor de salud pueden reducir complicaciones graves”.

BAFTAs 2026: ‘One Battle After Another’ wins best film

By ALEX MARSHALL

“One Battle After Another” won the best film honors at this year’s EE British Academy Film Awards on Sunday at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

The movie, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Teyana Taylor, took home six awards at Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars, commonly known as the BAFTAs. Its awards included best director, best adapted screenplay and best supporting actor for Sean Penn.

In securing the main award, “One Battle After Another” beat “Sinners,” “Hamnet,” “Marty Supreme “ and “Sentimental Value.”

Director Paul Thomas Anderson, accepting the best film prize, had a few choice words for anybody who claims movies aren’t good anymore. He then called for the audience to join him “at the bar.”

Many movie fans viewed this year’s awards season as a face-off between “One Battle After Another” and “Sinners.” Anderson’s caper secured 14 nominations for this year’s BAFTAs, one more than “Sinners,” Ryan Coogler’s vampire movie.

But for the Oscars, “Sinners” has a record-breaking 16 nominations, three more than “One Battle After Another.”

As well as winning best film Sunday, “One Battle After Another” won best picture, musical or comedy, at last month’s Golden Globes and the main prizes at the Critic’s Choice and Directors Guild of America awards, too.

The movie’s BAFTA victories will increase it momentum running into this year’s Academy Awards, scheduled for March 15.

Sunday, “Sinners” won three awards including best supporting actress for Wunmi Mosaku and best original screenplay. Accepting that award, Coogler, the film’s writer and director, had a message for struggling screenwriters. “When you look at that blank page,” he said, “think of who you love, think of anybody you see in pain, that you identify with and

wish they felt better, and let that love motivate you.”

In the best director category, Anderson beat Coogler (“Sinners”), Chloé Zhao (“Hamnet”), Joachim Trier (“Sentimental Value”), Josh Safdie (“Marty Supreme”) and Yorgos Lanthimos (“Bugonia”).

In the night’s only shock, the leading actor prize went to Robert Aramayo, the British star of “I Swear,” a movie about an activist with Tourette’s syndrome. “I Swear” is scheduled for a spring release in the United States and Aramayo is perhaps best known to American audiences for roles in “Game of Thrones” and Amazon’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.”

Aramayo looked stunned as he ran onstage, realizing he had beaten DiCaprio (“One Battle After Another”), Timothée Chalamet (“Marty Supreme”), Michael B. Jordan (“Sinners”), Ethan Hawke (“Blue Moon”) and Jesse Plemons (“Bugonia”). “Absolute madness,” Aramayo said, then addressed his fellow nominees in the audience. “I can’t believe that I’m looking at people like you, and I’m in the same category as you, never mind that I’m stood here.”

The leading actress category had a more predictable winner: Jessie Buckley for her part as Shakespeare’s wife in “Hamnet.” Buckley, who also won best actress in a drama at

this year’s Golden Globes, bested Emma Stone (“Bugonia”), Renate Reinsve (“Sentimental Value”), Kate Hudson (“Song Sung Blue”), Rose Byrne (“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”) and Chase Infiniti (“One Battle After Another”).

Buckley dedicated her prize to “the women past, present and future that have taught me and continue to teach me how to do it differently,” then named several other female actors at the ceremony, before shouting to the audience to help her name anyone she had forgotten.

This year’s BAFTAs contained some unusual moments, including when Paddington Bear — well, the performers who portray him in a West End musical — presented the award for best children’s and family film to “Boong,” an Indian coming-of-age movie. The child-size bear struggled to open the envelope containing the announcement. “It’s not easy with paws,” he said, then stood to the side as Lakshmipriya Devi, the director of “Boong,” gave a serious speech about ethnic conflict in India.

The event also played out to shouts and involuntary vocalizations from John Davidson, the British Tourette’s campaigner whose life story is the basis for “I Swear.” At several points Alan Cumming, the host, apologized to TV viewers for curse words from Davidson, but also thanked everyone watching for understanding the condition.

Prince William, the heir to the British throne, was also in the audience despite the arrest this week of his uncle, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, over allegations that he shared government information with Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender. William is president of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the nonprofit behind the BAFTAs, and so regularly attends the ceremony.

Before the ceremony, William spoke to British royal reporters about some of the nominated movies, admitting that he had not yet watched “Hamnet,” a movie about Shakespeare’s family and grief, because he needed to be in a calm state to do so. He added that his wife, Princess Catherine, had seen it this week and was left “in floods of tears,” according to The Daily Mail.

‘Billy Preston’ review: A unique and tortured talent

By GLENN KENNY

At one point in this film about protean musician Billy Preston, drummer and producer Bill Maxwell says, “Billy didn’t just have perfect pitch, he had perfect anticipation.” Meaning Preston could play a tune through with the other musicians after hearing only a few chords. And “Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It,” a sometimes mindblowing documentary directed by Paris Barclay, doesn’t ask you to take Maxwell’s word for it. The movie has abundant archival footage of the musician, who died in 2006, walking into a studio, settling in at a keyboard and running through a song he’s never heard before and doesn’t have the sheet music for — flawlessly and soulfully.

One such assemblage of musicians was, of course, the Beatles. Seen here, the Fab Four are notably glum as they try to piece together “Get Back.” Then Preston walks in. He’s more than welcome in the studio — they all met when they were practically kids, on the punishing club circuit in Hamburg, Germany. John Lennon peps up visibly; Preston’s now the stick that stirs the drink. There’s a reason the group decided to credit the song to “The Beatles with Billy Preston.”

The movie tracks Preston from his days as a church child prodigy and then secret weapon for the likes of the Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand and others. His hit-making solo career (“Nothing From Nothing” is just one Preston classic; he also co-wrote “You Are So Beautiful”) brought him fame and money, and money brought him access to cocaine, and that

brought trouble.

Preston was also gay, and he struggled with that all his life — in a heartbreaking scene, his last manager, Joyce Moore, tells of how Preston came out during a rehab group therapy session, four days before he went into a coma and then died. “He was never going to have to look over his shoulder again,” she says. The other testimonials, including one from his frequent collaborator Eric Clapton wondering aloud whether he could have been more helpful to Preston’s sobriety, are moving and vivid. But as tough a life as Preston had, the music that buoys this chronicle is a constant source of joy.

‘Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It’ Not rated. Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes. In theaters.

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S&P 500 poised to gain 10% by year-end, but trade, AI disruption concerns persist

The S&P 500 stock index will gain about 10% between ⁠now ⁠and the end of the year, driven by ⁠strong earnings and steady economic growth despite ongoing worries about U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade policies and disruption from artificial intelligence, according to a Reuters poll.

By the end of 2026, the S&P 500 will be around 7,500, or 9.7% above Monday’s close, according to the median estimate of 44 strategists, analysts and portfolio managers polled in the past week. The index ended Monday at 6,837.75.

The forecast is slightly higher than the target in a Reuters November poll.

If the S&P ends 2026 ⁠higher it would ⁠mark a fourth straight year of gains.

“It’s very difficult right now to point to where there’s a lot of weakness,” said Sameer Samana, senior global market strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute. The company’s forecast for 7,500 by year-end is based on upbeat U.S. earnings and economic expectations, he said.

Among risks, Samana said, is a “lingering concern around inflation, and what that means for the Fed.”

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady last month, citing diminished risks to both inflation and employment. Traders have been pricing in a rate cut of at least one-quarter of a percentage ⁠point by ⁠around mid-year.

Nine of 13 respondents to ⁠an extra question in the poll said an S&P 500 correction in the next three months was likely.

Marc Dizard, chief investment officer at Huntington Wealth Management, said a correction would be “healthy,” as he still expects ⁠the market to end the year at 7,650, about a 12% gain from current levels.

The S&P 500’s price-to-earnings ratio is currently 21.6 times forward earnings, slightly down from 22.5 at the start of the year, based on LSEG data.

After a strong 2025 that saw the S&P 500 gain about 16%, the market has meandered through the first two months of 2026. Investors have been quick to offload stocks they see as vulnerable to disruption from artificial intelligence tools, particularly software ⁠shares, which have lost roughly 23% since December 31.

Robert Pavlik, senior portfolio manager at Dakota Wealth Management in Fairfield, Connecticut, ⁠sees AI-related stocks “remaining out of favor for the majority of the year.”

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But, he wrote, “that out-of-favor view will eventually lead participants back to the ‘fold’ as investors start to see these AI names as having gotten ‘cheaper.’” Technology is still expected to lead earnings gains, with analysts expecting 33% growth in 2026. S&P 500 earnings growth is expected to come in at 14.8% compared with 14.4% for 2025, according to LSEG.

“Overall, technology should be a profitable sector and that offers some support even though there’s some near-term volatility,” said Anthony Saglimbene, chief market strategist at Ameriprise Financial in Troy, Michigan.

Trump’s recent statements on trade policy also create uncertainty, strategists said.

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Iranians brace for war beneath veneer of normalcy

By ERIKA SOLOMON and FARNAZ FASSIHI

For days, the fate of roughly 90 million Iranians has appeared to swing between war and peace as U.S. and Iranian officials traded threats of attack and calls for diplomacy.

With negotiators from both sides set for indirect talks in Geneva on Thursday — seen as the last chance to reach a deal that can avert war — some Iranians are packing emergency bags, buying backup generators and making plans to escape to rural areas or flee the country altogether.

Others have resigned themselves to watch and wait, believing they have little sense of what is to come, and little means left to prepare.

And some, like Sara, a chemist in Tehran, feel too paralyzed by anxiety to act.

“I’m going crazy,” she said in a telephone interview. “I wish whatever is supposed to happen would happen so we could get out of this limbo.”

Like all Iranians who spoke to The New York Times, Sara asked to be identified by only her first name, out of fear of retaliation from authorities.

A 53-year-old mother of two, she said she was struggling to decide whether it was too soon to remove her daughter from school and begin evacuating her elderly relatives. If war were to break out, she said, the roads out of Tehran would quickly choke up with traffic.

Many Iranians already had a taste of such an arduous experience in June during the country’s 12-day war with Israel, when millions fled the capital to the Caspian Sea and the mountainous countryside outside the city. A journey that would normally take four hours took many of them almost a day to complete.

Despite this, the Iranian government has shown little in the way of contingency planning. Last week, Tehran’s mayor, Alireza Zakani, told news outlets that metro stations and underground parking lots could be turned into shelters. The municipality, he said, had taken “minimum” steps to prepare them.

Local planning experts have warned that metro stations and parking lots need heating, ventilation and hygienic facilities. There is no publicly available information suggesting those measures have been taken.

Zakani, who was criticized over the lack

People watch a building that was hit after Israel’s attack in Tehran, Iran. June 13, 2025. For days, the fate of roughly 90 million Iranians has appeared to swing between war and peace as American and Iranian officials traded threats of attack and calls for diplomacy. (Arash Khamooshi/ The New York Times)

of emergency planning for the June war, has dismissed concerns about preparedness as premature. He shrugged and smirked in a televised interview with Iranian news media last week, and said authorities did not want to cause panic.

“We don’t believe there will be a war so bad that we should force an emergency situation on the public,” he said. He accused Washington of trying to sow fear in the Iranian public, which lives in a perpetual state of “No war, no peace.”

“Why should we allow them to close our city and make us anxious?” he asked.

Some Iranians say they feel abandoned to their fate.

“It’s like there is no government and we have to figure out how to survive war with the biggest army in the world,” said Amir, 42, a businessperson. He is too afraid to travel for work and leave behind his wife and children when war feels as if it could start any minute.

On the surface, little in Tehran has changed. Grocery stores are well stocked, residents say, and they have seen no signs of shortages of food, gasoline or water. Schools and businesses remain open, and people go about their work and daily lives.

Online, however, Iranians are sharing tips on how to prepare for the worst.

Some posts encourage people to write down emergency numbers for loved ones and designate meeting places, in case Iranian authorities shut down the internet and telecommunications — as they did during the war in June and in the wake of anti-government protests last month.

Last week, a prominent Iranian activist in France, Ilia Hashemi, posted a widely circulated list of suggestions for stocking up two weeks’ worth of supplies: about a gallon of water per person per day, canned and dry goods, candles, flashlights, first-aid supplies, warm clothes and power banks.

A day later, Hashemi wrote that he had been inundated with responses from angry people inside Iran saying they could not meet their needs for a single day, let alone two weeks.

Iran is also mired in a dire economic crisis.

The demonstrations were set off in December by a plunge in the value of the currency, the rial. In the weeks since, the rial has hit two more record lows, while inflation has risen 60% compared with last year, according to a prominent Iranian business newspaper.

Basic items such as meat, poultry and eggs are now out of reach for many families, and some residents say loved ones are having to choose between paying the rent or buying food.

“It’s not even possible to make preparations and plan for things,” said Sahand, a Tehran resident. “Families don’t have the money to go stock up on food and medicine. All they think about is where to go and hide.”

Most people, Sahand added, “have just given up. They think there is nothing they can do.”

Beyond basic survival, some Iranians are concerned about how to keep communicating.

In addition to filling an emergency backpack with her passport, water, medicine and dried fruit, Maryam, an artist in Tehran, also purchased high-end virtual private network services, hoping she could use them to bypass an internet blackout.

Like many Iranians interviewed, Maryam has been glued to daily news about diplomatic negotiations and the looming threat of war.

“Everyone I’ve spoken with these days

is very confused,” she said. Many Iranians say they cannot understand President Donald Trump’s wavering position on the scope or timing of an attack — or even whether it could happen at all.

As potential strikes loomed, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard conducted military drills on the country’s southern coast Tuesday, according to state media.

There are divergent views among critics of the Iranian government on the possibility of U.S. strikes. Some say they are eager for them to happen, as a form of revenge for the thousands killed in the bloody security force crackdown last month. Others are wary that war would ravage the country without toppling the state.

And Iranians are still voicing their defiance. For four days, protests have erupted across university campuses in at least three cities — Tehran, Mashhad and Isfahan — with students chanting for an end to Iran’s clerical rule and burning the state flag, according to videos verified by the Times.

Reza, a marketing specialist and conservative who supports Iran’s clerical rulers, said he was frustrated to see the authorities cracking down on university protests instead of announcing more emergency plans.

“When we are under the shadow of the most powerful military in the world, the government’s responsibility is to consider the worst-case scenarios,” he wrote in a text message.

Sahar, 38, who works at a startup in Tehran, said she was terrified by the idea that the country could be wrestled over by two forces who have little concern for the fate of regular Iranians.

“It’s like two men arguing over a house,” she said, “and in the end they burn it down while we’re still inside.”

After six decades of the war on drugs, what works?

By MARIA AL-HABIB

Drug lords have been killed or captured, and cartels have splintered or collapsed, only to see more violent ones replace them and the illicit trade expand.

So, in nearly 60 years of the war on drugs, what has actually worked?

On Sunday, the Mexican military killed Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, the leader of one of the world’s largest drug cartels.

It is called the Jalisco cartel, and its reach can be felt in nearly every corner of the globe. It is more of a conglomerate than a single entity, composed of dozens of groups spread across Mexico that do everything from growing the avocados used in Americans’ guacamole to smuggling migrants into the United States and, of course, trafficking drugs.

As Mexican and U.S. officials wait to see what lies ahead for the cartel — whether a successor is quickly appointed or it devolves into infighting over who assumes the leadership — one thing appears likely: El Mencho’s death alone is not the end of the group.

The group’s full name, the Jalisco New Generation cartel, underscores its ambition and how deeply rooted it is in Mexico. Eradicating it requires a more patient, long-term approach than killing or capturing one man, analysts say.

“They created a new generation of doing things differently,” said Carlos Pérez Ricart, an expert at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching, a Mexican research group. “They employed a mode of violence that was very calculated and instrumental. It was narco-terrorism.”

Pérez, like other analysts, said that each new generation of cartel members tends to be more violent than its predecessors, as a way to assert authority. With every new generation, what was once unthinkable becomes the new norm.

The gratuity of the violence — rivals are beheaded, their bodies displayed in public parks — is the point, they said. It becomes the new standard, a gruesome way of outdoing rivals.

“Today’s leaders have a much lower life expectancy,” Pérez said. “Their education is also lower and their attachment to the territory they work in is now almost zero.” One result is an especially ruthless detachment from the suffering of the local population. Mexico is now fighting what may turn

A forest fire started by rival cartels to block access to a road used as an escape route into the mountains in Uruapan, Mexico, on March 7, 2022. The death of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes dealt a major blow to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, but few believe it spells the end for the powerful group. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)

out to be one of the bloodiest and consequential wars against the cartels in its history, analysts say.

Since 2024, the Mexican government has been bogged down in the north, fighting the Sinaloa cartel. Now, the government has opened up a second front, against the Jalisco New Generation cartel, based in western Mexico but with branches throughout. The two Mexican cartels, archrivals, are arguably the world’s most powerful drug organizations.

Perhaps the most comparable battle against drug trafficking was during President Felipe Calderón’s presidency, which ended in 2012. But back then, the government was mostly taking on a single cartel, Los Zetas, and that fight was concentrated in northern Mexico.

The histories of the cartels offer important reminders of how resilient they can be, even when the government makes major strides against them.

The Sinaloa cartel, after all, did not go away after its chief, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the notorious drug lord known as El Chapo, was captured and extradited to the United States.

And the Jalisco cartel itself was born from the ruins of another drug group, the Milenio cartel, which disintegrated into infighting after its leadership was captured and killed.

By 2009, Oseguera, the Jalisco leader killed Sunday, had emerged on top — in

ternational narcotics and law enforcement at the State Department.

“And if you have that and a government that is willing to fight corruption, you can get positive results,” he said.

Colombia’s initial success battling the cartels in the 1990s offers a good lesson for Mexico, former U.S. diplomats familiar with both countries say.

Back then, the Colombian government deployed its security forces to capture and kill high-ranking cartel members, while also increasing its investigative capacities to unravel the groups’ hidden financial infrastructure. It also strengthened the judicial system to end impunity.

After Colombia largely brought down the country’s kingpins in that decade, the United States helped the government there expand its authority across the country.

part because if his willingness to embrace spectacular levels of violence to defeat his enemies.

Rather than simply going after kingpins like Oseguera, authorities need to take a holistic approach to dismantle these groups more completely, analysts say.

The Mexican government has to use a combination of force on the ground and smart investigative work to defeat the Jalisco cartel, former diplomats say. It is a model similar to the one Colombia adopted beginning in the 1990s.

Midlevel commanders need to be targeted, since they provide critical links between the top leadership and the cartel’s boots on the ground, analysts and diplomats say.

And when it comes to the Jalisco cartel, its sprawling business empire and hidden financial network must also be unwound, they note. That investigative capability, however, is still being built up by Mexico’s government.

That is where the United States may be most useful, experts say. On Sunday, the Mexican military credited U.S. officials with sharing vital intelligence that allowed its troops to capture and kill Oseguera.

“We have the best technical intelligence, and local partners in Mexico and Colombia have the best human, on-theground intelligence,” said Todd Robinson, a former assistant secretary of state for in-

For every dollar the U.S. spent, Colombia spent three, Robinson said. It was part of an effort to eradicate coca crops and bring schools, roads and other economic incentives to remote communities where the government had dislodged drug trafficking groups.

But the government was not able to expand its authority to all parts of the country. In the vacuum, guerrilla groups took over cocaine production and trafficking. Cocaine production exploded across the country about a decade ago, analysts say.

The Mexican government needs to immediately start working across municipalities and states to dislodge the Jalisco cartel and start exerting authority, Robinson said. But historically, Mexico’s federal governments have been reluctant to work with political rivals, creating a patchy security response that provides safe havens in which cartels can operate.

“Mexico is not traditionally good at that,” Robinson said. “The ruling party tends to support the governor or mayor that are part of their party, and leave those mayors who are from the opposition alone to fend for themselves against the cartels.”

In contrast, the Jalisco cartel works closely with dozens of smaller criminal groups to exert its muscle across the country and challenge the government’s authority.

On Sunday, the cartel was able to showcase its strength and territorial reach when it set fires to banks and storefronts and blocked roads and highways in some 13 states across Mexico. In many states, the Mexican government failed to respond.

The lesson of AI literacy class: Don’t let the chatbot think for you

By NATASHA SINGER

The first session of a new artificial intelligence class this month for high school seniors in Newark, New Jersey, involved purely human intelligence.

The students’ assignment: to compare when they had passively scrolled through AIdriven social media feeds with times when they had actively selected the videos or Google search results they wanted to see.

“Are you steering the technology or is it steering you?” asked a slide on the classroom whiteboard at Washington Park High School.

In a class discussion that followed, a student named Adrian Farrell, 18, said he had taken charge of AI by asking a chatbot to check his math homework for accuracy. Brianna Perez, 18, said she went into “passenger mode” when using a Spotify feature called AI DJ.

“It plays your favorite music so you don’t have to change it,” she said.

Schools across the United States are hustling to introduce a new subject: AI literacy.

In what some educators are calling a “driver’s license” for AI, the new lessons aim to teach students how to examine the latest tech tools and use them responsibly. Teachers say they want to prepare young people to navigate a world increasingly shaped by AI, as chatbots manufacture human-sounding writing and employers use algorithms to help vet job candidates.

Some schools are focused on AI chatbots, teaching students how to prompt Google’s Gemini or Microsoft’s Copilot. Some are introducing AI as a new class topic, with lessons examining societal consequences like the spread of AI-generated nude images, known as deepfakes.

AI lessons are becoming more common in schools as a debate has exploded over whether chatbots are likely to improve — or doom — education. Proponents say schools must quickly teach young people to use AI to assist their learning, prepare them for jobs and help the United States compete with China. Last year, President Donald Trump issued an executive order urging schools to teach “foundational AI literacy” starting in kindergarten.

Education researchers warn that chatbots can make stuff up, enable cheating and erode critical thinking. A recent study from Cambridge University and Microsoft Research found that students who took notes on text passages had better reading comprehension than students who got help from chatbots.

For now, “the risks of utilizing AI in education overshadow its benefits,” the Brookings Institution concluded last month in a report on school AI use.

Amid the debate, schools such as Washington Park High are staking out a middle ground by treating AI as if it were a car and helping students develop rules for the road. Mike Taubman, 45, a career explorations teacher who co-developed the school’s new literacy course, compared the class

to preparing teenagers for their driver’s license exam.

“Where do you want to go, and can AI help you get there?” Taubman asked. Students needed to learn to drive AI tools, analyze what’s under the hood, develop guidelines for personal use and design ideal safety policies, he said.

“What do I think the laws, the rules, the norms should be around AI for my city, my country?” he added.

Washington Park, a four-story building with a red brick facade in downtown Newark, serves about 900 high school students. It is part of Uncommon Schools, a charter school network in the Northeast focused on college and career preparation.

Taubman and Scott Kern, a U.S. history teacher, came up with the idea for the new elective class on AI. Both had already introduced AI tools and topics in their regular courses.

Kern, 45, recently participated in a program at Playlab, a nonprofit that helps teachers create customized AI apps for their courses. To help his students hone their argumentative writing, Kern developed chatbots for his U.S. history classes based on his course materials and student assessments.

He also developed firm guidelines for students on when to use — and when not to use — AI bots.

On a recent Tuesday, Kern taught an Advanced Placement U.S. History class on the Chicago Race Riot, violent protests set off by the murder of a Black teenager in 1919. First, he asked students to read century-old newspaper clippings and other historical documents. Then, he led a class discussion on broader trends that had helped fuel the tensions.

Next, Kern asked students to spend a few minutes describing the main cause of the riot to a chatbot he had created for the class. Allyson Johnson, 17, opened her laptop and typed in her answer: entrenched racial segregation.

“Let me push you on this,” the chatbot responded. Seg-

regation had existed for decades before 1919. So what specific factors, the bot asked, had caused a tense situation to suddenly escalate “into explosive violence”?

Johnson said she enjoyed sparring with the AI because “the chatbot asked me different questions that pushed my argument even more.”

After a few minutes, Kern told students that their time with the chatbot was up and resumed the class discussion. Fundamental student learning should remain an AI-free activity, he said.

“Anytime where we want kids interacting with each other or doing initial critical thinking, I would never want AI or any sort of technology of that ilk to come in and interfere with that,” Kern said.

This semester, Kern and Taubman decided to join forces to formalize their AI education methods in an elective class. Eighteen students signed up.

During the first class this month, students learned about how some film directors had started using AI to generate movie scenes. Should humans still get credit for that?

As long as people directed the video-generating bots, some students said, they would consider humans to be a film’s authors. Other students argued that tech giants had trained AI on decades of artists’ work, potentially amounting to intellectual property theft.

(The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright infringement claims. Both companies have denied wrongdoing.)

Kern and Taubman acknowledged that their driver’s license metaphor had limits. Until chatbots have built-in safeguards akin to seatbelts and airbags, it will be difficult for students to make truly informed decisions about the risks of powerful AI systems.

Kern said he hoped that students would one day “have influence to build these tools in a way that’s better and more equitable and more environmentally friendly than what exists now.”

Perez, a senior taking the new course, said she already felt empowered learning about AI’s uses and risks. The school hopes to offer the AI literacy class soon to all 12th graders.

“If it wasn’t for courses like this that are being implemented, we could really go into our future like not knowing what’s coming,” Perez said.

FDA reverses decision and agrees to review Moderna’s flu vaccine

By CHRISTINA JEWETT and REBECCA ROBBINS

The Food and Drug Administration reversed its decision on Moderna’s flu vaccine and has agreed to review it for possible approval.

On Feb. 10, Moderna announced that the agency had rejected its application for review of a new flu vaccine. The FDA said the company’s research design had been flawed.

But in subsequent discussions, the agency had relented and agreed to begin a review, the company said Wednesday. As part of the revised approach, Moderna said that it had agreed to split up its application for the flu vaccine based on age. It plans to seek standard approval for people 50 to 64 years old and accelerated approval for those 65 and older. The company also said it had agreed to conduct an additional study among those 65 and older once the vaccine reached the market.

The FDA did not provide a detailed explanation Wednesday as to why it suddenly changed direction. But its initial refusal to even consider Moderna’s application drew swift and highly public rebukes, and startled the pharmaceutical industry — beyond just vaccine manufacturers — as well as investors. Blackstone, the investment firm, had invested $750 million in Moderna’s development of a flu vaccine.

Top industry executives have traveled to the White House for high-level meetings, including with President Donald Trump, some focused on ways to avoid Trump’s threatened tariffs or to lower drug prices.

But industry executives have grown increasingly vocal in expressing their displeasure or unease at the administra-

tion’s dismantling of vaccine policy and the FDA’s recent pattern of rejecting drugs after yearslong agreements on study standards. A number of drug companies have also raised similar concerns after the FDA refused to review their applications or denied approvals.

Dr. Stephen Hoge, Moderna’s president, said on Fox Business on Wednesday that Moderna and its peers needed clear and consistent rules from regulators.

“What we can’t have is somewhat arbitrary changes to those rules after the game has been played,” he said.

The company’s flu vaccine uses messenger RNA technology, which Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly criticized as unsafe and ineffective.

The mRNA approach, which instructs the body to produce a fragment of a virus that sets off an immune response, was widely successful in COVID vaccines and is considered generally safe by public health ex-

perts and scientists.

The technology enables companies to rapidly pivot in order to update a vaccine, in contrast with the traditional method often used for flu shots.

In Trump’s first term, the government enthusiastically supported the mRNAbased COVID vaccines. But in the past year, the second Trump administration has turned against the technology, sending shock waves through the vaccine industry. Hundreds of millions of dollars in research contracts and projects have been canceled, and agencies under Kennedy’s purview have sharply limited the recommendations for administering COVID vaccines to certain groups of people.

In initially rejecting the novel flu vaccine last week, Dr. Vinay Prasad, the agency’s top vaccine official, signed a refusal letter citing concerns that the control vaccine Moderna had used in a study of people older than 65 was not the best available option. He issued the letter over the objection of the second-highest-ranking vaccine scientist at the FDA.

Federal recommendations say a vaccine using a higher dose than normal is the most effective protection for older people.

When the rejection caused an uproar, the agency began retreating. Dr. Marty Makary, the FDA agency commissioner, appeared conciliatory, saying on Fox Business that Moderna could come back as part of “the normal back-andforth dialogue that the FDA has with companies.”

Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed that the FDA had held meetings with Moderna since then and had decided to accept a revised approach.

“FDA will maintain its high standards during review and potential licensure stages as it does with all products,” Nixon said in a statement.

The dispute over Moderna’s study design spilled into public view, with Moderna providing a timeline of its original meetings with the FDA in preparation for the clinical trial. The company said the agency had found its plan to use a widely distributed vaccine, Fluarix Quadrivalent, by GSK “acceptable,” although the regulators preferred another vaccine.

Moderna reported that its study had found the vaccine to be safe and effective. It worked well across age groups in preventing flu cases. Most of the side effects were mild, like fatigue, muscle pain, headache and pain at the injection site. But the study found that these side effects were more frequent and harsher for adults below age 65 than for their older counterparts.

The study also found that the side effects were worse with Moderna’s flu vaccine than with the shot used as a comparison.

As late as Tuesday evening, Makary had not indicated that the agency planned to imminently change course. At an event held in Washington by PhRMA, the pharmaceutical industry’s trade group, he said: “I think if you’re going to talk about what happened last week, you should know the exact details of the trial results, which are public information.”

Going forward, Moderna said, it had agreed with the FDA to launch a new study to compare its flu vaccine for those 65 and older to one with a higher dosage or a similar option, which would give doctors more information on which choice is best.

The company said that the FDA had set a deadline of August to decide whether to approve the vaccine. If it is authorized, it will be available for those older adults when flu season begins later this year. No mRNA-based flu vaccine has been approved anywhere in the world. Regulators in Europe, Canada and Australia are reviewing Moderna’s vaccine.

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preparado por la Autoridad sobre Hogares de Puerto Rico, hoy la Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico Housing Authority dos guión “A” (2-A), radicado en el Barrio Hato Grande de San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de doscientos noventa y cinco punto treinta y seis (295.36) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con terrenos propiedad de la América Cigar Company, en trece punto doce (13.12) metros; por el SUR, con la servidumbre de paso de la Calle “A”, en once punto setenta y cinco (11.75) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número quince (15) de la Urbanización, en veintitrés punto cincuenta y seis (23.56) metros; y por el OESTE, con terrenos propiedad de Santos Buso del mencionado proyecto, en veinticuatro punto cero tres (24.03) metros.” Inscrita al folio 20 del tomo 125 de San Lorenzo, finca 6397, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al Tomo Digital Karibe, finca 6397 de San Lorenzo, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II, inscripción 14ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. LAS MERCEDES, 119 CALLE EMILIO BUITRAGO, SAN LORENZO, PR 00754. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $147,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 4 de septiembre de 2103. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $147,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 18 DE MARZO DE 2026, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑAThe San Juan Daily Star

Yo, SHARO K. CORDERO CONTY, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre

la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 3 DE MARZO DE 2026, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 5 de noviembre de 2025. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría 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 10 DE MARZO DE 2026, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 17 DE MARZO DE 2026, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 17 de diciembre de 2025, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el numero veintiocho A radicado en la Urbanización Yambele, situada en el Barrio Frailes de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con un área de trescientos cuatro metros cuadrados con ocho centímetros. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar veintiocho B, distancia de veinticuatro metros; por el SUR, con el solar veintiocho distancias de veinticuatro metros; por el ESTE, con el solar treinta y nueve distancia de doce metros; y por el OESTE, con la calle J, Rivera Gauthier, distancia de doce metros y sesenta y siete centímetros. Contiene una casa de cemento, diseñada para una familia. Finca número 13,910, inscrita al folio 220 del tomo 215 de Guaynabo, del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guaynabo. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante confor-

me a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $73,801.68, de balance principal del préstamo, con intereses ajustable al 3.276% anual, cual acumulan a un total de $151,934.59 a la fecha de 31 de agosto de 2025, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 856 otorgada el día 12 de agosto de 2009, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Raul Rivera Burgos, y consta inscrita al folio 34 del tomo 1426 de Guaynabo, finca número 13,910, inscripción 5ta. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o 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. Entiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $135,000.00, con intereses al 3.276% anual, vencedero el día 16 de diciembre de 2087, constituida mediante la escritura número 857, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 12 de agosto de 2009, ante el notario Raul Rivera Burgos, e inscrita al folio 35 del tomo 1426 de Guaynabo, finca número 13,910, inscripción 6ta. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del

inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $90,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $60,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $45,000.00. 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, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. 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. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que

ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, a 14 de enero de 2026. Sharo K. Cordero Conty, Alguacil, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De Guaynabo.

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Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública 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 y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 11 DE MARZO DE 2026, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar marcado con el número catorce (14) del Plano

NA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $98,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $73,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 26 DE MARZO DE 2026, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $47,513.63 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $34,898.21 en intereses acumulados al 23 de octubre de 2025 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.087% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más $9,899.48 de seguro hipotecario; más $59.49 de contribuciones; más $335.00 de tasación; más $375.00 de inspecciones; más $3,842.00 de mantenimiento; más $4,198.00 de adelantos de honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $14,700.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 22 de enero de 2026. EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUA-

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“CRIM” Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2022CV00776. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

A: SUCESIÓN DE ALICIA COLON LUNA TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO ALICIA ESPERANZA COLON LUNA COMPUESTA POR SU HIJA NEL ALICE SANTANA COLON; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION SOBRE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES “CRIM”. Yo, MANUEL MALDONADO, 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 10 DE MARZO DE 2026, A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, Ponce, 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 Ponce 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 17 DE MARZO DE 2026, A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se cele-

a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Roberto C. Latimer Valentín, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de mayo de 2025, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma principal de $22,501.84 la cual se desglosa a continuación: la suma principal de $20,556.34 más intereses acumulados desde el 1 de abril de 2025, hasta el presente, que al presente se encuentran a razón del 8.450% anual, y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, la suma principal de $1,945.50 como balance diferido y el cual no genera intereses, más adelantos para el pago de seguros y contribuciones, entre otros, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más adelantos para el pago de seguros y contribuciones, entre otros; más una suma equivalente a $7,500.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentará para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto objeto objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Altos de la Fuente, localizada en el Barrio Turabo del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número F-17 con una cabida superficial de 943.83 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en varias alineaciones de 4.97 metros,

8.545 metros, 22.74 metros, 6.68 metros y 8.63 metros, respectivamente con propiedad de Eladio Rio Rodríguez, Manuel Rodríguez Santiago y Ángel Pérez del Valle; por el SUR, en 2 alineaciones de 13.00 metros y 26.00 metros, respectivamente con la Calle número 5 y el solar número 16; por el ESTE, en 2 alineaciones de 1.50 metros y 5.62 metros respectivamente con la calle número 5 y el solar número L-1; y por el OESTE, en 36.77 metros con el solar número 21. Sobre este solar enclava una estructura construida de concreto armado y cemento dedicada a vivienda para una familia. Consta inscrita al folio 54 de tomo 1,284 de Caguas, finca número #45,364, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Caguas. SE LE APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico. A 5 de febrero de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

BLANCA IRIS HERNÁNDEZ MÉNDEZ

Demandante V. ANAYZA INFANTE ADON Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV10393. Sobre: DESAHUCIO, FALTA DE PAGO Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADO UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO, SS. A: ANAYZA INFANTE ADON.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza. Se le notifica que una demanda ha sido presentada en su contra y se le requiere que conteste la misma dentro de treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en Puerto Rico, radicando el original de contestación de la misma ante el Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC) presentada electrónicamente mediante https://tribunalelectronico.ramajudicial. pr/sumac2018/ y notificándole con copia fiel a la representante legal de la parte demandante: Lcda. Luce Meléndez Robledo, PO Box 368119 San Juan PR 00936, teléfono 787-

399-7178 y correo electrónico melendezrobledolaw@gmail. com. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer se podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle más. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 28 de enero de 2026. GRISELDA

RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LAURA C. REYNOSO ESQUILÍN, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC

COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. ALICE RIVERA VEGA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV10070. 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: ALICE RIVERA VEGA - PARC HILL BROTHERS

384C CALLE 19, SAN JUAN PR 00924-3904.

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 Colon cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, 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 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de febrero de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. BRENDA L. BÁEZ

ACABÁ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA. LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO BAUTISTA REO PR CORP. Plaintiff V. J.A.M.A. DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION; ANTONIO MOLINA SANTOS, HIS WIFE AIDA CECILIA MACHARGO CHARDÓN, AND THEIR CONJUGAL LEGAL PARTNERSHIP; THE ESTATE OF ABRAHAM JIMÉNEZ RIVERA FORMED BY, JOHANNE JIMÉNEZ RIVERA, MARANGELY JIMÉNEZ RIVERA, LINDA JIMÉNEZ RIVERA; NELLY RIVERA CANO, BY HERSELF AND AS MEMBER OF THE ESTATE OF ABRAHAM JIMÉNEZ RIVERA

Defendants Civil No.: 16-cv-2901. (SCC). COLLECTION OF MONIES, EXECUTION OF PLEDGE AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALES. To: DEFENDANTS AND GENERAL PUBLIC.

On July 16, 2018, this Court issued an Opinion and Order (“Opinion and Order”) granting Bautista Cayman Asset Company’s (“Bautista Cayman”) motion for summary judgment, thereby entering a Judgment (“Judgment”), on the same day, in favor of Bautista Cayman now Bautista REO and against J.A.M.A. Development Corporation (“J.A.M.A.”), Antonio Molina Santos (“Mr. Molina”), Aida Cecilia Machargo Chardón (“Ms. Machargo”), the conjugal partnership between them (“Molina-Machargo”), and Nelly Rivera Cano (“Rivera-Cano” and collectively with J.A.M.A., Mr. Molina, Ms. Machargo, and Molina-Machargo, the “Defendants”). As of the date of the Judgment, Defendants owed the amount of $3,534,246.80, with a per diem of $272.21. Pursuant to the Judgment, Bautista REO is entitled to collect all amounts owed under the loan agreement. On July 9, 2025, this Court issued a Writ of Attachment to be levied over the Properties number 25,159; 25,160 and 25,162, which were attached to cover the deficiency in this case. A deficiency as of January 7, 2025, totaling a sum of no less than $1,651,914.53 remains under the Judgment. The attachments issued by this Court have been presented and levied over the properties described herein in favor of Plaintiff. Accordingly, the attached properties with the following descriptions shall be sold at pu-

blic auctions to the highest bidder thereof, without an appraisal or right of redemption for the payment and satisfaction of Plaintiff’s judgment: Property Number 25,160: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno sita en el barrio Mamey de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, al lado Este de la Carretera Estatal número ochocientos treinta y cuatro (834) con cabida superficial de veintidós cuerdas con cinco mil novecientos cincuenta diez milésimas con cinco mil novecientos cincuenta diez milésimas de otra (22.5950 cdas), equivalentes a ochenta y ocho mil ochocientos siete punto dos mil novecientos un metros cuadrados (88,807.2901 m.c.); en lindes por el NORTE, SUR, ESTE, con la parcela Remanente de Guajana Estates; y por el OESTE, con el área de rodaje de la Carretera Estatal número ochocientos treinta y cuatro (834). Este es el remanente de la finca luego de deducidas varias segregaciones, según consta de la escritura número 78, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 21 de agosto de 1995, ante el notario Edilberto Berrios Dávila, e inscrita al folio 234 del tomo 615 de Guaynabo, al margen de la inscripción 6ta. Property number 25,160 is recorded at page 230 of volume 615 of Guaynabo, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Guaynabo Section. The property is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Right-of-way. By itself: a. Easement in favor of the Municipality of Guaynabo, pursuant to deed number 77, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on August 21, 1995, before Notary Public Edilberto Berríos Dávila, and recorded at page 233 of volume 615 of Guaynabo, property number 25,160, 4th inscription. b. Easement of rainwater on this property to serve properties numbers 49,423; 49,424, and 42,944, with a value of $1.00, pursuant to deed number 18, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 9, 2005, before Notary Public Antonio J. Santos Pratts, and recorded at the overleaf of page 94 of volume 1690 of Guaynabo, property number 25,160, 11th inscription. c. Attachment in favor of Bautista REO PR Corp., versus J.A.M.A. Development Corp., et al, in the amount of $1,651,914.53, for Collection of Monies, Execution of Pledge and Foreclosure of Mortgage, as per Order dated July 3, 2025, issued at the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, in the civil case number 16-2901 (SCC), filed for record on July 17, 2025, annotated on July 20, 2025, at the Karibe volume of Guaynabo, property number 25,160, Annotation A. Property Number 25,162: “RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno sita en los Barrios Hato Nuevo y Mamey de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, de cuarenta y ocho cuerdas con seis mil cuatrocientos ochenta y

tres diez milésimas de otra (48.6483cdas), equivalentes a ciento noventa y un mil doscientos siete punto mil seiscientos cuarenta metros cuadrados (191,207.1640m.c.), situada al Este del área de rodaje de la prolongación de la Carretera Estatal número ochocientos treinta y cuatro (834), en forma de riñón, en lindes: por el NORTE, ESTE y OESTE, con la parcela remanente de Guajana Estates Inc; a la que envuelve en parte también por el SUR, en parte con la Carretera Estatal número ochocientos treinta y cinco (835); por el Sur, con la Carretera Estatal número ochocientos treinta y cinco (835); y por el ESTE, en su otra prolongación con la Carretera Estatal número ochocientos treinta y cinco (835).” Property number 25,162 is recorded at page 250 of volume 615 of Guaynabo, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Guaynabo Section. The property is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Right-of-way easement. By itself: a. Easement in favor of the Municipality of Guaynabo, pursuant to deed number 77, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on August 21, 1995, before Notary Public Edilberto Berríos Dávila, and recorded at page 253 of volume 615 of Guaynabo, property number 25,162, 4th inscription. b. Easement of rainwater on this property to serve properties numbers 49,423; 49,424, and 42,944, with a value of $1.00, pursuant to deed number 18, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 9, 2005, before Notary Public Antonio J. Santos Pratts, and recorded at page 77 of volume 1490 of Guaynabo, property number 25,162, 12th inscription. c. Attachment in favor of Bautista REO PR Corp., versus J.A.M.A. Development Corp., et al, in the amount of $1,651,914.53, for Collection of Monies, Execution of Pledge and Foreclosure of Mortgage, as per Order dated July 3, 2025, issued at the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, in the civil case number 16-2901 (SCC), filed for record on July 17, 2025, annotated on July 20, 2025, at the Karibe volume of Guaynabo, property number 25,162, Annotation A. Property Number 25,159: RÚSTICA: Porción Sur: Parcela de terreno sita en el Barrio Mamey del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico con una cabida de 9.4645 cuerdas, equivalentes a 37,199.40 metros cuadrados, identificada con el número 3-2 en el Plano. En lindes por el NORTE, con el área de rodaje de la Carretera. Estatal número 834; por el SUR, con la Parcela remanente propiedad de Guajana Estates Inc.; por el ESTE, con Parcela Remanente propiedad de Guaiana Estates y con área de rodaje de la Carretera 834; y por el OESTE, con Serafín Inclán y con la referida área

The

de rodaje.” Property number 25,159 is recorded at page 220 of volume 615 of Guaynabo, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Guaynabo Section. The property is subject to the following liens: By its origin: a. Right-of-way easement. b. Easement in favor of the Municipality of Guaynabo. By itself: a. Easement in favor of the Municipality of Guaynabo, with a value of $1,000.00, pursuant to deed number 77-A, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on August 21, 1995, before Notary Public Edilberto Berríos Dávila, and recorded at page 223 of volume 615 of Guaynabo, property number 25,159, 4th inscription. b. Easement of rainwater on this property to serve properties numbers 49,423; 49,424, and 42,944, with a value of $1.00, pursuant to deed number 18, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 9, 2005, before Notary Public Antonio J. Santos Pratts, and recorded at page 77 of volume 1490 of Guaynabo, property number 25,159, 11th inscription. c. Attachment in favor of Bautista REO PR Corp., versus J.A.M.A. Development Corp.; et al, in the amount of $1,651,914.53, for the Collection of Monies, Execution of Pledge and Foreclosure of Mortgage, as per Order dated on July 3, 2025, issued at the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, in the civil case number 16-2901 (SCC), filed for record on July 17, 2025, and annotated on July 20, 2025, at the Karibe volume of Guaynabo, property number 25,159, Annotation A. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect. It being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The lien executed is the Attachment over the properties number 25,160; 25,162; and 25,159. Said sales to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the properties may be executed and delivered after the judicial sales. Upon confirmation of the sales, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens, if any. THEREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before referred to, will, on the April 9, 2026, at 10:30 a.m. for Property Number 25,160; for

Property Number 25,162 at 10:45 a.m.; for Property Number 25,159 at 11:00 a.m., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, will sell at public auctions to the highest bidder the properties described herein, the proceeds of said sales to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 10th day of February, 2026. AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, APPOINTED SPECIAL MASTER.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN IDA MILAGROS SALDAÑA DELGADO V. LUIS EDUARDO WILLIAMS MORALES Civil Núm.: SJ2026RF00110. Sala: 703. Sobre: DIVORCIO Y CUSTODIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: LUIS EDUARDO WILLIAMS MORALES - CALLE IGNACIO ARIAS #3, MIRAMAR SAN PEDRO DE MACORÍS, REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA O SEA, LA PARTE DEMANDADA ARRIBA MENCIONADA. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en Rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

LCDA. LAURA MÍA GONZÁLEZ BONILLA (abogada de la parte demandante) RUA 17074 Lmgonzalez@servicioslegales.org

(787)763.5103 / FAX: (787)274-0784

SERVICIOS LEGALES DE P.R, INC.

CALLE GONZÁLEZ #1061, SANTA RITA

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00925 (dirección física) APARTADO 21370

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00928-1370 (dirección postal)

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 04 de febrero de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. CHARY L. SANTIAGO GAMBARO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA

GOLDMAN SACHS

MORTGAGE COMPANY

Demandante V. BANCO Y AGENCIA DE FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CN2025CV00463. (Civil: 402). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

ORLANDO CAMACHO PADILLALCDOCAMACHO@YAHOO.COM.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 18 de febrero de 2026. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 18 de febrero de 2026. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. LOURDES T. DÍAZ MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN CARIBE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

Demandante V. DANIEL ELÍAS REYES

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: SJ2025CV09405. (Salón: 603). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ANDREA CAROLINA CHAVES FIGUEROA - LCDA. CHAVESFIGUEROA@GMAIL.COM. KARINA PAOLA CINTRÓN NEVÁREZ - CINTRONKP@GMAIL.COM.

A: DANIEL ELIAS REYES. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 18 de febrero de 2026. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 18 de febrero de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ARELYS RIVERA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE YABUCOA JUNTA DE RETIRO DEL GOBIERNO DE PUERTO RICO, TAMBIEN CONOCIDO COMO SISTEMA DE RETIRO DE MAESTROS DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE

Civil Núm.: YB2025CV00272. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE - DESCONOCIDA. Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de un (1) pagaré hipotecario a favor de JUNTA DE RETIRO PARA MAESTROS DE PUERTO RICO, o a su orden, por $29,300.00, otorgado el 21 de diciembre de 1978 y según surge del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guayama, con intereses al 9 1/4% anual, vence el 1 de enero de 2009. Garantizado por una hipoteca en garantía mediante la escritura # 259, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 21 de diciembre de 1978, ante el notario público Carlos D. Vázquez Martínez, inscrito al folio #40 del tomo #162 de Yabucoa, finca #10646, inscripción 1ra, sobre la propiedad que se describe más adelante: URBANA: Solar marcado con el #A-23 de la manzana “A” en el plano de la Urbanización Villa del Recreo, con una cabida superficial de 458.283 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle #2, en distancia de 12.49 metros; por el SUR, con solares de la Urbanización Villa Hilda, en distancia de 12.53 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar #24, en distancia de 36.739 metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar #22, en distancia de 36.532 metros. Inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Yabucoa, Finca #10646, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré se ha saldado según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido termino, 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.

Lcda. Saideth Cristobal Martinez

RUA 14,554

P.O. Box 9022173, San Juan, PR 00902-2173

Tel: 787-367-0412

Email: saidethcristobal@gmail.com

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de diciembre de 2025. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. LIMARIS SÁNCHEZ ESPINOSA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 06 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 19 de febrero de 2026. Lic. Látimer Valentín, latimerrc@lbrglaw.com. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 19 de febrero de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. LUZ D. HERNÁNDEZ GONZÁLEZ,

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MARTINEZ LOPEZ Demandante V. JOEL

RODRIGUEZ ROSARIO Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: PO2025RF00507. (Salón: 302 - RF Y MENORES). Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

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A: SR. JOEL RODRIGUEZ ROSARIO PARA SER NOTIFICADO MEDIANTE PUBLICACION POR EDICTO; PC. LCDA. LIZAIDA IRIZARRY ROSARIO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 18 de febrero de 2026. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 18 de febrero de 2026. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA.

LIZ SANTIAGO CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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FELIPE

COLÓN SANTIAGO

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: AI2025RF00357. (Salón: 003). Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MANUEL LOPEZ GAY - MLOPEZ@ SERVICIOSLEGALES.ORG. A: SR. FELIPE COLÓN SANTIAGO - 1 DAVIS PARK DRIVE NEWPORT NEWS, VA 23605. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de febrero de 2026. En Aibonito, Puerto Rico, el 11 de febrero de 2026. MAYRA L. CABRERA GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. CINDY REMON LAGE, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE

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Demandante V. LUIS ALEJANDRO ROSADO COLÓN

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AI2025RF00367. (Salón: 003). Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MANUEL LOPEZ GAY - MLOPEZ@ SERVICIOSLEGALES.ORG. A: SR. LUIS ALEJANDRO ROSADO COLÓN - 660 SCHUYKILL AVE. APT. 2 READING, PA 19601. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de

los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de febrero de 2026. En Aibonito, Puerto Rico, el 17 de febrero de 2026. MAYRA L. CABRERA GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. CINDY REMON LAGE, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. PAULETTE RIOS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: AG2025CV00754. (Salón: 602). Sobre: LIQUIDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD DE BIENES. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JUAN CARLOS TORO SEPÚLVEDA JUANCARLOS_TORO@YAHOO. COM.

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

to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 18 de febrero de 2026. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 18 de febrero de 2026. SARAHI REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. NILDA TORRES ACEVEDO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. MARÍA M. ALICEA RIVERA Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2025CV04444. 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: MARÍA M. ALICEA RIVERA. Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Jean Paul Juliá Díaz, P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, PR 00936-4908; Tel. (787) 622-2323 / Fax (787) 622-2320. Se le advierte que este Emplazamiento por Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda 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 el original de su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal, enviando copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Emplazamiento por Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, disponiéndose además, que en los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación de este Emplazamiento por Edicto, se le dirigirá por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias de la Demanda presentada y del Emplazamiento por Edicto a sus última dirección conocida: Urb. Mirador De Bairoa, 2M 44 Calle 17, Caguas, Puerto Rico 00727. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de febrero de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SUBSECRETARIA.

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Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2025CV04506. (Salón: 500). Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

AMNERIS RODRÍGUEZ VIRELLAARV@LAWYER.COM.

GIOVANNI FANTAUZZI CLEMENTEGFANTAUZZILAW@GMAIL.COM.

MELANIE M. LORA MARZÁNMLORALAW@GMAIL.COM.

REGISTRADOR DE LA PROPIEDAD PR - 501 AVE. ROBERTO H TODD, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, 00923. A: SCN. DE MICAELA GARCÍA PÉREZ, COLINDANTE POR EL SUR, O SUS HEREDEROS CESIONARIOS O CAUSAHABIENTES, POR IGNORARSE SU EXISTENCIA O PARADERO.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de enero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de febrero de 2026. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 17 de febrero de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. BLAKE R PIPPEN

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: SJ2025CV07401. (Salón: 901 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JEAN PAUL JULIÁ DÍAZJPJULIA@RMMELAW.COM.

A: BLAKE R. PIPPEN. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 19 de febrero de 2026. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 19 de febrero de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. VIRGEN Y. DEL VALLE DÍAZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. ELIODAVIS TORRES FELICIANO

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: SS2025CV00742. (Salón: 0002. DISTRITO Y SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JEAN PAUL JULIÁ DÍAZJPJULIA@RMMELAW.COM.

A: ELIODAVIS TORRES FELICIANO - 9 CALLE EMILIO RUIZ SAN SEBASTIAN, PR 00685. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de

los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 20 de febrero de 2026. En San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, el 20 de febrero de 2026. Sarahí Reyes Pérez, Secretaria. María De Los M. Valentín Ramírez, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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Parte Demandante v. JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS

DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GIDDEL

JOSÉ GALLISA BENÍTEZ

Parte Demandada CASO NÚM. SJ2025CV11413. ACCIÓN CIVIL DE: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA E INTERPELACIÓN . ORDEN DE INTERPELACIÓN. Vista la interpelación judicial presentada por la parte demandante al amparo del 1578 del Código Civil de 2020 se ordena a John Doe y Richard Roe como posibles herederos desconocidos que notifique si acepta o repudia la herencia del causante Giddel José Gallisa Benítez dentro del plazo de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación del edicto de interpelación. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer en dicho término a aceptar o repudiar la herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. NOTIFÍQUESE. Dada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 3 de febrero de 2026. f/YANAY Y. PAGÁN RAMOS, JUEZ SUPERIOR .

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Parte Demandante V. RAQUEL SOSTRE DURÁN

Parte Demandada

Caso Núm.: SJ2025CV10658.

Salón Núm.: 603. Acción Civil

De: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDACIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD

DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: RAQUEL SOSTRE DURÁN - 10244 ANDOVER POINT CIRCLE, ORLANDO, FLORIDA, ESTADOS UNIDOS 32825. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023).

Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda.

Nombre del Abogado: Gerardo Manuel Torres RUA: 21401

Dirección: 404 Calle De Diego, Box 8, San Juan, PUERTO RICO, 00923

Tel: 7875364645 / Fax: 7879460062

Correo electrónico: gortiz@elitejuris.co

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, el 5 de febrero de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ

COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KEREN OLIVERAS

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Demandante Vs. DOREEN CANNON

Demandada

Caso #: CB2026RF00007. Salón #: 0200. Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). MANDAMIENTO DE EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. A: DOREEN CANNON - 7 HEGEMAN AVENUE, APT. 6-H, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 11212.

Por la presente se le notifica A USTED que ha sido incoada una Demanda de Divorcio por Ruptura Irreparable. Para mayor detalles puede examinar el expediente del Honorable Tribunal o deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adiestramiento de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajucicial.pr/sumac/. Sirva la presente de aviso y advertencia que la parte nombrada tiene un periodo de treinta (30) días, desde la publicación del presente edicto, para hacer alegación responsiva en el caso de epígrafe presentando el original ante el Tribunal correspondiente con copia a la parte demandante o de otra manera se continuará el caso hasta lograr el divorcio por ruptura irreparable, sin más citarle ni oírle. Favor de comunicarse con: Lcdo, Andrés J. Ramos Cámara, al P. O. Box 1299, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 00681-1299; o al Condominio 101 Méndez Vigo Oeste, Calle Méndez Vigo, 101-Oeste, Oficinas 704-705, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 00680, Teléfono: (787) 833-4565. Librado en Cabo Rojo Puerto Rico, a 29 de enero de 2026. LIC. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. CAROLINA G. DÍAZ CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HATILLO ELIVETTE DÍAZ TORRADO

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL ÁNGEL DORTA TORRADO; EULALIA

DORTA TORRADO; SUCESIÓN DE JORGE

LUIS DORTA TORRADO; SUCESIÓN DE YAHAIRA

DORTA SANTIAGO; MIGUEL ÁNGEL DORTA SOTO; y LEONEL RAMÓN DORTA SANTIAGO

Demandados Civil Núm.: HA2025CV00365. Sobre: DIVISIÓN DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS Y/O SENTENCIA DECLARATORIA. EM-

PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: NORMA ENID

DORTA SOTO - 115 BROAD MEADOWS ST., APT. 8, MARLBORO, MASSACHUSETTS 01752. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y se le notifica que una Demanda Enmendada ha sido presentada en su contra y se le requiere para que conteste la misma dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, radicando el original de su contestación ante este Tribunal y notificando con copia de esta a la Parte Demandante a la siguiente dirección: LCDO. LUIS SEVILLANO SÁNCHEZ PO BOX 141118 ARECIBO, PUERTO RICO 006141118

TEL.878-5132/FAX: 880-3073 ofic.lcdo.luissevillano@gmail.com Se le apercibe que si no compareciere usted a contestar dicha Demanda Enmendada dentro del término antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y sello del Tribunal, hoy 13 de febrero de 2026. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. BRENDA LIZ TORRES MUÑIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO WENDELL W. COLON MUÑOZ

Demandante V. CITIBANK NA Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AR2025CV01352. (Salón: 402 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEVAMCOLON@WWCLAW.COM. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los

The San Juan Daily

10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 19 de febrero de 2026. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 19 de febrero de 2026. Vivian Y. Fresse González, Secretaria. Alexandra Álvarez Natal, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE TOA BAJA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. JOSE G SEDA NEGRON Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: DO2025CV00243. 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 G SEDA NEGRON - BO RIO LAJAS 67A CALLE 6, DORADO PR 00646; HC 3 BOX 9307, DORADO PR 006469505.

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 00936-

8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en TOA BAJA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de diciembre de 2025. Alicia Ayala Sanjurjo, Secretaria Regional. Glorymar Saldaña Quiñones, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN GERMÁN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Parte Demandante Vs. JOSEPH J HERNANDEZ RIOS Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SG2025CV00172. 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: JOSEPH J HERNANDEZ RIOSPARC SABANA ENEAS 271 CALLE B, SAN GERMAN PR 00683-3708; 1 RES YAGUEZ APT 133, MAYAGUEZ PR 006804174.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN GERMAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de diciembre de 2025. Lcda Norma G. Santana Irizarry, Secretaria. Caroline Hernández Valentín, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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US-Canada ‘grudge match’ ends up being mostly about the hockey

By MOTOKO RICH and TARIQ PANJA

It was a game destined to be played under the shadow of politics, but in the end, fans mostly put aside the growing animosity between the Trump administration and Canada’s government to cheer on top-tier ice hockey at the Winter Olympics.

As the men’s squads from Canada and the United States squared off for a gold medal at the Santa Giulia Arena in Milan on Sunday — with the United States winning in overtime, 2-1 — a tense atmosphere had mostly dissolved by the sportsmanly medal ceremony.

Canadian and American fans cheered players from both teams as they received their medals. There was no booing when the American national anthem played, unlike at the Four Nations tournament in Montreal a year ago.

But the respect shown by the fans and players — who praised the quality of their opponents — did not extend to the White House, which posted a meme of an eagle stomping on a smaller bird that resembled a Canada goose. President Donald Trump made a video call to the American players to congratulate them, “expressing how proud he was,” said Mike Sullivan, the U.S. coach.

The FBI director, Kash Patel, whose aides had said he was in Italy for official meetings, watched the game from a box while wearing a white U.S. hockey jersey. Then he celebrated with the players in the locker room, according to a social media post in which he thanked them “for representing the greatest country on earth.”

Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, congratulated his country’s team “on a hard-fought and well-earned silver,” saying, “You made your country proud.”

Before the contest, the political undertones were unavoidable. Fans dressed in the red and white of Canada seemed to dominate the 14,000-seat arena, highlighting that the game meant even more than usual to the many Canadian fans who flew in for one of the marquee events of the Winter Olympics.

Magda Palczynska, who was raised in

Wolfville, Nova Scotia, took a large gulp of air as she considered the significance of Sunday’s encounter.

“Let’s be honest, it’s a grudge match,” Palczynska said, her husband vigorously nodding in agreement. “Canadians feel insulted by who they thought were their allies. It’s a matter of pride.”

Inside the arena, spectators from both sides waved their flags, decked out in team gear. One American wore a hockey jersey with 1980 emblazoned across the front, reminding everyone of the last time the U.S. men’s team had won Olympic gold, its upset of the Soviet Union at the Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York.

That was perhaps the last time that ice hockey carried so much political significance. Canada last won the men’s gold in 2014. The U.S. women’s team won the gold medal against Canada on Thursday.

Before the game Sunday, the arena announcer, perhaps sensing the early mood, told fans not to “disrespect the other team.” A notice on the video board reminded spectators that the Olympic Games are “built on the values of respect, friendship and excellence” — a sign not seen at figure skating or speedskating.

Nevertheless, as the U.S. team took the ice for its pregame warmup, boos were audible. When the Canadian players skated out after them, cheers mostly drowned out jeers. By the second period, the fans were exchanging rhythmic chants in tandem, with “Let’s Go Canada!” followed by “U.S.A.!”

The tension occasionally translated to the ice, with players engaging in a few skirmishes, skirting Olympic rules barring fighting.

On the plaza in front of the arena, where fans lined up to buy beer and to have their photos taken in front of the Olympic rings, Jeff Hunt, 50, a hockey coach in Virginia, Minnesota, said that it was “OK to be the underdog.” Canada had been a slight favorite before the game, though both teams were packed with NHL stars, as the league’s players participated in the Games for the first time since 2014.

Hunt added: “We share borders so we have to be friendly, but when it comes to

hockey, this is serious business.”

He and Rick Lehecka, 51, a retired business owner from Spring Grove, Illinois, paid $2,600 per ticket last week to secure front-row seats, including for Lehecka’s son, Kyron, 14. Lehecka, who wore a red “Make America Great Again” cap, said that he did not see the match as political, but recalled Canadian fans booing at the Four Nations tournament.

“I think they took it political,” he said. “I would never boo their national anthem. If they don’t like Trump, we elected him.”

Some Canadian fans saw the match in unabashedly political terms. “It is political for us, absolutely,” said Lloyd Tucker, 67, a fan from Toronto. “It never was, but it is now. It means more to us than it would normally.”

After the game, Wade Leslie, 51, a shipping executive from Vancouver, British Columbia, expressed “bitter disappointment,” especially given the political tensions. “But this is just a game,” he said.

As a fan of the Winnipeg Jets — the team that the U.S. starting goalie, Connor Hellebuyck, plays for — Leslie added that he sometimes “did not know who to cheer for.”

The significance of the win was not lost on the American players. Brock Nelson, whose uncle played on the 1980 U.S. team and whose grandfather played

on the only other American squad to win gold, in 1960, left the arena wearing his gold medal and an American flag draped on his shoulders. He said that he hoped the victory would have positive consequences beyond sports.

“I think there’s a whole lot to be proud of, so much to be proud of being from the United States, and a win like this brings a whole lot of people together,” Nelson told reporters.

Canada’s starting goalie, Jordan Binnington, who plays for the St. Louis Blues, said that it was a “a privilege to play for this country and wear this jersey.” He said that he knew the Canadian fans were “behind us no matter what.”

In the arena concourses, some Canadian fans congratulated and shook hands with spectators draped in American flags, and U.S. fans mingled with fans wearing Team Canada gear.

“A bunch of our players play for the Canadians” in the NHL, said Vince Giron, 62, a contractor from Denver. “Out there it was hard not to root for all the guys.”

Jeannine Sielinski, 66, said she lives in Seattle but has dual citizenship with Canada. She was rooting for Canada, she said, because she objected to Trump’s policies. But in the end, she said, “there was no hint of animosity.”

“It was really all about the Olympic spirit.”

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