Wednesday Feb 4, 2026

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Morovis, partners launch educational/ professional development courses

By THE STAR STAFF

Morovis Mayor Carmen Maldonado González announced on Tuesday the launch of a new offering of training and professional development courses as a result of a collaborative agreement between the Municipality of Morovis and several educational and community institutions, in order to expand access to academic and work development opportunities for the people of the northern-central island town.

“Today is an important day for Morovis because we are opening real doors for our people,” the mayor said. “We want the people of Morovis to have access to tools that will allow them to prepare themselves, grow, and obtain better job opportunities.”

Maldonado González emphasized that the initiative positions Morovis as a hub for new educational and professional development opportunities.

“We are transforming Morovis into a meeting point for education and the training of new professionals,” she said. “Here, we believe in the talent of our people and their ability to succeed when given the right opportunities.”

The courses, which officially began Tuesday, are part of a strategic alliance formalized through an agreement between the Municipality of Morovis; Carmen Cosme, executive director of One Stop Career Center of Puerto Rico; Dr. Juan A. Moreno, of the Corozal Vocational Education Institute; and Germán Bergollo, director of Blessing Bridge Inc. The initiative seeks to strengthen

Morovis has launched new adult training and professional development courses as a result of a collaborative agreement between the Municipality of Morovis and several educational and

skills aligned with the current needs of the labor market.

The mayor noted that the agreement allows for the pooling of resources and expertise to directly impact the community. “Every partnership we forge has a clear purpose: to benefit our citizens and improve their quality of life,” she said. Cosme highlighted the scope and essence of the project.

“This is a project that was born with the purpose of impacting rural communities, where these types of opportunities often don’t reach,” she said. “Over time, its impact has extended throughout Puerto Rico, and today we return to its origin: the rural area, to motivate participants and their families to aspire to a better quality of life through education and training.”

By THE STAR STAFF

The School of Pharmacy at the University of Puerto Rico’s (UPR) Medical Sciences Campus has achieved a 100% first‑attempt pass rate on the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination (NAPLEX) for the Class of 2025, according to newly released data from the National Association of Pharmacy Boards.

All 40 graduating students passed the exam on their first try, placing the school in a tie for first place nationally among 142 programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. The University of Michigan, Husson University and Lebanese American University were the only other institutions to report perfect pass rates.

The achievement places the School of Pharmacy 14.3 percentage points above this year’s national average of 85.7%. The program has maintained a first‑time pass rate above 90% for the past decade.

“At the School of Pharmacy, we are extremely proud of our graduates’ achievements,” Dean Wanda T. Maldonado Dávila said in a statement. “This reflects the capabilities of our students, the academic rigor of our Doctor of Pharmacy program, the quality of our faculty, and the dedication of our support staff.”

Maldonado Dávila said the results underscore the school’s continued commitment to preparing pharmacists who can meet the island’s public health needs.

Medical Sciences Campus Chancellor Myrna L. Quiñones Feliciano also praised the graduating class and faculty for the milestone.

“Achieving a 100% pass rate is an extraordinary accomplishment that reflects the academic excellence and commitment of our students and the tireless dedication of our faculty,” she said. “This result reaffirms our mission to train high‑caliber healthcare professionals committed to the well-being of our country.”

UPR President Zayira Jordán Conde said the ranking highlights the system’s broader educational mission.

“This pass rate reaffirms the academic excellence of the University of Puerto Rico and the effectiveness of a rigorous curriculum aligned with the competencies demanded by contemporary pharmaceutical practice,” she said.

NAPLEX certification is required to obtain a pharmacist license in the United States and serves as a key indicator in pharmacy program accreditation. Last year, the UPR School of Pharmacy received full reaccreditation for the maximum eight-year term from the

Council for Pharmacy Education.

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Bad weather leaves people stranded in Vieques after ferry service suspended

Elsewhere, coastal safety alerts issued, LUMA crews work to restore power

By THE STAR STAFF

The suspension of maritime transportation service be tween the offshore island town of Vieques and Ceiba left residents and visitors stranded at the ferry terminals on Tuesday, forcing the municipality to activate assistance measures due to deteriorating sea conditions.

Vieques Mayor José “Junito” Corcino Acevedo said that starting in the early morning, volunteers from the non-profit organization COREFI, along with municipal administration personnel, had been distributing food, including hot meals, to people stranded at the ferry terminal due to inclement sea conditions, including dangerous waves exceeding 11 feet.

Likewise, discussions had been held with Ceiba Mayor Samuel “Sammy” Rivera Báez to coordinate the delivery of food to the residents of Vieques who were waiting for service to resume at the ferry terminal at the former Roosevelt Roads naval base in that municipality.

Corcino also announced that the Luis González Camare ro indoor court in the Isabel Segunda area, adjacent to the maritime transport terminal, had been made available so that stranded visitors and tourists could wait for the resumption of service in a safe environment.

“As you know, maritime conditions in the waters between Vieques and the municipality of Ceiba, where the main ferry terminal is located, have been deteriorating since yesterday afternoon,” the mayor said in a press release. “In response, the Integrated Transportation Authority (ATI) decided last night to temporarily suspend transportation to and from our island municipality. This has left many people unable to travel to Ceiba. Given this situation, our staff set up a designated area and, since early this morning, together with the COREFI agency, we have been providing food to stranded citizens.”

Corcino said he had been in direct conversation with ATI staff since Monday night.

According to data from the National Oceanic and At mospheric Administration (NOAA), the coasts of the eastern

The suspension of maritime transportation service between the offshore island town of Vieques and Ceiba left residents and visitors stranded at the ferry terminals on Tuesday, forcing the activation of assistance measures due to deteriorating sea conditions.

part of the island were experiencing winds of up to 25 knots at midday Tuesday, with isolated gusts reaching 35 knots.

In southwest Puerto Rico, meanwhile, San Germán May or Virgilio Olivera Olivera activated the Municipal Emergency Operations Center on Tuesday due to the severe weather.

The mayor said he had “discussed with all our directors, from the various departments, the plan to follow to ensure the safety of our residents and visitors.”

“Currently, several areas are without electricity, and efforts are underway to restore service,” Olivera said. “It rained heavily yesterday, starting in the early morning hours. This morning, the wind gusts were very strong, causing trees to fall.”

“We strongly urge our citizens to stay home unless absolutely necessary, as the bad weather is expected to continue until Thursday,” the mayor added.

In the northwest, Aguadilla Mayor Julio Roldán Con cepción urged residents and visitors on Tuesday to stay away from coastal areas due to the strong swells affecting the region, following inspections conducted Sunday afternoon and Monday morning at several points along the coastline.

“Early yesterday afternoon and early this morning I went to the Rompeolas facilities, the Paseo Real Marina, and Colón Park to observe the conditions of the high swells, and

today we are already beginning to see the damage caused by them,” the mayor said in a written statement. “Our Emergency Management Office has been carrying out this work since last night and is currently working to protect the public and our public spaces. Today is not the time to visit these areas; it’s time to stay home.”

Roldán added that personnel from the Municipal Emer gency Management Office were remaining active, carrying out preventive and protective work in the affected areas, as part of measures to reduce risks to citizens and public spaces in the municipality. He said the municipality will continue to monitor maritime conditions while the swells persist.

Wilfred Torres, the municipal public safety director, reiterated the call for caution and to avoid exposing oneself to the dangerous conditions on the coast.

“The swells we are observing represent a real risk,” he said. “Our personnel are working tirelessly to secure vulnerable areas, but we need the cooperation of the public. Staying away from the coast is essential to avoid incidents.”

LUMA reports 97% of customers with electricity

LUMA Energy reported early Tuesday afternoon that some 97 percent of its customers in Puerto Rico had electric ity service, while crews continued restoration efforts in the Bayamón, Mayagüez and San Juan regions, the areas with the largest number of subscribers without power.

“At this time, 97.09 percent of our customers have service,” the company reported in an update released in the afternoon. “We continue working in the Bayamón, Mayagüez, and San Juan regions, which are the most affected.”

The company stated that its crews are working contin uously to address every reported outage and restore service safely.

According to the data released, a total of 44,602 cus tomers remained without service as of 2:10 p.m. Tuesday. The region with the greatest impact was San Juan, with 12,888 customers without power, followed by Mayagüez with 9,202 and Ponce with 7,862 affected customers.

In Caguas, 8,276 customers were reported without ser vice, including 229 outages associated with planned improve ments, while Bayamón had 4,038 customers without power. Arecibo had 2,251 affected customers, and Carolina had 85.

PREB approves new temporary generation contract

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) has approved a second contract for temporary emergency generation, clearing the way for an additional 200 megawatts (MW) of floating power plant capacity to support the island’s strained electric system, according to a resolution issued by the regulator.

The contract, submitted by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) on Jan. 23, is part of an ongoing procure ment effort to secure up to 800 MW of temporary generation ordered last year amid mounting reliability concerns. The

PREB determined the agreement’s terms to be “prudent and reasonable” and consistent with Puerto Rico’s energy public policy, despite the fact that such temporary resources are not part of the existing Integrated Resource Plan (IRP).

Under the terms of the proposed 10‑year perfor mance‑based service agreement, the selected provider will deploy mobile sea-based generation units -- floating power plants capable of supplying 200 MW of continuous power to the San Juan Power Plant or another designated site. The seller will also procure, store, deliver and regasify liquefied natural gas (LNG), and build all necessary interconnection

infrastructure at 115 kilovolts (kV) or 230 kV, including trans formers and switchgear.

The buyer PREPA will only pay for metered and accepted kilowatt hours. The contract does not include min imum‑take provisions or make‑whole payments.

The PREB said the resource is needed to offset the island’s persistent generation deficit, worsened by the catastrophic failure of Aguirre Unit 1 and a pattern of forced outages across PREPA’s aging thermal fleet. PREPA has warned that Puerto Rico could face an 800 MW shortfall during peak demand if temporary generation is not added.

Gov’t estimates $2 billion economic lift in fiscal year from expanded military activity

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico government expects the U.S. military’s operations and planned construction projects on the island to generate more than $2 billion in economic activity in fiscal year 2026, according to a new analysis released Tuesday by officials from La Fortaleza and the Puerto Rico Planning Board.

On the program En Récord, Public Affairs Secretary Jean Peña Payano and Planning Board President Héctor Morales Martínez outlined the findings of the report, titled “Impacto Económico por Presencia Militar en Puerto Rico para el Año Fiscal 2026.”

The study estimates that $832.5 million in operational spending and military‑related construction will translate into an economic impact of $2.04 billion, supporting 12,346 jobs and producing $254.6 million in wages across the island.

Morales said the study demonstrates how defense‑related activity stimulates local supply chains, employment and consumer spending.

“This information is essential for the business ecosystem and municipal govern ments to anticipate opportunities, prepare

projects expected to deliver the strongest employment gains, particularly in the construction and services sectors.

and maximize regional economic devel opment,” he said.

Alejandro Díaz Marrero, director of the planning board’s Economic and So cial Planning Program, said the analysis incorporates both the military’s ongoing operational spending and the slate of proj ects funded under the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). He noted that 2026 represents a phase of strategic reinvest ment, with infrastructure and construction

Fort Buchanan in Guay nabo the island’s prin cipal U.S. Army installa tion remains the largest economic driver. With an operating budget exceed ing $500 million and a community of roughly 15,000 people, the base is projected to generate up to $1.22 billion in local production and 7,415 jobs. NDAA-funded projects at Buchanan, including an estimated $170 million investment in construction and a new electrical microgrid, are expected to contribute an additional $415.8 million in economic output and 2,521 jobs.

Other military sites are also poised for substantial activity. Planned projects at Ramey Base in Aguadilla and Camp Santiago in Salinas represent about $81 million in investment. At Ramey alone, construction-phase activity is projected to

produce $162.7 million in local output and 986 jobs. Meanwhile, Roosevelt Roads in Ceiba is set to receive some $79 million to modernize electrical systems and complete water infrastructure upgrades. That work is expected to generate $193.2 million in local production and 1,171 jobs, with further economic activity anticipated once major upgrades conclude by mid‑2026.

According to the Planning Board, the military’s presence acts as a direct econom ic injection, with ripple effects spanning employment, consumption and stability in communities adjacent to the bases. Díaz Marrero said the studies help quantify how investment translates into jobs and wages and help identify sectors capable of strengthening supply chains and expanding local procurement.

Morales added that the analysis supports the economic development agenda of Gov. Jenniffer González Colón by providing data that can guide investment attraction and align private‑sector opportunities with strategic projects on the island.

The Planning Board oversees Puerto Rico’s socioeconomic and territorial plan ning and produces data‑driven analyses to support public and private decision‑making.

Espacios Abiertos says denial of inflation adjustment to impact the poor

By THE STAR STAFF

The watchdog organization Espacios Abiertos warned Tuesday that the Financial Oversight and Management Board’s decision to deny the inflation adjustment to Puerto Rico’s Earned Income Credit (EIC) for tax year 2025 will directly exacerbate working poverty by keeping benefits frozen despite rising living costs.

On Tuesday, Gov. Jenniffer González Colón was slated at press time to sign into law the bill that would give tax relief checks to salaried workers.

“In Puerto Rico, the Earned Income Credit has wide reach and a tangible effect on household income,” said Daniel San tamaría Ots, co‑executive director of Espacios Abiertos, in a written statement. “During tax year 2024, the credit benefited 734,619 families -- six out of every 10 households that filed a return with an average credit of $1,974 per family.”

According to the organization’s analysis, the oversight board confirmed in an Oct. 29, 2025 letter to the island Treasury secretary that it would deny the inflation adjustment, citing Section 204(b)(4) of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, commonly known as PROMESA. That means the credit parameters for 2025 will remain unchanged from the previous year, even as the cost of living continues to rise.

“The freeze especially harms households with dependents and single filers, who are less able to absorb increases in the

cost of living,” Santamaría Ots said, noting that most of those affected come from families with one or two dependents.

He added that the impact of the decision “goes far beyond fiscal figures,” warning that it creates a disincentive for formal employment with consequences for local small and midsize businesses that already struggle to find workers.

Wilmarí de Jesús, public policy analyst at Espacios Abiertos, said the credit has had structural effects on Puerto Rico’s economy.

“The benefits of this program go beyond a one‑time check,” she said. “They incentivize work and encourage economic activity to move into the formal market.”

De Jesús also noted that the number of people filing tax returns has remained ele vated since the credit’s implementation in 2021, broadening the tax base and creating a multiplier effect in the economy.

Espacios Abiertos spokesperson Ataveyra Medina Hernández said the organization has requested meetings with the oversight board, the Puerto Rico Legislature, and the Treasury Department to discuss alternatives.

“We are in conversations with the Board and have requested meetings to deepen the analysis and protect this incentive, which

has proven so effective in promoting Puerto Rico’s economic development,” she said.

The group’s analysis estimates that without the inflation adjustment, an additional 7,475 people will remain below the federal poverty threshold in 2025. Espacios Abiertos urged the Board to reconsider its decision and incorporate an automatic inflation-adjustment mechanism into the fiscal plan.

Oversight chair rejects Clintons’ offer for Epstein testimony

By ANNIE KARNI

Bill and Hillary Clinton agreed earlier this week to testify in the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, capitulating to the demands of its Republican chair days before the House was expected to vote to hold them in criminal contempt of Congress.

For months, the Clintons had been adamant that they would not comply with subpoenas from Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the panel’s Republican chair, that they have described as invalid and legally unenforceable. They accused Comer of being part of a plot to target them as President Donald Trump’s political adversaries and promised to fight him on the issue for as long as it took.

But after some Democrats on the panel joined Republicans in a vote to recommend charging them with criminal contempt, an extraordinary first step in referring them to the Justice Department for prosecution, the Clintons ultimately waved the white flag and agreed to fully comply with Comer’s demands.

Former President

Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrive at the Capitol in Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump as 47th president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2025. Lawyers for the Clintons made an offer for Bill Clinton to testify before the House Oversight Committee after initially refusing. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

In an email sent to Comer on Monday evening, attorneys for the Clintons said their clients would “appear for depositions on mutually agreeable dates” and asked that the House not move forward with a contempt vote, which had been slated for Wednesday.

“They negotiated in good faith. You did not,” spokespersons for the Clintons said in a statement. “They told under oath what they know, but you did not care. But the former president and former secretary of state will be there.”

For Bill Clinton to testify in the Epstein investigation would be nearly unprecedented. No former president has appeared before Congress since 1983, when former President Gerald Ford did so to discuss the celebration of the 1987 bicentennial of the enactment of the Constitution. When Trump was subpoenaed in 2022 by the select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, after he had left office, he sued the panel to try to block it. The panel ultimately withdrew the subpoena.

The Clintons’ move capped a monthslong battle between them and Comer. It was a victory for the Republican chair’s efforts to shift the focus of his panel’s Epstein investigation away from Trump’s ties to Epstein and his administration’s handling of the matter and onto prominent Democrats who once associated with the disgraced financier and his longtime companion, Ghislaine Maxwell.

In a letter Saturday to Comer, which was obtained by The New York Times, Bill Clinton’s lawyers tried one more time to put some guardrails on potential interviews with the Clintons. They said Bill Clinton would agree to sit for a four-hour transcribed interview with the entire committee — something he had previously described as an inappropriate and unprecedented request to make of a former president.

The lawyers asked that Hillary Clinton, who has said she

never met or spoke to Epstein, be allowed to make a sworn declaration instead of testifying. But they said that she, too, would submit to an in-person interview if the committee insisted on it, “with appropriate adjustments for the paucity of information she has to offer in this matter,” according to the letter.

But Comer flatly rejected the offer, calling it “unreasonable” and arguing that four hours of testimony from Bill Clinton was inadequate given that he was a “loquacious individual” who might seek to run out the clock.

“Your clients’ desire for special treatment is both frustrating and an affront to the American people’s desire for transparency,” Comer wrote in a letter sent to the Clintons’ lawyers on Monday that was also obtained by the Times.

In that letter, Comer also rejected the demand from Bill Clinton that the scope of the interview be limited to matters related to Epstein. Comer said the former president “likely has an artificially narrow definition in mind” of what matters would be related to the Epstein investigation.

Comer said he had concerns that Clinton would refuse to answer questions about “his personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, ways in which they sought to curry favor with powerful individuals and alleged efforts to utilize his power and influence after his presidency to kill negative news stories about Jeffrey Epstein.”

In response to Comer’s letter, the Clintons on Monday evening agreed to all of Comer’s demands, removing any time limit on the deposition of Bill Clinton or on the range of topics that Republicans could ask him about.

The only point of negotiation that Comer had previously been amenable to was conducting the interviews in New York,

where the Clintons live and work.

Clinton was acquainted with Epstein, who died in prison in 2019, but has said he never visited Epstein’s private island and cut off contact with him two decades ago. Clinton took four international trips on Epstein’s private jet in 2002 and 2003, according to flight logs.

While some House Democrats last month voted with Republicans to hold the Clintons in contempt of Congress, others expressed disgust at the entire situation, and in particular about the inclusion of Hillary Clinton.

“I’m not seeing anything to suggest she ought to be a part of this in any way,” Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Md., said at a hearing last month, noting that it looked like the former secretary of state had been included because “we want to dust her up a bit if we get her before this committee.”

The offer from the Clintons represented a total surrender after they made a defiant stand just weeks ago, vowing to fight back against an investigation they said was unfairly targeting them and holding them to a different standard from others.

“Every person has to decide when they have seen or had enough and are ready to fight for this country, its principles and its people, no matter the consequences,” the Clintons wrote in a lengthy letter to Comer on Jan. 13. “For us, now is that time.”

Up until the final moment, the Clintons had been trying to negotiate with the House Oversight Committee behind the scenes to find a way for Comer to spare them the contempt vote and lift the subpoenas. They said that Comer and the top Democrat on the panel could interview Bill Clinton under oath, an offer that the chair also rejected, insisting that the former president appear before the entire committee for an open-ended, transcribed interview.

For the Clintons, the entire saga was a continuation of the Republican assault on them that has been the background noise of their entire life on the national political stage.

In a letter they wrote to Comer in January, the Clintons accused him of potentially bringing Congress to a halt to pursue a politically driven process “literally designed to result in our imprisonment.”

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Tasa mínima, promedio ponderado, y máxima para préstamos personales pequeños otorgados para la semana que terminó el sábado, 31 de enero de 2026

Portland, Oregon, mayor calls for ICE to leave after children are tear-gassed

By ANNA GRIFFIN and AARON WEST

The tear-gassing this past weekend in Portland, Oregon, of a protest billed as “family friendly” has prompted Portland’s mayor and City Council to consider dramatic new steps, including financial penalties, to try to force Immigration and Customs Enforcement out of the city.

Several thousand protesters — including children, older residents and pets — had marched on Saturday to the ICE building 2 miles south of downtown Portland in a daytime demonstration organized by Oregon unions. But when more than a dozen demonstrators at the front of the march crossed a no-trespassing line at the building’s driveway, federal agents fired a barrage of pepper balls and so much tear gas that the police had to briefly close nearby roads engulfed in the plume.

The tear gas reached people, including children, in the back of the crowd, and videos by attendees showed several children crying and retching as medics tried to help them.

That has pushed Mayor Keith Wilson, elected in 2024 with promises of a less confrontational approach to federal officials, to declare he has had enough.

“To those who continue to make these sickening decisions, go home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children,” Wilson said in a statement this past weekend. “Ask yourselves why you continue to work for an agency responsible for murders on American streets. No one is forcing you to lie to yourself, even as your bosses continue to lie to the American people.”

Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, defended the use of tear gas, rubber bullets and other crowd dispersal weapons.

“Over 250 rioters violently stormed an ICE facility in Portland forming a shield wall with umbrellas while they at-

tempted to tie the vehicle gate shut with ropes and moved a dumpster to block the front gate,” she said, though she was referring to an episode that had occurred hours after the agents initially deployed tear gas.

Confrontations between demonstrators and federal immigration agents in Portland have gotten less national attention since President Donald Trump ended his efforts to deploy the National Guard to the city and ICE raids began sweeping through Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota.

But the frequent use of crowd dispersal weapons, including gas, since protests began at the Portland ICE facility in June has prompted increasingly loud calls from left-wing

Federal agents faced off with protesters outside a federal detention center in Portland, Ore., Oct. 18, 2025. The teargassing this weekend in Portland, Ore., of a protest billed as “family friendly” has prompted Portland’s mayor and City Council to consider dramatic new steps, including financial penalties, to try to force Immigration and Customs Enforcement out of the city. (Jordan Gale/The New York Times)

activists for the city to take a stand.

In September, city leaders issued a land use violation notice for the ICE facility, the first step toward potentially revoking permission for federal officers to use the south Portland property to detain immigrants. The notice accused ICE of holding people for too long and too often. The property owner argued his case to city regulators in December, and a decision is imminent.

The Portland City Council has also created a new annual impact fee to be paid by private property owners who lease buildings used as detention centers. Unlike in many other American cities, ICE rents space in Portland from a private landowner, rather than another government agency or a for-profit prison firm.

The stated goal of the new fee is to offset the costs the ICE facility creates for city taxpayers for services such as traffic management, environmental cleanup and emergency response. The political goal is to make it cost prohibitive for private owners to rent to ICE.

City leaders have not set the fee yet, but after Saturday’s violence, Wilson, a business owner known for his relative moderation, told city staff to speed the process of putting the charge in place. He also said that the city was “documenting” the weekend’s events and “preserving evidence.”

“The federal government must, and will, be held accountable,” he said, joining other Democratic mayors, prosecutors and governors in vowing consequences for federal actions.

The Trump administration already faces two lawsuits over the agents’ use of tear gas in Portland, including one by residents of an affordable housing building across the street from the ICE facility who say the frequent use of chemical weapons is endangering the health of people who live nearby.

Search continues for Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie

By AMANDA HOLPUCH

The disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie, was being investigated as a kidnapping amid fears that she was without a medication she needed every 24 hours.

The search for Nancy Guthrie, 84, entered a third day Tuesday, after she was reported missing from her home near Tucson, Arizona, on Sunday.

Chris Nanos, the sheriff, offered few new details about the investigation at a news conference Tuesday, saying that it was unclear if the abduction was targeted or random, and that investigators did not know if more than one person was involved in it.

“We do believe that Nancy was taken from her home against her will, and that’s where we’re at,” Nanos said.

Jon Edwards, the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s Tucson field office, said agents were conducting interviews, reviewing cellphone information and getting information from cellphone towers. He asked anyone who

saw anything suspicious near Guthrie’s home Saturday night or Sunday morning to call the authorities.

Nanos said at a news conference Sunday that Guthrie was last seen at her home when she was dropped off by family members around 9:30 p.m. Saturday.

Guthrie’s family learned Sunday morning that she had not attended church. They went to her home but did not find her there, according to the sheriff’s office. Her wallet, cellphone and vehicle were at the house, authorities said.

Nanos said there were signs at Guthrie’s home that concerned investigators from the beginning of the investigation, but he declined to elaborate on what those were. He declined to answer a question about whether there was blood in the home.

Guthrie has limited mobility and needs daily medication, or she could die without it, authorities said. She does not have cognitive issues.

She lives in Catalina Foothills, an unincorporated community just north of Tucson that is nestled against the Santa Catalina Mountains. Homes there tend to be more expensive

than others in the area. Many houses are on large lots surrounded by desert, including vegetation like saguaro and prickly pear cactuses and thick desert shrubs. Her daughter

Annie Guthrie lives nearby, according to public records.

Savannah Guthrie was absent from the “Today” show broadcast Monday and Tuesday, which opened both broadcasts with coverage of her mother’s disappearance. She was set to be a part of NBC’s Winter Olympics coverage in Italy, but it was not clear Tuesday morning if she was still involved. Monday night, Savannah Guthrie asked in a social media post for people to pray for her mother’s safe return. “Raise your prayers with us and believe with us that she will be lifted by them in this very moment,” she wrote, ending the message with the words: “Bring her home.”

Nancy Guthrie had been a part of “Today” broadcasts several times. In 2012, Savannah Guthrie called her mother live on air on her 70th birthday, and spoke about her mother’s “grit” in an on-air tribute on her 80th birthday. In November, “Today” aired a segment about Tucson, which featured Savannah Guthrie having lunch with her mother and sister.

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL

The message from Texas voters: We’re neighbors, not enemies

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

One of the biggest political lessons I learned covering the Middle East for four-plus decades is that there is only one good thing about extremists: They don’t know when to stop. As a result, they eventually go too far and drive themselves over a cliff.

That lesson came to my mind when I was reading about how a Texas Democrat, Taylor Rehmet, trounced his Republican opponent in a state legislative special election Saturday, prevailing in a historically conservative district around Fort Worth, which President Donald Trump won by more than 17 percentage points in 2024.

What struck me most was this paragraph in the Times story by our Texas bureau chief, J. David Goodman, about the result: Rehmet, “a machinist at a Lockheed Martin fighter jet plant in Fort Worth, said in an interview with The New York Times during the campaign that he did not like party labels and believed that voters were ‘really tired of the partisanship.’ He made his support for public education, including vocational programs, central to his campaign.”

I think those 10 words — “really tired of the partisanship” and “his support for public education” — are some of the most important words in American politics today.

I think many Americans are growing both exhausted and frightened by Trump’s scorched-earth, hyperpartisan, fireready-aim approach to the presidency, in which he’s been

treating Democrats not as political opponents but as “traitors,” wiping out Democrats from previously bipartisan boards, slapping his name on the Kennedy Center ahead of JFK’s and lately even accusing President Barack Obama of “treason” — to name just a few of his inflammatory, divisive actions.

I think a lot of Americans are tired of being pitted against their neighbors and hunger to be brought together for a common purpose; they want common-sense solutions and to preserve our most cherished public institutions.

As the Times reported from Texas, Rehmet defeated the Trump-endorsed Leigh Wambsganss — a longtime conservative activist who “had helped propel a social conservative takeover of several school boards in and around the district in 2022.” Last year, Goodman wrote, “more moderate candidates ousted many social conservatives from the boards, suggesting an emerging backlash.” Wambsganss and her conservative compatriots focused on banning books about race, gender fluidity and LGBTQ+ issues.

But this Texas election outcome did not surprise me. A personal story: In October 2024, my lecture agent sent me a speaking offer from Pittsburg State University. As I live outside Washington, D.C., I knew I’d be able to get there easily if I got in a news crush, which is what happened. The week before the scheduled lecture the next spring, I had to go to Korea, and I returned just two days before the engagement. No problem, I thought. I can just hop over to Pittsburgh and maybe get back the same night.

But when I called my agent for my travel logistics, he quickly explained: “No, no, it’s Pittsburg without an H.”

“Where is Pittsburg without an H?” I asked.

“It’s in southern Kansas,” he said.

“You have got to be kidding,” I responded. “How do I get there?”

Of all the things that I said that night, that line got the loudest applause. By the end of the day, I was exhausted and jet-lagged, but I was so glad that I had come to Pittsburg without an H.

And that is why I was not at all surprised at what happened in that special election in Fort Worth. I believe the most underappreciated political aspiration in America today is the hunger of many Americans — not all, but many — to be pulled together and not pulled apart.

I still believe that many Americans want to strengthen the public institutions and shared common interests that bind us, not to rename them all “Trump.” They want to see one another as neighbors again, not the enemy next door.

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The fastest way, he said, was to fly to Chicago at 7 a.m., and then fly from there to Springfield, Missouri, and then drive an hour and a half to the Pittsburg State campus in Crawford County, in southeastern Kansas.

Oh my, I thought, did I get this wrong. …

Anyway, I made the trek. When I got there, I participated in a roundtable with students, an interview with campus and local journalists and a dinner with donors and faculty, and then I gave a talk, “An Examination of American Life.” The students were great, hungry to learn, and the audience — Trump won the county 62% to 37% — could not have been more welcoming. After I finished my formal lecture, I was interviewed onstage by professor Chris Childers, the dean of the university’s College of Arts and Sciences.

During the Q&A with Childers, he asked me a question — I don’t remember exactly what it was, but I do remember my answer, and the audience’s reaction. My answer was, to the best of my recollection: “President Trump says his favorite word is ‘tariffs.’ My favorite word is ‘public’ — public schools, public service, public parks, public universities, public libraries, public health, public transportation, public places.

But — attention — progressive Democrats and the universities they dominate need to heed that message, too. They have not been blameless in generating our divides. As the Brown University economist Glenn Loury wisely observed in a recent essay: “For years, identity politics was treated — rightly — as a pathology of the left. It displaced the individual as the bearer of moral and political claims, and instead proposed group membership, defined by race, gender and sexuality, as the proper grounds for justice.”

Well, guess what happened, Loury added: The “right’s response to progressive identity politics has not chiefly taken the form of repudiation. It has taken the form of adoption. … What we are witnessing is not merely a backlash. It’s a convergence.” We no longer debate whether identity should be the battlefield, said Loury, only which identities deserve protection or priority — white, Black, brown, gay, straight, trans, Native American. We never talk about how our “shared citizenship could survive our grievances and differences.”

This is our collective race to the bottom. It is our collective race away from our national project — of making, out of many, one — and into a zero-sum national brawl over “Whose country is this, anyway?” And it is taking our great nation over a cliff. I am convinced that many Americans of all races, creeds and colors want it stopped before it really does tip into civil war.

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El peticionario, Guasábara Plaza, cuya dirección postal es PO Box 3016, Caguas, Puerto Rico 00726, representado por el Sr. Benigno Domínguez, Propietario, ha solicitado al Área de Calidad de Agua (ACA) del Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA) el permiso de construcción, UIC-25-13-0018, para construir un sistema de inyección subterránea (SIS) Clase VC-1, bajo las disposiciones del Reglamento para el Control de la Inyección Subterránea (RCIS) y la Ley Federal de Agua Potable Segura, según enmendada 42 USC 300f et seq. (LFAPS).

El SIS consiste en un tanque séptico de 5 pies de largo por 5 pies de ancho por 6 pies de profundidad líquida, con una capacidad de 1,122 galones y un pozo filtrante de 4 pies de ancho por 14 pies de largo por 10 pies de profundidad líquida con un área de percolación de 360 pies cuadrados, para la disposición de 971 galones por día de aguas usadas, provenientes de los baños de la farmacia, el laboratorio y cocina de la cafetería. El referido SIS está localizado en la Carretera PR-796, Km 0.3, Barrio Río Cañas, Caguas, Puerto Rico.

Luego de realizada la evaluación correspondiente de los documentos sometidos, el DRNA tiene la intención de emitir los permisos de construcción y operación para la instalación antes mencionada en conformidad con los requisitos del RCIS y de la LFAPS.

Esta notificación se hace para informar que el DRNA, ha preparado los borradores de los permisos de construcción y operación de forma tal que el público interesado pueda someter sus comentarios con relación a los mismos. Los permisos contienen las condiciones y prohibiciones necesarias para cumplir con los requisitos reglamentarios aplicables.

Copia de la solicitud de los permisos de construcción y operación que sometió el peticionario ante el DRNA, los borradores de los permisos y otros documentos relevantes estarán a la disposición del público para ser examinados, a petición del interesado mediante el envío de un correo electrónico a la siguiente dirección: vanessadelmoral@drna.pr.gov o visitando el ACA, cuya oficina está localizada en el Piso 3 Ala A del Edificio de Agencias Ambientales Cruz A. Matos, Carretera PR-8838, Km. 6.3, Sector El Cinco, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. Copia de dichos documentos pueden adquirirse en el ACA, entre las 8:00 a.m. y las 4:00 p.m. de lunes a viernes o escribiendo a la siguiente dirección: Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales, San José Industrial Park, 1375 Avenida Ponce de León, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926.

Las partes interesadas o afectadas pueden enviar sus comentarios por escrito a la Sra. Vanessa Del Moral Rosario, Secretaria Auxiliar, Secretaría Auxiliar de Cumplimiento Ambiental del ACA, o solicitar una vista pública por escrito al Secretario del DRNA, a la dirección postal o correo electrónico antes indicado. Los comentarios por escrito o la solicitud de vista pública deberán ser sometidos al DRNA no más tarde de treinta (30) días a partir de la fecha de publicación de este aviso. La fecha límite para someter comentarios puede ser extendida si se estima necesario o apropiado para el interés público. La solicitud para una vista pública deberá señalar la razón o las razones que en la opinión del solicitante ameritan la celebración de esta. De realizarse una vista pública los interesados o afectados tendrán una oportunidad razonable para presentar evidencia o testimonio sobre si se emiten o deniegan los permisos, si el Secretario determina que dicha.vista es necesaria o apropiada. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 30 de octubre de 2025.

Secretario de Salud informa que influenza se mantiene en nivel epidémico y refuerza

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SAN JUAN – El secretario del Departamento de Salud, Víctor Ramos Otero, informó el martes que la influenza se mantiene sobre el nivel epidémico en Puerto Rico, según la actualización epidemiológica número 3 correspondiente al periodo del 18 al 24 de enero, y reiteró el llamado a la vacunación y a las medidas de prevención.

“Nuestro principal llamado es a la prevención y a la acción responsable. Vacunarse y seguir las medidas básicas es la mejor manera de cuidar nuestra salud y la de quienes nos rodean. Con acciones responsables, todos podemos protegernos y mantener nuestras comunidades seguras”, dijo Ramos Otero en declaraciones escritas.

Durante la semana epidemiológica número 3 se reportaron 3,023 casos nuevos, para un total acumulado de 45,206 casos en la temporada de influenza 2025-2026. El porcentaje de hospitalización para ese periodo fue de 5.2 por ciento, según los datos del Departamento de Salud.

Las estadísticas reflejan que el 46.7 por ciento de los casos reportados corresponden a la población pediátrica de 0 a 19 años. Las regiones con mayor cantidad de casos acumulados continúan siendo Ponce con 8,903 casos, Caguas con 8,761 y Bayamón con 7,650. En cuanto a la mortalidad, se han confirmado 139 muertes asociadas a influenza durante la temporada. De estas, once muertes fueron añadidas recientemente, mientras que

“Los casos de influenza mantienen la tendencia de aumento. Estamos prestando especial atención a los grupos de 0 a 19 años y adultos mayores, que concentran la mayor cantidad de casos, lo que requiere reforzar las medidas preventivas, principalmente en escenarios escolares y égidas”, expresó la principal oficial de epidemiología, Miriam Ramos Colón, en declaraciones escritas.

Ramos Otero informó que continúan los eventos de vacunación comunitaria en Culebra, Bayamón y San Juan durante los próximos días, además de jornadas de vacunación en veintidós farmacias alrededor de la isla en colaboración con la Asociación de Farmacias de la Comunidad.

La principal oficial médico, Iris Cardona Gerena, indicó que hasta la fecha se han administrado 390,060 vacunas contra la influenza durante la temporada 2025-2026 y reiteró la importancia de la vacunación para proteger a las poblaciones más vulnerables.

Instituto de Ciencias Forenses presenta resultados de 2025 y proyecciones para 2026

AN JUAN – La directora ejecutiva del Instituto de Ciencias Forenses de Puerto Rico (ICF), María Conte Miller, presentó este martes un balance de su gestión durante el año 2025 y delineó sus proyecciones estratégicas para el 2026, al destacar avances en el Protocolo de Consultas Hospitalarias, la Unidad de Identificación Humana y el Crime Gun Intelligence Center de Puerto Rico.

“El 2025 fue un año de consolidación institucional. Los datos confirman que el Instituto de Ciencias Forenses cuenta con protocolos robustos, personal altamente especializado y una capacidad de respuesta sostenida que protege el debido proceso medicolegal y fortalece la confianza pública”, dijo Conte Miller, en declaraciones escritas.

Entre 2023 y enero de 2026, el Instituto atendió 5,864 consultas hospitalarias, de las cuales el 52.76 por ciento correspondieron a casos medicolegales. Solo en el 2025 se atendieron 1,931 consultas, y 944 fueron correctamente

clasificadas como medicolegales, lo que reflejó mejoras en la identificación temprana y en la activación adecuada del protocolo.

Durante el periodo del 1 al 30 de enero de 2026, la agencia atendió 177 consultas hospitalarias, de las cuales 103 fueron confirmadas como medicolegales, evidenciando una respuesta ágil y alineada con el rigor técnico y el debido proceso.

En cuanto a la Unidad de Identificación Humana, durante el 2025 se recibieron 368 casos John o Jane Doe, logrando la identificación positiva de 352 personas, lo que representa un 96 por ciento de efectividad. Más del 65 por ciento de los casos se resolvieron mediante huellas dactilares, junto con otras disciplinas científicas como odontología forense, ADN y antropología.

“Cada identificación representa un compromiso con la dignidad humana y con las familias que merecen respuestas claras y científicamente sustentadas”, expresó Conte Miller.

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UPR professor to highlight forgotten legacy of interior design pioneer

By THE STAR STAFF

As she prepares for her presentation this Thursday, University of Puerto Rico (UPR)-Carolina Prof. Joemi Burgos Díaz says her goal is clear: to bring overdue recognition to Angélica Figueroa de Valldejuli, the founder of Puerto Rico’s first specialized school of interior design and a largely overlooked figure whose influence extended far beyond the island.

In an interview, Burgos explained that her ongoing, unpublished research reveals a significant gap in the historical study of interior design in Puerto Rico.

“Interior design in Puerto Rico has not been studied,” she noted. “We study what has come to us from Europe and the United States.”

But Puerto Rico’s development diverged from those traditions, she added, because the local practice originated within the field of home economics.

Burgos traced this unique history to Figueroa de Valldejuli, who transformed interior design education in the 1950s by establishing the first independent specialized school on the island. What had previously been taught as part of home economics at UPR -- color theory, furniture distribution, and other basic skills -became institutionalized under Figueroa de Valldejuli’s leadership.

“She graduated the first interior decorators in Puerto Rico,” Burgos said, noting that Figueroa de Valldejuli’s work filled a void in local architectural and design history dominated by references to European movements such as the Bauhaus.

Figueroa de Valldejuli, who studied in

New York and traveled widely through the United States, Europe and Latin America, introduced influences that do not appear in standard design textbooks.

One of Burgos’ main objectives for her Thursday talk is to highlight how Figueroa de Valldejuli helped transform the lives of Puerto Rican women during the mid-20th century.

“In the 1950s, when women didn’t have the resources we have now, she took many women out of their homes so they could earn a living and support their families,” Burgos emphasized. Former students frequently thanked Figueroa de Valldejuli for enabling them to survive difficult moments.

Her influence also reached other countries. Directors of interior design programs from Panama, Colombia and Venezuela traveled to Puerto Rico to study at Figueroa de Valldejuli’s school and later adapted the model in their home nations.

Although Figueroa de Valldejuli never published a manual defining a “Puerto Rican style,” Burgos found correspondence showing that the designer was already considering how to develop one. This was years before the founding of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in 1955 and before the formal studies on criollo aesthetics that would later emerge.

“Even though those studies didn’t exist yet, she emphasized the importance of studying history and culture,” Burgos said.

Her students traveled not only across the island but also to the Dominican Republic and Europe, broadening their cultural and technical exposure.

When asked how she interprets a Puerto Rican design aesthetic, Burgos said the ques-

Angélica Figueroa de Valldejuli transformed interior design education in Puerto Rico in the 1950s by establishing the island’s first independent specialized school in the discipline. (joemiburgosdiaz.com)

tion remains complex.

People often default to folklore or traditional imagery, she explained, but Puerto Rico’s identity is more layered. Rather than fixed colors or colonial- era furniture, she believes the defining element of Puerto Rican design should be how it responds to the climate -- ventilation, humidity, materials, and the lived reality of the tropics.

“The most important thing about a Puerto Rican design is that it aligns with the climate we have,” she said.

High humidity, for example, makes pure cotton textiles impractical because they absorb moisture and generate mold. Blends with synthetics often perform better. Likewise, many modern condominiums rely on sealed glass windows or guillotine-style frames that prevent cross-ventilation, worsening condensation and indoor air quality.

Traditional louvered windows, also known as Miami windows, sometimes dismissed as outdated, remain among the most effective for tropical climates, Burgos said.

Beyond her contributions to interior design, Figueroa de Valldejuli was involved in prominent women’s organizations, such as the Círculo Porcia and the American Woman’s Society, and accompanied Puerto Rico’s first Miss Universe contestant in 1947.

She taught English and literature before studying interior decoration in the United States and later served as the first madrina of the ROTC program at UPR, a detail Burgos found particularly striking.

Figueroa de Valldejuli also collaborated with cultural leader Ricardo Alegría, who offered workshops and lectures on Puerto Rican history and art to members of her design clubs and associations.

Burgos hopes that her presentation encourages the public to value Figueroa de Valldejuli’s role in shaping design education and empowering women -- and to appreciate a part of Puerto Rico’s cultural history that has long gone unrecognized.

Burgos’ talk is scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday in the Sala de Teleconferencias on the second floor of the UPR-Carolina Library.

Conservative group to stage alternate halftime show with Kid Rock

By MARC TRACY

The conservative group Turning Point USA will present a concert during halftime of the Super Bowl on Sunday night as counterprogramming to the NFL’s official halftime show featuring Latin superstar Bad Bunny, who has been an outspoken critic of the Trump administration.

Billed as the “All-American Halftime Show,” it will be headlined by Kid Rock and will celebrate “faith, family and freedom,” according to an announcement Monday from TPUSA, an organization founded by

Charlie Kirk, the activist who was killed last year, to rally young conservatives.

The event will air on TPUSA’s various social media accounts, including on YouTube, X and Rumble, as well as other platforms associated with the right, including the streamer Daily Wire+, Real America’s Voice and One America News Network, the announcement said. Other artists scheduled to perform include country singers Brantley Gilbert, Gabby Barrett and Lee Brice. A website for the event promised more artists to be announced.

Kid Rock, who has performed at po -

litical events for President Donald Trump, cast the show as an explicit rejoinder to the planned performance by Bad Bunny, a Puerto Rican who typically performs in Spanish.

“We plan to play great songs for folks who love America,” Kid Rock said in a statement announcing his performance.

On Sunday evening, Bad Bunny’s “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” became the first Spanish-language album to win the Grammy for album of the year.

Bad Bunny made an explicit political statement from the Grammys stage, saying “ICE out” as he accepted an award earlier

in the evening. “We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens,” Bad Bunny added. “We are humans, and we are Americans.”

The Super Bowl halftime show is generally the world’s most-viewed concert each year — the centerpiece of the most-watched annual television program. More than 130 million people saw last season’s halftime show featuring rapper Kendrick Lamar.

After Bad Bunny was announced as the halftime performer this fall, Trump said in an interview on Newsmax, “I don’t know why they’re doing it — it’s, like, crazy.”

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S&P, Nasdaq futures edge up as earnings deluge takes center stage

Futures tracking the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq edged higher on Tuesday, steadying after a precious metals rout in the previous session, as investors geared up for a flood of corporate results through the week.

Teradyne shares surged 20.8% in premarket trading after the chip-testing equipment maker forecast first-quarter revenue and profit above analysts’ estimates, citing strong demand tied to multibillion-dollar spending by big tech on data-center expansion.

“It’s been a more orderly and calmer affair across markets, with growing signs that traders are ready to re-engage with pro-risk positions and ⁠sell equity index volatility,” said Chris Weston, Pepperstone’s head of research.

Alphabet rose 1% after notching a record high in the previous session, while Amazon added 0.6%. Both the “Magnificent Seven” heavyweights are due to report later this week, offering investors another read on the race to commercialize artificial intelligence.

Palantir Technologies jumped 11.1% as investors bet on the company’s military-grade artificial intelligence tools after U.S. defense spending helped drive its quarterly sales.

Recent earnings from the biggest technology companies have underscored a growing investor focus on payback from soaring capital expenditure plans. Spending on AI-related infrastructure, including data centers, has climbed sharply, ⁠putting pressure on companies to translate investment into measurable returns that can support lofty valuations.

Advanced Micro Devices and server maker Super Micro Computer, both due to report after the close, gained around 2% each.

Pfizer shares fell 1% despite posting its fourth-quarter profit above estimates, while Merck’s shares were down 1.1% on forecasting 2026 sales below expectations.

PepsiCo’s shares slid 0.8% after the company reaffirmed its annual earnings forecast despite beating revenue estimates for the fourth quarter.

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Cadbury maker Mondelez and household products maker Clorox are scheduled to report after the bell.

Markets will watch for clues on consumer trends from earnings reports after last month’s data showed consumer confidence dropped in January to its lowest level in more than 111/2 years.

About one quarter of the S&P 500 is set to report quarterly

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results this week. Analysts expect S&P 500 companies to have grown their earnings nearly 11% in the December quarter, up from an estimate of about 9% at the start of January, according to LSEG data.

At 7:00 a.m. ET, Dow E-minis were down 33 points, or 0.07%, S&P 500 E-minis were up 10.5 points, or 0.15% and Nasdaq 100 E-minis were up 104.25 points, or 0.4%.

On Monday, the S&P 500 and the Dow ended near record levels, while the Nasdaq finished 0.5% higher.

Iran’s president backs ‘fair’ talks with US as confrontation looms

By SANAM MAHOOZI

The president of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, said Tuesday that he supported “fair and equitable negotiations” with the United States, as regional diplomats work to de-escalate tensions between the two countries.

Talks are expected to take place Friday in Istanbul between Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, and Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy, as well as the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, according to regional officials and diplomats. They say, however, that those plans are still tenuous.

In a post on social media, Pezeshkian said he had instructed Araghchi to meet with U.S. officials “provided that a suitable environment exists — one free from threats and unreasonable expectations.” He did not specifically refer to the talks expected to happen in Istanbul.

The Middle East has been on tenterhooks for weeks about the possibility of a military confrontation between Washington and Iran. After a surge of nationwide anti-government protests in Iran, which began in late December and were brutally crushed by Iranian authorities, Trump threatened last month to attack the country, telling protesters that “help is on its way.”

The United States has since sent warships and fighter jets to the region, but Trump now appears more focused on reaching a deal over Iran’s nuclear and military program than on the plight of protesters.

billboard in Tehran, Iran, showing Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reads “We recognize the American president as a criminal,” Jan. 27, 2026. Senior U.S. and Iranian officials are expected to meet in Istanbul on Friday for talks aimed at de-escalating the crisis between their countries, according to two current regional officials and a former one who were familiar with the planning. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times)

A Navy fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone Tuesday after it aggressively approached a U.S. aircraft carrier that was transiting the Arabian Sea, about 500 miles from Iran’s southern coast, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. military’s Central Command.

On Tuesday, Witkoff landed in Israel for talks about

Iran and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency, David Barnea, as well as other security chiefs, according to two Israeli officials. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy.

Pezeshkian said his decision to authorize the talks followed requests from “friendly governments in the region.” For days, regional officials from Turkey, Qatar, Egypt and other countries have been trying to mediate between the United States and Iran to de-escalate the situation.

Trump said Monday that he hoped for a positive outcome from the talks, but warned of potential consequences if diplomacy fails. “We have ships heading to Iran right now, big ones — the biggest and the best,” he told reporters at the White House.

Talks have rarely happened between Iran and the United States since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979.

During his first term in office, Trump withdrew from an international agreement with Iran to limit its nuclear enrichment in exchange for sanctions relief.

Last spring, he authorized several rounds of indirect nuclear talks with Iranian diplomats. But those negotiations collapsed after Israel launched strikes on Iranian nuclear and military targets in mid-June, attacks that were briefly joined by U.S. warplanes.

Besides the U.S. and Iranian officials, senior representatives from Turkey, Qatar and Egypt are also expected to attend the Istanbul talks, if they proceed.

On eve of peace talks, Russia hits power plants in frigid Ukraine

By MARIA VARENIKOVA

Aday before scheduled peace talks with Ukraine, Russia resumed attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure Tuesday, striking power plants with missiles in several regions as temperatures plunged to minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit in the capital, Kyiv.

The attacks ended an informal, shortlived “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine that officials had called a confidencebuilding gesture for peace negotiations. The talks have entered a new phase as Russian and Ukrainian officials have begun meeting face to face for the first time in months.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump said he had asked President Vladimir Putin of Russia to halt attacks for a week. Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, confirmed the pause but said it would last only until Sunday.

The revived strikes on Ukraine’s energy system are part of a major campaign this winter intended to freeze Ukrainians into submission. Russia hit power plants in at least six regions Tuesday, including Kyiv, officials said.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine said the attacks revealed Russia’s true intentions, with peace negotiations set to continue Wednesday in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates.

“Taking advantage of the coldest days of winter to terrorize people is more important to Russia than turning to diplomacy,” Zelenskyy said on social media. He added that Russia had used 70 missiles and 450 drones in the overnight attacks. It was the largest bombardment of Russian missiles in more than a year.

Ukraine’s energy minister, Denys Shmyhal, said the attacks amounted to “another Russian crime against humanity.”

“The targets were not military,” he said on social media. “They were purely civilian: Hundreds of thousands of families, including children, were deliberately left without heat during the harshest winter frosts.”

In Kyiv, authorities reported that two districts were without heating and electricity. Officials also announced emergency power cuts in other parts of the city. At least three people were reported wounded in the attacks.

In the eastern city of Kharkiv, authorities said that all of the city’s 101 tents providing warmth and power for charging devices had opened. Water will most likely need to be drained from pipes after strikes on a power plant, leaving at least 820 apartment buildings without heating, they added.

Zelenskyy earlier announced that a Ukrainian delegation had departed for Abu

Dhabi. The talks there are set to include representatives from Russia, Ukraine and the United States.

In addition to three-way negotiations, bilateral discussions between Ukraine and the United States will be held, Zelenskyy said. The talks will address security guarantees and the future reconstruction of Ukraine, he said. Zelenskyy has said that negotiations over European and U.S. measures to ensure Ukraine’s postwar security are virtually complete, but Russia has said it would not accept some of the terms under consideration.

The attacks Tuesday lasted throughout the night. Late in the morning, air raid sirens sounded again in Kyiv, warning of a ballistic missile heading toward the city. At the time, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte was in the city for an official visit.

Gaza crossing to Egypt reopens in step forward for fragile ceasefire

By ISABEL KERSHNER and BILAL SHBAIR

The sole border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt reopened earlier this week after being largely closed for 20 months, a symbolic, if halting step forward in Israel’s ceasefire with Hamas.

The reopening of the crossing, in the Rafah area of southern Gaza, will for the first time allow some Palestinians who fled Gaza during the two-year war to return, but only in limited numbers for now. It is also expected to expedite the exit of thousands of sick and wounded people waiting for medical treatment abroad.

The hope is that the reopening of the Rafah crossing will be a move toward gradually improving conditions for Palestinians in Gaza.

But in a seemingly faltering start of the operation, only a small number of Palestinians appeared to have received clearances to pass through the crossing Monday morning. It was unclear by nightfall how many Palestinians had crossed the border in either direction.

At a Palestinian Red Crescent Society hospital in Khan Younis, a city in southern Gaza, a minibus departed for the Rafah crossing shortly after 1 p.m. with five patients, each accompanied by two caregivers.

Mohammed Mahdi, 25, was escorting his father, Akram Mahdi, 61, a mechanical engineer. The elder Mahdi was wounded in April 2024 in an Israeli airstrike near their home, in a refugee camp in central Gaza, according to his son. Shrapnel tore into his face, blinding him in his right eye and damaging his left one. Doctors in Gaza could do little more than stabilize him, his son said.

“Finally, we can get advanced treatment abroad,” Mohammed Mahdi said before boarding the minibus.

Israel and Egypt disagreed for months over the terms of the reopening, which is part of President Donald Trump’s plan for ending the Israel-Hamas war. A shaky ceasefire took effect in October, but Israel kept the crossing closed as leverage until the last of the hostages seized in the Hamas-led attack of Oct. 7, 2023, were returned to Israel, alive or dead.

A week ago, the Israeli military said it had retrieved the remains of the last remaining captive, Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, a police officer who was shot during the Oct. 7 attack, which set off the war.

Underscoring the fragility of the ceasefire, the Israeli military launched a series of airstrikes Saturday in Gaza that killed at least 26 people, including several children, according to local health officials.

The Israeli military said it had targeted militants and weapons facilities in response to what it called a violation of the ceasefire by Hamas

A minibus departs for the Rafah border crossing to Egypt from Khan Younis, Gaza, with five patients, each accompanied by two caregivers, on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. The first groups of Palestinians started passing through the crossing on Monday morning in both directions, according to Israeli officials, who said they would have final numbers of how many crossed by the end of the day. (Saher Alghorra/The New York Times)

fighters in the Rafah area the day before.

Before Israel seized the Rafah crossing in May 2024, it was a lifeline and a pressure valve for Gaza’s roughly 2 million residents. Israel and Egypt have tightly controlled the territory’s land borders for years, and Israel has long maintained a naval blockade on the enclave, citing a need to stop weapons smuggling. The passage opened briefly during a temporary ceasefire last winter, but only to allow some Palestinians to leave Gaza to obtain medical treatment abroad.

Now that it has been opened again, the crossing will be strictly supervised and operated in a limited capacity, with dozens of people allowed at first to enter or exit each day, according to officials.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week that Israel would be in charge of overall security, although Israeli forces would not be present at the crossing. He suggested that about 50 people might be let in daily, and that more would be allowed to leave.

“We are not going to prevent anyone from leaving,” he said.

At least initially, truckloads of goods will not be allowed in via the Rafah crossing.

A daily list of people planning to enter or leave Gaza will be submitted by Egypt to Israeli authorities for vetting, according to officials familiar with the details of the arrangements.

They said a civilian security team from the European Union would monitor the crossing with the help of employees of the Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. That is a system similar to the one used in the past.

Because the Gaza side of the crossing is in the half of the enclave that Israel now controls, travel to and from the border on the Gaza side

daughter, Hiba, 25, who was severely wounded in an Israeli airstrike near their home in February 2024. They went to Egypt to seek medical treatment. Abu Ammouna’s husband and their nine other children stayed behind.

“For two years, I’ve been alone with my daughter,” she said by telephone. She said they had been living on charity in Cairo, where they felt “like strangers.”

During their absence, she said, one of her sons, Mohannad, was critically injured in another Israeli strike.

“I want to go back to Gaza, even with all the rubble there,” Abu Ammouna said.

About 80% of the buildings in Gaza were damaged or destroyed in the war, according to the United Nations, and many civilians are living in tents among the debris. Netanyahu has said that Gaza will not be rebuilt until it has been demilitarized.

will be closely coordinated with Israeli authorities. There will be an additional screening and identification process for people entering, they said, to take place in a designated corridor operated by Israeli security personnel in the area under Israeli military control.

The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, a group of Palestinian technocrats charged with helping govern the territory, was still in Cairo on Monday. Members of the committee hoped to enter Gaza soon, but a specific date for their arrival had not been set as of Monday morning, according to four people briefed on the committee’s work who insisted on anonymity to describe it.

In the Egyptian capital, the committee has been putting together plans for aiding and rebuilding Gaza, participating in governance training, and meeting with officials, three of the people said.

Ali Shaath, the committee’s leader, posted a statement on social media Monday calling the crossing’s reopening the “beginning of a long process that will reconnect what has been severed and open a genuine window of hope for our people in the Gaza Strip.”

For those wanting to leave Gaza, priority will be given to the sick and the wounded who have been approved for treatment abroad, said a member of the European border monitoring mission, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the delicate talks about the reopening.

Roughly 18,500 people, including 4,000 children, are on the list of patients to be evacuated, according to the United Nations. Patients are usually accompanied by at least one relative or caregiver.

Other Palestinians are in Egypt, waiting to return.

Manal Abu Ammouna left Gaza with her

The next stage of the ceasefire agreement is fraught with uncertainties. It calls for Hamas to disarm, but the militants are reluctant to do so.

For the first nine months of the war, tens of thousands of Palestinians were able to flee to Egypt through the Rafah crossing. Many paid bribes to secure exit papers, using intermediaries connected with the Egyptian government, while others were sponsored by international aid groups.

After Israel seized the crossing, as part of a military campaign to seal off Gaza’s southern border, all traffic came to a halt. Operations at the crossing resumed briefly in January 2025, under the terms of a temporary ceasefire, but only for a limited amount of traffic out of Gaza. When Israel resumed fighting in March 2025, the crossing closed again.

Gaza has not been hermetically sealed. In September, the Israeli military unit responsible for coordinating with Palestinian officials over civilian affairs said that hundreds of Palestinians in need of medical treatment, along with caregivers, had left the enclave, as well as some Gaza residents with dual citizenship. They passed through another land crossing at the juncture of the borders of Israel, Egypt and Gaza, then traveled overland to Jordan or flew out of an airport in southern Israel.

The World Health Organization says it has helped facilitate nearly 2,700 medical evacuations since the Rafah crossing closed in May 2024.

But the closure of the Rafah crossing cut off a key pipeline.

During the talks, Egypt insisted that the crossing reopen for traffic in both directions. Israel’s right-wing government has made no secret of its desire to see as many Palestinians as possible leave and not return.

Trump and India call off their trade war, but the terms of peace are murky

By ALEX TRAVELLI

The economic war the Trump administration unleashed against India last summer came to an abrupt end Monday with a pair of social media posts from President Donald Trump and then Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. What had begun as a dispute about trade and tariffs, and then escalated to include the Ukraine war, visas and more, was declared over.

Trump was first to share the news: “Our amazing relationship with India will be even stronger” and “the United States will charge a reduced Reciprocal Tariff, lowering it from 25% to 18%.”

In fact, most Indian goods have faced a 50% tariff — not 25% — since Aug. 6, when Trump said the country should be punished for buying oil from Russia. That doubled a tariff that was already set higher than those burdening India’s competitors in Asia.

Modi posted soon after, confirming that the two leaders had spoken, praising Trump personally as a peacemaker and saying the deal “unlocks immense opportunities” for both sides.

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India at the White House in Washington, Feb. 13, 2025. Trump announced on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, that the United States had reached a trade arrangement with India to roll back some of the punishing tariffs he had imposed on its products, in return for India’s dropping its tariffs on some American goods and ceasing its purchases of Russian oil. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)

Tariff Barriers against the United States, to ZERO,” in exchange for the 18% rate their goods will now face.

But aside from the new 18% tariff rate, all other aspects of the deal, as laid out in Trump’s post, leave enormous questions to be answered. Trump wrote that the new rate would be “effective immediately,” without much elaboration. Key terms remained murky, including Trump’s claim that India agreed to spend $500 billion in the United States, something the Indian side did not immediately mention.

The announcements were greeted, initially at least, with a collective sigh of relief. Stocks in Asia jumped Tuesday with shares in India rising nearly 3%.

“This removes an enormous irritant on the U.S.India side and opens the path for perhaps more cooperation and convergence,” said Nisha Biswal, a partner at the Asia Group who formerly worked for the U.S. International Development Finance Corp.

Throughout much of last year, the impasse between the countries over trade drew in other grievances, leaving it difficult for businesses and investors to make plans. An especially pointy irritant for Modi was Trump’s repeated claim that he helped de-escalate India’s military conflict with Pakistan in May.

Questions about the new terms of trade might be the most urgent for businesses affected, especially those in India. Many of the Indian companies that sold goods to the United States, their biggest export market, worth in total about $40 billion a year, were facing an existential crisis. Trump wrote that the Indians would “move forward to reduce their Tariffs and Non

India levies relatively high tariffs against American goods, charging a trade-weighted average of about 12%, while also using an expanding class of other barriers to protect local industries from foreign competition.

Experts were skeptical that India could eliminate every barrier to imports from the United States, as Trump suggested. To use one charged example, American dairy products, produced by cows with nonvegetarian diets, would send India’s consumers into an uproar, not to mention what it would do to the 70 million Indians who depend on dairy production for earnings.

Similar constraints are expected to keep most American agricultural goods at bay.

“Corn and ethanol were areas that we had heard the Indians might be ready to make some accommodation on,” Biswal said, but these are the kind of details that have yet to emerge.

Apart from trade itself, Trump claimed that India has “agreed to stop buying Russian Oil, and to buy much more from the United States and, potentially, Venezuela.” That creates important pressure on Russia to end the war in Ukraine, according to Trump.

It would be difficult for India to explicitly renounce Russia and its imports, and Modi’s post gave no sign that it would. India remains neutral in the Ukraine war, bridles at taking direction concerning its military alignments and buys weapons from Russia still.

India has reduced its purchases of Russia’s crude oil since Trump applied sanctions against companies that trade with its biggest oil firms, Rosneft and Lukoil. Kpler, an analytics firm, noted that India’s imports of Russian oil were down to 1.1 million barrels a day in January, the smallest amount since November 2022.

It remains to be seen if Trump considers such level of purchases good enough. In November, when India was buying 1.8 million barrels a day, he told reporters that “India has largely stopped buying Russian oil.”

India’s imports of American crude have been growing, though they are less than a quarter as much as India buys from Russia. That might be part of what Trump had in mind when he wrote that Modi had committed to “BUY AMERICAN” and would spend more than $500 billion on goods including energy.

Mark Linscott, senior adviser to the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum and a former assistant U.S. trade representative, said a $500 billion commitment over, say, a decade could be feasible and meaningful. But $500 billion at a go, or in one year, is not realistic.

One factor that might have propelled the TrumpModi detente was the installation of Sergio Gor, a close associate of Trump’s, as the ambassador in New Delhi last month.

And last week India concluded the negotiation of a giant trade deal with the European Union, which was many years in the making. The two sides felt pressured by their deteriorating trade relations with the United States.

The Europeans’ deal may or may not have helped push Trump to resolve his differences with Modi. Officials for the EU and India are now deep into the process of sorting the details of their transformative new trade partnership. So far, the United States and India have mainly their leaders’ social media truce.

Hailing a ride on Uber

By CLAIRE FAHY

Despite Uber’s claims that it was one of the safest available travel options, the ride-hailing company received a report of sexual misconduct or sexual assault once every eight minutes or so between 2017 and 2022, The New York Times reported last summer.

Many riders, both in the article and in the comments section, said they had followed safety tips like those previously shared by the Times, such as making sure the license plate matched what appeared on the app. Even though these tips remain valid, many riders still found themselves in uncomfortable or unsafe situations, leading to questions about what safety practices they should adopt.

or Lyft? Here’s what to know to stay safe.

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“A lot of the old rules still apply,” said Bryant Greening, a lawyer who works with accident and assault victims and is a co-founder of the Chicago-based law firm Legalrideshare.com. But, he added, many ride-hailing apps have added more safety features that can help mitigate your personal risk.

other ride-hailing apps have introduced safety features that allow passengers to call for help discreetly as well as share their location with friends and family members. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)

safe when using app-based ride services.

Share your trip

Here are additional things to know about staying

Most ride-hailing apps now offer a feature to share your trip with someone outside the car, Greening said. On the Uber app, this is called “Share My Trip,” and it allows riders to select up to five people from their contact lists with whom to share their trip details as well as their real-time location.

“If you’re in a car with somebody who’s giving you any sort of bad vibe, and you make a casual comment saying, ‘My wife is following the trip on the app,’ that’s going to provide some level of deterrence, some level of accountability,” Greening said.

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According to a blog post by another personal injury law firm, Sokolove Law, it can also be a good idea to send a screenshot of your trip details to friends or family. That way, if a driver cancels your ride and the trip information disappears from the app, there is still a record.

Familiarize yourself with the app

Many apps have built-in safety measures and discreet ways to call

for help, Greening said.

Both Lyft and Uber have partnerships with the security company ADT, according to Sokolove Law. On the Lyft app, for example, ADT provides round-the-clock live support, including sharing trip details with authorities and calling for help. During emergencies, riders can also call 911 directly through the app, saving precious time and allowing customers to seek help without attracting attention.

“Having those features literally at your fingertips can be lifesaving,” Greening said. “So knowing where they are and how to access them ahead of time is common-sense safety.”

Don’t give away personal information

Ride-hailing apps do a good job of shielding both drivers’ and riders’ personal information from each other, Greening said, noting that the apps usually have them contact each other through built-in messaging services. Drivers have riders’ personal information, such as their cellphone numbers, only if riders share it — often to let the driver know where they are during a pickup.

But, Greening said, it’s best to stick with the app when communicating with drivers.

“If you call the driver through the app, your number is not going to show up on that driver’s phone,” Greening said, meaning the driver won’t be able to save your contact information for later use.

Sokolove Law also recommends keeping other information, such as where you work, to yourself while chatting with a driver.

“The driver may use this information to stalk or harass you in the future, even if they didn’t seem dangerous during your ride together,” the blog post said.

Choose

highly rated drivers

Screen for drivers with high ratings on the app, Greening said. The two-way rating systems allow the driver and the rider to score each other on ride quality, he said, which is a benefit compared with a traditional taxi.

“There are enough drivers on the road that you don’t need to compromise your safety to get in a car with a lower-rated driver,” Greening said. “There’s no benefit in choosing the three-star driver over the five-star driver.”

Additionally, if something feels strange during a ride, share your experience on the app by giving the driver lower stars or providing a comment.

“If something is off about your experience, leaving that feedback goes a long way to creating a safer environment for everyone,” Greening said.

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Peticionario V. ADQUISICIÓN DE FINCA 11694 DE LA CALLE PEPITA ALBANDOZ, DEL TÉRMINO MUNICIPAL DE CANÓVANAS; VALENTÍN HACE GONZÁLEZ, ET ALS.

Partes con Interés Civil Núm.: CN2025CV00365. Sobre: PROCEDIMIENTO SUMARIO DE EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA DE ESTORBO

PÚBLICO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: VALENTÍN HACE

GONZÁLEZ, CARMEN LUISA MONTAÑEZ, también conocida como CARMEN LUISA CRUZ VELÁZQUEZ y como CARMEN LUISA CRUZ DE MONTAÑEZ, por sí y como miembro de la sociedad legal de gananciales compuesta por Carmen Luisa Montañez y Nicolás Montañez Claudio; y NICOLÁS MONTAÑEZ CLAUDIO, por sí y como miembro de la sociedad legal de gananciales compuesta por Carmen Luisa Montañez y Nicolás Montañez Claudio, JOHN DOE, dueños desconocidos y/o cualquier persona con algún posible interés. Se le emplaza y notifica que, con el fin público de erradicar el abandono y peligrosidad de propiedades declaradas estorbos públicos, el Municipio de Canóvanas ha radicado en esta Secretaría una Petición de Expropiación Forzosa al amparo de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa del 12 de marzo de 1903, según enmendada; la Ley Núm. 107 de 14 de agosto de 2020 conocida como el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, en su Artículo 2.018 [21 L.P.R.A. §7183]; la Ordenanza Núm. 32, Serie 2024-2025, aprobada por la Legislatura

Municipal de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico el 24 de junio de 2025; y, firmada por su Alcaldesa el día 26 del mismo mes; bajo el procedimiento sumario de expropiación forzosa de estorbos públicos que establece el Artículo 4.012A del Código Municipal establecido mediante la Ley Núm. 114 del 29 de junio de 2024, para adquirir la siguiente Finca: URBANA: Solar: CALLE PEPITA ALBANDOZ de Canóvanas. Cabida: 96 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: NORTE, en seis metros cuarenta centímetros con la calle Pepita Albandoz. SUR, en seis metros cuarenta centímetros con un solar ocupado por la familia Correa. ESTE, en quince metros con otro solar ocupado por la señora Valentina López. OESTE, en quince metros con otro solar ocupado por la familia. Enclava una casa de madera y techo de zinc destinada a vivienda. FINCA 11694 inscrita al FOLIO 238 del TOMO 259 de Canóvanas. USO PÚBLICO: “CASA PILAR”, proyecto de vivienda digna para envejecientes sin hogar. CATASTRO NÚM.: 089086-034-07-001. JUSTA COMPENSACIÓN: $40,000, a ser consignados a tenor con el Art. 4.012A(f) del Código Municipal. No habiéndose podido emplazar personalmente a las partes con interés antes relacionadas, por desconocer su paradero, este Tribunal ha ordenado que se les emplace por edicto, el cual se publicará una (1) vez por semana, durante 3 semanas consecutivas en un periódico de circulación diaria en Puerto Rico. Se le notifica que, si usted desea presentar objeción o defensa a la incautación de las estructuras descritas, debe presentar su contestación en este Tribunal dentro del término improrrogable de 30 DÍAS, contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto, debiendo notificar con copia de la misma a la parte peticionaria, a través de la LCDA. JOSEPHINE M. RODRÍGUEZ RÍOS - RUA 15,736: PO BOX 889 FAJARDO, PR 00738 Email: josephine.rodriguez@gmail. com. De usted no comparecer en el término aquí fijado, el Tribunal le anotará la rebeldía y dictará Sentencia en un término no mayor de 5 días. De usted comparecer o contestar la Petición, el Tribunal citará para juicio, el cual será celebrado en un término no menor de 15 días ni mayor de 30, de haberse contestado la Petición. Expedida por Orden del Tribunal, en Canóvanas, Puerto Rico a 9 de enero de 2026. LIC. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MELISSA RIVERA ROMERO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE ANTONIO EFRÉN VALLECILLO MÉNDEZ COMPUESTA POR MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO, LA SUCESIÓN DE VILMA IRIS SANTOS ORTIZ COMPUESTA POR ALEJANDRO ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ MEDINA, CLAUDIA NICOLE RODRÍGUEZ LUGO Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2024CV02556. (803). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 29 de abril de 2025, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia y el Mandamiento de Ejecución, ambos emitidos el 24 de noviembre de 2025, en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 19 DE FEBRERO DE 2026, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Sala Superior, en la Carretera Número Uno (PR 1), Intersección PR 189, Kilómetro 0.4, Barrio Bairoa, (Entrada norte Pueblo Caguas), Caguas, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número 1601 del Módulo 16. Apartamento de forma irregular localizado al Noroeste en la primera planta del módulo 16 del Condominio

Paseo Las Catalinas, situado en la carretera estatal número 876, kilómetro 2.7 en el Municipio de Caguas, Puerto Rico. El apartamento tiene un área

total aproximada de 923.00 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 85.79 metros cuadrados. Colinda: por el NORTE: en varias alineaciones que totalizan 24’ 9”, equivalentes a 7.54 metros, con el apartamento número 1501; por el SUR: en varias alineaciones que totalizan 24’ 9”, equivalentes a 7.54 metros, con el pasillo, las escaleras, y el recibidor que accesa a ese piso; por el ESTE: en una alineación de 42’ 0”, equivalentes a 12.80 metros, con el apartamento número 1604; por el OESTE: en varias alineaciones que totalizan 42’0”, equivalentes a 12.80 metros, con el área exterior del módulo. Esta unidad residencial consiste de 3 habitaciones con sus guardarropas, 1.5 baños, sala, comedor, cocina, lavandería y balcón. La unidad tiene el uso común limitado de 2 estacionamientos enumerados 1601 y 1601. La entrada de esta unidad residencial está localizada hacia el Norte, conectando con su escalera de acceso a una acera abierta que conduce hasta el área de estacionamiento y da acceso a la entrada del Condominio Paseo Las Catalinas. Le corresponde además una participación en los elementos comunes, así como en la distribución de ganancias y en los gastos comunes equivalentes a 0.930%). Inscrita al folio 5 del tomo 1641 de Caguas, Finca 54592, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. La hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Caguas, finca número 54592, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I, inscripción cuarta (4ta). DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: 1601 PASEO LAS CATALINAS, CAGUAS PR 00725-4917. catastro número: (46) 225-064-470-54-085. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $105,812.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 26 DE FEBRERO DE 2026, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $70,541.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 5 DE MARZO DE 2026, LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $52,906.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la

cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $80,777.51 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 3.75% anual desde el 1 de enero de 2024 hasta su completo pago, más $106.80 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $10,581.20 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el (los) siguiente(s) gravamen (gravámenes) posterior(es) a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a. AVISO DE DEMANDA: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. La Sucesión de Antonio Efrén Vallecillo Méndez compuesta por Fulano y Mengano de Tal y la sucesión de Vilma Iris Santos Ortiz compuesta por Sutano y Perencejo de Tal, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el caso civil número CG2024CV02566, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $80,777.51 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 22 de julio de 2024. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Caguas. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm.

210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 11 de diciembre de 2025. MARIANGELY ROSADO ROMÁN, ALGUACIL PLACA #953, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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U.S. BANK TRUST

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Demandante Vs. SUCESION ANTONIA

MARQUEZ ROLDAN T/C/C

ANTONIA MARQUEZ

RONDAN T/C/C MARIA

A. MARQUEZ ROLDAN

T/C/C MARIA ANTONIA

MARQUEZ RONDAN

T/C/C MARIA ANTONIA

MARQUEZ COMPUESTA

POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS;

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Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV03719. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO

GENERAL:

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 San Juan, 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 San Juan, el 18 DE FEBRERO DE 2026, A LAS 10:00 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 24 del bloque “AJ” del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Extensión Country Club, situado en el Barrio Sabana Llana, de la municipalidad de Río Piedras, con una cabida superficial de 300.15 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 13.05 metros con la calle denominada Calle 58; por el SUR, en 13.05 metros con Expreso Ramal Este; por el ESTE, en 23.00 metros con el solar 23; y por el OESTE, en 23.00 metros con el solar 25 del mencionado plano de inscripción. Sobre este solar enclava una casa de concreto armado y bloques de concreto dedicada a vivienda.” Inscrita al folio 96 del tomo 121 de Sabana Llana, finca 5220, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. Propiedad localizada en: URB. COUNTRY CLUB, 964 CALLE LABRADOR, SAN JUAN, PR 00924. 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: $187,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 8 de diciembre de 2075. 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 para una primera subasta es de $187,500.00, 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 San Juan, el 25 DE FEBRERO DE 2026, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se estable-

ce el precio mínimo será de $125,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece el precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será la suma de $93,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 5 DE MARZO DE 2026, A LAS 10:00 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 la suma de: Unpaid Principal Balance: $91,002.10; Interest through August 31, 2025: $104,953.05; Escrow Balance: 27,688.76; Corporate Advance (HOA violation): $4,125.00; Expense Advance (Property Inspections & Attorney Fees and Costs): $2,385.70; Total: $230,154.61. Además, se adeuda el equivalente del 10% del balance de principal original como cantidad liquida para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y pagaré. Dichas sumas están vencidas, son líquidas y exigibles. 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 San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de enero de 2026. MARÍA DE LOURDES LÓPEZ MOREIRA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #251.

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tablecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de enero de 2026. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 29 de enero de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. LOIDA GARCÍA ROLÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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RODRIGUEZ Y OTROS

Demandante V.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, COMO SUCESOR EN INTERES DE DORAL BANK & TRUST Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: SJ2025CV10662. (Salón: 906 CIVIL). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ENEL M. PÉREZ MONTESLCDAENELPEREZ@GMAIL.COM.

A: JOHN DOE Á 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 27 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 28 de enero de 2026. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 28 de enero de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MYRNA D. VILLEGAS TRINIDAD, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC

COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante V. JOSEPH G. COLON RODRIGUEZ

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CM2025CV00101. (Salón: 101 CIVIL - CRIMINAL).

Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROREGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM. A: JOSEPH G.

COLON RODRIGUEZ.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 DE JUNIO DE 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de ENERO de 2026. En HATILLO, Puerto Rico, el 28 de ENERO de 2026. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. BRENDA LIZ HERNÁNDEZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Parte Demandante Vs. ORIENTAL BANK COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE RG PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO, FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION (FDIC)

COMO SÍNDICO DE RG MORTGAGE CORPORATION, LA SUCESIÓN DE ELSIE FONT LLACER T/C/C ELSA CONCHITA FONT LLACER COMPUESTA POR SUTANO y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, LOURDES TERESA PUEYO FONT, JAVIER ENRIQUE PUEYO FONT, CARMEN ENID PUEYO FONT, LUIS ALBERTO PUEYO FONT, JOSÉ FRANCISCO PUEYO FONT, MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES PUEYO FONT, JESÚS RUBÉN PUEYO FONT COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ELSIE FONT LLACER

T/C/C ELSA CONCHITA FONT LLACER FULANO y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2025CV04108. (407). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES PUEYO

FONT COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ELSIE FONT LLACER

T/C/C ELSA CONCHITA FONT LLACER a 3175 STARBRIGHT CT., MIDDLEBURG FL 32068-4279, SUTANO y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE ELSIE FONT LLACER

T/C/C ELSA CONCHITA FONT LLACER, FULANO y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ.

Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre cancelación de pagaré extraviado por la vía judicial. El 30 de enero de 1998, Elsie Font Llacer t/c/c Elsa Conchita Font Llacer constituyó una hipoteca en San Juan, Puerto Rico, conforme a la Escritura núm. 120 autorizada por el notario Armando J. Martínez Vilella, en garantía de un pagaré suscrito bajo testimonio número 12,962 por la suma de $120,000.00, a favor de R&G Premier Bank of Puerto

Rico o a su orden, devengando intereses al 7 5/8% anual y vencedero el 1ro de febrero de 2028 sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento: 1 Building GC. Condominio Montecillo I de Trujillo Alto. Cabida: 124.33 metros cuadrados. Apartment number 1: Residential apartment of irregular shape located on the 1st floor of Building GC of the Montecillo I Condominium located on Street number 1, Encantada Development in the Dos Bocas Ward of the Municipality of Trujillo Alto, with an approximate área of 1,337.64 square meters equal to 124.33 square meters. Its boundaries are as follow: on the North, in 37’-8”, with common exterior element of the building; o the South, in 37’-8”, with a hallway area and common exterior element; on the East, in 39’-6”, with a median wall that separates it from apartment GC-2, hallway area, stairwell and common exterior area of limited use; and on the West, in 35’-5”, with a common exterior elements. This apartment consists of a covered balcony, living room, dining room, kitchen, storage or laundry area, two (02) bathrooms and three (03) bedrooms. The entrance door to this apartment is located on the South side and opens to the hallway. ESTACIONAMIENTO: Le corresponde dos (02) estacionamientos marcados 2-156 y 2-161. PARTICIPACIÓN: This apartment has a participation of 0.93% in the general common elements and in the limited common elements of the Condominium. Inscrita al folio 41 del tomo 635 de Trujillo Alto, Finca 29746, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 42 vuelto del tomo 635 de Trujillo Alto, Finca 29746, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. Inscripción cuarta (4ta). La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo, PR 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publi-

cación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 22 de enero de 2026 en Carolina, Puerto Rico. LIC. KANELLY BAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. DENISSE TORRES RUIZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Parte Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ

ÁNGEL OLIVERAS MARÍN Y COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL Y; SUCESIÓN DE LUZ MERCEDES MARÍN

GUZMÁN COMPUESTA

LUIS ENRIQUE

OLIVERAS, JOSÉ CRUZ

OLIVERAS, FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2025CV01138. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM); INTERPELACIÓN. EMPLAZAMIENTO E INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ ÁNGEL OLIVERAS MARÍN Y COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL Y; SUCESIÓN DE LUZ MERCEDES MARÍN GUZMÁN COMPUESTA

LUIS ENRIQUE

OLIVERAS, JOSÉ CRUZ OLIVERAS, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL - 33 CALLE ZORZAL, VILLA REALIDAD, RIO GRANDE PR 00745; 33 CALLE 1, VILLA REALIDAD, RIO GRANDE PR 00745. Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido notificado 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 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 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. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcda. Raquel Deseda Belaval, Delgado Fernández, LLC, T Mobile Center at San Patricio B7 Tabonuco St. Suite 1000 Guaynabo, PR 00968. Tel. [787] 274-1414. Oriental Bank ha presentado una Demanda en la cual se reclama que la parte demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato Hipotecario al no pagar la mensualidad vencida el día 1 de mayo de 2025 y las que han vencido subsiguientemente, por lo que la parte demandante ha declarado vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a $51,030.26 de principal, más intereses que continuarán acumulándose al hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más cargos por atrasos, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado según pactado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario. El inmueble entregado como garantía del préstamo hipotecario es: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 33 en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Villa Realidad del Barrio Zarzal del término municipal de Rio Grande, con una cabida superficial de 356.25 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE con la Urbanización Costa del Sur; por el SUR con la calle número 1 de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con la parcela número 34 de la comunidad y por el OESTE con la parcela número 32 de la comunidad. Finca 24,501, inscrito al tomo móvil 431 de Rio Grande. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Tercera de Carolina. Se dicta ORDEN de conformidad con el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico de 2020, para que la SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ ÁNGEL OLIVERAS MARÍN compuesta por FULANO y FULANA DE TAL y la SUCESIÓN DE LUZ MERCEDES MARÍN GUZMÁN compuesta por LUIS ENRIQUE OLIVERAS, JOSÉ CRUZ OLIVERAS, FULANO Y FUALAN DE TAL expresen si han de aceptar o rechazar formalmente la herencia de los causantes JOSÉ ÁNGEL OLIVERAS MARÍN y LUZ MERCEDES MARÍN GUZMÁN en el término de treinta (30) días, dispuesto en ley. Se advierte a los miembros de la SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ ÁNGEL OLIVERAS MARÍN y de la SUCESIÓN DE LUZ MERCEDES MARÍN GUZMÁN que al haberse presentado el pleito en Ejecución de Hipoteca In rem en contra de los causantes, de no recibirse contestación en el término de treinta (30) días a partir de la notificación de esta

orden, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada y los herederos responden por las obligaciones del causante, por los legados y por las cargas hereditarias exclusivamente hasta el valor de los bienes hereditarios que recibe. (Artículo 1587 31 LPRA Secc. 11041). DADA en FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, a 21 de enero de 2026. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NERYSA ALEXANDRINO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante Vs. JESUS DARIO TAVERA

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2025RF01550. 701. Sobre: DIVORCIO RUPTURA IRREPARABLE - PETICIÓN INDIVIDUAL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A LA PARTE

DEMANDADA:

JESUS DARIO TAVERA. Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda de Divorcio por Ruptura Irreparable. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso se requiere que dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publicación de este edicto conteste(n) la demanda radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a la Lcda. Sharon W. Achécar Martínez P.O BOX 16466 San Juan, P.R. 00908-6466; Tel (787) 617-4828, correo electrónico sharonwachecar@yahoo. com Abogada de la Parte Demandante. Se le(s) advierte que si dejare(n) de contestar la Demanda en el periodo de tiempo antes mencionado, podrá dictarse contra usted(es) Sentencia en Rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con

el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 20 de enero de 2026, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARÍA A. RAMOS VIERA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA. LEGAL NOTICE

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Parte Demandante Vs. AICHSMARY SANTIAGO RIVERA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: RG2026RF00007. Sala: 203. Sobre: CUSTODIA Y PRIVACIÓN DE PATRIA POTESTAD. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: AICHSMARY SANTIAGO RIVERA1001 GRANT AVE APT 121, DECATUR, ARKANSAS 72722. Por la presente se le emplaza para que notifique al Licenciado Raul E. Vazquez Cardona, de Servicios Legales de Puerto Rico, Inc., PMB 128, 390 Suite #1, Carretera 853, Carolina, Puerto Rico 00987, Teléfono 787-752-2960, copia de la contestación a la demanda, radicada por la parte demandante dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación general, por orden del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina. 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. Se le apercibe que, de no contestar la demanda, copia de la cual se le acompaña, radicando el original de la Contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Fajardo, hoy día 21 de enero de 2026. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. JOSANDRA GÓMEZ VENTURA, SUB SECRETARIA.

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ROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. FERNANDO LUIS COLÓN LLODRAT Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CA2022CV03537. (Civil: 404). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. RAQUEL DESEDA BELAVALRDESEDA@DELGADOFERNANDEZ. COM.

A: FERNANDO LUIS COLÓN LLODRAT.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de enero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de enero de 2026. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 27 de enero de 2026. MILENDA MORALES

SANTIAGO, SECRETARIA.

MYRIAM FIGUEROA PASTRANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN EL GOBIERNO MUNICIPAL AUTÓNOMO DE SAN JUAN, REPRESENTADO POR SU

HONORABLE ALCALDE, MIGUEL ROMERO LUGO

Parte Peticionaria Vs. ADQUISICIÓN DE PROPIEDAD DE 356,0982 METROS CUADRADOS

LOCALIZADA EN 277 CALLE CONVENTO, SANTURCE, SAN JUAN, PR 00912; DEPARTAMENTO DE LA VIVIENDA; FERNÁNDEZ

VDA CABRERO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE

INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Partes con Interés Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV09960. Sala: 1002. Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: FERNANDEZ VDA. CABRERO.

RE: Adquisición en pleno dominio y a título absoluto de la propiedad de 338.368 metros cuadrados localizada 277 Calle Convento, Santurce, San Juan, PR 00912. DESCRIPCIÓN AMPLIA DEL SUJETO EXPROPIADO SUFICIENTE PARA SU IDENTIFICACIÓN: Urbana: BARRIO SANTURCE de Santurce Norte. Solar: Cabida: 356.0982 Metros Cuadrados. Parcela de terreno radicada en el barrio Santurce del término municipal de San Juan, con un área superficial de 356.0982 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a .0906 cuerdas, según mensura realizada por el Departamento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, en lindes; por el NORTE, con la parcela 208-18, por el SUR, con la parcela 20816; por el ESTE, con la parcela 208-10 y por el OESTE, con la calle Convento. Sobre dicha parcela enclava la siguiente estructura; Estructura número 208-17, de dos plantas construida de hormigón. Techada de hormigón, con un área de construcción de 2,176 pies cuadrados. Dedicada a residencia. Finca Número 9,011, inscrita al folio 136 del tomo 226 de Santurce Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de San Juan. CODIFICACIÓN NÚM: 040-070-208-17-001. ENTIDAD EXPROPIANTE Y CITAR LA LEGISLACIÓN EN VIRTUD DE LA CUAL SE EXPROPIA: El procedimiento de Expropiación Forzosa se instituye por el Municipio de San Juan, conforme a la Autorizada de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa del 12 de mayo de 1903, según enmendada, el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, Ley 107 del 14 de agosto de 2020, según enmendada; la Ordenanza Núm. 1, Serie 20212022 y la Resolución Núm. 9, Serie 2025-2026 de la Legislatura Municipal de San Juan. El interés y el fin para el cual el Municipio de San Juan se propone a adquirir la propiedad es para mejorar el área eliminando un estorbo público declarado por el Municipio. Quedan emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda de Expropiación Forzosa. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Pablo Guerrero Sanfilippo cuya dirección postal es: 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, PMB 270, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, 00966 cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 273-0611 y su correo electrónico es: pguerrerosanfilippo@

gmail.com. Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma en el Tribunal, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarles ni oírles. Este Tribunal ha señalado para el 12 de mayo de 2026 a las 9:00 de la mañana, Sala 1002 del Centro Judicial de San Juan, el cual ubica en Hato Rey, PR, para la Vista del caso, en cuyo día se determinará el justo valor de la propiedad y las partes a ser compensadas y a cuya vista podrán ustedes comparecer y ofrecer prueba de valoración, aunque no hayan contestado la Petición. Expedido por Orden del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 27 de enero de 2026. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Carmen E. García Figueroa, Secretaria De Servicios A Sala.

LEGAL NOTICE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Plaintiff V. PEDRO INDIO, ALBA NIDIA INDIO AND NANCY INDIO AS KNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE OF PEDRO INDIO RIVERA

A/K/A PEDRO INDIO; JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE AS UNKNOWN HEIRS OF SAID ESTATE

Defendants Civil No.: 25-01377. (CVR). Re: FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF JUDGMENT BY PUBLICATION. To: PEDRO INDIO, ALBA NIDIA INDIO AND NANCY INDIO AS KNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE OF PEDRO INDIO RIVERA

A/K/A PEDRO INDIO; JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE AS UNKNOWN HEIRS OF SAID ESTATE. THE CLERK OF THIS COURT hereby notifies you that on January 14, 2026, this Court notified judgment in favor of plaintiff. Said judgment has been duly registered and the terms of such judgment are available for review in the Clerks’ office. THEREFORE, this notice is hereby given to you that judgment has been entered against you in the instant proceedings. Notice will be deemed effective, and the thirty (30) day term to

file the notice of appeal will begin the day this judicial notice is published in a newspaper of general circulation. A copy of the Notice of Judgment by Publication and Judgment in this case will be sent by plaintiff to the defendant’s last known address by certified mail, return receipt requested within ten (10) days of the one and only publication of this judicial notice. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 30th day of January, 2026. Ada I. Garcia-Rivera, Esq., Clerk Of The Court, U.s. District Court. Ana Duran, Deputy Clerk.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE UTUADO

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE LUZ

NEIDA ALVARADO GONZALEZ T/C/C

NEIDA LUZ ALVARADO GONZÁLEZ Y SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ DOMINGO PÉREZ CARABALLO AMBAS COMPUESTAS POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS COMO CARMEN ANA PÉREZ

ALVARADO T/C/C CARMEN A. PÉREZ

ALVARADO Y MARIBEL PÉREZ ALVARADO; SUCESIÓN DE WILSON PÉREZ ALVARADO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES

Demandados

Civil Núm.: UT2025CV00576. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN DE LUZ NEIDA ALVARADO GONZÁLEZ T/C/C NEIDA LUZ ALVARADO GONZÁLEZ; SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ DOMINGO PÉREZ CARABALLO Y

SUCESIÓN DE WILSON PÉREZ ALVARADOLOTE 183, SR #131, KM 2.2, COM. GUILARTE, ADJUNTAS PR 00601; HC03 BOX 4606, ADJUNTAS PR 00601; HC 01 BOX 4606, ADJUNTAS PR 00601; HC-03 BOX 4618, ADJUNTAS, PUERTO RICO 00601.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la fecha en que se le haya diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. La alegación responsiva deberá ser presentada a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), el cual puede accederse mediante la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/. En caso de tratarse de un expediente físico o si usted se representa por derecho propio, deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal correspondiente y notificar copia de esta al abogado de la parte demandante, o a esta última si comparece sin representación legal. Se le advierte que, de no 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, u otro que estime procedente conforme a derecho. De tratarse el demandado de un heredero de una sucesión, se apercibe a los herederos mencionados que deberán expresar, dentro del mismo término de treinta (30) días, si aceptan o repudian la herencia correspondiente. Transcurrido dicho término sin manifestación alguna se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y, por ende, responderán por las cargas de esta, conforme dispone el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. §11021. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:

BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS C.S.P.

LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS, RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970

TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155

E-MAIL:

ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com En Utuado, Puerto Rico a 30 de enero de 2026. MARIE C. CRUZ CANDELARIA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA.

YAMARIS ESTRONZA MALDONADO, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante Vs. EFRAIN BERMÚDEZ MATOS, SU ESPOSA GRISELL AMADOR ALEJANDRO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2025CV04132. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. SALA: 801. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: EFRAÍN BERMÚDEZ MATOS EN SU CAPACIDAID INDIVIDUAL Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BLENES GANANCIALES COMPARTIDA CON GRISELL AMADOR ALEJANDRO - URB. MANSIONES DE JUNCOS, 19 CALLE 2, JUNCOS PR 00777. DIRECCIÓN

POSTAL: URB. MANSIONES DE JUNCOS, 19 CALLE EUCALIPTO, JUNCOS PR 00777.

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

ción de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el inciso de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquiera 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. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que procede. Representa, a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:

BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NUM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970

TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155

E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 2 de febrero de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA J. TRINIDAD CAÑUELAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE GUAYAMA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA COOP. CRISTOBAL RODRIGUEZ HIDALGO

Demandante V. MILTON LUIS LEBRON RIVERA Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: GM2025CV00707. (Salón: 303). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. RAMÓN MAURÁS VALENTÍNRAMONMAURAS@AOL.COM. A: MILTON LUIS LEBRON RIVERA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 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 edic-

to 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 27 de enero de 2026. En Guayama, Puerto Rico, el 27 de enero de 2026. Marisol Rosado Rodríguez, Secretaria. Carmen J. Vega Rivera, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE JUANA DÍAZ COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO CRISTÓBAL RODRÍGUEZ HIDALGO Demandante V. LUIS OSCAR PÉREZ TORRES Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SI2025CV00098. (Salón: 1 SALA SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. RAMÓN MAURÁS VALENTÍNRAMONMAURAS@AOL.COM. A: LUIS OSCAR PÉREZ TORRES, ISAURA DE MARIE FEBUS - PARA SER NOTIFICADOS MEDIANTE EDICTO POR CONDUCTO DEL LCDO. RAMÓN MAURÁS VALENTÍN. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 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 28 de enero de 2026. En Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, el 28 de enero de 2026. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. VANESSA RODRÍGUEZ MALDONADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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‘Sugar’ Díaz & Heliot Ramos will play for PR in World Baseball Classic

By THE STAR STAFF

Reliever Edwin “Sugar” Díaz and outfielder Heliot Ramos will be part of the Puerto Rico National Team that will compete in the 2026 World Baseball Classic (WBC), the Puerto Rico Baseball Federation confirmed earlier this week.

Both players will be included in the final roster that was to be submitted to Major League Baseball on Tuesday.

“There are no words that can express the feeling of pride and at the same time humility of knowing that I can represent Puerto Rico in the Classic, at home, in my country,” said Díaz, who will serve as his team’s closer, in a written statement. “To hear the trumpets playing in Puerto Rico with my people and my family. Grateful and excited about such a dream come true.”

The Naguabo-born pitcher, considered one of the most dominant closers in Major League Baseball over the past decade, will participate for the third time in the World

Baseball Classic with Team Puerto Rico.

In his last appearance in the tournament’s 2023 edition, Díaz tore his right patellar tendon during a celebration in the infield after Puerto Rico beat the Dominican Republic to clinch a spot in the quarterfinals.

The then-member of the New York Mets missed all of the subsequent MLB season as a result of the injury.

Díaz, 31, a free agent after last season, signed a $69 million, three-year contract with the two-time defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers in December.

Ramos, meanwhile, will be playing in the international tournament for the first time after establishing himself in organized baseball and gaining experience in MLB as a leftfielder for the San Francisco Giants.

“It is an honor for me to represent my island at home,” the 26-year-old Humacao native said. “I am ready to compete and go out there to win every game.”

Among other major leaguers confirmed to play for Team Puerto Rico as of press

Edwin Díaz on the mound at Citi Field in Queens, Aug. 13, 2022, when he was the New York Mets’ closer. Díaz will serve as Team Puerto Rico’s closer in the World Baseball Classic in March, the Puerto Rico Baseball Federation confirmed earlier this week. (Michelle Farsi/The New York Times)

time Tuesday are third baseman Nolan Arenado (St. Louis Cardinals) and utilityman Willi Castro (Colorado Rockies), a native of Río Piedras.

Puerto Rico’s participation in the WBC was put in doubt over the weekend after

the MLB insurer denied insurance coverage for the tournament to at least eight of the national team’s players, including stars Francisco Lindor and Carlos Correa. Some of the players’ cases were reportedly still under review on Tuesday.

Cangrejeros fall to Dominican Republic’s Leones at Caribbean Series

By THE STAR STAFF

The Cangrejeros of Puerto Rico fell 5-3 to the Leones of the Dominican Republic at Pan American Stadium in Zapopan on Monday in the second day of the Caribbean Series in the Mexican state of Jalisco.

The Leones (Lions) now have a 2-0 record, while the Cangrejeros (Crabbers) are 1-1.

For the second time in as many games, the Cangrejeros’ starting pitching faltered. In the first inning, leadoff hitter Gustavo Núñez opened the Leones’ offensive attack with a single and reached third base on an error by Christian Vázquez, who had attempted to pick him off at second base. Cangrejeros starter Daryl Thompson then walked Sócrates Brito, and Junior Lake hit an RBI single to bring home the first run for the team representing the Dominican Republic’s professional league. Before the inning ended, a double by Cristhian Adames combined with a sacrifice fly by Aderlin Rodríguez brought in two more runs, making the score 3-0.

The next two runs for the Dominican Republic came on doubles. The first came off the bat of Erik González in the second inning, and the second was hit by Adames in the fifth inning.

Leones starter Enny Romero kept the Cangrejeros offense quiet until his departure from the mound at the end of the fifth inning. The left-hander earned the win in a game where the Puerto Rican lineup managed only three hits against him.

“Enny did a great job locating his fastball,” Cangrejeros manager Omar López said at the post-game press conference. “We had several opportunities to make contact, but we hit too many fly balls. We failed at the moment we had a chance to score.”

Indeed, Puerto Rico left nine runners on base and went 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position.

The Cangrejeros of Puerto Rico rallied for three runs in the sixth inning but fell short against the Leones of the Dominican Republic on Monday night.

The Cangrejeros rallied for three runs after loading the bases to start the sixth inning. The runs came on a fielding error by Leones shortstop González on a hard-hit groundball by Emmanuel Rivera, an RBI groundout by Shed Long Jr. and an RBI single by Jack López.

The Cangrejeros put two men on with two out in the seventh, but Leones reliever Jefry Yan retired Rivera on a fly ball to center field to end the threat.

The loss went to Thompson, who allowed three runs in two-thirds of an inning. Leones right-hander Jimmy Cordero earned the save.

Puerto Rico was to play its third game of the series on Tuesday night against the Charros of Mexico (Mexico Rojo/Red).

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