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PR Queer Filmfest launches ‘Boriqueer Memory’ phase one

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Queer Filmfest on Tuesday announced Memoria Boriqueer, a new cultural and community project that extends its efforts beyond the traditional film festival.

With support from the En Foco cultural visibility project of the Flamboyán Fund for the Arts, Memoria Boriqueer is launching a first phase focused on rescuing, documenting, and highlighting the memories of pioneering LGBTQIA+ artists and cultural leaders in Puerto Rico through an online community archive.

The second phase includes an educational event that gathers academic, artistic, and community voices to share knowledge, experiences, and strategies for cultural resistance. Each event aims to help students, professionals, and the general public reflect collectively on how to build a more just society where queer memory is recognized as an integral part of Puerto Rican history. Additionally, the activities will generate discussions around the community archive, accessible at https://www.puertoricoqueerfilmfest. com/memoria-boriqueer.

“Memoria Boriqueer was born from the urgency to rescue and make visible the stories of our LGBTQIA+ community in Puerto Rico,” said Víctor González Pérez of the Puerto Rico Queer Filmfest. “It is a living archive that not only preserves the past and the narratives of pioneering artists in our culture but also affirms our right to exist and to be remembered with dignity. This is why we initiated this series of discussions to foster meaningful engagement with vital members of our Puerto Rican community.”

The first Memoria Boriqueer meeting will take place today in the Multipurpose Room of the Student Center at the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras Campus, from 11:30

a.m. to 1 p.m. The session will present the Memoria Boriqueer – LGBTQIA+ Community Archive project. Under the theme “From Design to the Realization of a Cultural Archive Project,” the discussion will explore how degree projects can transcend academic settings and become tools for reclaiming knowledge.

The event is specifically geared toward students from the master’s in cultural management and administration (MaGAC) and social work programs. It will be moderated by Heriberto Ramírez Ayala and feature a distinguished panel consisting of Pedro Reina Pérez, María de Mater O’Neill, Celiany Rivera Velázquez, and González Pérez, the project’s creator and manager.

The second Memoria Boriqueer event will occur in the Tarzán Room of the UPR Student Center in Mayagüez on Tuesday, Sept. 16, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. This event, entitled “Weaving Queer Memories: Women’s Activism and the Cultural Management of Living Archives,” will spotlight a crucial sector for community memory and resistance. Moderated by Beatriz Llenín Figueroa, the panel will include key voices such as Lissette Rolón Collazo, Sandra Pagán Gallardo and Zaida Medina Rosado, who will share their insights on life, activism and the challenges faced by older women in creating a more inclusive LGBTQIA+ memory.

The third Boriqueer Memory event will take place at El Refugio in Río Piedras on Friday, Sept. 26, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. The gathering will involve a conversation about transformation under the theme “Between Sequins and Gray Hair: Memories of Transformation in Puerto Rico,” with the aim of celebrating memories and shedding light on the realities of a population often marginalized within the community. The dialogue will be facilitated by Carmen Oquendo-Villar and feature Melvin Alfredo Peña, Joe Alameda and transformist Gilo Rosa, who will provide a special presentation. Representatives from Waves Ahead, an organization dedicated to supporting older trans individuals, will also be present.

“The Memoria Boriqueer conversations serve as a gathering place where words transform into archives and resistance; we come together to dialogue, heal, and acknowledge that our stories matter,” said Heriberto Ramírez Ayala, coordinator of the Boriqueer Memory Educational Journey. “Each voice that joins these discussions enriches our collective memory and reaffirms the power of the LGBTQIA+ community to transform the present. Listening to one another and speaking out is also a form of justice.”

“The Memoria Boriqueer conversations serve as a gathering place where words transform into archives and resistance; we come together to dialogue, heal, and acknowledge that our stories matter,” said Heriberto Ramírez Ayala, coordinator of the Boriqueer Memory Educational Journey. (Facebook

As part of the Boriqueer Memory initiatives, a special podcast titled “In Memoriam” will be launched, paying tribute to four iconic figures of the LGBTQIA+ community in Puerto Rico: Antonio Pantojas, Alex Soto, Remi Williams and Mami Ruddys. The commemorative episode, produced in collaboration with the Mami Ruddys Foundation and the Puerto Rico Queer Filmfest, seeks to rescue the artistic, cultural and community legacies of four individuals who inspired generations with their talent, courage and dedication.

PRNG supporting military exercises in southern Puerto Rico

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico National Guard (PRNG) confirmed on Tuesday its supportive role in military exercises conducted by the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (22nd MEU) in the southern region of the island.

The operations, which began on Aug. 31, are part of a broader initiative by the United States Armed Forces to enhance amphibious capabilities, readiness and interoperability among military components.

The operations come amid allegations from Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro that the United States may be launching an attack against that country.

While the 22nd MEU leads the exercises, the PRNG supports by providing access to its facilities and other logistical resources that enable realistic, high-value training on U.S. soil.

“The Puerto Rico National Guard is proud to support training that enhances readiness and interoperability,” Puerto Rico Adjt. Gen. Carlos J. Rivera Román said. “The presence of

The operations, which began on Aug. 31, are part of a broader initiative by the United States Armed Forces to enhance amphibious capabilities, readiness and interoperability among military components.

the 22nd MEU and the utilization of our facilities underscore our strategic importance as a military training center. These operations exemplify collaboration and planning among various military branches, benefiting national security and fostering trust within our communities.”

According to the 22nd MEU, an increase in visible military activity is expected, including tactical movements and air operations, particularly in coastal areas. The training encompasses amphibious landings, reconnaissance, and survival techniques, capitalizing on Puerto Rico’s unique terrain and climate. For operational security reasons, specific locations for those activities have not been disclosed.

The PRNG emphasizes that the exercises are temporary and conducted with careful coordination to ensure minimal impact on the local population. Coordination has taken place with local government agencies, emergency services and civil authorities to maintain transparency and operational security.

The PRNG encouraged citizens to remain calm, avoid speculation and refer to official sources for reliable information.

What will happen to ex-governor’s bodyguard who pleaded guilty is still undecided

By THE STAR STAFF

Police Commissioner Joseph González Falcón said Tuesday that a final decision has not yet been made regarding the bodyguard maintained by former Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced, who pleaded guilty last week in federal court to accepting the promise of campaign contributions from a foreigner.

“Not yet. They will work on that this week,” González said in response to a question at a press conference at Police

Bureau General Headquarters in Hato Rey. “As soon as the Puerto Rico Police Legal Division completes its analysis, and La Fortaleza, their legal team, is also conducting its analysis, we will sit down with a team and make the final decision there. As soon as we have that determination, it will be made public.”

The police chief reiterated that the determination will be the result of a joint analysis between the police and La Fortaleza, and not a single party.

Vázquez Garced, the first former governor to be con-

victed of a crime, pleaded guilty in federal court on Aug. 27. The agreement reached with the federal prosecutor’s office provides for a sentence of between six and 12 months of probation, with a hearing scheduled for Oct. 15. The plea agreement dismissed the most serious charges she faced -conspiracy, wire fraud, and bribery -- and left a single charge related to her acceptance of a promise of financial aid from Venezuelan banker Julio Herrera Velutini during the 2020 primary campaign.

Governor dismisses discussion on creating lieutenant governor post

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Jenniffer González Colón said Tuesday that she does not favor an amendment to the island Constitution to create the position of lieutenant governor.

“In the Constituent Assembly, it was said no, because it was an expense and did not have functions inherent to the position,” the governor said at a press conference. “Furthermore, this is a non-programmatic issue. This was not promised to the people of Puerto Rico in the last election. This was not part of the platform that the NPP [New Progressive Party] offered to the people of Puerto Rico. No, I do not agree, just as I did not in the past when I was in the Legislature.”

Popular Democratic Party Rep. José “Conny” Varela Fernandez and NPP Rep. José “Pichy” Torres Zamora filed a legislative measure to create the position of lieutenant governor in Puerto Rico, elected by direct popular vote.

If the concurrent resolution is approved, the question of whether a lieutenant governor should be elected would be submitted to the voters in a referendum. The lieutenant governor would have to be a member of the same party as the governor. In the case of independent candidates for governor, the candidate would also have to name a running mate for the vice governor post.

“After the crisis we faced in 2019, when Governor Ricardo Rosselló resigned and there was no Senate-confirmed secretary of state, the need to ensure that the

succession to the governorship would be a swift and smooth process became clear,” said Varela, who served as vice speaker of the House of Representatives during the previous four-year term. “Our experience during the summer of 2019 was that, when the secretary of Justice, who had not been vetted by voters or elected to any position, became governor, we saw the need to ensure that whoever occupies the governorship would be vetted by voters and committed to the platform of the party that elected them.”

Torres Zamora, the current NPP majority leader in the House, stated that he was “convinced that the creation of the position of elected lieutenant governor alongside the position of governor is necessary to adapt the Constitution to the times we live in.”

The proposed amendment would assign the elected lieutenant governor the leadership of the Department of State, along with all the powers and duties it exercises, as well as any other duties.

Clean energy groups file friend of court brief to stop $300 fee for solar customers

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Solar and Storage Association (SESA) and Solar United Neighbors of Puerto Rico (SUN) filed an amicus brief on Tuesday with the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) to provide the energy regulator with all the necessary information to immediately halt the $300 fee that LUMA Energy, the private operator of the island’s electric power and transmission system, has imposed on more than 42,000 solar customers.

Javier Rúa-Jovet, director of public policy at SESA, stated that “as Friends of the Court in the case brought against this fee by the Independent Consumer Protection Office (IOPC), we have raised with the Honorable Bureau the illegality of these retroactive fees for customers who installed solar systems in their homes between December 2023 and July 2025. This fee, which directly affects consumers, arises from an outdated regulation that conflicts with Act 17 of 2019, the Puerto Rico Energy Public Policy Act.”

In the latest Compliance Hearing on Interconnection Progress Reports on Aug. 26, LUMA also stated that it plans to charge the $300 fee to more than 96,000 solar customers, which amounts to an illegal tax of some $30 million, Rúa-Jovet pointed out.

In the brief filed by SESA and SUN, the entities propose solutions within the PREB’s powers to achieve a swift resolution to the controversy and ensure justice for customers who have purchased solar equipment to protect themselves from grid instability. The solutions include:

* That the PREB stop all retroactive charges to customers with systems up to 25 kilowatts for “supplementary studies”;

* That the PREB establish prospective temporary regulations to address thE illegal charge while it enacts a new Interconnection Regulation consistent with Law 17 of 2019;

* That the PREB promulgate this new Interconnection Regulation through a participatory process, managed and moderated by expert professionals, in accordance with the best practices of the electricity industry.

David Ortiz, senior director of the SUN program in Puerto Rico, stated that “SUN has joined this Amicus brief, which helps to raise awareness about these $300 LUMA charges.”

“These charges penalize families for contributing to keeping the island’s electricity grid reliable, clean, and affordable,” he said. “The Energy Bureau must require LUMA to respect the energy rights of its customers and keep solar energy accessible to all Puerto Ricans.”

Health Dept. orders permanent closing of Lares cemetery

By THE STAR STAFF

The island Department of Health has ordered the permanent closure of the Lares Municipal Cemetery, deeming it unusable due to ongoing land subsidence toward the “Los Muertos” ravine.

Health Secretary Víctor Ramos Otero stated that the situation poses a risk to public health, as runoff from the ravine flows into the river that feeds Lake Guajataca.

“I was unaware of the recommendation from the Department of Health’s Office of Environmental Health that had been made a long time ago,” Ramos Otero said, adding that he also “reached out to the director of COR3 [Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resiliency]” about the matter.

“The issue arose because FEMA [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] was interested in rebuilding on the site. However, part of the cemetery was deemed not rebuildable,” the Health chief continued. “While there was an area where rebuilding was considered possible, floods caused the land to rise significantly, resulting in bodies falling into the ravine

below. Therefore, FEMA needed a closure order from the mayor so that COR3 could submit a request to rebuild the cemetery in a different location. There was already an environmental health recommendation and a COR3 recommendation from some time ago, which were presented to me and subsequently signed.”

The Lares Municipal Cemetery (Cementerio Municipal de Lares) dates to 1855. The predominantly Catholic cemetery has grown over time from its original two acres. Today, the 11-acre

burial ground has more than 5,000 mausoleums and crypts – many holding group interments. The cemetery embodies distinctive characteristics of Spanish colonial design – eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places – and is an important part of the community and historical culture.

Nonetheless, landslides and flooding have impacted the cemetery calling for a temporary relocation of unearthed sites. Groundwater infiltration and runoff associated with Hurricane Maria alone impacted some 1,800 tombs and plots within the modern section of the cemetery. The cemetery’s historic section was unaffected.

The Health Department temporarily closed the cemetery after the hurricanes due to health and safety risks and out of respect for the wider community. The damaged portion of the cemetery was geologically unstable and could not continue in use without costly remediation of the tombs, grave sites, and the cemetery.

Staff with FEMA’s Public Assistance Program helped to temporarily relocate grave sites with exposed or unearthed interments with federal funding.

In letter of complaint, PIP lawmaker assails radio commentator’s

By THE STAR STAFF

In a letter to Luis Soto, president of the UNO Radio Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) at-large Rep. Nelie Lebrón Robles complained this week about what she called sexist remarks aimed at her by political analyst Luis Dávila Colón in a Radio UNO broadcast.

In her letter, in which she included time notations, Lebrón

Robles said Dávila Colón, during a recent broadcast, “commented in the following statements about me:

“12:04 - LDC: ‘And once again, Nelie Lebrón also joins the chorus of imbeciles and morons who swarm in many seats in the Legislature. […]’

“1:30:44 - LDC: ‘Nelie Lebrón wants a national plan against extreme heat that should be included with menopause and the heatwaves that accompany menopause [laughter].’”

‘inappropriate’ barbs

“It’s not the first time that Dávila Colón has made inappropriate statements to refer to women in the political opposition,” Lebrón Robles said. “In January, 2020, after [the commentator alluded] to the ex-mayor of San Juan Carmen Yulín Cruz as a ‘bitch;’ the management of WKAQ, the station that at the time transmitted Dávila Colón’s program, called the commentaries ‘reproachable’ and expressed their rejection of all types of discrimination and violence, penalizing the broadcaster with temporary suspension.”

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Trump orders have stripped nearly half a million federal workers of union rights

By EILEEN SULLIVAN

More than 445,000 federal employees saw their union protections disappear in August, as agencies moved to comply with an executive order President Donald Trump signed earlier this year that called for ignoring collective bargaining contracts with nearly 1 million workers.

The termination of protections followed an Aug. 1 appeals court ruling on legal challenges to Trump’s directive. The order, signed in late March, directed 22 agencies to ignore contracts for employees in specific unions. On Thursday, Trump signed a second executive order stripping union rights from thousands of other employees at six additional agencies.

Trump said that the affected workers had roles that touched on national security, and that provisions in their labor contracts could interfere with his policies being carried out. He cited, for example, the role that Department of Veterans Affairs employees play in providing care for wounded troops in wartime.

Edwin Osorio, president of Local 3369, the union representing Social Security Administration workers, speaks at a news conference in New York, Aug. 21, 2025. Hundreds of thousands of government employees lost their union protections in August as agencies complied with an executive order from President Donald Trump that called for ignoring collective bargaining contracts with nearly 1 million workers whose jobs, he said, touch on national security. (Juan Arredondo/The New York Times)

Federal labor unions targeted in the executive orders have repeatedly sued the Trump administration, and in some cases forced the administration to temporarily pause the president’s efforts to shrink the federal workforce and reshape the government. The American Federation of Government Employees has filed more than a dozen lawsuits related to the federal workforce. The White House has likened this to a declaration of “war.”

So far, nine agencies have terminated union contracts that covered more than 445,000 federal workers from the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Coast Guard, Federal Emergency Management Agency, General Services Administration, the departments of Health and Human Services, Agriculture and Veterans Affairs, and parts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Citizenship and Immigration Services.

“This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history,” said Mike Podhorzer, a former political director of the AFL-CIO. “There’s not another time when that many people lost their union.”

The attack on public sector labor unions is part of a broader effort by Trump to assert more control of the federal workforce and make it easier to fire civil servants. The president has also crippled several independent boards that adjudicate employment disputes, interfering with a critical resource employees have to challenge their terminations.

Podhorzer and some labor historians predicted that Trump would strip bargaining rights from even more of the federal workforce, and that the trend would eventually reach private sector unions.

For most of the federal workers who lost collective bargaining rights in August, their unions can no longer fight agencies over contract violations. For example, unions had been fighting Trump’s executive order this year calling for all

federal employees to return to work in a government office, even if they were hired as a remote worker or had that flexibility negotiated as part of their union contracts.

At the VA, where 395,000 employees lost their union rights, people who planned to take 16 weeks of parental leave, as negotiated in their union contracts, will have a guarantee of only 12 weeks, the minimum required by law. About 1,500 food service workers across the country will no longer get meal allowances, such as free lunches. And employees working long shifts are no longer guaranteed a rest period that was negotiated for safety reasons.

Union officials have said the loss of bargaining rights for federal employees inevitably hurts the members of the public the agencies serve.

Inspectors at the Agriculture Department’s food safety and inspection division no longer have a formal process to raise safety concerns about products without facing retaliation, said Paula Soldner, the chair of the National Joint Council of Food Inspection Locals, which is part of the American Federation of Government Employees.

“Inspectors are very reluctant to bring things to a supervisor’s attention in fear for their jobs,” she said. That could mean unsafe consumer products end up being sold to the public, she added.

At the VA, employees regularly speak up about caregiving issues and appointment backlogs, said Naveed A. Shah, the political director at Common Defense, a veterans advocacy group.

“They could have addressed those challenges with management in the past and known that they have the support of the union to ensure that they aren’t going to be retaliated against or fired for bringing up those type of issues,” Shah said. “And

now they don’t have that.”

That has already happened in the few weeks that nurses have been working without contracts, said Irma Westmoreland, a nurse at a veterans medical center in Atlanta and the chair of National Nurses United’s VA division.

This year, patient care problems related to staffing shortages have been on the rise because of the Trump administration’s efforts to shrink the federal workforce, Westmoreland said. Nurses continue to document concerns, but agency managers have not been as responsive because they no longer have to be.

Union representatives can continue to help members with work-related disputes, Westmoreland said, but they have to take vacation time to do it.

The legal battle over Trump’s orders has continued, in some cases holding up the termination of more union contracts.

If the administration prevails, it could mark the beginning of a broader erosion of collective bargaining rights, some analysts said.

“What this does is signal to private sector employers that they can go to war with the unions” and not face legal consequences, said Erik Loomis, a labor historian at the University of Rhode Island. Joseph A. McCartin, a labor history professor at Georgetown University, pointed to the effect of President Ronald Reagan’s firing of air traffic controllers in 1981.

“It demonstrated to private sector employers the leverage that could be had by taking an aggressive approach to unions, to collective bargaining,” he said. But what Reagan did in 1981 looks moderate compared with what Trump is doing, McCartin added.

“It is an action that’s almost incomparable in terms of what a president can do to undermine unions,” he said.

And a recent decision in the Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, if upheld, would further hurt private sector unions by allowing the president to fire board members of the National Labor Relations Board, which was created to oversee and enforce federal labor law.

The case is likely headed to the Supreme Court, with major implications for the future of the labor movement, Podhorzer said.

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Labor Day protests denounce Trump while supporting workers

By ROBERT CHIARITO, ABIGAIL GEIGER, SEAN PICCOLI and J. DAVID GOODMAN

Progressive activists, Democratic leaders and ordinary voters gathered in crowds large and small around the country on Monday to protest the Trump administration and voice support for workers on the Labor Day holiday.

Hundreds of events were organized by labor groups, local activists and Democratic Party officials, adding to a drumbeat of demonstrations in recent months, including the “May Day” protests that took place on May 1, the widespread “No Kings” protests in June and those last month opposing President Donald Trump’s push to redraw congressional lines.

Even if many of the events themselves have not always been very large, the regularly organized protests have signaled a desire among a broad swath of progressive groups and many left-wing voters to keep up the pressure on the Trump administration and provide a steady voice of opposition.

“We have to take a stand,” said Cathy McCook, 70, who waved a large American flag at a roadside protest with at least 200 people in a suburb of Orlando in Seminole County, Florida. The county’s voters backed Trump in 2024 after favoring Joe Biden in 2020.

One of the biggest demonstrations was in Chicago, where Trump has discussed deploying National Guard troops to address street crime, which Democratic officials have vocally opposed. The threat of putting the military on patrol in Chicago, as Trump has already done on the streets of Washington, motivated many of those who turned out.

Speaking on a makeshift stage, the city’s mayor, Brandon Johnson, led a crowd of several hundred in a chant of “No troops in Chicago” and “Invest in Chicago.”

Carole Delahunty, 55, from suburban Mount Prospect, said the fear of National Guard troops coming to Chicago motivated her to attend Monday’s event. “I have a fear of military occupation,” she said. “We don’t need the National Guard here.”

The range of issues being protested — mass deportations, cuts made by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, efforts to undermine the power of unions — was almost as broad as the locations of the protests, with demonstrators outside the Indiana state Capitol, in a park in Savannah, Georgia, and on a highway overpass in Tempe, Arizona.

Maura Healey marched alongside her fellow Democrat, Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Another parade and rally on Monday was held in the Wilmington neighborhood of Los Angeles. After the event, Jannah Pante, 31, a communications coordinator who attended, said the Trump administration was weakening workers’ rights, and she worried that it was only going to get worse. “Now it’s more important than ever for everyone to stand together,” she said.

In New York City, a crowd of several hundred people gathered near Trump Tower as traffic sped by along Fifth Avenue. Jonathan Gartrelle, a nonprofit worker from Jamaica, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, said he believed that opposition to the Trump administration was not a fruitless struggle.

“The ruling class, the governing class, the people that have all the money” were betting that most people “won’t act because they’re paralyzed by fear,” Gartrelle said. “But throughout history, when you underestimate anything, that is the point at which you fail.”

In Kansas City, Missouri, hundreds of people congregated in a park to oppose a plan by Republican state leaders to redraw Missouri’s congressional districts in an effort to flip a seat held by a Democrat. The Trump administration has put pressure on Republican officials in red states to redraw their district maps.

In Boston, a Labor Day parade appeared to double as a kind of demonstration, with labor leaders carrying signs reading “Workers Over Billionaires,” the organizing slogan for many of the events on Monday. Massachusetts Gov.

Florida has voted for Trump in the last three presidential elections. But in Seminole County, Democratic Party officials who organized the protest were hopeful that the gathering would lead to a greater number of volunteers and electoral success in the future.

“Protests are how you can channel energy into activism,” said Andrew Lisa, the chair of the Seminole County Democratic Party. “We are taking that energy and saying, ‘You’ve protested, you’ve taken two hours out of your day. Can you spend two hours knocking on your neighbors’ doors?’”

Bad Bunny’s impact on Puerto Rico cuts both ways COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES

By GENE ROMAN

Special to The STAR

Musical megastar Bad Bunny’s 21-day musical residency in Puerto Rico pumped $200 million into the U.S. territory’s local economy.

“It is a rare example of fame being used for good,” writes Adrian Horton of the Guardian.

While Bad Bunny’s concerts are making the cash registers ring, his political speeches are making life harder for the 3.2 million U.S. citizens living in the unequal and undemocratic territory of Puerto Rico.

“As one of the island’s loudest cultural voices, Bad Bunny is using his global platform to promote a misleading narrative,” writes George Laws García of the U.S. Puerto Rico Statehood Council in D.C. “One that suggests Puerto Ricans want (political) separation from the United States, when in fact the opposite is true.”

Bunny (real name: Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) supports the dignified status option of political independence for Puerto Rico.

But his advocacy for this position clashes with the reality that island voters want Congress to make Puerto Rico a state. (SEE SOURCE LINK BELOW.)

In the four status consultations held between 2012 & 2024, Puerto Ricans selected statehood as their preferred status option. In November 2024, 58% of island voters chose that option again.

Bad Bunny opposes statehood because he fears that political integration will eviscerate Puerto Rico’s cultural heritage.

“I don’t want it to be Hawaii,” he says.

Political integration does not require cultural assimilation. The former U.S. territories of California, Texas, Arizona, Florida, New Mexico and Louisiana all became states while maintaining their ancestral Hispanic/Creole traditions.

Puerto Ricans in New York vote in presidential elections, elect individuals to serve their interests in the U.S. Senate and House and celebrate their heritage in annual festivals held in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and New York City.

Blaming outsiders for the fiscal and political problems that stem from living in an unequal U.S. territory is an effective, but dishonest misdirect.

As a U.S. territory, Puerto Rico falls under the territorial clause of the Constitution.

“The Congress shall have the power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States.”

In layman’s terms, that means that Congress holds all the cards.

Fans outside the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot in San Juan, Puerto Rico, during Bad Bunny’s residency, Aug. 9, 2025. The series, which ends Sept. 14, marks the venue’s first three-month booking. (Amy Lombard/The New York Times)

SOURCES: The past four Puerto Rico status plebiscites

2024

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This arrangement allows Congress to unilaterally impose a financial control board and treat Puerto Rico worse than it does a state in programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and Nutritional Assistance.

As an unequal and undemocratic territory of the federal government, Puerto Rico is powerless to resist laws passed by Congress, signed by the president and ruled legal by the Supreme Court.

“Instead of using his platform to advocate for equality and full rights for the U.S. citizens of Puerto Rico, he amplifies a minority political view — independence — that has never earned majority support in any plebiscite,” writes Laws García.

To be clear: Puerto Rico’s territorial status is undemocratic, colonial, and that it must change. Bad Bunny’s rhetoric disregards this fact.

The future of Puerto Rico should be decided by ballots cast by island residents seeking to end their unequal and undemocratic status as a U.S. territory.

Congress should listen and act.

Gene Roman works as a freelance reporter in New York City.

2020

https://elecciones2020.ceepur.org/Escrutinio_General_93/ index.html#es/default/PLEBISCITO_Resumen.xml

2017

https://resultados2017.ceepur.org/Noche_del_ Evento_78/index.html#es/default/CONSULTA_ DESCOLONIZACION_Resumen.xml

2012

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/row/R42765.pdf

“What Were the Results of the 2012 Plebiscite?

According to results certified by the Puerto Rico State Elections Commission, approximately 54.0% of those who cast ballots answered “no” to the first question: Should Puerto Rico retain its present territorial status?.

Question 2 asked voters to choose between three “non-territorial options”:

• Statehood

• Independence

• Sovereign free association

61.2% of voters chose statehood, according to the Puerto Rico Elections Commission.

UPR de Río Piedras inaugura Salón Montessori en la Facultad de Educación

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SAN JUAN – El Recinto de Río Piedras de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPRRP) inauguró el Salón Montessori en la Facultad de Educación Eugenio María de Hostos, como parte de un acuerdo de colaboración con el Instituto Nueva Escuela (INE) firmado en 2023 para atender la creciente necesidad de formación de maestras y maestros en este modelo pedagógico.

“Este logro no habría sido posible sin la visión y el compromiso de la doctora Ana María García Blanco y el Instituto Nueva Escuela, cuyo trabajo incansable ha transformado escuelas públicas en comunidades Montessori vibrantes, demostrando que otro modelo educativo es posible”, expresó la rectora de la UPRRP,

Angélica Varela Llavona, en declaraciones escritas. El nuevo espacio funcionará como un laboratorio pedagógico en el que estudiantes, docentes e investigadores podrán observar directamente prácticas

Montessori, reflexionar sobre ellas y desarrollar investigaciones que aporten al ámbito académico y a la educación pública en Puerto Rico.

Jennyffer Otero Arroyo, directora ejecutiva del Instituto Nueva Escuela, sostuvo que la apertura del salón “marca un paso clave tanto para nuestra organización como para la Universidad de Puerto Rico… no solo inauguramos unos ambientes físicos; estamos plantando la semilla de un cambio educativo”.

La decana de la Facultad de Educación, Grace Carro, destacó que ahora el recinto cuenta con dos ambientes Montessori para adiestrar a futuros maestros. Añadió que este acuerdo es fruto del compromiso de transformar la escuela pública y garantizar educación de excelencia a niños y jóvenes.

DRNA inicia programa de charlas educativas sobre especies exóticas en escuelas de San Juan

de septiembre, a las 9 de la mañana.

SAN JUAN – En colaboración con la Cámara de Representantes, el Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA) inicia este próximo viernes un nuevo taller sobre manejo de especies exóticas en el entorno metropolitano.

La charla educativa se realizará en la escuela elemental Luz Eneida Colón de la Ciudad Capital este viernes, 5

El anuncio lo hizo el gestor del programa, el representante por el Distrito #4 de San Juan, Víctor Parés.

La charla estará a cargo del teniente del Cuerpo de Vigilantes del DRNA, Ángel Atienza, quien también dirige el Centro de Detención de Especies Exóticas en el Bosque Cambalache de Arecibo.

La misma se centrará en orientar a los estudiantes de las acciones que deben tomar si avistan una especie exótica, como atender la situación, al igual que como noticia del hallazgo.

“Como parte de nuestro compromiso con atender asuntos apremiantes en nuestras comunidades, hemos desarrollado, junto con el Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales, un novel taller educativo sobre el manejo de especies exóticas en un ambiente urbanizado. Antes, por ejemplo, las culebras y serpientes se veían sólo en los pueblos de la montaña, ya no. Ahora lo vemos en los municipios de la zona metropolitana, por eso hemos coordinado este taller, para que nuestros

estudiantes conozcan qué hacer si se topan con una de esas especies”, comentó el también Presidente de la Comisión de Gobierno.

“Agradezco al Secretario del DRNA, Waldemar Quiles, así como al del Departamento de Educación, Eliezer Ramos, por viabilizar esta importante charla que estoy convencido será de gran utilidad para nuestros jueves, al igual que el resto de la comunidad escolar”, agregó el legislador.

La escuela elemental Luz Eneida Colón, localizada en el área de la avenida Las Cumbres, cuenta con una matrícula de 292 estudiantes para este nuevo año escolar (2025-2026).

Según datos del DRNA, durante los pasados meses se han detectado la presencia de especies exóticas como monos rhesus, caimanes y pitones reticuladas, entre otros, en los municipios de San Juan y Guaynabo.

En este momento, el DRNA tiene en su posesión unas 13 pitones reticuladas, 133 boas constrictoras, entre otras especies.

Hombre borracho mata a mujer motorista en Cupey

POR CYBERNEWS

CUPEY – Un hombre borracho provocó la muerte de una mujer que manejaba una motora, a eso de las 12:37 de la madrugada del martes, en el kilómetro 16.3 de la carretera PR-1 con la intersección con la carretera PR-177, frente a la universidad Interamericana, en Cupey.

Según la información preliminar, el conductor de 49 años y residente de Guaynabo, conducía un Toyota Co-

rolla color gris, año 2023, a exceso de velocidad. Como consecuencia, chocó una motora Class Motorcycle. Como consecuencia, la mujer de 35 años y residente de Juncos murió en el lugar.

Al conductor se le realizó la prueba de aliento para detectar presencia de alcohol en su organismo, con resultado de 0.334 por ciento.

El agente Alejandro Ogando adscrito a la División de Patrulla de Carreteras San Juan, junto a la fiscal Ivette Nieves Cordero, investigan.

‘Caught Stealing’ review: Austin Butler in trouble and on the run

By MANOHLA DARGIS

Austin Butler and his lovely face take a licking in “Caught Stealing,” Darren Aronofsky’s violent, hyperactive action adventure. Butler plays Hank, an East Village bartender with a heavy past who looks less attractive as nights grind into day. The problem is that Hank has a reliable tendency to serve himself too many drinks, a propensity that hours later looks a lot like addiction. It’s grim, watching him spew vomit on his building’s front door, more so because this tonally disjointed movie insists on using Hank’s mounting problems as grist for rambunctious comedy. It’s about as amusing as watching a Looney Tunes bender in hell.

Much of the movie takes place in an alternative Hades, aka the downtown New York of the late 1990s. There, when his girlfriend, Yvonne (an irritatingly wasted Zoë Kravitz), isn’t around, everything that could go wrong in Hank’s life does. His troubles begin with a punk-poseur, Russ (Matt Smith), who lives next door to him in their rundown walk-up. A lanky Brit with a ridiculous Mohawk, Russ is hurrying back home because of a family emergency and puts his cat, Bud, into Hank’s reluctant care. A hissy, longhaired beauty given to biting, Bud effectively cranks up the movie’s Rube Goldberglike machinery by darting into Hank’s apartment. It’s an innocuous incursion that quickly leads to full-on assault on multiple fronts.

The screenplay for “Caught Stealing” was written by Charlie Huston, who adapted it from his 2004 novel of the same name. The story has clearly stoked Aronofsky’s

nostalgia for the older, rougher East Village and environs, an area that is lovingly memorialized here with plenty of graffiti, mounds of garbage and a conspicuous shoutout to Kim’s Video. The halls in Hank and Russ’ building have been art-directed to peeling perfection, and there’s a sticker giving the finger to the mayor (“Giuliani is a jerk”) on a battered apartment door. There are few signs of the atmosphere-ruining gentrification that was already in effect, though; maybe I missed a shot of the Gap on St. Marks Place and Second, which by 1998 had been open for a decade.

Once the cat is out of the narrative bag, as it were, everything goes into overdrive. Two thugs with Eastern European accents and shaved heads show up looking for something and end up sending Hank to the hospital. He loses a kidney, and other characters begin losing their lives. There’s a bit of a mystery that Hank tries to solve amid his boozing, recurrent nightmares and all the mileage he racks up as he alternately flees and runs toward danger. During his adventures, he journeys into exotic lands (Brooklyn et al.) and meets Bubbe (Carol Kane), an Orthodox Jewish stereotype who serves him soup with a matzo ball the size of a cantaloupe and has two sons, Lipa (Liev Schreiber) and Shmully (Vincent D’Onofrio).

The brothers turn out to be murderous villains, real monsters, as Regina King’s solicitous Detective Ramon warns Hank when his sticky situation beco -

mes slicked with blood and he seeks help from the police. Aronofsky, however, plays Lipa and Shmully strictly for laughs, as if the very image of two Orthodox Jews with guns, bushy beards and springy sidelocks making like B-movie outlaws were inherently funny. It isn’t. The professionally seasoned Schreiber and D’Onofrio give their characters enough flickers of personality to keep them from turning into a minstrel show, so at least there’s that. (Aronofsky’s work is filled with references to Judaism, and he’s said that he was raised as culturally Jewish.)

The whole thing moves fast, despite all the complications, and looks consistently attractive; even the grime and gore are nicely lit. Butler is even more pleasant to look at, of course, whether in repose or frenetic motion, something that Aronofsky and his cinematographer, Matthew Libatique, capitalize on by emphasizing the actor’s physicality. At one point, in a scene at a police station after a horrific incident, the filmmakers frame a despondent Hank’s face in a tight close-up, the background softly haloing around him. Hank looks touchingly vulnerable, almost saintly, even if he often seems more of a martyr to his own bad choices. It’s an unexpectedly moving interlude in a movie that routinely descends into giddy violence.

Aronofsky has a talent for getting under his characters’ skin and deep into their heads, as he’s shown in the expressionistic passages in his better, more successful movies, like “Black Swan” and “Noah.” (He also has a mean streak, one that turned his last movie, “The Whale,” about a shut-in, into a shockingly cruel spectacle.) For whatever reason here, Aronofsky always remains at a frustrating remove from Hank, which flattens the emotional and psychological stakes that Butler works so hard to raise. Then again, it doesn’t help that Aronofsky keeps tipping his hat at Martin Scorsese’s “After Hours” (1985), another nightmarish feature-length odyssey. The casting of that film’s star, Griffin Dunne, as Hank’s boss doesn’t help matters or Aronofsky’s movie, especially when all I wanted to do was rewatch Scorsese’s.

‘Caught Stealing’

Rated R for florid violence. Running time: 1 hour, 47 minutes. In theaters.

Stocks

Wall Street ends lower as ruling on Trump tariffs raises concerns

Wall Street started off September on a sharply lower note on Tuesday as investors weighed the future of President Donald Trump’s tariffs after a federal appeals court ruled most of his sweeping tariffs illegal.

A divided U.S. appeals court made the ruling on Friday, but allowed for the levies to be in place until October 14. Trump on Tuesday said his administration will ask the Supreme Court for an expedited ruling on the tariffs.

The appeals court ruling rattled investors after the long Labor Day holiday weekend, with September traditionally a weak month for equities. The Cboe Volatility Index - Wall Street’s fear gaugerose, but the major stock indexes ended off their worst levels of the day.

With the ruling, “the question becomes, ‘Has the Trump administration alienated our trading partners as well as given up the revenue from tariffs?’ That’s what’s plaguing markets,” said Oliver Pursche, senior vice president and adviser for Wealthspire Advisors in Westport, Connecticut.

“By the same token, it’s too early to call this the beginning of a great correction,” he said. “At the end of the day, we all know that August-September tend to be more volatile and a little more challenging for investors before we get into the fourth quarter, which tends to be a pretty solid one.”

Data going back decades shows that, on average, September is the worst month for U.S. stocks, and some investors are bracing for another bumpy ride this year.

In addition, investors are anxious to see the monthly U.S. payrolls report, due on Friday, and whether weak U.S. job growth continued for a fourth month in August.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 249.07 points, or 0.55%, to 45,295.81, the S&P 500 fell 44.72 points, or 0.69%, to 6,415.54 and the Nasdaq Composite fell 175.92 points, or 0.82%, to 21,279.63.

U.S. rate futures widely expect the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates this month, pricing in a 92% chance of a 25-basispoint cut at the end of its two-day policy meeting on September 17, according to CME Group’s FedWatch.

Real estate fell 1.7% and had among the biggest S&P 500 sector declines on the day, with U.S. 30-year Treasury yields on Tuesday climbing to their highest levels since mid-July.

Also, shares of Kraft Heinz dropped 7% after the company said it will split into two companies, one focused on groceries and the other on sauces and spreads.

On the flip side, shares of PepsiCo gained 1.1% after Elliott Management disclosed a $4 billion stake in the beverages company, launching an activist campaign.

On the Nasdaq, 1,555 stocks rose and 3,099 fell as declining issues outnumbered advancers by about a 1.99-to-1 ratio There were 105 new highs and 118 new lows.

On the NYSE declining issues outnumbered advancing ones by a 2.4-to-1 ratio . There were 176 new highs and 53 new lows.

Volume on U.S. exchanges was 16.41 billion shares, compared with the 16.26 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.

A slew of companies across sectors ranging from crypto to consumer launched U.S. IPO roadshows on Tuesday, kicking off the post-Labor Day fall window as investor anxiety over U.S. President

Donald Trump’s tariffs started to recede.

Analysts say the window through mid-October will be crucial, with several high-profile names lining up to gauge whether confidence in equities can withstand political and economic uncertainty.

Swedish fintech Klarna, Winklevoss twins-backed crypto exchange Gemini, cafe chain Black Rock Coffee Bar, blockchain lender Figure Technology and engineering and maintenance services provider Legence made public the terms of their respective offerings.

“I believe that the strong sentiment for U.S. IPOs overall will continue for the remainder of 2025 and into 2026, in particular

for growth-focused deals in technology and linked to the U.S. consumer,” IPOX CEO Josef Schuster told Reuters.

The fall stretch is traditionally one of the busiest for new deals, as markets shake off the summer lull and dealmakers rush to bring offerings when investors return after Labor Day.

Strong first-day performances this year from high-growth tech and crypto firms including stablecoin issuer Circle, space startup Firefly Aerospace and crypto exchange Bullish have reinforced optimism that the IPO market is stabilizing.

Meanwhile, U.S. stock markets hover near record highs, supporting new issuance and defying political and economic headwinds.

The quake that rocked Afghanistan ‘like doomsday’

By ELIAN PELTIER

When what sounded like an explosion jolted Mirza Gul Sayar out of bed Sunday night, he woke his wife and they rushed outside with their two children. They found his parents, his younger brother and wife already out in the darkness.

But with Sayar’s older brother and his family nowhere to be seen, his parents and brother ran back inside.

A few seconds later, another tremor shook the ground of eastern Afghanistan, and the family house collapsed. Around them, the screams and cries of neighbors echoed in the village.

“It was like doomsday for us,” Sayar said as he rested on a carpet in his cornfield, where he was spending Monday night with the surviving members of his family.

The earthquake that rocked eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed at least 1,400 people and injured more than 3,100 others, according to the country’s authorities. It destroyed thousands of fragile houses and wiped away entire villages perched on the steep hills of the mountainous region or nestled in narrow valleys.

Rescue workers on the ground say it will take days to scour the rubble of villages that, two days after the quake, were still out of reach. The Afghan military has evacuated hundreds of people, the injured and the dead, while U.N. agencies have been working to recommission a helicopter that had been grounded as a result of aid cuts from the United States and other foreign donors.

Reports so far provide an incomplete picture of the devastation that has swept through eastern Afghanistan.

“All the figures that have been announced so far are from the villages where the government and military rescue teams could have access,” said Zahidullah Safi, the director of a district clinic in Kunar province — one of the worst-hit areas, and where Sayar’s family lives. “There are some villages which are still under the debris and so far, no government or aid agency has arrived there.”

Sunday’s quake, the second devastating one in less than two years in Afghanistan, has added another layer of calamity on top of the overlapping economic, humanitarian and environmental crises that have all worsened in the South Asian nation over the past few months.

Emergency aid had already become scarcer this year after the United States and other major donors cut, suspended or reduced their humanitarian contributions to Afghanistan. Last year, the United States contributed more than 45% of the aid supplied to the country. That all but vanished after the Trump administration decimated the U. S. Agency for International Development and other foreign aid programs.

Even before the earthquake, U.N. agencies estimated that Afghanistan needed $2.4 billion in humanitarian funding this year, but they say less than 30% of that sum has been received.

On Tuesday, Britain said it would commit about $1.3 million in emergency support for those affected by the disaster. David Lammy, the British foreign secretary, said in a statement that the money would be distributed via the

People recover items from destroyed buildings after an earthquake in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025. Emergency rescue teams on Tuesday were searching through the rubble of collapsed buildings hit by an earthquake that killed at least 1,400 people in eastern Afghanistan. (Safiullah Padshah/The New York Times)

International Federation for the Red Cross and the U.N. Population Fund to ensure that “aid reaches those in need and does not go to the Taliban.”

The European Union is set to work with UNICEF, according to Sherine Ibrahim, the Afghanistan director for the International Rescue Committee, a nonprofit organization. The U.N. office for humanitarian affairs said it had unlocked $5 million in emergency funds.

Like Britain, many countries are wary of committing funds that may end up in the hands of the Taliban government.

A report by the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction published last month found that “the Taliban use every means at their disposal, including force, to ensure that aid goes where they want it to go, as opposed to where donors intend.”

Humanitarian workers have urged, so far with little success, that politics be set aside.

“A lot of help and assistance is still needed,” said Homa Nader, acting head of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in Afghanistan.

This was all too apparent in Kunar’s Mazardara Valley. That was where Sayar lost seven family members in the quake.

On Monday and Tuesday, villagers and emergency workers searched for neighbors, relatives and friends, dead

or alive. They carried them on makeshift stretchers such as bed frames over slopes and through narrow alleys, down to trampled cornfields where helicopters were landing and taking off. They flew back and forth between the devastated areas and the hospitals of Jalalabad, the closest large city, and Kabul, the capital, about 100 miles away.

Khalil Ur Rahman Babakhil, 30, had traveled from Kabul to Mazardara, where his in-laws lived. When he arrived Monday, he found their house collapsed, and in front of it the bodies of his wife’s parents and three siblings.

“I don’t know how to let my wife know,” Babakhil said. The bodies, like so many others, lay wrapped in colorful blankets because villagers had run out of the traditional white shrouds used to bury the dead.

Before the earthquake, more than half of Afghanistan’s 42 million people were already in need of humanitarian assistance. In Kunar province’s remote district of Nurgal, where Sayar lives, most communities live in extreme poverty, with no steady source of income other than their biannual harvest of corn, which brings them about $220 a year.

About 3.5 million children under 5 are malnourished in Afghanistan, according to UNICEF.

On Tuesday in Kunar province, children sat in silence in ambulances or walked bewildered among the collapsed homes.

Nezarullah, 17, stood in front of his destroyed house. He and his 13-year-old brother, Rezwanullah, lost 12 relatives, he said.

“Last night before the earthquake we were together, we had dinner together and then we slept together,” said Nezarullah, who goes by one name. “How can I help my younger brother and how can I rebuild the destroyed home, when I have nothing?”

In his cornfield, Sayar recounted the terror of two days earlier.

After he escaped the house, he said, he heard his sister-in-law, still inside, screaming in the middle of the night after the second tremor. But in the darkness, and without any tools, the people outside could do nothing to help.

When the sun rose Monday, Sayar found her dead, with her son. He also found his parents and younger brother, who had fled the house but then rushed back inside. Now they, too, were dead.

Maduro tells Trump war with Venezuela would ‘stain your hands with blood’

By JULIE TURKEWITZ and ISAYEN HERRERA

President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela has warned that he would respond to any U.S. military action with an “armed fight” and claimed that Secretary of State Marco Rubio was trying to draw President Donald Trump into a war in the Caribbean that would mar his reputation.

“Mr. President, Donald Trump,” the Venezuelan leader said Monday, “watch out, because Mr. Rubio wants to stain your hands with blood.”

The statements, made from Caracas, Venezuela, during Maduro’s first news conference in more than a year, come amid rising tensions between Venezuela and the United States. In late August, the United States began moving warships and troops into the Caribbean, near Venezuelan waters — which the Trump administration has said was to combat drug trafficking.

But the size of the military buildup has led to speculation over whether the real goal is to oust Maduro, through military action or other pressure.

Rubio said recently that “for the first time in the modern era,” the U.S. government was “truly on the offense” against organized cartels sending drugs to the United States. He and other officials in the Trump administration have called Maduro an illegitimate leader and his government a “narcoterror cartel.”

Jimmy Story, a former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela during Trump’s first term, said in an interview that using so much military might to take out drug trafficking boats was a bit like “using a blowtorch to cook an egg.”

Maduro, in his news conference, called the Venezuelan people “warriors” who would respond to any incursion with “maximum rebellion.” But as he seemingly tried to project force, Maduro also called for peace, an apparent attempt to appeal to Trump’s campaign promise to end wars — not start them.

He mentioned the Nobel Peace Prize — an apparent allusion to Trump’s stated interest in receiving it — and said that Rubio, a longtime proponent of aggressive action that could lead to a change of government in Venezuela, “wants the last name Trump to be stained with blood for centuries.”

The Venezuelan leader also acknowledged that his government in recent months has had two separate channels of dialogue with the Trump administration: one with Richard Grenell, a special envoy, and another with John McNamara, the top U.S. diplomat to Venezuela, who answers to Rubio.

President Nicolás Maduro is seen during a ceremony to swear in new members of a national militia in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 7, 2025. Maduro has warned that he would respond to any U.S. military action with an “armed fight” and claimed that Secretary of State Marco Rubio was trying to draw President Donald Trump into a war in the Caribbean that would mar his reputation. (The New York Times)

two countries was currently in “bad shape,” Maduro conceded, he said he believed it could be repaired.

Trump, he said, was “an intelligent, bold man. He’ll know what to do. Hopefully those channels can be recovered.”

Maduro called the naval buildup “the greatest threat that has been seen on our continent in the last 100 years” in the form of “eight military ships with 1,200 missiles” targeting Venezuela.

The deployment includes several guided-missile destroyers and ships carrying 4,500 sailors and 2,200 Marines, according to Defense Department officials.

This week he is scheduled to travel to Mexico and Ecuador, trips the Trump administration says are meant to advance the U.S. government’s “unwavering commitment to protect its borders, neutralize narco-terrorist threats to our homeland and ensure a level playing field for American businesses.”

In retaliation for the naval buildup, Maduro could decide to stop receiving flights of Venezuelans deported from the United States, which could hamper Trump’s efforts to meet his goal of deporting millions of migrants.

While the relationship between the

On Friday, Rubio traveled to Florida to meet with military leaders at U.S. Southern Command to discuss security issues in the region, according to the State Department.

But asked whether he would consider halting the flights, the Venezuelan leader said that the planes were a part of the bilateral relationship “that has gone well,” suggesting that he had no plans to end them.

It’s usually Puerto Rico’s slow season. This year, Bad Bunny’s

By SHEFALI S. KULKAMI

Puerto Rico’s economy is getting a bump from Bad Bunny.

The award-winning Puerto Rican rapper’s three-month, 30-show concert series in San Juan is spurring a fan-fueled surge in the island’s economy at a time of year when tourism is usually slow.

During the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs June through November, tourism usually drops by 25% to 45%, and lodging prices fall by as much as 50%, according to the tourism agency Discover Puerto Rico. Tourism accounts for about 7% of Puerto Rico’s $114 billion economy.

Bad Bunny’s residency, which ends Sept. 14, is expected to draw an estimated 600,000 attendees and to have a direct economic impact of $250 million, according to Moody’s Analytics. It estimated that total spending, which includes purchases not directly related to shows, will top out at $400 million.

Bad Bunny’s home stay is ahead of an eight-month world tour beginning in December and comes on the heels of global megatours that have become a playbook for charttopping artists. Taylor Swift’s Eras tour grossed more than $2 billion in ticket sales, and Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour brought in $407 million. Bad Bunny’s 2024 world tour took in $208 million.

Moody’s recently raised its 2025 economic forecast for Puerto Rico to 0.4%, from 0.3%, partly because of the residency. Jesse Rogers, the head of LatAm Economics at Moody’s Analytics, said if his team members were not Bad Bunny fans, “we would have probably missed this.”

“The bittersweet component is that this stimulus really isn’t going to last,” Rogers said. “You actually get a slightly slower growth in 2026 as that stimulus fades” and the temporary jobs sparked by the residency end.

Still, “there’s a genuine effort here to impact tourism,” said Jorge Perez, who manages San Juan’s Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot, the 19,500-seat venue hosting the residency.

The series was, for its first nine nights, open only to residents; some 80,000 tickets, ranging from $35 to $250, were sold in eight hours, bringing in nearly $11 million in revenue. Another 400,000 tickets, available to the general public, sold out within four hours in January.

“We knew this would be big,” said

Some of the textiles at La Cooperativa Industrial Creación de la Montaña, a nonprofit that supports manufacturing in rural Utado, Puerto Rico, Aug. 11, 2025. Discover Puerto Rico is leveraging the temporary swell of visiting fans and their dollars to highlight local businesses beyond the usual high-traffic areas. (Amy Lombard/The New York Times)

seen it consistently, in one city.”

When Tanya Orbera, who runs Real PR Travel, a vacation planning company, discovered that hotels were booking up fast, “I heard ‘cha-ching’ in my head.” she said. Orbera initially offered party-bus packages, with music and drinks, to shuttle concertgoers to shows. But sales were slow, so she began to offer the rides to anyone who wanted to go to the coliseum, where vendors are hosting booths and activities on show nights. “I think in this type of situation, you have to get in, get your dollars and be smart about the money you are going to make right now,” she said.

The neighborhood surrounding the coliseum is a bit of a tourism desert, a stretch of financial institutions and office buildings. When Camilo Pulido opened his men’s beachwear shop, Arrecife, there six years ago,

Alejandro Pabón, a partner and a promoter of Move Concerts, which produced the residency. “As soon as we got the dates for the venue, our next question was, ‘Will there be enough hotel rooms for something like this?’”

Vibee, a Live Nation unit that coordinates hotel accommodations was brought in; the 34 hotels marketed with the residency sold out in 35 hours.

Revenue from short-term rentals in San Juan more than doubled from last year, according to AirDNA, which tracks short-term and vacation rentals globally.

“You see this kind of bump when it’s the Paris Olympics or the Super Bowl, but those are short stints,” said Jamie Lane, chief economist at AirDNA. “This is the first time we’ve

Fans eat and drink outside the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot in San Juan, Puerto Rico, during Bad Bunny’s residency, Aug. 9, 2025. Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, kicked off the residency with nine shows sold exclusively to Puerto Rico residents. (Amy Lombard/ The New York Times)

in town.

the lack of foot traffic concerned him. But since Bad Bunny’s residency began, he said, he has seen an uptick in the number of American tourists visiting his store, and online sales have more than quadrupled, largely driven by U.S. orders in advance of shows.

“From January to June 2025, we generated the same revenue as we did in all of last

Pulido at his store, Arrecife, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Aug. 8, 2025. “From January to June 2025, we generated the same revenue as we did in all of last year,” Pulido said. (Amy Lombard/The New York Times)

year,” Pulido said. And while sales usually drop during hurricane season, this year Pulido has hired four part-time workers. “Before June,” he said, “there were only two employees.”

Discover Puerto Rico is leveraging the temporary swell of visiting fans and their dollars to highlight local businesses beyond the usual high-traffic areas, and culture, including classes in traditional bomba dance and tours of coffee farms. It is also marketing locally made goods, such as residency-inspired swimwear created by Pulido’s company.

Rosa Torres Feliciano, the owner of Tía Cocina cafe near Guaynabo, just south of San Juan, created Instagram posts highlighting businesses she hopes concertgoers will patronize. “I think it’s a moment where we should all support each other and have more visibility,” Torres Feliciano said.

“I don’t pretend that everyone will come to my restaurant,” she said. “But I also enjoy knowing that you may come to my restaurant and tomorrow maybe you’ll go to my friend’s restaurant or go to another small business.”

FDA approves COVID shots with new restrictions

By CHRISTINA JEWETT and JACEY FORTIN

The Food and Drug Administration last week approved updated COVID vaccines for the fall season and limited who can get the shots, the federal government’s most restrictive policy since the vaccines became available.

The agency authorized the vaccines for people who are age 65 and older, who are known to be more vulnerable to severe illness from COVID. Younger people would only be eligible if they had at least one existing medical condition that would put them at risk for severe disease. Healthy children younger than 18 could still receive the shots if a medical provider is consulted.

People seeking the shots will soon face another hurdle. An influential advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must vote to recommend them. But that panel’s makeup shifted when Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unseated existing members, reduced the panel’s size and added some COVID vaccine opponents.

This would mark the first fall/winter season that COVID shots were not widely recommended to most people and children, pitting federal health officials in the Trump administration against several national medical groups that oppose the restrictions.

In a social media post, Kennedy said the approvals accomplished the goals of keeping vaccines available to people who want them and of demanding that companies conduct placebo-controlled trials. One new, required study would examine “post-COVID-19 vaccination syndrome” in patients, a condition that has been noted in at least one small preliminary medical report, but is still a matter of pitched debate.

“The American people demanded science, safety and common sense,” Kennedy’s post on X said. “This framework delivers all three.”

Many public health experts view the changes as part of Kennedy’s broader campaign against certain vaccines, especially his targeting of mRNA technology, which has been used in the vast majority of shots administered to Americans. They criticized his recent cancellation of $500 million in grants to study flu and COVID vaccines, as a move that would significantly set back the nation’s efforts to develop better therapies and leave the nation reliant on older, slower approaches.

Those efforts have been tempered, to some degree, by the White House, where President Donald Trump remains proud of Operation Warp Speed, which was widely recognized as an impressive feat of science, organization and execution to develop and deliver vaccines that helped bring the pandemic to an end.

“Operation Warp Speed, people say, is one of the greatest achievements ever in politics or in the military — because it was almost a military procedure,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday.

The FDA’s new limited approval covers two vaccines designed with mRNA that were updated to target the LP.8.1 variant, which represents nearly one-third of recent cases. The Moderna vaccine authorization covers those who are 6 months old and older and have medical conditions and all people old-

COVID vaccine doses at a vaccination site at a shopping mall in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, Jan. 7, 2022. The FDA has approved updated COVID vaccines for the fall 2025 season that limit who can get the shots, the federal government’s most restrictive policy since the vaccines became available. (Erika P. Rodríguez/The New York Times)

er than 65. The Pfizer shot was approved for the same group ages 5 and older.

The agency also approved the protein-based Novavax vaccine, which is matched to the omicron strain JN.1, which the mRNA vaccines targeted last year. The company said the shots continue to offer high levels of antibodies.

The FDA revoked emergency authorizations for the vaccines in children, which would make the Pfizer shot unavailable for children younger than 5.

Proponents of limiting eligibility say that younger people are far less susceptible to severe illness. And the rates of vaccine use have dropped in recent years, to about 23% among all adults and to 13% of people younger than 18, according to the CDC.

A decision by the CDC’s panel is expected within a month, and it could greatly influence access to the shots at drugstore sites, which have become the most convenient places to get them. Laws in a number of states, including California, Pennsylvania, Florida and Massachusetts, require that pharmacy staff are only permitted to administer vaccines recommended by the CDC, said Richard Hughes IV, a lawyer who represents vaccine makers.

Along with the new eligibility limits, pharmacists are raising concerns over their role in an era of increasing vaccine restrictions.

“I’m hearing from pharmacists who are fearful they might be in legal jeopardy for providing vaccines,” said Michael Osterholm, a University of Minnesota public health researcher. “We’ve created this environment of fear for vaccine administration, and I’m hearing a lot of that.”

Health insurers have so far made few changes in coverage and have said they expect to continue to support vaccination as a preventive measure, but whether coverage will change because of the new restrictions remains unknown. Medicaid coverage, which includes the Vaccines for Children Program

that provides access to low-income and working-class families, generally hews to the CDC recommendations.

Kennedy has upended decades of vaccine policy at the CDC in recent months, replacing infectious disease experts with some members who have vehemently opposed the mRNA COVID vaccines. Kennedy, who spent nearly 20 years working as an anti-vaccine activist before entering government, also has the final say over the panel’s recommendations.

Sara Roszak, senior vice president of health and wellness strategy and policy for the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, a trade group, said her organization was carefully watching the CDC’s next move, given that about 90% of COVID shots were administered in pharmacies in recent years.

A CVS Health spokesperson said it has continued to offer eligible patients COVID vaccines but would review the new federal guidelines. The company also owns the insurer Aetna and said self-funded employers could determine what to cover, depending on state and federal laws. For now, CVS said pregnant women and children would be able to get COVID shots. Walgreens did not respond to a request for comment.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, whose plans cover 1 in 3 Americans, said in a statement that it would monitor the federal guidelines on immunization.

A number of professional groups have already begun to issue advice that diverges from recent changes under Kennedy’s watch. In May, the CDC dropped the recommendation that pregnant women receive the COVID shots, a move that could limit insurance coverage and availability at pharmacies.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists took a different stance, advising women to get the COVID vaccine to protect themselves and their infants, who cannot be immunized until they are 6 months old. Large studies have found that vaccination reduces the risk of maternal death or stillbirth during pregnancy.

Although data collection has fallen off, reports of COVID deaths have fallen sharply. In July, a month when case counts tend to be low, the CDC reported roughly 170 deaths a week this year. Last year, there were about 550 to 850 deaths a week in July.

Still, lawmakers in several states, including Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, have taken legislative steps to safeguard their ability to provide vaccines regardless of federal policies.

And state health officials in the Northeast and beyond met recently to discuss paths forward in the case of altered federal vaccine policies. Dr. Robbie Goldstein, the Massachusetts health commissioner and an infectious disease specialist, said his team was scouring state laws for references to the CDC committee to ensure that the state could make vaccine policy based on other recommendations, such as ACOG or the American Academy of Pediatrics.

“We are committed to using data and evidence, and we’ve seen that the federal government, in particular Secretary Kennedy, has not supported the use of data and has not been transparent with the data that he’s using to make decisions,” he said.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN EL GOBIERNO MUNICIPAL AUTÓNOMO DE SAN JUAN, REPRESENTADO POR SU HONORABLE ALCALDE, MIGUEL ROMERO LUGO

Parte Peticionaria Vs. ADQUISICIÓN DE PROPIEDAD DE 362.94 METROS CUADRADOS LOCALIZADA EN LA 1363 CALLE FELIX Z-17 URB. ALTAMESA, BO. MONACILLOS, SAN JUAN, 00921; RAFAEL LOPEZ OLIVO Y SU ESPOSA NORMA PEREZ CASTRO CADA UNO POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; BANCO DE SAN JUAN; EL SISTEMA DE RETIRO DE LOS EMPLEADOS DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Partes con Interés

Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV03505.

Sala: 1002. Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: RAFAEL LOPEZ OLIVO Y SU ESPOSA NORMA PEREZ CASTRO CADA UNO POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Y A BANCO DE SAN JUAN.

RE: Adquisición en pleno dominio y a título absoluto de la propiedad de 362.94 metros cuadrados localizada en la 1363 calle Felix Z-17 Urb. Altamesa, Bo. Monacillos, San Juan, 00921, para eliminar un estorbo público declarado por el Municipio.

DESCRIPCIÓN AMPLIA DEL SUJETO EXPROPIADO SUFICIENTE PARA SU IDENTIFICACIÓN: URBANA: predio de terreno identificado como #1363 Calle San Félix (antes Z17 Calle B), Bo. Monacillos

del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico. El solar tiene cabida superficial de trescientos sesenta y dos con nueve mil cuatrocientas diezmilésimas (362.9400) de metros cuadrados equivalentes a cero con novecientas veintitrés diezmilésimas (0.0930) de cuerda. En lindes por el Norte en distancia de diecinueve con doscientas catorce milésimas (19.214) de metros lineales con solar #1366 propiedad de Drugs Unlimited Inc.; al Sur en distancia de diecisiete con doscientas cincuenta y tres milésimas (17.253) de metros lineales con solar #1365 propiedad de Johar Mohamed Jibril; al Este en distancia de dieciséis con doscientas ochenta y cuatro milésimas (16.284) con solar #1362 propiedad de Juan Jiménez Nolasco; y por el Oeste en distancia de veintisiete con ochenta y ocho milésimas (27.088) de metros lineales con la Calle San Félix (antes Calle B). Finca Número 13,517, Folio 36, Tomo 355 de Monacillos, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan. CODIFICACIÓN NÚM: 086-065-175-35-001. ENTIDAD EXPROPIANTE Y CITAR LA LEGISLACIÓN EN VIRTUD DE LA CUAL SE EXPROPIA: El procedimiento de Expropiación Forzosa se instituye por el Municipio de San Juan, conforme a la Autorizada de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa del 12 de mayo de 1903, según enmendada, el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, Ley 107 del 14 de agosto de 2020, según enmendada; la Ordenanza Núm. 1, Serie 2021-2022 y la Resolución Núm. 71, Serie 2024-2025 de la Legislatura Municipal de San Juan. El interés y el fin para el cual el Municipio de San Juan se propone a adquirir la propiedad es para mejorar el área eliminando un estorbo público declarado por el Municipio. ENTIDAD EXPROPIANTE Y CITAR LA LEGISLACIÓN EN VIRTUD DE LA CUAL SE EXPROPIA: El procedimiento de Expropiación Forzosa se instituye por el Municipio de San Juan, conforme a la Autorizada de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa del 12 de mayo de 1903, según enmendada, el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, Ley 107 del 14 de agosto de 2020, según enmendada; la Ordenanza Núm. 1, Serie 20212022 y la Resolución Núm. 71, Serie 2024-2025 de la Legislatura Municipal de San Juan. El interés y el fin para el cual el Municipio de San Juan se propone a adquirir la propiedad es para mejorar el área eliminando un estorbo público declarado por el Municipio. Quedan emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda de Expropiación Forzosa. El abogado de la parte demandante

es el Lcdo. Pablo Guerrero Sanfilippo cuya dirección postal es: 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, PMB 270, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, 00966 cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 273-0611 y su correo electrónico es: pguerrerosanfilippo@gmail.com. Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma en el Tribunal, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarles ni oírles. Este Tribunal ha señalado para el 25 de septiembre de 2025 a las 9:00 de la mañana, Sala 1002 del Centro Judicial de San Juan, el cual ubica en Hato Rey, PR, para la Vista del caso, en cuyo día se determinará el justo valor de la propiedad y las partes a ser compensadas y a cuya vista podrán ustedes comparecer y ofrecer prueba de valoración, aunque no hayan contestado la Petición. Expedido por Orden del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 18 de julio de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ

COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN E. GARCÍA

FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ

AMERICO SANTIAGO

GONZALEZ, POR SI YEN REPRESENTACION DE SU HERMANA MILAGROS

SANTIAGO GONZALEZ, T/C/C MILAGROS GRAY Y HECTOR SANTIAGO AYALA PETICIONARIOS EX-PARTE

Civil Núm.: SG2025CV00464.

Sobre: EXCESO DE CABIDA. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: Persona desconocida o persona ignorada, colindantes, dueños anteriores, herederos, causahabientes, y cualquier otra persona natural o jurídica con interés que crea tener algún derecho real sobre esta propiedad o que crea ser perjudicada con la inscripción solicitada. Por la presente se notifica que

Américo Santiago González, Milagros Santiago González t/c/c Milagros Gray y Héctor Santiago Ayala han presentado una Petición ante este Honorable Tribunal para que se declare a su favor el dominio del exceso de cabida del siguiente inmueble: URBANA: Solar radicado en la calle Javilla de esta ciudad, terrenos denominados “Porta Celis”, de una extensión superficial de 73.92 mc, colindante por el Norte, con solar del municipio antes, hoy de Juan Nieves Ortiz; por el Sur, con solar del municipio antes, hoy de Juan Pagán, por el Este, con la calle Javilla, donde radica y por el Oeste, con solar del municipio antes, hoy de Cruz Pérez. Sobre este solar ubica una estructura que consta de dos plantas actualmente y construida en cemento y bloques, antes de una sola planta y en madera y zinc, que mide treinta y cuatro y medio pies de frente por diecisiete de fondo. La primera planta es de uso comercial y la segunda planta es para uso de vivienda. Se formó por agrupación de las fincas 2,249 y 2,250, inscritas al folio 98 y 99 del tomo 41 de San Germán. Consta inscrita en el folio 100 del tomo 41 finca número 2,251 en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán a favor de los causantes, Américo Santiago Rodríguez y María Mercedes González. Catastro número 334-034-023-13-001. Luego de mensurada la finca resultó con una cabida de 191.232 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.0487 cuerdas, lo que representa un aumento en cabida mayor a un 20% de su cabida original. La descripción y cabida del predio luego de la mensura es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Calle Javilla de San Germán, terreno denominado Porta Celis, de una extensión superficial de 191.232 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.487 de cuerda, colindantes al NORTE, con solar de Juan Nieves Ortiz antes, hoy del Municipio de San Germán; por el SUR, con solar de Juan Pagán antes, hoy del mismo municipio; por el ESTE con la Calle Javilla donde radica y por el OESTE con solar de Cruz Pérez antes, hoy del mismo municipio. Abogada de la parte Peticionaria LCDA. CAREN A. RUIZ PEREZ RUA 19,900 #5 Luz Celenia Tirado San Germán, P.R. 00683 TEL. (787) 264-4444 ruizcaren@yahoo.com

Y se le notifica a usted, que este Tribunal ha ordenado se le cite para que de verse perjudicado por la inscripción que se solicita pueda oponerse oportunamente a este expediente de dominio; advirtiéndole que de no presentar oposición dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar desde la publicación de este edicto,

los promoventes podrán obtener que se apruebe esta solicitud de Expediente de Dominio y se mande a inscribir a su nombre, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de San Germán, el dominio del predio de terreno anteriormente descrito. De no tener representación legal, puede acceder a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr. Este Tribunal ordeno que se publique la pretensión por 3 veces durante el término de veinte (20) días en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que los que tengan algún derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito, las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción, y en general, a todos los que desearen oponerse, puedan efectuarlo dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la última publicación del presente escrito. Por tanto, libro la presente en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico hoy día 13 de agosto de 2025 bajo mi firma y sello oficial. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. EVELYN GONZÁLEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

S LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

MUNICIPIO AUTÓNOMO DE SAN JUAN

REPRESENTADO POR SU HONORABLE ALCALDE, MIGUEL ROMERO LUGO

Peticionario V. Adquisición de propiedad de 284.0209 metros cuadrados localizada Núm. 549 de la Calle 49, Parcelas Falú en San Juan, 00924; OLGA JULIA TORRES GÓMEZ

Peticionada CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Parte con Interés Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV05168. Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. Sala: 1003. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: OLGA TORRES GÓMEZ.

A: LA SUCESIÓN DE OLGA TORRES GÓMEZ, COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL.

RE: Adquisición en pleno do-

minio y a título absoluto de la propiedad de 284,0209 metros cuadrados localizada Núm. 549 de la Calle 49, Parcelas Falú en San Juan, 00924, para eliminar un estorbo público declarado por el Municipio. DESCRIPCIÓN AMPLIA DEL SUJETO EXPROPIADO SUFICIENTE PARA SU IDENTIFICACIÓN: RÚSTICA: parcela marcada con el #549, localizada en la Calle 49 de la Comunidad Rural Hill Brothers, Bo. Sabana Llana del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico. La parcela tiene cabida superficial de doscientos ochenta y cuatro con doscientas nueve diezmilésimas (284.0209) de metros cuadrados equivalentes a cero con setecientas veintitrés diezmilésimas (0.0723) de cuerda. En lindes por el Norte en dos alineaciones que suman distancia de treinta y dos con seiscientas cuarenta y cuatro milésimas (32.644) de metros lineales con parcela #551; por el Sur en distancia de trece con seiscientas dos milésimas (13.602) de metros lineales con la parcela #548 y en distancia de veinte con ciento cinco milésimas (20.105) con parcela #162-A; por el Este en distancia de tres con treinta dos milésimas (3.032) de metros lineales con la Calle 49 y en distancia de once con doscientas noventa y siete milésimas (11.297) de metros lineales con parcela #162-A; y por el Oeste en distancia de diecisiete con novecientas sesenta y cinco milésimas (17.965) de metros lineales con la parcela #179-A. Sobre el solar enclava una estructura pequeña de concreto y bloques elevada en columnas. La misma se encuentra abandonada y en mal estado. Finca Número 320210 inscrita al Folio 1 del Tomo 972 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. CODIFICACIÓN NÚM: 087-018-018-24000. ENTIDAD EXPROPIANTE Y CITAR LA LEGISLACIÓN EN VIRTUD DE LA CUAL SE EXPROPIA: El procedimiento de Expropiación Forzosa se instituye por el Municipio de San Juan, conforme a la Autorizada de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa del 12 de mayo de 1903, según enmendada; el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, Ley 107 del 14 de agosto de 2020, según enmendada; la Ordenanza Núm. 1, Serie 20212022 y la Resolución Núm. 71, Serie 2024-2025 de la Legislatura Municipal de San Juan. El interés y el fin para el cual el Municipio de San Juan se propone a adquirir la propiedad es para mejorar el área eliminando un estorbo público declarado por el Municipio. Quedan emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda de Expropiación Forzosa. La abogada de la parte demandante

es el Lcda. Angelisse Ortiz Cruz cuya dirección postal es: 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, PMB 270, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, 00966 cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 273-0611 y su correo electrónico es: lcda.angelisseortiz@ gmail.com. Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que, si no se presenta a contestar la demanda radicada en copia original de la misma en el Tribunal, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarles ni oírlos. Este Tribunal ha señalado para el 5 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2025 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, Sala 1003 del Centro Judicial de San Juan, el cual ubica en Hato Rey, PR, para la Vista del caso, en cuyo día se determinará el justo valor de la propiedad y las partes a ser compensadas y a cuya vista podrán ustedes comparecer y ofrecer prueba de valoración, aunque no hayan contestado la Petición. Expedido por Orden del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 29 de julio de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN E. GARCÍA FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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

Plaintiff v. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION, as Receiver of Doral Bank, et als.

Defendant Case No. 16-02568 (FAB)(MEL). NOTICE OF SALE. To: VISTAS DE CANÓVANAS I, INC., RAMÓN MAC CROHON BLANCO; AND GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: On August 27, 2018, and consistent with the terms and conditions of a certain Judgment by Consent and Settlement Agreement executed by the parties, a Judgment (“Judgment”) was entered in favor of plaintiff Bautista Cayman Asset Company, now Bautista REO PR Corp. (“Bautista”) against Vistas de Canóvanas I, Inc. (“Borrower”) and Mr. Ramón Mac Crohon Blanco (the “Guarantor” and together with the Borrower, the “Debtors”). The Judgment by Consent granted Bautista, among other things,

the right to execute the Judgment entered in connection with the Judgment by Consent and request the foreclosure of the Real Estate Collateral, as defined therein, pursuant to the terms and conditions agreed by the Debtors and Bautista in the Judgment by Consent and Settlement Agreement. On July 17, 2024, this Court entered an Order Authorizing Execution of the Judgment (the “Order of Execution”), designating Mr. Joel Ronda Feliciano as Special Master (the “Special Master”) for the execution of the Judgment. On July 18, 2024, this Court entered, in accordance with the Order of Execution, a Writ of Execution (the “Writ of Execution”). The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Clerk of the United States Federal Court in Old San Juan. WHEREAS: pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash, or certified or bank manager check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of Rondapro, 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property, described in the Spanish language (the “Property”): Property 15,939. RUSTICA: Compuesta de 417,287.6511 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 106.1693 cuerdas, sita en el Barrio Hato Puerto del término municipal de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico. En lindes por el NORTE, con Sucesión José Pagán Mundo y con Sucesión Rafael Calderón Rivera; por el ESTE, con Juan Torres Medina, Pedro Fuster, Neftalí Ortiz, Emilio Vega y con Sucesión Juan Monge; por el SUR, con el Río Canóvanas; y por el OESTE, con Río Canóvanas y con la Carretera PR 185. Segregada parcela A de 2,912.795 metros cuadrados; parcela B de 100.0937 metros cuadrados; parcela D de 10,746.5396 metros cuadrados y parcela C de 35.3517 metros cuadrados al Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, fincas número 15,997; 15,998; 15,600 y 15,999, respectivamente. Property 15,939 is recorded at page 124 of volume 389 of Canóvanas, Property Registry, Third Section of Carolina. WHEREAS: The Property is encumbered by its origin by: i) Easement in favor of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority. (ii) Easement in favor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, for use and benefit of the Department of Natural Resources

of Puerto Rico. (iii) Perpetual easement of way in favor of property number 9,183 as dominant property over property number 7,712 as servient property. (iv) Mention of perpetual easement of way in favor of property number 12,668 as dominant property over property number 12,671 as servient property. (v) Mortgage I securing a mortgage note in favor of Doral Bank, or to its order, in the principal amount of EIGHT HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS

($825,000.00), property number 15,939 responding for the amount of FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($425,000.00) with interest at Prime Rate, due on its presentation, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 411 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the eleventh (11) of November two thousand four (2004) before Notary Public Elaine Villanueva-Martínez, recorded at page 178 of volume 387 of Canóvanas, property number 12,754, 7th recording. (vi) Mortgage I securing a mortgage note in favor of Doral Bank, or to its order, in the principal amount of EIGHT HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS

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

($400,000.00) with interest at Prime Rate, due on its presentation, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 411 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the eleventh (11) of November two thousand four (2004) before Notary Public Elaine Villanueva-Martínez, recorded at page 167 of volume 387 of Canóvanas, property number 7,712, 15th recording. Property 15,939 is encumbered by itself: (vii) Easement in favor of the Puerto Rico Telecommunications Regulatory Board, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 26 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the twenty-fourth (24) of April two thousand six (2006) before Notary Public Rodney W. ColónOrtiz, recorded at page 124 of volume 389 of Canóvanas, property number 15,939, 2nd recording. (viii) Easement in favor of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, with a value of $1.00, per Certification dated May 18, 2006, recorded at page 124 of volume 389 of Canóvanas, property number 15,939, 3rd recording. (ix) Restrictive covenants and easement in equity, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 35 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the twenty-eighth (28) of June two thousand six (2006) before Notary Public Rodney W. Colón, recorded at page 124 of volume 389 of Canóvanas, property number 15,939, 4th recording. (x) Mortgage II securing a mortgage note in favor of its bearer, or to its order, in the principal

amount of SIXTEEN MILLION, SIX HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS

($16,675,000.00), with annual interest at 6%, due on its presentation, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 63 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the twentieth (20) of December two thousand six (2006) before Notary Public Manuel Correa- Calzada, recorded at page 183 of volume 391 of Canóvanas, property number 15,939, 5th recording. (xi) The rank of the mortgage that encumbers this property by its origin, for the amount of EIGHT HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS

($825,000.00) (Mortgage I) was equaled in rank to that of the mortgage for SIXTEEN MILLION, SIX HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($16,675,000.00) (Mortgage II), pursuant to the terms of deed 64, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the twentieth (20) of December two thousand six (2006) before Notary Public Manuel Correa-Calzada, recorded at pages 124 and 183 of volumes 389 and 391, agora of Canóvanas, property number 15,939, on the margin of the 1st recording. (xii)

A notice of complaint presented on May 18, 2017, which complaint was dated September 4, 2009, issued by the Court of First Instance of Puerto Rico, San Juan Division, Civil Case Num. KAC2009-0837, followed by Doral Bank against Vistas de Canóvanas I, Inc., in the principal amount of $6,412,431.29, which notice of complaint is recorded at the Karibe volume of Canóvanas, Property 15,939, Annotation A. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on September 19, 2025, at 9:15 a.m. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $17,500,000.00 which is the sum of the minimum bid for Mortgage I ($825,000.00) and the minimum bid for Mortgage II ($16,675,000.00), which Mortgages were equaled in rank. 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 September 26, 2025, at 9:15 a.m. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $11,666,666.67, which is twothirds of the amount of the mini-

mum bid for the first public sale, specifically, the sum for Mortgage I ($550,000.00) and the minimum bid for Mortgage II ($11,116,666.67), which Mortgages were equaled in rank. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on October 3, 2025, at 9:15 a.m., the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $8,750,00.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid for the first public sale, specifically, the sum for Mortgage I ($412,500.00) and the minimum bid for Mortgage II ($8,337,500.00), which Mortgages were equaled in rank.1602568The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the Property to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), or certified or bank manager checks, except in case the Property is sold and adjudicated to Bautista, in which case the amount of the bid made by Bautista shall be credited and deducted from its credit; Bautista being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. If the third auction is deserted, Bautista REO may proceed to coordinate the execution of a deed of conveyance with the Marshal within twenty (20) days of the public sale, to take title of the Property in full satisfaction of the Judgment. WHEREAS: said sale to be conducted by the Special Master pursuant to the Order of Execution. Compliance with all foreclosure proceedings are subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico pursuant to article 107 of the Registry of the Property Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, (30 L.P.R.A. § 6144), and the corresponding deed of conveyance and possession to the Property will be executed and delivered by the Special Master after delivery of such Order of Confirmation. Once the Property is adjudicated in payment of the credit guaranteeing the mortgage, and the price does not exceed the value thereof, all junior liens must be canceled provided that said junior creditors be notified of the public sale of said property. For further information, reference is made to the Judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on August 14, 2025. By: Joel Ronda, Special Master. Ronda Legal Services, LLC, rondajoel@me.com, 787-565-0515.

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Demandante Vs.

NATHANIEL PEREZ GARCIA (DEUDOR HIPOTECARIO); NORMAN EUGENE PARKHURST MITCHEL, NAIDA RODRIGUEZ DE PARKHURST Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; WILBERT NICHOLAS PARKHURST, PATRICIA SPEIER DE PARKHURST Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; NORMAN EUGENE PARKHURST RODRIGUEZ III, MARIA DEL ROSARIO VALDERAS DE PARKHURST Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; PEDRO ANTONIO ORTIZ ABREU, NIDZA RAMOS DE ORTIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS (TITULARES REGISTRALES)

Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2023CV01007. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 25 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: URB.

TERRAZAS DEL MONTE F-1

CALLE CEIBA LAS PIEDRAS, PR 00777 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar Radicado En La Urbanización Terrazas Del Monte, localizada en el Barrio Montones y Ceiba del término municipal de Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: número del solar: uno del Bloque “F” (F-1). Area del solar: trescientos diecinueve punto

trescientos setenta y un metros cuadrados (319.371 m.c.). En lindes: Por el NORTE, con la Calle Ceiba, en una distancia de diez punto quinientos metros (10.500 m.), y otra distancia de dos punto setecientos cuarenta y nueve metros (2.749 m.); por el SUR, con el Solar número treinta (30) del Bloque “D” (D30), en una distancia de catorce punto cero cero cero metros (14.000 m.); por el ESTE, con la Calle Ausubo, en una distancia de diecinueve punto quinientos metros (19.500 m.), y otra distancia de dos punto setecientos cuarenta y nueve metros (2.749 m.); y por el OESTE, con el Solar número dos (2) del Bloque “F” (F-2), en una distancia de veintitrés punto cero cero cero metros (23.000 m.). En este solar se ha construido una vivienda de bloques y hormigón reforzado, para una familia. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Las Piedras, bajo la Finca número 19,999, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $168,670.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 2 DE OCTUBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $112,446.66. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 9 DE OCTUBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $84,335.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 538 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de julio de 2021, ante el notario Edwin Doel Rodríguez Rosado y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Las Piedras, bajo la finca número 19,999, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao, inscripción Segunda (2da). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido contra la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $164,508.56 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de enero de 2023, más intereses al tipo pactado de 3.75% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte co-demandada Nathaniel Pérez García, adeuda a la parte demandante

los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $16,867.00. Además, la parte co-demandada Nathaniel Pérez García se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $16,867.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $16,867.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores ni preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios

públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de agosto de 2025. JENNISA GARCÍA MORALES, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. WILNELIA RIVERA DELGADO, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS #249, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR.

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Demandante V. JUAN ANTONIO COLON MEDINA T/C/C JUAN A. COLON MEDINA Y COMO JUAN COLON MEDINA, SU ESPOSA FRANCISCA ORTIZ DIAZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; Y COLON BICYCLE CENTER, INC.

Demandado(s) Civil Núm.: AG2023CV01934. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: JUAN ANTONIO COLON MEDINA T/C/C JUAN A. COLON MEDINA Y COMO JUAN COLON MEDINA, SU ESPOSA FRANCISCA ORTIZ DIAZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; Y COLON BICYCLE CENTER, INC.; Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada y, al PUBLICO EN GENERAL, y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta

si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante, a saber: Hipoteca: Gravada con una Hipoteca a favor del Portador por la suma de $126,000.00, intereses al 12% anual, Testimonio 358, Vencimiento el 30 de octubre de 2032 y Tasada en $126,000.00, según la inscripción 18ª en virtud de la Escritura Pública número 30 otorgada en Bayamón el 30 de octubre de 2012 ante la Notario Público NICOLE ALVIRA LÓPEZ. Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 18 de julio de 2025, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Dirección de la Propiedad: Aguadilla Town Center, Carr. #2 Km 122 Bo. Caimital Alto, Aguadilla, PR 00603. RUSTICA: Parcela radicada en el Barrio Caimital Alto de Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 704.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con carretera insular número 2; por el SUR, con el solar segregado perteneciente a Tomas Grajales Herrera; por el ESTE, con camino municipal; y por el OESTE, con Wenceslao Herrera. Contiene dos casas, una de dos plantas de cemento y bloques con torta de hormigón que mide más o menos 20 pies de frente por 40 pies de fondo y la otra casa es de madera, techada de zinc, que mide 18 pies de frente por 40 pies de fondo. Inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Aguadilla, al folio 194 del tomo 108 de Aguadilla, Finca número 5,184. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante, hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, que al al 12 de enero de 2024 ascendía a la suma principal de $100,327.56, intereses ascendentes a dicha fecha a $6,329.71, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación a razón de $16.69 al día (“per diem”), cargos por demora ascendentes a $1,253.27, $1,952.88 de interés diferido (“deferred interés”) más cualquier adelanto adicional y realizado por la demandante, conforme a los términos pactados y garantizadas en la escritura de hipoteca y pagaré, costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado ascendentes al 10% del principal según pactado. Disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte con interés previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca.

La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 11 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025, A LA(S) 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial, Sala de Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es por la suma de $152,250.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 18 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025, A LA(S) 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será por la suma de $101,500.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 25 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025, A LA(S) 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será por la suma de $76,125.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en

tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de agosto de 2025. CARLOS D. AVILÉS LÓPEZ, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL PLACA #043, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA. ***

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Demandante v. CAPÍTULO DE LA “MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY” DE LA FRATERNIDAD ALPHA TAU OMEGA; JOHN ROSS BRYAN, EN SU CARÁCTER PERSONAL Y COMO AGENTE DEL CAPÍTULO DE LA “MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY” DE LA FRATERNIDAD ALPHA TAU OMEGA; CONNOR KRUSE, EN SU CARÁCTER PERSONAL Y COMO AGENTE DEL CAPÍTULO DE LA “MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY” DE LA FRATERNIDAD ALPHA TAU OMEGA; FULANO DEL TAL Y SUTANO MAS CUAL Demandados

CIVIL NUM. SJ2025CV02749. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO; INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS A:

i. Capítulo de la “Middle Tennessee State University” de la Fraternidad Alpha Tau Omega

ii. John Ross Bryan, en su carácter personal y

como agente del Capítulo de la “Middle Tennessee State University” de la Fraternidad Alpha Tau Omega

iii. Connor Kruse, en su carácter personal y como agente del Capítulo de la “Middle Tennessee State University” de la Fraternidad Alpha Tau Omega

iv. Fulano De Tal v. Sutano Mas Cual Parte Demanda arriba mencionada:

Se le notifica que ante este Tribunal se ha presentado en su contra una Demanda. Usted deberá contestar la Demanda presentada dentro del término de treinta (30) días desde la publicación de este edicto, sirviéndole copia de dicha contestación a: Lcdo. Víctor J. Quinones

RUA: 14,468

Email: vquinones@sydneydenson.com

P.O. Box 12197 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00908

Tel: 787-318-9752

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar el original de su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término ante el tribunal correspondiente, con copia a la parte demandante, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle y oírle, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy, 6 de mayo de 2025. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, SECRETARIA. Edith De la Paz Ortiz, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Demandante v. CAPÍTULO DE LA “VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY” DE LA FRATERNIDAD ALPHA EPSILON PI; ARI SASSON, EN SU CARÁCTER PERSONAL Y COMO AGENTE DEL CAPÍTULO DE LA “VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY” DE LA FRATERNIDAD ALPHA EPSILON PI;

ALEX PRUSKY, EN SU CARÁCTER PERSONAL Y COMO AGENTE DEL CAPÍTULO DE LA “VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY” DE LA FRATERNIDAD ALPHA EPSILON PI; FULANO DEL TAL Y SUTANO MAS CUAL

Demandados CIVIL NUM. SJ2025CV02766. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO; INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS

A:

i. Capítulo de la “Vanderbilt University” de la Fraternidad Alpha Epsilon Pi

ii. Ari Sasson, en su carácter personal y como agente del Capítulo de la “Vanderbilt University” de la Fraternidad Alpha Epsilon Pi

iii. Alex Prusky, en su carácter personal y como agente del Capítulo de la “Vanderbilt University” de la Fraternidad Alpha Epsilon Pi iv. Fulano De Tal v. Sutano Mas Cual Parte Demanda arriba mencionada: Se le notifica que ante este Tribunal se ha presentado en su contra una Demanda. Usted deberá contestar la Demanda presentada dentro del término de treinta (30) días desde la publicación de este edicto, sirviéndole copia de dicha contestación a: Lcdo. Víctor J. Quinones RUA: 14,468

Email: vquinones@sydneydenson.com P.O. Box 12197 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00908 Tel: 787-318-9752

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar el original de su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término ante el tribunal correspondiente, con copia a la parte demandante, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle y oírle, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy, 8 de mayo de 2025. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, SECRETARIA. Edith De La

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Demandante v. CAPÍTULO DE LA “PACE UNIVERSITY” DE LA FRATERNIDAD KAPPA SIGMA; KONSTANTINOS BARESEL BOFINGER, EN SU CARÁCTER PERSONAL Y COMO AGENTE DEL CAPÍTULO DE LA “PACE UNIVERSITY” DE LA FRATERNIDAD KAPPA SIGMA; MICHAEL VARRIANO, EN SU CARÁCTER PERSONAL Y COMO AGENTE DEL CAPÍTULO DE LA “PACE UNIVERSITY” DE LA FRATERNIDAD KAPPA SIGMA; FULANO DEL TAL Y SUTANO MAS CUAL

Demandados CIVIL NUM. SJ2025CV02860. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO; INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS A: i. Capítulo de la “Pace University” de la Fraternidad Kappa Sigma ii. Konstantinos Baresel Bofinger, en su carácter personal y como agente del Capítulo de la “Pace University” de la Fraternidad Kappa Sigma iii. Michael Varriano, en su carácter personal y como agente del Capítulo de la “Pace University” de la Fraternidad Kappa Sigma iv. Fulano De Tal v. Sutano Mas Cual Parte Demanda arriba mencionada:

Se le notifica que ante este Tribunal se ha presentado en su contra una Demanda. Usted deberá contestar la Demanda presentada dentro del término de treinta (30) días desde la publicación de este edicto, sirviéndole copia de dicha contestación a: Lcdo. Víctor J. Quinones

RUA: 14,468

Email: vquinones@sydneydenson.com

P.O. Box 12197

San Juan, Puerto Rico 00908

Tel: 787-318-9752

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/

tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar el original de su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término ante el tribunal correspondiente, con copia a la parte demandante, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle y oírle, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy, 6 de mayo de 2025. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, SECRETARIA. Edith De la Paz, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE

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

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Demandante v. CAPÍTULO DE LA “JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY” DE LA FRATERNIDAD KAPPA

SIGMA; MARKO STJEPANOVIC, EN SU CARÁCTER PERSONAL Y COMO AGENTE DEL CAPÍTULO DE LA “JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY” DE LA FRATERNIDAD KAPPA

SIGMA; MASON WYATT, EN SU CARÁCTER PERSONAL Y COMO AGENTE DEL CAPÍTULO DE LA “JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY” DE LA FRATERNIDAD KAPPA

SIGMA; FULANO DEL TAL Y SUTANO MAS CUAL

Demandados

CIVIL NUM. SJ2025CV02842. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO; INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO SS.

A:

i. Capítulo de la “James Madison University” de la Fraternidad Kappa Sigma ii. Marko Stjepanovic, en su carácter personal y como agente del Capítulo de la “James Madison University” de la Fraternidad Kappa Sigma iii. Mason Wyatt, en su carácter personal y como agente del Capítulo de la “James Madison University” de la Fraternidad Kappa Sigma iv. Fulano De Tal v. Sutano Mas Cual Parte Demanda arriba

mencionada:

Se le notifica que ante este Tribunal se ha presentado en su contra una Demanda. Usted deberá contestar la Demanda presentada dentro del término de treinta (30) días desde la publicación de este edicto, sirviéndole copia de dicha contestación a: Lcdo. Víctor J. Quinones

RUA: 14,468

Email:

vquinones@sydneydenson.com P.O. Box 12197 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00908 Tel: 787-318-9752

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar el original de su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término ante el tribunal correspondiente, con copia a la parte demandante, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle y oírle, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy, 6 de mayo de 2025. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, SECRETARIA. Edith M de la Paz Ortiz, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMON. ORIENTAL BANK Demandante v. CHEF JOMAR RIVERA, INC.; JOMAR RAFAEL RIVERA OCASIO, LAURA VANESSA CRUZ RAMOS, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta entre ambos Demandado CIVIL NÚM. BY2023CV06539. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL; A LA PARTE DEMANDADA Y A LOS TENEDORES DE GRAVÁMENES

POSTERIORES

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Joe Bugner, British boxing champ who slugged it out with Ali, dies at 75

By JERÉ LONGMAN

Joe Bugner, a Cold War refugee from Hungary who became the British and European heavyweight boxing champion and who went the distance in two defeats to Muhammad Ali and another to Joe Frazier, has died in Brisbane, Australia. He was 75. His death, at an assisted living facility, was announced Monday by the British Boxing Board of Control. No other details were given. Bugner had relocated to Australia in the mid-1980s, becoming known there as “Aussie Joe,” and spent his final years living in a care home after being diagnosed with dementia,

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The Associated Press reported.

A sculpted 6 feet 4 inches and 230 pounds, Bugner had a complicated relationship with both the public and sports writers in Britain during a 32-year boxing career that lasted into his late 40s. He was sometimes criticized for a perceived caution and lack of ruthlessness in the ring, at one point being labeled in the press “The Harmless Hercules.”

But Bugner suggested that his hesitancy sprung from an early professional fight, in 1969, in which he defeated Ulric Regis of Trinidad and Tobago. Four days later, Regis died of a brain injury.

“When a tragedy like that happens, it does change you,” Bugner later acknowledged, as quoted by the British newspaper The Telegraph. “I would often think about whether the same thing could happen again, and it did make me a bit more cautious when throwing punches.”

In 1971, he won a controversial victory on points over his countryman Henry Cooper, a popular figure, gaining the British, the British Commonwealth and the European heavyweight titles. Cooper went into retirement afterward, and Bugner was left to deal with a less than adoring British public.

Bugner gained wider appreciation for his grit in the ring when he fought Ali twice and Frazier once between 1973 and 1975, avoiding a knockout in each fight.

On Feb. 14, 1973, in a 12-rounder against Ali in Las Vegas, Bugner sustained a cut over his left eye in the opening round. But he remained on his feet while losing a unanimous decision. There were no knockdowns. Bugner left with respect from the crowd and from Ali.

The New York Times reported that Ali, who had predicted a seventh-round knockout, said afterward of Bugner, a former sparring partner: “He’s a little better than I thought. I didn’t know his legs were so good. He’s three times better than when I sparred with him through the years.”

Less than five months later, on July 2, Bugner fought Frazier in a 12-round bout in London. It was Frazier’s first fight since losing his heavyweight title to George Foreman in January 1973. Charging ahead in the 10th round, Frazier knocked Bugner down for a nine count, but Bugner recovered and staggered Frazier before the bell, closing his left eye.

Joe Bugner gained wider appreciation for his grit in the ring when he fought Muhammad Ali twice and Joe Frazier once between 1973 and 1975, avoiding a knockout in each fight. (wbcboxing.com)

Frazier won on points, but the Times said the decision “may have done more for his opponent’s reputation than for his.”

Afterward, Foreman, who was in attendance, visited Bugner’s dressing room, according to The Associated Press, and told him: “The fight could have gone either way. You’ve got a lot of heart. It’s the best fight I’ve seen in years.”

Bugner met Ali again on July 1, 1975, this time for a 15-round championship fight in the wilting morning heat of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Both fighters survived the conditions, but Ali won convincingly “with the ease of assaulting a statue,” Dave Anderson of the Times reported.

Bugner acknowledged that he had lacked energy in the heat and humidity. Afterward, he grew irritated with journalists’ probing questions and, according to The Telegraph, declared: “Get me Jesus Christ! I’ll fight him tomorrow!”

To which Hugh McIlvanney, a veteran British boxing reporter, replied, “Ah Joe, you’re only saying that ’cause you know he’s got bad hands.”

Jozsef Kreul Bugner was born in Szeged, Hungary, on March 13, 1950, one of six children of a single mother who walked her family through forests to Yugoslavia after Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest in 1956 and put

down Hungary’s national uprising.

They spent 18 months in a refugee camp before settling in St. Ives, England, a medieval market town near Cambridge.

Bugner made several comebacks in his long career, taking the Australian heavyweight title in 1995 and, at 48, the World Boxing Federation’s version of the heavyweight championship, defeating James “Bonecrusher” Smith. Bugner retired a year later with a record of 69-13-1. Information on his survivors was not immediately available.

Bugner appeared in films, including as a villain in a 1994 action movie, “Street Fighter,” with Jean-Claude Van Damme. He was reportedly hired as an adviser for Russell Crowe’s 2005 boxing film, “Cinderella Man,” but the job did not work out. Other celebrity relationships were said to be more cordial: golf with Dean Martin and a friendship with Welsh singer Tom Jones.

Bugner considered Ali the greatest fighter he had ever encountered.

“In the first fight,” he told The Guardian, “I caught him with a beautiful right hand, and he said: ‘Damn, good punch, white boy, do it again!’ Now, I was only 22 years old, which meant I was stupid enough to try it, and he caught me with four solid punches to the jaw. The reactions, the speed, the timing were brilliant.”

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