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Gov’t launches digital projects to make services accessible

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Jenniffer González Colón announced Tuesday the launch of three projects aimed at consolidating the digital transformation of the central government. The initiatives integrate new technological tools and partnerships with the financial sector to make public services more accessible, faster, and more efficient.

The projects, Cesco Cash, AutoExpreso Directo, and the Fine Payment Plan Platform, aim to eliminate the economic and technological barriers that have historically limited access to services from the Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTOP by its acronym in Spanish), the Treasury Department and other central government agencies for thousands of citizens.

“For the first time, all citizens will be able to conduct transactions such as license renewals, vehicle transfers, and paying fines without needing a credit card or bank account,” the governor said at a press conference. “This is made possible through the integration of Cesco Digital with ATH Móvil and the expansion of more than 1,000 physical payment points located in banks, credit cooperatives, pharmacies, and gas stations. This integration will allow residents in rural areas and those without access to banking services to complete essential procedures from anywhere on the island, reducing lines, minimizing unnecessary travel, and expanding the government’s digital reach.”

The initiatives address the needs of thousands of citizens who have previously been unable to access digital services due to banking or geographical limitations, ensuring full inclusion and significantly reducing wait times at CESCOs and tax collection agencies, where over 80% of in-person transactions are for renewals or transfers.

“Identifying processes that directly affect citizens and transforming them into real solutions has been a priority from the beginning of our agenda,” Government Efficiency Coordinator Veronica Ferraiuoli Hornedo said. “This project reflects how, under the governor’s leadership, we have translated the vision of efficiency into results that enhance the citizen experience.”

DTOP Secretary Edwin González Montalvo added that the “new tools not only simplify processes but also represent an important step toward a more efficient, modern, and safe system.”

Transportation and Public Works Secretary Edwin González Montalvo said the new digital tools “not only simplify processes but also represent an important step toward a more efficient, modern, and safe system.” (Facebook via Jenniffer González Colón)

tional cost and with immediate transaction confirmation. The change is a concrete step toward decentralization and administrative justice, González Montalvo said, as it eliminates the geographical and technological barriers that previously hindered many citizens from fulfilling their obligations.

In addition, the new Fine Payment Plan Platform, developed in compliance with Law 52-2025, will allow drivers to create flexible payment plans to settle their traffic debts in a structured and accessible manner. The platform will be available online and in person at more than 500 service points, accepting ATMs, credit or debit cards, and cash. Its features include real-time connectivity to Cesco Digital and the David+ system, which consolidates license, vehicle and fine information.

The integration ensures that payments and balances are updated immediately, maintaining accuracy, traceability and transparency in fund management.

The technological components of all three projects were designed by the Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Service (PRITS), which developed an integrated infrastructure across various agencies, incorporating advanced cybersecurity protocols, automatic data backup, and real-time monitoring.

“Our goal is for every driver to be able to manage their business quickly and reliably, no matter their location,” he said.

The second project, AutoExpreso Directo, expands payment options for outstanding fines and tolls beyond just 10 physical locations to more than 1,000 payment points across the island, including Vieques and Culebra.

Drivers will now be able to make payments at affiliated banks, cooperatives, pharmacies and gas stations at no addi-

In the event of any technical incident, a coordinated immediate response protocol among participating agencies will be activated, with 24/7 support and alternate channels for citizen service.

According to interagency estimates, implementing the platforms could generate a 20% to 30% increase in collections during the first fiscal year, while also reducing wait times, decongesting offices, and improving the overall citizen experience. Moreover, a 60% to 80% decrease in wait times at CESCOs is expected by shifting the highest volume of recurring transactions to digital channels.

PFEI refers complaint against Cataño mayor to comptroller, OEG & electoral comptroller

By THE STAR STAFF

The Special Independent Prosecutor Panel (PFEI by its initials in Spanish) on Tuesday welcomed the island Department of Justice’s decision not to appoint a prosecutor to investigate Cataño Mayor Julio Alicea Vasallo.

However, the matter will be referred to the Comptroller’s Office, the Office of Government Ethics, and the electoral comptroller.

“Based on the report, the accompanying evidence, and after a careful analysis of the entire investigation, the Panel concluded that, at this time, there is not enough evidence to achieve a conviction in a judicial proceeding,” a PFEI spokesperson said in a written statement. “Therefore, it accepted the Justice Department’s recommendation not to appoint an Independent Special Prosecutor, but referred the report to the Puerto Rico Comptroller’s Office, the Office of Government Ethics, and the Electoral Comptroller for the corresponding evaluation, particularly regarding the alleged administrative deficiencies in the management of internal

attendance controls and vehicle fleets.”

The case originated through a referral from the State Elections Commission (SEC) related to a complaint filed by Kimberly Torres Reyes against Alicea Vasallo. It was alleged that the mayor, in his capacity as a candidate for reelection, used municipal employees during working hours to transport senior citizens to the post office to collect early voting ballots; that official municipal vehicles were used for election purposes; that some employees filled out ballots with markers; and that a voter received money in exchange for her vote.

The Justice Department referred the case to its Division of Public Integrity and Comptroller’s Affairs (DIPAC).

While the Special Independent Prosecutor Panel welcomed the island Justice Department’s decision not to appoint a prosecutor to investigate Cataño Mayor Julio Alicea Vasallo, the matter will be referred to the Office of the Comptroller, the Office of Government Ethics and the electoral comptroller.

“The DIPAC investigation was extensive, with multiple sworn statements from the complainant, municipal employees, and the aforementioned voter,” the panel’s resolution reads. “Attendance records from the municipal Human Resources Department, official certifications, as well as photographic and

video evidence obtained from the cell phone of the complainant, who is the daughter of the opposition mayoral candidate at the time, were also evaluated.

“In the analysis conducted by the De-

Day of mourning to be designated for death of Alomar Conde

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Jenniffer González Colón announced Tuesday that as soon as the family of Santos “Sandy” Alomar Conde announces the details of his wake, flags will be flown at half-staff for one day.

“Once the date is announced, it will be decreed that flags will be flown at half-staff in all

public facilities on that day,” the governor said in a written statement.

“Puerto Rican baseball has lost one of its giants: Santos Alomar,” González Colón added.

“The people of Puerto Rico deeply mourn the passing of Santos Alomar, one of the greatest figures in Puerto Rican baseball. His legacy as a player, manager, and mentor transcended generations, leaving a profound impact both

locally and nationally, playing 14 seasons in the Major Leagues.”

“On behalf of the Government of Puerto Rico, we express our sincere condolences to his children, Roberto and Sandy Jr., and to the entire Alomar family,” the governor said. “His example of discipline, humility, and love for Puerto Rico will live forever in the memory of our people.”

Alomar Conde was born on Oct. 19, 1943,

partment of Justice, irregularities were detected in attendance cards and exit punches,” the resolution continues. “It adds that these findings, although they merit evaluation from an administrative perspective, do not allow for a criminal conclusion, based on the evidence currently available, that the employees were performing official duties at the post office with the intent to commit a crime, nor that the mayor ordered the improper and illegal use of public funds.”

“The documentation collected shows that several of the employees were on sick leave, vacation, or compensatory time,” notes the resolution. “The use of official vehicles for political-partisan purposes was also not proven, and in fact, it was found that, due to the post office’s location at the main exit of the municipality, every vehicle leaving the mayor’s office had to pass through there. These elements explain the observed attendance, without inferring criminal conduct.”

in Salinas. He played in the Major Leagues with the Milwaukee Brewers, Atlanta Braves, New York Mets, Chicago White Sox, California Angels, New York Yankees, and Texas Rangers. He later coached for the Chicago Cubs, Colorado Rockies, San Diego Padres and New York Mets. Alomar Conde was the father of fellow major leaguers Roberto Alomar, a Baseball Hall of Famer, and Santos “Sandy” Alomar Jr., a coach of the Cleveland Guardians. He was inducted into the Puerto Rican Sports Hall of Fame, the Ponce Hall of Immortals, the Professional Baseball Hall of Fame, and the Salinas and Guayama Halls of Fame.

Education secretary: Too soon to discern impact of federal layoffs on local schools

By THE STAR STAFF

Education Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés said Tuesday that it is too early to assess whether the recent wave of layoffs announced by the U.S. Department of Education due to the federal shutdown will impact the local education system and its services.

“To answer your question seriously at this point would be speculative. Currently, we only have unofficial information from the media,” Ramos Parés said at a press conference. “I expect that this week we will start to see developments and understand the exact impact

of these layoffs on the federal government, particularly in the Office of Special Education, if the reports from American media are accurate. As of now, our grant has already been awarded, so funding on our end is secure.”

“There has been normal communication with the federal Department of Education in all areas, including special education, up until Friday, so we do not anticipate any negative effects,” he added.

The federal Education Department has various functions beyond just allocating funds, such as monitoring, oversight, data requests, and public information dissemination, Ramos

Parés said.

“Much of this information is shared with and through state visits. Our next scheduled visit is in December, and it is still on track,” he noted. “As time passes, I will be glad to provide you with updates, and once we receive official information, we can evaluate the potential impact of these employee departures. However, it is worth noting that with these layoffs, direct communication could be less frequent.”

Sweeping layoffs announced Friday by the administration of President Donald Trump landed another body blow to the U.S.

Department of Education, this time gutting the office responsible for overseeing special education, according to multiple sources within the department.

The reduction-in-force, or RIF, affects the dozens of staff members responsible for roughly $15 billion in special education funding and for making sure states provide special education services to the nation’s 7.5 million children with disabilities.

Trump has talked repeatedly about wanting to return education to the states and that dismantling the Education Department is part of that plan.

Governor announces state aid to reopen El Yunque & El Morro amid federal shutdown

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Jenniffer González Colón announced two initiatives on Tuesday to mitigate the impact of the federal government shutdown.

Specifically, they are aid for employees of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and employees of the island’s national parks, El Yunque, and the San Cristóbal and San Felipe del Morro castles.

“I will be instructing the Family secretary to evaluate the payment of at least emergency food stamps to federal employees who need it and who are not receiving pay, because they clearly won’t have the financial resources to support themselves,” the governor said at a press conference. “So, we are instructing the secretary of the Department of Housing to evaluate how to advance or qualify them -- it has happened

before -- for food payments,”

“I thank the TSA employees at our airports, who brought this concern to my attention because, although they are federal employees, they are not paid and are working,” González Colón said. “Without them, security at our airports would not be possible, so I am grateful to them. …”

Regarding the national parks, the governor noted that the central government will pay the employees so that the facilities that are a cornerstone of tourism can be opened.

“These are some of Puerto Rico’s most important attractions,” she said. “That’s why the government of Puerto Rico can’t afford to have these federal facilities closed. That’s why the authorization, and in this case, funding from the Tourism Company, is needed to mitigate and keep these operations open. What we’re seeking with this is to maintain the continuity of tourism operations despite the fiscal closure.”

Organizations to convene for ‘No King’s Day’ protest this weekend

By THE STAR STAFF

Various island organizations have announced their plans to hold a demonstration in solidarity with struggling communities in the United States and around the world to commemorate “No King’s Day” on Saturday, Oct. 18 at 4 p.m. in front of the federal courthouse in Hato Rey.

The mobilization aims to denounce and reject the authoritarian, racist and dictatorial policies, as well as the abuses of power, imposed by the administration of President Donald Trump, which are having serious repercussions in the Puerto Rican archipelago, the groups said in a statement.

The protest will highlight and condemn at least six actions that the groups say characterize the violent and disastrous policies of the Trump administration. It is a civic event where individuals outraged by the current situation can raise their voices against abuse of power, repression, and violations of human rights.

The reasons for mobilizing from Puerto Rico include the following:

1. The criminalization and violent, racist attacks against migrant communities.

2. The re-militarization of Puerto Rico and the use of force as a political tool.

3. The violations of the rights of women, pregnant individuals, and LGBTQIA+ communities.

4. The use of federal agencies to silence dissent and pursue political persecution.

5. The denial of climate change and the dismantling of environmental protections.

6. The defense of people’s right to remain in their communities and their country.

On Saturday, the organizations will release a statement addressing the listed pressing issues.

The demonstration will serve as an opportunity to:

* Bring visibility to the communities most affected by dictatorial policies, including migrants, workers, Black and

Afro-descendant populations, youth, homeless individuals, women, and LGBTQIA+ individuals.

* Demand an end to the criminalization, raids, indiscriminate deportations, and mass incarceration of migrants.

* Reject any attempts to condition humanitarian aid or punish territories for political reasons.

* Call for an end to the re-militarization of Puerto Rico and the use of the archipelago for military attacks in the Caribbean region.

“We call on groups, organizations, unions, religious communities, students, artists, and all of civil society to actively participate in this mobilization,” the organizations said in a statement. “The presence and voices of the entire community are essential to strengthen civic resistance and express our rejection of institutional violence, rights violations, and the erosion of legitimacy through authoritarianism.”

“Opposing the abuse of power is also a concrete action for life, health, dignity, and social justice,” they emphasized.

ASES chief vows thorough analysis of Mayors Federation proposal

By THE STAR STAFF

Health Insurance Administration (ASES by its acronym in Spanish) Executive Director Carlos Santiago Rosario announced Tuesday that the agency has already given instructions to carefully analyze the proposal presented by the Puerto Rico Mayors Federation of Mayors to exclude municipalities from paying the double contribution to the government health plan.

“We are going to evaluate this initiative of the Mayors Federation. As the entity in charge of administering the Puerto Rico Government Health Plan (Plan Vital), we have the obligation – and also the commitment – to

look at each proposal with total objectivity,” Santiago said. “Any measure that may affect the financial stability or operation of the health system must be evaluated in depth and based on evidence.”

The ASES chief added that he has been in communication with the chairman of the ASES board of directors and secretary of health, Dr. Víctor Ramos Otero, “who will also review the results of our analysis of said proposal.”

Santiago added that the plan for the review will be able to address fiscal projections, federal compliance requirements, and possible sustainability scenarios in the short and medium term.

“The truth is that it is not just about numbers; it is

about guaranteeing that any decision preserves the viability of the system and the quality of service to our patients,” he said.

The official also reiterated that ASES will continue to work openly and collaboratively with mayors, the Legislative Assembly and the Office of the Governor.

“In the interest of transparency and good governance, our goal is to maintain constant dialogue and provide accurate information that helps make informed decisions [...]”, Santiago said. “At the end of the day, the most important thing is to protect the 1.3 million beneficiaries of Plan Vital and ensure the continuity of a stable health system for all of Puerto Rico.”

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Originalist ‘bombshell’ complicates case on Trump’s power to fire officials

By ADAM LIPTAK

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in December about whether President Donald Trump can fire government officials for any reason, or no reason, despite laws meant to shield them from politics.

There is little question that the court will side with the president. Its conservative majority has repeatedly signaled that it plans to adopt the “unitary executive theory,” which says the original understanding of the Constitution demands letting the president remove executive branch officials as he sees fit.

But a new article, from a leading originalist law professor, has complicated and perhaps upended the conventional wisdom. The legal academy treated the development like breaking news.

“Bombshell!” William Baude, a law professor at the University of Chicago who himself is a prominent originalist, wrote on social media. “Caleb Nelson, one of the most respected originalist scholars in the country, comes out against the unitary executive interpretation” of the Constitution.

Nelson, who teaches at the University of Virginia and is a former law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas, wrote that the text of the Constitution and the historical evidence surrounding it grants Congress broad authority to shape the executive branch, including by putting limits on the president’s power to fire people.

Nelson’s article was published Sept. 29 by the Democracy Project, an initiative at the New York University School of Law that plans to release 100 essays in 100 days by an ideologically mixed group.

The article is particularly notable, said Richard H. Pildes, who is a law professor at NYU and one of the project’s founders.

“If a highly respected originalist scholar like Professor Nelson, on whom the court relies frequently, denies that originalism supports the unitary executive theory,” Pildes said, “that inevitably raises serious questions about an originalist justification for the court’s looming approach.”

Nelson’s scholarship has been exceptionally influential. It has been cited in more than a dozen Supreme Court opinions, including ones by every member of the six-justice conservative majority.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in a concurring opinion last year, listed him among “respected scholars” who are “continuing to undertake careful analysis” about the role tradition plays in determining the Constitution’s original meaning. Thomas cited one of his articles six times in a single concurring opinion in 2023 and two of his articles in another concurring opinion that year. Still, the new article is unlikely to have a practical

effect, and Nelson acknowledged that the Supreme Court “appears to be moving toward a sweepingly pro-president position.”

Indeed, one of Chief Justice John Roberts’ signature projects since he joined the court 20 years ago has been to grant the president more power to fire executive officers.

“Since 1789, the Constitution has been understood to empower the president to keep these officers accountable — by removing them from office, if necessary,” he wrote in 2010. Later decisions, too, kept chipping away at a 1935 precedent, Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, that said Congress could put limits on the president’s power to fire people.

In recent orders ruling on emergency applications, the court has signaled that the precedent is on life support. In May, the Supreme Court let Trump remove leaders of the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board at least temporarily.

“Because the Constitution vests the executive power in the president,” the majority said in an unsigned opinion, “he may remove without cause executive officers who exercise that power on his behalf, subject to narrow exceptions recognized by our precedents.”

That last clause referred to Humphrey’s Executor.

Then last month, in another unsigned order, the court let Trump temporarily remove a member of the Federal Trade Commission — the agency at issue in Humphrey’s Executor — and said it would hear arguments in the case in December. It ordered the parties to file briefs addressing whether the decision should be overruled.

The Trump administration filed its brief Friday. “This

court should overrule anything that remains of Humphrey’s Executor,” the brief said. “That decision was ‘egregiously wrong from the start,’ both legally and factually,” it added, quoting Dobbs v. Jackson Woman’s Health Organization, the decision that overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

In Dobbs, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that “the Constitution makes no mention of abortion.” The same is true of the president’s power to remove executive officers. Nor was the question discussed at the Constitutional Convention.

In a majority opinion in 2020, Roberts relied on debates at the first Congress, saying they settled the matter, but Nelson wrote in his new article that there was no consensus at the time.

Indeed, he wrote, “more than one member warned against interpreting the Constitution in the expectation that all presidents would have the sterling character of George Washington.” One member, Nelson wrote, warned against “legalizing the full exertion of a tyrannical disposition.”

Letting the president fire officials “for reasons good or bad,” Nelson wrote, would grant him “an enormous amount of power — more power, I think, than any sensible person should want anyone to have, and more power than any member of the founding generation could have anticipated.”

But the question is not whether allowing limits on the president’s power to fire officials is sensible, Nelson wrote.

“I am an originalist, and if the original meaning of the Constitution compelled this outcome, I would be inclined to agree that the Supreme Court should respect it until the Constitution is amended through the proper processes,” he wrote.

But the textual and historical evidence is “far more equivocal than the current court has been suggesting,” he wrote.

“In the face of such ambiguities, I hope that the justices will not act as if their hands are tied.”

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4 people arrested in deadly Mississippi shooting

By PATRICIA MAZZEI

Four people have been arrested in connection with a deadly shooting in which six people died in rural Mississippi over the weekend, the FBI announced Monday.

Three of the suspects — Morgan Lattimore, 25; Teviyon L. Powell, 29; and William Bryant, 29 — were arrested on charges of capital murder, according to the FBI’s field office in Jackson. A fourth person, Latoya A. Powell, 44, was arrested on a charge of attempted murder, officials said.

“Other arrests are pending as this investigation continues,” the FBI said in a brief statement Monday night that did not include any more details about the investigation. It was unclear whether any of the four people arrested had legal representation.

The shooting took place around midnight Friday in Leland, a town in the Mississippi Delta with fewer than 4,000 people, as a large crowd celebrated homecoming weekend at Fourth and Main streets. It appeared to have been set off by a disagreement among several people, according to the FBI.

The Jackson field office released photos late Sunday of three men and a woman shown in surveillance video and identified at the time as “unknown suspects.” It also set up a website seeking tips from the public.

The shooting in Leland was the deadliest of three attacks that took place in small towns across Mississippi between Friday and Saturday and that left at least eight people dead and others injured. The other two shootings took place on public high school campuses that were hosting football games in Heidelberg and Rolling Fork.

Homecoming is a particularly celebratory time in much of rural Mississippi during the heart of football season. The

spate of shootings led residents and local officials to decry the region’s strong gun culture and problems with gun violence.

The six people killed in Leland were Oreshama Johnson,

Police cars in front of the City of Leland Administrative Offices in Leland, Miss, Oct. 11, 2025. Four people have been arrested in connection with a deadly shooting that killed six people in rural Mississippi over the weekend, the FBI announced on Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. (Brad Vest/The New York Times)

Alaska flooding leaves 1 dead and 2 missing

By PATRICIA MAZZEI and POOJA SALHOTRA

One person died and two are missing in western Alaska after remnants of Typhoon Halong flooded remote communities, Alaska State Troopers said earlier this week, confirming the first death in the state from the powerful storm.

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All three people had been reported missing from Kwigillingok, one of the low-lying villages along the Bering Sea that were hard-hit by winds and floods that tore some houses off their foundations on Sunday.

The storm downed power lines, flooded roads and vastly reduced cellphone service in the affected areas, officials said. In a region that relies on travel by air and by water, damaged runways and boats made the emergency response more challenging.

At least 51 other people were rescued from Kwigillingok and the village of Kipnuk after the storm by the U.S. Coast Guard, Alaska Army National Guard and Alaska Air National Guard. At least three people were medically evacuated from Kipnuk to the city of Bethel.

Some survivors had been swimming or trying to hold onto debris in the water to keep from floating away, according to Capt. Christopher Culpepper of the Coast Guard.

“It is absolutely devastating,” he said in a news conference Monday.

Many people remained in emergency shelters Monday,

officials said. Officials were also monitoring reported sheen in the water and other pollution from possible fuel spills stemming from the stations that supply local boats and airplanes.

The water surged 6.6 feet above the highest normal tide line in Kipnuk, David Kramer, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said Monday. That was nearly 2 feet higher than the previous record, set in 2000. The 6.3foot surge in Kwigillingok was more than 3 feet higher than the previous record there, from 1990. Typhoon Halong’s remnants brought Category 2 hurricane-force winds to some areas, the meteorologist said.

Another storm system was expected Tuesday night, though none of the flooding was forecast to be as severe as with the typhoons over the weekend.

Officials described a large and complicated search-andrescue operation in the remote region, acknowledging that they had to move quickly to help affected residents before the fast-approaching winter cold.

“This is an all-hands-on-deck operation,” Gov. Mike Dunleavy said in the news conference.

Sen. Dan Sullivan, who spoke in the news conference via telephone from Washington, said Trump administration officials had assured him the government shutdown would not hamper federal assistance.

Why can’t Trump’s domestic policy be more like his foreign policy? NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL

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When Donald Trump was first elected president, foreign policy seemed like the zone of greatest danger, the place where a political novice promising to remake the world order was most likely to blunder into true catastrophe.

Instead, Trump’s first-term foreign policy was broadly successful, with more stability, fewer dramatic stumbles and more breakthroughs than his domestic policy efforts. And it was much more successful than the rolling crises and debacles of the Joe Biden presidency, a contrast that was one of the underrated cases for Trump’s restoration.

Now, with the provisional deal to end the war in the Gaza Strip, the pattern of Trump 1.0 is reasserting itself. As a domestic leader the president is powerful but unpopular, with a scant legislative agenda and an increasingly vendetta-driven public image. But on the world stage he is currently much more successful (allowing, yes, for strong skepticism about the administration’s China strategy).

If peace in Ukraine remains elusive, Trump has induced Europe to bear more of the burden without yielding to the Russians, as many critics feared. The Iranian nuclear program and terror networks have been hammered without major blowback. And now there is the possibility of a real breakthrough in Israel

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All of which raises a question: What if Trump’s domestic policy were more like his foreign policy? Yes, presidents stymied at home often find it easier to maneuver overseas; that pattern is hardly unique to Trump. But there are still a few keys to his success on the world stage that, if applied at home, might make his domestic efforts more popular.

First, float above ideology. Trump’s first-term foreign policy team was staffed by traditional Republican hawks; his second has been divided between hawks and would-be realists, who have often feuded viciously with one another. But in both periods Trump himself has moved easily between different orientations — sometimes behaving like a conventional hawk, sometimes like a realist or a dove, going hyper-Zionist one moment and putting extra pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu the next, and generally refusing to let any single ideological camp rule his agenda.

could reverse — as opposed to a situation like the Gaza deal, where the hopes for its durability rest on Pan-Arab commitment, not just U.S. power.

On key domestic issues, by contrast, Trump has never quite shaken free of the preexisting GOP consensus, which is why his populist presidency has repeatedly delivered unpopular tax-and-spending legislation, overweighted to the interests of corporations and the rich. Meanwhile, various potential projects that might break this mold, from infrastructure and industrial policy to family policy, have been disappointing or stillborn.

That’s partially because Trump has never found a consistent way to make deals with his political opposition, a contrast to the second key to his foreign policy success: Be open for dealmaking with everyone. Iran’s mullahs, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, the Taliban … even when nothing comes of it or the whole thing ends in bombing raids, Trump is eager to have the conversation, to look for the unexpected bargain, the outsidethe-box deal.

Critics will say that this is because Trump likes strongmen like Kim and Putin more than he likes fellow Americans who happen to be Democrats. But he’s also made deals with overseas figures whom he definitely doesn’t love, from leftleaning Eurocrats to the leaders of Hamas.

It’s only in domestic politics that he’s been unable to consistently execute the pivot from insulting rivals on social media one day to making important bargains with them the next. And despite all the “America first” talk, it’s only in domestic politics that he’s been a true unilateralist, exploring the frontiers of executive power in ways that a future president

One reason for this difference is that in foreign policy he has followed a third rule: Let business-oriented outsiders run your negotiations. The fact that figures like Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have seemingly done better — or at the very least no worse — than credentialed diplomatic professionals has striking implications for how we think about expertise in foreign policy. But it also contrasts with Trumpian domestic policy, where in the first term outsider figures like Kushner and Steven Mnuchin played notable roles but where more second-term power is in the hands of committed partisan fighters like Stephen Miller and Russell Vought.

It is Trump who has given them that power, to be clear, and many of the differences I’m describing have clearly been consciously chosen by the president. Foreign policy is for grand achievements and the pursuit of Nobel Prizes, it seems, while the domestic front is where he hopes to get revenge for years of investigations and prosecutions.

If there’s anything that Middle Eastern politics should teach the president, though, it’s that true success lies somewhere outside the cycle of vengeance — if, that is, you want your victories to last.

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SAN JUAN – La directora ejecutiva de la organización Techos Pa’ Mi Gente, Amarilis González Domínguez solicitó el martes deponer en vistas públicas sobre el Proyecto del Senado 744 del senador independiente Eliezer Molina Pérez, que busca regular el despacho de concreto en proyectos de construcción.

Según González Domínguez, aunque el propósito de la medida es evitar construcciones ilegales o no autorizadas, su redacción actual podría afectar negativamente a comunidades vulnerables y a los proyectos de ayuda humanitaria que se realizan en todo Puerto Rico.

Mencionó que el proyecto asigna responsabilidad a las concreteras y suplidores para verificar permisos de construcción antes de despachar materiales.

“Ni los suplidores de concreto ni los proyectos de reconstrucción comunitaria tenemos el peritaje ni los recursos para asumir procesos de permisos o responder a multas. Nosotros no somos un negocio; brindamos

ayuda humanitaria a familias que aún esperan regresar a sus hogares. Si esta medida se aprueba como está, muchas de esas familias quedarán sin apoyo,” afirmó González Domínguez en declaraciones escritas.

Añadió que el proyecto no contempla el impacto en comunidades pobres ni en las entidades sin fines de lucro que, tras los huracanes, terremotos o emergencias, ayudan a reparar viviendas.

“Apoyamos totalmente la protección de los recursos naturales, pero el proyecto necesita enmiendas para incluir el componente humano y social. El enfoque debe ser integral y justo, garantizando que la ley no penalice a quienes sirven al pueblo,” sostuvo.

González Domínguez solicitó que el Proyecto del Senado 744 sea referido a vistas públicas, para que las organizaciones comunitarias, suplidores, ingenieros y agencias gubernamentales puedan expresarse.

“La medida busca algo positivo, pero necesita revisarse. Las comunidades vulnerables no pueden pagar el precio de los errores administrativos o de la burocracia,” concluyó.

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SAN JUAN – El Colegio de Médicos Veterinarios de Puerto Rico (CMVPR), en alianza con la Universidad Ana G. Méndez (UAGM), anunció el inicio de un nuevo ciclo de grupos de apoyo dirigidos a personas que han perdido a sus mascotas.

Las sesiones se celebrarán los jueves 30 de octubre, 20 de noviembre y 11 de diciembre de 2025, a las 6:30 p.m., en el campus de la UAGM en Cupey.

“En el Colegio de Médicos Veterinarios reafirmamos nuestro compromiso de apoyar a la comunidad más allá de la práctica clínica. Estos grupos son una muestra de cómo podemos acompañar a quienes viven la pérdida de un ser querido tan especial como lo

son nuestras mascotas”, expresó la doctora Franchesca Caballero, presidenta del Colegio de Veterinarios en declaraciones escritas. La iniciativa busca ofrecer un espacio seguro y confidencial para que los participantes puedan compartir sus experiencias y emociones, mientras reciben herramientas prácticas para enfrentar el proceso de duelo. Las reuniones estarán a cargo de la licenciada Solmarie Pérez Vargas, trabajadora social clínica y tanatóloga, quien guiará a los asistentes en un ambiente de empatía y acompañamiento.

La participación es libre de costo, pero requiere reservación previa debido a que el cupo es limitado. Los interesados pueden registrarse en www.cmvpr.org o a través de la página oficial de Facebook del CMVPR.

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D’Angelo, acclaimed and reclusive R&B innovator, dies at 51

By BEN SISARIO

’Angelo, the acclaimed neo-soul singer who found fame in the 1990s and early 2000s with an innovative and sensuous take on 1970s R&B, as well as with a risqué music video that briefly made him a pop culture phenomenon but helped drive him into nearly a decade of seclusion, died Tuesday. He was 51.

His death was confirmed in a statement by his family, which did not say where he died but gave the cause as cancer.

During the first phase of his career, leading up to his triumph with the 2000 album “Voodoo,” D’Angelo was a leading light of a revolution in soul music, melding the seductive melodies of classic singers such as Al Green and Marvin Gaye with the beats and urgency of hip-hop.

His biggest songs, including “Lady,” “Brown Sugar” and “Untitled (How Does It Feel),” were hailed as supreme examples of the trend, which sought not a revival of Black pop traditions but a transformation of them. Each of those tracks became a Top 10 hit on Billboard’s R&B chart, D’Angelo went into heavy rotation on Black radio stations and “Lady” went to No. 10 on Billboard’s all-genre Hot 100 chart.

D’Angelo’s signature vocal style was a delicately expressive falsetto that, like Prince’s, could build to an ecstatic wail. Also like Prince, he arranged his music meticulously, served as his own producer and played guitar. Critics exalted him as a worthy successor to the greatest traditions of Black pop.

“He is R&B Jesus, and I’m a believer,” Robert Christgau wrote in The Village Voice in 2000.

“Untitled,” which unfolds slowly, at an erotic tempo — it runs to more than seven minutes in its full album version — also crossed over to the wider pop market, thanks in no small part to its music video.

In the video, D’Angelo stood against a dark backdrop as a Black Adonis in cornrows, apparently naked except for a gold chain with a crucifix. (The video framed its lower edge just below his waist.) The camera slowly scanned his muscled, sweat-drenched physique as he brought the song to an orgasmic climax.

The video established D’Angelo as an unabashed sex symbol — The New York Times called it “pure beefcake” — and bolstered his commercial power, sending “Voodoo,” the album the song appeared on, to No. 1 for two weeks.

In 2001, “Voodoo” won best R&B album at the Grammys, and “Untitled” took best male R&B vocal performance.

But D’Angelo, the son of a Pentecostal minister who sometimes described his art in spiritual terms, grew uncomfortable with being pigeonholed as a heartthrob. After a breakdown on tour, he fell into a depression and struggled with alcohol and drug abuse before going to rehab.

D’Angelo performs at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn. on June 9, 2012 D’Angelo, the acclaimed neo-soul singer who found fame in the 1990s and early 2000s with an innovative and sensuous take on 1970s R&B, as well as with a risqué music video that briefly made him a pop culture phenomenon but drove him into nearly a decade of seclusion, died on Oct. 14, 2025 after a battle with cancer. He was 51. (Chad Batka/The New York Times)

“‘Untitled’ wasn’t supposed to be his mission statement for ‘Voodoo,’” his former manager, Dominique Trenier, told Spin magazine in 2008.

“I’m glad the video did what it did,” Trenier added, “but he and I were both disappointed because, to this day, in the general populace’s memory, he’s the naked dude.”

D’Angelo also chafed at the description of his music as simply neo-soul. “I never claimed I do neo-soul,” he said in a Red Bull Music Academy interview in 2014. “When I first came out, I used to always say: ‘I do Black music. I make Black music.’”

For much of the rest of his career, D’Angelo would vanish from the public eye for years at a time. After “Voodoo,” he did not release another album until “Black Messiah,” which he produced himself, in 2014. That album brought two more Grammys.

His absences further cultivated his mystique among his fans, as well as drew concern. In May he withdrew from a festival performance in Philadelphia, citing a recent surgery.

D’Angelo was born Michael Eugene Archer in South Richmond, Virginia, on Feb. 11, 1974. His father was a Pentecostal preacher and his mother was a legal secretary. As a child, he played organ and was part of the choir at his father’s church. He also spent time poring through the broad-ranging record collection of an uncle, and studied classical music briefly.

After moving to Chesterfield, Virginia, for high school, he started a hip-hop group, IDU — which stood for Intelligent, Deadly but Unique — with friends, and appeared in talent shows. At 16, after winning a local contest, he came to New York to compete in Amateur

Night at the Apollo Theater — where, he said, he won with a cover of Johnny Gill’s New Jack Swing track “Rub You the Right Way.”

He soon returned to New York looking for a record deal. Auditioning for a music publisher, he performed a Jodeci song, a gospel song and a Miles Davis song: three distinct strands of his musical obsessions that he would soon intertwine. By his late teens, he was calling himself D’Angelo, a nickname that was said to be derived from Michelangelo.

He was signed to EMI, and his first album, “Brown Sugar” (1995), laid out much of the approach that he would follow throughout his career: dense, soulful songs with multilayered vocals — all sung by D’Angelo himself — that drew from Prince, classic soul and traces of the gospel music he grew up with.

Driven by its title track and “Lady,” the album’s popularity grew steadily, reaching No. 4 on Billboard’s R&B chart and No. 22 on its all-genre Billboard 200 chart; within a year it went platinum.

To follow up “Brown Sugar,” D’Angelo gathered a group of collaborators, including drummer and producer Questlove, keyboardist James Poyser and hip-hop producer J Dilla. Calling themselves the Soulquarians — and sometimes joined by Erykah Badu, Common and Mos Def — they hunkered down at Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, and some days spent as much time listening to music as recording it.

“The best way to describe the process is very much like a sculpture,” he once told Rolling Stone. “You’re just constantly chipping and chipping away at it. I’ll work on something for a minute, and, once I feel like I’m starting to fixate on it, I put it away and go to another one.”

At the same time, D’Angelo was becoming a bona fide celebrity. According to a profile in GQ magazine published in 2014, Madonna invited him to sing “Happy Birthday” to her at her 39th birthday party, in 1997.

While recording “Brown Sugar,” D’Angelo became romantically involved with soul singer Angie Stone. In 1998, they had a son together, Michael D’Angelo Archer II, also known as Swayvo Twain.

D’Angelo had two other children, but complete information about his survivors was not immediately available. Stone, who was also an early rap pioneer, died in a car crash in March, at 63.

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Dollar gains from rivals’ trouble may lack staying power

Arebound in the dollar over the past month is unlikely to last given it was largely due to repositioning over temporary factors including the disruption of U.S. economic data due to the U.S. government shutdown and upheaval in the governments of rival currencies.

The greenback has climbed about 3% against a basket of currencies since mid-September, recovering from more than three-year lows after falling nearly 11% earlier this year.

Speculators’ net short bets on the dollar fell to $9.86 billion from a two-year high of $20.96 billion during that period, CFTC data showed before the U.S. government shutdown disrupted releases.

Options markets also show the turn in sentiment in favor of the dollar with one- and three-month EUR/USD risk reversals recently hitting their most euro bearish levels since mid-June.

Still, analysts are broadly skeptical of the dollar’s recovery.

“In the three- to six-month view, I think the dollar is going to be falling because I think the U.S. economy is going to weaken and the interest rates are going to come down,” said Marc Chandler, chief market strategist at Bannockburn Capital Markets.

Much of the dollar’s recent rebound can be attributed to investors covering bearish bets on the currency.

“What’s going on in markets is basically a positioning adjustment,” said Jayati Bharadwaj, a global FX strategist at TD Securities.

Indeed, some analysts said the dollar rally may be running out of steam.

“We’ve definitely seen a very nice period of dollar strength,” said Joel Kruger, market strategist at London-based LMAX Group, which operates multiple global institutional FX exchanges.

Kruger sees risks for further dollar weakness in the near term. The dollar sold off in the first half of the year on worries over fading U.S. exceptionalism, concerns about a hit to economic growth from President Donald Trump’s protectionist trade stance, and the specter of a ballooning U.S. budget and international trade deficits.

But given the interruption of U.S. economic releases and political crises outside the United States — in Japan and France — investor attention has swung away from the dollar’s travails.

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The euro snapped a two-month winning streak to trade down about 1.3% for October, while the yen has slipped nearly 3% against the rising greenback.

Chaos and uncertainty in France, the euro zone’s second-largest economy, have caused the euro to weaken against the greenback, while political shifts in Japan have swayed investor expectations for the Bank of Japan’s monetary and fiscal policy, piling pressure on the yen.

But investor reaction to recent international developments may have gone too far, analysts said.

“The surprising outcome of the LDP (Liberal Democratic Party) leadership election led to significant JPY weakness as investors increasingly position for fiscal expansion and a dovish BoJ,” Morgan Stanley strategists said in a note on Friday.

“We think such positioning is excessive,” the strategists wrote.

For Israel, Hamas and Trump’s peace plan, now comes the hard part

By DAVID M. HALBFINGER and ADAM RASGON

Getting Israel’s hostages released from the Gaza Strip and stopping the war may have taken two years and the direct efforts of the U.S. president and the leaders of several Arab and Muslim nations.

But that was almost certainly the easy part.

Getting Hamas to give up its weapons, and demilitarizing Gaza — key preconditions for Israel to pull out of Gaza fully, as both President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated Monday — could prove a lot harder.

Then there are the other issues in Trump’s 20-point plan, which outlined a comprehensive solution for Gaza. In full, it also called for the establishment of an international force to help maintain security in the territory, an ambitious effort to rebuild Gaza’s economy and infrastructure, and the creation of a temporary Palestinian governing committee, whose work would be overseen by an international board.

During the talks leading up to the ceasefire in Gaza, provisions for who would run the enclave on “the day after” the war was over were among the most complicated and vexing — so much so that they were eventually severed from the ceasefire talks and put off until a second phase of negotiations.

That phase had at least an air of auspiciousness Monday evening in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where Trump and President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt gathered dozens of leaders to try to build on the momentum created by the truce and the exchange of 20 living Israeli hostages and the bodies of others for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.

“Phase 2 has started,” Trump said. He predicted “tremendous progress.”

“It’s peace in the Middle East,” he said. “Everyone said it’s not possible to do. And it’s going to happen.”

Yet, Monday’s kickoff in Sharm el-Sheikh aside, it is unclear even when Phase 2 talks will formally begin and where they will be held.

And both Israeli and Palestinian analysts said it was easier to imagine things going sideways than to imagine Trump’s plan being fully realized.

“The main issue still hasn’t been solved: Hamas’ weapons,” said Akram Atallah, a London-based Palestinian columnist originally from Jabalia, in northern Gaza. “The Israelis are demanding Hamas disarm, which is not a simple administrative measure. Hamas was founded on the basis of bearing arms.”

Israeli tanks and armored vehicles stand by at a staging area near the Gaza Strip border in Israel, Oct. 11, 2025. Getting Hamas to lay down its arms, and demilitarizing the Gaza Strip -- key preconditions to Israel pulling out of Gaza fully, as reiterated by President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday -- will likely prove to be far harder than the cease-fire and return of hostages. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times)

Hamas, he said, is effectively being asked to “dismantle its ideology.”

With the halt to a war that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and lain waste to much of Gaza, Atallah said the current atmosphere was more optimistic but that it was uncertain how long that would last.

“It feels good right now,” he said, “but I can see dark clouds in the distance and I don’t know what they’re carrying.”

Israeli analysts and officials said the likeliest outcome was that Phase 2 of the talks would become bogged down. They envisioned the status quo lingering for so long that it takes root, with Hamas still armed, and the Israeli military refusing to withdraw fully from Gaza. In that circumstance, they also foresaw the Israeli military treating the group much as it now treats Hezbollah in Lebanon: occasionally striking Hamas militants or their weapons depots from afar.

Despite Trump’s repeated, unqualified declarations that the war is over, backsliding on either side could threaten a renewal of fighting, analysts said.

“If there’s a terrorist attack against one of our posts right now, God forbid, and we have casualties, after a minute, it’s over,” said Zohar Palti, a former senior Mossad and Ministry of Defense official.

Nimrod Novik, a former Israeli envoy and distinguished fellow at the Israel Policy Forum, warned of the influence of domestic politics. “If it turns out in four or five weeks that the general mood in the country is that this war was an awful round, but only another round, and Hamas is back, I can see Netanyahu trying to correct that,” Novik said, alluding to the possibility of a resumption of hostilities. “All you need is a Hamas provocation and a disproportionate Israeli reaction, and you can have a spiral.”

It was up to Qatar, Turkey and Egypt — the three Muslim-majority countries that played major roles in mediating the Hamas-Israel ceasefire — “to pressure Hamas not to provoke,” Novik said.

To members of Netanyahu’s governing coalition, the onus is squarely on Hamas. Several officials described the ceasefire agreement so far as amounting to a simple trade in which Israel gave away roughly half of Gaza in exchange for its hostages. To get Israel to leave the rest of Gaza’s territory, they said, it will need to give up its arms and let another entity step in to govern the enclave.

“Things are very straightforward,” said Boaz Bismuth, a Netanyahu ally who heads the Knesset’s foreign affairs and defense committee. “If you don’t want Israel to be there, you know exactly what you have to do. It’s easy.”

But saying so doesn’t make it so.

Hamas, experts close to the militant group said, is willing to make certain moves to enable the reconstruction of Gaza, but it still wants to retain some influence over the territory’s future.

“Hamas is willing to offer some concessions to enable the rehabilitation of Gaza, but it will not evaporate,” said Ibrahim al-Madhoun, a Palestinian analyst close to Hamas. “Its focus is on quiet. It wants to be part of the solution, and it won’t be an obstacle to stability.”

Palti expressed skepticism over the Trump plan’s prescription that Hamas be barred from either a military or civilian role in governing Gaza.

“Who’s going to do it?” he said. “If somebody thinks that with a magic stick you’re achieving this revolution in hours or days, forget about it. It’s not going to happen. Not because I’m pessimistic; because I’m realistic.”

The deployment of an international stabilization force, as the plan suggests, could lead the Israeli military to withdraw further. But it is still largely unknown which countries would contribute to the force, how it would be funded and trained, and when it would deploy.

And the Palestinian Authority, which previously governed Gaza and still has employees on the ground, appears to be largely excluded from Trump’s initiative, barring the completion of unspecified reforms.

All of which is not to say that Phase 2 is doomed from the outset.

Bismuth took great encouragement from the participation of Arab countries in the peace talks, and even more from Monday’s release of 20 Israelis held in Gaza since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks.

“I do believe that those who have to do the specific moves expected from them will do them,” he said. “When you have such results like today, you can believe in the optimistic scenario.”like today, you can believe in the optimistic scenario.”

Drug smugglers change supply routes to evade US warships

By FRANCES ROBLES

When the United States military launched an airstrike on a speedboat as it approached the southern shore of the Dominican Republic last month, killing three people on board, Dominican authorities said more than 375 packages of cocaine went flying into the Caribbean Sea.

Dozens of them had red packaging with a brand name clearly labeled in black and white capital letters, MEN, according to photos distributed by the Dominican anti-narcotics agency.

The 1,000 kilos of cocaine recovered from the wreckage were added to the nearly 19,000 kilos of drugs the Dominican Republic’s antinarcotics agency had already captured since January, in what had been a record-setting year of narcotics seizures at sea before U.S. warships moved into the region.

The Trump administration, claiming to battle drug-trafficking cartels it labels terrorists, has been destroying speedboats in the Caribbean, shining a fresh light on a decades-old industry responsible for bringing tons of cocaine into the United States each year.

Long known as a popular corridor for moving people, drugs and guns, the Caribbean is no longer the dominant route it was in the 1980s, when television shows like “Miami Vice’’ captured the way Colombian drug cartels shipped and flew illicit products to South Florida.

But as enforcement strategies changed throughout the years, the region has periodically reemerged as a popular channel for moving illicit goods, increasingly to Europe, where the demand for cocaine, and the price, is higher.

Despite the Trump administration’s portrayal of the Caribbean and Venezuela as a rampant conduit for drugs killing Americans, the vast majority of maritime drug trafficking bound for the United States actually occurs on the Pacific, U.S. and U.N. data show.

Still, experts say, the Caribbean continues to be an important hub for the trafficking of Colombian cocaine, with some of it passing

through Venezuela, though it plays no role in the movement of fentanyl, which had been President Donald Trump’s chief concern before the strikes on the boats began.

With the Trump administration cracking down on the U.S. southern border and flooding the Caribbean with military assets, drug traffickers are finding different ways to push drugs from Colombia, the world’s largest cocaine producer, to various markets, experts and law enforcement officials say.

Traffickers typically move narcotics from Colombia to Caribbean countries, including Trinidad, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica, where they are repackaged and prepared for shipment elsewhere. Depending on the crime organization, the drugs may island-hop some more before being put on fast boats or hidden in container ships bound for their final destination.

Some smugglers are increasingly using cargo vessels in the Caribbean to hide contraband, experts say, which makes it particularly difficult to detect because the drugs are mixed in with legal goods, such as produce.

In Trinidad and Tobago, the Trump administration’s crackdown in the region has led to a sudden surge in the number of illegal air flights from South America dropping bales of drugs at sea, to be picked by larger vessels, according to a senior anti-narcotics official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

Elsewhere in the Caribbean, the presence of patrolling U.S. warships has had varying effects.

In the Dominican Republic, the number of drug boats spotted at sea has declined dramatically, said a senior government official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

In Jamaica, anti-narcotics officials say drug dealers are moving drugs in smaller quantities to lessen their loss if their loads are confiscated.

“We are seeing changes in modus operandi,” said Patrae Rowe, who heads the Firearms and Narcotics Investigation Division of the Jamaica Constabulary Force. “More covert means are being used to transship drugs,” he said, like hiding drugs in food shipments.

This 40-pound aluminum container, which was packed with brown guava pulp, was used to smuggle cocaine, and intercepted in Newark. Dominican investigators say that Colombian drug cartels have routinely shipped cocaine by high-speed motorboats to the Dominican Republic, where it is repackaged at a factory into cans of guava paste.

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This much is clear: the world has never been awash in so much cocaine. The U.S. Coast Guard seized nearly 175,000 kilos, or about 193 tons, of cocaine on the high seas in the fiscal year that ended in September, more than double the amount seized the year before. A third of that — about 64 tons — was in the Caribbean.

The Coast Guard, whose practice generally is to intercept drug-smuggling vessels, confiscate contraband and detain suspects, stressed that much of its enforcement remains in the Pacific, and declined to comment further for this article.

In the 1980s, the Caribbean was the main route for drug trafficking into the United States. Colombian cartels run by powerful drug lords like Pablo Escobar ran sophisticated trafficking organizations that controlled everything from the growth of the coca plant to the fast boats used to deliver cocaine to Miami.

That dynamic changed about 20 years ago, when the industry shifted to largely moving cocaine by land into the United States through Mexico. Counternarcotics measures in Mexico pushed some of that cocaine trafficking back to

the Caribbean in the past decade, experts said.

With so much cocaine being produced and demand increasing around the world, traffickers looked to pricier markets overseas, giving the Caribbean an increased role in moving drugs to places such as Rotterdam, Europe’s busiest port, and even farther, to Australia and South Africa.

Cartels have also shifted strategy by dividing tasks such as growing, storage and transportation among interconnected organizations so no one cartel controls the entire operation, making dismantling smuggling networks more difficult.

Local drug lords in Trinidad, for example, have been tasked with logistics and security, said the anti-narcotics official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

The official said that with eight U.S. Navy warships in the Caribbean, the authorities had detected far more unauthorized flights leaving from Colombia to Caribbean islands. While in the past there might have been five illegal flights in a single morning, now there are 15, he said.

The drugs are often dropped from the planes at sea, to be picked up by a yacht or commercial shipping vessel, the official said, since U.S. forces are not attacking vessels that large.

Bales of cocaine that washed up on shore in recent weeks in Trinidad and other islands were packaged with rope and hooks, suggesting that they were intended to be hauled out of the water, he said.

Several large packages of cocaine were discovered in recent weeks in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, including a few wrapped in white tarps listing vitamin ingredients that were labeled “Industria Colombiana.”

Lilian Bobea, a sociologist at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts who studies the illegal drug industry, said increased pressure from the United States on Mexico and increased consumption “is making the Caribbean very relevant again.”

The price of a kilo, or 2.2 pounds, of cocaine in the Caribbean region, is about $3,000. Early indications suggest that the Trump administration’s military buildup in the region is pushing the price up, but the full effect will not be seen for several months, experts said.

Still, experts say, U.S. warships will likely do little to dent what is an extraordinarily lucrative market.

“There is an overproduction of cocaine in the producing countries,” said Alberto Arean Varela, a regional coordinator for the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. “There’s more to smuggle.”

“We cannot stop using drugs,’’ he added.

Trump ramps up trade war as tariffs on lumber and furniture kick in

By ANA SWANSON and SYDNEY EMBER

President Donald Trump ushered in new tariffs on imported furniture, kitchen cabinets and lumber on Tuesday, adding a fresh round of levies as he once again threatened to expand his trade war with China.

Tariffs ranging from 10% to 50% on foreign wood products and furniture snapped into effect just after midnight. The tariffs are meant to encourage more domestic logging and furniture manufacturing. But critics say that the levies will raise prices for American consumers and could slow industries including homebuilding that rely on materials from abroad.

The tariffs come in addition to import taxes Trump has already imposed on cars, steel and other goods. And they take effect as Trump is engaging in a high stakes game of chicken with China, one of America’s biggest trading partners, which could end up derailing trade and slowing the U.S. economy.

On Friday, the president said he might add an additional 100% tax on all products from China beginning Nov. 1 after Beijing placed restrictions on exports of rare earth minerals. He also threatened to cancel a meeting in South Korea with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, which is supposed to take place in a few weeks. American and European makers of semiconductors, electric vehicles and other products are highly dependent on Chinese minerals, and the new restrictions could be crippling for those industries.

Trump’s threat sent financial markets plunging Friday, with the S&P 500 index experiencing its steepest one-day slide in six months. By Sunday night, Trump appeared to walk back his threat, telling reporters aboard Air Force that while “right now” the plan was to impose Chinese tariffs Nov. 1, “let’s see what happens. November 1st is an eternity.”

On Monday, stocks rebounded as Trump suggested in a social media post that things with China might work out. “Don’t worry about China, it will all be fine!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. He doesn’t want Depression for his country, and neither do I. The U.S.A. wants to help China, not hurt it!!!”

The president is also facing a legal challenge at the Supreme Court which could declare his tariffs on China, as well as other countries, illegal because of the authority Trump used to impose his sweeping levies.

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The company makes its mattresses at its factory in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, but it imports furniture and materials including textiles from Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Pakistan. Naturepedic also planned later this year or early next year to start selling an organic upholstered headboard made in India, which would be subjected to Trump’s tariffs on upholstered wooden furniture.

Even before the latest tariffs on wooden products, the company intended to raise prices 5% to 10% on average on its products beginning in November now that it has exhausted the stock of raw materials it bought before tariffs took effect.

“We’re not trying to pass the cost off to our consumers completely,” Schultz said. “We’re still going to be eating a good amount of it.”

day are not at risk in that case. The president’s tariffs on furniture and lumber were issued under a different trade law, Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, which allows the president to impose tariffs to protect national security.

Some critics have called it a stretch to issue the furniture and lumber tariffs under the national-security-related law. A proclamation put out by the Trump administration in late September said that wood products were “used in critical functions of the Department of War,” including building infrastructure for personnel and for transporting munitions, and therefore deserved protections.

Scott Lincicome, the vice president of general economics at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, wrote in a blog post this week that the idea was “absurd.”

“If war broke out tomorrow, there would be zero concern about American ‘dependence’ on foreign lumber or furniture, and domestic sources would be quickly and easily acquired,” he said.

The tariffs going into effect on Tuesday include:

— 10% on imported wood and timber, much of which the United States imports from Canada.

— 25% on imported upholstered furniture, including sofas and chairs, which is set to rise to 30% on Jan. 1.

— 25% on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, set to rise to 50% on Jan. 1.

Some American manufacturers lobbied for the tariffs, saying they need protection from a flood of low-priced foreign goods that threaten to put them out of business. But the tariffs will pose a challenge for many retailers who import products from around the world.

Farooq Kathwari, the CEO of Ethan Allen, a furniture retailer, said his company was better positioned than most because it manufactured nearly half of its products in the United States. Much of the rest is made in Mexico and Honduras.

“Tariffs are affecting us less, but it certainly is going to affect our industry,” he said.

Some manufacturing is likely to move back to the United States because of tariffs, Kathwari said, but it will take time. The high cost of labor is among the challenges that have made it difficult for Ethan Allen, which has factories in Vermont and North Carolina, to make furniture in the United States, he added. In particular, high medical costs were making America “very uncompetitive,” he said.

“Getting manufacturing started in the U.S. isn’t easy,” Kathwari continued. “We have all these hurdles.”

Arin Schultz, the chief growth officer at Naturepedic, an organic mattress and furniture manufacturer, said he was raising prices and considering switching suppliers to deal with the

Some economists expect the higher price of lumber, along with home furnishings, will slow the pace of home building in the United States. That could set back the Trump administration’s goals of improving a weak housing market.

“It runs counter to the goals of making housing more affordable,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin, a real estate brokerage. “In the end, you’re just going to get fewer homes built.”

Anirban Basu, the chief economist at Associated Builders and Contractors, a trade association, said the tariffs could benefit some domestic producers including custom upholsters, domestic cabinet makers and carpenters. But many of these industries are labor intensive, making it hard to manufacture in a country like the United States where labor costs are high.

“What that means is, the prospects of those forms of production moving to America are rather slender,” Basu said.

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What travelers need to know about the continuing government shutdown

By CHRISTINE CHUNG and GABE CASTROROOT

With the government shutdown entering its second week, airline passengers and visitors to national parks have been bracing for major disruptions. Nonessential federal operations ceased at midnight Oct. 1 after Congress failed to pass legislation to keep the government functioning.

Many airport employees, including air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration staff, are required to work without pay. Already, there has been an uptick in absences by air traffic controllers during the shutdown, which has slowed flights sporadically at certain airports in cities including Nashville, Tennessee; Chicago; New York; Philadelphia; and Burbank, California. But the problems have not yet been widespread.

Commuter trains under Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan, Aug. 24, 2022. With the government shutdown entering its second week, airline passengers and visitors to national parks have been bracing for major disruptions. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)

Though transportation systems, including air and rail, continue to operate, the shutdown has already cost the country $1 billion in lost travel spending, according to the U.S. Travel Association, a trade group that promotes travel to and within the country.

“This shutdown is doing real, irreversible damage,” said Geoff Freeman, the president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association.

“Travel keeps America moving. When travel is delayed and services are disrupted, the ripple effects reach every corner of our country.”

As a long holiday weekend approaches, here is a rundown of the expected impact of the government shutdown on the travel sector.

Air travel

The vast majority of the 61,000 TSA workers and more than 13,000 air traffic controllers must work without pay, according to the Transportation Department. The first payday with no check will land Oct. 24 for TSA officers and Oct. 28 for air traffic controllers, according to union officials.

The severity of the staffing issues is unclear. Overall this week, flight delay and cancellation rates have not been significant across the United States, according to Cirium, an aviation data firm. But even one or two air traffic controller absences can result in delayed flights and extra work for controllers, Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, said in an interview Wednesday with National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” program.

Staffing shortages this week led to the closure of Burbank Airport’s air traffic control tower, and incoming flights were delayed more than two hours.

Union officials have emphasized that there is no organized effort among the country’s nearly 11,000 certified controllers to protest the government shutdown by

not showing up to work. They have publicly warned their members that such actions would be unlawful.

Passports

Visa and passport processing have not been immediately affected. The federal agencies involved — the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs — are funded by passport fees and don’t depend on congressional appropriations for most programs.

However, the American Immigration Lawyers Association said that consular operations could be disrupted if fee-generated funds run out.

“In such a case, posts will generally only handle diplomatic visas and ‘life or death’ emergencies,” the group said on a general information page on its website.

Amtrak

Though it receives public funding, Amtrak functions as an independent company and will continue normal operations during the government shutdown.

“Passengers planning to travel on Amtrak trains in the Northeast Corridor and across the country in the coming days and weeks can be assured that Amtrak will remain open for business,” W. Kyle Anderson, an Amtrak spokesperson, said in a statement last month.

National parks

Most national parks remain accessible, though with staff either furloughed or working without pay, some services may be unavailable. Travelers should use Recreation. gov for specific information on campsite reservations, guided tours and other visitor services, which vary between parks.

One major difference is that parks that charge entry fees are generally free during the shutdown. And some iconic sites run by the National Park Service are closed,

including Independence Hall in Philadelphia and the observation deck of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.

The shutdown is the latest in a series of blows to the park service, which has lost at least 24% of its permanent staff since January, according to the National Parks Conservation Association.

Utah and West Virginia have tapped state funds to keep their parks running smoothly. Utah committed to keeping visitor centers at all five of its national parks open throughout the shutdown, and West Virginia set aside nearly $100,000 to fund visitor centers and other services at New River Gorge National Park and Preserve and Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. More states may follow suit if the shutdown continues.

At Zion National Park in Utah, “things to a visitor would seem business as normal,” said Barbara Bruno, the mayor of Springdale, Utah, a town just south of Zion that serves as the primary gateway to the park.

But behind the scenes, she added, the shutdown could exacerbate problems that were already festering in Zion, including delayed maintenance of park shuttles, which are funded by entry fees, and a lack of staff to combat vandalism.

More than 35 former park superintendents wrote a letter to the Trump administration before the shutdown urging the closure of national parks, citing damage that occurred during the 2019 shutdown, when parks were left open with limited staff.

Museums

The Smithsonian Institution’s museums and research centers and the National Zoo will remain open through Saturday, the institution said on its website. After that, doors will close to the public, but animals at the zoo and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, in Virginia, “will continue to be fed and cared for.”

The Smithsonian, which receives about 62% of its funding from the federal government, oversees 21 museums and other sites around Washington and two museums in New York.

Open-air monuments in Washington, including the National Mall, remain accessible, though facilities such as restrooms and information kiosks may be closed.

Borders

The country’s entry ports — sea, land and air — stay open, and most immigration, border and customs agents continue to work, according to the Department of Homeland Security. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations can generally continue, the American Immigration Lawyers Association said. Most of ICE’s roughly 20,000 employees are considered essential and will work during the shutdown.

In past government shutdowns, international travelers with valid visas and passports were not affected.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA

SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO

RAMON GONZALEZ Y MARITZA MOLINA

Peticionarios

EX-PARTE

Civil Núm.: AR2025CV01729.

Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS

UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: a todo aquel que tenga algún derecho real o interés sobre el inmueble descrito en la petición de dominio que muestra el epígrafe; a las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción, a los anteriores dueños y sus sucesores, Félix Méndez

Millán, Julio Molina Ocasio, también conocido por Julio Molina y Luz

Neida Torres Rivera, también conocida por Luz

Neida Molina, al dueño de la finca colindante por su lado Norte, Manuel Rosario Molina y Teodora Rosario Molina, Confesor Rosario y Eligio Torres González y sus sucesores; al dueño de las fincas colindantes por su lado Sur, Carmen Torres González y Heriberto Vázquez; al dueño de las fincas colindantes por su lado Este, Ruperto Ponce, Municipio de Arecibo y Heriberto Vázquez y sus sucesores; y al dueño de la finca colindante por su lado Oeste, Valentín Méndez, Esteban Laboy Martínez y el Municipio de Arecibo; a las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción, y en general a toda persona que desee oponerse: Por la presente se le notifica para que comparezcan si creyeren que les conviene, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los VEINTE (20) DÍAS a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por el peticionario para adquirir el dominio sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el

barrio Miraflores sector Biafara, del término municipal de Arecibo; compuesta de CINCUENTA CENTIMOS (0.50 CDS) DE CUERDAS y en lindes por el Norte, con la finca principal de la cual se segrega perteneciente a los hermanos Manuel y Teodora Rosario Molina por partes iguales y con cabida de Dos y media Cuerdas (2.50 cds); por el Sur, con Carmen Torres; por el Este, con Ruperto Ponce y por el Oeste, con Valentín Méndez. Catastro número: 053-084-83919-000. Que aproximadamente para el año 2002 dicho solar fue interrumpido por un camino asfaltado por el municipio hacia la carretera estatal #637 km 2.7 de seis punto cincuenta (6.50) metros de ancho quedando dividido dicho solar en los dos solares que se describen a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar A: Parcela de terreno radicada en el barrio Miraflores sector Biafara, del término municipal de Arecibo; compuesta de SETECIENTOS OCHENTA Y UNO PUNTO CINCUENTA Y DOS CERO CINCO (781.5205 MC), equivalentes a CERO PUNTO MIL NOVECIENTOS OCHENTA Y OCHO CUERDAS (0.1988 CDA) y en lindes por el NORTE, con Confesor Rosario; por el SUR, Carmen Torres González; ESTE, camino municipal y por el OESTE, con Esteban Laboy Martínez. RÚSTICA: Solar B: Parcela de terreno radicada en el barrio Miraflores sector Biafara, del término municipal de Arecibo; compuesta de QUINIENTOS SESENTA Y UNO PUNTO OCHO MIL CIENTO CINCUENTA Y SIETE (561.8157 MC), equivalentes a CERO PUNTO MIL CUATROCIENTOS VENTINUEVE CUERDAS (0.1429 CDA) y en lindes por el NORTE, con Eligio Torres González; por el SUR, Heriberto Vázquez; ESTE, Heriberto Vázquez y por el OESTE, con Camino Municipal. Deben notificar con copia de sus alegaciones al Lcdo. Fernando H. Padrón Jiménez, PO Box 2833, Arecibo, PR 00613-2833. Tel. / Fax (787) 816-6732. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico a 16 de septiembre de 2025. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. PILAR H. MERCADO GONZÁLEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ

CARLOS ORTIZ DE JESÚS

Demandante Vs. LILLIAM ORTIZ CARRERO, CARLOS ORTIZ CARRERO, SAÚL

SEGUINOT CARRERO, SUCESIÓN DE MARIA CARRERO, NEREIDA

CARRERO ECHEVARRÍA, DEPARTAMENTO DE TRANSPORTACIÓN Y OBRAS PÚBLICAS, MUNICIPIO DE AÑASCO

Y A LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS O DESCONOCIDAS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: MZ2024CV00730. Sobre: USUCAPIÓN EXTRAORDINARIA. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.

A: A las personas ignoradas y desconocidas a quienes pudiera perjudicar la inscripción del dominio a favor de la parte demandante en el Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Mayagüez, de la finca que más adelante se describirán y a toda persona en general que con derecho para ello desee oponerse a este expediente. POR LA PRESENTE, se notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte demandante para adquirir su dominio sobre la siguiente finca que se describe más adelante. 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 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 pertinente. RÚSTICA: Radicado en el Barrio Marías del término municipal de Añasco, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de QUINIENTOS SESENTA Y CINCO PUNTO CERO NUEVE NUEVE TRES METROS CUADRADOS (565.0993 m/c), equivalentes a 0.1430 cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, con Lilliam Ortiz Carrero, Carlos Ortiz Carrero y Saúl Seguinot Carrero; al SUR, con Sucesión de María Carrero; ESTE, con Nereida Carrero Echevarría y por el OESTE, con la Carretera PR-4603. La abogada de la parte demandante es: Lcda. Lourdes M. Ortiz Pagán,

P.O. Box 593, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico 00623, teléfono (787) 831-1984 y correo electrónico: lourdesm_ortizpagan@hotmail. com. Este edicto será publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de 20 días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de personal natural y/o jurídica que se mencionen el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en la Reglas de Procedimiento Civil 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte demandante, sin más citarle ni oírle. POR TANTO, libro la presente en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy 26 de agosto de 2025. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA

IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. YAHAIRA TORRES MATÍAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AGUADILLA

DARIO GONZALEZ

GONZALEZ; MAYRA ROMAN ROSADO

EX-PARTE

Civil Núm.: AG2025CV00563.

Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. 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.

POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los 20 días contados a partir de la última publicación de este Edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria

para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Deberá usted presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaria del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Galateo Bajo, Sector Chevin Román Termino Municipal de Isabela, Puerto Rico, marcado con la letra 1 en el plano de inscripción y con un área superficial de mil trescientos diez punto cuatro seis cinco cinco metros cuadrados (1310.4655). En lindes al NORTE, con carretera José Perez Perez; al SUR, con carretera PR 4476, José Perez y Sara González; al ESTE con José Perez y a OESTE con carretera PR 4474 y Sara González. Enclava una edificación dedicada a uso residencial. Contiene residencia. NUMERO CATASTRO :026-011032-03-998. Luego de mensura da dicha finca la descripción en la que consta. RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Galateo Bajo, Sector Chevin Román Termino Municipal de Isabela, Puerto Rico, marcado y con un área superficial de mil trescientos diez veintiséis punto nueve mil seiscientos setenta y seis metros cuadrados (1326.9676). Equivalente a cero punto treinta y tres cuerdas(0.3376) en lindes al NORTE, con carretera José Perez Perez; al SUR, con carretera PR 4476, José Perez y Sara González; al ESTE con José Perez y a OESTE con carretera PR 4474 y Sara González. Enclava una edificación dedicada a uso residencial. Contiene residencia. NUMERO CATASTRO :026-011032-03-998. El abogado de la parte peticionaria el LCDO. ISMAEL PEREZ NIEVES, PO Box 534, Isabela, Puerto Rico 00662; Tel: (787) 872-1500. Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 9 DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 4:15 DE LA TARDE, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar

su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, de identificar en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 10 de junio de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNA DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA SATURNINA

CALVENTE MIRANDA Peticionaria

EX PARTE

Civil Núm.: AG2025CV01550. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO (RECTIFICACIÓN DE CABIDA). EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS; A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por el peticionario para adquirir su domino sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través de SUMAC, al cual puede acceder utilizando la dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de

expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor del peticionario en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. RÚSTICA: Solar número cinco (5), radicado en el Barrio Arenales Altos del término municipal de Isabela, Puerto Rico, compuesto de DOS MIL CUATROCIENTOS OCHENTA Y OCHO PUNTO CINCO MIL CERO SETENTA Y OCHO METROS CUADRADOS (2,488.5078 MC), equivalente a CERO PUNTO SEIS MIL TRESCIENTOS TREINTA Y UNO CUERDAS (0.6331 CDAS) y en lindes al NORTE: con Carretera PR 494; al SUR: con Laura Juarbe Acevedo; al ESTE: con Luis A. Mercado Arocho, Ángel Salamanca Miranda y César Méndez Sánchez; al OESTE, con Hugo Juarbe Pérez. Enclava una estructura en hormigón para uso residencial. Número de catastro: 025-047-001-10-000. La abogada de la peticionaria es la Lcda. Janice Soto Cardona, HC 5 Box 54748 San Sebastián, PR, 00685; Teléfono: 787-896-2022. Se le informa que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 24 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de 20 días a contar de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por el peticionario, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, PR, a 24 de septiembre de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ARLENE GUZMÁN PABÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

P-0248

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. Cielo Vivienda, LLC

Plaintiff v. María Luisa Pérez Remedios a/k/a María L. Pérez Remedios a/k/a María Luisa Roca and Gaspar Roca Natali a/k/a Gaspar Roca Natall now the Estate of Gaspar Roca Natali a/k/a Gaspar Roca Natall composed by the testate members Miguel Wayne Roca Barnett, Diana Luisa Roca Barnett,

Ana Marie Roca Barnett and Carlos Manuel Roca Barnett, and by right of representation Mariana Margarita Roca Iguina and Luis Rafael Roca Iguina. Defendant

Civil No. 17-01496 JAG. Collection of Money and Mortgage Foreclosure. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: María Luisa Pérez Remedios a/k/a María L. Pérez Remedios a/k/a María Luisa Roca and Gaspar Roca Natali a/k/a Gaspar Roca Natall now the Estate of Gaspar Roca Natali a/k/a Gaspar Roca Natall composed by the testate members Miguel Wayne Roca Barnett, Diana Luisa Roca Barnett, Ana Marie Roca Barnett and Carlos Manuel Roca Barnett, and by right of representation Mariana Margarita Roca Iguina and Luis Rafael Roca Iguina, General Public, and all parties that may have an interest in the property

WHEREAS, on September 18, 2017, Judgment was entered for the total outstanding principal balance in the amount of $117,461.05 with interest accrued until full payment, plus mortgage and risk insurance premiums, late fees and any other amounts agreed in the mortgage deed, from the date stated above until full payment thereof, plus 10% for attorney’s fees and costs, equivalent to $15,200.00. The records of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said Judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel RondaFeliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder at his office located in 441 E Street, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, PR 00969 (coordinates 18.3698579 – 66.1124836) the following property: URBAN: Horizontal Property: Residential Apartment number 201 of irregular shape located at Trevi Tower of project Parque de las Fuentes, which in turn is located at César González Street previously known as State Road PR -41. In the proximity of the intersection with Jesús T. Piñero Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, with a total private area of 1443 square feet, being its total

longer length and width 37 feet 21/2 inches, 33 feet 8 inches, respectively, measured between width of exterior and hallway walls and between half width of walls adjoining other apartments, being its boundaries access and description as follows: by the North, with corridor; by the South, with common exterior elements of the building and with storage room; by the East, with elevator shaft and by the West, with common exterior elements of the building and with storage room. Its main door has access to and from the corridor. This family unit consists of the following space, equipment and accessories, two bedrooms, each with one closet, one living and dining room, one kitchen, with informal dining areas and one pantry, two bathrooms each with separate vanity area, one terrace, one laundry area, one central air conditioning recirculating unit closet, one hall, one water heater closet, one laundry closet, one storage closet and canopy. The equipment and appliances are one range oven, one range hood, one refrigerator, one dish washer, one food waste disposal, lower and upper kitchen cabinets, one water heater, one clothes washer, one clothes dryer, and one central individual air conditioning split system which includes, one outside compressing unit and one inside recirculating unit for the apartment. The accessories are: wall to wall carpeting except in the kitchen, terraces and bathrooms, security intercom system for direct communication with the lobby area, one master television antenna outlet in the master bedroom and in the kitchen. There is one mechanical ventilation and utilities chase within the unit which is considered as communal area. This apartment has assigned one parking space which may be subject to reassignment when the South wing of the parking building is constructed. Le corresponde a este apartamento una porción del 0.203 porciento en los elementos comunes.” PROPERTY

NUMBER: 30,256, recorded at page 200 of volume 1046 of Rio Piedras North, Property Registry of San Juan, Second Section.

WHEREAS, The mortgage to be foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is recorded at Page 208 of Volume 426 of Rio Piedras North, sixth inscription, of Rio Piedras North, Property Registry of San Juan, Second Section. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title 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 then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFORE, the FIRST public sale will be held on November 7, 2025, at 9:00 am, and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $152,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on November 14, 2025, at 9:00 am, and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $101,333.33. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction shall be held on November 21, 2025, at 9:00 am, and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $76,000.00. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the Judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 18 day of September, 2025. Joel Ronda-Feliciano, Special Master.

LEGAL NOTICE

M&T

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. MCLP Asset Company, Inc. Plaintiff, v. Edmarie Miranda Díaz Defendant CIVIL NO: 18-01577 PAD. RE: Collection of Money and Mortgage Foreclosure. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: Edmarie Miranda Díaz, General Public, Puerto Rico Housing Finance Authority and all parties that may have an interest in the property

WHEREAS, Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $79,542.58 plus interest at a rate of 3.125% per annum until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff late charges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due until the debt is paid in full. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mort-

gage obligation. The records of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, 300 Recinto Sur St., Suite 325 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901, Tel. 787-772-3000 or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel RondaFeliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder and at 441 Calle E. Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969 (19.3698579, -66.1124836) the following property: Solar número B-23; predio de terreno sito en el Barrio San Idelfonso del Municipio de Coamo marcado con el solar número B-23 en el plano de inscripción de la urbanización Haciendas del Río, con una cabida de 276.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número B-22; por el SUR, con el solar número B-24; por el ESTE, con la calle B; y por el OESTE, con los solares números B-04 Y B-05. En dicho solar enclava una residencia de concreto. The property is identified with the number 15,907 and is recorded at page number 50 of volume number 293 of Coamo, in the Registry of Property of Barranquitas. WHEREAS, the mortgage foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is recorded at page number 50 of volume number 293 of Coamo, fourth inscription in the Registry of Property of Barranquitas. The mortgage loan’s subsequent modification is recorded at page number 168 of volume number 293 of Coamo, fourth inscription in the Registry of Property of Barranquitas. WHEREAS the property is subject to the following junior liens: MORTGAGE: Pledged by Edmarie Miranda Díaz, single, guaranteeing a promissory note in favor of THE AUTHORITY FOR THE FINANCING OF THE HOUSING OF PUERTO RICO, or to its order, for the original loan amount of $15,000.00, bearing no annual interest, payable November 30th 2012, as per deed number 191, executed in Ponce, November 30th, 2004, before Angel Omar Rodríguez Correa, notary public. Recorded at page 168 of Coamo Volume 293. Fifth inscription. Subject to rules and regulations of “La Llave para tu Hogar” housing acquisition aid program for 8 years. SUBORDINATION OF MORTGAGE: The Housing Financing Authority of Puerto Rico appears to subordinate the mortgage of the fourth inscription and the modification with the purpose of registering it in a superior and preferential rank to the mortgage of the fifth inscription, as per deed number 168, signed in in San Juan, on April 12, 2012, before Roberto Luis Varela Ríos, notary public. Recorded at the margin of page 168 of Coamo Volume 293. Fourth

inscription. LIS PENDENS: Civil case pursued by Lime Residential LTD vs. Edmarie Miranda Díaz, single, before in the Unites States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Docket number 18-01577 PAD, regarding Collection of Monies and Foreclosure, requesting payment of mortgage with an outstanding balance of $79,542.58 and other sums, as per complaint dated August 17, 2018. Recorded at Coamo Karibe System. Notation B. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title 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 then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC sale will be held on NOVEMBER 7, 2025, AT 9:15 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $66,171.43. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC auction shall be held on NOVEMBER 14, 2025, AT 9:15 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $44,114.29. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC auction shall be held on NOVEMBER 21, 2025, AT 9:15 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $33,085.72. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 25th day of September 2025. Fdo. Joel Ronda Feliciano, Special Master.

LEGAL NOTICE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ACTING THROUGH THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Plaintiff V. SAMFRITZ DEL VALLE BARRETO, ELBA IRIS ACABEO RUIZ, AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP COMPOSED BY THEM

Defendants Civil No.: 20-1019. FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE [ACTION IN REM]. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: SAMFRITZ DEL VALLE BARRETO, ELBA IRIS ACABEO RUIZ, AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP COMPOSED BY THEM. WHEREAS: Judgment in favor of the United States of America for the principal aggregate amounts: a) On $90,000.00 Note: 1. The sum of $90,000.00, of principal; 2. The sum of $26,865.65, of interest accrued as of May 14,2019, and thereafter until its full and total payment, which interest amount increases at the daily rate of $6.9872. 3. Plus, insurance premium, taxes, advances, late charges, costs, court costs, disbursements and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. 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, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following property will be sold at public auction: RÚSTICA: Parcela radicada en el barrio Leguísamo del término municipal de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Con una cabida superficial de una cuerda de terreno (1.00 cda) equivalente a tres mil novecientos treinta punto treinta y nueve metros cuadrados (3,930.39 m.c.). En lindes al NORTE, con remanente de la finca principal; al SUR, con camino de la finca que la separa de terrenos de Miguel Santiago Meléndez; al ESTE, con el mismo camino de la finca; y por el OESTE, con parcela de uso público. Contiene una casa de madera cobijada de zinc que mide veintiocho (28’) pies de frente por treinta y dos (32’) pies de fondo montada en columnas de hormigón que consta de sala, comedor, cocina, tres (3) dormitorios y un balcón. Property No. 33,262, recorded at page 89 of volume 1095 of Mayagüez, Registry of the Property of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. See Title Search, attached as Exhibit 3. WHEREAS: Property #33,262 is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: a) None. Junior Liens: a) Notice of Lis Pendens dated February 3, 2020, issued by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, in the civil case number 20-1019, by United States of America, acting through the United States Department of Agriculture, versus Samfritz Del Valle Barreto, Elba Iris Acabeo Ruiz, for monies owed and foreclosure of mortgage, in the amount of $68,008.39, plus interest and other amounts, or the sale of the property at public auction, annotated on January 11, 2021, at volume Karibe

of Mayagüez, property number 33,262, Annotation A. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE, shall be held on NOVEMBER 7, 2025 AT 9:30 AM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $90,000.00. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on NOVEMBER 14, 2025 AT 9:30 AM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is two thirds of the minimum bid for the first public sale as to both mortgages respectively. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD AUCTION will be held on NOVEMBER 21, 2025 AT 9:30 AM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is half the minimum bid for the first public sale as to both mortgages respectively. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. Other liens: 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. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master designated by the Court is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. Nonetheless, the deed of conveyance and possession to the property can be executed and delivered before such confirmation, as per Puerto Rico Mortgage Law. In Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, this 9 day of September, 2025. S/MICHEL A. RACHID FOURNIER.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA. HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. Demandante v. FRANCIS BASIL BURWELL III; PATRICIA ANN BURWELL y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandado

CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00538. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo,

FREDDY OMAR RODRIGUEZ

COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 19 de agosto de 2025 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB

VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: UNIDAD A-406 SEMANA 47. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-406 and includes the right to use such unit during the 47th week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 47th Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-406, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Se separa del Régimen Vacacional Haciendas del Mar, inscrita al folio 85 del tomo 232 de Vega Alta finca 12648. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 13289 inscrita al folio móvil 2 del tomo 23 de Vega Alta, inscripción 3ra en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la si-

guiente cantidad: $18,176.77 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A 406-47. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 23 de octubre de 2025, a las 9:00 a.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 3 de OCTOBER de 2025. FREDDY OMAR RODRIGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA. HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante v. HUGO GUILLERMO

BLAKE GÓMEZ; MARIAN DE LOS ÁNGELES

BLISS RÍOS y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado

CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00693.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, FREDDY OMAR RODRIGUEZ

COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO

SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 19 de agosto de 2025 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO

CLUB VACACIONAL HACIEN-

DA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: A-503 WEEK 14. Cabida: 101.45 Metros Cuadrados. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-503 and includes the right to use such unit during the 14th week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 14th Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-503, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Se separa

del Régimen Vacacional Haciendas del Mar, inscrita al folio 100 del tomo 232 de Vega Alta finca 12657. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 15351 inscrita al folio móvil 1 del tomo 84 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $11,041.17 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A 503-14. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 23 de octubre de 2025, a las 9:10 a.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida.

Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de

Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 3 de OCTUBRE de 2025. FREDDY OMAR RODRIGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA

SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA. HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante v. SELL TIMESHARE, LLC

Demandado

CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV01106. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, FREDDY OMAR RODRIGUEZ COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 19 de agosto de 2025 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL

HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: A-201 WEEK 17. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-201 and includes the right to use such unit during the 17 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 17th Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-201, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval.

In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Haciendas del Mar, Vacation

Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 12,675 inscrita en virtud de la Escritura 31 otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 18 de abril de 2013, ante el notario Mónica Marie Carretero Rodríguez, inscrito en Sistema Karibe, inscripción 2da de Vega Alta, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $5,457.41 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A 201-17. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 23 de octubre de 2025, a las 9:20 a.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal

de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 3 de OCTUBRE de 2025. Por: FREDDY OMAR RODRIGUEZ

COLLAZO, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO. HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante v. ABELMAIN EDGARDO TORRES MOORE

Demandado CIVIL NÚM.: AR2025CV00019. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, FREDDY OMAR RODRIGUEZ

COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 10 de septiembre de 2025 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: VACATION

CLUB RIGHT: Unit week 24. Vacation Club Right corresponding to Unit A802 of Hacienda del Mar, Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-802 and includes the right to use such unit during the 24 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12.00 noon on the 24 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-802, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right

pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 13,709 inscrita al folio móvil 1 del tomo 57 de Vega Alta, inscripción 3ra en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $11,722.29 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A 802-24. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 23 de octubre de 2025, a las 9:30 a.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Arecibo. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de cele-

brarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 3 de OCTUBRE de 2025. Por: FREDDY OMAR RODRIGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN. HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante v. CARMELO PIZARRO CASTRO

Demandado CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2025CV09095. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, FREDDY OMAR RODRIGUEZ COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 26 de septiembre de 2025 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: VACATION CLUB RIGHT: unit week (31) Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B-512 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B-512 and includes the right to use such unit during the first (31) week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the FIRST (31) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B-512, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation

club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2575% in the Facilities and common expenses of vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 14353 inscrita al folio 216 del tomo 260 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $11,047.85 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad B 512-31. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 23 de octubre de 2025, a las 9:40 a.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de San Juan. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2)

semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 3 de OCTUBRE de 2025. Por: FREDDY OMAR RODRIGUEZ

COLLAZO, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante v. IDALIA GUZMÁN GUZMÁN

Demandado

CIVIL NÚM.: CA2024CV03373.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, FREDDY OMAR RODRIGUEZ COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 23 de septiembre de 2025 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: CONDOMINIO

CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: B 507 WEEK 34. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-507 and includes the right to use such unit during the 34 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 34 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B-507, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Ha-

ciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of his Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 15,409 inscrita al folio móvil 19 del tomo 266 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $10,149.43 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad B 507-34. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 23 de octubre de 2025, a las 9:50 a.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Carolina. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de

por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 3 de OCTUBRE de 2025. Por: FREDDY OMAR RODRIGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS RAMÓN SIERRA GONZÁLEZ; MARÍA JANET NEGRÓN RODRÍGUEZ

Peticionario

EX-PARTE

Civil Núm.: CG2025CV02467. Sala: 301 CIVIL. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO, LEY 118- 2022. EDICTO ENMENDADO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A) JOSÉ JUAN SIERRA

GONZÁLEZ, CUYA

DIRECCIÓN POSTAL ES 19 BROWN STREET, 2ND FLOOR, HARTFORD, CT 06114; B) SANTA SIERRA GONZÁLEZ, CUYA

DIRECCIÓN POSTAL ES 19 NEWBORY ST., APT. 11, HARTFORD, CT 06114; C) EMELINDA SIERRA GONZÁLEZ, CUYA

DIRECCIÓN POSTAL Y FÍSICA SE DESCONOCE; D) LA SUCESIÓN DE CLEOFE SIERRA CUEVAS, COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE; E) INMEDIATO DUEÑO ANTERIOR DESCONOCIDO Y SU SUCESIÓN, COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE; F) 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 DESCRIBE Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.

POR LA PRESENTE, se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.poderjudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Mamey del término municipal de Gurabo, con una cabida de 1,965.1978 m.c., equivalente a 0.5000 cuerdas, colindando por el NORTE, con terrenos de Ismael Casul Aquino: por el ESTE, con terrenos de Victorio González; por el SUR, con terrenos de Cleofe Sierra Cuevas, finca de la cual se segrega; y por el OESTE, con camino de acceso. En este solar existe una estructura para uso de una vivienda unifamiliar.

La Parte Peticionaria se encuentra representada por:

LCDA. CAROLINA GARRIGA CESANÍ

RUA 15227

Calle Resolución 1133, Suite 302 San Juan, PR 00920 Teléfono: 787-782-6500 x. 250 Correo electrónico: cgarriga@ titlesecuritygroup.com

Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 20 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA presencialmente, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición.

Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Caguas, Puerto Rico a 8 de octubre de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ENEIDA ARROYO VÉLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN OLGA MARIA VÁZQUEZ, TCC OLGA MARIA RAMOS MALDONADO Demandante Vs. DAVID VILLEDA MEJIA Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2025RF01274. Salón: 702. Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: DAVID VILLEDA MEJIA - 2417 CREEKBEND APT. 302, SCHAUMBURG, ILLINOIS 60173. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y se le notifica que una demanda ha sido presentada en su contra, la cual obra en el expediente del Honorable Tribunal de Primera Instancia de San Juan en el caso de epígrafe, y se le requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), el cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, Salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. VAZQUEZ & ASSOCIATES LAW OFFICES

LCDA. MARÍA ISABEL LÓPEZ APONTE

RUA 22446

379 Calle Cesar González Hato Rey, San Juan, PR 00918 Tel (787) 766-0949 / Fax (787) 771-2425

Email: vazquezyasociadospr@gmail.com

Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo, se podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle más. EXTENDIDO

BAJO MI FIRMA Y EL SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de septiembre de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUZ S. ORTIZ LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN

NANCY BETANCOURT FIGUEROA Y DORIS BETANCOURT FIGUEROA

Peticionarias

EX-PARTE Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV05289. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. CITACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR. A: Francisco Betancourt Figueroa y Miosotis Betancourt, esta última miembro de la Sucesión de Wilfredo Betancourt Figueroa, los dos miembros de la Sucesión de José Betancourt De Jesús, codueños de la propiedad objeto de esta acción, ambos con dirección postal en 61 Yale St. Waterbury CT 06704; Ana Celia Rodríguez, viuda de Pastor López, 442 Glandon Ct., Fort Mills, SC 29708, Ana María López Rodríguez t/c/c Ana Lara, 3432 Pickney Bluff Fort Mills, SC 29715, Georgina López Rodríguez t/c/c Georgina Jarquin, 3575 Tybee Dr. Fort Mills, SC 29715, miembros de la Sucesión de Pastor López Betancourt, Glorimar González López, miembro de la Sucesión de Isabel López y a su vez de la de Lázaro López Betancourt, con dirección desconocida, Estela López Bigio, 866 Hearth Stone Ct., Aurora IL 60506 y Mirka López Bigio, 90 Postmouth Island Dr., Garner NC 27529-6162, miembros de la Sucesión de Enrique López; Rosaura López González y Wilfredo López González, ambos con dirección en 516 Oak Branch Circle, Kissimmee, FL 32458, miembros de la Sucesión de Silvestre López Betancourt; John Moe, Richard Moe y Jane Moe, miembros de la Sucesión de Carmen María López Betancourt, cuya última dirección conocida era en Yabucoa, PR y cuyos nombres verdaderos y paraderos se desconocen, James Toe, con nombre y paradero desconocidos, miembro de la Sucesión de Elvin Reyes López, miembro de la Sucesión de Justa López Betancourt, todos los anteriores miembros a su vez de la Sucesión de Carmen Betancourt De Jesús, inmediata anterior dueña; Carlos Iván Betancourt Benítez, 1768 Poplar Ave., South Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53172, miembro de la Sucesión de Eladio Betancourt De Jesús, inmediato anterior dueño; Yadira Betancourt Del Valle, Res. Brisas de Cupey, 166 Calle Monte Britton 48, San Juan, PR 00928; miembro de la Sucesión de Eladio Betancourt De Jesús, inmediato anterior dueño; Carmen Damaris Betancourt Clemente, Urb. Reparto Metropolitano, 1168 SE Calle 56, San Juan, PR 00921, miembro de la Sucesión de Eladio Betancourt De Jesús, inmediato anterior dueño; Susan Foe y Faye Foe, con nombres y paraderos desconocidos, miembros

de la Sucesión de José Luis Betancourt Figueroa, a su vez, de la de Jorge Betancourt De Jesús, inmediato anterior dueño; Josean Manuel Febres Betancourt, Joselyn Marie Febres Betancourt, Miosotis Febres Betancourt, Nicole Marie Febres Betancourt, miembros de la Sucesión de Evelyn Betancourt Meléndez y, a su vez, de la de Vicente Betancourt De Jesús, inmediato anterior dueño, todos con dirección en 1515 36th, Milwaukee, WI 53215; Zoraida Betancourt Vázquez, con última dirección conocida en Toa Baja, PR, María Betancourt Vázquez, con última dirección conocida en San Juan, PR y Florentina Betancourt Vázquez, con última dirección conocida en Sector Villa Isleña en Guaynabo, PR, todas miembros de la Sucesión de Esteban Betancourt De Jesús t/c/c Víctor Betancourt De Jesús, inmediato anterior dueño; Jaime, Ricardo y Cándido, los tres Betancourt Viera y miembros de la Sucesión de Julio Betancourt, a su vez miembro de la Sucesión de Cándido Betancourt De Jesús, con última dirección conocida en Sector Chapero, Camino Cáez, Carr. 842, Bo. Caimito Bajo, San Juan, PR; Carmen Laura Betancourt Viera, cuya dirección en Orlando, Florida se desconoce, miembro de la Sucesión de Arsenio Betancourt De Jesús, inmediato anterior dueño; Zutano, Mengano y Perensejo, miembros de la Sucesión de Anastacia Betancourt Díaz, cuyos nombres y paraderos se desconocen; Lydia Betancourt Díaz, con última dirección conocida en Bo. Ensenada, Gurabo, PR y Joe Coe, Jim Coe y Rose Coe, miembros de la Sucesión de Mercedes Betancourt Díaz, cuyos nombres verdaderos y paraderos se desconocen, todos los anteriores miembros de la Sucesión de Cándido Betancourt De Jesús, inmediato anterior dueño; Zutana, Mengana y Perenseja, miembros de la Sucesión de Isabel Betancourt Viera, miembro, a su vez, de la Sucesión de Arsenio Betancourt De Jesús, cuyos nombres verdaderos se desconocen y con último paradero conocido en el estado de la Florida, Estados Unidos continentales, John Doe, Richard Roe y Joseph Boe, personas desconocidas que pudieran tener interés propietario o derecho real sobre el predio objeto de este caso o que pudieran resultar perjudicados por la inscripción solicitada y que se identifican con nombres ficticios; a los colindantes, anteriores dueños, o sus herederos, sucesores, causahabientes y, en general, a toda persona que desee oponerse. POR LA PRESENTE: se les notifica que las peticionarias de epígrafe han presentado una

Petición para que se declare a favor de ellas y otros codueños, el dominio que tienen sobre la siguiente propiedad: “RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Bo. Caimito, camino los Betancourt del Municipio de San Juan; con una cabida de dos mil ochenta y cinco metros cuadrados con mil doscientos setenta y tres diezmilésimas de metro cuadrado (2085.1273 MC.), equivalentes a punto cinco mil trescientos cinco diezmilésimas de cuerda (0.5305 Cda.). En lindes por el: NORTE: Con Camino Los Betancourt, en seis alineaciones que suman la cantidad de sesenta y cinco punto cuarenta y siete metros lineales (65.47 ML); SUR: Con terrenos propiedad de Irma Rosa Cotto en tres alineaciones que suman; sesenta y cinco punto noventa y tres metros lineales (65.93 ML); ESTE: Con terrenos de Highland Realty en una alineación de treinta y cuatro metros lineales (34.00ML) y, por el: OESTE: Con Camino Los Betancourt en cuatro alineaciones que suman treinta y uno punto ochenta y tres metros lineales (31.83 ML).” Sobre el terreno antes descrito enclava una estructura residencial en concreto. Este Tribunal ordenó que se publique la pretensión por tres (3) veces durante el término de veinte (20) días en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que todas las personas arriba mencionadas y todas aquellas desconocidas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción o deseen oponerse, puedan así hacerlo dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la última publicación del presente edicto. Por tanto firmo expido la presente en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 7 de octubre de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA I. COLÓN RIVERA, SUBSECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

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LEGACY MORTGAGE ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1

Parte Demandante Vs. R&G PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO, AHORA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: CD2025CV00337. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. SALA: 801. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO

Sudoku

How to Play:

Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.

Sudoku Rules:

Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Crossword

Down

1. Some autobahn autos

2. Wander aimlessly

3. "____ between those two!"

4. Monotheism backbone

5. Sunny

6. Full amount

7. Cable car alternative

8. Night-school subj.

9. Footwear firm

10. Start of "Jabberwocky"

11. Quaker product

12. Fonda role in "Klute"

13. 24 hrs. ago

19. Tiny pests

24. Animator's sheet

25. "___ do anything right?"

26. "The Terminator" character ___ Connor

27. ___ Lodge (motel chain)

28. Chain components

29. Wrigley Field denizen

30. Flower with a Greek name meaning "turned to the sun"

31. Desert brick

32. Insolvency causes

35. Must-haves

42. Williams who played Potsie on "Happy Days"

Scraping (out)

Teamster org.

They have short fuses

Birdbrains

Sporty Brit. cars

Recreation

Asian fruit with a jellylike pulp

French heroine burned at the stake (abbr.)

Immoderate revelry

Wind-powered instrument (var.)

63. Skin opening

64. Gymnast's move

65. "Inferno" author

66. Revolve

67. Boxing outcomes

68. "...partridge in ___ tree"

69. Slangy approvals

38. Potassium hydroxide, to chemists

40. Heavy sheet inside a book's cover

43. Site of biennial ancient Greek games

45. Sentimental stuff

48. To do list

50. Fluid accumulation, once

52. More or less

53. Flew the coop

54. Pudding thickener

55. Adman's award

56. Rose plant fruits

57. Eyre of literature

59. Clutch

60. Strong urges

62. Hazard starter?

Caguas defeats Yauco in BSNF

By THE STAR STAFF

The Criollas of Caguas defeated the Cafetaleras of Yauco 88-62 on Monday night in a Women’s National Superior Basketball League (BSNF by its initials in Spanish) game at Raúl “Pipote” Oliveras Coliseum.

It was the third victory in a row for the Criollas, who improved to 8-9, strengthening their chances of occupying sixth place in the league standings. In contrast, the last-place Cafetaleras suffered their 11th consecutive loss, falling to 8-11.

The result also had direct repercussions

for the postseason, as it confirmed that the Monarcas de Juana Díaz (7-11) will finish in eighth place and will face the defending champions, the Cangrejeras de Santurce, in the quarterfinals.

Caguas center Kai James was the game’s most dominant player, recording a doubledouble of 19 points and 15 rebounds. Jackie Benítez scored 16 points, Amanda Paschal had 14 points, and Asia Taylor and Katie Villarini added 11 points each.

For the Cafetaleras, Sidney Cooks once again led the offense with 25 points and 10 rebounds, while Geovana Ríos contributed 16 points.

Center Kai James had 19 points and 15 rebounds to lead the Criollas to their third-straight win.

Leones sign Bahamian outfielder D’Shawn Knowles

By THE STAR STAFF

The Leones of Ponce announced the signing of outfielder D’Shawn Knowles, a native of the Bahamas, as one of their import players for the 2025-26 season of the Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League (LBPRC).

Leones general manager Edwin Rodríguez announced that Knowles will report to the team on the first day of spring training this Friday, reaffirming his commitment to the organization and his enthusiasm for fully integrating himself into the Leones roster.

The speedy outfielder arrives in Ponce after an outstanding performance with the Sioux City Explorers of the American Association of Professional Baseball, where he

posted a .286 batting average and a .388 onbase percentage. In 88 games, he hit nine home runs, drove in 54 runs, scored 62 runs and stole 53 bases, demonstrating his offensive versatility and ability to create opportunities on the bases. He also drew 47 walks and struck out 49 times, demonstrating solid control at the plate.

“The Leones of Ponce are returning to a fast, upbeat and aggressive game. The acquisition of outfielder D’Shawn Knowles will be a key part of that offense,” Rodríguez said.

“The young man, just 24 years old, has the ability to play all three outfield positions and bats on both sides of the plate. At 22, he was already playing in Double-A with the Los Angeles Angels, and at 23, he was promoted to Triple-A with the same franchise.”

D’Shawn Knowles, an outfielder from the Bahamas, is expected to help Ponce’s commitment to speed and aggressiveness on offense.

Rodríguez also highlighted the player’s commitment to the team.

He is committed to staying with the team until the end of the season. Welcome D’Shawn,” he added.

With the addition, the “Melenudos” continue to strengthen their roster with a mix of youth and speed, reaffirming their intention to make waves in the upcoming LBPRC campaign. The signing of Knowles joins Anthony Calarco, Dalton Guthrie and Will Simoneit among the imports announced so far.

The 2025-26 winter league begins on Friday, Nov. 7, with the Indios de Mayagüez visiting the Leones at Francisco “Paquito” Montaner Stadium.

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Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 21