DACO Secretary Hiram Torres to Resign This Week to Become Cataño Mayor

September5 updates

1. Sep 28, 2026

   DACO Secretary Hiram Torres to Resign This Week to Become Cataño Mayor

   via Telemundo PR

   Hiram Torres Montalvo, secretary of the Department of Consumer Affairs (DACO), will resign this week after winning election as Cataño's next mayor in Sunday's special election.

2. Sep 27, 2026

   Governor Names Interim DACO Chief After Secretary Wins Cataño Mayoral Race

   via Primera Hora

   Puerto Rico Governor Jenniffer González announced that Erwin “Farito” Álvarez, subsecretary of the Department of Consumer Affairs (DACO), will lead the agency temporarily while she makes a new appointment.

3. Sep 25, 2026

   PNP Official: Courts Rejected Four Challenges to Torres Montalvo's Cataño Mayoral Candidacy

   via NotiUno

   Aníbal Vega Borges, electoral commissioner of the New Progressive Party (PNP), said Friday that courts rejected on four separate occasions challenges filed by three municipal legislators seeking to disqualify Hiram Torres Montalvo's candidacy for mayor of…

4. Sep 18, 2026

   Puerto Rico Supreme Court Updates Jury Instructions Manual

   via Microjuris al Día

   The Puerto Rico Supreme Court approved an updated version of the Jury Instructions Manual (Libro de Instrucciones al Jurado) through Resolution EC-2026-01, published as 2026 TSPR 97, dated September 9, 2026.

5. Sep 15, 2026

   Puerto Rico Supreme Court declines to intervene in Cataño mayoral candidacy dispute

   via El Nuevo Día

   Puerto Rico's Supreme Court decided not to take up a lawsuit filed by three New Progressive Party (PNP) municipal legislators—Gustavo Grana Martínez, Damián Claudio Miranda and José Ortega Rodríguez—who are demanding that party leadership disqualify Hiram…