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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia announced Thursday an amendment with new changes to the current executive order (EO) to address the COVID-19 pandemic in Puerto Rico after accepting recommendations from the Scientific Coalition.

The changes to the EO will go into effect this Saturday, April 17, and will be in effect until May 9.

EO 2021-027 maintains the 10 p.m. curfew time until 5 a.m. and the closing of commercial establishments and restaurants at 9 p.m. Excluded from the curfew are people who are attending emergency or health situations, including those who administer vaccines, those who at any time leave their home to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and those who accompany a person to be vaccinated, among others.

A greater restriction is established in terms of occupation in shops and restaurants. Private operations that serve the public in closed mode establishments may only operate with a maximum capacity of 30 percent. This applies to restaurants; retail businesses; medical offices; funeral services; recreational and sports activities, including horse riding; film screenings; financial, community, consumer, professional and non-professional services; colleges and post-secondary educational activities; care centers; religious activities; and government agencies.

In the case of restaurants, the minimum required distance of six feet between tables must be guaranteed.

Closed format shopping centers, meanwhile, will limit their capacity at the rate of one person for every 75 square feet in the aisles. With regard to private operations such as administrative offices that do not serve the public, they must also operate at 30 percent capacity or guaranteeing the minimum physical distance of six feet between employees.

Meanwhile, Puerto Rico government agencies will continue with their work plans to provide their services to the public, observing the measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, including guaranteeing a distance between employees of a minimum of six feet.

Remote work will continue to be considered a viable option, as determined by the head of each agency.

Also prohibited are mass activities in which there is no dispensation from the La Fortaleza chief of staff, which may impose that participants have a negative result for COVID-19 from a qualified SARS-Cov2 viral test and antigen testing performed 72 hours in advance.

Similarly, crowding on beaches, rivers, marinas and swimming pools, and the opening of coliseums, disco-

theques, activity centers or bars, among other venues, is not allowed. At island marinas it is prohibited to tie several boats together, as well as to anchor on beaches, keys and islets less than 200 feet from the shore.

“In the past few days we have seen an upturn in COVID-19 infections so, as I have indicated, we are reinforcing the integrated strategy against the pandemic,” the governor said. “Vaccination continues to be key to ending this virus that affects us and the Department of Health continues the vaccination process without pause, impacting all sectors of Puerto Rico. In fact, as established by the [Scientific] Coalition, deaths from cases have decreased by half since vaccinations began and at least 300 lives have been saved.”

Pierluisi added that Health Secretary-designate Carlos Mellado López has already established agreements with the laboratories of several universities, to which the reagents will be provided and they will carry out genomic sequence studies of the cases of COVID-19 virus variants. In addition, tests are being increased throughout the island, both antigen and molecular.

Likewise, the number of agents is doubling to support the Department of Health Investigative Unit, which oversees compliance with the new EO. In addition, the police presence through public places will also continue to ensure compliance with the EO and its greater restrictions. Educational campaigns are expanding, meanwhile.

“We continue to seek the cooperation of everyone so that they maintain prevention and precautionary measures such as avoiding crowds, the use of a mask, physical distancing and hand washing,” the governor said. “The government is doing its part to have an integrated strategy against this virus, but we need everyone to do their part and not lower their guard.”

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South African COVID variant confirmed in Puerto Rico Classified as mutation of ‘concern’ by Health Dept.

By ELSA VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO Twitter: @elsavelazquezpr Special to The Star

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ealth Secretary-designate Carlos Mellado López confirmed on Thursday the appearance in Puerto Rico of the South African coronavirus variant (B.1.351), a development he categorized as a “concern.”

The information came after an outbreak of infections in the San Juan metro area was identified. Seven cases were revealed after the outbreak; six people have the British variant and one person has the B.1.351 variant. The people identified as having been infected with the British variant have completed the vaccine sequence.

“We are constantly vigilant to the mutations of the COVID-19 virus; however, we must be on alert for the increase in variants identified on the island. It is of great concern to have among us, so far, 126 cases,” Mellado said.

“However, the department’s epidemiology team is vigilant in monitoring cases so that they are treated effectively.”

To date, 126 cases carrying variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus have been identified, of which 104 are identified as variants of concern and 22 as variants of interest. No case of a variant of great consequence has been registered on the island.

Mellado said a variant of concern is when the virus presents changes that make it have particular characteristics, for example, being more transmissible and therefore generating more cases of COVID-19. Variants of interest have not yet accumulated the number of changes necessary to become a variant of concern, but they do have some of those characteristics, and for that reason they are kept under monitoring.

Among the variants of concern identified in Puerto Rico are 90 cases from the United Kingdom (B.1.1.7), 10 cases from California (B.1.429) and three cases of the Californian mutation (B.1.427). The variants of interest include two from

Brazil (P.2), 15 cases of the New York variant (B.1.526) and five cases of its mutation (B.1.526.1).

The variant case report revealed that there are 46 cases in the Ponce region, 34 cases in the San Juan Metropolitan region, 14 in the Mayagüez region, 13 in the Bayamón region, and 9 in the Arecibo region. In the Caguas region there are five cases, and there are three in the Fajardo region.

The Health chief detailed that within the age range of 20 to 29 years, the highest number of variants has been identified with 29 cases, and 22 cases have been identified within the 40-49 age group, where an increase in COVID-19 infections has been seen in recent weeks.

“It is worrying, it is not a minor matter,” Mellado said.

“The population has relaxed in preventive measures and in this way we are not going to stop the pandemic. The exhortation is to continue protecting ourselves and respecting health protocols. However, we have managed to advance in the vaccination process with more than 1.8 million doses administered, according to the federal government platform Tiberius.”

The Health Department’s Public Health Epidemiology Division is working in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in San Juan and the Ponce Health Sciences University (PHSU). In addition, three laboratories on the island -- Quest, LabCorp and Ilumina -- send samples to the CDC in Atlanta for sequencing and molecular surveillance.

Expert: COVID-19 infections higher in enclosed spaces, not family gatherings

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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pidemiologist Fabiola Cruz said Thursday in a radio interview that most COVID-19 infections occur in enclosed spaces, such as indoor workplaces and malls, and not in family gatherings, as other experts have said recently.

Asked whether infections are spreading mostly in family gatherings, Cruz answered that “at other times they have been more associated with family gatherings.”

“When we present the percentages, these are [rates] of outbreaks,” she said. “But in this report outbreaks [traced to family gatherings] only represent five percent of cases.”

“In family activities, we only have 282 related cases associated with outbreaks in family activities,” Cruz added.

“However, we have 2,300 cases associated with exposures in indoor jobs, 1,300 in shopping malls and 1,200 in restaurants.”

The epidemiologist stressed that “[e]nclosed spaces are still the ones with the highest risk.”

“Because we see that [COVID] positive people have visited those places,” she said. “We have to work with this, restrict the spaces a little, even for a period of two weeks to see if we can stop the increase and begin to reduce transmission levels.”

Regarding closures, Cruz said that “at least at this time,

I cannot support a total closure if we have all the tools.”

“We are going to have to take some restrictions that are significant,” he said. “It is not about adding hours to the curfew, it is about doing more.”

“It really is worrying,” she said.

At press time, governor Pedro Pierluisi announced new restrictions on a new Executive Order to address the pandemic. The EO takes effect Saturday, “Hospitalizations have increased. Then it is [next] that the deaths begin to be reflected. It is the natural history of the disease,” the epidemiologist said. “This does not go on at the same time. So this is a very critical moment. And it has happened to other countries.”

“In Chile it is also happening despite the fact that they have mounted spectacular vaccination efforts,” Cruz noted.

“And it is because we have to understand that vaccination is a public health measure. At the population level. When the population has that herd immunity, when most of us are protected, then we are going to see significant changes.

Although we are already seeing some spectacular changes thanks to vaccination.”

“Seventy-five percent of the population [in Puerto Rico] is susceptible. Some 600,000 are vaccinated, but on the other hand 75 percent of the population is not,” she pointed out.

“That allows room for the virus to find a person who does not have protection more quickly, with greater opportunity.”

Regarding minors who have been infected with

COVID-19, Cruz said that is “due to the fact that we are struggling with a variant, with a virus that is not the same as last year.”

“It is a much stronger virus. That it can be transmitted faster, up to 70 percent faster, this is very dangerous,” she said. “What used to take a month now takes a few days.

And it has the ability to cause more severe disease.”

“Increase that risk for those with chronic diseases. The ages go down. And it is a bigger challenge for the immune system,” the epidemiologist said. “We are seeing the impact in terms of hospitalizations as well. Those ages went down.

Deaths have dropped [from older to younger] in terms of age.”

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Resident commissioner: Lawmakers who weren’t co-sponsors of Statehood Admission Act will vote in favor Claims statehood lobbyist election necessary as status won’t be granted ‘by the stroke of a pen’

By PEDRO CORREA HENRY Twitter: @pete_r_correa Special to The Star

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n the wake of Wednesday’s hearing before the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources to discuss two opposing bills that aim to address Puerto Rico’s political status issue, Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón said Thursday that the Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act, also known as HR 1522, is winning more support in both houses of Congress.

In an exclusive video interview with the STAR, González Colón said she had been in several meetings after the committee hearing, with members of both the House and Senate claiming to be in support of the bill penned by Rep. Darren Soto (D-Fla.) and herself.

She also said that even legislators who had initially supported the opposing Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act (HR 2070) told her they would be “voting for statehood.” “‘You know what? I’m not in either bill, but I’m going to vote for statehood,’” the resident commissioner said she has been told. “Everybody here understands that statehood is the common path.”

Meanwhile, González Colón told the newspaper that other members of Congress who co-sponsored HR 2070, which was penned by Reps. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) were, in the aftermath of the hearing, “drafting and presenting another bill giving all the benefits of statehood without granting statehood.”

“I think that is a childish thing to do,” the resident commissioner said. “We have been filing for civil rights issues, such as the Child Tax Credit, Earned Income Tax Credit, Social Security Income, among many others that treat Puerto Rico differently, and now they’re trying to get all of them that I submitted and granting all of them in one bill without giving us the power to vote for two senators and having the political power to have equality.”

“When we talk about equality, [it means that] we have the same equal footing, the same opportunities that the rest of the states have, and there’s no president and no other Congress that may change that just because you are a territory,” she added. “You cannot decide, and the U.S. Constitution allows Congress to discriminate against people living in our geographical area just because we are a territory, and I don’t want that.”

When the STAR asked if HR 1522 would have a chance in the Senate given the filibuster issue, where any bill is required to obtain at least 60 votes to pass, González Colón said she would first be focusing on getting the legislation

through the House Natural Resources Committee.

“We just yesterday got the support of the House Majority Leader [Steny Hoyer (D-Md.)], supporting and co-sponsoring the bill, but not just that, he sent a statement in favor of statehood yesterday at the hearing,” she said.

“Let’s focus back on moving this bill in the committee, then the House, and then we can talk about the Senate.”

The STAR next asked if it was necessary for the island government to conduct the election for statehood lobbyists in May, for which Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia announced he would be allocating the $1.8 million the State Elections Commission was requesting even though both the island Legislative Assembly and the federal Financial Oversight and Management Board oppose the allocation. The resident commissioner said the special election was necessary because “statehood is not just going to happen by the stroke of a pen.” “[Statehood] is going to happen by the common pressure the island of Puerto Rico is putting on Congress, and the way to make that pressure is sending shadow representatives and shadow senators [to Washington] and that’s what the election is for,” she said. “This is not something that Pedro Pierluisi wanted to do, this is not something that I wanted to do. This is the local legislation, this is the law.”

“I know that the current leadership in the [island] House and the Senate may disagree with it, but you know what? They may disagree about the law, and you obey the law,” González Colón added. “Doing otherwise is trying to make Puerto Rico a dictatorship.”

As for Wednesday’s committee hearing, she said the discussions that took place in Congress “are a part of the construction of the new way to solve the island’s status issue.”

“We’ve been discussing this for 123 years, so I hope this is the final step for the decolonization process on the island,” González Colón said.

“Evidently, statehood won the [day] because I think it is an issue of self-determination and civil rights, and it is the next logical path for the island,” González Colón said. “I think statehood is going to happen, it’s a matter of when and how long it’s going to take.”

González Colón said the hearing also allowed panel members to “compare the constitutionality of one bill and the right of the self-determination of the people of the other bill.”

“It was a good hearing, the witnesses were great,” she said. “I think that Prof. [Cristina D.] Ponsa-Kraus, along with 47 law professors from across the nation pointed out, specifically point by point, the areas where the other bill [HR 2070] had constitutional problems, that it is not realistic, that it will not solve the status problem of the island, that it will not be final, that it is not binding, that it will never bind Congress to do something.”

González Colón said further that the law professor’s deposition defined the bill that Soto and herself submitted as the “logical, constitutional bill as it does [procedurally] what Hawaii and Alaska followed.”

As for Pierluisi’s deposition at the hearing, she said the governor showcased that “he had a mandate to solve the island’s status issue” as a result of the statehood plebiscite held during last November’s general elections, in which around 52% of island voters said yes to becoming a state of the union.

When the STAR asked if this would be the four-year term in which the issue would be resolved, she said she believes that momentum is building in the U.S. Capitol.

“Statehood did not just win in November, it won in 2012, it won in 2017, it won in 2020, gaining more votes than any politicians, than any political party on the island, and I think it’s something that we need to respect,” she said. “It’s not just people who come from the PNP [the Spanish initials for the pro-statehood New Progressive Party], it’s not people believing in one candidate or another, it’s people across the aisles, across parties on the island, so if there’s something that we do have a common sense of and a common resolution about, it is that people, no matter what politician or what party they’re supporting, they’re pro-statehood and it’s something we need to win.”

As for independence and free association supporters, she said they had time to conduct campaigns, yet lost.

“I think the important issue is that the minorities could not stop the will of the majority, and, in any democracy, the majority wins,” González Colón said. “Nationwide, people are aware that, after the hurricanes and the November elections, American citizens on the island are disfranchised. We do not have the power to vote for our commander-in-chief, we don’t have two senators, I can’t even vote on the floor of the House.”

To watch more of the interview, follow The San Juan Daily Star’s Facebook page.

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Employees Alliance: PREPA workers who move to LUMA won’t be able to contribute to Retirement System

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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ontrary to what the island government says, employees who move to LUMA Energy will not be able to contribute to the Retirement System, the Alliance of Active and Retired Employees of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) said Thursday.

“If an employee of PREPA chooses to leave for LUMA, he/she will not be able to make contributions to the Retirement System. According to the document sent yesterday by the Board of Trustees of the Retirement System, the Retirement System may not allow private LUMA employees to make contributions, due to federal provisions,” said Ángel Figueroa Jaramillo, spokesperson for the Alliance and president of PREPA’s main union, the Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union. “This proves again that Governor Pedro Pierlusi

lies to the country and to PREPA employees saying that if they move to LUMA they can make contributions to their retirement.”

Figueroa Jaramillo added that according to the document sent to PREPA employees, the provisions of Laws 29 of 2009 and 120 of 2018 regarding the inclusion of private sector employees are invalid, as they collide with federal field powers.

“Federal law would prevent the current laws of Puerto Rico from being applied.This, in turn, will prevent the Retirement System from receiving contributions from private employees who are going to work with LUMA,” he said. “This is totally different from what the government says, ensuring that with LUMA the contributions will be maintained. This report from the trustees shows that the governor continues to lie.”

Johnny Rodríguez, the spokesman for the Alliance and president of the Retirees Association, likewise raised a red flag. He said the document warns that the contract

Johnny Rodríguez and Ángel Figueroa Jaramillo with LUMA will increase the actuarial deficit of the Retirement System, which puts at risk the pensions of the 18,000 members between active and retired.

“The outlook for the Retirement System is devastating, since the contract with LUMA

will significantly reduce the Retirement System’s ability to pay the pensions that are paid now and those that will be paid in the future to the workers of the Electric Power Authority retirement system,” Rodríguez said.

Lawmaker: Allocation for schools is ploy by secretary-designate to be confirmed

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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istrict 23 Rep. José “Cheito” Rivera Madera called the announcement of the allocation of $2.8 million for infrastructure repairs at 24 schools a desperate

Education Secretary Elba Aponte

ploy by Education Secretary-designate Elba Aponte Santos to win confirmation.

“Although it is important that our schools receive the funds necessary to be repaired and conditioned, it is highly suspect that secretary-designate Aponte announces this allocation of funds at a time when her confirmation is hanging by a thread,” Rivera Madera said.

According to information provided to the media on Wednesday, the Zone 0 schools to be repaired are located in the municipalities of Adjuntas, Juana Díaz, San Germán, Ponce and Mayagüez.

“These are not the only municipalities located in the area called zero. More than a year after the earthquakes occurred in the south, they still want to ignore that the most affected municipalities were Guánica, Yauco, Guayanilla and Peñuelas, and even worse,” the Popular Democratic Party legislator said. “There are no schools available or suitable for beginning classes in any of them, nor have funds been allocated to address the serious infrastructure problem that exists.”

“If there is still no budget for our municipalities, with this announcement the secretary is being untruthful with the country and is only looking to secure votes for her confirmation,” Rivera Madera added. “For this reason, I urge the [House of Representatives’] sister body the Senate to forcefully reject Aponte’s nomination.”

Rivera Madera said he was outraged at the lack of priority and empathy for southern schools, so he called on senators to reconsider their position and think about the students who today suffer what he called “abuse.”

“The island widely rejects this appointment, so my request is not to allow them to continue using our children as a political football,” said the representative for the towns of Ponce, Peñuelas, Guayanilla and Yauco.

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What the coronavirus variants mean for testing

By EMILY ANTHES

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n January 2020, just weeks after the first COVID-19 cases emerged in China, the full genome of the new coronavirus was published online. Using this genomic sequence, scientists scrambled to design a large assortment of diagnostic tests for the virus.

But the virus has mutated since then. And as the coronavirus has evolved, so has the landscape of testing. The emergence of new variants has sparked a flurry of interest in developing tests for specific viral mutations and prompted concerns about the accuracy of some existing tests.

“With these COVID diagnostics, we were on a time crunch, we had to get something out there,” said Lorraine Lillis, scientific program officer at PATH, a global health nonprofit that has been tracking coronavirus tests. “Normally, diagnostics take a long, long time, and we’d normally challenge them with multiple variants. And we’re doing that, but we’re doing it in real time.”

The Food and Drug Administration has warned that new mutations in the coronavirus could render some tests less effective.

And last week, PATH launched two online dashboards to monitor how certain variants might affect the performance of existing diagnostic tests.

So far, scientists have agreed, there is no evidence that the known variants of concern are causing tests to fail completely. “The tests today work very, very well,” said Mara Aspinall, an expert in biomedical diagnostics at Arizona State University.

But manufacturers and regulators will need to remain vigilant to ensure they keep pace with a constantly changing virus, scientists say. If variants begin to evade detection, that could be consequential not only for individual patients, who may not receive the treatment they need, but also for public health.

If a test misses someone who is infected by a variant, then that person may not realize they need to isolate. “And that person is allowed then to be unquarantined, to circulate in the community and possibly spread that variant to others,” said Gary Schoolnik, a physician and infectious disease expert at Stanford University and the chief medical officer of Visby Medical, a diagnostics company that makes a COVID test. “And that’s how a diagnostic test, if it’s missing variants, can actually promote the spread of that variant.”

The risk of false negatives Molecular tests, like the widely used polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, test, are designed to detect specific sequences of the coronavirus genome. If mutations appear in these “target” sequences, the tests may no longer be able to detect the virus, yielding false negatives.

“You could run into a situation where you just got unlucky with where you chose to target your test, and something popped up there that then made your test less effective,” said Nathan Grubaugh, a virus expert at Yale University.

The gene for the virus’s characteristic spike protein, known as the S gene, has been particularly prone to mutation, and tests that target this gene may miss certain variants. For instance, Thermo Fisher’s TaqPath test fails to detect the mutated S gene of the B.1.1.7 variant, which was first identified in Britain and is now spreading rapidly through the United States.

But the test does not rely on the S gene alone; it has three targets and can still return accurate results by detecting two other stretches of the coronavirus genome.

Just 1.3% of molecular tests rely solely on an S gene target, according to calculations performed by Rachel West, a postdoctoral associate at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. The rest either target more stable regions of the genome, which are less likely to mutate, or have multiple target sequences, which makes them less susceptible to failure. “It’s very unlikely that you’re going to get mutations in all of them,” Lillis said.

The FDA has listed four different molecular tests “whose performance could be impacted” by the variants, but it notes that the tests should still work. Three of the tests have multiple targets; a fourth may be slightly less sensitive when the virus has one particular mutation and is present at very low levels. (The four tests are the TaqPath COVID-19 Combo Kit; Linea COVID-19 Assay Kit; Xpert Xpress and Xpert Omni SARS-CoV-2; and Accula SARS-CoV-2 Test.)

“We don’t think that those four assays are significantly impacted,” said Dr. Tim Stenzel, who directs the FDA’s office of in vitro diagnostics and radiological health. “It was more out of an abundance of caution and transparency that we made that information public.”

Screening for specific variants As the variants spread, researchers are also working to develop and improve tests to detect them. At the moment, identifying a variant

Coronavirus test samples are loaded into a workstation in a lab at Duke University in Durham, N.C., Feb. 3, 2021. is typically a two-step process. First, a standard coronavirus test, like a PCR test, is used to determine whether the virus is present. If the test comes back positive, a sample is sent for genomic sequencing.

“These two tasks are currently done in two separate workflows,” said Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a developmental biologist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. “This means more time, labor and resources.”

Many researchers are now working to create integrated solutions — tests that can determine both whether someone is infected with the virus and whether they might have a particular variant.

For instance, in a recent paper, Izpisua Belmonte and colleague Mo Li, a stem-cell biologist at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia, described a new testing method that can identify mutations in up to five different regions of the coronavirus genome.

And Grubaugh and his colleagues have developed a PCR test that can detect specific combinations of mutations that characterize three variants of concern: B.1.1.7; B.1.351, first detected in South Africa; and P.1, first found in Brazil. (The work has not yet been published in a scientific journal.)

Grubaugh said researchers in Brazil, South Africa and elsewhere are already using the tests to sift through a mountain of coronavirus samples, identifying those that should be prioritized for full genomic sequencing. “Our group’s primary interest is enhancing genomic surveillance through sequencing, especially in resource-limited areas,” Grubaugh said. “If you want to know if there’s variants that are circulating, you need a way to triage.”

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How New Mexico became the state with the highest rate of full vaccinations

More than 57 percent of New Mexico’s adult population has received at least one dose of the vaccine.

And nearly 38 percent of adults are fully vaccinated, a higher rate than in any other state.

By SIMON ROMERO

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espite having one of the highest poverty rates in the country, New Mexico is surging past states with far more resources in the race to achieve herd immunity against the coronavirus.

After New Mexico put into motion one of the most efficient vaccine rollouts in the United States, more than 57% of its adult population has now received at least one dose of the vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

New Hampshire is the only state with a higher vaccination rate.

Nearly 38% of New Mexico adults are fully vaccinated, more than any other state.

The feat is providing some relief in a state where Hispanic and Native American residents — groups that have been among the hardest hit by the coronavirus — together account for 60% of the population. Going into the pandemic with a dearth of financial resources compared with richer states, and vulnerabilities like having fewer hospital beds per capita than nearly every other state, the authorities in New Mexico saw the vaccine as their most powerful weapon to stave off an even more harrowing crisis.

“It was super important for us to get it right because we are a more resource-challenged location,” said Dr. Meghan Brett, an epidemiologist at University of New Mexico Hospital.

Infectious-disease experts attribute New Mexico’s vaccine success to a combination of homegrown technological expertise,

cooperation between state and local agencies and a focus by elected officials on combating the virus.

Since vaccines began rolling out in December, new cases of the coronavirus in New Mexico have plunged to fewer than 200 a day from nearly 2,000. Deaths have declined to fewer than five a day from an average of more than 35. In the state’s nursing homes and assisted-care facilities, the average number of deaths each day has fallen from 10 to fewer than one.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat and former state health secretary, set the tone of New Mexico’s pandemic response over the past year by adopting significant social distancing measures from the start of the crisis, despite fierce opposition from critics. Many of those restrictions, such as mask mandates, remain in place.

Opinion surveys have shown broad support for the governor’s actions. Protests against her policies have not been as contentious as those in other states, though they have grown into a recurring feature of New Mexico’s politics over the past year. It is common to drive past storefronts in parts of the state with signs that proclaim “No MLG.” “She’s done a really good job at managing her optics, and that’s what politicians do these days,” said Matt Simonds, the founder of an Albuquerque distillery and brewery that went out of business after social distancing restrictions were introduced, costing 11 people their jobs. Simonds said he blamed Lujan Grisham and her administration for policies that have taken a toll on his well-being.

“I’ve gained 30 pounds in the last year because of stress eating, my blood pressure and cholesterol are nowhere where they should be and psychologically I’m not in a good place,” Simonds said.

Lujan Grisham has said that she had little choice but to move aggressively against the virus, citing vulnerabilities like New Mexico’s rapidly aging population, shortage of hospital beds and sky-high numbers of residents with underlying medical conditions, like chronic liver disease.

“New Mexico’s foundational health disparities compel us to think differently than some other states with regard to pandemic response,” Lujan Grisham said in a statement. “I fully believe New Mexico can be the first state to reach herd immunity and be the first to begin operating in the new post-pandemic ‘normal’ the right way, the safe way.”

In devising its vaccine distribution plan many months ago, the health department also turned to Real Time Solutions, a small software company in Albuquerque. While other states adopted

piecemeal registration approaches, resulting in chaotic rollouts, Real Time set up a centralized vaccine portal for all residents to sign up for shots.

Big challenges persist during a pandemic, including the threat of new variants and disparities in vaccine acceptance in some communities. According to the health department, Hispanics and African Americans in New Mexico remain less likely to get the vaccine than Anglos, as non-Hispanic whites are known in the state.

But Native Americans in New Mexico, who have endured some of the most severe rural outbreaks during the pandemic, are getting the vaccine at close to the same rate as Anglos in the state. In some instances, tribal nations have done such a thorough job of vaccinating their own citizens that they have begun administering doses to people from neighboring communities, providing another boost to New Mexico’s overall vaccination rate.

Health experts say somewhere between 70%-90% of people in a society need to be vaccinated to arrive at herd immunity, a situation in which most of a population is immune to an infectious disease, providing indirect protection to those who are not immune. With less than 40% of its residents fully vaccinated, New Mexico still has a long road ahead to reach that point.

As vaccinations continue — the state recently made anyone 16 and older eligible — epidemiologists in New Mexico are debating whether some form of herd immunity could be achieved in the state in the coming months, and what that could look like.

“It’s still quite early to know when herd immunity in the state could potentially happen,” said Sara del Valle, a mathematical epidemiologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who is part of a team that meets weekly with the state health department.

Del Valle, who said she was impressed by how public health officials took the team’s recommendations “very seriously,” nevertheless cited challenges ahead such as disparities in vaccine acceptance in parts of the state.

But, in comparing the fight against COVID-19 to the battle to eradicate smallpox, del Valle said “islands of herd immunity” in New Mexico could start emerging in places with exceptionally high vaccination rates, accompanied by “islands of outbreaks” in areas where the authorities could move swiftly to prevent the virus from spreading.

Some of the discrepancies reflect the state’s political and cultural fissures.Vaccination rates are much higher in some heavily Democratic parts of the state than in conservative bastions, like oil-rich southeast New Mexico, which leans Republican.

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With George Floyd, a raging debate over bias in the science of death

By SHAILA DEWAN

F

rom the beginning, the death of George Floyd disrupted the field of forensic pathology in much the way it challenged policing.

Days after Floyd’s death on May 25, prosecutors said it was caused not just by the police officer kneeling on his neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds but also by his underlying health conditions and drug use.

Critics protested that the finding reflected racial bias — and served as a prime example of how forensic pathology has failed to do enough to counter its own subjectivity in decisions such as whether to classify a death in police custody as a homicide.

The public criticism helped expose long-simmering tensions within the small but influential world of medical examiners, drawing in some of the experts who consulted on the case and may be called to testify for the defense.

Some of them have vigorously objected to a study, published just before the trial began, that measured bias among forensic pathologists, taking the unusual step of asking that it be retracted.

The timing of the paper was “particularly alarming in the era of Black Lives Matter, critical race theory, riots and so forth,” wrote Dr. Brian L. Peterson, the Milwaukee County medical examiner, in one of several emails to a private forensic pathology email list

George Floyd Square, in Minneapolis on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, near a memorial to George Floyd outside Cup Foods where he died last year while in police custody. obtained by The New York Times. “What is woke today is fodder tomorrow.”

Medical examiners say that of course they, like everyone else, have biases — but that they already have ample systems in place, including courtroom scrutiny of their decisions, to curb them. In fact, Peterson wrote, the notion that cause-of-death determinations

are objective and science-based is “basically nonsense.”

“Is there anyone in our profession that has not, at one point or another, quipped about ‘spinning the wheel of death’ and picking one?”

After the Journal of Forensic Sciences published the study, which showed that medically irrelevant information like the victim’s race can sway the decisions of forensic pathologists, Peterson, along with Dr. David Fowler and Dr. William Oliver, signed a letter asking that it be retracted, calling it “fatally flawed.”

The Journal of Forensic Sciences, which published the paper, declined to retract it.

Fowler, who testified Wednesday for Chauvin’s defense, is the former chief medical examiner of Maryland, and Oliver, who was also listed as a potential defense witness, is a professor at the Brody School of Medicine in North Carolina.

Fowler testified that there were so many factors contributing to Floyd’s death, including heart disease and high blood pressure, that he would have classified the manner of death as “undetermined” rather than as “homicide.”

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From page 9 minutes. The family has compared his death that of Floyd. Fowler’s office classified it as an accident.

Complaints of bias have long hung over the Floyd case. Four days after Floyd’s death, the county prosecutors listed what they said were preliminary autopsy findings in a criminal complaint that many said undermined their own case against the officers involved.

An opinion piece written by 12 doctors and published in Scientific American called the complaint “a weaponization of medical language” that “reinforced white supremacy at the torment of Black Americans.”

“They took standard components of a preliminary autopsy report to cast doubt, to sow uncertainty; to gaslight America into thinking we didn’t see what we know we saw,” they wrote.

The state attorney general, Keith Ellison, soon took over the case.

By then the Floyd family had hired two forensic pathologists, a white man and a Black woman, to conduct their own autopsies. Both of them, Dr. Michael Baden and Dr. Allecia Wilson, said that asphyxia, or deprivation of oxygen, was the cause of death and placed the blame squarely on the police officers involved.

Second autopsies have long been a common practice, in part because medical examiners have long-standing relationships with prosecutors and the police, raising concerns about their objectivity in deaths involving officers.

But in Floyd’s case, the main professional organization for forensic pathologists, the National Association of Medical Examiners, took the unusual step of issuing a statement that many perceived as critical of the practice.

The association’s primary goal seemed to be to defend Dr. Andrew

Baker, the Hennepin County medical examiner and a past president of the association, who performed the Floyd autopsy.

After his report — which classified the death as a homicide and listed heart disease, fentanyl and methamphetamine as contributing factors to Floyd’s death — was released last June, an emergency fence and concrete barricades were erected around his office.

The statement from the association took issue with news reports that described the private autopsies by Baden and Wilson as “independent,” implying that Baker’s was compromised.

“The independent autopsy is the one done by the medical examiner who, unlike private pathologists, do not have an incentive to come up with a certain view,” it said.

But private autopsies are a routine stream of income for many forensic pathologists, and the association began to receive complaints, including one from one of the country’s most renowned forensic pathologists, Cyril Wecht. Another came from Wilson, one of the pathologists hired by the Floyd family.

“Our fight should not be between each other but working together to understand why Black men are dying so quickly when taken into police custody,” Wilson wrote, saying the Floyd family’s consulting with her was akin to a patient’s getting a second opinion. She noted that the practice had never before earned a rebuke from the association.

“I am particularly offended as I have watched Dr. Baden make controversial opinions my entire career, but when another, a Black woman, has a controversial opinion, it is handled quite differently,” she wrote.

The medical examiners association retracted the statement.

Its leaders also invited Dr. Joye Carter to help develop a protocol for second autopsies. Carter said she is the first Black woman to be board-certified in forensic pathology in the United States and the first

Black person appointed to be a chief medical examiner, a position she held in Washington, D.C., and Houston. She consulted on the Floyd case for the prosecution.

Carter had discontinued her membership in the national association five years before. “I never felt welcome. I never felt included,” she said. “You know, there’s a difference between feeling welcomed and feeling tolerated.”

She agreed to come back and was hopeful that things had changed, especially after she was asked to chair a new diversity committee.

Because of that, she said, she did not anticipate any controversy when she signed on to the study on bias among forensic pathologists, led by Itiel Dror, a cognitive neuroscientist who specializes in expert error and bias. The authors examined 10 years of children’s death certificates in Nevada and found that the deaths of Black children were a little more likely to be classified as homicides, rather than accidents, compared to deaths of white children.

Four of the study’s authors were forensic pathologists, including Carter.

In February, Peterson, the potential defense witness in Floyd’s case, filed an ethics complaint against all four, accusing them of “conduct averse to the best interests and purposes” of the profession.

“By basically accusing every member of ‘unconscious’ racism, a charge impossible to either prove or refute, members will henceforth need to confront this bogus issue whenever testifying in court,” he wrote in the complaint, a copy of which was obtained by the Times.

Peterson did not respond to a message left with his office, where a spokesperson said he was on vacation. Ethics complaints are supposed to be confidential, and the accused doctors declined to discuss it or did not respond to a request for comment.

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With earnings soaring, Wall Street banks see economic boom ahead

By KATE KELLY, MATT PHILLIPS and STACY COWLEY

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he mood on Wall Street is decidedly jubilant.

Just a year ago, as the coronavirus raged across the country, the nation’s largest banks were anticipating economic devastation. They set aside billions of dollars to gird against the huge losses that could follow, as record numbers of people lost their jobs, office buildings emptied out and small businesses closed.

It’s an entirely different story today. On Wednesday, executives at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo delivered a bullish economic forecast. They said that consumers — their wallets padded by stimulus money — are itching to spend and companies are rushing to expand by buying or building new businesses, as the United States emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It is clear to me that the U.S. is poised for a strong recovery this year, led by consumer spending that is rebounding to preCOVID levels,” David M. Solomon, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, told analysts on a conference call. “This sentiment is reflected in the capital markets.”

Jamie Dimon, his counterpart at JPMorgan Chase, the country’s largest bank by assets, took a similar view. “We believe that the economy has the potential to have extremely robust, multiyear growth,” Dimon said in a statement. He attributed his outlook to government spending on stimulus and infrastructure, supportive policies from the Federal Reserve and high hopes for the end of the pandemic.

This all bodes well for banks, which began reporting their quarterly earnings this week. On Wednesday, Goldman and JPMorgan reported profits roughly five times as high as in the first three months of 2020, thanks to a combination of strong business results and a reduction in the amount of money they had put aside to cover losses on loans. Wells Fargo reported profits that were seven times as high.

There are enough sobering signs to temper Wall Street’s optimism. Infections and hospitalizations are still climbing in some areas of the country, even as the vaccination rollout gathers steam. The recent decision to pause the one-shot vaccine offered by Johnson & Johnson — one of three vaccines

Goldman Sachs reported a surge in first-quarter earnings, demonstrating strength across its businesses, including the highest revenue from global trading in more than a decade. approved by the United States — and the reluctance of as many as 1 in 4 Americans to be inoculated, could slow the country’s march toward herd immunity. And the trends benefiting large banks have not reached Main Street businesses, many of which are still struggling.

Moreover, the recovery is likely to be uneven, hurting those who were struggling before the pandemic more so than those who held on to steady jobs.

But for the banks that reported results Wednesday, the balance of evidence clearly tilts toward improvement. Bank earnings this quarter reveal “a dramatic shift, if you will, from an unprecedented downdraft in growth over the course of COVID and now in effect, a dramatic V-like pickup in what’s happening to the broader economy,” said Stephen Scherr, Goldman’s chief financial officer.

Expectations for that pickup were reflected in moves by all three banks to reduce the cushion they had set aside at the start of the pandemic to withstand continued losses from credit cards, mortgages and other loans they had made. JPMorgan released $5.2 billion of that credit cushion, and Wells reduced its cushion by $1.6 billion. Wells also noted that charge-offs — cases where the bank declares that it won’t be able to collect on a delinquent loan — were at a historic low. Goldman, a far smaller player in the consumer business, also

reduced what it had set aside by about $200 million.

Strength in the banks’ investing, lending and trading businesses added to the euphoria.

All three reported robust revenues across multiple lines of business, driven by a combination of active and rising markets, a flurry of new mortgage activity and the boom in specialpurpose acquisition companies, or SPACs. Corporate merger and acquisition activity also marked an all-time high by dollar value.

Goldman — a dominant player in corporate advisory services and in markets — reported a doubling of revenue to $17.7 billion, from $8.7 billion, thanks to doubledigit percentage gains in investment banking, money management and markets. JPMorgan reported a 14% rise in revenue to $33.1 billion

from $29 billion, driven by both markets and investment banking.

Wells Fargo’s revenue rose 2%, buoyed partly by a 19% jump in home lending, as Americans migrated away from cities and into more suburban or rural areas. The results “reflected an improving U.S. economy,” but low interest rates and sluggish demand for loans were a “headwind,” said Charles W. Scharf, the bank’s chief executive.

The banks have been major — if somewhat unintended — beneficiaries of the government’s spending push over the past year that sought to keep the shock of virusrelated economic shutdowns from sending the economy into a long-term tailspin.

Looking forward, several banks spotlighted the impact of recent infusions of stimulus checks on consumer accounts — a component of roughly $5 trillion the federal government has allocated to fighting the crisis over the past year. The influx of federal dollars has helped put the finances of U.S. households on some of their firmest footing in years, bankers said, adding that there are growing indications consumers are eager to put the cash to work.

“We’re seeing increased consumer spending activity in both travel and restaurants, two categories that have been particularly suppressed since the onset of COVID-19,” Scharf of Wells Fargo said on a call with analysts, spotlighting that in the week ending April 2, travel-related spending on debit cards was up 422% compared with the same period in 2020. JPMorgan also noted growing momentum on spending on travel and entertainment, which was up 50% in March compared with February.

“There’s no question that there is meaningful consumer pent-up demand,” Solomon, of Goldman Sachs, said on a conference call with analysts.

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‘It’s a roller-coaster ride’: Global chip shortage is making industries sweat

Dan Rozycki, president of the Transtec Group, at offices in Austin, Texas, April 12, 2021.

Shortages of semiconductors, fueled by pandemic interruptions and production issues at multibillion-dollar chip factories, have sent shock waves through the economy.

By DON CLARK

D

an Rozycki, president of a small engineering firm, worries about what a global semiconductor shortage could mean for curing concrete.

Rozycki’s company, Transtec Group in Austin, Texas, sells small sensors that are placed where concrete is poured at building, highway and bridge construction sites. The gadgets take temperature readings and wirelessly send data so workers with computers can ensure the material is hardening properly.

Like many other things in the modern

world, from computers and cars to cash registers and kitchen appliances, the sensors require a couple of common, inexpensive semiconductors that have suddenly become a very scarce commodity.

“Every month, our product is getting more popular,” Rozycki said. “But we may not be able to make it in several months.”

Shortages of semiconductors, fueled by pandemic interruptions and production issues at multibillion-dollar chip factories, have sent shock waves through the economy. Questions about chips are reverberating among both businesses and policymakers trying to navigate the

world’s dependence on the small components.

Chip supply limitations are far from a new phenomenon. But past problems have typically concerned particular kinds of chips, like the types that help store computer memory or process vast amounts of data. This time, customers are also scrambling to find an array of simpler chips made in older factories. And those factories are difficult to upgrade.

President Joe Biden in February ordered a 100-day review of the semiconductor supply chain, a process that drew CEOs of 19 big companies to a virtual meeting Monday. Congress has backed legislation aimed at spurring more domestic chip manufacturing to reduce dependence on Taiwan and South Korea. Biden has proposed funding the initiative with $50 billion in his infrastructure plan.

Most attention has focused on temporary closings of big U.S. car plants. But the problem is affecting many other sectors, particularly the server systems and PCs used to deliver and consume internet services that became crucial during the pandemic.

“Every aspect of human existence is going online, and every aspect of that is running on semiconductors,” said Pat Gelsinger, the new CEO of the chipmaker Intel, who attended the meeting with the president on Monday. “People are begging us for more.”

The chip shortage potentially affects just about any company adding communications or computing features to products. Many examples were described in 90 comments filed to the Biden supply chain review by companies and trade groups, including a laundry list of needs from industry giants like Amazon and Boeing.

Personal computer giant HP said the shortage of semiconductors had prevented the company from being able to meet demand for computers ordered by schools. Rising chip prices also have made it harder to offer affordable hardware for less-wealthy school districts during the pandemic, the company said.

Rozycki’s engineering firm in Austin is for now among the lucky chip users. It planned ahead and has enough chips to keep making the roughly 50,000 sensors it supplies each year to construction sites. But his distributor has warned him it might not be able to deliver more of them until late 2022, he said.

“Is that going to halt those projects?” Rozycki asked. He is scouring the market for other distributors that might have the two needed chips in stock. Other possibilities include redesigning the sensors to use different chips.

The supply problems are as multifaceted as the nearly $500 billion semiconductor busi-

ness. Manufacturers turn silicon wafers to chips in complex processes using chemicals, gases and costly machines. Finished chips cross national boundaries dozens of times to partners that package, test and ship them to hardware makers and distributors.

Shortages this year have been exacerbated by episodes that include a fire at a Renesas Electronics chip factory in Japan, a drought in Taiwan and a cold snap in Texas that temporarily shut down factories operated by Samsung Electronics, NXP Semiconductors and Infineon.

Fixing other issues is likely to stretch into 2022. Gelsinger said Intel was talking to auto industry suppliers about shifting some production of their chips to older Intel factories, possibly starting in six to nine months. But adding new production tools to an existing chip plant can take a year. Building a new one takes three years.

“This is going to be a long healing,” said Thomas Caulfield, CEO of GlobalFoundries, a big U.S. chip manufacturer that is doubling capital spending this year so it can meet demand.

Supply problems can be a touchy topic, said Zach Supalla, CEO of Particle, a San Francisco company that buys chips to make communication and computing equipment. It sells its devices to thousands of companies that make products like hot tubs, air-conditioners and industrial and medical equipment.

Particle has so far has secured enough chips to keep making its products, he said.

But the company is asking customers to order further and further in advance to ensure it can meet demand, Supalla said.

When chips can be found, price markups can be stark. One particularly unglamorous widget, a type of ceramic capacitor that ordinarily sells for around 3 cents each, became hard to find when a COVID-19 outbreak temporarily closed a factory in China.

The capacitor shortage hurt production of a popular cellular modem. That modem, which normally sells for $10 to $20, spiraled to $200 on the spot market, Supalla said. Customers like car companies may be willing to pay such sums to keep producing $40,000 cars, Supalla said.

But not all can.

Some buyers suspect profiteering. Jens Gamperl, CEO of an online components exchange called Sourcengine, recounted a call from an executive who fumed that a chip normally priced at $1 each was listed for sale by the exchange at $32. Gamperl had to explain that his own company had been forced to pay $28 for the component.

“That is the kind of craziness that we see left and right now,” he said.

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S&P 500, Dow hit record highs on upbeat earnings, strong retail sales T he S&P 500 hit a record peak on Thursday, helped by gains in tech-related stocks as weaker-than-expected jobless claims data bolstered the Federal Reserve’s stance to keep interest rates lower for a longer period.The industrials, materials and healthcare sectors weighed the most on the S&P 500.

Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, Alphabet Corp and Amazon.com Inc rose between 1% and 1.5% and were among the top boosts to the benchmark index.

High-growth tech stocks have recovered in recent sessions as U.S. 10-year bond yield backed off from its 14-month peak, pushing the tech-heavy Nasdaq to a seven-week high and within 2% of its record closing high.

Latest data showed the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, but the increase likely understates the rapidly improving labor market conditions.

“While states balance the vaccine rollout with stop and start reopening plans, the labor market continues to feel the heat,” said Mike Loewengart, managing director of investment strategy at E*TRADE Financial.

“But the disappointing read actually puts some firepower behind the Fed’s accommodative stance.

The Fed acknowledged the economy was on its path to a strong rebound backed by massive fiscal spending and accelerating vaccinations, minutes released on Wednesday showed. However, the central bank noted it would be “some time” before conditions improve enough for the Fed to rein in its support.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell will speak at a virtual International Monetary Fund event at 1200 ET (1600 GMT).

The tech sector hit a record high, while economylinked financials, industrials, materials and energy fell the most among major S&P sectors.

The Russell 1000 growth index, which consists of techrelated stocks, gained about 1%, while its value counterpart, comprising mostly financials and energy names, dropped about 0.3%.

At 11:31 a.m. ET the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.04 points, or 0.00% , to 33,447.30, the S&P 500 gained 13.09 points, or 0.32 %, to 4,093.04 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 117.70 points, or 0.86%, to 13,806.54.

The sharp run up in earnings expectations could set up for disappointment, a market expert said.

JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said the United States could be in store for an economic boom through 2023 if more adults get vaccinated and federal spending continues.

At 11:47 a.m. EDT the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 52.86 points, or 0.16% , to 33,377.38, the S&P 500 lost 1.02 points, or 0.03 %, to 4,072.92 and the Nasdaq Composite lost 15.45 points, or 0.11 %, to 13,682.93.

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Western warnings tarnish vaccines the world badly needs

By BENJAMIN MUELLER

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afety worries about the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines have jeopardized inoculation campaigns far beyond the United States, undercutting faith in two sorely needed shots and threatening to prolong the coronavirus pandemic in countries that can ill afford to be choosy about vaccines.

With new infections surging on nearly every continent, signs that the vaccination drive is in peril are emerging, most disconcertingly in Africa.

In Malawi, people are asking doctors how to flush the AstraZeneca vaccine from their bodies. In South Africa, health officials have stopped giving the Johnson & Johnson shot, two months after dropping the AstraZeneca vaccine. And in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1.7 million AstraZeneca doses have gone unused.

The sense of uncertainty deepened Wednesday when an advisory committee to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention delayed a decision for seven to 10 days on lifting a pause on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, saying it wanted more data on a rare blood clotting disorder. Those shots were halted Tuesday over concerns about the disorder, which emerged in six women, and on Wednesday the panel learned of two more examples.

Also on Wednesday, the European Union said it would not make any more purchases of the AstraZeneca or Johnson & Johnson vaccines but would pivot to relying solely on those, like Pfizer’s and Moderna’s, that are based on a newer technology and have not raised similar safety concerns.

The actions of American and European officials reverberated around the world, stoking doubts in poorer countries where a history of colonialism and unethical medical practices have left a legacy of mistrust in vaccines. If the perception takes hold that rich countries are dumping second-rate shots on poorer nations, those suspicions could harden, slowing the worldwide rollout of desperately needed doses.

Dr. Sara Oliver of the CDC told the advisory panel that prolonging the pause in using the Johnson & Johnson vaccine “could have global implications.”

Already, doctors say, the recent pauses have vindicated vaccine skeptics and made many others feel duped.

“People, especially those who were vaccinated, felt like they had been tricked in a way; they were asking, ‘How do we get rid of the vaccine in our body?’” said Precious Makiyi, a doctor and behavioral scientist in Malawi, where health workers have been racing to empty their shelves of nearly expired AstraZeneca doses. “We fought so hard with vaccine messaging, but what has happened this past week has brought us back to square zero.”

African health officials have reacted with fury at the breezy reassurances of American and European lawmakers that people denied the AstraZeneca or Johnson & Johnson shots could be given another vaccine. In much of the world, there are no other vaccines.

And even as American health officials stressed that they paused use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine Tuesday in “an abundance of caution,” they forced global health officials to begin crafting the difficult case that shots that might not be safe enough

A COVID-19 vaccination site inside Salisbury Cathedral in Salisbury, England, on Jan. 23, 2021. Britain has forged ahead with the AstraZeneca vaccine, though restricting its use to people aged 30 and above. for the world’s rich were still suited to its poor.

“It’s sending vaccine confidence into a crater,” Ayoade Alakija, co-chair of the African Union’s Africa Vaccine Delivery Alliance, said of rich countries’ actions. “It’s irresponsible messaging, and it speaks to the selfishness of the moment that there wouldn’t be more consultation and communication.”

What rich countries call caution, poorer nations will experience as a devastating gamble with the survival of their citizens against COVID-19. “Out of an abundance of caution, let us not destroy vaccine confidence in places that only have access to one type of vaccine,” Alakija said.

The Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca shots have been considered especially crucial for less developed and hard-to-reach parts of the world, because they are less expensive and easier to store than Moderna’s or Pfizer’s, and the Johnson & Johnson vaccine requires just one dose.

Together, the two vaccines account for one-third of the portfolio of Covax, the international effort to procure and distribute vaccines.

But it is becoming more apparent by the day that those shots are becoming afterthoughts in wealthy nations. After canceling Johnson & Johnson appointments, American states offered people the pricier Pfizer or Moderna vaccines instead.

The European Union said Wednesday that it had acquired another 50 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine, allowing it to curb use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine and phase it out altogether next year. Many European nations have already restricted the use of that shot after clotting problems emerged in a small number of recipients.

Those decisions, intended for domestic audiences, have nevertheless resounded in countries where variants are spreading, physical distancing is a luxury and there is no choice of shots.

Health officials fear that any setbacks in vaccinations could sow the seeds of the next calamitous outbreak, one that deluges hospitals and exports new mutations around the world. In those places, doctors said, the math is obvious: Many more people will die without the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines than with them.

Amid the clotting concerns, the World Health Organization and African Union have not wavered in recommending the use of the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. In Britain, AstraZeneca’s vaccine remains the backbone of the country’s speedy inoculation campaign, despite people younger than 30 being offered alternatives. Congo, after spurning the AstraZeneca shot in light of unease in Europe, said Tuesday that it would launch the much-delayed inoculations next week.

And in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, people continued to line up on wooden benches Wednesday for the AstraZeneca shot as they watched their children run through the corridors of a medical center.

“We don’t have a choice,” said Alioune Badara Diagne, 34, who lives in the city’s lively Ouakam neighborhood. Despite talk of vaccination pauses in wealthy nations and rumors of vaccinemakers using Africans as “guinea pigs,” he said, Westerners themselves were continuing to be injected. He added, “The vaccine is our only hope.”

But in much of the world, the U.S. regulators who endorsed Tuesday’s pause on Johnson & Johnson vaccinations act as sort of surrogate decision-makers on drugs and vaccines, giving their hesitation extra weight in African nations.

“I became even more skeptical when I heard that the United States suspended Johnson & Johnson,” said Lawmond Lawse Nwehla, 32, an engineer in Dakar. “They said it was effective, and then they stopped it. So I wonder why.”

In immediately pausing the use of Johnson & Johnson’s shot, U.S. regulators reacted more aggressively than did their British counterparts, who backed the AstraZeneca vaccine even as they investigated clotting cases.

South Africa immediately copied the U.S.’ pause on Johnson & Johnson vaccinations, infuriating doctors who are still clamoring for shots, especially in remote parts of the country. In February, health officials dropped the AstraZeneca vaccine over its limited efficacy against a dangerous variant there.

To date, only half of 1% of the population is vaccinated, and a mere 10,000 shots are being given each day. At that rate, it could take weeks, if not longer, for a single rare blood-clotting case to emerge, said Jeremy Nel, an infectious disease doctor in Johannesburg. He was dismayed by the decision to pause shots, given the risk to vaccine confidence in a country where two-fifths of the people say they have no intention of being vaccinated.

“The slower you go, that failure is measured in death,” Nel said. “Even if you delay for a week, there is a nontrivial chance that will cost lives.”

In Kenya, where enthusiasm for vaccines is high in cities but perilously low in rural areas, “the story about blood clots from Europe could not have come at a worse time,” said Catherine Kyobutungi, director of the African Population and Health Research Center there. “Even those who were perhaps on the fence and leaning toward getting vaccinated all of a sudden had second thoughts,” she said.

The U.S.’ pause on Johnson & Johnson shots promised a second media furor.

“When the FDA suspends, it makes headlines for days,” she said. “When it lifts the suspension, it doesn’t make as many headlines.”

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In India, a second wave of COVID-19 prompts a new exodus

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, SUHASINI RAJ and SAMEER YASIR

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s dawn broke over Mumbai, India, on Wednesday, Kaleem Ansari sat among a crowd of thousands outside the central rail station waiting for his train to pull in.

Ansari, a factory worker, carried old clothes in his backpack and 200 rupees — not quite $3 — in his pocket.

His factory, which makes sandals, had just closed.

Mumbai was locking down as a second wave of the coronavirus rippled through India. Ansari, originally from a small village nearly 1,000 miles away, had been in Mumbai a year ago when it first went into lockdown, and he had vowed not to suffer through another one.

“I remember what happened last time,” he said. “I just have to get out of here.”

Cities in India are once again locking down to fight COVID-19 — and workers are once again pouring out and heading back home to rural areas, which health experts fear could accelerate the spread of the virus and devastate poorly equipped villages, as it did last time. Thousands are fleeing hot spots in cities as India hits another record, with more than 184,000 daily new infections reported Wednesday. Bus stations are packed. Crowds are growing at railway stations.

And in at least some of their destinations, according to local officials and migrants who have already made the journey, they are arriving in places hardly ready to test arrivals and quarantine the sick.

“We are less prepared,” said K. Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India and part of the national COVID-19 task force. “The speed and scale is catching us off-balance.”

India risks repeating the traumatic mass movement that occurred last year after it enforced one of the world’s toughest national lockdowns, eliminating millions of jobs virtually overnight. That lockdown fueled the most disruptive migration across the Indian subcontinent since it was split in two between India and Pakistan in 1947. Tens of millions of lowly paid migrant workers and their families fled cities by train, bus, cargo truck, bicycle, even by blistered feet to reach home villages hundreds of miles away, where the cost of living was cheaper and they could help and be helped by loved ones.

Hundreds died on the sweltering highways. Even more died back home. The migration also played a significant role in spreading the virus, as local officials in remote districts reported that they were swamped with the sick.

This time, the Indian government has not locked down the whole country. But India’s cities are increasingly enforcing lockdown-like restrictions, meaning the tide of migrant workers leaving will most likely get worse. The authorities are reluctant to use the word lockdown — like shouting “fire!” in a crowded theater — but they are tightening up.

With the virus closing in, many people have decided to flee.

“I didn’t want to get sick all alone,” said Ajay Kumar, a vendor of mobile phone covers, who left Bangalore this past weekend for a village in Jharkhand state. “In Bangalore, the cases are increasing. And my wife said, ‘Business is not so good. Why don’t you come back?’”

“At least we are together,” Kumar said.

The full scope of India’s ability to monitor the migration is not clear. But in some places, the sudden rush of migrants appears to be taking local officials by surprise. The lack of preparations seems to mirror the larger sense that this country, whether because of fatigue or familiarity, has been more nonchalant during this second wave than it was during the first one.

Last year, officials in the large eastern state of Bihar, which supplies millions of laborers to other parts of India, intercepted migrants when they arrived at train stations. They were screened for the virus and sent to mandatory two-week quarantine whether they had symptoms or not to keep them from mixing with uninfected villagers.

This time, the migrants from cities like Mumbai — where the COVID-19 positivity rate recently hit 30% — are simply stepping off trains or buses and walking into their communities, said Nafees Ahmad Sheikh, a cafe worker who left Mumbai last week, and two other recent arrivals.

Sheikh left after rumors of an impending lockdown began spreading. He said that the train he took had been packed with migrant workers and with people traveling for a short festival period. Some migrant workers had locked themselves in the train’s bathroom to avoid paying for the tickets because they had run out of money.

“The rich can deal with another lockdown, but what will the poor do?” Sheikh said. He said he would rather die in his home village than in a city “that treats us like disposable items.”

India’s central government is sending mixed messages.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has an enormous bully pulpit, last year asked Indians to stay indoors. The roads cleared and a stunning hush descended over the nation of 1.4 billion. When Modi asked people to stand on their porches and bang pots and pans in solidarity with health care workers, they did that as well.

This time, even as he asks people to be careful and maintain social distancing, Modi is holding huge political rallies in states where his party is competing in elections. His party is asking people to gather by the thousands.

India’s inoculation drive is progressing slowly. So far, only about 8% have been vaccinated. Only this week did the government authorize the use of imported shots. Until then, the government had been relying on two domestically produced vaccines in rapidly dwindling supply.

Few of the migrants are talking about vaccines. They just want to get home.

At Mumbai’s central train station Wednesday morning, Ansari waited anxiously for his train. This time, the city had not yet shut off public transportation.

Last time it did. Ansari said that he had run out of money and had been constantly beaten by the police when he ventured out to look for food. He went down to eating one small bowl of rice a day, he said, and feared that he would starve.

“I don’t even like talking about what happened last time,” he said. “Nobody cares about us, either here or there.”

Migrant workers wait outside the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus in Mumbai, India, Monday, April 12, 2021, to get trains traveling to their hometowns amid the coronavirus pandemic. Health experts fear that as large numbers return home, the spread of the virus could accelerate and devastate poorly equipped villages.

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Iran’s top leader signals nuclear talks to resume despite Natanz sabotage

By FARNAZ FASSIHI and MEGAN SPECIA

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ran’s top leader said Wednesday that his country would keep negotiating with world powers over how to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal, quashing speculation that Iran’s delegation would boycott or quit participating in protest of the apparent Israeli sabotage of a major uranium enrichment site.

The declaration by the top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the last word on security matters in the country of 80 million, came three days after an explosive blast at the Natanz enrichment site plunged the heavily guarded facility into a blackout and disabled or destroyed hundreds of underground centrifuges used to process uranium into fuel.

Suspicion for the destruction immediately fell on Israel, which has sabotaged the Natanz site before. Israel neither confirmed nor denied the accusation but intelligence officials said it was a clandestine Israeli operation.

Outraged and embarrassed over such a security lapse, Iran vowed Tuesday to triple its uranium enrichment purity — the most brazen departure yet from its commitments under the nuclear deal.

But Khamenei’s remarks Wednesday showed that he does not want to abandon negotiations to save the deal, which has promised Iran relief from onerous economic sanctions imposed by the United States if Iranian nuclear activities are limited.

“Officials have determined that we negotiate to achieve our policies,” Khamenei said during a speech reported by Iranian media to mark the first day of the Ramadan holiday.

“We have no issue with this on the condition that they are careful for negotiations not to wear out and the parties don’t drag out the negotiations because it won’t benefit the country,” Khamenei said.

President Hassan Rouhani of Iran, who had been ambiguous about whether Iran would walk away from the negotiations, told a televised Cabinet meeting that “the Supreme Leader has clearly defined the framework of our negotiations and we will continue our work within that framework.”

The European Union, which is overseeing the diplomatic discussions in Vienna, also said they would resume, at 12:30 p.m. local time Thursday.

The discussions, which began early this month and recessed last Friday, are intended to map out a plan for the return of both Iran and the United States to compliance with the deal.

It has teetered on collapse since President Donald Trump abruptly withdrew the United States from it three years ago, restored economic sanctions and imposed new punitive measures as part of a “maximum pressure” strategy aimed at forcing Iran to agree to more restrictive terms.

Israel, which regards Iran as an existential threat, supported Trump’s decision and has expressed anger at the Biden administration’s intent to revive the agreement, arguing that it is weak and would not prevent Iran’s leaders from mi-

A photo made available by the Office of the Iranian Presidency of Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, second from the left, at an exhibition in Tehran on the country’s nuclear program. litarizing their nuclear capabilities. Iran has repeatedly said its nuclear energy program is peaceful.

But Iran responded to the Natanz blackout with a reported attack on an Israeli ship, which was said to have caused only minor damage and no fatalities, and then announced its plan to enrich uranium to 60% purity, up from 20%, moving a big step closer to the 90% level that could be used to fuel a nuclear weapon.

Iran began reneging on pledges to limit its enriched uranium stockpile under the 2015 nuclear deal after the Trump administration renounced U.S. participation.

Iranian officials have also said the country plans to replace centrifuges at Natanz with more modern ones banned under the original nuclear deal. Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Vienna-based nuclear-monitoring arm of the United Nations, said on Twitter that process could begin soon.

An Iranian parliamentary delegation visited Natanz on Wednesday, and one lawmaker said the wreckage was less extensive than from arson sabotage there last July. Speaking on the Clubhouse chat site, the lawmaker, Vahid Jalalzadeh, said some underground tunnels had been damaged but part of the facility had power and that centrifuges were operating.

There was no way to corroborate his assessment, which differed from earlier accounts of large-scale ruin.

Jalalzadeh also said Israel had recruited spies from within Iran’s intelligence apparatus and that the identity and

whereabouts of a suspected saboteur had been discovered, but that he could not reveal it. He did not explain why.

Iran has said that all of its departures from compliance with the nuclear agreement could be easily and quickly reversed when the United States rescinds its sanctions.

In recent years, Israel has carried out a series of raids and attacks targeting Iran’s nuclear scientists and its uranium enrichment facilities.

Although American and Israeli governments have collaborated before to counter what they see as Iran’s militaristic nuclear ambitions, Washington denied any role in Sunday’s blackout.

The foreign ministries of Germany, France and Britain issued a joint a statement Wednesday condemning Iran’s uranium enrichment intentions and said that they “reject all escalatory measures by any actor.”

Iran and the United States have not been negotiating directly in the talks in Vienna. Instead the other participants in the 2015 accord — Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia — are acting as intermediaries.

The first round of talks that adjourned last week was constructive, according to senior diplomats who were involved. Two working groups were formed to discuss sanctions and uranium enrichment, both tasked with devising how to bring the United States and Iran back into compliance with the 2015 deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

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Rage is the only language I have left

By CHARLES M. BLOW

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ne of the first times I wrote about the police killing of an unarmed Black man was when Michael Brown was gunned down in the summer of 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown was a Black teenager accused of an infraction in a convenience store just before his life was taken. Last summer, six years on, I wrote about George Floyd, a Black man accused of an infraction in a convenience store, this time in Minneapolis.

Both men were killed in the street in broad daylight. Brown was shot. An officer knelt on Floyd’s neck. In both cases there were multiple community witnesses to the killings. In both cases there was a massive outcry. In both cases the men were accused of contributing to, or causing, their own deaths, in part because they had illegal drugs in their systems.

Between those two killings there has been a depressing number of others. In January of 2015, The Washington Post began maintaining a database of all known fatal shootings by the police in America. Every year, the police shot and killed roughly 1,000 people.

But, as The Post points out, Black Americans are killed at a much higher rate than white Americans, and

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the data revealed that unarmed Black people account for about 40% of the unarmed Americans killed by the police, despite making up only about 13% of the American population.

Something is horrifyingly wrong. And yet, the killings keep happening. Brown and Floyd are not even the bookends. There were many before them, and there will be many after.

These killings often happen during the day and in public, not under the cover of night, tucked away in some back wood. And they are often caught on video. Tamir Rice was killed during the day. There was video. Walter Scott was killed during the day. There was video. Eric Garner was killed during the day. There was video.

Now there is another: Daunte Wright, shot and killed during the day in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, not far from where Floyd was killed. There is video.

Very little has changed. The aftermath of these killings has become a pattern, a ritual, that produces its own normalizing and desensitizing effects. We can now anticipate the explosions of rage as well and the relative intransigence of the political system in response.

That is not to say that absolutely nothing has changed, but rather that the changes amount to tinkering, when in fact our whole system of policing must be re-evaluated and fundamentally altered.

That examination, oddly enough, starts with gun control. The police justify their militarization and armed-and-ready positioning, by correctly observing that they can be outgunned by a public with such easy access to guns, including military-style guns.

But once they are armed and anxious, they can be that way in all cases: against an armed suspect as

well as one who is unarmed. To all interactions, they can bring personal biases, some of which they don’t even know they possess. And, in the blink of an eye, something tragic can be done, something that can’t be undone.

In addition, municipalities can deploy officers as a malicious arm of urban planning as well as a profit-generating enterprise. Police officers in gentrifying neighborhoods can make new arrivals feel safe by controlling and correcting existing residents. They can also be used to generate funds from fines to keep budgets in balance. All of this increases tense contacts between officers and citizens, so that even though only a tiny fraction lead to deaths, that fraction can still feel overwhelming.

It is all so perverse. And too often it is Black people, particularly Black men, who bear the brunt when all this pressure culminates in a killing.

So, it becomes hard to write about this in a newspaper because it is no longer new. The news of these killings is not that they are interruptions of the norm, but a manifestation of the norm.

There is no new angle. There is no new hot take.

There is very little new to be revealed. These killings are not continuing to happen due to a lack of exposure, but in spite of it. Our systems of law enforcement, criminal justice and communal consciousness have adjusted themselves to a banal barbarism.

This has produced in me and many others an inextinguishable rage, a calcification of contempt. As for me, I no longer even attempt to manage or direct my rage. I simply sit with it, face it like an adversary staring across a campfire, waiting to see how I am moved to act, but not proscribing that action and definitely not allowing society’s idea of decorum to proscribe it.

A society that treats this much Black death at the hands of the state as collateral damage in a just war on crime has no decorum to project. That society is savage.

I am also no longer interested in talking about Black pain and Black trauma. (I am becoming ever more convinced that there is a prurient interest in gawking at Black suffering rather than a genuine desire to remedy it.) I now focus on my rage.

I’m sure that pain and trauma are present in me, but I’m choosing to subjugate their import. Rage has ascended to my position of primacy. America scoffed and was unmoved when, for years, we spoke out of our pain. So be it. Now, rage is the only language I have left.

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a Comisión de Asuntos Laborales y Transformación del Sistema de Pensiones, presidida por el representante Domingo Torres García, celebró el jueves, una vista pública virtual, donde recibió la opinión de José Vázquez Barquet, presidente de la Asociación de Restaurantes de Puerto Rico (ASORE) y Jaime Sanabria Montañez, profesor de Derecho Laboral de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, sobre el Proyecto de la Cámara 3, que propone modificar la Ley 4-2017, también conocida como la Reforma Laboral.

De acuerdo a Vázquez Barquet, la Ley 4 aprobada en el 2017 es una muy reciente para poder medir sus efectos. “Solo cuenta con cuatro años desde su aprobación y podemos estipular que han sido cuatro años atípicos, comenzando por el paso de dos huracanes en el 2017, de los cuales el proceso de recuperación aún no ha culminado”, sentenció en comunicación escrita.

El presidente de ASORE, quien es también portavoz de las compañías Caribbean Franchise, Inc y Subway, mencionó que la industria de restaurantes ha recibido impactos sustanciales tras los terremotos del pasado enero de 2020 y la declaración de emergencia de salud pública causada por el COVID-19. “Entendemos que la derogación de la Ley 4 no debe ser el

norte, sino su revisión”, señaló.

Según la Asociación, el Proyecto en discusión, transmite un mensaje limitado relacionado al aspecto local y la relación patrono-empleado, obviando el impacto que la derogación de la Reforma Laboral en el desarrollo de nuevos empleos. “La legislación laboral, como contributiva, así como los procesos de obtención de permisos y costos de unidades son, en conjunto, los temas en que, tanto esta legislatura como la actual administración de gobierno, deben enfocar esfuerzos para

promover un verdadero desarrollo económico”, criticó Vázquez Barquet.

“Eliminar una ley que ha traído flexibilidad a la relación patrono-empleado, manteniendo los derechos adquiridos bajo las leyes laborales anteriores, no propicia la competitividad que el País necesita”, señaló.

Según el presidente de ASORE, la aprobación de la Reforma Laboral trajo consigo para los empleados a tiempo parcial un aumento en horas de trabajo, y por lo tanto, aumento en sus ingresos.

“Esto ha sido positivo para los empleados a tiempo parcial cuyas situaciones particulares no les permiten ser empleados a tiempo completo, pero han logrado ingresar más salario”.

Vázquez Barquet, también aseguró, que la Asociación favorece un análisis comprensivo de la Reforma, para ver cómo se puede mejorar para todas las partes y así lograr un cuerpo de ley balanceado, flexible y que nos ayude a ser competitivos.

“Los trabajadores son esenciales” La Comisión de Asuntos Laborales, también recibió esta mañana, la participación de Jaime Sanabria Montañez, profesor de Derecho Laboral de la Escuela de Derecho de la Universidad de Puerto Rico.

El experto en derecho laboral, compartió con los representantes múltiples recomendaciones para enmendar el Proyecto de la Cámara 3 para mejorar la actual Reforma Laboral. El licenciado presentó preocupaciones y comentarios sobre temas relacionados a las licencias de vacaciones, ley de cierre, discrimen, periodo probatorio, mesada en concepto de despido sin causa justa, empleados temporeros y la posibilidad de incluir en la medida en discusión, el reconocimiento legal, para que los padres disfruten de las licencias de maternidad, que actualmente son disfrutadas únicamente por las madres obreras.

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a procuradora de las Mujeres, Lersy Boria Vizarrondo, anunció hoy la firma de un acuerdo colaborativo con el Departamento de Seguridad Pública (DSP) para ofrecer talleres de orientación sobre violencia de género a empleados del Sistema de Emergencias 9-1-1.

Por medio del acuerdo, también se orientará para ofrecer asistencia a víctimas de violencia de género que se comuniquen a la línea de emergencias.

Los adiestramientos que llevará a cabo la OPM para el 9-1-1 abordarán el tema de la violencia de género y estarán dirigidos a los telecomunicadores de la línea de emergencias, así como a otro personal

del Negociado del Sistema de Emergencias 9-1-1.

“Lamentablemente, son muchas las víctimas de violencia de género que buscan ayuda y se comunican al 9-1-1 para recibir asistencia. Nuestra meta es adiestrar a los telecomunicadores de la línea de emergencias, así como a otro personal del Negociado, para que estén preparados durante su intervención y, además, para que sientan el apoyo de la OPM en momentos donde nos toque actuar”, sostuvo la procuradora en comunicación escrita.

La funcionaria resaltó además que “nuestra línea de orientación está disponible las 24 horas de los 7 días de la semana, para que cualquier víctima de violencia de género tenga acceso a ella y a

nuestros servicios. Con esta colaboración, creamos un puente adicional de apoyo”.

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Por su parte, el secretario del DSP, Alexis Torres, explicó que “como parte de la política pública del gobernador Pedro R. Pierluisi, este acuerdo colaborativo entre el DSP y la OPM busca proteger a toda víctima de violencia de género. Los telecomunicadores del Negociado del Sistema de Emergencias 9-1-1 son la primera línea de respuesta para las personas que llaman pidiendo ayuda en medio de una emergencia. Este acuerdo les ayudará a manejar eficientemente los casos y transferirlos directamente a personal de la OPM para dar seguimiento. Continuaremos trabajando en equipo con agencias

y entidades por el bien de Puerto Rico”.

Mientras, el comisionado del Negociado de Sistemas de Emergencias 9-1-1, Manuel González Azcuy, indicó que “para nosotros en el Negociado de Sistemas de Emergencias 9-1-1 es importante poder extender este acuerdo colaborativo que firmamos en el año 2011 con la OPM. De esta manera, retomamos los esfuerzos que permitirán agilizar los reportes de casos o llamadas relacionadas a violencia de género, y le permite a la procuradora reforzar los mecanismos para salvaguardar la vida de las víctimas de violencia doméstica. Tanto al DSP, como a la OPM y al NSE911 nos une un fin común: adelantar la causa de las víctimas o sobrevivientes de violencia”.

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This ain’t no disco: Alone in a crowd at the armory

By SIOBHAN BURKLE

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arlier this week, I crouched on my living room floor, laptop open before me, in the small space that for the past year has contained so much of my physical activity: YouTube yoga, Zoom Pilates, Instagram Live dance classes. This time, I was watching an instructional video for dancing in a much larger area — the 55,000-square-foot Drill Hall at Park Avenue Armory in New York City — alongside other people.

As live indoor performance slowly returns to the city, the Armory, with the advantage of all that space, is hosting “SOCIAL! the social distance dance club,” which began a sold-out run on Tuesday. Billed as an “interactive and experiential movement piece” and “a communal moment of cathartic release,” the event is basically an elaborate means of bopping around to music, with strangers, in a big room.

As the last year has taught us, we shouldn’t take such an opportunity for

Participants in “SOCIAL! the social distance dance club” at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, April 13, 2021. Billed as an “interactive and experiential movement piece” and “a communal moment of cathartic release,” the event is basically an elaborate means of bopping around to music, with strangers, in a big room.

David Byrne, center back, participates in “SOCIAL! the social distance dance club” at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, April 13, 2021.

Byrne also provides, in voice over, a steady stream of movement cues. granted. But for me, “SOCIAL!” never really took off, at least not into catharsis territory. Conceived of by choreographer Steven Hoggett, set designer Christine Jones and dance-obsessed musician David Byrne — a trio with many Broadway credits among them — the show invites 100 participants to groove in their own spotlights, each 6 feet in diameter, spaced 12 to 15 feet apart throughout Drill Hall. (The creative team also included choreographer Yasmine Lee and DJ Natasha Diggs.)

Over an easy-to-dance-to playlist that jumps from Daft Punk to James Brown to Talking Heads, Byrne’s recorded voice offers a steady stream of verbal cues: Move like you’re on a New York City sidewalk (“Don’t step on that pizza”); now like a zombie; now slow it down, hands in the air.

Entering Drill Hall on Tuesday, I found the first glimpse of the “dance circles” — rows upon colorful rows dotting the vast floor — to be exhilarating, full of possibility. But being confined to them for an hour of loosely instructional dance was less so. At times, strangely, the experience felt no more freeing than dancing alone in my cramped, creaky living room.

Maybe it was the tight control at every step of the event — a perhaps inevitable aspect of institutional live performance for the foreseeable future — that hampered letting go. The part in Drill Hall was just half of the logistically complicated evening, which began with a temperature check and rapid coronavirus test in the Armory’s backstage corridors; the granting of a numbered “passport” for each participant, to be worn around the neck with a lanyard; and a wait of about an hour for test results in rooms near the main hall.

As we sat waiting, a compilation of (unfortunately uncredited) popular dance videos played, seemingly sourced from YouTube and intended to get us ready to move: a flash mob at a train station; a freestyling guard at Buckingham Palace; a soul line-dancing class. The message: Anyone can dance! Yes, even you. These alternated with the instructional video sent to ticket-holders in advance, in which Byrne, an invitingly imperfect dancer, demonstrates a series of simple moves — a haphazard hip wiggle, a “stopping traffic” gesture — so that we all might dance in unison at the end of the show.

Once situated in Drill Hall, with

firm directions not to leave our designated circles, we oriented ourselves toward the glamorous person at its center: dancer Karine Plantadit, in the role of DJ Mad Love, presiding over two laptops on a raised platform. Together with “dance ambassadors” planted throughout the space — dancers who knew what they were doing and didn’t hold back — she provided a visual and energetic anchor, someone to follow if we were lost. By way of introduction, the voice of performance artist Helga Davis sought to reassure that we might feel shaky in this unfamiliar experience, but that was OK. As Byrne’s voice took over, starting us off with a hand-sanitizing dance (rubbing the palms together, flicking the imaginary excess off the fingers), I tried to relax and have a good time. I looked at the people around me. Some were jamming; others, including the man who spent the whole show standing still with his thumbs in his pockets, were not. I landed somewhere in between, with bursts of inspiration swallowed by spells of disappointment, even sadness.

Dancing at a 15-foot distance from people you don’t know, even in near unison, does not, alas, fill the void of a year without dancing together. And the show’s attempts at some kind of healing — as Byrne acknowledged that “all of us have had a loss,” or declared that “we will rise again” — landed as trite and tepid against the emotional complexity of the past year.

It was also hard not to bristle at his claim, during a brief opening history of the Armory, that “what used to be a social club for the elites is now available to everyone.” In this case, after a year of heated and necessary conversation about equity in the arts, “everyone” was anyone with $45 (plus fees) who snagged one of a small number of tickets for the privilege of dancing safely indoors.

At the end, Byrne told us we were all VIP members of the social-distance dance club. Surely this was meant as welcoming and light. But it didn’t bring me closer to those who were there, and only made me feel farther from those who weren’t.

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Screamers, a missing link of Los Angeles punk, is missing no more

By NATE ROGERS

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.K. Barrett hadn’t spoken to Tommy Gear in two decades when he reached out about releasing a secret stash of their old music. There were no hard feelings — the two had simply grown apart over the years — but it was tricky business, regardless. Their band, Screamers, was something of a phantom in the history of Los Angeles punk rock.

Despite being one of the most popular acts of the scene’s budding years in the late ’70s, routinely packing shows alongside peers like X and Germs, there had never been an official Screamers release. No LPs, no EPs — not even one measly single. To a certain subset of punk fans, Barrett may as well have been suggesting that he and Gear release the true contents of Area 51. But a five-song, 15-minute 12-inch called “Screamers Demo Hollywood 1977” will be out on Friday.

“It wasn’t meant to have an afterlife,” Barrett, 68, who’s best known as a production designer (“Being John Malkovich,” “Her”), said on a video call. “It was just something we did. You document things.”

The set was recorded at the band’s thenheadquarters, a charming Craftsman in Hollywood dubbed “the Wilton Hilton,” solely as a means to get gigs early on. But after the music was recovered from Barrett’s archives 40-plus years later, and dusted off by the label Superior Viaduct, Gear relented.

“Honestly, it wasn’t as if we were adverse to a record per se,” said Gear, the group’s main architect and songwriter, along with vocalist Tomata du Plenty, in a phone interview. “We actually had conversations with managers and record company people at the time, because they clearly thought we were drawing people to

Tommy Gear of the punk band Screamers, in Los Angeles, March 13, 2021.

The band is putting out its first-ever release, “Screamers Demo Hollywood 1977,” despite being one of the most popular acts of the scene’s budding years in the late ’70s. clubs and getting press. But frankly, they didn’t know what to do with us. We didn’t fit their paradigm. And, of course, they were making offers that were useless, anyway.”

Gear was speaking on the record about his former band for the first time in at least 30 years, by his estimation. Any lack of promotion on his part aside, though, the shadow of Screamers has been growing substantially since the rise of internet-aided bootlegs and YouTube.

These “Hollywood 1977” demos are among

the hissy, unauthorized recordings already out there, but hearing a cleaned-up version, transferred from the original reel-to-reel tape, is like stepping into the Wilton Hilton after years of being stuck outside, listening from the street.

“It’s not always easy/To get what you deserve,” du Plenty howls on “Punish or Be Damned,” over dueling distorted keyboards, one played by Gear, the other by David Brown, who left the group in late 1977. (He went on to co-found the seminal underground label Dangerhouse; du Plenty died of cancer in 2001, at 52, his illness having been complicated by a long battle with HIV.) Barrett anchors the group on drums, playing in tandem with a drum machine. There were no guitars, then or ever, in the band. “We’re talking about a period before ‘punk’ became a bin at a record store,” said Gear.

The Screamers story takes place in Southern California, but Gear and du Plenty met in Seattle, as part of the queer performance-art troupe Ze Whiz Kidz and soon formed a heavy glam band, the Tupperwares, ultimately deciding to try their luck in Hollywood. Barrett was an aspiring visual artist from Oklahoma and left for Los Angeles with $100 in his pocket. The quartet adopted the Screamers name and were immediate icons among the sea of misfits flocking to the city. (Artist Gary Panter designed their logo of a hair-spiked punk, roaring full tilt.)

“Was there something in the water?” said John Doe, the singer and bassist for the band X, who also felt a calling to move West on a whim in 1976. “Yeah, it was cheap rent. And people could own cars — and a sense of freedom.”

A clique of “50 people, 60 tops,” according to Barrett, constituted the entirety of the initial Los Angeles punk scene. Concerts were just as much a social event as a musical one, and

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the nascent Slash magazine served as a “newsletter” for those who were hanging out. At that point, the crowd was notably diverse and free thinking, particularly in terms of sexuality.

“I thought it was very inclusive,” said Joan Jett, who was one of those 50 or 60 people and whose group the Runaways was a source of inspiration to many soon-to-be punks. She also produced the only Germs album, “(GI)” from 1979. “It was wonderful, actually. Some of the best times of my life I remember — or don’t remember — are from that time period.”

It would prove to be a fleeting moment.

By 1980, the scene’s music was transforming into something else entirely: faster, angrier.

Eventually, conceptual acts like Screamers faded away. (A contentious, drawn-out film project known as “Population: 1,” made by filmmaker Rene Daalder, drove the group apart as well.)

Gear said the band was an experiment.

“You know how chemistry experiments are: They’re going to be a panacea or they’re going to blow up in your face.” Since moving on, he has lived a private life — he cited his age as “ageless” — working mostly in the “personal computer world,” he said.

The arrival of the first-ever Screamers release, almost a half-century late, seems to tie a bow on the band’s saga — but it may reopen it more than anything else. As to whether there’s any danger in ripping away the mystique that was so central until now, Barrett isn’t worried.

“Whenever you try to dig out something from artistic scenes, you end up with crumbs that get you a flavor of what it might’ve been,” he said. “Those documents add up to tell a new truth, because the real truth is missing a lot of parts. So I feel like we’ve left some breadcrumbs. And this is a pretty good one.”

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April 16-18, 2021

A starter kit for aspiring wine lovers

By ERIC ASIMOV

T

he terrible human and economic cost of the pandemic cannot be ignored.

It has forced many people to test the limits of their creativity and endurance.

And maybe, for a lucky unburdened few, all that time at home has provided an opportunity to explore new interests.

It may have been cooking or knitting. Sales of guitars shot upward in 2020 as people found relief in playing music. Or maybe you discovered that you love wine, and you have become curious enough to want to learn more about it.

Many great books can help to broaden your knowledge, yet with wine, the best way to begin the journey is by drinking.

Whether you prefer to do that systematically or randomly is up to you. But whichever you decide, you’ll want just a few tools to enhance the experience.

Let me explain that. You really don’t need anything to enjoy wine short of a corkscrew (you don’t even need that if the bottle has a screw cap) and a glass (no, do not drink wine out of the bottle unless you’ve just won the World Series). But while those are the bare essentials, a few practical items will heighten your enjoyment.

Here is what you need to get started.

Corkscrew The single best corkscrew is what you’ve seen in countless restaurants, sometimes called the waiter’s friend. It’s essentially a knifelike handle with a spiral worm for inserting into the cork, a double-hinged fulcrum for resistance, and a small, folding blade for cutting the foil that protects the cork.

This sort of corkscrew, which was deemed the top choice a few years ago by Wirecutter, a product review site owned by The New York Times, is compact and inexpensive, $10 or $12 or so. Wine shops often carry them, as do many online markets.

It pays to buy a few if, like me, you habitually misplace them. With a bit of practice, it is easy to use.

Wine Glasses You can relish a wine served in a squat juice glass, but you will enjoy it even more drinking it out of a proper stemmed glass.

Good wine is sensitive to temperature.

Johannes Leitz with a glass of one of his nonalcoholic wines at his winery in Geisenheim, Germany, March 6, 2021.

Many great books can help to broaden your knowledge, yet with wine, the best way to begin the journey is by drinking.

Both white wine and red need to be served cool, certainly cooler than the temperature of your body. A stemless glass requires you to hold it by the bowl, thus transmitting the heat of your hands to the glass, warming it and the wine.

That is the reason good wine glasses have a stem. The proper way to hold a wine glass is by the stem so that you don’t heat up the bowl.

It’s worth taking the trouble to do this for another reason, too. The color of good wine is both beautiful and revealing. Over time, you will learn to discern some important characteristics of the wine. A white wine may get darker over time, or if it has oxidized. A red wine, by contrast, may lighten around the edges as it ages. Holding the bowl with your fingers smudges the glass, obscuring the clarity of the wine.

To assess the wine, the glass needs to be clear, not colored, beveled or otherwise decorated in such a way that blocks your view.

Choosing a glass is a lot simpler than you might think. For one thing, you need only one set. While the wine industry, and especially glass manufacturers, have promoted the notion that each sort of wine

requires its own specially designed glass — not just red, white and sparkling, but pinot noir, cabernet sauvignon, riesling and so on — the truth is that one set of all-purpose glasses will serve you well.

Good all-purpose glasses ought to be vertically shaped with a tall bowl that is wide at the stem and tapers gently inward toward the lip. This shape channels aromas upward, amplifying them as you swirl and sniff.

A few years ago I joined some colleagues at Wirecutter to review wine glasses. We concluded the best all-around value in wine glasses was the Libbey Kentfield Estate Signature All-Purpose, which sells for $35 to $40 for a set of four.

Last December, Wirecutter revisited wine glasses and reaffirmed the selection of the Libbey. That’s a pretty good endorsement. They are not the only possibility, but they offer a good example of a well-shaped, all-purpose glass.

Decanter A decanter is not essential. But it’s useful and simple and can enhance youthful wines by opening up their aromas and flavors by exposing the wine to air.

What is decanting? It simply means to pour the wine from the bottle into another container before serving. Many people assume decanting is only useful for older red wines, which might accumulate sediment over the course of long aging. But I like to decant young wines, too, both white and red, particularly those that might be high in acidity or tannins. I definitely do not always decant. But I like to do it occasionally.

You can spend a lot of money on fancy decanters. That’s unnecessary. An icedtea pitcher works great, so long as it is big enough to comfortably hold the contents of a 750-milliliter bottle. At home I use 1-liter Erlenmeyer flasks, which have a certain mad-scientist charm to them.

Things to Avoid Wine abounds in useless gadgets: Advertisements tout the virtues of aerators, which purport to age your wine in a matter of seconds, and similarly magical wands, said to eliminate the possibility of headaches. Save your money.

You will also encounter pumps, closures and other tools said to protect a partly

consumed bottle of wine from spoiling.

Avoid them, too.

Good wine — by which I mean carefully made, not expensive — is much hardier than people think. You can safely leave unfinished wine in the bottle for two or three days. Just put the bottle someplace cool and out of the sunlight.

The Wine All of this paraphernalia would be useless without wine. If you are investing in the proper equipment, you also need to commit to serving good wine, made from conscientiously farmed grapes and painstaking winemaking.

The single best way to achieve this goal is to develop a relationship with the best wine shop in your vicinity. Unlike supermarkets and the equivalent, which generally sell popular brands regardless of quality, good wine shops carefully select their inventory, picking wines that they can stand behind.

How can you tell if a shop is good? It will be hospitable, its inventory will reflect a point of view, and the wine will be well stored and displayed. Generally, it will be a place that makes you comfortable, that you want to visit.

In selecting wine, the best values are most often in the $15 to $25 range. Some wines, particularly the most famous names, will be more expensive. You will have to pay more for a good Champagne, Barolo or Napa Valley cabernet. But plenty of great, less expensive bottles exist.

The best way to start out, once you identify a good shop, is to ask for a mixed case of wine. Tell the merchant your budget and parameters, say, half white, half red, with two sparkling wines, or a few rosés.

Or, if a case is too much of an investment, just get a bottle or two at a time. As you drink the wines, note which ones you like and which ones you do not. Keep in mind that you can learn something from every bottle as you begin to identify your personal taste.

When you finish, go back to the merchant with your notes, and ask for another mixed case with selections based on your reactions to the first set. Your learning journey has begun. As long as you continue to love wine, it will never end.

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One pan, 30 minutes and a superior spring salmon

By MELISSA CLARK

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f all the ways to cook a sugar snap pea, roasting at high heat was never at the top of my list.

To me, the joy of a sugar snap was always in its crunch — that juicy pop when you bit one in half.

And that is exactly what a stint in a hot oven would obliterate.

Besides, with their season being so frustratingly short in the Northeast, I hardly had enough time to eat my fill of them raw or quickly blanched before they disappeared. Roasting was just not a priority.

Eventually, though, I had to try it. After all, I’ve enjoyed roasting pretty much every other vegetable out there. (Even the less obviously roast-able ones, like radishes and lettuces, have their charms.) So I threw a pan of peas into the oven to see what would happen.

Visually, the result was not encouraging. The peas wilted, shriveled and dimmed, their bright green fading into a muddy khaki.

But the flavor was divine: a rich, concentrated essence of sweet peas layered with savory caramelized notes. Roasting may quiet the peas’ crunch, but it amplifies their sweetness — and they have sweetness in spades.

Paired with spiced salmon fillets and red onions, the roasted sugar snaps form the basis of a speedy one-pan meal. Peas and salmon are a classic combination, but the almost-candylike flavor of the sugar snaps coupled with the earthy spice blend on the fish make the dish taste different — deeper, more aromatic and complex.

Although you could probably use almost any spice blend here, I like those with warm, earthy notes, like baharat and garam masala. Combined with some grated garlic, I smeared the spice blend onto the salmon before briefly browning the fish, leaving fragrant, savory drippings in the pan. Those drippings then seasoned the peas and onions, infusing them as they softened.

Because salmon cooks so quickly, you’ll need to keep your eye on it. For fish that’s still rare at the center, look for a temperature of 110 to 120 degrees at the center of the fillet. Or, poke a fillet with a toothpick or paring knife; it should slide in easily, but not yet flake.

The only thing you’ll need to complete this one-pan meal is a loaf of crusty bread. Not only will it soak up all those tasty drippings at the bottom of the pan, but it can even provide the missing crunch.

And to Drink …

Salmon is assertive enough to go with red wine.

Simply grilled, it’s a wonderful pairing for red Burgundy and other pinot noir wines. You could certainly open a red and enjoy it with this dish, but given the vegetables and the spice blend, I would probably opt for a white, preferably a rich white that would match the weight of the fish.

A good Chablis would be an excellent choice, as would

Spiced salmon with sugar snap peas and red onion. other chardonnays, provided they are not too oaky. You could also try a dry riesling from Austria or Alsace, or a dry Savennières from the Loire Valley. Sherry lovers can imagine how delicious a fino would be with this dish.

Others might be pleasantly surprised. — ERIC ASIMOV

Spiced salmon with sugar snap peas and red onion Yield: 4 to 6 servings Total time: 30 minutes 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 2 garlic cloves, finely grated or minced 1 teaspoon baharat spice blend, or use another warm and earthy spice blend, such as garam masala 4 (6- to 8-ounce) salmon fillets Kosher salt and black pepper 2 medium red onions 1 pound sugar snap peas (4 cups) Lime wedges 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro or mint leaves and tender stems

1. Heat oven to 400 degrees. In a small bowl, stir together 1 tablespoon oil, garlic and baharat. Season salmon all over with salt and black pepper. Rub spice mixture all over salmon. Set salmon aside while slicing the onions and sugar snap peas.

2. Cut the onions in half root-to-stem, then peel them and slice into 1/4-inch-thick half-moons. Trim the peas and cut them in half crosswise.

3. In a large, preferably nonstick ovenproof skillet, heat 2 tablespoons oil over high heat. Add fish, skin-side down if there’s skin, and cook until browned, 3 to 4 minutes. Transfer salmon to a plate, browned-side up. (Don’t sear the other side; the salmon will finish cooking in the oven.)

4. Reduce heat to medium and add the remaining tablespoon of oil to the skillet. Stir in onions and cook until lightly golden, 3 minutes. Add snap peas and a pinch each of salt and pepper, stirring everything to coat with pan juices. Cook until peas have softened and browned slightly, 5 to 7 minutes. Put salmon, browned-side up, on top of peas and transfer pan to the oven. Roast until fish is just cooked through, 5 to 8 minutes longer.

5. Squeeze a little lime juice over salmon and transfer fish to serving plates. Stir herbs into peas and onions. Taste, and add more salt and lime juice, if needed. Serve with the salmon, with the lime wedges on the side.

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El Alguacil que suscribe anuncia y hace constar que, en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia (In Rem) que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la parte demandada sobre el inmueble que a continuación se describe: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: EL LEGADO CONDOMINUM REGIME ONE APARTMENT 613.

Square shaped one bedroom unit in the El Legado Condominium Regime I, located at Jobos Ward of the Municipality of Guayama with a total area of 724.6181 square feet, equivalent to 67.3192 square meters distributed in 639.2014 square feet, equivalent to 59.3838 square meters of enclosed area, and 85.4167 square feet, equivalent to 7.93547 of terrace. The main entrance located on the South East side of the apartment leading to the common hallway leading to the exterior of the building. This apartment is located in building six of the Regime, occupies part of the first floor of the building and has been assigned a share of .33% in the Common Elements of the Regime. The maximum length of this unit is 8.89 meters, and the maximum width is 8.43 meters. Its boundaries are: by the NORTH, in a distance of 8.89 meters with common green areas; by the SOUTH, in a distance of 5.59 meters with the common wall that separates it from apartment 614 and in a distance of 3.30 meters with the common lobby

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Friday, April 16, 2021 area; by the EAST, in a distance of 8.43 meters with the common wall which separates it from apartment 612; by the WEST, in a distance of 6.45 meters with the common wall which separates it from apartment 614 and in a distance of 1.90 meters with the green common area. This unit contains a foyer, living/ dinning area, kitchen, bedroom with closet, bathroom, hall a laundry closet and a covered balcony. Finca diecinueve mil setecientos uno (19,701) inscrita al folio noventa y siete (97) del tomo trescientos cuatrocientos noventa y tres (493) de Guayama, última inscripción, según libro cuarta. Se separa de la finca 18,397 inscrita al folio 11 del tomo 480 de Guayama.

CARGAS Y GRAVÁMENES. Por su procedencia: Se halla afecta a servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica, Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Condiciones Restrictivas, servidumbre permanente de paso de agua a favor del Pueblo de Puerto Rico, dos derechos de servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico, y servidumbre de paso como predio sirviente a favor de la finca 17773 de Guayama como predio sirviente. Por sí: HIPOTECA constituida por los titulares registrales en garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de Cabo Rojo, por la suma de $117,725.00 con intereses al 5.5% anual y vencimiento el 1ro de junio de 2034. Sujeta a Cláusula de Aceleración. Constituida por la Escritura #45, otorgada en Cabo Rojo, el 23 de mayo de 2014, ante el notario Luis Rivera Mendoza, e inscrita al folio 97 vuelto del tomo 493 de Guayama, finca 19701 e inscripción tercera. DEMANDA expedida el 7 de diciembre de 2018 ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Yauco, Caso Civil #YU2018CV00327, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de Cabo Rojo, demandante versus José Ramón Monserrate Santiago y Luizabeth Pabón Álvarez, y la sociedad legal de gananciales compuesta por ambos, demandados. Por la cual se anota demanda por la suma de $121,613.37, inscrita el 20 de septiembre de 2019 al tomo Karibe, finca 19701 de Guayama. Anotación A. Trasladado el caso al Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guayama, mediante orden del 3 de enero de 2019. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 6 de mayo de 2021; a las 10:30 de la

mañana en la oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Guayama, la cantidad mínima a aceptarse en la primera subasta será de $117,725.00 Dicha venta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el balance que refleja el préstamo hipotecario por la suma la suma de: $131,950.68. Si en la primera subasta no se produjese la venta del inmueble antes descritos, la SEGUNDA SUBASTA se efectuará el día 13 de mayo de 2021; a las 10:30 de la mañana en la oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Guayama y la cantidad mínima aceptada será de $78,483.33. Si en esta segunda subasta no se produjese adjudicación, entonces la TERCERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 20 de mayo de 2021; a las 10:30 de la mañana en la oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Guayama y el tipo mínimo de subasta a aceptarse será de $58,862.50. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento y se le adjudicará al demandante la finca objeto de este procedimiento, dentro de los diez (10) días subsiguientes a dicha tercera subasta por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Para mejor información las personas interesadas pueden examinar los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Este edicto de subasta se publicará una vez por semana por espacio de dos semanas en un diario de circulación general en Puerto Rico y en los lugares públicos correspondientes. 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 subsistente.

Se entenderá, que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Se expresará que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. El abogado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Rafael Fabre Colón, PO Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, teléfono 787-265-0334 / 787265-0335. DADA en Guayama, Puerto Rico, hoy 24 de marzo de 2021. Litzy M. Cora Anaya, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE GUAYAMA.

SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA- doscientos veinticuatro (224) y MÓN. doscientos veinticuatro B (224B) de la comunidad; por el SUR, FIRSTBANK con la carretera estatal número PUERTO RICO dos (2); por el ESTE, con las Demandante v. parcelas número doscientos CRISTALEX, INC.; FELIX veintitrés y doscientos veintitrés VALOIS ROLON LA D de la comunidad; y por el TORRE, MARTA LAURA OESTE, con la parcela de terrePAGAN BATISTA Y LA no número doscientos veintirés Puerto Nuevo. Finca 29,064.

SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE A. Por su procedencia está afecta BIENES GANANCIALES a: a) Servidumbre a favor de la COMPUESTA POR Autoridad de Acueductos y AlAMBOS; Estados Unidos cantarillados de Puerto Rico.

Por sí está afecta a: a) Hipoteca de America en garantía de un pagaré a faDemandados vor del Banco Popular de PuerCIVIL NUM. DCD2016-1227 to Rico, o a su orden, por la (506). Sobre: COBRO DE DIsuma principal de $175,000.00, NERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIcon intereses al 7.75% anual, POTECA POR LA VÍA ORDIvencedero a la presentación, NARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE constituida mediante la escrituAMERICA EL PRESIDENTE ra número 15, otorgada en BaDE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS yamón, Puerto Rico, el día 12 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO de abril de 2005, ante el notario DE PUERTO RICO. SS. EDICMario Muñoz García, e inscrita TO DE SUBASTA. Yo Maribel al folio 114 del tomo 586 de Toa Lanzar Velazquez, Alguacil del Baja, finca número 29,064, insTribunal de Primera Instancia, cripción 2da. b)Hipoteca en gaSala Superior de Bayamón, al rantía de un pagaré a favor de público en general. CERTIFICO Firstbank Puerto Rico, o a su Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumorden, por la suma principal de plimiento de un Mandamiento $257,000.00, con intereses al de Ejecución de Sentencia fe12%, vencedero a la presentachado el 6 de febrero de 2020 ción, constituida mediante la que me ha sido dirigido por la escritura número 319, otorgada Secretaría del Tribunal de Prien San Juan, Puerto Rico, el mera Instancia, Sala Superior día 25 de junio de 2009, ante el de Bayamón, en el caso arriba notario Antonio A. Hernández indicado, venderé en la fecha o Almodóvar, e inscrita al folio fechas que más adelante se in114 del tomo 586 de Toa Baja, dican, en pública subasta al finca número 29,064, inscripmejor postor, en moneda legal ción 3ra. c) Hipoteca en garande los Estados Unidos de Amétía de un pagaré a favor de rica, en efectivo, cheque certifiFirstbank Puerto Rico, o a su cado o giro postal, Sala 503 orden, por la suma principal de quinto piso local que ocupa en $75,000.00, con intereses al el Centro Judicial de Bayamón, 12% anual, vencedero a la prePuerto Rico, Carretera 2 Kilósentación, constituida mediante metro 10.4, Esquina Calle Estela escritura número 188, otorban Padilla, Bayamón, Puerto gada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, Rico, todo derecho, título e inteel día 5 de mayo de 2010, ante rés que tenga la parte demanel notario Antonio A. Hernández dada, en el inmueble que se Almodóvar, e inscrita al folio describe a continuación, pro114 del tomo 586 de Toa Baja, piedad de la parte demandada finca número 29,064, inscripCristalex, Inc.; Felix Valois Roción 4ta. d) Hipoteca en garanlón la Torre, Marta Laura Pagán tía de un pagaré a favor de Batista y la Sociedad Legal de Firstbank Puerto Rico, o a su Bienes Gananciales compuesta orden, por la suma principal de por ambos. Dirección Física: $33,000.00, con intereses al Bo. Candelaria, Carr #2 KM 12.00% anual, vencedero a la 17.2, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico presentación, constituida me00949. Finca 29,064, inscrita al diante la escritura número 71, folio 210 del tomo 542 de Toa otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Baja, Registro de la Propiedad Rico, el día 27 de agosto de de Puerto Rico, Sección Se2013, ante el notario Antonio A. gunda de Bayamón. RÚSTICA: Hernández Almodóvar, e inscriParcela de terreno radicada en ta al folio 114 del tomo 586 de la Comunidad Rural Candelaria Toa Baja, finca número 29,064, del Barrio Candelaria del térmiinscripción 6ta. e) Embargo Feno municipal de Toa Baja, Puerderal 2016-003642-FED contra to Rico, con una cabida superfiCristalex Inc. A Corporation, secial de mil trescientos cuarenta gún Certificación del día 24 de y uno punto cincuenta y seis marzo de 2016, dirección RD metros cuadrados (1,341.56 KM17 2 Barrio Candelaria, Toa m.c.), formada por agrupación Baja, Puerto Rico, 00949, por la de las parcelas número dossuma de $25,320.61, notificaLEGAL NOTICE cientos veintitrés B y doscientos ción número 205080916, anoESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO veintitrés C, en lindes por el tado el día 15 de abril de 2016, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- NORTE, con las parcelas núal Asiento 2016-003642-FED NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA mero doscientos veintitrés E,

The San Juan Daily Star del Sistema Karibe. f) Embargo Federal contra Cristalex, Inc., Corp., dirección P.O. Box 2654, Bayamón, PR 00960, por la suma de $9,625.62, notificación número 217848916, Certificación de fecha 20 de junio de 2016, anotado el día 27 de junio de 2016, al Asiento 2016006753FED del Sistema Karibe. g) Embargo Federal contra Cristalex, Inc., Corp., dirección RD 2 KM17, Bo. Candelaria, Toa Baja, PR 00949, por la suma de $7,507.57, notificación número 222742216, Certificación de fecha 26 de julio de 2016, anotado el día 11 de agosto de 2016, Asiento 2016007622FED del Sistema Karibe. h) Embargo Federal contra Cristalex Inc., seguro social patronal xx-xxx0143, Direccion PO Box 2654, Bayamón, PR 00960, por la suma de $30,581.15, notificación número 332187118, Certificación de fecha 7 de noviembre de 2018, anotado el día 13 de diciembre de 2018, al Asiento 2018011168-FED del Sistema Karibe. No podemos precisar que la entidad embargada y la entidad titular en esta finca sean la misma. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 24,510 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: Primera Subasta: 2 de junio de 2021, Hora: 9:45AM, Tipo Mínimo: $175,000.00. Escritura Número 15, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 12 de abril de 2012, ante el Notario Mario Muñoz García. Segunda Subasta: 9 de junio de 2021, Hora: 9:45AM, Tipo Mínimo: $116,666.00. Tercera Subasta: 16 de junio de 2021, Hora: 9:45AM, Tipo Mínimo: $87,500.00. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación que se transmite y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si las hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante las acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de las mismas, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Conforme a la Sentencia dictada el día 16 de septiembre de 2019 y archivada en los autos el 7 de octubre de 2019, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: Al 1 de febrero de 2016, la suma de $512,289.04 dividido de la siguiente manera: $491,700.62 de principal, $19,336.97 en intereses y $1,251.45 por concepto de cargos por mora, más los intereses y cargos que se han acumulado y se siguen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago; se condena

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también a losa co-demandados a pagar honorarios de abogado por no menos del 10% del importe inicial del pagaré, todo según pactado. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores.

Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de marzo de 2021. MARIBEL LANZAR VELAZQUEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

MMG I PR CFL, LLC Plaintiff V.

MARIA ESTHER FERREIRA SÁNCHEZ; FERNANDO RAÚL MONTIVEROS FERREIRA

Defendants Civil No.: 19-CV-01731. (DRD).

COLLECTION OF MONIES & FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: MARÍA ESTHER FERREIRA SÁNCHEZ; FERNANDO RAÚL MONTIVEROS FERREIRA:

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of Plaintiff, secured by the property described, in the amount of $108,051.65 of principal, plus interest, which as of August 21, 2020, amounts to the sum of $18,016.99 plus $2,451.04 in late charges and other fees, disbursements, costs and agreed upon attorney’s fees in the amount of $12,639.57. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested

parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following properties will be sold at public auction: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Dieciocho (18) del bloque P, situado en la Urbanización Levittown, barrio Sabana Seca de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con un área de TRESCIENTOS DIEZ PUNTO CINCUENTA (310.50) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, en veintitrés metros con solar número diecisiete; por el SUR, en veintitrés metros con el solar número diecinueve; por el ESTE, en trece punto cincuenta metros con el solar número siete; y por el OESTE, en trece punto cincuenta metros con la calle Luz Oeste, según plano calle cuatrocientos cuarenta. Inscrito al folio cuarenta y dos del tomo ciento doce de Bayamón, finca siete mil doscientos nueve. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Primera. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: a) None. Junior Liens: a) Lis pendens dated July 3, 2019, recorded on October 21, 2019 in the Karibe system for Toa Baja, property #7,209, in the amount of $108,051.65, for case #19-01731. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE for the herein described property, shall be held on MAY 14, 2021 AT 10:00 AM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $120,000.00. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on MAY 21, 2021 AT 10:00 AM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is two thirds of the minimum bid for the first public sale. lf said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD AUCTION will be held on MAY 28, 2021 AT 10:00 AM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is half the minimum bid for the first public sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. Other liens: Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. lt shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens (express, tacit, implied, or legal), shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and

that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master designated by the Court is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, but the deed of conveyance and possession to the property may be executed prior to the issuance of said order as allowed by applicable law and regulations.

In Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, this 30 day of March 2021. Michel A. Rachid Fournier, Special Master.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

ADLINE MARIE HORTA VELÁZQUEZ; JASON BRENES CATINCHI

Demandado CIVIL NÚM: SJ2019CV08989.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo PEDRO HIEYE GONZALEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, al público en general. CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 18 de marzo de 2021 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso arriba indicado, venderé en la fecha o fechas que más adelante se indican, en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, en mi oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, Puerto Rico, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada, en el inmueble que se describe a continuación, propiedad de la parte demandada Adline Marie Horta Velázquez; Jason Brenes Catinchi. Dirección Física: Urb. Monte Atenas, B-10 Calle Rhodas, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926. Finca 17,423 inscrita al folio 231 del tomo 549 de Rio Piedras Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de San Juan. URBANA: Solar identificado con el número diez (10) del Bloque B en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Chalets de Monte Atenas, situada en el Barrio Cupey de Río Piedras, del término municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida

superficial de doscientos treinta y seis punto dos mil ochenta (236.2080) metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en un distancia de diez punto treinta y seis (10.36) metros, con el solar número cinco (5); por el SUR, en una distancia de diez punto treinta y seis (10.36) metros, con la Calle número dos (2); por el ESTE, en una distancia de veintidós punto ochenta (22.80) metros, con el solar número nueve (9); y por el OESTE, en una distancia de veintidós punto ochenta (22.80) metros, con el solar número once (11).

Sobre dicho solar enclava una casa tipo hilera para fines residenciales.” Finca 17,423. Por su procedencia está afecta a: a. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico. b. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico. c. Servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company. d. Servidumbre a favor del Municipio de San Juan. e. Servidumbre perpetua de paso peatonal y vehicular para la instalación de facilidades de servicio. Por sí está afecta a: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Asociación de Empleados del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico (AEELA), o a su orden, por la suma principal de $252,000.00, con intereses al 6.750% anual, vencedero el día 1 de mayo de 2036, constituida mediante la escritura número 62, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 25 de abril de 2006, ante el notario Guillermo Mojica Franceschi, e inscrita al folio 33 vuelto del tomo 714 de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 17,423, inscripción 6ta. b. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Asociación de Empleados del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico (AEELA), o a su orden, por la suma principal de $63,000.00, con intereses al 6.5% anual, vencedero el día 1 de mayo de 2021, constituida mediante la escritura número 63, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 25 de abril de 2006, ante el notario Guillermo Mojica Franceschi, e inscrita al folio 34 del tomo 714 de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 17,423, inscripción 7ma. c.

Aviso de Demanda de fecha 4 de septiembre de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número SJ-2019CV-08989, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Garantías, seguido por el Banco Popular de Puerto Rico versus Adline Marie Horta Velázquez y Jason Brenes Catinchi, anotado el día 10 de diciembre de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 17,423, Anotación “A”. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 17,423 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta

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serán la siguiente: Primera Subasta: 10 de mayo de 2021, Hora: 9:30AM, Precio Mínimo: $252,000.00, Hipoteca: Escritura Número 62 sobre Primera Hipoteca, otorgada el día 25 de abril de 2006, ante el notario Guillermo Mojica Franceschi.

Segunda Subasta: 17 de mayo de 2021, Hora: 9:30AM, Precio Mínimo: $168,000.00. Tercera Subasta: 24 de mayo de 2021, Hora: 9:30AM, Precio Mínimo: $126,000.00. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación que se transmite y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si las hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante las acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de las mismas, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Conforme a la Sentencia dictada el día 19 de diciembre de 2019, notificada el 2 de enero de 2020 y publicada el 10 de enero de 2020, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: La suma principal de $203,575.05, más intereses a razón de 6.75%, desde el 1 de junio de 2018, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de $343.21 por cargos por mora, más la suma de $25,200.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres

sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de abril de 2021. PEDRO HIYE GONZALEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAMUY

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE PETRA WINIFRED HEREDIA RIVERA COMPUESTA POR ÉDGAR C. RODRÍGUEZ HEREDIA, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: CM2019CV00626.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESIÓN DE PETRA WINIFRED HEREDIA RIVERA COMPUESTA POR ÉDGAR C. RODRÍGUEZ HEREDIA, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRERO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Camuy, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 5 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Camuy, Camuy, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más ade-

lante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, el 5 de noviembre de 2020, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 10 de noviembre de 2020. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 12 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 19 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado.

Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Camuy, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 18 de febrero de 2021, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad ubicado en: Calle 4 C-20 (5C – Ext. Del Carmen) Urb. Del Carmen Bo. Puente, Camuy, PR 00627, y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Puente de Camuy, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número 20 del Bloque “C” de la Urbanización Del Carmen, con una cabida superficial de trescientos veinticinco metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con el solar diez y siete del propio bloque, en una longitud de trece metros; por el SUR, con la Calle cuatro, en una longitud de trece metros; por el ESTE, con el solar diez y ocho del propio bloque, en una longitud de veinticinco metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar veintiuno del propio bloque en una longitud de veinticinco metros. Enclava en este solar una casa de concreto dedicada a vivienda. Finca número 5,668, inscrita al folio 65 del tomo 109 de Camuy. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Arecibo. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: $135,000.00, por concepto de balance de principal, más intereses acumulados, y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón del 7.00% por ciento anual hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $13,500.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de di-

26 nero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 77, otorgada el día 24 de febrero de 2010, en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Ana V. Piñero Parés y consta inscrita al folio 190 del tomo 312 de Camuy, finca número 5,668, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección II de Arecibo. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos 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. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $135,000.00, con intereses al 7.00% anual, vencedero el día 23 de abril de 2088 constituida mediante la escritura número 78, otorgada en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de febrero de 2010, ante el notario Ana V. Piñero Parés, e inscrita al folio 190 del tomo 312 de Camuy, finca 5,668 inscripción 14ta. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $135,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $90,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $67,500.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o

cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá diligenciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerradura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este desalojo. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente

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Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Camuy, Puerto Rico, a 10 de marzo de 2021.

WILFREDO OLMO SALAZAR, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRERO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAMUY.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MANATÍ

FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE, LLC. Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL LUIS RÍOS ROSA T/C/C ÁNGEL L. RÍOS ROSA COMPUESTA POR MAGDALIS RÍOS VÁZQUEZ, ÁNGEL LUIS RÍOS VÁZQUEZ, AIDÉ RÍOS MELÉNDEZ, ÁNGEL OTILIO RÍOS CRUZ, ÁNGEL ANTONIO RÍOS CRUZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE ROSA MARÍA VÁZQUEZ RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C ROSA M. VÁZQUEZ RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C ROSA M. VAZQUEZ T/C/C ROSA M. VÁZQUEZ DE RÍOS COMPUESTA POR MAGDALIS RÍOS VÁZQUEZ, ÁNGEL LUIS RÍOS VÁZQUEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: C4CD2017-0108.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL LUIS RÍOS ROSA T/C/C ÁNGEL L. RÍOS ROSA COMPUESTA POR MAGDALIS RÍOS VÁZQUEZ, ÁNGEL LUIS RÍOS VÁZQUEZ, AIDÉ RÍOS MELÉNDEZ, ÁNGEL OTILIO RÍOS CRUZ, ÁNGEL ANTONIO RÍOS CRUZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES

DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE ROSA MARÍA VÁZQUEZ RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C ROSA M. VÁZQUEZ RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C ROSA M. VAZQUEZ T/C/C ROSA M. VÁZQUEZ DE RÍOS COMPUESTA POR MAGDALIS RÍOS VÁZQUEZ, ÁNGEL LUIS RÍOS VÁZQUEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, WILFREDO RODRÍGUEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Manatí, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 6 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Manatí, Manatí, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 25 de julio de 2019. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 13 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Manatí, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 7 de octubre de 2019, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad ubicado en: 57 Pedro Muniz Rivera St Luchetti Dev, Manatí PR 00674, y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado frente a la Calle Fraternidad del Municipio de Manatí, con una cabida superficial apro-

ximadamente de 247.71 metros cuadrados; en lindes por el NORTE en 24.30 metros, con solar propiedad del municipio de Manatí; por el SUR, en 24.45 metros, con solar ocupado por Luis Rivera; por el ESTE, en 10.55 metros con solar ocupado por el Sr. Arturo Garcia Rosa; por el OESTE, en 10 metros, con una faja de terreno de 1.50 metros de ancho reservado para la futura construcción de a acera en la Calle Fraternidad. Enclava una casa de bloques y cemento armado. Finca número 4,213, inscrita al folio 16 del tomo 133 de Manatí. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Manatí. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: $$68,971.34, incluyendo intereses y otros gastos acumulados hasta el 14 de marzo de 2017, y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón del 3.154% por ciento anual, hasta su completo pago; más la cantidad de $16,200.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 57, otorgada el día 30 de junio de 2014, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Rosa M. Vazquez de Rios y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Manatí, Puerto Rico, finca número 4,244, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí, Sección de Manatí.

Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $162,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $108,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $81,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre

del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos 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. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá diligenciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá rom-

per cualquier cerradura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este desalojo. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Manatí, Puerto Rico, a 10 de marzo de 2021.

WILFREDO RODRÍGUEZ CARRIÓN, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL PLACA #135, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE MANATÍ.

OF MYRNA VÁZQUEZ GARCÍA COMPOSED MARICARMEN VALE VÁZQUEZ, NÉSTOR VALE VÁZQUEZ, ANGEL VALE VÁZQUEZ, JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $254,609.71, according to the affidavit of indebtment filed by the Plaintiff (Docket No. 29), plus the interest rate convened of 3.264% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendants, The Estate of Rufino Néstor Vale López composed of Maricarmen Vale Vázquez, Néstor Vale Vázquez, John Doe and Jane Doe and; The Estate of Myrna Vázquez García composed Maricarmen Vale Vázquez, Néstor Vale Vázquez, Angel Vale Vázquez, John Doe and Jane Doe, also owes and is ORDERED to pay Reverse Mortgage Funding, LLC all adLEGAL NOTICE vances made under the mortgaUNITED STATES DISTRICT ge note including but not limited COURT DISTRICT OF PUER- to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% TO RICO of the original REVERSE MORTGAGE ($53,100.00) principal amount to cover costs, FUNDING, LLC expenses, and attorney’s fees Plaintiff V. guaranteed under the mortgage ESTATE OF RUFINO obligation. The records of the NÉSTOR VALE LÓPEZ case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested COMPOSED OF parties at the Office of the Clerk MARICARMEN VALE of the United States District VÁZQUEZ, NÉSTOR Court, Room 150 or 400 FedeVALE VÁZQUEZ, ÁNGEL ral Office Building, 150 Chardon VALE VÁZQUEZ, JOHN Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

Pursuant to the DOE AND JANE DOE AS WHEREAS: terms of the aforementioned A POSSIBLE MEMBERS Judgment, Order of Execution, WITH UNKNOWN and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special NAME; THE ESTATE OF MYRNA VÁZQUEZ Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currenGARCÍA COMPOSED cy in cash or certified check OF MARICARMEN VALE without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest VÁZQUEZ, NÉSTOR VALE VÁZQUEZ, ÁNGEL bidder and at the office of the States Marshal for the VALE VÁZQUEZ, JOHN United District of Puerto Rico, Room DOE AND JANE DOE AS 200 – Federal Office Building, POSSIBLE MEMBERS 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover WITH UNKNOWN the sums adjudged to be paid to NAME; CENTRO the plaintiff, the following proDE RECAUDACIÓN perty. “URBANA: Solar marcaDE INGRESOS do con el número 8 del Bloque MUNICIPALES; UNITED A de la Urbanización Villas Del STATES OF AMERICA Pilar, localizado en el Barrio Monacillos de la Municipalidad Defendants Civil Action No.: 3:19-cv-01388. de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 403.00 NOTICE OF SALE. metros cuadrados. ColindanTo: THE ESTATE OF do por el NORTE con el solar RUFINO NÉSTOR VALE número 7 del bloque A, en una LÓPEZ COMPOSED OF distancia de 26.00 metros; por el SUR, con el solar 9 del bloMARICARMEN VALE que A en una distancia de 26.00 VÁZQUEZ, NÉSTOR metros; por el ESTE con los soVALE VÁZQUEZ, lares número 2 y 1 del bloque A, JOHN DOE AND JANE en una distancia de 15 metros 50 centímetros y por el OESTE DOE; THE ESTATE

The San Juan Daily Star con la calle Quebrada Arenas, en una distancia de 15.50 metros. Sobre el descrito solar enclava una casa de concreto para fines residenciales.” Property Number 7,082 recorded at page 171 of volume 233 of Monacillos Este y el Cinco, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section V of San Juan.

The mortgage is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, at page 133 volume 314 of Monacillos Este y el cinco, 18th inscription. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $531,000.00, due on May 1st, 2087 pursuant to deed number 124, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on April 29, 2010, before notary María Isabel García Mantilla, and recorded, at page 133 of volume 314 of Monacillos, property number 7,082, 19th inscription. Other Liens: None. 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 the 11TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:20 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $531,000.00.

In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 18TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:20 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $354,000.00, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 25TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:20 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $265,500.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid

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over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens.

For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 16th day of March of 2021. PEDRO A. VÉLEZBAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, specialmasterpr@gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

LIVE WELL FINANCIAL, INC. Plaintiff V.

THE ESTATE OF ALTAGRACIA ROMANACCE PORRATADORIA A/K/A ALTAGRACIA ROMANACCE DE RODRIGUEZ COMPOSED OF MARIBEL RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE, JOSÉ GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE, GRACIELA MARGARITA RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE AND CARLOS SERGIO RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE, JANE DOE AND JOHN DOE; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil Action No.: 3:16-cv-3004ADC. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: THE ESTATE OF ALTAGRACIA ROMANACCE PORRATADORIA A/K/A ALTAGRACIA ROMANACCE DE RODRIGUEZ COMPOSED OF MARIBEL RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE, JOSÉ GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE, GRACIELA MARGARITA RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE AND CARLOS SERGIO RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE, JANE DOE AND JOHN DOE; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES

DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $91,149.92, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendants, the Estate of Altagracia Romanacce Porratadoria a/k/a Altagracia Romanacce de Rodriguez composed of Maribel Rodriguez Romanacce, José Gabriel Rodriguez Romanacce, Graciela Margarita Rodriguez Romanacce and Carlos Sergio Rodriguez Romanacce, Jane Doe and John Doe to pay Live Well Financial, Inc., all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% (18,750.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 400 or 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 400 or 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property “URBANA: Parcela de terreno localizada en la Urbanización San Demetrio del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico e identificada en el Plano de Inscripción final de la Urbanización San Demetrio, con el número cuarenta (40) del Bloque “X” con un área superficial de trescientos cincuenta punto cero cero metros cuadrados (350.00 m/c). Colinda por el NORTE, en veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00m), con el solar número cuarenta y uno (41); por el SUR, en veinticinco punto cero cero metros (25.00m), con el solar número treinta y nueve (39); por el ESTE, en catorce punto cero cero (14.00), con la Calle “C”; y por el OESTE, en catorce punto cero cero metros (14.00m), con el solar número catorce (14). Enclava una casa de concreto reforzado y bloques de concreto para fines residenciales.” Property Number 6,007 recorded at page 136 of volume 125 of Vega Baja, Registry of the Property

of Puerto Rico, Section IV of Bayamón. The mortgage is recorded at Karibe Volumen, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section IV of Bayamón, inscription 9th. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $187,500.00, due on January 31, 2087 pursuant to deed number 160, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on April 23, 2014, before notary María I. García Mantilla, and recorded, at Karibe volume, property number 6007, 10th inscription. Other Liens: None.

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 the 11TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:25 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $187,500.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 18TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:25 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $125,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 25TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 10:25 AM. and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $93,750.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such

confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens.

For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 3rd day of March of 2021. PEDRO A. VÉLEZBAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, specialmasterpr@gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

LEGAL NOT ICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE, LLC. Plaintiff V.

THE ESTATE OF ANA ROSA JIMÉNEZ AYALA A/K/A ANA JIMÉNEZ AYALA A/K/A ANA JIMÉNEZ A/K/A ANA MARÍA JIMÉNEZ COMPOSED OF MAGALY NIEVES JIMENEZ, GISELLA NIEVES JIMENEZ, CARLOS M. NIEVES JIMENEZ, DAMARIS E. NIEVES JIMENEZ, AND SAMUEL NIEVES JIMENEZ; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil Action No.: 3:15-cv-2285PAD. COLLECTION OF MONEY AND MORTAGAGE FORECLOSURE COMPLAINT. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: THE ESTATE OF ANA ROSA JIMÉNEZ AYALA A/K/A ANA JIMÉNEZ AYALA A/K/A ANA JIMÉNEZ A/K/A ANA MARÍA JIMÉNEZ COMPOSED OF MAGALY NIEVES JIMENEZ, GISELLA NIEVES JIMENEZ, CARLOS M. NIEVES JIMENEZ, DAMARIS E. NIEVES JIMENEZ, AND SAMUEL NIEVES JIMENEZ; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $87,989.00, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% accumulated since March 7, 2016 per annum until the debt is paid in

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full. The defendant The Estate of Ana Rosa Jiménez Ayala a/k/a Ana Jiménez Ayala a/k/a Ana Jiménez a/k/a Ana María Jiménez composed of Magaly Nieves Jimenez, Gisella Nieves Jimenez, Carlos M. Nieves Jimenez, Damaris E. Nieves Jimenez, and Samuel Nieves Jimenez also owes and is ORDERED to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLc, all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($18,450.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 or 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 or 400 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: “RUSTICA: Parcela número 2 en al Barrio Pugnado Afuera del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1,537.36 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela o predio número 1 del plano de inscripción que se adjudicara a Dolores Jiménez Ayala; al Sur con el remanente de la finca que se adjudicara Agapito Jiménez Ayala; al ESTE, con más terrenos del remanente o finca principal; y al OESTE, con una franja de terreno de 5.50 metros de anche por 14.60 metros de largo, dedicada a uso público.” Property Number 12,754, recorded at page 250 of volume 222 of Vega Baja, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section IV of Bayamón. The mortgage at the Karibe volume of Vega Baja, property number 12,754, 6th inscription. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $184,500.00, due on February 22, 2080, pursuant to deed number 189, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on December 28, 2012, before notary Alfonso J. Gómez Roubert, and recorded, at Karibe volume of Vega Baja, property number

12,754, 7th inscription. Other Liens: None. 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 the 11TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:30 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $184,500.00.

In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the the 18TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:30 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $123,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the the 25TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:30 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $92,250.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens.

For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 2nd day of March of 2021.

PEDRO A. VÉLEZ-BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, specialmasterpr@gmail. com, 787-672-8269.

FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE, LLC. Plaintiff V.

THE ESTATE OF ZOE LONGORIA QUIÑONES A/K/A ZOE LONGORIA QUIÑONEZ A/K/A SOE LONGORIA QUIÑONES A/K/A SOE LONGORIA QUIÑONEZ A/K/A ZOE LONGORIA A/K/A SOE LONGORIA A/K/A ZOE LONGORIA VIUDA DE BEY A/K/A ZOE L. DE BEY A/K/A ZOE L. BEY A/K/A ZOE LONGOVIA QUIÑONES COMPOSED OF MARITZA BEY, MANUEL BEY LONGORIA AND EDALIZ BEY LONGORIA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil Action No.: 3:16-cv-3065SEC. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: THE ESTATE OF ZOE LONGORIA QUIÑONES A/K/A ZOE LONGORIA QUIÑONEZ A/K/A SOE LONGORIA QUIÑONES A/K/A SOE LONGORIA QUIÑONEZ A/K/A ZOE LONGORIA A/K/A SOE LONGORIA A/K/A ZOE LONGORIA VIUDA DE BEY A/K/A ZOE L. DE BEY A/K/A ZOE L. BEY A/K/A ZOE LONGOVIA QUIÑONES COMPOSED OF MARITZA BEY, MANUEL BEY LONGORIA AND EDALIZ BEY LONGORIA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $164,065.82, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendants, the Estate of Zoe Longoria Quiñones a/k/a Zoe Longoria Quiñonez a/k/a Soe Longoria Quiñones a/k/a Soe Longoria Quiñonez a/k/a Zoe Longoria a/k/a Soe Longoria a/k/a Zoe Longoria Viuda de Bey a/k/a Zoe L. de Bey a/k/a Zoe L. Bey a/k/a Zoe Longovia Quiñones composed of Maritza Bey, Manuel Bey Longoria and Edaliz Bey Longoria, also owes LEGAL NOTICE and is ORDERED to pay FinanUNITED STATES DISTRICT ce of America Reverse, LLC COURT DISTRICT OF PUERall advances made under the TO RICO mortgage note including but not

28 limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($26,250.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 or 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 or 400 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property “URBANA: Solar marcado con el número mil ciento sesenta y nueve (1169) en el bloque M guión treinta y siete (M-37) del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Luis Muñoz Rivera radicado en el Barrio Frailes del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de trescientos sesenta punto sesenta y tres (360.63) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en veinticuatro punto noventa y ocho (24.98) metros, con el solar número mil ciento setenta (1170) del bloque M guión treinta y siete (M-37); por el SUR, en veinticuatro punto noventa y ocho (24.98) metros, con el solar número mil ciento sesenta y ocho (1168) del bloque M guion treinta y siete (M-37); por el ESTE, en catorce punto ochenta y cinco (14.85) metros, con la calle denominada Street G; y por el OESTE, en trece punto noventa y dos (13.92) metros, con el solar número mil ciento sesenta y cuatro (1164) del bloque M guion treinta y siete (M-37) del mencionado plano. Según inscripción segunda (2da) se expresa que se ha edificado una residencia de hormigón reforzado de una sola planta que consta principalmente de tres (3) cuartos dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina, cuarto de baño y balcón.”

Property Number 12,174 filed at page 168 of volume 172 of Guaynabo, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section of Guaynabo. The mortgage is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Section of Guaynabo at page 31, volume 1,248 of Guaynabo. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its

order, in the original principal amount of $262,500.00, due on October 1st, 2078 pursuant to deed number 2, issued in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, on January 15, 2013, before notary Saideth Cristóbal Martínez, and recorded, at page 31 of volume 1,248 of Guaynabo, property number 12,174, 13th inscription. Other Liens: None.

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 the 11TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 10:45 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $262,500.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 18TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 10:45 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $175,000.00, 9:30am, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 25TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 10:45 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $131,250.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied.

WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In

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San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 4th day of March of 2021. PEDRO A. VÉLEZ-BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, specialmasterpr@ gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE, LLC Plaintiff V.

GRECIA YOLANDA GUTIERREZ MARTINEZ A/K/A GRECIA Y. GUTIERREZ; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil Action No.: 17-cv-1869.

NOTICE OF SALE.

To: GRECIA YOLANDA GUTIERREZ MARTINEZ A/K/A GRECIA Y. GUTIERREZ; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $150,654.79, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.300% per annum until the debt is paid in full.

The defendant Grecia Yolanda Gutierrez Martinez a/k/a Grecia Y. Gutierrez was also ordered to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC, all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% (20,850.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation.

The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 or 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 or 400 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property. “URBANA: Solar veintidós A del Bloque 2C de la Urbanización Metrópolis, localizado en el Barrio Martín González del municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de trescientos treinta y seis metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar dieciocho A, en una longitud de catorce metros; por el

SUR, con la Avenida C, en una longitud de catorce metros; por el ESTE, con el solar veintidós, en una longitud de veinticuatro metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar veintitrés, en una longitud de veinticuatro metros. Enclava una casa de concreto para vivienda.” Property Number 41,225, recorded at page 49 of volume 983 of Carolina, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Carolina. The mortgage is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Section of Carolina II at page 42, volume 1,479 of Carolina. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $208,500.00, due on July 28, 2084 pursuant to deed number 970, issued in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, on November 14, 2011, before notary María G. Chevere Mauriño, and recorded, at page 42 of volume 1,479 of Carolina, property number 41,225, 5th inscription. Other Liens: None.

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 the 11TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:55 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $208,500.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 18TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:55 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $139,000.00, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 25TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:55 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $104,250.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being

bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens.

For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 4th day of March of 2021. PEDRO A. VÉLEZBAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, specialmasterpr@gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE, LLC. Plaintiff V.

THE ESTATE OF JUAN RAMÓN RIVERA REYES A/K/A JUAN R. RIVERA REYES COMPOSED OF DAMIÁN N. JIMENEZ, JANE DOE, JOHN DOE AND GLADYS MARGARITA JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ A/K/A GLADYS JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ; GLADYS MARGARITA JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ A/K/A GLADYS JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil Action No.: 17-cv-1950.

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE AND COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: THE ESTATE OF JUAN RAMÓN RIVERA REYES A/K/A JUAN R. RIVERA REYES COMPOSED OF DAMIÁN N. JIMENEZ, JANE DOE, JOHN DOE AND GLADYS MARGARITA JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ A/K/A GLADYS JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ; GLADYS MARGARITA JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ A/K/A GLADYS JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to re-

cover from defendants the principal sum of $123,309.84, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendants, the Estate of Juan Ramón Rivera Reyes a/k/a Juan R. Rivera Reyes composed of Damián N. Jimenez, Jane Doe, John Doe and Gladys Margarita Jiménez López a/k/a Gladys Jiménez López; Gladys Margarita Jiménez López a/k/a Gladys Jiménez López, also owes and is ORDERED to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($22,200.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 or 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 or 400 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property. “RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno con una cabida superficial de mil doscientos treinta y dos metros cuadrados con cincuenta y cinco centímetros (1,232.55 m.c.), en el BARRIO NARANJO de Comerío, Puerto Rico. En lindes por el NORTE, con José A. Reyes; por el SUR, con el Río Arroyado, y la finca de la cual se segrega; por el ESTE, con la Carretera número 156; por el OESTE, con el Río Arroyata.” Property Number 6,275, recorded at page 177 of volume 88 of Comerío, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section Barranquitas. The mortgage is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico page 191 of volume 152 of Comerío, Section of Barranquitas. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $222,000.00, due on May 19th, 2100 pursuant to deed number 4, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on January 26, 2013, before notary Fernando E. Doval, and recorded, at page 191 of volume 152 of Comerío, property number

6,275, 5th inscription. Other Liens: None. 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 the 11TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 11:00 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $222,000.00.

In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 18TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 11:00 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $148,000.00, 9:30am, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 25TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 11:00 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $111,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied.

WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 4th day of March of 2021. PEDRO A. VÉLEZ-BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, specialmasterpr@ gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL AUGUSTO COGOLLO PUELLO, COMPUESTA POR: FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, FREDESVINDA CINTRÓN ORTIZ, POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2019CV01146.

(704). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo ALBERTO NEGRÓN ROMÁN, ALGUACIL PLACA #435, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, al público en general.

CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 21 de noviembre de 2019 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso arriba indicado, venderé en la fecha o fechas que más adelante se indican, en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal, en mi oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, Puerto Rico, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada, en el inmueble que se describe a continuación, propiedad de la parte demandada Sucesión de Rafael Augusto Cogollo Puello, compuesta por: Fulano y Mengano de Tal, como posibles herederos desconocidos, Fredesvinda Cintrón Ortiz, por sí y en la Cuota Viudal Usufructuaria. Dirección Física: Urb. Santa Elvira, 5M, 14 St., Caguas, PR 00725. Finca 28,941, inscrita al folio 115 del tomo 865 de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Caguas. URBANA: Solar marcado con el numero cinco de la manzana “M” en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Santa Elvira, situada en el Barrio Tomas de Castro de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos, sesenta y dos metros cuadrados, con setenta y cuatro centímetros y en lindes por el NORTE, con el solar “M” guion seis y LEGAL NOTICE la calle dieciséis, distancia de ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO doce metros con cincuenta cenDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- tímetros; por el SUR, con la ca-

The San Juan Daily Star lle número catorce, distancia de cinco metros cincuenta centímetros en arco y doce metros cincuenta centímetros; por el ESTE, con el solar “M” guion cuatro, distancia de veintitrés metros; y por el OESTE, con la calle número dieciséis, distancia de dieciséis metros y un arco de cinco metros cincuenta centímetros. En este solar enclava una casa de concreto, diseñada para una familia. Finca 28,941: Por su procedencia está afecta a: a. Servidumbre a favor de la Eastern Sugar Association. b. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico. c. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico. d. Condiciones restrictivas sobre edificación de uso. e. Servidumbre a favor de Municipio de Caguas. Por sí está afecta a: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de RG Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $15,000.00, con intereses al 13 ½ % anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 200, otorgada en Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 17 de julio de 1998, ante la notario Carmen Del Pilar Rivera Fontanez, e inscrita al folio 118 vuelto del tomo 865 de Caguas, finca número 28,941, inscripción 4ta. b. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $49,000.00, con intereses al 10.95% anual, vencedero el día 1 de febrero de 2017, constituida mediante la escritura número 5, otorgada en Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 16 de enero de 2001, ante el notario Miguel Alonso Cordero Gonzalez, e inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 1595 de Caguas, finca número 28,941, inscripción 5ta., c. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 23 de octubre de 2009, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caso Civil número EACI-200904585, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por RG Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, versus Rafael Augusto Cogollo Puello y su esposa Fredesvinda Cintron Ortiz, mediante la cual se reclama el pago de la hipoteca de la inscripcion 4ta., por la suma de $1,365.83 y otras sumas, al folio 2856 del tomo 1793 de Caguas, finca número 28,941, inscripcion 6ta, como Asiento Abreviado extendida las líneas el día 22 de noviembre de 2017, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. (Fue presentado el día 1 de marzo de 2010 al Asiento 153 del Diario 1153). d. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 7 de julio de 2017, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caso Civil

número EDC-2017-0587, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico contra Rafael Augusto Cogollo Puello y su esposa Fredeswinda Cintrón Ortiz también conocida como Fredesvinda Cintrón Ortíz, mediante la cual se reclama el pago de la hipoteca de la inscripción 5ta reducida a la suma de $41,094.42 y otras sumas, anotado el día 20 de mayo de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Caguas, finca número 28,941, Anotación “B”. e. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 4 de abril de 2019, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, en el Caso Civil número CG2019CV01146 seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Rafael Augusto Cogollo Puello y su esposa Fredeswinda Cintrón Ortiz, y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por ambos, mediante la cual se relama el pago de la hipoteca de la inscripción 5ta reducida a $41,094.42, mas otras sumas, anotada el día 28 de mayo de 2019 al tomo Karibe de Caguas, finca número 28,941, Anotación “C” y última. f. AL ASIENTO 2018-070107CA01 DEL SISTEMA KARIBE, se presentó el día 24 de julio de 2018, Instancia expedida en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de junio de 2018, ante la notario Belma Alomar García, mediante la cual se solicita la cancelación de la hipoteca por la suma de $15,000.00, por estar prescrita. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 28941 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: FECHA DE SUBASTA: PRIMERA SUBASTA: 26 DE ABRIL DE 2021 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $49,000.00. HIPOTECA: Escritura Número 5, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 16 de enero de 2002, ante el Notario Miguel Alfonso Cordero González. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: 3 DE MAYO DE 2021 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $32,666.67.

TERCERA SUBASTA: 10 DE MAYO DE 2021 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $24,500.00. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación que se transmite y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si las hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante las acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de las mismas, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Conforme a la Sentencia dictada el día 30 de agosto de 2019

Friday, April 16, 2021 y archivada en los autos el 7 de octubre de 2019, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: Al 1 de febrero de 2017, las siguientes cantidades: la suma principal de $41,094.42, la suma de $15,524.34, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de marzo de 2021. ALBERTO NEGRÓN ROMÁN, ALGUACIL PLACA #435, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

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

FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C FANNIE MAE DEMANDANTE VS.

JOSÉ RAFAEL MACHUCA MACHÍN, SU ESPOSA MIRTA MORALES RIVERA T/C/C MYRTA

MORALES RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2019CV12215.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 13 de marzo de 2020 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 23 de marzo de 2021 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Residential apartment number four hundred one of an irregular shape of reinforced concrete, concrete blocks and a gypsum board, located on the fourth level of Condominium La Rosaleda, San Ignacio Avenue and state road eight hundred forty one, Monacillos Ward of the Municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a total approximate private area of eight hundred eighty one square feet and thirty six hundredths of a square feet, equivalent to eighty one square meters and eighty eight hundredths of a square meter. It consists of an open terrace, living room, dining room, kitchen, two bathrooms, one master bedroom, various closets and a walk-in-closet. It bounds by the EAST, in a irregular line in several distances on thirty four feet equivalent to ten meters and thirty six hundredths of a meter with western wall of western stairway of the building, the ventilation shaft corridor leading to elevators and with western wall of apartment four hundred three; by the WEST, in an irregular line, in several distances on thirty four feet equivalent to ten meters and thirty six hundredths of a meter with open space above planting area facing the swimming pool facilities, the garbage station and San Ignacio Street; by the NORTH, in an irregular line in several distances on thirty two feet one inch equivalent to nine meters and seventy seven hundredths of a meter with open space above planting area facing the boundary on the adjacent property; by the SOUTH, on an irregular line in several distance on thirty two feet one inch equivalent to nine meters and seventy seven hundredths of a meter with open space above the planting area facing the principal en-

trance to the parking area. Con un porciento de participación sobre los elementos comunes generales de uno punto quince por ciento y en los elementos comunes limitados de catorce punto sesenta por ciento. FINCA NÚMERO: 22,839, inscrita al folio 162 del tomo 738 de Monacillos, sección III de San Juan. Nota aclaratoria: En el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III, la descripción registral consta tal y como fue transcrita anteriormente. En la Escritura número 408, otorgada el 29 de junio de 2007 y en la Escritura número 100, otorgada el 23 de febrero de 2012 consta lo siguiente; • By the EAST, in an irregular line in several distances on thirtyfour feet equivalent to ten meters and thirty-eight meter. • By the WEST, in an irregular line, in several distances on thirty-four feet equivalent to ten meters and thirty-eight meter. Dirección Física: BARRIO MONACILLOS COND. LA ROSALEDA (t/c/c Cond. Vista Verde) APT. 401, AVE. SAN IGNACIO, CARR. 141 RÍO PIEDRAS PR 00921.

Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 20 de mayo de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de San Juan. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $134,400.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 27 de mayo de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $89,600.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 7 de junio de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $67,200.00. Si se declare 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 mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $115,918.82 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 4.00%

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anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Por la presente también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. 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. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 13 de abril de 2021.

EDWIN E. LOPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR. PEDRO HIEYE GONZALEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESION DE OTTO FERNANDEZ BLANCO T/C/C OTTO MANUEL FERNANDEZ BLANCO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES EN DICHA SUCESION

Demandado(a) Civil: GB2019CV00885. Sala: 201. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SUCESION DE OTTO FERNANDEZ BLANCO T/C/C OTTO MANUEL FERNANDEZ BLANCO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES EN DICHA SUCESION.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 8 de abril de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de abril de 2021.

En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 8 de marzo de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MAIRENI TRINTA MALDONADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSLEGAL NOTICE TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO BAYAMÓN DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUORIENTAL BANK NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Demandante V. TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS-

EFRAIN RIVERA MARQUEZ Y SU ESPOSA CARMEN LYDIA ORTIZ MARRERO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a) Civil: BY2020CV03954. Sala: 703. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA) IN REM. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: EFRAIN RIVERA MARQUEZ Y SU ESPOSA CARMEN LYDIA ORTIZ MARRERO, POR SÍ Y COMO COADMINISTRADORES DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 9 de abril de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 9 de abril de 2021. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 9 de abril de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA E. COLLAZO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Demandante V.

SUCESION GREGORIO LOPEZ PINTO COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION CARMEN JULIA NEGRON RIVERA

30 COMPUESTA POR JOHN (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAPOR EDICTO. ESTADOE Y JANE ROE COMO MIENTO DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, POSIBLES HEREDEROS El Presidente de los Estados DESCONOCIDOS; Unidos El Estado Libre AsociaESTADOS UNIDOS DE do de Puerto Rico.

A la parte co-demandada: AMERICA; CENTRO RAMÓN GARCIA DE RECAUDACION DE RIVERA a su última INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandado(a) dirección conocida: Civil: BY2020CV01037. Sala: FISICA: #78 CALLE 3 BO. 503. Sobre: COBRO DE DINEESPERANZA PARCELAS RO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN- CIENEGUETA ARECIBO, PR 00612; y POSTAL: HC TENCIA POR EDICTO. 3 BOX 55024 ARECIBO, A: JOHN DOE Y PR 00612.

JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la SeDESCONOCIDOS DE cretaría de este Tribunal una LA SUCESION DE Demanda en Cobro de Dinero GREGORIO LOPEZ y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra, en la cual se alega entre PINTO; JOHN ROE otras cosas que la parte co-deY JANE ROE COMO mandada Ramón García Rivera POSIBLES MIEMBROS adeuda a la parte demandante DESCONOCIDOS DE $43,626.93 por concepto de LA SUCESION CARMEN principal, desde el 1ro de julio JULIA NEGRON RIVERA. de 2019, más intereses al tipo (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de febrero de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de febrero de 2021. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 26 de febrero de 2021.

LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. IVETTE M. MARRERO BRACERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

RAMÓN GARCÍA RIVERA Y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: AR2021CV00209.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA

pactado de 3.75% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación.

Además la parte co-demandada Ramón García Rivera 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 $5,085.50. Además la parte co-demandada Ramón García Rivera se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $5,085.50 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $5,085.50 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 234, otorgada en Manatí, Puerto Rico, el día 8 de junio de 2012, ante el notario Gary E. Biaggi Silva, de la finca número 31,960, inscrita al Folio 201 del Tomo 1292 de Arecibo, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Primera. 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. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado

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de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramaiudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCION al Lcdo.

Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 625-7001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del termino indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oirle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal.

DADA hoy 12 de abril de 2021, en Arecibo, Puerto Rico. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. YADIRA LIZ CUEVAS CORREA, SECRETARIO(A).

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

JOSÉ A. CRUZ VÉLEZ

Demandado Civil Núm.: A1CI201800916.

Salón: 601. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: JOSÉ A. CRUZ VÉLEZ.

Por la presente se le emplaza a usted y se le requiere para que dentro del término de TREINTA (30) días desde la fecha de la Publicación por Edicto de este Emplazamiento, notifique a la LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, Condominio Las Nereidas, Local 1-B, Calle Méndez Vigo esquina Amador Ramírez Silva, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680; Apartado 2342, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-2342, Teléfonos: (787) 832-9620 y (845) 345-3985, Abogada de la Parte Demandante, cuya dirección es la que queda indicada, copia de su Contestación a la Demanda, radicando el original de dicha Contestación en el Tribunal de Aguadilla. Copia de la Demanda, así como de este Emplazamiento, podrán ser obtenidas en la Secretaría de este Tribunal, apercibiéndose que en caso de no hacerlo usted así dentro del término indicado, podrá anotarse la rebeldía en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expido bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 29 de marzo de 2021. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRE-

TARIA. ZUHEILY GONZÁLEZ RECCIÓN FÍSICA: Carretera AVILÉS, SUB-SECRETARIA. #846 Bloque U #27 Urb. Ciudad Universitaria, Trujillo Alto, P.R. LEGAL NOTICE 00976. AFECTA POR SU PROESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO CEDENCIA: SERVIDUMBRES DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- a favor de la Autoridad de FuenNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA tes Fluviales de Puerto Rico; CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO- Autoridad de Acueductos y AlLINA SALA SUPERIOR. cantarillados de Puerto Rico; Municipio de Trujillo Alto y ConPR RECOVERY AND restrictivas sobre edifiDEVELOPMENT JV, LLC diciones cación. AFECTA POR SI: HIDemandante v.

POTECA: En garantía de un MI PEQUEÑO ANGELITO pagaré a favor de BANCO DE EN EL REY DE LOS DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO PARA PUERTO RICO, o a su NURSERIES, INC.; orden, por la suma de CREATIVE TOOLS $365,000.00, con interés al priADVERTISING, INC. me rate, y vencedero a la prey NOEMI BETHZAIDA sentación, según consta escriSANTANA RIVERA tura #44, otorgada en San Demandados Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 18 de CIVIL NÚM. FCD2011-0368. junio de 2004, ante el notario SALA: 408. SOBRE: cobro de Eduardo Tamargo, inscrita al dinero Y EJECUCION DE HI- folio 33 del tomo 703 de Trujillo POTECA (VIA ORDINARIA). Alto, finca #30,489, inscripción AVISO DE SUBASTA, ESTA- 4ta de fecha 21 de junio de DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL 2005. EMBARGO FEDERAL: PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA- Por $20,359.60, contra MI PEDOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL QUEÑO ANGELITO EN EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. REY DE LOS NURSERIES, S.S. YO, SAMUEL GONZALEZ S.S. #66-0630380, Notificación ISAAC, el Alguacil que suscri- #915379913. Anotado al folio be, por la presente anuncia y 81, asiento 2, Registro de Emhace constar, que en cumpli- bargos Federales #9 del Regismiento del Mandamiento de tro De San Juan, Sección IV, el Ejecución de Sentencia expedi- día 21 de febrero de 2013. EMdo por la Secretaria del Tribunal BARGO FEDERAL: Por de Primera Instancia de Puerto $11,193.07, contra MI PEQUERico, procederé a vender en ÑO ANGELITO EN EL REY DE pública subasta y al mejor pos- LOS NURSERIES, S.S. #66tor, quien pagará el importe de 0630380, Notificación la venta en dinero efectivo, en #141461515. Anotado al folio cheque certificado o en cheque 240, asiento 5, Registro de Emde gerente a la orden del algua- bargos Federales #3 del Regiscil suscribiente en moneda de tro De San Juan, Sección V, el curso legal de los Estados Uni- día 27 de enero de 2015. EMdos de América el día 6 de BARGO FEDERAL: Por mayo de 2021, a las 9:45 de la $11,193.07, contra MI PEQUEmañana, en mi oficina localiza- ÑO ANGELITO EN EL REY DE da en el Centro Judicial de Ca- LOS NURSERIES, S.S. #66rolina, todo título, derecho o in- 0630380, Notificación terés que corresponda a las #141461215. Anotado al folio partes codemandadas sobre el 61, asiento 2, Registro de Eminmueble que se describe a bargos Federales #13 del Recontinuación: “URBANA: Solar gistro De San Juan, Sección I, radicado en la Urbanización el día 2 de febrero de 2015.

Ciudad Universitaria, situada EMBARGO FEDERAL: Por en el Barrio Cuevas de Trujillo $11,193.07, contra MI PEQUEAlto, Puerto Rico, con un área ÑO ANGELITO EN EL REY DE de setecientos veinticinco me- LOS NURSERIES, S.S. #66tros cuadrados (725.00 m.c.). 0630380, Notificación En lindes por el NORTE, con #141461015. Anotado al folio servidumbre de Autoridad de 199, asiento 3, Registro de EmAcueductos y Alcantarillados de bargos Federales #7 del RegisPuerto Rico, distancia de vein- tro De Humacao, el día 3 de fetiocho metros (28.00m) y nove- brero de 2015. EMBARGO cientos treinta y tres metros FEDERAL: Por $11,193.07, (93.003m); por el SUR, con el contra MI PEQUEÑO ANGELIsolar número veintiséis (26) dis- TO EN EL REY DE LOS NURtancia de veinticinco metros SERIES, S.S. #66-0630380, (25.00m) y nueve punto cero Notificación #141461615. Anocuatro metros (9.04m); por el tado al folio 28, asiento 3, ReESTE, con la carretera estatal gistro de Embargos Federales número ochocientos cuarenta y #5 del Registro De San Gerseis (846), distancia de veinti- mán, el día 3 de febrero de séis punto trescientos setenta y 2015. EMBARGO FEDERAL: seis metros (26.376m); y por el Por $11,193.07, contra MI PEOESTE, con servidumbre de QUEÑO ANGELITO EN EL paso y calle número veintisiete REY DE LOS NURSERIES, (27), distancia de veintiséis S.S. #66-0630380, Notificación punto ochenta y cinco metros #141461415. Anotado al folio (26.85m).” La propiedad antes 171, asiento 4, Registro de Emdescrita consta inscrita al folio bargos Federales #7 del Regis46 del tomo 659 de Trujillo Alto, tro De San Juan, Sección III, el Registro de la Propiedad de día 3 de febrero de 2015. EMFEDERAL: Por Puerto Rico, Sección IV de San BARGO Juan, finca número 30,489. DI- $11,193.07, contra MI PEQUE-

ÑO ANGELITO EN EL REY DE LOS NURSERIES, S.S. #660630380, Notificación #141461315. Anotado al folio 247, asiento 5, Registro de Embargos Federales #12 del Registro De San Juan, Sección II, el día 3 de febrero de 2015.

EMBARGO FEDERAL: Por $11,193.07, contra MI PEQUEÑO ANGELITO EN EL REY DE LOS NURSERIES, S.S. #660630380, Notificación #14460915. Anotado al folio 144, asiento 1, Registro de Embargos Federales #6 del Registro De Guaynabo, el día 10 de febrero de 2015. EMBARGO FEDERAL: Por $11,193.07, contra MI PEQUEÑO ANGELITO EN EL REY DE LOS NURSERIES, S.S. #66-0630380, Notificación #141460815. Anotado al folio 155, asiento 2, Registro de Embargos Federales #4 del Registro De Fajardo, el día 12 de marzo de 2015. El gravamen objeto de ejecución en este procedimiento es la que surge de la Escritura de Hipoteca número 44, otorgada el 18 de junio de 2004 ante el Notario Público Eduardo Tamargo, inscripción 4ta, en la cual se establece como precio mínimo para la primera subasta la suma de $365,000.00. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 13 de mayo de 2021, a las 9:45 de la mañana. El precio mínimo para la segunda subasta serán dos terceras partes (2/3) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, $243,333.33. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en esa segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 20 de mayo de 2021, a las 9:45 de la mañana. El precio mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, $182,500.00. Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer a la Parte Demandante, hasta donde alcance, el importe adeudado bajo la sentencia en este caso, que al 29 de agosto de 2019 ascienden la cantidad total de $212,642.73, más los intereses que se continúen acumulando hasta el saldo total y completo de la deuda, y una cantidad adicional de $30,805.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados en el Pagaré Hipotecario que garantiza la deuda.

Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titularidad que da base a las mismas. La venta en pública subasta de la propiedad descrita anteriormente se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dicha propiedad. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si lo hubiera, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución, continuará subsistente, entendién-

dose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas registrales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrarán las SUBASTAS en las fechas, horas y sitio anteriormente señalados, y se les invita a que concurran a dichas subastas, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecutante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efectuar tal subrogación. SE HACE CONSTAR que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables, bajo el epígrafe de este caso. Y PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en dos (2) lugares públicos del Municipio dónde se celebrarán las subastas señaladas. Además, en un periódico de circulación general en dos ocasiones y mediante correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada. EXPEDIDO el presente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 19 de marzo de 2021.

SAMUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE, LLC Plaintiff V.

THE ESTATE OF ANTONIA ROSA CASTRO A/K/A ANTONIA ROSA COMPOSED OF REECHYBELL BIGIO ROSA, RICHARD DOE AND JANE DOE; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil Action No.: 3:16-cv-2904PG. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: THE ESTATE OF ANTONIA ROSA CASTRO A/K/A ANTONIA ROSA COMPOSED OF REECHYBELL BIGIO ROSA, RICHARD DOE AND JANE DOE; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $199,500.00, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant, the Estate of Antonia Rosa Castro a/k/a Antonia Rosa composed of Reechybell Bigio Rosa, Richard Doe and Jane Doe was also ordered to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC., all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% (19,950.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation.

The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 or 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 or 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: “URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Parque Las Americas, situada en el Barrio Mamey de Gurabo, Puerto Rico, marcado con el numero veinticuatro (24) del Bloque “B” con un area superficial de doscientos sesenta y cuatro metros cuadrados (264.00 m.c.). En lindes: Por el NORTE, en una distancia de once metros (11.00), con el solar numero once (11) del Bloque “C”; por el SUR, en una distancia de once metros (11.00), con la calle “B”; por el ESTE, en una distancia de veinte y cuatro metros (24.00), con el solar numero veintitres (23) del Bloque “B”; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de veinte y cuatro metros(24.00), con el solar numero veinticinco (25) del Bloque “B”. En este solar enclava una casa de concreto para residencia de una familia.” Property 9,475 filed at page 259 of volume 250 of Gurabo, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Caguas. The mortgage is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Caguas, at Karibe volume, Property 9,475, inscription number nine (9). WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens:

The San Juan Daily Star None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $199,500.00, due on June 13, 2085 pursuant to deed number 81, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on April 13, 2013, before notary Rosa E. Permuy Calderón, and recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Caguas, at Karibe volume, Property 9,475, 10th inscription. Other Liens: None. 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 the 14TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:30 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $199,500.00.

In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 21ST DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:30 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $133,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 28TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:30 AM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $99,750.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens.

For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the

Friday, April 16, 2021

Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 9th day of March of 2021. PEDRO A. VÉLEZBAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, specialmasterpr@gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

LEGAL NOT ICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC Plaintiff V.

THE ESTATE OF NEREIDA ACOSTA VELEZ A/K/A NEREIDA ACOSTA-VELEZ A/K/A ACOSTA VELEZ NEREIDA A/K/A VELEZ NEREIDA ACOSTA A/K/A NEREIDA ACOSTA A/K/A VELEZ COMPOSED OF JANE DOE AND JOHN DOE; CENTRO DE RECUADACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Defendants Civil Action No.: 3:16-cv-1551ADC. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: THE ESTATE OF NEREIDA ACOSTA VELEZ A/K/A NEREIDA ACOSTAVELEZ A/K/A ACOSTA VELEZ NEREIDA A/K/A VELEZ NEREIDA ACOSTA A/K/A NEREIDA ACOSTA A/K/A VELEZ COMPOSED OF JANE DOE AND JOHN DOE; CENTRO DE RECUADACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $85,710.24, according to the affidavit of indebtment filed by the Plaintiff (Docket No. 55), plus the annual interest rate convened of 4.99% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendants, the Estate of Nereida Acosta Velez a/k/a Nereida Acosta-Velez a/k/a Acosta Velez Nereida a/k/a Velez Nereida Acosta a/k/a Nereida Acosta a/k/a Velez composed of Jane Doe and John Doe, also owes and is ORDERED to pay Reverse Mortgage Funding, LLC all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($14,250.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined

by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 or 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 or 400 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property. “URBANA: Solar sito en el Barrio Monacillos de Rio Piedras, marcado con el numero veinticinco “A” (25-A) de la manzana “AK” de la Urbanizacion Caparra Terrance, con un área superficial de DOSCIENTOS SESENTA Y UNO PUNTO TREINTA Y SIETE METROS CUADRADOS (261.37 MC), mas o menos, el cual colinda por el NORTE, en diez punto quinientos cuarenta y cinco (10.545) metros, con el solar numero veintisiete “B” (27B), de la manzana “AK”, por el SUR, en diez punto quinientos cuarenta y cinco (10.545) metros, con la calle ciento veintiuno (121) de la Urbanización, por el ESTE, en veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00) metros, con el solar veintiséis “B” (26-B) de la manzana AK y por el OESTE, en veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00) metros con la calle numero ciento tres (103) de la Urbanización. Enclava una casa de concreto armado con techo de azotea y pisos de losetas del país, de una sola planta que constituye una vivienda independiente, consistiento de tres dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina, cuarto de baño y balcón. Property Number 21,734, filed at page 1 of volume 671 of Monacillos, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section III de San Juan. The mortgage is recorded in the 5th inscription of Monacillos, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section III of San Juan. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $142,500.00, due on July 17th, 2073 pursuant to deed number 276, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 18, 2012, before notary Lizbet Avilés Vega, and recorded in the 6th inscription of Monacillos, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section III of San Juan. Other Liens: None.

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 the 14TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 10:35 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $142,500.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 21ST DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 10:35 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $95,000.00, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 28TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 10:35 AM.AND the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $71,250.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens.

For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 15th day of March of 2021. PEDRO A. VÉLEZBAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, specialmasterpr@gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

CORDERO, AIDALI DIAZ LORENZO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MO2019CV00079.

(207). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de SAN SEBASTIAN, hago saber a la parte demandada, LUIS ARNALDO AYALA CORDERO, AIDALI DIAZ LORENZO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 12 de enero de 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $54,000.00 y al mejor postor la propiedad de la dirección: #16 Calle 8, Rocha Community, Moca PR 00676 y que se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 16 localizada en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Rocha del Barrio Rocha del término municipal de Moca, con una cabida superficial de 481.23 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle Número 8 de la comunidad; por el SUR, con terrenos de Herminio Lassalle; por el ESTE, con la parcela número 15 de la comunidad y por el OESTE, con la parcela número 17 de la comunidad.

Sobre el antes descrito solar se ha edificado una estructura que se describe a continuación: Casa de vivienda: Construida de bloques de cemento y concreto armado, que tiene las siguientes facilidades: dos cuartos de dormitorios, sala, comedor y cocina corridos, un baño completo, balcón al frente de la casa. Todo el piso de la casa está forrado con cerámica italiana. El baño está en los dos cuartos. Las ventanas del frente de la casa y las del cuarto del frente son de cristal, las demás son de aluminio tipo miami. Tiene gabinetes de cocina hechos de madera y forrados con formica. Con un valor de $30,000.00, según la escritura número 138 otorgada en Aguadilla el 11 de octubre de 2004 ante el notario Edgardo Mesonero Hernández, inscrito al folio 195 del tomo 333 de Moca, inscripción 2ª. Finca LEGAL NOTICE 17388, inscrita al folio 195 del ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO tomo 333 de Moca, Registro DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUde la Propiedad de San SebasNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA tián. La finca antes descrita se SALA DE SAN SEBASTIÁN encuentra afecta al siguiente ESTRELLA HOMES LLC. gravamen: (i) HIPOTECA en Parte Demandante V. garantía de pagaré a favor de LUIS ARNALDO AYALA Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argenta-

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ria Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $54,000.00 con intereses al 7% anual y vencimiento 1 de mayo de 2038.

Constituida por la Escritura 64 otorgada en Mayagüez el 28 de abril de 2008 ante el notario José García Noya, e inscrita al folio 195 vuelto del tomo 333 de Moca, finca 17388, inscripción 4ª. (ii) HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $1,900.00 sin intereses y vencimiento 28 de abril de 2013.

Constituida por la Escritura 65 otorgada en Mayagüez el 28 de abril de 2008 ante el notario José García Noya, e inscrita al folio 196 vuelto del tomo 333 de Moca, finca 17388, inscripción 5ª. Condiciones de la Hipoteca: Sujeta a las disposiciones del Programa gubernamental denominado “La Llave para tu Hogar”; no pudiendo ser transferida ni gravada por un término de 5 años, a partir de la concesión del subsidio, sin el previo consentimiento de la Autoridad so pena de la restitución del subsidio concedido. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 29 de octubre de 2019, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad de $46,250.30 de principal, más intereses acumulados, que continuarán acumulándose al 7% anual hasta el saldo total de la deuda, con un balance de escrow de $24.91, más $5,400.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 6 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Sebastián Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $54,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 13 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $36,000.00 Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera

subasta, o sea, $27,000.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos 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 ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, 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 subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante.

Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este

Tribunal. En SAN SEBASTIAN, Puerto Rico, hoy 12 de abril de 2021. LUIS A. NIEVES RIVERA, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN SEBASTIÁN.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

PUERTO RICO PROPERTIES SOLUTIONS LIC.

Parte Demandante Vs

A.A.A. CONCORDIA MORTRGAGE CORP., JOHN DOE, RICHARD ROE

Parte demandada CASO NÚM. SJ2020CV06593.

SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, como posibles tenedores del pagaré

Por la PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.ramaiudicial.pr salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Por medio del presente edicto se les notifica de la radicación de una Demanda de Cancelación de Pagaré Extraviado en la que se solicita la cancelación del siguiente pagaré hipotecario, que posiblemente se le extravió a la parte demandante, luego de haber sido saldado por el deudor hipotecario: Pagaré a pagaré a favor de dicha entidad, o a su orden, por la suma mencionada de $41 000.00, con intereses al 8 1/2 % annual y vencimiento el I de agosto de 2016, según consta de la escritura número 441, otorgada en San Juan, el 11 dejulio de 1986, ante Manuel Rivera Meléndez, e inscrita al folio 188 del tomo 604, de Bayamón, finca número 27,868 inscripción cuarta, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, sec-

32 ción primera. La parte demandante solicita del honorable Tribunal que declare con lugar la demanda y en su consecuencia ordene al Secretario del Tribunal que expida Mandamiento al Registrador de la Propiedad correspondiente, para que dicho funcionario proceda a cancela en los libros a su cargo la referida hipoteca dejando la propiedad aquí descrita libre de dicho gravamen hipotecario. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la Demanda radicando el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, y notificándole con copia de dicha contestación al abogado del demandante, Lcdo. Ricardo J. Cacho Rodríguez, 54 Calle Resolución, Suite 303 San Juan, PR 00920 Tel: (787) 722-2242; Fax: (787) 722-2243, cachor@microjuris.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días siguientes a la fecha de publicación de este Edicto;si dejaren de así hacerlo, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia contra ustedes concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 30 de diciembre de 2020. LCDA LAURA L SANTA SANCHEZ, Sec Regional. Maria E. Collazo Febus, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE AÑASCO.

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO RINCÓN (ANTES COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO AÑASCO) Vs

BRENDA CONCEPCIÓN MONTAZ (Socio Núm. 108622)

Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Añasco, Puerto Rico, hoy 25 de marzo de 2021.

Lic. Norma Santana Irizarry, Sec General, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA MUNICIPAL DE AÑASCO. JAILENE ACEVEDO GUZMAN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VIEQUES.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION COMO SÍNDICO DE WESTERNBANK OF PUERTO RICO, RUBÉN DARÍO BONILLA MARTÍNEZ, YVONNE FELICIANO ACEVEDO T/C/C IVONNE FELICIANO ACEVEDO T/C/C YVONNE FELICIANO PINOT T/C/C YVONNE FELICIANO DE BONILLA, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. VQ2021CV00013.

SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR DEMANDADA CIVIL NUN. AÑ2020CV00153. LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EDICTO. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE (REGLA 60). EDICTO. LOS E.E.U.U. EL ESTADO LIA: BRENDA ASOCIADO DE PUERTO CONCEPCIÓN MONTAZ BRE RICO. Se le apercibe que la parte deA: FULANO Y mandante por mediación del MENGANO DE TAL, Lcdo. Rafael Fabre Colón, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto POSIBLES TENEDORES Rico 00681, Tel. 787-265-0334, DESCONOCIDOS DEL ha radicado la acción de epíPAGARÉ grafe en su contra. Copia de Queda usted notificado que en la demanda, emplazamientos este Tribunal se ha radicado y del presente edicto le ha sido demanda sobre cancelación enviado por correo a la última de pagaré extraviado por la vía dirección conocida. Pueden usjudicial. El 23 de septiembre tedes obtener mayor informade 1999, Rubén Darío Bonilla ción sobre el asunto revisando Martínez e Yvonne Feliciano los autos en el Tribunal. Se le Acevedo t/c/c Ivonne Feliciano apercibe que tiene usted un térAcevedo t/c/c Yvonne Feliciano mino de treinta (30) días para Pinot t/c/c Yvonne Feliciano de radicar contestación a dicha Bonilla, casados entre sí bajo el demanda de cobro de dinero régimen de capitulaciones may/o cualquier escrito que estime trimoniales, constituyeron una usted conveniente a través del hipoteca en Carolina, Puerto

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NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Civil Núm.: MZ2020CV00034.

SALA SUPERIOR DE CABO Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ROJO. Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE COOPERATIVA DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que susAHORRO Y CREDITO cribe por la presente CERTIFIDE CABO ROJO CA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSParte Demandante Vs TAR: Que en cumplimiento de JENNIFER CIMCHO un Mandamiento de Ejecución MONTALVO Y OTROS de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe Parte Demandada CIVIL NUN. CB2020CV00413. por la Secretaría del TRIBUSOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO; NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAINCUMPLIMIENTO GÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR, en DE CONTRATO. EDICTO. A: JENNIFER CAMACHO el caso de epígrafe procederá vender en pública subasta al MONTALVO, SU ESPOSO amejor postor en efectivo, cheJOSÉ VARGAS Y LA que certificado en moneda legal SOCIEDAD LEGAL de los Estados Unidos de América el 6 DE MAYO DE 2021, A DE GANANCIALES LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en COMPUESTA POR su oficina sita en el local que AMBOS ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUSe le apercibe que la parte NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA demandante por mediación CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAde la Lcda. Maria C. Mayoral YAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR, Maldonado, P.O. Box 277, : todo derecho, título e interés Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 00681, que tenga la parte demandada Tel. 787-265-0334, ha radica- de epígrafe en el inmueble de do la acción de epígrafe en su su propiedad que ubica en: PR contra. Copia de la demanda, 108 KM 14.2 BARRIO ANOemplazamientos y del presente NES LAS MARIAS, PR 00670 y edicto le ha sido enviado por que se describe a continuación: correo a la ultima dirección co- RÚSTICA: Parcela radicada en nocida. Pueden ustedes obte- el barrio Anones del Municipio ner mayor información sobre el de Las Marías, Puerto Rico, asunto revisando los autos en con una cabida superficial de el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que 4818.679 metros cuadrados. tiene usted un término de :trein- Con lindes por el NORTE, en ta (30) días para radicar con- 39.837 metros, 6.203 metros, testación a dicha demanda de 12.621 metros, 17.00 metros, cobro de dinero y/o cualquier 14.151 metros, 27.142 metros escrito que estime usted con- y 54.847 metros, con terrenos veniente a través del Sistema de la Sucesión Pedro Torrellas; Unificado de Manejo y Adminis- por el SUR, en 34.342 metros, tración de Casos (SUMAC), al 17.316 metros, 11.505 metros cual puede acceder utilizando y en 44.179 metros, con la cala siguiente dirección electróni- rretera 108; por el ESTE, en ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. 30.876 metros, 27.679 metros, pr, salvo que se represente por 25.151 metros (25.145 metros derecho propio, en cuyo caso Según Escritura de Hipoteca) y deberá presentar su alegación en 19.618 metros, con el remaresponsiva en la SecretarIa del nente de la finca principal y por Tribuna1 de epígrafe, pero que el OESTE, en un punto común de no radicarse escrito alguno con terrenos de la Sucesión ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho Pedro Torrellas y la carretera término el Tribunal procederá 311. Consta inscrita al Folio 45 a ventilar el procedimiento sin del Tomo 163 de Las Marías, más citarle ni oIrle. Dada en finca número 3399, Registro de Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, hoy 30 la Propiedad de San Sebastián. de marzo de 2021. Lic. Norma La propiedad antes relacionada Santana Irizarry, Sec Regional. consta inscrita al Folio 45 del f/Maria M Avilés Bonilla, Sec Tomo 163 de Las Marías, finca Auxiliar. número 3399, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián.

LEGAL NOTICE El tipo mínimo para la primeESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ra subasta del inmueble antes DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- relacionado, será el dispuesto NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYA- decir la suma de $82,506.00. Si GÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR no hubiere remate ni adjudicaORIENTAL BANK ción en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celeCOMO AGENTE DE brará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA SERVICIOS DE THE las oficinas del Alguacil que MONEY HOUSE, INC. en suscribe el día 13 DE MAYO DE Demandante Vs. 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MALUIS MANUEL RIVERA ÑANA. En la segunda subasta CUEVAS, YOLANDA que se celebre servirá de tipo RIVERA RODRIGUEZ Y mínimo las dos terceras partes LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma BIENES GANANCIALES de $55,004.00. Si tampoco huCOMPUESTA POR biere remate ni adjudicación en LEGAL NOTICE la segunda subasta se celebraAMBOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO rá una TERCERA SUBASTA Demandados DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUen las oficinas del Alguacil que Rico, mediante a la Escritura núm. 76 autorizada por el notario Dolores Barceló Ramírez en garantía de un pagaré por la suma de $49,000.00 a favor de Small Business Administration, o a su orden, con intereses al 3.437% anual y vencedero en 10 años, sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno ubicada en el Barrio Flamenco del término municipal de la Isla Municipio de Culebra, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cero punto cinco tres dos cuatro cuerdas (0.5324 cda) equivalente a dos cero nueve dos punto cuatro seis siete cinco metros cuadrados (2092.4675 m.c.), en lindes por el NORTE, en una alineación, con la Carretera número PR-250, km. 2 hm. 6 interior, según el Plano de Inscripción; por el SUR, en una alineación, con terrenos pertenecientes a la Sucesión de Dámaso Bermúdez, conforme al Plano de Inscripción; por el ESTE, en una alineación, con terrenos pertenecientes a Justo E. Rivera, según el Plano de Inscripción; y por el OESTE, en dos alineaciones, con terrenos pertenecientes a Ignacio S. Padrón, conforme al Plano de Inscripción. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 151 del tomo 22 de Culebra, Finca 1002.

Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 151 vuelto del tomo 22 de Culebra, Finca 1002. Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. Inscripción segunda. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la Parte Demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo, PR 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 23 de marzo de 2021 en Vieques, Puerto Rico. WANDA I. SEGUI REYES, SECRETARIA (O).

OLGA N. MORALES TORRES, SUB-SECRETARIA(O).

suscribe el día 20 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 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 $41,253.00.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 35 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 6 de julio de 2017, ante el Notario Vicente A. Sequeda Torres, y consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Las Marías, finca número 3,399, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián, inscripción Décimo Tercera (13ra).

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 ascendente a la suma de $79,749.95 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de septiembre de 2019, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte demandada 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 $8,250.60. Además la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $8,250.60 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $8,250.60 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. 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 MAYAGÜEZ, 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 y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o

presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos 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 Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de abril de 2021. CALIXTO RIVERA GHIGLIOTTY, ALGUACIL PLACA #283, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

MARTÍN HERIBERTO MATA CARELA, ANA MERCEDES VÁSQUEZ T/C/C ANA MERCEDES VASQUES DE MATA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2019CV05941.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM” (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 Sen-

tencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON, 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 día 10 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR, QUINTO PISO SALA 503 todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: KK-20 CALLE VIA PERIFERICA URB. JARDINES DE CAPARRA BAYAMON, PR 00959 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Jardines de Caparra, situada en el Barrio Juan Sánchez de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, que se describe como sigue: Solar número veinte de la Manzana KK, con un área de cuatrocientos cuarenta y tres metros cuadrados con cuatro mil ciento uno diez milésimas de metro, en lindes por el NORTE, con el Solar veintiuno y con Parque, distancias de veinticuatro metros y trece metros y veinticinco centímetros; por el SUR, con el Solar diecinueve, distancia de treinta y seis metros y treinta y cinco centímetros; por el ESTE, con paseo público y con parque, distancias de cinco metros y setenta centímetros y seis metros y cuarenta centímetros; y por el OESTE, con Via Periférica, distancia de diecisiete metros y treinta y ocho centímetros.

Contiene una casa de concreto reforzado, diseñada para una familia. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 9 del Tomo 657 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 30,339, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Primera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $134,055.00. 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 17 DE MAYO DE 2021, 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 $89,370.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 24 DE MAYO DE 2021, 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

The San Juan Daily Star sea, la suma de $67,027.50.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 372 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 20 de diciembre de 2012, ante el Notario Luis Valle Irizarry, y consta inscrita al Folio 206 del Tomo 1,921 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 30,339, inscripción décima (10ma). 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 $129,043.63 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de enero de 2015, más intereses al tipo pactado de 3.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación.

Además, la parte demandada 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 $13,405.50.

Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $13,405.50 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $13,405.50 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. 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 BAYAMON, 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 y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. 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

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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 en el Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de abril de 2021. EDGARDO E. VARGAS, ALGUACIL PLACA #193, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

MILDRED DIAZ SANTIAGO POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN HERIBERTO RAMÍREZ RIVERA; LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN HERIBERTO RAMÍREZ RIVERA COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2019CV02142.

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 VEGA BAJA, 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 10 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR, QUINTO PISO SALA 503, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: PARCELA 228 (30) CALLE GERANIO COMUNIDAD OJO DE AGUA BARRIO ALGARROBO VEGA BAJA, PR 00693 y que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 228 en el Plano de Parcelación de la comunidad rural Ojo de Agua del Barrio Algarrobo del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cero cuerdas con mil doscientos cuarenta y cinco diezmilésimas de otra, equivalente a 489.25 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con Calle de la comunidad; por el SUR, con parcela número 229 de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con parcela número 230 de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con parcela número 226 de la comunidad. Enclava una casa para fines residenciales. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 31 del Tomo 203 de Vega Baja, finca número 11,537, Folio 31 del Tomo 203 de Vega Baja. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $69,426.00. 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 17 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:45 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 $46,284.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 24 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:45 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 $34,713.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 294 otorgada en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de diciembre de 2001, ante el Notario José E. De La Cruz Feliciano y consta

inscrita al Folio 213 del Tomo 389 de Vega Baja, finca número 11,537, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Cuarta, inscripción Cuarta (4ta). 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 ascendente a la suma de $54,675.60 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de octubre de 2014, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, Mildred Díaz Santiago y La Sucesión de Juan Heriberto Ramírez Rivera adeudan 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 $6,942.00.

Además, Mildred Díaz Santiago y La Sucesión de Juan Heriberto Ramírez Rivera se comprometieron a pagar una suma equivalente a $6,942.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $6,942.00 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 VEGA BAJA, 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 y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus acreedores de cargos 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de abril de 2021. EDGARDO E. VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL PLACA #193, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

JUDIT CRUZ

Demandado Civil Núm.: BY2019CV02518.

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 VEGA BAJA, 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 día 10 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR, QUINTO PISO SALA 503 todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: LOT 478 PR 160 KM 1.4 LA ROSETA SECT. ALMIRANTE NORTE W, VEGA

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BAJA, PR 00693 y que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 478 en el Plano de Parcelación de la comunidad Rural Almirantito del Barrio Almirante Norte del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de mil quinientos punto diecinueve metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela número 477 de la comunidad; por SUR, con las parcelas número 474 y 473 de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con la calle de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con las parcelas número 476 y 474 de la comunidad. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 291 del Tomo 373 de Vega Baja, finca número 27,264, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Cuarta. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $124,858.00. 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 17 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 9:15 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 $83,238.66. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 24 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 9:15 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 $62,429.00.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 75 otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de mayo de 2005, ante el Notario Luis Oscar Cintrón Fonalledas y consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Vega Baja, finca número 27,264, inscripción cuarta (4ta). 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 $120,266.24 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de septiembre de 2017, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.5% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte demandada 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 $12,485.80.

Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $12,485.80 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $12,485.80 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 VEGA BAJA, 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 y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. 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 en el Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de abril de 2021. EDGARDO E. VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGUEZ.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

BILLY GONZÁLEZ RODRÍGUEZ

Demandado CIVIL NÚM.: MZ2020CV00906.

SALÓN: SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO ENMENDADO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A) BILLY GONZÁLEZ RODRÍGUEZ

POR LA PRESENTE: Se le notifica que contra usted se ha presentado la Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero de la cual se acompaña copia. Por la presente se le emplaza a usted y se le requiere para que dentro del término de TREINTA (30) días desde la fecha de la Publicación por Edicto de este Emplazamiento presente su contestación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https: //unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez, P.O. Box 1210, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-1210 y notifique a la LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, personalmente al Condominio Las Nereidas, Local 1-B, Calle Méndez Vigo esquina Amador Ramírez Silva, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680; o por correo al Apartado 2342, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 006812342, Teléfonos: (787) 8329620 y (845) 345-3985, Abogada de la parte demandante, apercibiéndose que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal hoy 25 de MARZO de 2021. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. Por: F / JAZMIN SANABRIA TORRES, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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The San Juan Daily Star

April 16-18, 2021

Madoff nearly ruined the Mets. The team has moved on.

By DAVID WALDSTEIN

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here was a highflying, if brief, period in New York Mets history when virtually every available dollar was cycled through investment accounts managed by Bernard Madoff. If the team signed a deal for radio rights, the station was asked for much of the money upfront and it was handed over to Madoff, who made it multiply, seemingly without fail.

If the Mets received a chunk of advertising cash from Pepsi or Budweiser, they would funnel that into the Madoff accounts, too. And when it came time to buy out Bobby Bonilla’s player contract, they created an annuity, invested the immediate savings into a Madoff account, and expected to make millions on the transaction for both parties.

“Put it in Bernie,” was how Saul Katz, the former president of the team, used to phrase it to colleagues in an indication of how intertwined the team’s finances were with Madoff, who it was later discovered was running the largest Ponzi scheme in history.

Madoff’s arrest in December 2008, and the collapse of his fraudulent investment pyramid, nearly bankrupted the Mets and likely contributed to an abysmal record on the field. The losses were staggering, impacted the roster and led to the sale of a little less than half the team to a small group of minority investors, one of whom was Steven A. Cohen, the current principal owner.

The last details of that era were already being scrubbed from the Mets books when Cohen bought the team from the Wilpon and Katz families late last year. Madoff’s death in prison Wednesday put a closing sentence on one of the most painful and tumultuous chapters in team history.

Fred Wilpon, who recommended Madoff’s supposed financial wizardry to many close friends, including Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax, called it the biggest betrayal of his life, and once likened it to a serrated knife being plunged into his heart.

Almost overnight, the Wilpons and Katz, who were said to have more than 400 business and personal accounts connected to Madoff through their various companies, had lost hundreds of millions of dollars and a team that should have been able to flex its big-market wallet was instead plunged

Bernard Madoff’s custom Mets jacket was part of an auction of personal property seized from Madoff and his wife. into financial uncertainty.

The pain would grow more acute two years later when Irving Picard was appointed by the court to claw back as much of the losses as possible. Picard argued that Wilpon and Katz, both of whom were friendly with Madoff and his family, either knew or should have known about the scam, and profited massively from it. He sought $1 billion from them to distribute among other victims.

The Mets’ owners, who denied any knowledge of the scheme, were nevertheless forced to make an unenviable choice: Were they greedy accomplices or unwitting fools? They chose the latter, and Madoff said in numerous jailhouse interviews that they did not know.

At the time of the lawsuit, tensions ran high and nerves were frayed around the Mets, although at the height of it, Wilpon told a reporter at spring training in Port St. Lucie, Florida, “At least no one is sick.” Indeed, the owners survived the worst of it, mostly through the natural appreciation of major sports franchises. But it did not help that the team was terrible, failing to reach the .500 mark for the next six years.

Ultimately, in 2012, they struck a favorable deal with Picard for $162 million, and the agreement called on much of that to be reduced or wiped out.

Still, the team had to scramble to overcome the heavy losses while angry fans, who lamented their team’s inability or unwillingness to spend big on free agents, howled at what they saw as incompetent leadership and resorted to scathing satire by calling the ownership triumvirate, “The Wilponzis.”

Despite drawing on the resources of the largest market in the country, the team too often operated like a small-market organization, those fans complained, while the Wilpons and Katz were clinging to control by their fingernails.

Soon after Madoff was arrested and the financial reckoning became apparent, Wilpon and Katz came to the realization that they would have to sell off a significant portion of the team to remain solvent. But Jeff Wilpon, Fred’s son and the chief operating officer of the Mets, wanted to forge ahead and retain full ownership by borrowing money to offset the sudden liquidity problem. Major League Baseball helped out with a $25 million loan, reported in 2011, to cov-

er operating costs, but it was not enough.

The problem was not just about liquidity. The Mets rarely made money and they needed the investors to offset the annual losses (The team made money in 2009, its first year playing in Citi Field, but suffered huge yearly losses, sometimes as much as $60 million per year, after that).

Ultimately, they sold 49% to the group of investors, but retained control. At the time, the valuation of the club was in the neighborhood of $500 million. A decade later, Cohen bought 95% of the team (Fred Wilpon retained 5%) for a little more than $2.4 billion, which was a record for a North American sports team. Despite the annual losses, the value of the team soared, even after the Madoff scandal.

People close to the Wilpons say that the reason for the transaction was for estate planning — it was seen as the most equitable way to divide up the assets among many family members — and may have happened anyway, regardless of the Madoff losses.

But the Wilpons and Katz have left the scene, for the most part, and Madoff is dead. Only the Mets continue on.

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April 16-18, 2021

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A major change in the minors: Baseball moving the mound back

By TYLER KEPNER

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trikeouts were out of control. Changes in pitching techniques had resulted in batters swinging and missing like never before. To fix the problem, leading minds focused on the center of the diamond. The pitcher would have to move back.

The goal: “the restoration of the proper equilibrium between the two great principles of the game — attack and defense.

With the pitcher reduced to the ranks, nine men instead of two will play the game.”

So said Francis Richter, the editor of the weekly Sporting Life, as quoted by author Peter Morris in “A Game Of Inches,” his book on the innovations that shaped baseball. Richter’s column ran in November 1892, but the words apply almost exactly to the modern game.

Major League Baseball believes that the product on the field is in crisis. The league’s declaration Wednesday confirmed it: Starting in the second half of the season, the independent Atlantic League — in partnership with MLB — will move its mounds back by a foot. This is not like putting a runner on second base in extra innings or making the bases a little bigger. This is fundamental.

The distance of 60 feet, 6 inches between the pitching rubber and the plate was established in 1893. The National League — the American League did not exist quite yet — wanted to curb the growing influence of overhand pitching. Strikeouts had risen as high as 4.74 per game in the NL in 1884, but things soon normalized: The rate would not be that high again until 1957.

When one cog in a machine goes haywire, it can lead to disaster. For baseball today, strikeouts are that cog. That’s why MLB is terrified of the impact all those whiffs are having on the entertainment value of the game.

“I love baseball,” Jed Hoyer, the Cubs’ president of baseball operations, said Wednesday. “But the rules aren’t written on stone tablets.”

That’s true, although 60 feet, 6 inches comes close. The last time pitchers worked from a different distance, the union had 44 states and Babe Ruth hadn’t been born.

Changing the distance in the majors will be a tough sell to players, and maybe to some owners, too.

“The gut reaction is to say, ‘Well, how’s that going to work?’” said Tim Adleman, a

The Long Island Ducks are part of the Atlantic League, which is where the experiment of moving the mound back will initially be conducted, with support from Major League Baseball. former Cincinnati Reds right-hander who pitched in the Atlantic League in 2019. “The mound’s been 60 feet, 6 inches forever, and guys have based everything around the fact that that’s how far you throw down to home plate. I can’t say for sure, but it seems like that extra foot’s going to change quite a bit of stuff.”

For baseball, that is the point. Through Tuesday, batters were striking out at a 24.7% rate this season, an increase of 10 percentage points since 1992. The average time between balls in play this season has risen to almost four minutes. Triples, doubles and stolen bases — action plays that fans say they want, according to the league — are down. That is no way for an industry to attract the younger generation, the paying customers of the future.

Baseball’s timeless, slower pace is part of its appeal, and those who care about the sport have long worried about its long-term viability.

Yet here we are, with franchise values soaring, lucrative TV deals everywhere and teams averaging more than 28,000 fans, prepandemic, for 81 home games per season. As popular as the NBA seems to be, it plays about half as many games and averages 10,000 fewer fans for each, in much smaller venues.

So maybe baseball does not need to try so hard to manufacture change. But it is already using its affiliated minors to test other innovations this season — calling balls and strikes with an automated system, regulating

pickoff moves and so on — so why not use the unaffiliated minors to study this one?

“It’s going to take a long time to actually get hitters to adjust their swings,” Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer said Wednesday. “I do like the idea that they’re trying to do something.

I’m not sure I’d like to be one of the guinea pigs.”

Adleman said he would be concerned about injuries and would have to do more research before agreeing to return to the Atlantic League. In its news release, MLB cited a 2019 study by the American Sports Medicine Institute that observed college pitchers throwing from longer distances and found no significant biomechanical changes that would increase risk of injury.

“If you’re a guy who’s in indie ball and you’re playing out your career or you don’t have that affiliated option anymore, then maybe it doesn’t make as much of a difference to you,” Adleman said. “But if you are somebody who’d like to pitch in affiliated ball or who’s trying to get back to the big leagues, then it seems to me like it’s hard to really feel comfortable doing that if the place that you want to be has the mound that’s 60 feet, 6 inches.”

For MLB, of course, the issue is not the career prospects of pitchers in the Atlantic League. The new on-field blueprints may seem radical, but the architects include deeply respected people like former outfielder Raúl Ibañez and former general

managers Theo Epstein and Michael Hill.

They are not known for irrational ideas.

“One thing I know about, from talking to MLB on a lot of different areas, they put a lot of thought into some of the changes or experiments they make,” Cubs manager David Ross said Wednesday. “I think that’s why they’re starting these things. Pushing the mound back is a wait-and-see — I have no idea. But giving the hitters an extra foot is definitely going to benefit the hitters.”

New York Yankees pitching coach Matt Blake said pitchers could benefit, too.

“There’s going to be second-order effects of that, and I think it’s hard to estimate what exactly that will look like,” Blake said. “But there will be both positives and negatives on both sides of it. The amount of room to create shapes and movement for a pitcher will enhance, you just might deaden some of the velocity from the distance that we’re talking about.”

For a rapidly changing game, there is nothing to lose by creatively trying to generate more action and reduce dead time.

And as revolutionary as it might seem to move the mound back, even the greatest pitchers might sometimes find the feeling familiar.

“It’s funny,” Palmer said. “In your bad games, you thought the mound was at 61 feet, anyway.”

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The San Juan Daily Star

April 16-18, 2021

Rule change prompts a game of musical chairs in college hoops

By ADAM ZANGORIA and MARISA INGEMI

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hen Tyson Walker, a 6-foot point guard from Westbury, New York, transferred to Michigan State from Northeastern this month, he had one goal in mind.

After a breakout season in which he averaged 18.8 points per game and was named a finalist for the Lou Henson Award, given to the top men’s basketball player from a mid-major conference, Walker was ready to play for a team with a shot at making the Final Four next year in New Orleans. He made his announcement in late March in a Twitter post portraying him in a Michigan State uniform.

“My whole decision was based off just trying to play at the highest level,” Walker said.

Walker is in a large group of Division I men’s and women’s basketball players who will benefit from a new rule that allows them to jump to new schools and immediately become eligible to play. The rule, which allows just one unrestricted transfer per athlete, was tentatively approved by an NCAA panel Wednesday, said a person close to the negotiations who was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter. Final approval is expected this month.

The rule change, which is expected to be permanent, has turned the college basketball offseason into something akin to NBA free agency, with more than 1,400 men — about 30% of the players in all 357 Division I men’s programs — already in the NCAA transfer portal. Three years ago, just 882 male Division I basketball players entered the portal. On the women’s side, there are about 1,000 players in the portal — or about 18% of all Division I players.

Ordinarily, transfers would have had to sit out the 2021-22 season because of NCAA rules that apply to football, baseball, men’s and women’s basketball and men’s ice hockey. But the NCAA’s Division I Council approved a proposal granting first-time transfers in all sports immediate eligibility without restrictions. The change had been expected for some time, contributing to the extraordinary numbers of players in the portal.

The numbers may also be higher than usual because of accommodations made to account for disruptions related to the coronavirus: Any fourth-year senior who wishes to return to school and compete for an additional year will be granted the opportunity to do so, though that doesn’t guarantee a scholarship will be available. Generally, a player who graduates from one institution is often eligible

Critics of the transfer-rule exception say it has already turned college basketball into the “Wild West,” where any unhappy player will simply transfer instead of trying to work their situation out with his or her coaches. to play at another as a graduate transfer.

Jason Setchen, a Miami lawyer who is an advocate for student-athletes, said he believed the transfer ruling was much needed.

“The one piece that was missing was the immediate eligibility component because you could enter the portal and transfer to a school where you sought a better opportunity, but you still had to sit a year, unless you had graduated,” Setchen said in a phone interview.

“So it was really almost halfway to where it needed to be in order to give kids a real opportunity to be able to improve their position immediately.”

Critics of the transfer-rule exception say it has already turned college basketball into the “Wild West,” where any unhappy player will simply transfer instead of trying to work their situation out with his or her coaches.

A number of men’s programs, like St. John’s, Iowa State and UNLV, have a halfdozen or more players in the portal, according to the website VerbalCommits. After reaching the second round of the men’s NCAA Tournament, Florida has already added four transfers to replace the four it lost. At Memphis, which won the National Invitation Tournament under coach Penny Hardaway, three players announced their transfers March 31. On the women’s side, Syracuse has 11 players in the portal; Texas Tech has 10.

Some players are giving new meaning to the term “well-traveled.” DePaul guard Charlie Moore entered the portal, and his next college will be his fourth, including previous stops at California and Kansas. Because he is

not a first-time transfer, he will need a waiver at his new college, but that is expected to be a formality.

“This transferring all over the place is going to destroy our great game,” Dick Vitale, the ESPN college basketball analyst, tweeted.

He argued that players should not be allowed to transfer without sitting out a year unless a coach leaves.

In a letter to the NCAA’s transfer working group, Matt Painter, the Purdue men’s coach and a member of the board of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, voiced opposition to the one-time transfer waiver. Painter said it would usher in an era of “free agency” and would make life more complicated for both high school and college student-athletes.

“Every classification of student-athletes — both current and prospective — would experience uncertainty,” Painter wrote in his letter. “The annual roster turnover would make college choices more difficult for high school prospects, and current student-athletes contemplating transfer would have less certainty with which to make decisions.

“As a coach, the ability to effectively teach and lead a program would be more difficult.

And perhaps most significantly, remaining student-athletes would be left in an untenable situation in the likely event of a mass exodus of teammates in a single offseason.”

Think of the situation as a gigantic game of musical chairs, in which players are looking for a new opportunity before the music stops.

Even Setchen believes that there won’t be enough spaces for every player in the portal

to find a good fit.

NCAA rules prohibit student-athletes from communicating with other colleges until they have entered the transfer portal, at which point their current schools may cancel their scholarships, Setchen said.

“So what happens is these kids are going into the portal thinking they’re going to have all kinds of opportunities, and then all of a sudden they don’t have any,” he said. “And then some have to drop down to a random school just to play, and now they’re stuck in what could be a worse situation than the one that they left.”

Supporters of the one-time transfer exception have long said it is unfair to force players to sit out for a year upon transferring while coaches like T.J. Otzelberger (who left UNLV for Iowa State), Shaka Smart (who shifted from Texas to Marquette) and Chris Beard (who left Texas Tech for in-conference rival Texas) can change jobs and work immediately at their new colleges.

“I also think it brings some fairness to the table because everybody’s situation is different,” said Chris Lykes, a guard who last week announced his transfer to Arkansas from Miami. “I feel the opportunity should be there for players if they feel like it is the best move for their career.”

Villanova coach Jay Wright, whose team won the 2018 championship while relying on Eric Paschall, a transfer from Fordham who is now with the Golden State Warriors, said that he didn’t think the one-time transfer exception would be good for college basketball but that he believed it would benefit the players.

“It’s going to make it a little messier, but I think college basketball will be fine,” Wright said. “But I definitely think it’s going to give student-athletes a lot more choices and a lot more voice in their careers.”

Diamond Johnson, rated by some analysts as the No. 1 transfer in women’s college basketball, committed to North Carolina State on Friday after leaving Rutgers. A 5-foot-5 guard, Johnson averaged 17.6 points and 4.2 rebounds for the Scarlet Knights last season after arriving as the nation’s sixthranked recruit.

She said that she had transferred with the expectation that she would be able to play right away, and that she felt she deserved that opportunity.

“I really don’t see any reason why we should sit out a whole year,” Johnson said in a phone interview. “I think that should be up to the players whether they want to play or not.”

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Sudoku How to Play: Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.

Sudoku Rules: Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9 Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9 Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Crossword

Answers on page 38

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GAMES

HOROSCOPE Aries

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Keen to get someone to agree with you? They may resist Aries, especially with the Sun’s angle to powerful Pluto at a peak. You’ll need to find another perspective that engages them enough to talk this through.

Plus, the Sun’s lively link to buoyant Jupiter, can inspire you to connect with kindred spirits. A powerful opportunity could soon show up, and you may jump at it.

Libra

Someone may be in an unreasonable mood, and unless you can distance yourself from them, it could affect you too. Even if they are close, talking about it might result in a battle to get the preferred outcome.

Yet if you can help them see a different viewpoint, this might take the charge out of the situation and allow for more fruitful discussions. If not, patience is key.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

With sociable Venus journeying through your sign, a decision to collaborate could bring out the best in a friendship or close bond, and see you enjoying the rewards this brings. But there is one matter than needs your focus, and it is to do with speaking your truth, even if others don’t want to hear. An awkward angle involving Pluto, suggests there is no better time to stand your ground.

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Tread with care Scorpio, especially with edgy influences bringing intense feelings to the surface. A Sun/Pluto link suggests you may want to make your views clear to a certain person, and feel justified in doing so. But what if you meet up with them again, which is very likely? If you are happy to end the relationship, then no problem. If you want to stay friends, go easy on them.

The temptation to force something before it is ready may not be a great idea. A powerful Sun Pluto angle can override logic, so that even if you know such a move isn’t right, you might still pursue it. Thoughtful Mercury’s presence in Aquarius, encourages you to see the bigger picture, but whether this will help you is another matter. At least try not to rush into anything.

Sagittarius

A conversation can fill you with hope, and leave you excited about the possibilities for the future. If it sows the seeds of a potential romance, then you may both be eager to connect again very soon. The Sun makes an edgy angle to Pluto as well, which could coincide with tensions around finances and the cost of a new project. If you badly want to go ahead, you might ignore it.

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Cancer

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

(June 22-July 23)

No matter how a close one might feel about your career plans, you don’t have to take on board their doubts. With the Sun aligning with upbeat Jupiter, you’ll realize you do have supporters and they are your best cheerleaders. If you sense you are being manipulated, then set firmer boundaries. You know what is best for you Cancer, so don’t let others interfere in your plans.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

Do you have a desire to purge something from your life? Over the days ahead, you may want to go a step further and release this burden once and for all.

Could it be more a matter of letting go of any resentment or big expectations though, Capricorn? Both might have the effect of ramping up a situation that would seem less oppressive if you didn’t have such feelings going on.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

Try to set yourself doable tasks. You might feel confident that you can accomplish anything, and yet a tricky aspect suggests it may not be quite so easy.

Unexpected obstacles could hinder progress, so the less complex your plans the better. It’s possible your mind might be on other things such as an offer or opportunity that promises much, and that looks to be very interesting.

With the Sun challenging intensive Pluto in a secluded sector, it can be just as well to become aware of any buried tension, Aquarius. This influence is at a peak today, so feelings could bubble to the surface, and it might be helpful to consider the root cause. Need a way to release frustrations? Channelling them into daily tasks or a good walk may leave you feeling much more on the ball.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

The radiant Sun’s angles to Jupiter and Pluto, suggest that a situation may not be as awkward as it seems. If you are willing to rise above it and take a philosophical perspective, then it might be easier to find a suitable solution. Still, emotions could be intense, Virgo. Channelling them into exercise or household tasks can ground you, and enable wiser decisions over coming days.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Thinking of moving in a new direction? If so, a dynamic blend of energies can see you re-engaging with this plan. It could be linked to another person who may want to take on a challenge with you, whether they are a new contact or a friend. If you sense there might be some competition or even jealousy involved, then it’s wise to nip this in the bud before you start.

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