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Judge rejects PREPA bondholders’ bid for $3.7 billion priority claim

By THE STAR STAFF

U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain has rejected an effort by major Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) bondholders to obtain an administrative expense priority claim valued at no less than $3.7 billion. The ruling, issued in Puerto Rico’s long-running electric utility bankruptcy, blocks the bondholders from receiving top-of-the-line payment status ahead of other creditors.

The bondholder group -- which includes Assured Guaranty, GoldenTree Asset Management, Syncora, National Public Finance Guarantee, and U.S. Bank as trustee -- argued that PREPA had consumed billions of dollars in “Net Revenues” during the bankruptcy. These revenues, they said, were collateral pledged to them under the 1974 Trust Agreement, and PREPA’s use of the funds should be treated as an administrative expense, ensuring immediate repayment.

Swain also rejected the bondholders’ alternative arguments based on the Supreme Court’s Reading v. Brown decision, which allows certain post-petition tort claims to be treated as administrative expenses on “fundamental fairness” grounds. The bondholders had accused PREPA of conversion -- essentially, wrongfully taking their property -- and had also asserted a Takings Clause violation.

Swain flatly disagreed. In a detailed 42‑page decision issued on Monday, she concluded that the bondholders had not shown any legal basis that would allow their claim to receive administrative priority status. Administrative expenses are paid ahead of almost all other claims in bankruptcy, and granting such treatment would have dramatically altered PREPA’s restructuring landscape.

The judge first determined that the bondholders failed to meet the basic requirements of section 503 of the Bankruptcy Code, which allows administrative priority for “actual, necessary” expenses that arise from a post-petition transaction with the debtor and that benefit the estate. She emphasized that the bondholders had no post-petition dealings with PREPA. Their claim arose entirely from a pre-bankruptcy contract, and PREPA’s spending of its own revenues did not constitute a transaction with the bondholders. Because administrative expense treatment is reserved for those who provide new value or services after the bankruptcy filing, she held that the bondholders simply did not qualify.

By THE STAR STAFF

Zenen Vega Torres, 39, a resident of Trujillo Alto, was remanded to prison on Tuesday after failing to post bail set for charges of assaulting an elderly person and disturbing the peace. The incident was reported on Monday morning at the drive-thru of a fast-food restaurant in Puerto Nuevo.

According to authorities’ reports, New Progressive Party Secretary General and former San Juan Mayor Jorge Santini

The court found neither theory convincing. Swain noted that conversion requires the wrongful taking of someone else’s property, but the revenues PREPA used were PREPA’s own funds. The bondholders merely held a security interest; they did not “own” the revenues. Their filings also failed to show malicious or wrongful intent on PREPA’s part. For similar reasons, the judge dismissed the Fifth Amendment takings claim, concluding that any rights the bondholders had were governed strictly by contract. The Trust Agreement itself limits the remedies available to bondholders, and courts have consistently held that breaches of government contracts do not constitute takings.

Finally, Swain addressed the bondholders’ reliance on section 922, a provision that allows administrative priority when a creditor receives court-ordered adequate protection that later proves insufficient. She found that PREPA never provided any court-ordered adequate protection to the bondholders. The 2019 Restructuring Support Agreement, which would have included such protections, was never approved and was ultimately terminated. Without adequate protection in place, there can be no claim that it was inadequate, and therefore no administrative expense claim is viable under this provision.

In the end, the judge concluded that the bondholders’ theories were incompatible with bankruptcy law, inconsistent with the terms of the Trust Agreement, and unsupported by facts. Her ruling ensures that the bondholders cannot leap ahead of other creditors in what remains one of the most complex municipal bankruptcies in U.S. history.

Padilla, 66, was entering the premises in a Chevrolet vehicle. Vega Torres, who was performing painting duties at the location, did not notice the presence of the moving vehicle and was subsequently struck by its side mirror.

Santini exited his vehicle to assess the situation, at which point Vega Torres punched the former mayor, knocking him to the ground and causing him to sustain an open wound to his head, for which he required medical attention.

Judge Arelis Ortiz of the San Juan Court found probable cause for arrest and set bail at $30,000, which the defendant failed to post. He was subsequently committed to the Bayamón Correctional Complex.

The preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 30.

Police superintendent orders end of security detail for ex-governor Vázquez

By THE STAR STAFF

Puerto Rico Police Superintendent

Joseph González Falcón on Tuesday ordered the immediate removal of the security detail assigned to former governor Wanda Vázquez Garced, following a directive from Gov. Jenniffer González Colón.

The governor’s action came after the island Justice Department issued a legal opinion confirming her authority as the appointing power and affirming the superintendent’s discretion in the matter.

González Falcón said public concern over the continued use of escorts by Vázquez -- who was federally charged with corruption -- had intensified, particularly after reports surfaced that she had agreed to plead guilty. The decision came a day after the island Supreme Court indefinitely suspended Vázquez’s license to practice law and notary work.

“Since Wanda Vázquez was accused of corruption by the federal government, the people of Puerto Rico have questioned the need and the legality of her receiving escort services,” the police superintendent said. “That questioning became a demand to end those escorts as soon as it emerged that she had agreed to plead guilty. As superintendent, but above all as a citizen, I also opposed her continuing to have escorts. I said so on countless occasions, even breaking my own rule of not expressing personal opinions, because

no legal or constitutional barrier prevents the government from removing Vázquez’s security detail. Based on that opinion, González Colón ordered the superintendent to proceed immediately.

The governor had previously stated that she hoped the Legislature would approve a bill to eliminate Vázquez’s security detail, though the measure has not yet passed.

González Falcón said the legal analysis revisited the precedent from Hernández Colón and Romero Barceló vs. Puerto Rico Police, in which the island Supreme Court ruled that former governors have an acquired right to escorts. The analysis also examined the statutory definition of “former governor” under Law 2 of March 26, 1965.

analysis on this matter was being done as a team,” González Falcón added. “Both the governor and I insisted that any decisions regarding Wanda Vázquez’s security detail had to be backed by correct interpretations of applicable laws, regulations, and constitutional provisions. Therefore, with the Department of Justice’s legal opinion, the support of Governor Jenniffer González, and the authority consolidated under Law 83 of 2025, we are revoking the security detail for Wanda Vázquez Garced.”

At least one opposition lawmaker said the decision to remove the former governor’s security detail “came late.”

this also outraged me.”

González Falcón said he initially requested a legal analysis from the Police Bureau’s legal division to determine whether removing the escorts could be supported by existing law. The division’s interpretation was that, as a former governor, Vázquez held a “vested right” to police escorts that could not be revoked.

“Obviously, I respected that interpretation,” he said. “But I was not satisfied, and neither was Governor Jenniffer González, who then requested an opinion from the Department of Justice, which is ultimately the legal representative of the people.”

The Justice Department concluded that

Under that law, a person must meet certain criteria -- including being elected by popular vote and serving no fewer than four years -- to be considered a former governor with such rights. Vázquez, who assumed the governorship following the 2019 political crisis that led then-governor Ricardo Rosselló Nevares to step down and was never elected to the post, does not meet that definition.

Another relevant consideration was General Order 110, issued on Jan. 25, 2019, which granted the Police Bureau commissioner discretionary authority over assigning security details to current and former officials.

“From the beginning, I said that the legal

“What we pointed out from day one was clear: a person implicated in criminal conduct cannot -- and must not -- continue to enjoy privileges paid for by the public,” Popular Democratic Party at-large Rep. Ramón Torres Cruz said in a written statement.

Torres Cruz added that “we had to turn to the courts to demand access to the alleged legal opinion that justified this privilege,” and “throughout this process, the Government repeatedly refused to act, shielding itself behind legal interpretations from the Police that were never transparent.”

“We are talking about nearly half a million dollars in just five months -- public funds used to sustain an unjustifiable privilege,” he said. “That is not responsible public administration.”

Weather, TSA staff shortages impact more flights at LMM airport

By THE STAR STAFF

More than a dozen flights were canceled Tuesday at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina as severe weather across the United States continued to impact air travel. An updated report from Aerostar Airport Holdings LLC confirmed that seven incoming flights to Puerto Rico were canceled and one arrival delayed, while five departing flights from the island were also canceled. Airlines affected include American Airlines, Frontier, JetBlue and Spirit Airlines, with canceled or delayed routes connecting to Pennsylvania, Illinois, Florida, New York and Texas. In total, 1,349 passengers were affected by the disruptions, Aerostar reported.

The cancellations in San Juan came as the eastern half of the United States endured a succession of heavy snowfall, high winds, and hazardous road conditions across the Upper Midwest and Mid-Atlantic, according to reports earlier in the week. Meteorologists warned that states in the Mid-Atlantic and Washington, D.C. faced elevated risks of severe winds

and potential tornado activity as a strong cold front pushed through the region.

Compounding the weather-related disruptions, airports across the country are experiencing staffing shortages due to the ongoing partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, which has left the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) without full funding. TSA officers have been working without pay since the lapse began on Feb. 14, leading to rising absenteeism at airport security checkpoints nationwide, according to mainland media outlets.

Federal officials have warned that the budget crisis could force smaller U.S. airports to shut down in the coming weeks due to a shortage of security personnel. Acting Deputy TSA Administrator Adam Stahl stated that if call-outs continue to rise, “it may not be hyperbole” that airports could face temporary closures.

Major hubs in Atlanta, Houston, New Orleans and New York have already reported extended wait times of up to several hours, with some travelers missing flights due to the lack of available security staff. TSA unions report that

officers working without pay are struggling to cover basic living expenses, fueling more absences and further stressing airport operations.

Flight cancellations at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina came as the eastern half of the United States endured a succession of heavy snowfall, high winds and hazardous road conditions across the Upper Midwest and Mid-Atlantic, according to reports.

Puerto Rico ‘false alarm’ case raises global press freedom concerns

By THE STAR STAFF

Afederal appeals case in Puerto Rico is intensifying concerns among press‑freedom advocates after a recent Boston Globe opinion piece warned that the dispute could endanger press liberties across the United States and potentially worldwide. The case challenges Puerto Rico’s controversial “false alarm” law, a statute that criminalizes publishing information the government deems “false” during a declared emergency.

The law grants the governor authority to declare emergencies and makes it a crime to raise a “false alarm” or publish “false” information in that period — a framework critics argue could be weaponized against journalists for honest reporting errors or stories government officials find unfavorable. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, which filed a friend‑of‑the‑court brief, warns that the law’s broad language gives authorities sweeping power to criminalize dissent.

At the height of the COVID‑19 pandemic, when Puerto Rico enacted its attempted ban on so‑called “fake news,” two journalists — Sandra Rodríguez Cotto and Rafelli González Cotto — feared that the statute would expose them to prosecution simply for publishing critical reporting about the government, its officials, or its emergency‑response measures. Under the law, anyone accused could face up to three years in prison and thousands of dollars in fines.

The law targeted anyone alleged to have issued a “false alarm” or shared false information that posed a risk to life, health, or property during a declared public emergency. In May 2020, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Puerto Rico filed suit on behalf of Rodríguez Cotto and González Cotto to challenge the constitutionality of the measure. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston — the same court being watched closely today — heard oral arguments in the case in October.

“I believed it was essential to pursue this litigation because the government had crossed a line that threatened the very core

of democratic participation,” González Cotto said at the time. “When the state gives itself the power to decide what information is true or false, especially during an emergency, it opens the door to censorship, intimidation, and the silencing of legitimate scrutiny.”

In its recent opinion piece, the Boston Globe warned that a ruling upholding Puerto Rico’s law could create a dangerous legal template for regulating speech during emergencies. Because no established precedent limits a U.S. president’s ability to declare a national emergency for similar purposes, the Globe argues that the law, if validated, could offer a future administration “legal cover for emergency action against the free press in the United States as a whole.” The law allows the government to determine what constitutes “false” information — mirroring emergency power structures used in other countries to stifle investigative journal ism. Advocates fear that such a precedent could embolden both U.S. states and foreign governments to adopt similar restrictions on the press.

Because emergency‑based “misinformation” laws exist in multiple countries, a U.S. appellate court decision upholding Puerto Rico’s statute could legitimize broad censorship frame works elsewhere. Press‑freedom groups warn that the decision could undermine long‑standing First Amendment protections and weaken democratic accountability at a moment when accurate reporting during crises is most essential.

The First Circuit’s ruling is still pending.

Bill would toughen prohibition on synthetic cannabinoids

By THE STAR STAFF

District 22 Rep. Joe “Joito” Colón Rodrí guez on Tuesday introduced House Bill 1188, which seeks to strengthen the prohibition of the manufacture, sale, distribution, possession and use of synthetic cannabinoids in Puerto Rico.

These products, created entirely in a labo ratory to mimic THC, can be between 10 and 100 times more potent than natural cannabis and are sold under names such as “K2,” “Spice”

and “Black Mamba,” often deceptively labeled as “incense” or “potpourri.” They pose a serious health risk, especially to young people, and can cause seizures, hallucinations, hospitalizations and death.

The bill:

* Expressly prohibits the sale and use of synthetic cannabinoid products.

* Applies penalties under the Controlled Substances Act and an additional $50,000 fine for deceptive labeling.

* Authorizes the departments of Health, Jus

tice and Consumer Affairs, as well as the Mental Health & Anti Addiction Services Administration and the Puerto Rico Police Bureau, to inspect, seize and confiscate the products.

* Mandates prevention programs in schools and inter agency collaboration to educate and assist those affected.

“We cannot allow these lethal substances to continue circulating in our communities,” stated the representative for Utuado, Ciales, Lares, Jayuya and Adjuntas. “The health of our youth and adults is at risk, and we must act now.”

Bill would add videoconferencing option for obtaining gov’t services

By THE STAR STAFF

Atrio of lawmakers filed House Bill 1175 on Tuesday for “the integration of government services through videoconferencing.”

The bill, filed by District 13 (Manatí, Florida, Barcelo neta and Arecibo) Rep. Jerry Nieves Rosario, who chairs the Northern Region Committee in the lower chamber, along with Reps. Josean Jiménez Pérez and Joe Colón Rodríguez, orders “all agencies, instrumentalities, and public corporations of

the Executive Branch of the Government of Puerto Rico to implement a citizen service system via videoconferencing,” and orders the Puerto Rico Office of Innovation and Tech nology Services “to establish the technical and cybersecurity parameters.”

According to historical data, carrying out administrative procedures has always required the physical presence of citi zens in public offices, which often results in lost work hours, transportation expenses and prolonged wait times.

“Given the enormous advances in information and

communication technologies, the state has the unavoidable duty to adapt its operations to the modern digital reality to facilitate the lives of citizens,” Nieves Rosario stressed. “This law proposes the formal integration of videoconferencing systems for citizen services in the agencies, instrumentalities, and public corporations of the executive branch, to achieve a structured and secure implementation.”

The legislator added that the initiative “is strictly con ceived as an additional alternative for citizens, and its use will be optional.”

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Doctors say court ruling can’t undo Kennedy’s vaccine damage

By MAGGIE ASTOR and DANI BLUM

After a federal court on Monday halted, at least for now, the Trump administration’s sweeping changes to vaccine recommendations, pediatricians and researchers expressed concern that the ruling would have little effect on the confusion and mistrust that those changes have stoked.

Over the past year, pediatricians have reported a surge in parents who might once have been persuaded to accept vaccines for their children but are now staunchly opposed, as well as parents who were fully on board but now are unsure.

“No one is under the illusion that this puts the genie back in the bottle,” Michael Osterholm, who directs the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said of the court ruling. “The damage has been done.”

The administration’s actions over the past year, including removing shots against six diseases from the routine childhood vaccination schedule and appointing vaccine critics to a federal advisory panel on immunizations, have given credence to unfounded fears about the safety of vaccines, said Jason Schwartz, an associate professor of health policy at the Yale School of Public Health. He added that those moves have made it harder for parents to know who to trust.

Schwartz and other experts said they thought it was unlikely that the court ruling, which effectively reinstates the more expansive vaccine schedule, could swiftly change that.

Dr. Suresh Nagappan, a pediatrician in Greensboro, North Carolina, said he had seen an increase in parents who “sort of threw up their hands and said, ‘I don’t know if I can trust anybody’” as the administration’s vaccine guidance strayed further from that of major medical organizations. If the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now had one recommendation and the American Academy of Pediatrics had another, they weren’t confident in either.

“When you as a pediatrician tell them, ‘Hey, this is recommended by the AAP’ or ‘this is recommended by the CDC,’ that used to have some cachet,” Nagappan said. But now, he said, it is generally unhelpful and can even make parents more mistrustful.

In a statement, Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, said that “the only thing that has led to chaos and confusion” is efforts by medical groups, like those that filed the lawsuit that led to the ruling, “to try to undermine the Trump administration.” The administration has signaled that it plans to appeal the decision.

Hannah and Nathan Schwartz, new parents in St. Paul, Minnesota, said that when their son was born last month, they were asked if they wanted a hepatitis B vaccine, a vitamin K injection and an antibiotic eye ointment. The question was neutral, Nathan Schwartz, 30, said, with no indication that there is strong medical support for all three.

They consented to the shots and the ointment after pressing for an opinion from their care team, which supported all of them. The couple said that they would probably continue to follow the pre-Robert F. Kennedy Jr. schedule, but that they felt less confident and more compelled to ask questions about each individual vaccine. And they said the ruling reinforced

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during an announcement regarding autism at the White House in Washington, Sept. 22, 2025. In a severe blow to the Trump administration’s health agenda, a U.S. district court in Massachusetts on Monday, March 16, 2026, blocked the government from implementing a series of decisions on vaccines made over the last year by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times)

their sense, dating back to the administration’s initial changes, that the recommendations had come unmoored from any solid deliberative process.

The ruling is “good, I guess, if the old schedule is actually what’s going to keep our kid safe and other kids safe,” Hannah Schwartz, 26, said. “But then, who’s actually making the decisions about these things? A judge isn’t a doctor, a judge isn’t a clinical researcher, so is our whole public health system just based on politicians’ opinions?”

Jennifer Carraher, an obstetrics nurse at a hospital in Santa Rosa, California, said she was frequently present during conversations with new parents and had been unsettled by a shift in how colleagues presented the hepatitis B vaccine and the vitamin K shot, which helps prevent life-threatening bleeding in newborns.

Before, Carraher said, it was routine to tell parents that the hospital and the CDC recommended those shots. But since late last year, many nurses and other clinicians have shifted to saying that it is a personal choice or that they don’t make a recommendation either way, even though the hospital hasn’t changed its policies and the CDC hasn’t revoked its endorsement of the vitamin K injection. And more parents are declining, she said.

The overwhelming majority of Americans still support most childhood vaccines. After the Trump administration overhauled the schedule, polling from the nonprofit KFF found that most parents remained confident in the safety of measles, polio, hepatitis B and flu vaccines, though confidence in the safety of COVID vaccines was starkly split among partisan lines. That poll, and ones from the Annenberg Public Policy Center and Axios, found that large numbers of Americans didn’t trust the Trump administration’s health leadership or recommendations.

But even before Kennedy took office, uptake of some critical shots had slipped. The rate of kindergartners with complete records for the measles vaccine fell from around 95% before the

pandemic to less than 93% in 2024, less than the threshold needed for herd immunity that can stem the spread of the virus. While parents who refuse vaccines remain a minority, their decisions can still have significant consequences both for unvaccinated children and for public health.

Dr. Megan Ranney, an emergency physician and dean of the Yale School of Public Health, said reversing the decline in trust would require doctors and public health officials to empathize with confused parents, allay their worries and address broader issues that contribute to poor health and can make people distrustful of the medical system.

“This drop in trust did not happen overnight, and it’s not going to be fixed overnight,” she said.

But Ranney said that the court ruling could be a significant step forward, because it validated the guidance of organizations that stuck with the previous schedule, like the AAP and the American Medical Association.

“There are still trustworthy sources out there,” she said.

When health officials overhauled the childhood vaccine schedule, they advocated for “shared clinical decision-making” for some shots, meaning that doctors would explain the risks and benefits of the vaccines and come together with the patient to make a decision instead of issuing blanket recommendations.

“This framework empowers parents and physicians to make individualized decisions based on risk, while maintaining strong protection against serious disease,” Dr. Mehmet Oz, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in a statement at the time.

Many pediatricians said they had always talked to patients about their concerns and answered their questions. In practice, they said, the changes have instead pushed them to treat vaccinating and not vaccinating as equivalent.

“Pediatricians were really challenged by this, because they don’t have two equally good options for, say, measles prevention,” said Jennifer Reich, a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado and the author of “Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines.” “They have one really good option and no other option.”

Nagappan, whose job involves training new pediatricians, said he was teaching them to immerse themselves in the evidence around vaccines, so they could tell parents they endorsed each shot not because a higher authority said so, but because they had personally assessed the research. A wealth of evidence shows that parents trust pediatricians and primary care doctors.

In Nagappan’s experience, this approach doesn’t convince parents who steadfastly oppose vaccines, but he has found it effective with some who are torn.

ICE releases Columbia protester who was held for one year

By MARIA CRAMER

ANew Jersey woman who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University in 2024 has been released from a federal immigration detention center in Texas, where she had been held for more than a year.

The woman, Leqaa Kordia, 33, was freed on Monday, about a month after she said she had been chained to a hospital bed following a seizure inside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, where she described filthy and inhumane conditions. She has not been charged with a crime.

On Friday, she appeared before an immigration judge, who ordered her released on $100,000 bond. It was the third time that the judge had ordered her release. But government lawyers had appealed the judge’s earlier decisions, forcing her to remain in detention.

On Monday, she was released after the government did not make another appeal.

Her lawyers and family said her health had diminished considerably at the center, where she had lost weight and was experiencing fainting spells.

One of her lawyers, Sarah ShermanStokes, told the judge that a doctor had said Kordia most likely had epilepsy.

On Monday, Kordia’s cousin Hamzah Abushaban said the past year had “taken an unimaginable toll” on Kordia and her family.

“We are overwhelmed with relief and gratitude at the release of our beloved Leqaa Kordia,” Abushaban said in a statement.

Rep. Nellie Pou (D-N.J.) speaks as an aide holds a photo of Leqaa Kordia during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 10, 2026. Kordia, who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University in 2024, has been released from a federal detention center in Texas, where she had been held for more than a year. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)

“No family should have to endure what ours has experienced.”

Kordia, who is Palestinian, was one of several protesters investigated by federal authorities after being arrested at Columbia University, where demonstrations over the war in the Gaza Strip in 2024 ignited a national debate over free speech and antisemitism.

Ranjani Srinivasan, an international student from India who attended the protests, quickly left for Canada after she

learned her student visa had been revoked.

Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and permanent resident of the United States, was arrested in his Manhattan apartment in March last year and held for more than three months in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Louisiana.

In a meeting with President Donald Trump last month, Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York asked that the federal government release Kordia.

On Monday, Mamdani, a democratic socialist, said he was grateful that she had been released “after more than a year in detention for speaking up for Palestinian rights.”

After Kordia’s release, the mayor’s wife, Rama Duwaji, posted a picture on Instagram of Kordia carrying flowers with the caption: “1 year later, Leqaa Kordia is free!!”

Kordia was arrested at the protests in April 2024. The New York police quickly released her, and her case was dismissed and sealed.

But federal officials began investigating her less than a year later, and detained her on March 13, 2025. The next day, an official from Homeland Security Investigations in New Jersey asked the New York Police

Department for information about Kordia, saying that she was being investigated in connection with money laundering. The Police Department gave U.S. authorities the record of Kordia’s 2024 arrest.

Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, had accused Kordia of being a terrorist sympathizer, and government lawyers had said they were investigating funds she sent overseas.

Kordia’s lawyers countered at immigration hearings and in court documents that she had sent $1,000 to help her family in Gaza and that the government had no evidence that she had done anything illegal. Kordia, who was born in the West Bank and overstayed her student visa, worked as a server before she was detained.

An immigration judge agreed and twice ordered her release, setting a $20,000 bond.

But each time, government lawyers filed a rarely used provision known as an “automatic stay,” which keeps a person detained during an appeal.

On Friday, it appeared that government lawyers were prepared to do the same again.

Anastasia Norcross, a lawyer for the Justice Department, said “no amount of bond” would be sufficient to ensure Kordia’s presence at future proceedings.

The judge, Tara Naselow-Nahas, said the government had presented “very little evidence” that showed Kordia was a flight risk and set the bond at $100,000, noting that it was a “significant” amount.

In a statement Monday afternoon, hours before Kordia was released, the Department of Homeland Security accused her again of participating in “pro-Hamas” protests.

“The facts of this case have not changed: Leqaa Kordia is in the country illegally after violating the terms of her visa,” the statement said. “The Trump administration is committed to restoring the rule of law and common sense to our immigration system.”

Kordia, who said she has lost nearly 200 family members in the war in Gaza, has denied being a Hamas supporter.

The department did not immediately respond to a follow-up request for comment on why the government did not seek another automatic stay.

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL

Trump’s dangerous lack of a strategy in Iran

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

President Donald Trump went to war against Iran without explaining his strategy to the American people or the world. It now appears that he may not have had much of a strategy at all.

Almost three weeks into the war, Trump has no apparent plan for bringing about the demise of the Iranian regime, something he had said he seeks. If his goal is more modest, such as the seizure of Iran’s nuclear materials, he has not offered credible ideas for accomplishing it. And he has failed to plan for a predictable side effect of a war in the Middle East: a disruption of oil supplies that causes a price spike and impairs the global economy.

The war has become an exemplar of Trump’s chaotic, egodriven approach to the presidency. He has relied for advice on a smaller circle of aides than past presidents did when ordering military action and eschewed the careful process intended to surface objections and potential problems. He has made ridiculous and contradictory public statements, including a claim that the war has nearly achieved its goals. He has tried to mislead the world about the tragic deaths of dozens of Iranian schoolchildren, which were caused by a mistargeted American missile. Almost daily, he demonstrates why he cannot be trusted with the most consequential matters of government.

Despite all this, the war has had some tactical successes, and we believe it is important to acknowledge them even if they remain untethered to a strategy. Trump’s instincts about Iran were correct in a few ways. Its government is distinctly dangerous, having spent

decades oppressing its own people, sponsoring terrorism, trying to destroy Israel, turning Lebanon into a failed state, protecting a horrific regime in Syria and pursuing a nuclear program. Trump also recognized that Iran’s regime was weaker than it pretended and could be weakened further through confrontation.

Over the past few years, a combination of economic sanctions imposed by the United States and allies and military attacks, mostly by Israel, has left Iran less capable of sowing regional problems. The value of its currency has plunged. Many of Iran’s leaders and nuclear scientists are dead. Its aerial defenses are mostly destroyed, and its missile stockpile is depleted. Two of its terrorist proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, are degraded. Its client state in Syria has been overthrown by local rebels.

But in launching this war 2 1/2 weeks ago, Trump asserted larger aims than containing Iran. “To the great, proud people of Iran, I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand,” Trump said shortly after the first strikes. He has called for the unconditional surrender of Iran’s government and said that he must approve the country’s next leader. He has promised to make Iran great again.

Trump has not even begun to explain how he will accomplish any of these goals. His defenders have claimed that his coyness is a strategic gambit, to preserve his options and keep his enemy guessing. Increasingly, the truth appears to be that the president of the United States has started a war without any idea of how to end it.

Three strategic problems have become clear since the war began.

First, Trump repeated a mistake that American presidents have made for decades — in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam and even Iran itself, in the 1950s — and imagined that regime change would be easier to accomplish and maintain than it was. In this instance, Trump’s hubris has been stunning. Air power alone almost never topples a government. Only troops on the ground can seize the instruments of state power and install a new leader.

A couple stands in the ruins of their apartment after an airstrike in Tehran, Iran, March 15, 2026. “President Donald Trump went to war against Iran without explaining his strategy to the American people or the world. It now appears that he may not have had much of a strategy at all,” writes the Times editorial board. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times)

the uranium. “People are going to have to go and get it,” he said. Yet when a Fox News Radio host asked Trump about uranium last week, he replied, “We’re not focused on that.” There are no easy answers here. But the scattered approach to war planning does not inspire confidence.

The third problem involves the global economy. Middle Eastern wars are notorious for causing economic turmoil by raising the price of oil. Iran had a clear way to repeat the pattern by throttling the traffic of ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Yet Trump tried to wish away this situation.

Before the war, his top military adviser, Gen. Dan Caine, warned him that Iran would likely respond by attacking ships in the strait and effectively closing it. Trump replied by suggesting that Iran’s government would capitulate before it could close the strait or that the U.S. military could keep the strait open, according to The Wall Street Journal. He was wrong, as should have been obvious. The price of oil has since jumped more than 40%.

His responses have had an air of desperation. He temporarily lifted oil sanctions on Russia, which is a gift to an enemy. Over the weekend, he resorted to pleading with Britain, France, Japan, South Korea — allies he has spent years disdaining — and even China to send naval forces to protect the strait.

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In defiance of this history, Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have conjured dreams of regime change. Sometimes there is loose talk of arming Iran’s Kurdish minority or hastening the return of Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late deposed shah, who now lives in an affluent suburb of Washington. Other times, Trump encourages Iran’s security forces to defect or its people to “take over” their government. There is no evidence that any of this is working. After Trump encouraged street protests in January, Iran’s regime massacred thousands of demonstrators and remained securely in charge of the country. Since then, protests have largely ended.

Second, it remains unclear how the United States will achieve a crucial goal: assuring that Iran’s murderous regime does not become a nuclear power. Its stockpile of highly enriched uranium is believed to be intact, in a tunnel complex under mountains near the city of Isfahan. If the war ends with Iran maintaining that stockpile, it will have a path to building a bomb. The military humiliations it has endured over the past few years give it an incentive to take the final steps toward a weapon that it has not previously taken.

When this war began, Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged that ground troops might be the only way to capture

War is uncertain, and it remains possible that any of these problems will begin to look less serious in the coming weeks. Perhaps an Iranian opposition will somehow emerge, and the current regime will fold as quickly as the Assad government in Syria did in late 2024. Perhaps special forces will remove the enriched uranium without casualties. Perhaps the U.S. military, whose performance continues to be mostly impressive, will work with allies to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Indeed, we would welcome any of these outcomes.

The first weeks of this war do not inspire confidence, however.

ASORE reconoce a mujeres que impulsan la industria gastronómica

POR CYBERNEWS

SAN JUAN – La presidenta de la Asociación de Restaurantes de Puerto Rico, Sonia Navarro González, destacó el reconocimiento a mujeres que han aportado al desarrollo de la industria gastronómica durante el evento “Mujeres de la Industria”.

“En ASORE creemos firmemente en reconocer el talento y la dedicación de las mujeres que impulsan nuestra industria todos los días. Cada talento deja una huella, y las mujeres de nuestra industria ocupan espacios en todas las áreas que conforman el sector gastronómico”, dijo Navarro González en declaraciones escritas.

La actividad reunió a líderes del sector para destacar el trabajo de mujeres en distintas áreas de la industria de restaurantes, desde la operación hasta la gerencia y el

emprendimiento, como parte de una iniciativa para resaltar su impacto en la economía y en las comunidades.

Durante el evento, se otorgó la Distinción Presidencial a la Trayectoria en la Industria a Maricarmen Peña, de El Mesón Sandwiches, por su liderazgo empresarial y aportación al crecimiento del sector gastronómico en Puerto Rico.

“Recibo este reconocimiento con profunda gratitud y en representación de tantas mujeres que, desde distintos roles dentro de nuestra industria, trabajan cada día con pasión y compromiso”, expresó Peña.

La organización informó que en esta edición se nominaron 186 mujeres en distintas categorías, entre ellas baristas, meseras, chefs, gerentes y dueñas de restaurantes, como parte del reconocimiento a su desempeño en la industria.

se reconoció a Marisol Vega, primera mujer en presidir la organización, y a Érica Reyes Ocasio por su trayectoria en la

industria del café, en un evento que incluyó además un conversatorio sobre los retos y oportunidades en el sector gastronómico.

Complejo y nada sencillo la transición a otro proveedor de servicios a confinados

POR CYBERNEWS

SAN JUAN – El presidente de Physician Correctional, doctor Raúl Villalobos dijo el martes que si el gobierno prevalece en su intención de cancelar el contrato de servicios médicos a confinados el proceso de transición para el próximo proveedor es complejo.

“No me atrevería, a pesar de que tenemos nosotros una idea de eso, pero no quisiera comunicarlo. Preferiría que sea la agencia la que entre en eso. Pero sí, obviamente es un contrato muy complejo que requiere de una tran-

sición compleja que nosotros esperamos, confiando en el Estado de derecho de Puerto Rico, que no sea necesario activar”, dijo Villalobos en conferencia de prensa.

“Es un proceso, como te dije. Por favor, quisiera que sea el gobierno el que determine el tiempo. Pero sí, respetuosamente sé que es complicado. Son muchos factores de servicios, de tecnología, de récord médico electrónico, de derechos del paciente. No es un proceso sencillo”, añadió.

El gobierno de Puerto Rico entabló una demanda para cancelar el contrato de servicios a raíz del incidente de la

excarcelación de Hermes Ávila Vázquez el cual fue excarcelado en un proceso irregular y culminó con el asesinato en abril de 2024 de, Ivette Joan Meléndez Vega. Villalobos insiste en que el contrato está vigente hasta el mes de septiembre de 2028.

“Está corriendo ahora el curso ordinario y muy próximamente hay unas vistas citadas con el debido proceso y van a estar oyendo de eso próximamente”, expresó.

Sus expresiones se dieron en una conferencia de prensa, en la cual anunció nuevos servicios para la población confinada.

Populares presentan medida para suspender temporalmente el arbitrio a la gasolina, mejor conocido como la “crudita”

SAN JUAN – El portavoz del Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) en la Cámara de Representantes, Héctor Ferrer Santiago, junto al portavoz alterno Domingo Torres García y las representantes Gretchen Hau y Swanny Enit Vargas Laureano, presentaron una Resolución Conjunta dirigida a suspender temporalmente el arbitrio a la gasolina y al diésel, mejor conocido como la “crudita”, por un periodo de 45 días, como medida urgente para atender el alto costo de vida que enfrentan las familias puertorriqueñas. La propuesta surge en respuesta al aumento sostenido

en los precios del petróleo y sus derivados, provocado en gran medida por la inestabilidad geopolítica internacional, lo que ha tenido un impacto directo en el bolsillo de los consumidores en Puerto Rico.

“El alza en los combustibles está golpeando fuertemente a nuestra gente. Mientras la gobernadora Jenniffer González y el presidente del Senado, Thomas Rivera Schatz están enfrascados en una pelea política, el costo de vida de los puertorriqueños sigue subiendo. Por eso estamos presentando esta medida, para ofrecer un alivio real e inmediato al bolsillo de la gente”, expresó Ferrer Santiago.

Por su parte, el portavoz alterno Domingo Torres Gar-

cía enfatizó que esta acción debe ser solo el comienzo de una agenda más amplia para atender el costo de vida en la Isla.

La medida establece la suspensión del arbitrio, la medida tendrá un costo aproximado de 25 millones de dólares, cifra basada en análisis previos de impacto fiscal. Para garantizar la responsabilidad fiscal, se ordena a la Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto identificar y reasignar fondos provenientes de sobrantes en nómina, así como implementar medidas de ahorro adicionales, incluyendo ajustes en gastos de confianza, publicidad y servicios profesionales.

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Where to stream the films of Paul Thomas Anderson

By JASON BAILEY

Paul Thomas Anderson took home his first Oscars (for best picture, director and adapted screenplay) at Sunday night’s Academy Awards, which may come as a surprise to those who have long considered him one of our finest filmmakers. But it’s a satisfying payoff for the writer and director, 55, who has spent nearly three decades synthesizing his copious influences and experimental instincts into a distinctive, inimitable style of his own. A look at his films to date, and where to see them, below.

‘Hard Eight’ (1997)

Anderson was put through the wringer on his feature directorial debut, which was recut and retitled by its production company, Rysher Entertainment. Anderson’s preferred moniker was “Sydney,” after its main character, a professional gambler who takes a desperate young man under his wing and teaches him the ropes. Character actor Philip Baker Hall is marvelous as Sydney, projecting both an offhand warmth and steely demeanor, and John C. Reilly is sweet and sympathetic as John, his protege; Gwyneth Paltrow and Samuel L. Jackson shine in sharp supporting roles. (Stream it on Paramount+ and MGM+; rent or buy it on major platforms.)

‘Boogie Nights’ (1997)

Anderson brought back some of his “Hard Eight” cast for his sophomore effort, a sprawling, dizzying, dazzling chronicle of the adult movie scene in the San Fernando Valley from the late 1970s through the early ’80s. Mark Wahlberg (in what remains his finest screen performance) stars as Dirk Diggler, a kid from the Valley whose, ahem, generous proportions make him an instant star in the industry. Burt Reynolds, playing a director, and Julianne Moore, portraying an actress, were both nominated for Oscars for their turns in the film. They become something of a surrogate family for Dirk and an assortment of actors, crew and hangers-on. Fast and funny, joyful and heartbreaking, this was the breakthrough picture that earned Anderson an Oscar nomination for original screenplay and established him as one to watch. (Stream it on the Criterion Channel and Hulu; rent or buy it on major platforms.)

‘Magnolia’ (1999)

The director has never been shy about his affection for Robert Altman, and that influence was most clear in his “Boo -

gie Nights” follow-up, a multi-strand, interweaving narrative in the style of “Nashville” and “Short Cuts.” Much of the big “Boogie Nights” ensemble returns, alongside the movie’s guest star, Tom Cruise, who nabbed an Oscar nomination for his turn as the kind of “self-help” misogynist who’d be a big hit in today’s manosphere. Running more than three hours and featuring operatic monologues, a biblical rain of frogs and a showstopping musical number, it’s a big swing of a movie whose earnestness remains endearing. (Stream it on Hulu; rent or buy it on major platforms.)

‘Punch-Drunk Love’ (2002)

After the draining experience of “Magnolia,” Anderson wanted to take it easy, envisioning a compact comedy with one of his favorite stars, Adam Sandler. But Anderson, being Anderson, was never going to just crank out a “Billy Madison”-style throwaway; their collaboration would be a tangy stew of their sensibilities, placing Sandler’s stock character of a shy rage-aholic into a deliciously twisted romance, pairing the goofball comic with Oscar-nominated “Breaking the Waves” star Emily Watson. It shouldn’t come together, but it somehow does, a delicate exploration of the perils of anxiety and the peculiarities of true love. (Rent or buy it on major platforms.)

‘There Will Be Blood’ (2007)

Anderson would take five years to make his next feature, and in that time, would reconfigure his style from the electric aesthetics of a ’90s indie wunderkind to the classical style of a John Huston or John Ford. Freely adapting Upton Sinclair’s novel “Oil!,” he tells the story of Daniel Plainview (an Oscar-winning Daniel Day-Lewis), an early 20th-century oilman locked in a fierce battle over land (and of wills) with preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano). “Blood” was his most ambitious effort to that time, a big-canvas period drama, and it drew some of his most rapturous reviews (as well as his first best director Oscar nomination); it would also mark his first collaboration with composer Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead, which continues to this day. (Stream it on Paramount+; rent or buy it on major platforms.)

‘The Master’ (2012)

For his fourth (and, sadly, final) collaboration with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Anderson penned this 1950s drama, inspired by the early days of Scientology. Hoffman plays Lancaster Dodd, the L. Ron Hubbard-esque leader of “The

Cause”; Joaquin Phoenix is Freddie Quell, a damaged World War II veteran who falls under Lancaster’s spell. Historical analogues aside, “The Master” is essentially a two-hander, dramatizing the sometimes tempestuous, often affectionate, but clearly codependent dynamic between these two men, whom Hoffman and Phoenix bring to life with ferocity and force. (Stream it on Amazon Prime Video or Tubi; rent or buy it on major platforms.)

‘Inherent Vice’ (2014)

Phoenix and Anderson re-teamed for this adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 novel, in which a perpetually stoned private detective (Phoenix) encounters an array of eccentrics and elites while investigating the disappearance of his exgirlfriend’s wealthy new lover. Anderson retains the novel’s 1970 setting, but the vibes are decidedly different than “Boogie Nights,” keying in on the Manson-tinged darkness of the waning days of the ’60s. Loose-limbed and wildly unpredictable, this is one of Anderson’s funniest and strangest pictures. (Rent or buy it on major platforms.)

‘Phantom Thread’ (2017)

Another reunion, this time with “Blood” star Daniel Day-Lewis, who helped Anderson conceive the character of Reynolds Woodcock, a dressmaker in 1950s London. When he meets Alma (Vicky Krieps), she seems the next in a long line of young, beautiful muses, but what could have been a standard-issue romance — and a typical portrayal of a difficult male genius and the damage he leaves in his wake — becomes something more thorny and complicated. Day-Lewis is as absorbing as ever, but Krieps and Lesley Manville steal the show as his worthy adversaries. (Stream it on the Criterion Channel; rent or buy it on major platforms.)

‘Licorice Pizza’ (2021)

Anderson’s third ’70s-set movie is also his most cheerful, a sun-kissed coming-of-age story about first love (and lust). Cooper Hoffman is Gary Valentine, an ambitious young hustler who develops a crippling crush on the spiky Alana (musician Alana Haim, making her bravura feature film debut). There is a plot, of sorts, but this is one of Anderson’s most delightfully shaggy ventures, a charming hang in which neither jealousy nor uncertainty nor the oil crisis can spoil the good vibes. (Stream it on Netflix; rent or buy it on major platforms.)

‘One Battle After Another’ (2025)

Anderson’s Oscar winner (nominated for 13, winner of six) and most acclaimed picture to date was in the works for decades, first getting into the filmmaker’s head (and under his skin) in the form of the 1990 Pynchon novel “Vineland.” Over the years, that story evolved into Anderson’s tale of Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio, pitch perfect), a burned-out formula revolutionary whose years of paranoia are finally borne out when a twisted military man (Sean Penn) organizes the kidnapping of Bob’s daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti). The Oscar triumph of “Battle” is appropriate; it feels like the culmination of Anderson’s screen work to date, fusing the looseygoosey friskiness of his early work with the more disciplined aesthetics and towering performances of his middle period. (Stream it on HBO Max; rent or buy it on major platforms.)

Stocks

US stock market crash fears ease even as

Options ⁠traders’ fears of a U.S. ⁠stock market crash have pulled back nearly to levels seen before the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran that made oil prices soar.

The Nations TailDex Index and the Cboe Skew Index, two separate gauges that measure how much traders are paying for crash protection, have ⁠retreated to ⁠near where they stood before the February 28 strikes on Iran. The S&P 500 is still down 2% from pre-war levels.

“TDEX is signaling that investors are now less worried about a “tail event,” or a really steep drop in equity prices, than at any point since the war started,” said Scott Nations, president of Nations ⁠Indexes, ⁠an independent developer of ⁠volatility and option strategy index products.

“Given the muted response from the S&P 500, this outlook makes sense, but it’s an ⁠important metric to watch,” he said.

On Monday, the TailDex index was at 18.84, just below its closing level of 19.01 on Feb- ruary 27. The Cboe SKEW index finished at 141.49 on Monday, down from 146.67 prior to the air strikes. Both indexes ⁠soared to multimonth highs as soaring oil prices unleashed fear of a sizeable ⁠pullback in markets.

The cost of deep out-of-the-money S&P 500 puts - contracts that would offer protection against a 20% drop in the market over the next three months - stands just slightly higher than it was immediately prior to the strikes, according to Susquehanna Financial Group strategist Christopher Jacobson.

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“After hitting multi-year highs at times last week, S&P skew levels have declined incrementally as some of that downside tail bid has faded alongside,” Jacobson said.

While fear ⁠of a market crash has faded, market anxiety levels are still higher than they were in early February. Nor are investors rushing to bet on a sharp rebound in stocks past old highs.

“We haven’t really seen that skew shift back towards the upside tail,” Jacobson said.

U.S. Democratic ⁠lawmakers ⁠Senator Chris Murphy ⁠and Representative Greg Casar on Tuesday introduced a bill to ban prediction market bets on military operations and other sensitive government actions, increasing pressure ⁠on ⁠the fast-growing markets.

Israel says it has dealt double blow to Iranian leadership

By AARON BOXERMAN, RONEN BERGMAN, FARNAZ FASSIHI and DAVID E. SANGER

Israel said it had dealt double blows to the upper echelons of Iran’s leadership Tuesday, killing Ali Larijani, the head of the country’s Supreme National Security Council, and Brig. Gen. Gholamreza Soleimani, the head of a powerful plainclothes militia aligned with Iran.

The Israeli military said Larijani had been killed in overnight airstrikes near Tehran. A close confidant of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader who was killed in at the start of the war Feb. 28, Larijani become Iran’s de facto leader before the ayatollah’s son Mojtaba Khamenei succeeded his father.

The latest killings were announced hours before President Donald Trump lashed out again against NATO allies who had rebuffed his attempts to get involved in the war in Iran. Speaking in the Oval Office, he said the United States did not “need or desire” any help to open the Strait of Hormuz, a key global shipping lane where ships have been attacked, sending oil prices surging and the global economy into a state of uncertainty. “I’m disappointed in NATO,” he said.

A Trump administration official also quit over the Iran war. The official, Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation in a letter that said: “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”

Iranian authorities and the country’s state media did not comment on the Israeli an-

nouncement of Larijani’s death. But two Iranian officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, said they believed he and Soleimani had been killed.

Later Tuesday, Fars, an Iranian news agency affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard, carried a statement from the Guard confirming Soleimani’s death.

Larijani’s killing would remove an influential pragmatist who was seen as having the clout to negotiate with the United States, and it could embolden even more hard-line Iranian leaders who believe that the Islamic Republic can survive only by doubling down.

Trump, who spoke Tuesday during a White House meeting with the Irish prime minister, said Larijani had a lot of blood on his hands. The president again defended the war effort, asserting the United States had destroyed the Iranian military and the nuclear threat the country posed.

The killing of Larijani renewed questions about Trump’s endgame. He told reporters in the Oval Office that he was not afraid to put U.S. troops on the ground in Iran. When asked about his plans for Iran after the war, Trump responded by praising the damage the attacks have wrought. “Look, if we left right now it would take 10 years for them to rebuild,” he told reporters. “We’re not ready to leave yet, but we’ll be leaving in the near future.”

Asked whether he was concerned that U.S. moves in Iran could commit American forces to a Vietnam-like boondoggle, he said: “I’m really not afraid of that. I’m really not afraid of anything.”

Here’s what else we are covering:

— Resignation: Kent is the first Trump administration official to quit over the Iran war

A yoga session in an underground parking garage that serves as a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, March 17, 2026. The Israeli military on Tuesday again urged residents of southern Lebanon to evacuate north of the Zahrani River, saying it was attacking Hezbollah militants in that region. (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv/The New York Times)

and one of the first to explicitly resign citing a significant policy difference. Trump later told reporters in the Oval Office that Kent was “weak” on security.

— Powerful militia: Soleimani had led the Basij since 2019 and was under U.S. and European sanctions for his role in the violent suppression of Iranian protests. The Basij, estimated to number about 1 million, have played a central role in repressing dissent.

— Tanker attack: A tanker anchored near a port in the United Arab Emirates was hit by a projectile early Tuesday, sustaining minor damage, in the first strike on a ship in and

around the Strait of Hormuz in five days, according to United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations. At least 17 vessels have been attacked in the region since the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran began.

— Death toll: At least 1,348 civilians in Iran have been killed since the start of the war, Iran’s U.N. representative has told the Security Council. In Lebanon, 912 people have been killed, the health ministry said Tuesday. In Israel, at least 12 people have been killed, authorities said. The Pentagon says that 13 American service members have died since the start of the war.

Dozens killed, possibly many more, in Pakistani airstrike on Kabul

By SAFIULLAH PADSHAH and ELIAN PELTIER

APakistani airstrike on a drug rehabilitation center killed dozens of people in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, on Monday night, in the deadliest single attack of an escalating conflict between the two neighbors. There were at least 75 bodies in body bags or coffins in the backs of ambulances that shuttled back and forth throughout the night and Tuesday morning. An initial assessment by a United Nations agency at the site said that the

death toll could be much higher, noting that its observers found the “complete destruction” of one part of the facility, which housed about 180 adolescents, with “no survivors reported.”

Pakistan claimed responsibility for the strike, one of six that it carried out on Afghanistan on Monday, but, in a post on social platform X, Pakistan’s information minister, Ataullah Tarar, said the target had been an ammunition depot. Monday’s strike was the third time Pakistan hit the Afghan capital in recent weeks.

A Taliban spokesperson warned Tuesday

that Afghanistan would retaliate, a step that could lead to all-out war between two countries, whose populations share deep cultural bonds.

Pakistan, which once supported the Taliban, accuses Afghanistan’s Taliban government of harboring an Islamic terrorist group responsible for hundreds of attacks in Pakistan in recent years. Armed groups operate on both sides of their 1,640-mile border.

Officials from the two countries met regularly until October, when the two militaries

clashed along that border. In late February, Pakistan declared “open war” against the Taliban government in Afghanistan. Since then, Pakistan has launched dozens of airstrikes on Afghanistan’s two largest cities and in border areas.

Though Pakistan’s ultimate objective remains unclear, it has pummeled Afghan military infrastructure with strikes that have also hit or damaged civilian homes, refugee camps and health facilities, according to the United Nations.

Trump’s next target: ‘Taking Cuba’

By JACK NICAS

“Ido believe I’ll be having the honor of taking Cuba,” President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday.

“Taking Cuba in some form, yeah,” he added when a reporter asked for clarification. “Taking Cuba. I mean, whether I free it, take it — I think I could do anything I want with it, if you want to know the truth.”

Even by Trump’s precedent-shattering standards for speaking his mind as the U.S. president, his comments were a stunning insight into his perceptions of his power and its lack of limits.

There have been 13 U.S. presidents since Fidel Castro took power in Cuba, all with their own complicated and often contentious relationship with the Communist-ruled island. But none has so publicly pondered seizing control of the nation, until now. And after Trump’s military attacks in Venezuela and Iran this year, his comments may not simply be offthe-cuff musings.

Instead, the remarks seem to suggest that Trump is pushing toward a third consecutive attempt to behead a foreign government, perhaps before the year finishes its first quarter.

“I am holding Cuba,” he said Sunday aboard Air Force One, adding, “We will pretty soon make a deal or do whatever we have to do.” But he also made the sequencing clear: “We’re going to do Iran before Cuba.”

In reality, the Trump administration is already engaging on both. Since January, the United States has established what amounts to an oil blockade on Cuba, threatening other countries if they provide

Cuban locals and international tourists walk through the Callejón de Hamel, an alley featuring Afro-Caribbean-inspired art, in Havana July 18, 2015. “Taking Cuba. I mean, whether I free it, take it. I think I can do anything I want with it,” President Donald Trump said on Monday, March 16, 2026. “They’re a very weakened nation right now.”

(Meridith Kohut/The New York Times)

oil to the island and even taking military action. Last month, a U.S. Coast Guard vessel intercepted a tanker full of crude oil from Colombia en route to Cuba.

As a result, Cuba has not received any significant oil or fuel shipments since Jan. 9, creating a rapidly escalating crisis on the island. Gasoline sold on the black market has soared to about $35 a gallon and the electricity is failing almost every day, including a nationwide blackout Monday. Surgeries are being delayed, medicine is running out, and food insecurity is increasing.

That has backed Cuba’s leadership into a corner.

President Miguel Díaz-Canel delivered a national address last week that acknowledged for the first time that Cuba was talking to the United States and would soon begin opening its economy.

At the same time, the Trump administration was making clear to Cuba that Díaz-Canel must go, The New York Times reported Monday. So far, the White House is not pushing for action against the Castro family, which remains in power behind the scenes. That is in line with the Trump administration’s preference for regime compliance, versus regime change, as seen in Venezuela.

close contact about the crisis.

On Monday night, Cuba’s economic czar, Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, announced a series of changes to allow Cubans abroad to invest, bank and do business in Cuba, a potentially major shift in policy that the Cuban diaspora has long been seeking.

In one sign of the pressure that Cuba is under to make such changes, Pérez-Oliva Fraga made the announcement over the radio. He had been scheduled to speak on television, but the power grid — which runs largely on oil — was still out. By 7 a.m. local time Tuesday, the Cuban government said nearly 70% of Havana, the capital, was still without power.

The potential of an economic reopening of Cuba is not lost on Trump. A real estate mogul with a long interest in South Florida and the Caribbean, Trump has long coveted the island.

In 1998, a company he controlled secretly hired consultants to visit Cuba to explore its potential, a trip that might have violated the U.S. embargo on Cuba, according to a 2016 investigation by Newsweek. In 2011 and 2012, Trump Organization executives visited Cuba scouting for a golf course, Bloomberg reported in 2016.

While on the campaign trail in 2016, Trump repeatedly said he would like to do business there. “Cuba would be a good opportunity for investment,” he told a Miami news station that year. “I think probably the time’s not right.”

Now he is suggesting the timing might be near. “They’re talking to us. It’s a failed nation. They have no money. They have no oil. They have no nothing,” he said in the Oval Office on Monday.

Then he had another thought. “They have nice land. They have nice landscape,” he said, adding, “I think Cuba, in its own way, tourism and everything else, it’s a beautiful island, great weather.”

Russia has signaled it is prepared to back Cuba, its longtime ally, if necessary. A Kremlin spokesperson said Tuesday that Russian and Cuban officials were in

But then he revealed the geographical and meteorological limits to his knowledge. “They’re not in a hurricane zone, which is nice for a change, you know?” he said. That, of course, is like saying it doesn’t snow in Buffalo, New York.

Trump, however, already seemed to be thinking in the context of Cuba as U.S. property: “They won’t be asking us for money for hurricanes every week.”

With threats and claims of ‘treason,’ Trump pressures media on the war

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM

The Trump administration has unleashed a multifaceted pressure campaign against news organizations as it increasingly bristles at media coverage of a Middle East military operation that many Americans oppose.

Official Pentagon briefings now include attacks on outlets such as CNN, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth nitpicking headlines. President Donald Trump is turning to his bully pulpit on Truth Social to accuse “Highly Unpatriotic ‘News’ Organizations” of airing “LIES” about the war and musing about “Charges for TREASON.”

The goal seems to be pressuring journalists to back off critical coverage of the war effort, or to at least encourage the public to second-guess reporting that runs counter to the administration’s preferred narrative. And the effort has gone well beyond words.

Trump’s top media regulator, Brendan Carr of the Federal Communications Commission, issued an explicit warning to broadcast television networks on social media, writing that “hoaxes and news distortions” could lead to the revocation of licenses for local stations, a threat that Trump said he was “so thrilled to see.”

The president and his allies have sought to vilify the news media since the start of his political rise a decade ago. But this recent denigration of news organizations — including The New York Times — comes as Trump has appeared at pains to depict his Middle East military effort as a smashing success, despite some facts to the contrary and opinion polls that have revealed widespread doubts among Americans about the war.

In particular, Trump has zeroed in on accusing American news organizations of disloyalty to their country, as in an official White House news release declaring that CNN had sought “to undermine our decisive victories in Operation Epic Fury.”

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said in a statement Monday: “The media has been undeniably biased and negative in its coverage of President Trump and Operation Epic Fury. Anybody with eyes and ears can see this.”

Previous White Houses also complained about domestic news coverage of U.S. intervention in the Middle East. But this administration’s attempts to shame, and in some cases punish, journalists for straightforward reporting on the war has engendered comparisons to the demands of foreign authoritarian leaders.

David Axelrod, who was an adviser to former President Barack Obama, said recently on social media that “it feels like a decision has been made that if the war news isn’t better, better to attack those who report news of the war.” He added: “They’re envious. Putin doesn’t have to put up with this!”

Mark Thompson, CEO of CNN, said in a statement that “politicians have an obvious motive for claiming that journalism which raises questions about their decisions is false.” He added, “No amount of political threats or insults

A plume of smoke rises in Tehran, Iran, on March 8, 2026, after overnight strikes by U.S. and Israeli forces targeted multiple oil storage depots. The branding of the U.S. military operation against Iran is a quintessentially Trumpian choice for a leader whose tenure has been marked by anger. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times)

is going to change that.”

There is something uniquely Trumpian about the way the president is handling the first full-bore active military conflict of his two terms in office. Fixated on his press coverage since his early days as a real estate developer, Trump has both accused mainstream reporters of treason and engaged with them on a close, personal level.

Since the start of the military strikes in Iran, the president has fielded dozens of calls on his personal cellphone from journalists from, among other outlets: ABC News, Axios, CBS News, CNN, The Daily Mail, Fox News, MS NOW, NBC News, The New York Times, The New York Post and the small conservative outlet The Washington Reporter.

Jonathan Karl, ABC’s chief Washington correspondent, recently said he had spoken to Trump by phone three times in the first five days of the military operation in Iran, including one midafternoon call that lasted 20 minutes. During one of those calls, the president asked Karl if he thought the war was “impressive.”

Trump’s comments in these conversations sometimes contradict one another — in the course of one day, he suggested to one reporter that the conflict was coming to a quick end and then told another that he expected it to last for a while longer — but his eagerness reveals a sensitivity to the views of the shaping public perception of the war.

The president has also complained about the proliferation of misleading videos generated by artificial intelligence that have widely circulated online, and he appeared to blame traditional news organizations for aiding their distribution. (Many mainstream American outlets have identified and debunked those videos.)

The licensing threat from Carr, the FCC chair, raised eyebrows in part because the agency has been traditionally viewed as independent. As a regulator, Carr has gov-

ernment tools at his disposal to punish media organizations, though the process for revoking a broadcast license is onerous and can take years. On Sunday, the Democratic minority leader, Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, called his comments “vindictive, fascist stuff.”

Carr made his remarks on a day when he was seen speaking with Trump at the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, according to CNN. Carr was criticized last year for implying that he might retaliate against ABC for on-air comments by Jimmy Kimmel, the latenight host, who was then temporarily suspended by the network.

His comments about coverage of the war drew Republican criticism over the weekend. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., was asked on Fox News on Sunday if the government should have a role in policing news coverage. “I’m a big supporter of the First Amendment,” Johnson said. “I do not like the heavy hand of government, no matter who’s wielding it.”

Besides CNN, Trump has criticized the Times and The Wall Street Journal for particular articles.

The president’s attacks on the media have been supplemented by Hegseth, who used a Pentagon briefing last week to assail individual outlets for what he deemed insufficiently positive coverage of the war.

Hegseth said he was looking forward to CNN coming under the control of David Ellison, the billionaire founder of Paramount Skydance, whose purchase of CNN’s parent company still requires approval from the Trump administration.

Ellison is perceived as friendly with Trump, who on Monday referred to him and his father, Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, as “two great people.” Skydance purchased CBS last year, and David Ellison installed a conservative ombudsman at the news division and pledged to appeal to a more centrist audience.

CBS also announced the end of Stephen Colbert’s late-night show. At Sunday’s Academy Awards, Kimmel, who was presenting an award for documentaries, could not resist tossing in a jab.

“As you know there are some countries whose leaders don’t support free speech,” Kimmel told the audience. “I’m not at liberty to say which. Let’s just leave it at North Korea and CBS.”

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Tasa mínima, promedio ponderado, y máxima para préstamos personales pequeños otorgados para la semana que terminó el sábado, 14 de marzo de 2026

How to create your own affordable wellness vacation

By ELAINE GLUSAC

In Iceland, I paid $11 for access to the outdoor recreation complex in Akureyri, the country’s second-largest city, to swim laps and wind down in geothermal pools with locals as we scanned the starry winter skies together.

The relaxing experience illustrates two keys to bargain wellness travel: Go where practices are integral to the culture — Iceland has roughly 120 public pools — and pursue a do-it-yourself practice, like snuggling up to a hot-tub jet, rather than paying a masseuse for stress relief.

Wellness travel is booming, projected to account for $1 trillion worldwide this year, according to the Global Wellness Institute research nonprofit. That spending is expected to grow to $4 trillion by 2029.

Wellness mania has brought public yoga classes to cities from Auckland, New Zealand, to Zurich. The Hilton Hotels group furnishes “wellness rooms” with aromatherapy and, sometimes, Peloton bikes. Romer House Waikiki in Hawaii offers complimentary sound baths to guests floating in the pool, and Dawn Ranch, in Guerneville, California, conducts free forest-bathing programs.

Despite the mass appeal of wellness, the industry has increasingly aligned itself with luxury, spawning high-end longevity clinics and $300-an-hour spa services.

“There are two contradictory trends in wellness travel: high-tech, medically driven diagnostic retreats and simpler, more affordable, authentic, social and emotional destinations,” said Beth McGroarty, vice president of research at the Global Wellness Institute. “It’s never been a more polarized market in terms of costs and goals.”

For those with tight budgets, a combination of classic attractions like hot springs, techenabled DIY services, traditional practices, retreat centers and outdoor events democratizes self-care. Below are some suggestions. Hot springs

Bathing in geothermal pools has long served hygienic and relaxation needs. Many hot springs are also scenic, social, low-cost and sometimes free, as is the case at Hot Springs State Park, in Thermopolis, Wyoming.

Forested mountain views surround seven pools, most ranging in temperature from 100 to 106 degrees, at Quinn’s Hot Springs in Paradise, Montana. (Day access from $20.)

An hour east of San Diego, travelers can

spend the night at the renovated Jacumba Hot Springs hotel, originally built in the 1920s, for unlimited soaking in three pools (from $230 a night). Nonguests can also buy passes starting at $20.

Clustered springs encourage poolhopping road trips. In the Canadian Rockies, the Hot Springs Circle Route maps out six soaking destinations in eastern British Columbia over roughly 530 miles.

The 800-mile Colorado Historic Hot Springs Loop links 23 springs, from creekside Strawberry Park Hot Springs ($20) near Steamboat Springs in the north to Durango Hot Springs Resort & Spa, with its 32 pools, in the south (from $49).

Nordic spas and seaweed baths

Visitors soak in the warm waters of Strawberry Park Hot Springs, just outside of Steamboat Springs, Colo., in December 2022. Wellness travel is booming, projected to account for $1 trillion worldwide this year, according to the research nonprofit Global Wellness Institute. (Andrew Miller/The New York Times)

Other water-focused therapies take inspiration from the Scandinavian tradition of alternating exposure to hot and cold sources. Known in North America as Nordic spas, these four-season, largely outdoor campuses combine natural settings with hot pools, cold plunges, saunas and steam baths.

Nordik Spa-Nature in Quebec, about 20 minutes from Ottawa, Ontario, features a thermal circuit combining several saunas — variations include aromatic and superheated saunas — with cold exposure through pools, showers or buckets of ice water. Guests can rest between rounds at outdoor fires (admission 99 Canadian dollars, about $72).

In Newcastle, Maine, Waterstruck Wellness pairs a Nordic spa session with an après sauna menu from the nearby farm-to-table restaurant Alna Store for $115 a person.

In Ireland, bathing gets a twist with barrels filled with warmed ocean water and mineral-rich seaweed, often locally harvested. Jump in at Sneem Seaweed Baths on southern Kenmare Bay and enjoy views of the mountains of County Kerry (48 euros, about $56), or overlook the churn of the sea at Wild Atlantic Seaweed Baths in Doolin, in western County Clare (from €60).

Sauna circuits

Traditional in Finland, saunas have been popping up worldwide. Sweating it out in dry heat for short periods has been found to reduce high blood pressure and increase immunity.

At the Best Bet Motor Lodge in Reno, Nevada, the Reno Sauna Club offers an indoor sauna, cold showers and a second sauna in the courtyard installed in a converted 1950s trailer (admission is $25).

Savu operates saunas in three locations

in Vermont, including at ski and bike resort Madbush Falls in Waitsfield, where bathers can alternate between hot chambers with views of Madbush Falls and cold showers in the cascade (from $25).

In the Faeroe Islands, outside the capital of Torshavn, Saunadypp floats on a harbor platform, offering views of the surrounding mountains and cold ocean plunges (110 Danish krone, about $17).

Nature therapies

The healing power of nature drives many wellness offerings, including forest bathing. Slow, mindful walks in the woods, rooted in the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, have been linked to improved mental health.

The Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs certifies trails that encourage reconnecting with nature. One of two certified trails in Jackson County, North Carolina, features two streams along a nearly half-mile wooded trail. Visitors can take self-guided audio tours or book a 2 1/2-hour guided forest-bathing walk from $50 a person.

Look for periodic sessions at botanical gardens and nature centers such as the Bellevue Botanical Garden near Seattle ($45) and the Chattahoochee Nature Center in Roswell, Georgia ($35).

One of the most endearing takes on wellness, goat yoga offers opportunities to nuzzle baby goats from the downward-dog position. Spenker Family Farm in Lodi, California, holds events in the spring, when the kids are born, that end with a cheese tasting ($75).

Robotic massages

A new money-saving category of spa treatments favors technology over the human touch with inventions like robotic massages.

“During the pandemic, everyone came up with touchless treatments,” McGroarty of the Global Wellness Institute said. “Now instead of $320 for a 45-minute massage you can pay $50.”

In Phoenix, at the Royal Palms Resort and Spa, touchless treatments ($50) include a dry water massage. Guests lie on a water mattress that applies water pressure to the back, the neck and the shoulders and are able to customize targets and intensity. In another treatment, a chaise longue delivers vibrations said to reduce stress, electromagnetic pulses to stimulate tissue healing and infrared heat to increase circulation.

A massage robot from New Yorkbased company Aescape allows guests to customize pressure and technique. Several Equinox fitness clubs from New York City to Los Angeles offer 30-minute robotic massages and access to club amenities to nonmembers for $60.

Multiday stays

To prolong your bliss, no-frills retreat centers, monasteries and the occasional hotel offer budget-stretching wellness stays.

Two hours from Los Angeles, sojourns at Big Bear Retreat Center are devoted to meditation and kinship building, among other themes, with access to trails on nearly 100 acres of wooded property. A five-day silent retreat beginning March 31 starts at $360 a person in a shared triple (meals are included).

U.S. Buddhist monasteries offer affordable alternatives to meditation sites abroad. In Bloomington, Indiana, the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, founded by the Dalai Lama’s brother Thubten J. Norbu, offers donation-based tours and prayer and meditation sessions. Visitors can stay on the 90-acre campus in a yurt or a cabin with shared kitchens and bathrooms from $80 a night.

Budget approaches to wellness hotels or spas usually require off-season visits. Among the exceptions is Hotel Ritual, in Jacksonville, Texas. It offers a two-night package with lodging, breakfasts, five hours of treatments like massages, reiki and sound therapy, and access to an outdoor pool and yoga studio for $898 a person.

The program teaches treatment methods that guests can continue at home.

“It’s a birthright to know how to heal ourselves,” said Whitney Graham, the owner of Hotel Ritual. “My little offering is as economically friendly as I can make it.”

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Demandante V. ADQUISICIÓN DE PROPIEDAD UBICADA EN EL BO. BEJUCOS, ISABELA, PR 00662; CATASTRO NÚM.: 003097-042-02-000; SUCESIÓN DE RUFINO HERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ; POSEEDORES Y/O PERSONAS CON INTERES DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO LOS CUALES SE NOMBRAN BAJO LOS NOMBRES FICTICIOS LARRY DOE, MARY DOE, MIKE DOE Y LUCY DOE

Demandados

Núm. Caso: AG2025CV01810.

Núm. Caso Administrativo: IS124. Sore: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA (IN REM). PROCEDIMIENTO SUMARIO (LEY 114 DE 2024). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SUCESIÓN DE RUFINO HERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ; DUEÑOS DESCONOCIDOS O PERSONAS CON INTERES NOMBRADOS COMO LARRY DOE, MARY DOE, MIKE DOE Y LUCY DOE.

POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este Tribunal Demanda de expropiación forzosa contra usted, solicitando al Tribunal que conceda la expropiación de la propiedad que se describe a continuación: “RUSTICA: Predio de terreno ubicado en la calle Helecho número diecisiete (17) del Barrio Bejucos de Isabela, identificado en el plano como Solar Uno (1), con una cabida superficial de doscientos veinte punto siete mil trece (220.7013) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con David Bahn; al Sur, con John Gomez; al Este, con carretera municipal; y al Oeste, con Santa Vélez. Contiene estructura de cemento y hormigón y pozo séptico.”. Catastro número 003-097-042-02-000. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuya información se consigna de inmediato:

Lcdo. Moisés Rodríguez Torres R.U.A. Núm. 17201 P.O. Box 1661, Isabela, Puerto Rico, 00662 Tel/Fax: (787) 872-1277 moisesrod2001@gmail.com

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la 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 usted no presentar su alegación responsiva a la Demanda dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Este edicto deberá ser publicado una vez por semana durante tres (3) semanas sucesivas en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, hoy día 25 de febrero de 2026. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. AWILDA CABÁN SÁNCHEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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BAJO LOS NOMBRES

FICTICIOS LARRY DOE, MARY DOE, MIKE DOE Y LUCY DOE

Demandados Núm. Caso: AG2025CV01806. Núm. Caso Administrativo: IS63. Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA (IN REM). PROCEDIMIENTO SUMARIO (LEY 114 DE 2024). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA,

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

A: MARIA LUISA

CONCEPCION RIVERA; POSEEDORES Y/O PERSONAS CON INTERES DE NOMBRE

DESCONOCIDO LOS CUALES SE NOMBRAN BAJO LOS NOMBRES FICTICIOS LARRY DOE, MARY DOE, MIKE DOE Y LUCY DOE. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este Tribunal Demanda de expropiación sumaria (IN REM) contra usted, solicitando al Tribunal que conceda la expropiación de la propiedad que se describe a continuación: “Rústica: Predio de terreno ubicado en la carretera cuatrocientos setenta y tres (473), kilómetro cero punto ocho (0.8) interior del Barrio Guayabos de Isabela, identificado en el plano como Solar Uno (1), con una cabida superficial de doscientos cuarenta y dos punto mil cuatrocientos cincuenta y un (226.6745) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con Laura Anza; al Sur, con callejón municipal; al Este, con Asvaldo Abreu; y al Oeste, con callejón municipal. Contiene estructura de cemento y hormigón.” Catastro número 003-087-296-25-998. No consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Aguadilla. Entidad expropiante: Municipio de Isabela, por virtud de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa, aprobada el 12 de marzo de 1903, según enmendada, 32 L.P.R.A. § 2901, y el Artículo 1.008(c) de Ley Núm. 107 del 14 de agosto de 2020, según enmendada, conocida como el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, 21 L.P.R.A. §7001. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuya información se consigna de inmediato: Lcdo. Moisés Rodríguez Torres R.U.A. Núm. 17201 P.O. Box 1661, Isabela, Puerto Rico, 00662 Tel/Fax: (787) 872-1277 moisesrod2001@gmail.com

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la 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 usted no presentar su alega-

ción responsiva a la Demanda dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Este edicto deberá ser publicado una vez por semana durante tres (3) semanas sucesivas en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, hoy día 24 de febrero de 2026. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. NILDA TORRES ACEVEDO, SUBSECRETARIA.

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Demandante V. ADQUISICIÓN DE PROPIEDAD UBICADA EN EL BO. PUEBLO, CALLE LOS ROTARIOS, ISABELA, PR 00662; CATASTRO NÚM.: 007-008-095-64000; SOTERA RÍOS DE GUZMÁN; POSEEDORES

Y/O PERSONAS CON INTERES DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO LOS CUALES SE NOMBRAN BAJO LOS NOMBRES

FICTICIOS LARRY DOE, MARY DOE, MIKE DOE Y LUCY DOE

Demandados Núm. Caso: AG2025CV01809. Núm. Caso Administrativo: IS89. Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA (IN REM). PROCEDIMIENTO SUMARIO (LEY 114 DE 2024). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SOTERA RÍOS DE GUZMÁN; POSEEDORES

Y/O PERSONAS CON INTERES DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO LOS CUALES SE NOMBRAN BAJO LOS NOMBRES

FICTICIOS LARRY DOE, MARY DOE, MIKE DOE Y LUCY DOE.

POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este Tribunal Demanda de expropiación sumaria (IN REM) contra usted, solicitando al Tribunal que conceda la expropiación de la pro-

piedad que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Predio de terreno ubicado en la carretera ciento trece (113), kilómetro uno punto cero (1.0) interior del Barrio Pueblo de Isabela, identificado en el plano como Solar Uno (1), con una cabida superficial de ciento sesenta y nueve punto siete mil doscientos noventa y seis (169.7296) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con Sotera Ríos; al Sur, con callejón municipal; al Este, con Javier Ortiz; y al Oeste, con Ángel Guzmán. Contiene estructura de cemento y hormigón.” Catastro número: 007-008-095-64-000. No consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Aguadilla. Entidad expropiante: Municipio de Isabela, por virtud de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa, aprobada el 12 de marzo de 1903, según enmendada, 32 L.P.R.A. §2901, y el Artículo 1.008(c) de Ley Núm. 107 del 14 de agosto de 2020, según enmendada, conocida como el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, 21 L.P.R.A. §7001. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuya información se consigna de inmediato: Lcdo. Moisés Rodríguez Torres R.U.A. Núm. 17201 P.O. Box 1661, Isabela, Puerto Rico, 00662 Tel/Fax: (787) 872-1277 moisesrod2001@gmail.com Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la 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 usted no presentar su alegación responsiva a la Demanda dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Este edicto deberá ser publicado una vez por semana durante tres (3) semanas sucesivas en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, hoy día 24 de febrero de 2026. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. NILDA TORRES ACEVEDO, SUBSECRETARIA.

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NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN SAMUEL GUZMÁN MORENO Peticionario EX-PARTE

Civil #: BY2026CV00548. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. COD. 171-030-046-10001. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO. A: LA SUCESIÓN PRESUNTA Y DESCONOCIDA DE MODESTO GUZMÁN Y FLORENTINA GUZMÁN COMPUESTA

A SABER: AMELIA, LUISA, JUAN, LEONCIA, DAVID, FAUSTO, SALVADOR, VALENTINA Y LAS PERSONAS IDENTIFICADAS

COMO A, B Y C, Y LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIC A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.

POR LA PRESENTE: se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de las TREINTA (30) días contados a partir de la publicación e este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido par la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Ustedes deberán presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si ustedes dejan de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o

cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lic. Jaime Rodríguez Rivera, cuya dirección es #30 Calle Reparto Piñero, Guaynabo, PR 00969-5650, Teléfono 787-720-9553. El predio objeto de la Petición se describe a continuación: “RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno de forma irregular identificada como “Solar 3” en el plano de mensura, radicada en el barrio Guaraguao del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con un area superficial de OCHOCIENTOS SETENTA Y UN METROS CUADRADOS CON TRESCIENTAS CINCUENTA Y NUEVE MILÉSIMAS DE OTRO (871.359 m/c), equivalentes a DOS MIL DOSCIENTAS DIECISIETE DIEZMILÉSIMAS DE CUERDA (0.2217 cda). En lindes por el NORTE: en cinco (5) alineaciones que suman treinta metros lineales con cinco centésimas de otro (30.05 ml) con Milagros Guzmán Merced; par el SUR: en cinco (5) alineaciones que suman treinta y tres metros lineales con cincuenta centésimas de otro (33.50 m) con Milagros Guzmán Merced; par el ESTE: en trece metros con cincuenta y seis centésimas de otro (13.56 ml) con Félix Guzmán Merced y par el OESTE: en siete (7) alineaciones que suman treinta y nueve metros lineales con noventa y cinco centésimas de otro (39.95 ml) con calle municipal. Enclava estructura terrera en hormigón.” Este edicto deberá ser publicado una sola vez, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer las interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el termino improrrogable de treinta (30) días a contar de la fecha de la publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 12 de febrero de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

WILFREDO GUZMÁN MORENO Peticionario

EX-PARTE

Civil #: BY2026CV00542. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. COD. 171-030046-10-001. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: LA SUCESIÓN PRESUNTA Y DESCONOCIDA DE MODESTO GUZMÁN Y FLORENTINA GUZMÁN COMPUESTA

A SABER: AMELIA, LUISA, JUAN, LEONCIA, DAVID, FAUSTO, SALVADOR, VALENTINA Y LAS PERSONAS IDENTIFICADAS COMO A, B Y C, Y LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.

POR LA PRESENTE: se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de las TREINTA (30) días contados a partir de la publicación e este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Ustedes deberán presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si ustedes dejan de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción,

lo entiende procedente. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lic. Jaime Rodríguez Rivera, cuya dirección es #30 Calle Reparto Piñero, Guaynabo, PR 00969-5650, Teléfono 787720-9553. El predio objeto de la Petición se describe a continuación: “RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno de forma irregular identificada como “Solar 6” en el plano de Mensura, radicada en el barrio Guaraguao del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de DOS MIL CIENTO OCHENTA Y OCHO METROS CUADRADOS CON CUARENTA Y OCHO MILÉSIMAS DE OTRO (2188.048 m/c), equivalentes a CINCO MIL QUINIENTAS SESENTA Y SIETE DIEZMILÉSIMAS DE CUERDA (0.5567 cda). En lindes por el NORTE: en dos (2) alineaciones que suman cincuenta y cuatro metros lineales con veintiocho centésimas de otro (54.28 ml) con Wilfredo Guzmán; por el SUR: treinta y seis metros lineales con cincuenta y cinco centésimas de otro (36.55 ml) con calle municipal; por el ESTE: en seis (6) alineaciones que suman cuarenta y tres metros lineales con treinta y dos centésimas de otro ( 43.32 ml) con calle municipal; y por el OESTE: en cincuenta metros con noventa y cinco centésimas de otro (50.95 ml) con Marisol Guzmán Moreno. Enclava estructura terrera en hormigón.” Este edicto deberá ser publicado una sola vez, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el termino improrrogable de treinta (30) días a contar de la fecha de la publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 12 de febrero de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL LNTERINA. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO VISTAS DE CANÓVANAS I, INC.

Plaintiff V. FEDERAL DEPOSIT

INSURANCE CORPORATION, AS RECEIVER OF DORAL BANK, ET ALS.

Defendant Case No.: 16-02568 (FAB). NO-

TICE OF SALE.

To: VISTAS DE CANÓVANAS I, INC., RAMÓN MAC CROHON BLANCO; AND GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: On August 27, 2018, and consistent with the terms and conditions of a certain Judgment by Consent and Settlement Agreement executed by the parties, a Judgment (“Judgment”) was entered in favor of plaintiff Bautista Cayman Asset Company, now Bautista REO PR Corp. (“Bautista REO”) against Vistas de Canóvanas I, Inc. (“Borrower”) and Mr. Ramón Mac Crohon Blanco (the “Guarantor” and together with the Borrower, the “Debtors”). The Judgment by Consent granted Bautista REO, among other things, the right to execute the Judgment entered in connection with the Judgment by Consent and request the foreclosure of the Real Estate Collateral, as defined therein and described below, pursuant to the terms and conditions agreed by the Debtors and Bautista REO in the Judgment by Consent and Settlement Agreement. On February 18, 2026, this Court entered an Amended Order Authorizing Execution of the Judgment (the “Amended Order of Execution”), designating Mr. Joel Ronda Feliciano as Special Master (the “Special Master”) for the execution of the Judgment. On February 19, 2026, this Court entered, in accordance with the Amended Order of Execution, an Amended Writ of Execution (the “Amended Writ of Execution”). The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico in 300 Recinto Sur St. in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Amended Order of Execution, and the Amended Writ of Execution, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash, or certified or bank manager check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of Rondapro, 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property, described in the Spanish language (the “Real Estate Collateral”): Property 15,939: RÚSTICA: Compuesta de 417,287.6511 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 106.1693 cuerdas, sita en el Barrio Hato Puerto del término municipal de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico. En lindes por el NORTE, con Sucesión José Pagan Mundo y con Sucesión Rafael Calderón Rivera, por el ESTE, con Juan

Torres Medina, Pedro Fuster, Neftalí Ortiz, Emilio Vega y con Sucesión Juan Monge, por el SUR, con el Río Canóvanas y por el OESTE, con Río Canóvanas y con la carretera PR 185. Segregada parcela A de 2,912.795 metros cuadrados, parcela B de 100.0937 metros cuadrados, parcela D de 10,746.5396 metros cuadrados y parcela C de 35.3517 metros cuadrados al Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, fincas 15,997; 15,998; 15,600 y 15,999, respectivamente. NOTA: Luego de efectuadas las segregaciones, no se ha descrito remanente. OBSERVACIÓN: Surge en Karibe la cabida de 4,173,876,514 metros cuadrados Property 15,939 is recorded in favor of Vistas de Canóvanas I, Inc. Property 15,939 is recorded at page 124 of volume 389 of Canóvanas Property Registry, Third Section of Carolina. Property 15,939 was formed by the grouping of properties: 12,668, 12,762, 12,754, 7,712, and 9,183, recorded at pages 133, 161, 133, 93, and 100 of volumes 382, 382, 384, 54 and 100 of Canóvanas. WHEREAS: The Real Estate Collateral is encumbered by its origin by: (i) Easement in favor of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority. (ii) Easement in favor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, for use and benefit of the Department of Natural Resources of Puerto Rico. (iii) Perpetual easement of way in favor of property number 9,183 as dominant property over property number 7,712 as servient property. (iv) Mention of perpetual easement of way in favor of property number 12,668 as dominant property over property number 12,671 as servient property. (v) Mortgage I securing a mortgage note in favor of Doral Bank, or to its order, in the principal amount of EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS

($825,000.00), property number 15,939 responding for the amount of FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS

($425,000.00) with interests at Prime Rate, due on its presentation, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 411 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the eleventh (11) of November two thousand four (2004) before Notary Public Elaine Villanueva Martínez, recorded at page 178 of volume 387 of Canóvanas, property number 12,754, 7th recordation. (vi) Mortgage I securing a mortgage note in favor of Doral Bank, or to its order, in the principal amount of EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS

($825,000.00), property number 15,939 responding for the amount of FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS

($400,000.00) with interests at Prime Rate, due on its presen-

tation, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 411 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the eleventh (11) of November two thousand four (2004) before Notary Public Elaine Villanueva Martínez, recorded at page 167 of volume 387 of Canóvanas, property number 7,712, 15th recordation. (vii) Pursuant to deed number 25, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 2, 2025 before Notary Public Mariana Nácer Elizalde the mortgage in the amount of SIXTEEN MILLION, SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($16,675,000.00) (Mortgage II) 5th recordation, was subordinated in favor of the of mortgage in the amount EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($825,000.00) (Mortgage I), recorded in Volume Karibe of Canóvanas, Property No. 15,939, marginal note. The Real Estate Collateral is encumbered by itself: (i) Easement in favor of the Puerto Rico Telecommunications Regulatory Board, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 26 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the twenty-fourth (24) of april two thousand six (2006) before Notary Public Rodney W. Colon-Ortiz, recorded at page 124 of volume 389 of Canóvanas, property number 15,939, 2nd recordation. (ii) Easement in favor of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, with a value of $1.00, per Certification dated May 18, 2006, recorded at page 124 of volume 389 of Canóvanas, property number 15,939, 3rd recordation. (iii) Restrictive covenants and easement in equity, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 35 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the twenty-eighth (28) of June two thousand six (2006) before Notary Public Rodney W. Colon, recorded at page 124 of volume 389 of Canóvanas, property number 15,939, 4th recordation. (iv) Mortgage II securing a mortgage note in favor of its bearer, or to its order, in the principal amount of SIXTEEN MILLION, SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($16,675,000.00), with annual interests at 6%, due on its presentation, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 63 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the twentieth (20) of December two thousand six (2006) before Notary Public Manuel Correa Calzada, recorded at page 183 of volume 391 of Canóvanas, property number 15,939, 5th recordation. (v) The rank of the mortgage that encumbers this property by its origin, for the amount of EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($825,000.00) (Mortgage I) was equaled in rank to that of the mortgage for SIXTEEN MI-

LLION, SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($16,675,000.00) (Mortgage II), pursuant to the terms of deed 64, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the twentieth (20) of December two thousand six (2006) before Notary Public Manuel Correa Calzada, recorded at pages 124 and 183 of volumes 389 and 391, agora of Canóvanas, property number 15,939, on the margin of the 1st recordation. Pursuant to deed number 25, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 2, 2025 before Notary Public Mariana Nácer Elizalde the mortgage in the amount of SIXTEEN MILLION, SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($16,675,000.00) (Mortgage II) 5th recordation, was subordinated in favor of the of mortgage in the amount EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($825,000.00) (Mortgage I), recorded in Volume Karibe of Canóvanas, Property No. 15,939, marginal note 1.6. (vi) A notice of complaint presented on May 18, 2017, which complaint was dated September 4, 2009, issued in the Court of First Instance of San Juan, Civil Case Num. KAC2009-0837, followed by Doral Bank against Vistas de Canóvanas I, Inc., in the principal amount of $6,412,431.29, which notice of complaint is recorded at the Karibe volume of Canóvanas, Property 15,939, Annotation A. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on APRIL 10, 2026, AT 9:30 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $825,000.00 in accordance with Mortgage I ($825,000.00). In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the Real Estate Collateral is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on APRIL 17, 2026, AT 9:30 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $550,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the Real Estate Collateral, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on APRIL 24, 2026, AT 9:30 AM, the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $412,500.00, which is one-

half of the minimum bid for the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the Real Estate Collateral to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), or certified or bank manager checks, except in case the Real Estate Collateral is sold and adjudicated to Bautista REO, in which case the amount of the bid made by Bautista REO shall be credited and deducted from its credit; Bautista REO being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. If the third auction is deserted, Bautista REO may proceed to coordinate the execution of a deed of conveyance with the Marshal within twenty (20) days of the public sale, to take title of the Real Estate Collateral in partial satisfaction of the Judgment. WHEREAS: said sale to be conducted by the Special Master pursuant to the Amended Order of Execution. Compliance with all foreclosure proceedings are subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico pursuant to article 107 of the Registry of the Property Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, (30 L.P.R.A. § 6144), and the corresponding deed of conveyance and possession to the Real Estate Collateral will be executed and delivered by the Special Master after delivery of such Order of Confirmation. Once the Real Estate Collateral is adjudicated in payment of the credit guaranteeing the mortgage(s), and the price does not exceed the value thereof, all junior liens must be canceled provided that said junior creditors be notified of the public sale of said Real Estate Collateral. For further information, reference is made to the Judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on March 4, 2026. JOEL RONDA, SPECIAL MASTER. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNA GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE LUQUILLO GLORIA MERCADO ÁLVAREZ

Parte Demandante Vs. CARLOS RUBÉN PÉREZ MERCADO; LIZ MARIE SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ

Parte Demandada Caso Núm.: LU2025RF00078. Sobre: CUSTODIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.

A: LIZ MARIE SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ - RES. YUQUIYÚ I EDIF. 4 APT.61, LOÍZA, PUERTO RICO 00772.

POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la demandante ha radicado una Demanda sobre Custodia. Habiéndose ordenado la publicación de un Emplazamiento por Edicto para emplazarlo a usted, durante el término que establece la Ley, en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico. POR ESTE MEDIO, se le emplaza por Edicto y requiere a usted, la parte con interés, para que notifique al: LCDO. RICARDO M. PRIETO GARCÍA

A su dirección postal: 6 CALLE CELIS AGUILERA S, SUITE 201-A FAJARDO, PUERTO RICO, 00738 Cel: (787) 860-0875 y/o a su correo electrónico: oficina@prietolawoffice.com

Con con copia de su contestación a las alegaciones de la Demanda en este caso, las cuales podrá usted examinar en la Sala de Fajardo, del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sección Superior, dentro de los treinta (30) días contados desde el siguiente día a la fecha de la publicación de este Emplazamiento por Edicto, con la advertencia a los efectos de que si no contesta la demanda presentando el Original de la Contestación, ante el Tribunal correspondiente, con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotara la rebeldía y se dictara Sentencia para conceder el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. “Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.poderjudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal.” EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA, y el sello del Tribunal en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 24 de febrero de 2026. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. DIANA LÓPEZ FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR I.

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

Demandante Vs. ÁNGEL MANUEL SANTANA NARVÁEZ

Demandado Civil Núm.: HU2026CV00115. Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROREGLA 60. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE-

SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: ÁNGEL MANUEL SANTANA NARVÁEZ.

Queda emplazado y notificado de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda en su contra sobre Cobro de Dinero. Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.poderjudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Centro Judicial de Humacao, Sala Municipal, y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcda. Karina P. Cintrón Narváez; PO Box 193813, San Juan, PR 00919; kcintron@esqlegalpr.com. Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la demanda, sin más citársele ni oírsele. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal a 26 de febrero de 2026. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. ARSENIA MARTÍNEZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR CARIBE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION Parte Demandante Vs. FÉLIX JUAN FIGUEROA COLÓN, JANE DOE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2025CV06691. 503. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: FÉLIX JUAN FIGUEROA COLÓN, JANE DOE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

Queda emplazado y notificado de que en este Tribunal se ha

Apartamento residencial o para otro uso permitido, identificado con el número dos (2) de la segunda planta del Condominio “Rivera Mateo”, localizado en la Calle Betances número doce (12) de Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico. Este apartamento tiene un área aproximada de dos mil ochocientos veinte (2820.00) pies cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con la Calle Betances; por el Sur, con la Sucesión de Juan Monserrate; por el Este, colinda con Mueblicentro Plaza, Inc.; y por el Oeste, con el Sr. Rivera. Consiste de sala, comedor, de veinticuatro (24) pies de largo por doce (12) pies de ancho; cocina, de doce (12) pies de largo por diez (10) pies de ancho; laundry de siete (7) pies de largo por doce (12) pies de ancho; vestidor de cinco (5) pies de largo por ocho (8) pies tres (3) pulgadas de ancho; un walk-in-closet, de cinco (5) pies de largo por ocho (8) pies tres (3) pulgadas de ancho; un baño de cinco (5) pies de largo por ocho (8) pies tres (3) pulgadas de ancho; otro baño de cinco (5) pies de largo por ocho (8) pies tres (3) pulgadas de ancho; un cuarto biblioteca de doce (12) pies de largo por once (11) pies de ancho; un patio interior de dieciocho (18) pies de largo por trece (13) pies de ancho; un balcón de seis (6) pies de largo por trece (13) pies de ancho; un pasillo de nueve (9) pies de largo por tres (3) cinco (5) pulgadas de ancho; otro pasillo de diez (10) pies de largo por tres (3) pies de ancho y otro pasillo de quince (15) pies seis (6) pulgadas de largo por tres (3) de ancho; un cuarto dormitorio de catorce (14) pies cuatro (4) pulgadas de largo por doce (12) pies de ancho; otro dormitorio de trece (13) pies de largo por diez (10) pies de ancho; y otro dormitorio de doce (12) pies de largo por diez (10) pies de ancho. Contiene a su vez una terraza compuesta de mil cincuenta (1050.00) pies cuadrados. Tiene una escalera de concreto al frente y otra escalera de hierro por la parte posterior. Inscrita al folio 209 del tomo 87 de Santa Isabel, Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria de Guayama, finca número 2944, inscripción primera (1ra). La parte demandante ha solicitado de este Tribunal que, previo los trámites de ley correspondientes, declare extraviado y cancelado el referido pagaré hipotecario y, en su consecuencia, ordene al Registrador del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Santa Isabel, que cancele en los libros a su cargo la hipoteca que garantiza el referido pagaré. Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y

Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://www.unired. poderjudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. JESUS DELGADO VÉLEZ RUA 11814 ABOGADO PARTE DEMANDANTE PMB 289 1575 AVE. MUÑOZ RIVERA PONCE PR 00717-0211 Tel. 787-934-3266 delgado.esq@gmail.com

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 5 de marzo de 2026. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. WALNERY M. SANTIAGO FRANCO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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

MARIA ELENA BAEZ ORTIZ

Demandante VS. WILSON REYES ALMONTE

Demandado

CIVIL NUM. VB2026RF00014.

SOBRE: DIVORCIO (Ruptura Irreparable). EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. s.s.

A: WILSON REYES ALMONTE

Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante de epígrafe ha presentado ante este Tribunal ACCIÓN DE DIVORCIO POR RUPTURA IRREPARABLE en contra suya.

Por la presente se le emplaza y requiere que notifiqué su contestación a la Leda. Irma S. Nieves García, PO Box 4343, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico 00694. Se le apercibe que si usted no compareciere a contestar dicha Demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de su publicación, presentando el original de la contestación ante este Tribunal 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, con copia al abogado demandante. De no

hacerlo así, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, así lo entiende procedente. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 3 de marzo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. CHRYSTHINE FONSECA RODRIGUEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE UTUADO SALA DE UTUADO COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO

CRISTÓBAL RODRÍGUEZ HIDALGO

Parte Demandante Vs JAN NOEL

RIVERA DE JESUS

Parte Demandada Civil Número: UT2026CV00081. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (REGLA 60). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: JAN NOEL RIVERA DE JESUS - P.O. BOX 1855, UTUADO, PR 00641.

El Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Utuado, dictó la siguiente providencia: “Vista y evaluada la demanda presentada el 12 de febrero de 2026 y la “MOCION INFORMATIVA Y SOLICITUD DE EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO” presentada por la Parte Demandante el 3 de marzo de 2026 y la declaración jurada y los documentos que acompañan esta última, y habiéndose demostrado a satisfacción de este Tribunal que la Parte Demandada no puede ser emplazada personalmente, por una o más causas y razones contempladas por la Regla 4.6 de las de Procedimiento Civil, 32 LPRA Ap V, se ordena que su emplazamiento se realice en esta acción por medio de edictos. La publicación del edicto que mediante la presente orden se autoriza se hará, una sola vez, en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, y dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del edicto deberá dirigirse a la Parte Demandada una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada, por correo certificado con acuse de recibo a sus últimas direcciones conocidas.”

Se le emplaza y se le requiere que presente su alegación responsiva a la Demanda presentada, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una (1) vez en un periódico de circulación general del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico,

por Orden del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Utuado, Puerto Rico, notificando copia de la misma al abogado de la Parte Demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, ello sin más citarle ni oírle. La representación legal de la Parte Demandante lo es el Lcdo. Ramón Maurás Valentín, RUA 3517, Apartado 474, Coamo, PR 00769. Teléfono: (787) 825-5051 Fax: (787) 825-1267. Correo electrónico: ramonmauras@aol.com. Expedido bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal para su publicación, en Utuado, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de marzo de 2026. MARIE C. CRUZ CANDELARIA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERNA. LUZ Y. MONTES PACHECO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Parte Demandante Vs AMNERIS MICHELLE SANTIAGO RIVERA

Parte Demandada Civil Número: JD2025CV00680. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (REGLA 60). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: AMNERIS MICHELLE

SANTIAGO RIVERA - RES LEONARDO SANTIAGO

4 APT 37, JUANA DIAZ, PR 00795-2641 - O SEA, LA PARTE DEMANDADA ARRIBA MENCIONADA. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la parte demandante, ha presentado ante este Tribunal demanda contra usted por Cobro de Dinero. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consignan de inmediato: LCDO. RAMON MAURAS VALENTIN Apartado 474

Coamo, Puerto Rico, 00769

Teléfono (787) 825-5051

Usted deberá presentar su ale-

gación 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 si no compareciere usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. En Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, a 3 de marzo de 2026. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JANICE N. SEGARRA ROSADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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LOUISINIO

PEREZ HERNANDEZ

Demandante V. EXPARTE

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AG2025CV00820. (Salón: 601 CIVIL). Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ISMAEL PÉREZ NIEVESPEREZCORDEROLAW@GMAIL. COM.

A: LAS PERSONAS

IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCION DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MAS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRA Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE

A ESTE EXPEDIENTE - DIRECCIÓN: SE

DESCONOCE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica-

ción. 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 09 de marzo de 2026. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 09 de marzo de 2026. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ARLENE GUZMÁN PABÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE

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Demandante V. FLORENTINO RIVERA VALENTÍN Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2025CV05286. (Salón: 507). Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ALICIA DÍAZ SANTIAGOADIAZ@CRHPR.ORG. SUSANA MARÍA PESQUERA COLOM - SUSANAPESQUERA. LAW@GMAIL.COM. A: FLORENTINO RIVERA VALENTIN, SUCESION FLORENTINO RIVERA VALENTIN COMPUESTA POR CUALQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA QUE FORME PARTE DE LA SUCESION Y/O QUE PUEDA TENER INTERES EN LA PRESENTE ACCION; FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL REPRESENTANDO PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS, O SUS SUCESORES Y A CUALQUIER OTRA PERSONA NATURAL O JURIDICA CON INTERES. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto. EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando

usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 05 de marzo de 2026. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 05 de marzo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. ERNESTO TORRES CABÁN Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BY2025CV04630. (Salón: 503). Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. SUSANA MARÍA PESQUERA COLOM - SUSANAPESQUERA. LAW@GMAIL.COM. A: ERNESTO TORRES CABÁN, RAFAELA TORRES, FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, REPRESENTANDO PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS Y/O SUS SUCESORES Y A CUALQUIER OTRA PERSONA NATURAL O JURÍDICA CON INTERÉS. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

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

de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 05 de marzo de 2026. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 05 de marzo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MIGDALIA CRUZ REYES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Parte Demandante Vs ROSA FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ; JOHN DOE Parte Demandada Civil Número: FA2026CV00164. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. A: JOHN DOE / CUALQUIER PERSONA CON INTERES. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda de epígrafe dentro de los TREINTA (30) DÍAS a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en la cancelación de un pagaré extraviado constituido mediante la Escritura número 22, otorgada en Fajardo, el 26 de julio de 2014, ante el notario Nelson Jiménez Laracuentebajo affidavit 18258 mediante la cual la parte demandante y usted suscribieron un pagaré hipotecario al portador por la suma de ocho mil dólares ($8,000.00), con intereses al ocho porciento (8%) anual y vencedero el 26 de julio de 2014, presentada por la parte Demandante sobre los siguientes inmuebles: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 33, en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Las Cabezas del Barrio Cabezas de Fajardo, con cabida de 804.10 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con calle uno, Sur, con terrenos del Servicio Estatal de Bosques del Departamento de Recursos Naturales, Este, con parcela # 32, Oeste, con parcela 34. El inmueble antes mencionado se halla inscrito al Folio 200 del Tomo 148, Finca 4860 de Fajardo. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico de Fajardo, Sección I. Usted debe presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que su caso sea de un expediente físico o 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 abogado de la parte demandante o a ésta de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

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POR ORDEN DEL JUEZ DE ESTE TRIBUNAL, hoy día 9 de marzo de 2026. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 9 de marzo de 2026. WANDA I. SEGUÍ

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Demandante V. JAVIER PEREZ NIEVES

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: SJ2025CV05126. (Salón: 905 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM.

A: JAVIER

PEREZ NIEVES. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic-

to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de marzo de 2026. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 11 de marzo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. CARMEN LÓPEZ VILCHES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE CABO ROJO

Demandante V. WILLIAM RODRÍGUEZ CARTAGENA

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CY2025CV00368.

(Salón: 801). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

MARÍA CRISTINA MAYORAL

MALDONADO - MCM@MCMLAWPR. COM.

A: WILLIAM RODRÍGUEZ CARTAGENA.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 11 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de marzo de 2026. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 11 de marzo de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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PUERTO RICO

Demandante V.

WIDNELIA

ALVARADO ORTIZ

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CO2025CV00488. (Salón: 1). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JOSÉ A. LAMAS BURGOSJLAMAS@LVPRLAW.COM.

A: WIDNELIA

ALVARADO ORTIZ.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de marzo de 2026. En Coamo, Puerto Rico, el 11 de marzo de 2026. MAYRA L. CABRERA

GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. HEIDY M. TORO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. EXPARTE

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: UT2025CV00347. (Salón: 10). Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MIGUEL J. NEGRÓN VIVESLICMNEGRON@GMAIL.COM. A: PERSONAS IGNORADAS O DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD Y TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO

PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 11 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 12 de marzo de 2026. En Utuado, Puerto Rico, el 12 de marzo de 2026. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA. LUZ Y. MONTES PACHECO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Parte Demandante Vs. ANGEL RENE LUGO QUINTANA Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2026RF00046. Sobre: EXEQUATUR - DIVORCIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: ANGEL RENE LUGO QUINTANA - 19941 NW 52 COURT, MIAMI, FL 33055. Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro d ellos 30 días de haber sido publicado este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección 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 Secretaria del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a esta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023).

Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. EXPEDIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Fajardo, hoy día 11 de marzo de 2026. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. DIANA LÓPEZ FIGUEROA, SUBSECRETARIA.

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Parte Demandante Vs. FRANCHESKA

TORRES MELENDEZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2026RF00006. Salón: 701. Sobre: CUSTODIA COMPARTIDA Y RELACIONES PATERNO /MATERNO FILIALES. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: FRANCHESKA TORRES MELENDEZ.

POR LA PRESENTE se le NOTIFICA Y EMPLAZA que ante este Tribunal se ha radicado una acción en el caso de epígrafe mediante la cual se solicita CUSTODIA COMPARTIDA Y RELACIONES PATERNO / MATERNO FILIALES del hijo menor de edad que existe entre las partes. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr,

salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal y notificar con copia de la Contestación a la Demanda a la parte demandante Lcdo. Iván Octavio Malavé De Jesús, Urb. Park Garsdens, P1-9 calle Chapultepec, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00926, Tel (787)767-3293, correo electrónico ivanoctaviomalave@ gmail.com, dentro de los próximos 30 días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico. 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 sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMAy Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 5 de marzo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARÍA A. RAMOS VIERA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE YAUCO EN SABANA GRANDE FRANCISCO

ARROYO COURET

Parte Demandante Vs. ELIANA MARÍA

ECHEVERRY IDARRAGA

Parte Demandada Civil Número: GY2026RF00004. Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: ELIANA MARÍA

ECHEVERRY IDARRAGA.

Este Tribunal dictó la siguiente orden: “Vista la demanda presentada en el caso de epígrafe y la moción solicitando emplazamiento por edicto, este Tribunal ordena el emplazamiento mediante la publicación de un edicto dirigido a ELIANA MARÍA ECHEVERRY IDARRAGA. El Secretario(a) del Tribunal expedirá el correspondiente Edicto, para que la parte demandada proceda a su publicación, una (1) sola vez, en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la Isla de Puerto Rico. Dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del Edicto, se le dirigirá a ésta por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de su última residencia conocida. Transcurrido treinta (30) días de haberse publicado el Edicto sin que ésta compareciere y a tenor con la Regla

10.1, el caso seguirá su trámite.” En cumplimiento de una orden dictada por este Tribunal expido el presente bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Yauco en Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, a 4 de marzo de 2026. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA

FRANKLIN CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION

COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE BOSCO IX OVERSEAS, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE IRBA

MARIA CRUZ MÁRQUEZ T/C/C IRBA M. CRUZ

MÁRQUEZ T/C/C IRBA

CRUZ MÁRQUEZ T/C/C/ IRBA MARITA CRUZ

MÁRQUEZ T/C/C IRBA

MARIA CRUZ DE BATISTA T/C/C IRBA MARIA CRUZ DE BATISTA MARQUEZ Y LA SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL BATISTA PIMENTE T/C/C RAFAEL

ANTONIO BATISTA PIMENTEL COMPUESTAS POR: IRBA BATISTA CRUZ, ZORAIDA BATISTA CRUZ Y RAFAEL BATISTA CRUZ; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE IRBA

MARIA CRUZ MÁRQUEZ T/C/C IRBA M. CRUZ

MÁRQUEZ T/C/C IRBA

CRUZ MÁRQUEZ T/C/C/ IRBA MARITA CRUZ

MÁRQUEZ T/C/C IRBA

MARIA CRUZ DE BATISTA T/C/C IRBA MARIA CRUZ DE BATISTA MARQUEZ Y/O DE RAFAEL BATISTA PIMENTE T/C/C RAFAEL ANTONIO BATISTA PIMENTEL

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2025CV02919. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). EMPLAZAMIENTO Y MANDAMIENTO DE INTERPELACIÓN JUDICIAL POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: IRBA BATISTA CRUZ, ZORAIDA BATISTA CRUZ Y RAFAEL BATISTA CRUZ, COMO MIEMBROS DE

LA SUCESIÓN DE IRBA

MARIA CRUZ MÁRQUEZ T/C/C IRBA M. CRUZ

MÁRQUEZ T/C/C IRBA CRUZ MÁRQUEZ T/C/C/ IRBA MARITA CRUZ

MÁRQUEZ T/C/C IRBA

MARIA CRUZ DE BATISTA T/C/C IRBA MARIA CRUZ DE BATISTA MARQUEZ Y DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL BATISTA PIMENTEL T/C/C RAFAEL ANTONIO BATISTA PIMENTEL; Y A JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE IRBA

MARIA CRUZ MÁRQUEZ T/C/C IRBA M. CRUZ

MÁRQUEZ T/C/C IRBA CRUZ MÁRQUEZ T/C/C/ IRBA MARITA CRUZ

MÁRQUEZ T/C/C IRBA

MARIA CRUZ DE BATISTA T/C/C IRBA MARIA CRUZ DE BATISTA MARQUEZ Y/O DE RAFAEL BATISTA PIMENTEL T/C/C RAFAEL ANTONIO BATISTA PIMENTEL. Por la presente se les notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda Enmendada en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. La abogada de la parte demandante es la Lcda. Lisa M. Aponte Valderas, Rivera-Munich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, PR 009364908; Tel. (787) 622-2323 / Fax (787) 622-2320. Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general de la Isla de Puerto Rico una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda Enmendada radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Carolina, Sala Superior de Carolina, con copia a la abogada de la parte demandante dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del edicto, se les anotará la Rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda Enmendada sin más citarles ni oírles, disponiéndose además, que en los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, la parte demandante les dirigirá por correo certificado con acuse se recibo, copia de la Demanda Enmendada y del “Emplazamiento y Mandamien-

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Messi meets with Trump, and divides Argentina

By EMMA BUBOLA and DANIEL POLITI

Lionel Messi, perhaps the world’s most famous soccer player, never publicly talks about politics.

He maintained that silence during a meeting with President Donald Trump earlier this month, but that did not prevent the Argentine star from being dragged into a heated political debate at home.

Messi smiled sheepishly at a White House reception for his U.S.-based team, Inter Miami, after Trump seized the occasion to talk about the demolition of Iran’s military and regime change in Cuba, turning a routine celebration of Inter Miami’s 2025 MLS

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Friday

At loanDepot park, Miami

Dominican Republic 10, Korea 0

At Daikin Park, Houston

United States 5, Canada 3

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At Daikin Park, Houston Italy 8, Puerto Rico 6

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Cup victory into a polarizing firestorm.

President Javier Milei of Argentina, a key ally of the Trump administration, applauded a handshake between his country’s most celebrated soccer hero and Trump. At the same time, Trump critics accused Messi of cozying up to the polarizing U.S. president.

“It felt like a slap in the face,” Ángel Cappa, a former Argentine soccer coach and longtime commentator, wrote in a blog post titled, “What a shame, Messi.”

Throughout his two-decade soccer career, Messi has taken pains to stay out of politics, and he has not commented on the White House event. Representatives of Inter Miami did not respond to a request for comment.

Some American sports teams and athletes have skipped visiting the White House to avoid meeting with presidents they don’t agree with or being drawn into the kind of scrutiny Messi has faced.

On social media, in newspapers and on radio and television programs, Argentines have engaged in a near-forensic examination of Messi’s body language during his appearance with Trump to dissect how uncomfortable, or at ease, he seemed during Trump’s saber-rattling speech.

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litical neutrality seemed to be in vain when Argentines on the left and right conscripted him into the ranks of Trumpism.

“Even Argentina’s greatest national idol is right-wing,” Agustín Laje, a prominent Argentine right-wing intellectual, wrote on social platform X.

The debate spanned beyond Argentina’s borders. But among the loudest voices politicizing the meeting was Milei, who, after praising the soccer champion for years, seemed to have finally found a way to use him as A-list firepower against his enemies on the left.

“The only left that works is Messi’s,” Milei wrote on social media, referring to the left-footed player while attacking the political left.

Milei resurfaced a 2018 television clip in which he vociferously defended Messi against criticism after Argentina’s early exit in the 2018 World Cup. He reviled critics in a post, saying: “They love Maduro, Hamas and Cuba. They hate Messi. They are evil.”

As Milei has sought to cast himself as a global leader of the right, he has long tried to associate himself with Argentina’s most recognized international celebrity. But he has failed, so far, to get a photo with Messi, the captain of the men’s national team.

“Messi’s photo with Trump is a proxy satisfaction for Milei,” said Pablo Alabarces, an Argentine sociologist. “It puts Messi in the court of the far right.”

Other soccer experts sought to downplay the debate, with Andrés Cantor — the soccer voice of Telemundo, the U.S. Spanish-language media giant — pointing out that Messi was the captain of a team receiving an award from a president who wasn’t even his own.

“His boss is the owner of the team — he and his teammates received an invitation to the White House and they responded accordingly,” Cantor said. “We don’t know which side of politics he is on,” he added about Messi.

(It was also unclear how much the players, many of whom are not native English speakers, including Messi, understood of Trump’s speech.)

Another association that Messi has struggled to escape is one with his predecessor as the country’s ultimate soccer icon, Diego Maradona. The star, who died in 2020, was dazzling on the field but a polarizing figure off it. He cultivated an image as a leftist champion of the poor, shaped by his upbringing in a working-class neighborhood.

For years, Maradona’s triumph at the 1986 World Cup gave him an edge in the debate over who was Argentina’s greatest player, but when Messi led Argentina to win the World Cup in 2022, it effectively settled the score.

The comparisons resurfaced after the White House visit. On Messi’s Instagram page, a comment with tens of thousands of likes read: “Thank you for shaking Trump’s hand. That way it becomes very clear why Diego is the greatest there is.”

The outcry was amplified by the fact that Messi and his teammates did not visit the Argentine presidential palace after the 2022 World Cup victory, when the center-leftist Alberto Fernández was president. Fernandez said on a soccer YouTube channel this week that the government did not ask them to come.

Even experts who were willing to give Messi the benefit of the doubt over his meeting with Trump said there was something offputting about mixing soccer and a presidential lecture on military annihilation.

“Something about football has to do with illusion and magic,” said Marcela Mora y Araujo, an Argentine soccer commentator. “And this was so far removed from the beauty of the game.”

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