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AMPR: Gov’t still must address pension claims in wake of unfavorable appeals ruling

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he Puerto Rico Teachers Association (AMPR by its Spanish initials) and its local union insisted on Wednesday that the government must address their claims for a decent retirement after a federal appeals court ruling upheld changes to their pensions that critics say will destine thousands of teachers to poverty in their senior years.

“The decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit rejecting the arguments of other teaching groups and endorsing the confirmation of the Debt Adjustment Plan is something that had been foreseen.

As exclusive representatives of the teachers, we tried to get a better deal for the teachers long before this plan was approved,” AMPR President Víctor Manuel Bonilla Sánchez said in a written statement. “Also, we had challenged it before Judge [Laura Taylor] Swain and warned that the consequences would be disastrous for the teaching profession and for public education.”

The Court of Appeals struck down a challenge to the commonwealth debt adjustment plan Tuesday in a win for the Financial Oversight and Management Board and various other stakeholders. Judge William Kayatta wrote the decision in the case brought by teachers’ organizations seeking to overturn the plan’s treatment of their pensions. The two other judges on the panel agreed with Kayatta.

The teachers’ organizations that submitted the request were the Puerto Rico Federation of Teachers Inc. (FMPR by its Spanish initials); the Educators (as) Magisterial Group for Democracy, Unity, Change, Militancy and Trade Union Organization Inc. (EDUCAMOS); and the National Union of Educators and Education Workers Inc. (UNETE).

The appeals court sided with arguments to the effect that as part of the debt adjustment plan, provisions of commonwealth laws that are inconsistent with the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, commonly known as PROMESA, are preempted. Such preempted provisions include all laws, rules and regulations, to the extent that they give rise to obligations of the debtors discharged by the plan and the confirmation order pursuant to PROMESA. They also include laws enacted prior to June 30, 2016, to the extent that they provide for transfers or other appropriations after the enactment of PROMESA, including transfers from the common-

wealth or any of its instrumentalities to any agency or instrumentality, whether to enable such agency or instrumentality to pay or satisfy indebtedness or for any other purpose, are preempted to the extent inconsistent with the plan’s discharge of the debtor’s obligations.

The oversight board noted that now the teachers join all other governmental employees who converted to defined contribution plans several years ago.

The Plan of Adjustment, confirmed by U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico on Jan. 18, cuts the Puerto Rico government debt by almost 80% and saves about $50 billion in debt service payments, the board said.

Teachers “were given unfunded promises,” the First Circuit said. “Congress left it to the Board, subject to review by the Title III court, to adjust those unfunded promises so the Commonwealth would have a chance to reset its financial footing and, in so doing, ultimately benefit all the island’s residents.”

The Plan of Adjustment enables teachers to participate in Social Security and creates a way for teachers to contribute safely and securely to defined contribution plans that empower teachers to retain control over their own retirement savings, the oversight board said.

Puerto Rico Teachers Association President Víctor Manuel Bonilla Sánchez

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Forensics chief to funeral homes: 47 corpses ready to be picked up

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nstitute of Forensic Sciences (ICF by its Spanish initials) Executive Director María Conte Miller on Wednesday asked funeral parlors to pick up some 47 bodies that she has ready for delivery and that have not been claimed.

“We have 47 bodies that have already undergone an autopsy, the procedure with the authorized family member was completed and they have been approved by the agency for delivery, but they have not been claimed by the funeral agents,” Conte Miller said.

The ICF is the equivalent of a coroner’s office in the mainland U.S. The forensic pathologist added that “we are in the process of remodeling the Autopsy Room and once the case is finished and it is ready for delivery, we cannot

have them stored indefinitely here because the space for the cases we receive daily limits us.”

“The remodeling of the Autopsy Room has been carried out in an orderly manner so as not to affect our operation, but while an area is being remodeled, the storage capacity is reduced and it is not justified to have a finished case in our facilities,” she said. “For this reason, we seek the cooperation of the funeral agents so that once they are notified that the case is ready, they do not delay the process of claiming it.”

The IFC Autopsy Room entailed permanent improvements to the structure, the acquisition of 12 tables for performing autopsies with their instruments, modernization of the cleaning and disinfection equipment, remodeling of the corpse refrigeration units with temperature control alarms, among other equipment, with an investment of $4 million.

Institute of Forensic Sciences Executive Director María Conte Miller said the agency cannot store bodies “indefinitely here because the space for the cases we receive daily limits us.”

DACO issues notices of infringement to funeral parlors

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he Department of Consumer Affairs (DACO by its Spanish acronym) has recently issued 23 notices of infringement for non-compliance with the provisions of the law and the regulations to regulate funeral services in Puerto Rico, DACO Secretary Edan Rivera Rodríguez announced Wednesday, stressing the importance of knowing one’s rights when contracting for such services.

“The core purpose of our regulations on the issue is that the state of vulnerability of those who require this type of service does not serve as an excuse to disrespect their rights as consumers, but, on the contrary, ensures dignified treatment by the industry,” Rivera Rodríguez emphasized in a written statement.

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any funeral product or service be provided by telephone, if requested by the person. If the service is sought in person, a written and duly detailed list of all costs must be provided.

Such lists should include any aspect that should be known to the consumer; for example, the availability of the product or service, differences between the various options, and materials.

“A central element in the dignified treatment of every person who requires some type of service of this nature is the right to be informed, in a clear and adequate manner, especially about all costs that are involved, and that the mourner is not put in the painful situation of having to be making inquiries on his or her own; or, much less, to find hidden costs that were not properly explained,” Rivera Rodríguez said.

Funeral homes are also obliged to deliver, in writing, any requirement that the cemetery or crematorium with which it works has that imposes any obligation on the consumer to buy a particular funeral product or service. Meanwhile, if cremation services are offered, the possibility of using an “alternative container” should be indicated. Under no circumstances may the consumer be compelled to purchase a coffin or urn to provide a funeral service.

So far this year, DACO inspectors have issued a total of 113 notices of infringement to funeral service businesses in Puerto Rico. Most of the infractions have been detected in the western region of the island.

“We urge anyone who is denied pricing information, or against whom a charge is imposed for services not offered, or that are not subject to any charge, to contact us,” the secretary stressed.

As indicated, to report tips on the subject, citizens must write to the servicio@daco.pr.gov email, to the Internet page www.daco.pr.gov, or to the message box of the Facebook page Daco a Tu Favor.

Consumer Affairs Secretary Edan Rivera Rodríguez

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Ex-DNER secretary: Cease & desist order issued in Salinas in July 2015

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ormer Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) Secretary Carmen Guerrero said Wednesday that between June and July 2015, she had to deal with squatters setting up houses in the wetland of the area of the Camino del Indio in the community of Las Mareas in Salinas.

DNER Reserve and Ranger Corps personnel (led by Sergeant Colón) issued orders to cease and desist. The Reserve team and the Rangers develop reports on illegal construction, landfilling and rubble, and deforestation on farmland, which were presented to the Legal Affairs Office of the DNER on July 27, 2015.

Former Natural and Environmental Resources Secretary Carmen Guerrero According to the report of the Reserve biologist, an estimated total of 732 trees were felled in a total deforested area of 2,297 square meters (0.57 acres).

With input from the Office of Legal Affairs, the Rangers and Reserve personnel, signed and issued a cease and desist order

(no. 15-239-ZMT) on July 28, 2015 against Guillermo Godreau Veguilla, Santiago Rolón Vázquez, Carlos Manuel García Alvarado, and John Doe. “This intervention … to exercise Cease and Desist was coordinated by the commissioner of the Security Corps, Ángel Cruz, with personnel from the West Area Ranger Corps,” Guerrero said. “On July 29, 2015, the cease and desist order was delivered.”

The cease and desist order imposed hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and required restoration actions due to all the alleged violations of various laws and environmental regulations of the DNER, including regulations to govern the conservation and management of wildlife, exotic species

and hunting. Once the order was issued, the agency also published a press release to make known in regional and national media in Puerto Rico the matter of high public interest regarding environmental violations.

“It is necessary to establish that the processes of complaints, fines, and cease and desist require that an administrative process be followed where the evidence is presented by the parties, there is to give due process of law and the accused party may request a review or go to appeal to the courts, if you are not satisfied with the decision of the head of the agency,” the former official said.

In this regard, the Office of Official Examiners scheduled an administrative hearing on Aug. 20, 2015, Guerrero said.

Strong surf advisory issued for north coast

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mergency Management and Disaster Administration Bureau Commissioner Nino Correa Filomeno said Wednesday that the National Weather Service (NWS) issued a strong surf warning for northern Puerto Rico, including Culebra, with breaking waves up to 15 feet.

“We don’t want anyone in the water, for safety,” Correa Filomeno said in a written statement. “If someone sees someone else entering the water, please warn them that it is dangerous these days.”

“The NWS issued this warning, and these high waves could last until this Saturday, so we reiterate our call to cit-

izens not to enter the beaches these days, especially on the north coast and on the island municipality of Culebra,” he added. “We don’t want to have to mourn the loss of a loved one to drowning. We call on everyone to be aware of the NWS bulletins.”

Correa Filomeno noted that NMEAD’S operational areas have been activated in order to respond to any eventuality.

The bureau maintains constant communication with all of the municipal offices for emergency management, as well as those run by the Department of Public Safety, Coast Guard and municipal police.

To report any emergency, citizens are urged to call or text 9-1-1 to request assistance from the appropriate agencies.

Emergency Management and Disaster Administration Bureau Commissioner Nino Correa Filomeno

PREPA bankruptcy mediators said to be hiring Moelis & Co. as financial adviser

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he Unsecured Creditors Committee (UCC) asked the Title III court on Wednesday to allow it to retain the firm London Economics International LLC (LEI) as part of the mediation process to negotiate a new debt adjustment plan for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) upon learning that mediators will hire their own financial adviser.

The UCC says it wants to retain LEI because it is anticipated that the mediation team will hire the firm Moelis & Co., a global independent investment bank, to provide advice. PREPA stakeholders are in mediation to negotiate a new debt deal after the one negotiated in 2019 was canceled.

“If retained, LEI will, among other things, interact with Moelis as well as the advisors of other Mediation Parties with respect to key issues, including the amount of PREPA’s sustainable debt burden,” the UCC said in a motion.

The request comes after several organizations have called upon the Financial Oversight and Management Board to

cancel all of PREPA’s estimated $9 billion debt or substantially lower it as part of its bankruptcy process arguing that repaying the debt is unsustainable and will hike power rates.

UCC lawyer Luc Despins said the request was appropriate in light of the termination of the restructuring support agreement, which effectively moots the 2019 bankruptcy motion.

The request is also justified, the attorney pointed out, by the court’s order appointing the mediation team and directing mediation regarding the PREPA restructuring, as well as the anticipated application of the mediation team seeking to retain Moelis as its financial advisory firm.

In 2020, LEI authored a report on PREPA that noted the difficult financial and operational situation at PREPA. “As of the last audited financial statement available as of the end of 2019, PREPA had amassed a debt of $15.6 billion while its assets were valued at only $9.6 billion,” LEI noted at the time regarding the prior debt settlement.

“In an attempt to eradicate this debt, PREPA has proposed a non-bypassable charge to be added to all consumers’ bills,

known as the ‘Transition Charge,’ which would be shouldered by PREPA’s customers for the next 47 years. This fee is proposed to start at 2.77 cents/kWh [kilowatt-hour] before ultimately increasing by over 60% – a fee which may prove too much for some consumers in a region already battling with significant rates.”

Despins said it is important for the UCC to have its own financial adviser due to the financial questions to be raised during the mediation – particularly given that the mediation is to conclude by June 1, with the possibility of a one-month extension to July 1.

“Moreover, absent the relief requested in this Urgent Motion, the Application would not be heard until the next omnibus hearing on May 18, 2022, until which LEI would not know whether its retention is approved, thus putting at risk their compensation for any work performed in the interim,” Despins said. “Given the time-sensitive nature of the relief sought, the Committee requests that the deadline to object to the Application be set for Monday, May 2, 2022.”

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Democracy Now! analysis highlights ‘astonishing’ opinion by Justice Gorsuch

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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he liberal media outlet Democracy Now! on Wednesday analyzed the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Vaello Madero Supplemental Security Income (SSI) case handed down last week, pointing out the overlooked concurring opinion written by conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, which Democracy Now! commentator Juan González called “one of the clearest and most eloquent statements exposing U.S. colonialism that’s ever been issued by a Supreme Court justice, at least in my lifetime.”

“It could be the signal of the beginning of a long-overdue change in the court on this issue,” González said.

In his analysis, González examined the string of four Supreme Court rulings all going against Puerto Rico’s aspirations for sovereignty dating back to 2016.

In the latest case decided last week, the Vaello Madero case, the court in an 8-1 decision, with Puerto Rican Justice Sonia Sotomayor in dissent, found that Puerto Ricans do not have the right to collect SSI. “All of these cases take for granted the power of Congress to do whatever it wants when it comes to Puerto Rico, and governed by the Territorial Clause of the Constitution as the court interpreted more than a hundred years ago in a series of cases known as the Insular Cases,” González said. “And this is the heart of the question here, the Insular Cases. There were cases like Downes v. Bidwell, DeLima v. Bidwell, Dorr v. United States, Gonzales v. Williams, Balzac v. Porto Rico,

all in the early decades of the 20th century. Let’s be clear: The Insular Cases have been for a century the legal underpinnings of American colonialism. They provide legal justification for the United States to hold other nationalities and territory under its control.”

Gorsuch, González said, in his “astonishing” opinion, calls for the complete overthrow of the Insular Cases.

“A century ago in the Insular Cases, this Court held that

United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch

the federal government could rule Puerto Rico and other territories largely without regard to the Constitution,” Gorsuch wrote. “It is past time to acknowledge the gravity of this error and admit what we know to be true: The Insular Cases have no foundation in the Constitution and rest instead on racial stereotypes. They deserve no place in our law.”

“Now, justices don’t talk this clearly very often,” González said.

So, Gorsuch goes on to say in his opinion, “The flaws in the Insular Cases are as fundamental as they are shameful.”

“Nothing in the Constitution speaks of ‘incorporated’ and ‘unincorporated’ Territories,” he wrote. “Nothing in it extends to the latter only certain supposedly ‘fundamental’ constitutional guarantees.”

The justice said that the Insular Cases are a product of a period of “ugly racial stereotypes, and the theories of social Darwinists. But they have no home in our Constitution or its original understanding.”

Gorsuch, González said, noted that the only reason he voted in the majority in this case “was that no one asked him to overthrow the Insular Cases, not even the litigants on the other side.”

Gorsuch ends his opinion by saying, “But the time has come to recognize that the Insular Cases rest on a rotten foundation.”

“And I hope the day comes soon when the Court squarely overrules them,” the justice wrote. “We should follow Justice Harlan and settle this question right. Our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico deserve no less.”

Unions to lead May Day march on La Fortaleza

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pokespersons for several unions and student organizations announced Wednesday that on Sunday, May 1, International Workers’ Day, they will meet at Plaza Colón in Old San Juan at 1 p.m. to march to La Fortaleza.

“The central themes of the activity will be health, [and making] public and university education accessible to the working class in Puerto Rico,” said Puerto Rican Association of University Professors (APPU by its Spanish acronym) President Ángel Rodríguez Rivera at a press conference.

“This first of May, we will be public and private sector unions together with all the social sectors of our country defending our rights in the street against the neoliberal capitalist offensive that has been drowning us for years,” added Janell Santana, president of the Brotherhood of Non-Teaching Exempt Employees of the University of Puerto Rico.

“We know that the government is not and

will never be a spokesperson for the claims, concerns and demands of the dispossessed, poor, workers and oppressed sectors in our society. Only the people represent the village.

That is why on Sunday we ask all of Puerto Rico to meet at 1 p.m. in Old San Juan. That day we will raise our voices in opposition to the economic, political and social exploitation that all people in Puerto Rico suffer.”

“Our public health system was fragmented, passing part of it into private hands, turning the physical and emotional well being of the population of Puerto Rico into merchandise at the mercy of the interests of private capital accumulation,” Santana said. “The poorly termed health reform failed when insurance companies appropriated the provision of health services in Puerto Rico because they are only interested in their corporate profit. In that process, health workers in Puerto Rico suffer attacks from employers that take away the rights of the working people of Puerto Rico assuring a continuous deterioration of their collective health. It is time to implement a Universal

Health Plan in Puerto Rico. We will make that demand on the first of May.” Meanwhile, EDUCAMOS President Migdalia Santiago said that in addition to the demand for accessible healthcare for the working class and poor, the protesters demand a quality public education and an accessible

university education.

“Public education in Puerto Rico has been under continuous threat,” Santiago said.

“The working conditions to which we teachers in Puerto Rico are subjected endanger education as a right of Puerto Rican children. To the extent that our working conditions are not met and education is not seen as a fundamental axis of the economic development of the country, subjecting it to the logic of the market, we condemn our children and our entire country to collective ignorance.”

Marchers plan to meet at Plaza Colón in Old San Juan on Sunday at 1 p.m. to march to La Fortaleza.

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Texas’ busing of migrants to DC isn’t having Abbott’s intended effect yet

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ov. Greg Abbott of Texas devised a plan this month to rattle the Biden administration by busing migrants from the southwest border to the nation’s capital during a period of record crossings.

So far, though, the plan has not resulted in the chaos that Abbott predicted.

“I would like to say thank you to the governor of Texas,” Chadrack Mboyo-Bola, 26, said last Thursday morning, after he and 13 other migrants stepped off one of the chartered buses that had provided a 33-hour ride paid for by the state of Texas. Blocks from the U.S. Capitol, they were greeted by volunteers who would help them reach their desired destinations around the country to await their day in immigration court.

Three days earlier, Mboyo-Bola and his family had crossed into the United States from Mexico along the border in central Texas after an eight-week journey from Brazil. After spending a day in Border Patrol custody in Eagle Pass, Texas, they and about 20 other new immigrants accepted an offer to board a Washington-bound bus in nearby Del Rio. Abbott says his goal is to draw attention to what he and other Republicans describe as the failed immigration policies of President Joe Biden during a period of record crossings along the southwest border.

“The decision and the action to bus people from border communities was to alleviate the strain that’s put on the local communities along the border,” the governor said at a news conference on Thursday. “I’m going to take the border to President Biden.”

Abbott’s plan, however, happens to fit into the Biden administration’s strategy for responding to the surge in migrant crossings, which officials anticipate will increase sharply once a public health rule imposed during the coronavirus pandemic is lifted at the end of May. The Biden plan includes working with state and local governments and nonprofits to provide support, assistance and transportation to move migrants out of border communities and toward their final destinations in a humane and orderly way.

“In a way, it’s actually perfect,” said Bilal Askaryar, a spokesperson for Welcome With Dignity, a collective of about 100 local and national groups that help migrants.

“Unintentionally, Gov. Abbott sent them to one of the best places in the nation to welcome people.”

In truth, the migrants that Texas is sending to Washington are coming voluntarily and are only a fraction of the thousands crossing the border daily. As of Monday, Abbott had sent about 195 migrants who volunteered for the trip to Washington since the first bus arrived on April 13, although more were en route. Mboyo-Bola’s bus was the eighth from Texas; by Friday, two more had arrived. The Texas Division of Emergency Management has been chartering the buses, according to Abbott’s office.

Abel Nuñez, the executive director of the Central Ame-

Migrants arrive in Washington from Texas on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. rican Resource Center, a Washington-based nonprofit that helps immigrants find legal aid and housing, said the grassroots volunteer effort would not be sufficient if Washington was going to become a way station for many more migrants coming straight from the border. Without help, the new immigrants would be left in an unfamiliar city and might not have the means or know-how to reach their final destination, instead perhaps having to camp out on the streets or bus stations.

For now, though, the numbers remain modest. As the migrants who arrived on Thursday met with volunteers at a nearby church-owned coffee shop, eight others waited at a respite center in Del Rio, Texas — a small town that made national headlines when thousands of migrants huddled in squalid conditions under a bridge there last fall — to board another free bus.

“I am very thankful to the governor. His help is very much welcomed,” said Reydel Grau, a Cuban who traveled three weeks to reach the United States. With holes in his pockets and little left of the $1,300 he had saved for his trip, he said the word “free” was music to his ears.

Grau pointed his cellphone camera during a FaceTime call at an imposing charter bus behind him and marveled at its size. “It looks like an airplane,” he said, beaming.

Hundreds of migrants arrive daily at the respite center in Del Rio, which is run by the Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition and provides meals, free Wi-Fi, access to landline phones and charging stations, and guidance on how to reach destinations in the United States.

Most of the migrants who go to the center, including most who were there on Thursday morning, buy their own bus tickets, often to San Antonio, where they connect to transportation to their final destination.

The free buses have also dropped off some of the migrants in Republican-leaning states along the way, including Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina.

When Abbott announced his plan, Askaryar said, advocates in Texas and Washington quickly mobilized. The call for volunteers came from organizations big and small,

through religious groups and neighborhood listservs.

A WhatsApp group, whose members include a representative from the mayor’s office in Washington, shares bus information and estimated times of arrival in Washington.

The Texas governor’s office generally does not reveal when buses are leaving or from where, and there is no advance notice of where the migrants will be dropped off.

“There’s all these advocates here who understand the system and understand the needs,” Askaryar said. “It might not have been the governor’s intention — I think he clearly wanted to create some kind of chaos — but the reality is that we’re really well prepared and really excited to welcome these people.”

Republicans, as well as some Democratic lawmakers facing tough reelection races this fall, have blasted the Biden administration for its plan to end the temporary policy restricting immigration, known as Title 42. Even with the policy still in place, crossings at the southwest border have reached record highs: recently about 8,800 a day on average, according to internal data.

Early on Thursday, about 10 volunteers gathered in front of Union Station in Washington, where they had a good view of where chartered buses typically make drop-offs. Just after 7 a.m., a bus pulled over on Delaware Avenue.

While most of the people who arrived in Washington on Thursday had prearranged plans for people to meet them at their final destination, Mboyo-Bola, who is originally from Congo, and his family did not. They were going to Portland, Maine, because he had read online that there were several shelters that could house immigrants; many from Africa have settled in the area. Mboyo-Bola’s government entry papers included the address of the City of Portland Family Shelter, which one of the volunteers called and learned had no room for the family.

“If we send them there, they’re just going to be on the street,” Nuñez said. “Our job is not to just push this issue to another city.”

Communities along the southwest border have at times been overwhelmed when the government drops off groups of migrants who have nowhere to go at bus stations or other locations.

The volunteers eventually found a licensed foster care family who agreed to host Mboyo-Bola, his wife and daughter in Washington for a night, while they tried to find somewhere for the family to go and receive support. By Friday, the Central American Resource Center had bought bus tickets to Portland for them and other African migrants who arrived late Thursday. The volunteers reached out to city officials in Portland, who said they would have to try find shelter for them when they arrived.

“We’re going to continue to respond to the best of our ability and try to give people at least some comfort, some instruction of what they need to do,” Nuñez said. “But in the end, they’re going to have to make their own final decision.”

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Harvard details its entanglements with slavery and its plans for redress

Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., March 16, 2022. Harvard University issued a 130-age report investigating its ties to slavery, and its legacy.

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n one column are the names of more than 70 enslaved people at Harvard: Venus, Juba, Cesar, Cicely. They are only first names, or sometimes no name at all — “the Moor” or “a little boy” — of people and stories that have been all but forgotten.

In another column are the names of the ministers and presidents and donors of Harvard who enslaved them in the 17th and 18th centuries: Increase Mather, Gov. John Winthrop, William Brattle. These full names are so powerful and revered they still adorn buildings today.

The contrasting lists are arguably the most poignant part of a 134-page report on Harvard University’s four centuries of entanglements with slavery and its legacy.

And they are just an appendix.

The report by a committee of Harvard faculty members, released Tuesday, is Harvard’s effort to begin redressing the wrongs of the past, as some other universities have been doing for decades.

As part of the process, the university’s governing corporation has pledged $100 million in part to create an endowed “Legacy of Slavery Fund” that would allow scholars and students to bring Harvard’s connections to slavery into the light for generations to come.

Experts said the amount of money Harvard was committing for such a project was rare, if not unprecedented for an educational institution. It rivals the $100 million pledged by leaders of the Jesuit conference of priests for racial reconciliation and to benefit descendants of enslaved people at Georgetown University.

The report calls for spending the money in a multitude of tracks: By tracing the modern-day descendants of enslaved people at Harvard. By building memorials and curriculum to honor and expose the past. By creating exchange programs between students and faculty members at Harvard and those at historically Black colleges and universities, and by collaborating with tribal colleges.

And by forging partnerships to improve schools in the American South and the West Indies, where plantation owners and Boston Brahmins made their intertwined fortunes on the backs of the enslaved.

The recommendations are somewhat vague, purposely so, Harvard officials said, so that more care can be put into fulfilling them. Some descendants of the enslaved said talks had already begun to figure out how they could work together.

But the report carefully avoided treading on direct financial reparations for the descendants of enslaved people.

Reparations “means different things to different people, so fixating on that term, I think, can be counterproductive,” Tomiko Brown-Nagin, the committee chair, a professor of both law and history, and dean of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, said in an interview.

She said one goal of the new endowed fund was to drive social mobility by closing gaps in educational opportunity. “The university is committed to deeply meaningful and sustained remedies that will endure in perpetuity,” she said.

“Those remedies are focused on leveraging our expertise in education, which is consistent with our mission.”

Some descendants of the enslaved at Harvard, like Jordan Lloyd, found the university’s promises bittersweet.

Lloyd grew up in Boston wondering how her Black family had got there. While working as an actress, she paid her bills by waitressing at Harvard’s repertory theater, never suspecting that she was walking the same streets as an ancestor she did not know about, Cuba Vassall.

Harvard’s report says Cuba Vassall was enslaved by Penelope Royall Vassall, sister of Isaac Royall Jr., the slaveholding benefactor of Harvard Law School. The Royall family crest, with its sheaves of wheat, was a symbol of the law school until it was withdrawn in 2016, after 80 years, because of student protests. The student paper, The Harvard Crimson, now practically makes a game of finding the Royall crest extant on some university property.

Lloyd, who now lives in Los Angeles and works in film, learned about her ancestor from Carissa Chen, then an undergraduate researching descendants of the enslaved under the tutelage of a Harvard history professor, Sven Beckert.

Beckert, in turn, had been inspired by an investigation of slavery at Brown University that was started in 2003 by Ruth Simmons, the first Black president of an Ivy League school. Beckert and his students labored alone for three or four years, he recalled, until the Harvard administration first took notice around 2010.

Chen, now a Rhodes scholar, contacted Lloyd in 2020, around the time of the protests over the police killing of George Floyd. Lloyd was sickened over police brutality, she said in an interview. Knowing with such scholarly certainty where she came from made her feel better.

“I found a lot of peace and groundedness in it, and I was incredibly grateful,” she said.

But she also felt anger toward Harvard for not doing more earlier. “It feels like they’re hop-

ping on a bandwagon,” she said. She tends to favor financial reparations, and says what Harvard does will be a “barometer” for others.

Befitting a scholarly institution, Harvard’s 134-page report, which includes two appendices, is dense, detailed and even “shocking,” as the university’s president, Lawrence Bacow, said in an email announcing the initiative to students, faculty and staff.

It says that enslaved people were an “integral” part of the university in its early days.

They lived in the president’s residence on the Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus and were part of the fabric, almost invisible, of daily life.

“Enslaved men and women served Harvard presidents and professors and fed and cared for Harvard students,” the report says.

While New England’s image has been linked in popular culture to abolitionism, the report said, wealthy plantation owners and Harvard were mutually dependent.

“Well into the 19th century, the university and its donors benefited from extensive financial ties to slavery,” the report said. “These profitable financial relationships included, most notably, the beneficence of donors who accumulated their wealth through slave trading; from the labor of enslaved people on plantations in the Caribbean islands and in the American South; and from the Northern textile manufacturing industry, supplied with cotton grown by enslaved people held in bondage.”

In turn, the report said, the university profited from loans to Caribbean sugar planters, rum distillers and plantation suppliers, and from investments in cotton manufacturing.

Early attempts at integration met with stiff resistance from Harvard leaders, who prized being a school for the white upper crust, including wealthy white sons of the South, the report recounted.

“In 1850, Harvard’s medical school admitted three Black students but, after a group of white students and alumni objected, the school’s dean, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., expelled them,” it said.

Until the 1960s, the report notes, the legacy of slavery lived on in the paucity of Black students admitted to Harvard.

“During the five decades between 1890 and 1940, approximately 160 Blacks attended Harvard College, or an average of about three per year, 30 per decade,” the report said. “In 1960, some nine Black men numbered among the 1,212 freshman matriculants to Harvard College, and that figure represented a vast improvement over the prior decades.”

In the Class of 2025, 18% of the 1,968 admitted students identified as African American or Black.

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The coronavirus has infected more than half of Americans, the CDC reports

Medical workers at a COVID-19 testing site in Oakland, Calif., Nov. 19, 2020.

By APOORVA MANDAVILLI

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ixty percent of Americans, including 75% of children, had been infected with the coronavirus by February, federal health officials reported earlier this week — another remarkable milestone in a pandemic that continues to confound expectations.

The highly contagious omicron variant was responsible for much of the toll. In December 2021, as the variant began spreading, only half as many people had antibodies indicating prior infection, according to new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

While the numbers came as a shock to many Americans, some scientists said they had expected the figures to be even higher, given the contagious variants that have marched through the nation over the past two years.

There may be good news in the data, some experts said. A gain in populationwide immunity may offer at least a partial bulwark against future waves. And the trend may explain why the surge that is now roaring through China and many countries in Europe has been muted in the United States.

A high percentage of previous infections may also mean that there are now fewer cases of life-threatening illness or death relative to infections. “We will see less and less severe disease, and more and more a shift toward clinically mild disease,” said Florian Krammer, an immunologist at the Icahn School of Medi-

cine at Mount Sinai in New York.

“It will be more and more difficult for the virus to do serious damage,” he added.

Administration officials, too, believe that the data augur a new phase of the pandemic in which infections may be common at times but cause less harm.

At a news briefing Tuesday, Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House’s new COVID coordinator, said that stopping infections was “not even a policy goal. The goal of our policy should be: obviously, minimize infections whenever possible, but to make sure people don’t get seriously ill.”

The average number of confirmed new cases a day in the United States — more than 49,000 as of Monday, according to a New York Times database — is comparable to levels last seen in late July, even as cases have risen by more than 50% over the past two weeks, a trend infectious disease experts have attributed to new omicron subvariants.

Jha and other officials warned against complacency and urged Americans to continue receiving vaccinations and booster shots, saying that antibodies from prior infections did not guarantee protection from the virus.

During the omicron surge, infections rose most sharply among children and adolescents, according to the new research. Prior infections increased least among adults aged 65 and older, who have the highest rates of vaccination and may be most likely to take precautions.

“Evidence of previous COVID-19 infec-

tions substantially increased among every age group,” Dr. Kristie Clarke, the agency researcher who led the new study, said at a news briefing Tuesday.

Widespread infection raises a troubling prospect: a potential increase in cases of long COVID, a poorly understood constellation of lingering symptoms.

Up to 30% of people infected with the coronavirus may have persistent symptoms, including worrisome changes to the brain and heart. Vaccination is thought to lower the odds of long COVID, although it is unclear by how much.

“The long-term impacts on health care are not clear but certainly worth taking very seriously, as a fraction of people will be struggling for a long time with the consequences,” said Bill Hanage, a public health researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Even a very small percentage of infected or vaccinated people who develop COVID would translate to millions nationwide.

While the focus is often on preventing the health care system from buckling under a surge, “we should also be concerned that our health care system will be overwhelmed by the ongoing health care needs of a population with long COVID,” said Zoë McLaren, a health policy expert at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Although cases are once again on the upswing, particularly in the Northeast, the rise in hospitalizations has been minimal, and deaths are still dropping. According to the agency’s most recent criteria, more than 98% of Americans live in communities with a low or medium level of risk.

Even among those who are hospitalized, “we’re seeing less oxygen use, less ICU stays and we haven’t, fortunately, seen any increase in deaths associated with them,” said the CDC’s director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky.

“We are hopeful that positive trends will continue.”

The country has recorded about a fivefold drop in PCR testing for the virus since the omicron peak, and so tracking new cases has become difficult. But the reported count is far less, about 70fold lower, said Walensky, reflecting “a true and reliable drop in our overall cases.”

New subvariants of omicron, called BA.2 and BA.2.12.1, have supplanted the previous iteration, BA.1, which began circulating in the country in late November and sent cases soaring to record highs in a matter of weeks.

“Of course, even more have been infected now, because BA.2 will have infected some who avoided it thus far,” Hanage said.

By February, 3 of 4 children and adolescents in the country had already been infected with the virus, compared with one-third of older adults, according to the new study.

That so many children are carrying antibodies may offer comfort to parents of those aged 5 and under, who do not qualify for vaccination, since many may have acquired at least some immunity through infection.

But Clarke urged parents to immunize children who qualify as soon as regulators approve a vaccine for them, regardless of their prior infection. Among children who are hospitalized with the virus, up to 30% may need intensive care, she noted.

Although many of those children also have other medical conditions, about 70% of cases of multisystem inflammatory disease, a rare consequence of COVID-19 infection, occur in otherwise healthy children.

To measure the percentage of the population infected with the virus, the study relied on the presence of antibodies produced in response to an infection.

CDC researchers began assessing antibody levels in people at 10 sites early in the pandemic and have since expanded that effort to all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The investigators used a test sensitive enough to identify previously infected people for at least one to two years after exposure.

The researchers analyzed blood samples collected from September 2021 to February 2022 for antibodies to the virus, and then parsed the data by age, sex and geographical location. The investigators looked specifically for a type of antibody produced after infection but not after vaccination.

Between September and December 2021, the prevalence of antibodies in the samples steadily increased by 1 to 2 percentage points every four weeks. But it jumped sharply after December, increasing by nearly 25 points by February 2022.

The percentage of samples with antibodies rose from about 45% among children aged 11 years and younger, and among adolescents aged 12 to 17 years, to about 75% in both age groups.

By February 2022, roughly 64% of adults aged 18 to 49 years, about 50% of those aged 50 to 64 years and about 33% of older adults had been infected, according to the study.

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Microsoft reports rising revenue and profits, despite war and inflation

By KAREN WEISE

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espite inflation and uncertainty over the war in Ukraine, Microsoft earlier this week reported financial results that showed little threat to the fundamentals of its business.

Microsoft said it had $49.4 billion in sales in the first three months of the year, up 18% from a year earlier. Profit rose 8% to $16.7 billion.

Microsoft, like many tech companies, enjoyed a surge in demand from the pandemic, but unlike Netflix and others, it has seen its growth continue. Microsoft executives have said it is facilitating “durable” ways for its customers to evolve in the digital era that will only increase the use of technology — and mean more business for the company.

“Going forward, digital technology will be the key input that powers the world’s economic output,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a statement.

Revenue for Microsoft’s cloud offerings for commercial customers, which include

its flagship Azure cloud computing platform and Office 365 subscriptions, increased 32% to $23.4 billion.

Azure grew 46%. The sales were to a “broad” base of customers across industries and sizes, Brett Iversen, head of investor relations, said in an interview, adding that customers signed many large, long-term contracts.

Russia accounts for less than 1% of Microsoft’s revenue, Amy Hood, the company’s finance chief, said in March, and the ripple effect that some analysts initially feared when Russia invaded Ukraine did not appear to materialize. Bank of America, for example, recently wrote that in checking with Microsoft’s partners, it had “not noted any war-prompted spending slowdown across Europe more broadly.”

The strong dollar hurt its business, reducing revenue by about $300 million, more than the company had expected.

Microsoft’s personal computing business grew 11% to $14.5 billion, with an 11% increase in sales of its Windows operating system that comes installed on new com-

puters, a sign that inflation has not hurt purchasing, particularly by corporate customers.

Sales of Xbox gaming consoles rose 14%.

LinkedIn, which Microsoft bought in 2016, grew 34% and continued to benefit from the ways the pandemic has upended people’s relationship to their jobs. With workers looking for new roles and companies struggling to fill postings, sales of LinkedIn’s

GM’s profits fell 3% amid chip shortage issues

By NEIL E. BOUDETTE

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eneral Motors said earlier this week that its profits dipped in the first three months of the year. But the company said it expected to grow rapidly as it started selling a wider range of electric cars and trucks.

Although it has sold only a small num-

ber of electric vehicles this year, GM has several new models nearly ready for production and aims to sell 400,000 such automobiles by the end of next year, its chief executive, Mary T. Barra, said.

“We are installing the most manufacturing capacity to meet demand,” she said in a conference call to discuss the company’s first-quarter results.

Barra also said a global shortage of computer chips that had hindered production and raised car prices was easing. GM expects auto production this year to rise 25% to 30% from 2021.

“There is still volatility in chips,” Barra said, but “we think we will see stronger chip supply in the second half over the first half.”

GM said it had a profit of $2.9 billion in the first quarter, down 3% from a year earlier. But revenue for the three months jumped nearly 11%, to $36 billion. GM sold 831,000 vehicles globally in the quarter, 10,000 more than a year earlier.

The company said its outlook for 2022 was unchanged — it expects its profit to be between $9.6 billion and $11.2 billion.

GM has been spending billions of dollars to develop electric models and build factories for those cars and their batteries. But it is still far from catching up with Tesla, and it recently lost ground to Ford Motor, too. Tesla is expected to sell about 1.5 million electric cars this year. Ford’s electric Mustang sport utility vehicle has sold well, and production of an electric version of its popular F-150

products for recruiters and the ads it shows job seekers have been strong.

For the first time, Microsoft’s results included artificial intelligence software company Nuance, which the company bought in a $16 billion deal that closed in early March.

The company still expects its $70 billion deal to acquire Activision, a video game maker, to close by July 2023.

pickup truck started this month.

GM has taken 140,000 reservations for an electric Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck that it will start producing next year, Barra said. The company also plans to introduce electric versions of its Chevrolet Blazer and Equinox SUVs next year.

The company said it was on track to begin producing batteries at a new factory in Lordstown, Ohio, this summer and is building three more battery plants in the United States. The automaker has recently started making an electric GMC Hummer truck and an electric luxury SUV, the Cadillac Lyriq. It also resumed making the Chevrolet Bolt this month after working to fix a defect in the car’s battery. And by the end of the year, GM will make electric delivery vans at a plant in Ontario.

Barra is counting on building up enough electric vehicle production capacity to drive down costs and offer affordable electric vehicles — “a part of the market our competitors are not focused on,” she said.

The cheapest Tesla, the compact Model 3, starts at more than $48,000, and Tesla’s Model Y starts at nearly $65,000. GM says its Equinox will sell for around $30,000. The company is also working with Honda, the Japanese automaker, on affordable electric cars.

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S&P 500 ends higher, supported by Microsoft

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he S&P 500 ended higher on Wednesday following a steep drop the day before, with strong revenue forecasts from Microsoft and Visa helping to alleviate worries about slowing global economic growth and rising interest rates.

Microsoft Corp MSFT.O rallied after the software heavyweight late on Tuesday gave a strong revenue forecast, while payments network Visa Inc V.N jumped after it predicted revenue above pre-pandemic levels.

Tuesday’s gains in the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average followed a steep selloff the day before that saw the Nasdaq drop to its lowest close since December 2020 as investors worried that the U.S. Federal Reserve might raise interest rates more than expected in its fight against inflation.

The S&P 500 communication services index .SPLRCL fell 2.6%, with Google-parent Alphabet GOOGL.O dropping 3.7% after it reported that quarterly YouTube ad sales slowed and its revenue missed expectations.

“What we’ve really been seeing is that misses are being punished a little more severely, but that beats are also being rewarded,” said Rob Haworth, a senior investment strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management in Seattle. “With interest rates where they are and the 10-year Treasury testing 2.8%, I think there is a big question about growth and valuations.”

In extended trade, Facebook-owner Meta Platforms Inc FB.O rose 9% following its quarterly report. During the trading session it had declined 3.3%.

Planemaker Boeing Co BA.N tumbled 7.5% after it said it was halting production of 777X jets through 2023 due to certification problems, as well as weak demand for the wide-body jet.

Nearly a third of the companies on the S&P 500 have reported results this week. Overall, earnings have been better than expected, with nearly 80% of the 176 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported so far beating Wall Street expectations. Typically, only 66% of companies beat estimates.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 0.19% to end at 33,301.93 points, while the S&P 500 .SPX gained 0.21% to 4,183.92.

The Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 0.01% to 12,488.93.

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War’s effects widen as Russia cuts gas supplies

By MATINA STEVIS-GRIDNEFF, MATTHEW MPOKE BIGG and SHASHANK BENGALI

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he reverberations of the war in Ukraine widened Wednesday, jolting energy markets and threatening to spill across borders, as the West’s escalating arms shipments and economic penalties prompted Russia to lash out by cutting off gas supplies to two European nations.

Russia’s state-run gas company, Gazprom, announced that it was suspending shipments of natural gas to Poland and Bulgaria, a move that the European Union’s top official denounced as “blackmail.” Though the immediate economic impact was likely to be limited, it was the Kremlin’s toughest retaliation yet against a U.S.-led alliance that it has accused of

Sehii Schevchuuk, right, and some of the dogs he cares for that have been abandoned near the apartment building where he lives in Horenka, near Kyiv, Ukraine. backing Ukraine in a proxy war aimed at weakening Russia.

Even as news of a U.S.-Russia prisoner

exchange offered a glimmer of hope that tensions with the West could ease, President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that he would unleash “counterstrikes” against any adversaries that “create threats of a strategic nature unacceptable to Russia.”

At the same time, a series of explosions across Ukraine’s borders raised the possibility that the war, now in its third month, might spread. Blasts were reported in three Russian border districts Wednesday morning, and while the cause was not immediately known, suspicion fell on Ukrainian forces, which are being supplied with more sophisticated weapons and intelligence from the United States and its allies.

A day earlier, explosions shook a proRussian breakaway region of Moldova, on

Ukraine’s southwestern flank. Some analysts said it was likely that Russia, which has stationed thousands of troops in the Transnistria region, had staged the blasts as a pretext for further aggression against Ukraine.

In other developments: — While European officials said they were prepared to weather the near-term impact of Russia’s gas cutoff to Bulgaria and Poland, economists said Europe could face a sharp slowdown of growth if the cutoff spreads to other countries — or if Europe imposes an embargo on Russian gas.

— Russian forces are making slow and measured advances in their offensive in eastern Ukraine, adopting more methodical tactics as they confront entrenched Ukrainian forces, military analysts said.

Russia releases former US Marine in prisoner swap

By IVAN NECHEPURENKO

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revor R. Reed, a former Marine who was convicted in Russia on charges that his family said were bogus, has been freed after what officials in Moscow on Wednesday described as a prisoner swap, an unexpected diplomatic breakthrough with tensions running high over the Ukraine war.

Reed, who was initially detained in August 2019, was released in exchange for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot sentenced to a lengthy term in the United States on cocaine-trafficking charges.

“Trevor, a former U.S. Marine, is free from Russian detention,” President Joe Biden said in a statement. “I heard in the voices of Trevor’s parents how much they’ve worried about his health and missed his presence.

And I was delighted to be able to share with them the good news about Trevor’s freedom.”

Reed’s family had increasingly expressed concern about his health while he was in detention, and footage aired Wednesday by Russian state-run television showed what appeared to be a visibly gaunt Reed being escorted to a Russian plane at the Vnukovo airport in Moscow. Reed’s father, Joey, told CNN that his son had been flown to Turkey, where the exchange took place.

Other Americans remain in detention in Russia, including Paul Whelan, who was sentenced in 2020 to 16 years in prison on espio-

Trevor Reed, center, at a court hearing in Moscow in 2020. During one hearing, Mr. Reed said that the case against him was political and linked his troubles in Russia to his military affiliation. nage charges during a trial that was closed to the public; and Brittney Griner, a basketball star who was arrested in mid-February on drug charges that could carry a sentence of up to 10 years.

The agreement involving Reed was the result of “lengthy negotiations,” according to Maria Zakharova, a spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry. In his statement, Biden did not refer explicitly to a prisoner swap, saying, “The negotiations that allowed us to bring Trevor home required difficult decisions that I do not take lightly.”

A native of Texas, Reed traveled to Rus-

sia in May 2019 to visit his Russian girlfriend, whom he had met on a dating website, and to take language lessons. One week before his planned return to the United States, Reed went to a party at a park outside Moscow, where he drank extensive amounts of vodka.

Reed then got agitated, prompting his girlfriend and friends to call the police. Officers who arrived at the scene decided to take him to a police station, where Reed was interviewed by Russian security agents. Shortly after, he was accused of assaulting and endangering the lives of the two police officers who had driven him there.

After spending more than 11 months in a Russian jail, Reed was sentenced to nine years in prison, the first time that such a severe punishment had been applied for that type of crime, his attorneys said. During one hearing, Reed said the case against him was political and linked his troubles in Russia to his military affiliation.

While in a penal colony in the Russian republic of Mordovia, Reed was subjected to degrading treatment, including time in a solitary cell, his family has said in statements.

His health rapidly deteriorated, his family said, and he was not allowed to call home or to receive books or letters, prompting him to begin a hunger strike in November.

Reed’s family said in a statement Wednesday that they would now concentrate on “the myriad of health issues brought on by the squalid conditions he was subjected to in his Russian gulag.”

Yaroshenko, 53, is a Russian pilot who worked occasional jobs in Africa. In 2010, he was detained and charged in connection with a foiled plot to fly cocaine to Liberia and Ghana from South America. U.S. authorities said he had done so with the knowledge that some of the drugs would wind up in the United States.

Yaroshenko, who had never before set foot in the United States, was deported to the country to stand trial in 2011 and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

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Haunting disappearance sparks outrage in Mexico over gender violence

By OSCAR LÓPEZ

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n the 13th day of searching for his missing daughter, Mario Escobar stood outside a gas station in the choking heat, clutching flyers with her photo and the vestiges of a desperate, lingering hope.

Hours later, in a wash of red and blue police lights, that hope was destroyed.

Debanhi Escobar’s body was found the night of April 21 in an abandoned underground water tank on the grounds of a motel in northern Mexico, which authorities had already searched four different times.

“I’m shattered,” Mario Escobar said of his daughter’s disappearance. “My life has changed completely.”

The case of Debanhi Escobar, an 18-year-old law student who disappeared April 9, has sparked outrage and protests over a phenomenon that is now chillingly common in Mexico: the disappearance of women and girls all over the country.

In just the past month, at least nine other women and girls have gone missing in the greater metropolitan area of Monterrey, one of the wealthiest cities in the country. Nationwide, more than 24,000 women are missing, according to government figures, and last year, roughly 2,800 women were reported missing, an increase of nearly 40% compared with 2017.

The rising rate of disappearances correlates to the general surge in violence across Mexico in recent years, security experts say, in addition to the rise in organized crime, like sex trafficking, as well as high rates of domestic violence that force many women to flee their homes.

But security analysts and human rights groups also point to a broader failure by state authorities to carry out proper investigations of missing women or prosecute femicide cases, fueling a culture of deepseated impunity.

As a result, desperate families are forced to take search efforts and investigations into their own hands, seeking justice for loved ones who vanish into the wilds of an increasingly lawless nation.

“The state has simply completely turned its back on its responsibility to investigate cases of disappearances,” said Angélica Durán-Martínez, an associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. “It’s an environ-

Women protesting in Monterrey, Mexico, after the death of Debanhi Escobar, who went missing on April 9, during a wave of disappearances of women in Nuevo León state. ment that makes it easier for these practices to continue propagating because there is no punishment or justice.”

A spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office for Nuevo León state, which includes Monterrey and was responsible for the search and investigation efforts into Debanhi Escobar’s disappearance, did not respond to multiple interview requests.

In a report released this month, the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances called on Mexico to tackle the crisis, noting that more than 95,000 people are registered as disappeared. In the past five years, 8,000 people a year have disappeared. While most are men, the committee highlighted a “notable increase” in the disappearances of women, children and teenagers.

“Impunity in Mexico is a structural feature that favors the reproduction and cover-up of enforced disappearances,” the U.N. committee said in a statement, noting that as of November, only 2% to 6% of disappearances had resulted in prosecutions..

In response, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who made tackling

Mexico’s violence a central campaign promise, said that the committee’s recommendations were being addressed. In a news conference last week, he pledged the federal government’s support in solving Escobar’s killing and vowed that injustice in Mexico was a thing of the past.

“Along with corruption, what has hurt Mexico the most, because they go hand in hand, is impunity,” López Obrador said.

“That’s why we talk about zero impunity, that the crimes that are committed be punished. ” But in Nuevo León, authorities have been more dismissive of the crisis. As recently as last week, the state prosecutor, Gustavo Adolfo Guerrero, cited a “lack of communication” among families as well as “rebelliousness” among teens as the cause of most disappearances of women, adding that most were missing as “a voluntary” decision.

Before Escobar disappeared, public outrage had already been building for weeks after a string of disappearances of young women in Monterrey, which seemed to underscore the negligence of authorities.

Yolanda Martínez, 26, went missing March 31. According to her brother Jesús, it took authorities two weeks to even visit their home. She has yet to be found.

“It starts to feed our despair,” Jesús Martínez said. “I can’t tell you that they’re doing nothing, but I also can’t tell you what’s being done.”

Three days after Yolanda Martínez disappeared, María Fernanda Contreras, 27, went missing. Through a family contact, Contreras’ father, Luis Carlos Contreras, obtained cell tower data showing the approximate location of her phone the last time it was switched on.

Her father scoured the area, passing the information to the state prosecutor’s office. But he said it took authorities three days to close off and search the neighborhood. By the time they found her, she had been dead for days.

“With all the information I had, I almost found my daughter, and these guys couldn’t do anything,” Luis Carlos Contreras said. “It’s ridiculous.”

The Nuevo León attorney general’s office has denied they were slow to act, noting that María Fernanda Contreras was killed the night she disappeared.

Then came Escobar’s case, which intensified the anger. The uproar prompted

a rare outpouring of public support, with people offering everything from drones to sniffer dogs to help the search.

The night she went missing, Escobar had been at a party on the outskirts of the city. According to the state prosecutor’s office, Escobar left the party in a private car, but in the early hours of April 9, she got out of the vehicle on the side of a highway, where the driver apparently left her.

The driver had been interviewed twice by investigators, according to an official in the prosecutor’s office who was not authorized to speak publicly.

A photo of Escobar taken by the driver who left her on the highway also went viral, thanks partly to the family’s efforts to draw attention to the case. She’s pictured standing alone along a highway, arms crossed and staring into the darkness.

For nearly two weeks, her family and friends desperately searched, at times walking through barren fields, prodding at the dirt for signs of a buried body.

Eventually, complaints of a foul smell by the motel workers tipped authorities off to check the water tank.

Nuevo León’s top security official, speaking to reporters last week, acknowledged that the search for Escobar had been flawed.

“It’s a massive human failure,” said Aldo Fasci, the state’s security secretary.

“They were there four times and didn’t find anything.”

On Saturday, Escobar’s body was driven about three hours south of Monterrey to the town of Galeana, where her mother grew up. As the convoy of cars pulled into town, dozens of residents stood by the side of the road, waving signs and white balloons.

After a mass inside a bare yellow church, the coffin was driven out of town, followed by a procession of dozens of people to the local cemetery, which sits on a hill overlooking soaring mountains.

“We are destroyed inside; our hearts are broken,” Mario Escobar said. “We are sick and tired of everything that’s happening in Mexico.”

Debanhi Escobar’s coffin was lowered into a grave lined with cinder blocks. Wet cement was poured on top, followed by dozens of flowers. Then, women in the crowd began singing a haunting hymn, their words whipped away by the wind.

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Aung San Suu Kyi found guilty in Myanmar before Biden summit

By RICHARD C. PADDOCK

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court sentenced Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to five years in prison Wednesday after finding her guilty of corruption for accepting about $1.3 million in gold bars and cash from a close political ally.

The conviction was based largely on the testimony of the former chief minister of Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, who publicly confessed last year that he had delivered $600,000 in cash and about 25 pounds of gold to her in shopping bags.

Suu Kyi, whose trial was closed to the public and the news media, has called the charge “absurd.” The court has prohibited her lawyers from speaking publicly about the case. Her ouster in Myanmar has rattled other Southeast Asian nations and is expected to be a major point of discussion during President Joe Biden’s meeting with leaders from the region in Washington next month.

Supporters of Suu Kyi who are familiar with the legal proceedings said the prosecution had presented no evidence — aside from witness testimony — that she received the gold bars and currency.

Suu Kyi, who was arrested Feb. 1, 2021, as the military began staging a coup, has been charged with 17 criminal counts that her defenders maintain are fabricated.

She was convicted earlier on five lesser charges and sentenced to six years in prison. If found guilty on all the remaining counts, including nine more corruption charges, she faces as much as 163 years in prison.

Phil Robertson, the deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch, said the conviction on “bogus corruption charges” shows the regime’s determination to silence her.

“The days of Aung San Suu Kyi as a free woman are effectively over,” he said. “Destroying popular democracy in Myanmar also means getting rid of Aung San Suu Kyi, and the junta is leaving nothing to chance.”

Myanmar’s military, which ruled

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi delivering a national address in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, in 2017. She was detained in a military coup last February. the country for nearly 50 years before allowing civilians to begin sharing power in 2010, seized full control again last year and arrested hundreds of elected officials, most of whom remain in prison.

Mass protests erupted and the military responded by shooting civilians in the streets. A national strike against the junta has crippled the economy, and the health care system has collapsed in much of the country.

Since the coup, the security forces have killed at least 1,798 civilians, and the regime is holding more than 10,300 political prisoners, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.

In rural areas, the military has bombed rebel strongholds and torched villages, driving thousands of people into the jungle. Hundreds of armed resistance groups have sprung up to fight the Tatmadaw, as the military is known in Myanmar.

Suu Kyi’s corruption conviction comes a year after leaders of the 10-mem-

ber Association of Southeast Asian Nations met in Indonesia with the coup leader, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, and set forth a five-point plan to end the violence, begin dialogue and provide humanitarian aid.

But the junta has yet to carry out any of the measures, and ASEAN has been ineffective in pressuring the regime.

Special envoys appointed by ASEAN have not been allowed to meet with Suu Kyi. Nor have the envoys met with the pro-democracy National Unity Government, which was formed by elected officials who have escaped arrest and leaders of ethnic groups who have long opposed military rule.

The ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights, a group of current and former members of parliaments, said that the five-point consensus had failed and that it was time for Southeast Asia’s leaders to take a more aggressive approach, including suspending Myanmar’s membership in ASEAN and imposing sanctions and travel bans on junta leaders.

“The question to ASEAN leaders now is: Will you allow the military to continue committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, and threaten the human security and economic development of the region for another year?” the group asked in an anniversary statement Sunday.

Under the earlier period of military rule, Suu Kyi became an international icon of democracy and spent a total of 15 years under house arrest between 1989 and 2010. She became a Nobel Peace Laureate and led her party, the National League for Democracy, to three landslide victories but was allowed to form a government only once, in 2015.

Barred by the military from becoming president, she took the title of state counselor. But she damaged her global reputation by not speaking out against the Tatmadaw’s brutal ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in 2017.

Since the coup, she has been kept under house arrest in undisclosed locations near Naypyitaw, the capital.

Her trials are being held in a house in Naypyitaw that was converted into a courtroom. Suu Kyi, 76, was previously found guilty of possessing walkie-talkies, breaching COVID-19 protocols and inciting public unrest.

The court could have sentenced her to as much as 15 years on the corruption conviction.

The main witness against Suu Kyi in the corruption trial was U Phyo Min Thein, the ex-chief minister of Yangon and a prominent party leader and fundraiser.

In a televised confession shortly after the coup, he said he visited Suu Kyi at her home on three occasions in 2017 and 2018 and each time had brought her bags containing gold bars, bundles of hundred-dollar bills, expensive silk items and food.

He gave her the gifts to win her favor, he said, and told her she could use the money for her “personal needs,” to fund the National League for Democracy or for the Daw Khin Kyi Foundation, a charitable organization that she had established in her mother’s name.

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China’s COVID lockdown outrage tests limits of triumphant propaganda

By VIVIAN WANG, PAUL MOZUR and ISABELLE QIAN

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mmediately after Beijing said it had detected a new coronavirus outbreak, officials hurried to assure residents there was no reason to panic. Food was plentiful, they said, and any lockdown measures would be smooth. But Evelyn Zheng, a freelance writer in the city, was not taking any chances.

Her relatives, who lived in Shanghai, were urging her to leave or stock up on food. She had spent weeks poring over social media posts from that city, which documented the chaos and anguish of the monthlong lockdown there. And when she went out to buy more food, it was clear many of her neighbors had the same idea: Some shelves were already cleaned out.

“At first, I was worried about Shanghai, because my family is there, and there was no good news from any of my friends,” Zheng said. “Now, Beijing is starting, too, and I don’t know when it will land on my head.”

Anger and anxiety over the Shanghai lockdown, now in its fourth week, has posed a rare challenge for China’s powerful propaganda apparatus, which is central to the Communist Party’s ability to stifle dissent.

As the omicron variant continues to spread across the country, officials have defended their use of widespread, heavy-handed lockdowns. They have pushed a triumphalist narrative of their COVID response, which says that only the Chinese government had the will to confront, and hold back, the virus.

But among a populace with growing evidence of the costs of that approach, an alternate story — of rage, frustration and despair — is finding an audience. The anger, if not contained, could pose the biggest political test for China’s leadership since the outbreak began.

China’s leader, Xi Jinping, has staked his legitimacy on successful control of the pandemic, a message that has only been amplified before this fall, when he is expected to claim an unprecedented third term.

Since Shanghai’s lockdown began, residents there have railed against the harsh measures, which have led to food shortages, delayed medical care, shoddy quarantine conditions and even physical fencing around residents’ homes. Officials have responded with their usual playbook, censoring critical posts, inundating state media with positive stories and blaming foreign forces for fanning false ones. But far from stemming the anger, they have fueled it.

Residents have compiled footage from their daily lives, showing rotting food or shouting matches with local officials, rebutting the authorities’ story of a tidy, cheery outbreak response. They have banded together to repost deleted content with a speed and savvy that for a time overwhelmed censors’ ability to keep up.

Even some members of the political and academic elite have suggested that the government’s propaganda about Shanghai is hurting its credibility.

A banner reading “Persistence is victory!” at a makeshift hospital and quarantine facility in Shanghai earlier this month.

The failure of the typical tools of narrative control speaks in part to Shanghai’s status as a financial capital, home to many internet-savvy elites. But it also underscores the urgent nature of the complaints. These are not the abstract political critiques or one-off news stories that the propaganda machine has grown adept at stifling or spinning. They are born of life-or-death scenarios, with an immediacy not easily excised by censors.

“The reality is that these past few years, official propaganda has been pretty successful, or at least rarely has met such strong pushback,” Fang Kecheng, a journalism professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who studies media and politics. “We can see this is not a regular situation. The temperature of public opinion is very different.”

The rage and sorrow in Shanghai hit a new peak last

weekend, when vast numbers of people shared a video chronicling residents’ experiences of the authorities’ failures. The six-minute video, called “Voices of April,” overlaid black-and-white images of the city’s skyline with voice recordings from the past month: of residents chanting for the government to provide supplies; of a son begging for his sick father to be admitted to a hospital; of a tearful official explaining to a frustrated caller that she, too, was exhausted and helpless.

The video, first posted by an anonymous social media user, was quickly taken down. But users embarked on a cat-and-mouse game to keep it beyond censors’ notice, posting it upside down, embedding it within separate images or adding its audio atop unrelated clips.

In one workaround post, the video played on a cartoon computer watched by SpongeBob SquarePants in the back of the Krusty Krab.

The scale of the censorship required to silence dissent is “too large this time” according to Xiao Qiang, a researcher on internet freedom at the University of California, Berkeley. He likened the deletions of the video and other complaints from Shanghai to the massive efforts to erase mourning for Li Wenliang, a Wuhan doctor who was reprimanded by police for issuing an early warning about the outbreak, then died of the coronavirus himself.

“The censorship is more effective than two years ago, but this shows its limit. They can’t solve the root of the problem. People see the government could be getting this wrong to the point of disaster,” Xiao said, pointing to emerging complaints that the zero-COVID policy could be self-defeating and unrealistic.

Another reliable tactic for authorities has typically been blaming negative news on foreign forces intent on undermining China. But that, too, has fallen flat. When a hashtag attacking the United States’ human rights record began trending on Chinese social media, some repurposed it as a way to complain about China, listing off recent problems and sarcastically attributing them to the U.S. The film title “La La Land” was censored after some online used it to allude to a moment when a foreign ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, told foreign journalists they should be happy to live in China because they benefited from China’s COVID controls.

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French lessons for the Biden administration

By BRET STEPHENS

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ou probably breathed a deep sigh of relief when you heard that Emmanuel Macron trounced Marine Le Pen by a 17-point margin in Sunday’s French presidential election.

A Le Pen victory would have been a boon to Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orban and Steve Bannon and a disaster for NATO, Europe and France.

The center held, thank God — because Macron governed from the center. He was hated by the far left and the far right and never entirely pleased those closer to the center.

But he also became the first president to be reelected in France in 20 years.

There’s a lesson in that for the Biden administration and Democrats in Congress, especially when it comes to immigration.

It has become an article of progressive faith in recent years that efforts to control immigration are presumptively racist.

A border wall is “a monument to white supremacy,” according to a piece published in Bloomberg. The “remain in Mexico” policy is “racist, cruel and inhumane,” according to the Justice Action Center. An essay published by the Brookings Institution calls U.S. immigration policy “a classic, unappreciated example of structural racism.”

It wasn’t long ago that Bernie Sanders was an avowed

restrictionist on the view that immigration depresses working-class wages. Did that position make him a racist?

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, where I once worked, used to make the case for open borders with Mexico. Were we left-wing progressives?

People of goodwill should be able to take different and nuanced views on immigration — and change their minds about it — without being tagged as morally deficient.

But that’s no longer how it works in progressive circles. The results are policy choices that are bad for the country and worse for Democrats and are an unbidden gift to the far right.

The issue is now acute with the Biden administration simultaneously seeking to end the Trump administration’s “remain in Mexico” policy in a case before the Supreme Court while accepting a recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to let the use of Title 42, which allowed border authorities to expel illegal immigrants as a public health measure, expire May 23.

There’s not much doubt as to what will happen if the administration gets its way: An already straining southern border will burst. In fiscal year 2020 there were 646,822 “enforcement actions” at the border. In 2021 the number was a little shy of 2 million. Without the authority of Title 42, under which 62% of expulsions took place in 2021, the number of migrants being released in the United States will increase drastically.

You don’t have to be opposed to immigration as a general matter to have serious doubts about the administration’s course.

Is there a practical and available legal alternative to regulating immigration through Title 42 enforcement? Where is the logic of ending Title 42 even as the administration seeks to extend mask mandates because the pandemic is far from over?

Given housing shortages, how much capacity is there to absorb the next wave of migrants? Even if an overwhelming majority of migrants are merely seeking a better life, what system is there to find those with less honorable intentions?

More to the point: What does the administration’s utter failure at effective control of the border say about its commitment to enforcing the rule of law?

To raise such questions should be an invitation to propose balanced and practical immigration legislation and try to win over moderate Republicans.

Instead it tends to invite cheap accusations of racism, along with policy paralysis in the White House.

As Politico reported last week, some think the administration’s secret policy is to call for an end to Title 42 to satisfy progressives while crossing fingers that the courts continue it — which a federal judge did on Mon-

day, at least temporarily.

Leading from behind Trump-appointed judges is probably not what Americans elected Joe Biden to do.

Which brings us back to the example of France. When Jean-Marie Le Pen made his first presidential bid on an anti-immigration platform in 1974, he took 0.75% of the ballot in the first round — fewer than 200,000 votes. When his daughter Marine ran on a similar platform this year, she took 41.5% in the second round, or more than 13 million.

The Le Pens are thoroughgoing bigots.

But decades of pretending that only bigots had worries about immigration only made their brand of politics stronger.

As president, Macron tacked right on immigration — not to weaken France’s historic position as an open society, friendly to newcomers, but rather to save it. He has cracked down on some asylum-seekers, demanded that immigrants learn French and get jobs and taken a hard line against Islamic separatism.

But he’s also tried to make France a more welcoming place for legal immigration.

The left thinks of him as Le Pen lite, the right as a feckless impostor. Maybe he’s both. Then again, he also saved France for the free world.

Democrats could stand to brush up on their French.

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Gobernador confirma salida del director de ASES POR CYBERNEWS

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l gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia confirmó el miércoles la renuncia de Jorge Galva como director ejecutivo de la Administración de Seguros de Salud, (ASES).

“Entiendo que creo que es efectivo el 30 de abril. Así que se procederá a sustituirlo a la mayor brevedad”, dijo el gobernador en conferencia de prensa.

Al preguntarle los motivos de la renuncia, Pierluisi Urrutia mencionó que fue por razones personales.

“Pero, de todas maneras, aquí lo importante es que haya continuidad. El equipo de ASES sigue a cargo. El secretario de Salud es el presidente de la Junta de Gobierno de ASES, que es el que supervisa la agencia y se va a ocupar de que el programa de la tarjeta continúe operando sin interrupción alguna. Los contratos que tienen los proveedores principales del programa ya fueron extendidos hasta finales de este año. O están en proceso de ser extendidos.

O sea, que va a haber continuidad y estabilidad”, sostuvo.

Roxana Rosario quedó como directora interina en lo que se busca el sustituto.

ATM pagó $324,630 en combustible para lanchas con cheques falsos, sin embargo Justicia concluyó que no hay caso POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – La Contraloría de Puerto Rico reveló este miércoles, que la Autoridad de Transporte Marítimo de Puerto Rico y las Islas Municipios (ATM) realizó un pago indebido de 324,630 dólares por concepto de compra de combustible para las embarcaciones que brindan servicio a Vieques y Culebra, a pesar de que dicha compra no tenía las autorizaciones requeridas.

Además, se falsificó el cheque para el pago del combustible, con la firma digital de la directora ejecutiva auxiliar de Administración y Finanzas quien había ocupado dicho puesto hasta el día anterior de la emisión del cheque.

La ATM no contaba con la aprobación de la Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto ni con un contrato formalizado que justificara el pago del combustible. No obstante, la entonces directora ejecutiva aprobó las requisiciones y el comprobante para pago y, por otro lado, el subdi-

rector ejecutivo interino instruyó al contador de la ATM a emitir el cheque no permitido por la ley y la reglamentación aplicables.

Estos hechos contrarios a la ley y reglamentación vigente, pudieron haber configurado delitos de intervención indebida en las operaciones gubernamentales, fraude, apropiación ilegal de identidad y falsificación de documentos, entre otros.

La investigación se refirió a la consideración del Secretario de Justicia el 12 de octubre de 2021 quien concluyó, entre otras, que no existía causa suficiente para creer que la exdirectora ejecutiva, el exsubdirector ejecutivo interino y el contador de la ATM habían incurrido en conducta delictiva por los hechos investigados.

El Informe Especial recomienda al Panel sobre el Fiscal Especial Independiente a considerar el resultado de la investigación, y al director ejecutivo de la Oficina de Ética Gubernamental a tomar las acciones pertinentes al respecto.

2,536 casos, 20.76 la tasa de positividad y tres muertes por COVID-19 según informe del DS POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El informe de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el miércoles sobre 746 casos positivos confirmados, 1,790 casos probables y tres muertes.

Las personas fallecidas fueron: un hombre de 56 años de la región de Bayamón; una mujer de 56 años de la región Metropolitana; y una mujer de 92 años de la región de Ponce.

El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 11 de abril de 2022

al 25 de abril de 2022.

La tasa de positividad bajó a 20.76 por ciento.

Hay 175 adultos hospitalizados y de ellos, 19 están en intensivo. Mientras, 48 menores están hospitalizados y ninguno está en intensivo. 9 adultos están en ventilador y ningún menor.

Con una dosis hay al menos dos millones, 950 mil, 858 personas. Con las dosis completadas hay dos millones, 676 mil, 816 personas.

El total de muertes atribuidas es de 4,192.

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Denouncing war, Ukrainian musicians unite for a world tour

Anna Federova, shown at a benefit for Ukraine last month in Amsterdam, will perform a Chopin concerto with the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra.

By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ

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he Russian invasion has devastated cultural life in Ukraine, forcing renowned musical ensembles to disband and leading to an exodus of conductors, composers and players.

Now some of Ukraine’s leading artists, with the help of the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Polish National Opera in Warsaw, are uniting to use music to express opposition to Russia’s continuing attacks. They will form a new ensemble, the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, and make an 11city tour of Europe and the United States in July and August, the orchestra announced earlier this week.

“This is something we can do for our country and for our people,” said Marko Komonko, a Ukrainian violinist who will serve as the orchestra’s concertmaster. “It’s not much, but this is our job.”

The 75-member orchestra, which will be made up of Ukrainian refugees as well as musicians still in the country, will appear at several European festivals, including the BBC Proms in London for a televised performance July 31. It will make stops in Germany, France, Scotland and the Netherlands, before heading to the United States to perform at Lincoln Center and at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Proceeds from the concerts will benefit Ukrainian artists.

The orchestra will be led by Canadian Ukrainian conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson, who came up with the idea for the ensemble, eager to find a way to help musicians and others in Ukraine.

“We want to show the embattled citizens of Ukraine that a free and democratic world supports them,” Wilson said.

“We are fighting as artistic soldiers, soldiers of music. This gives the musicians a voice and the emotional strength to get through this.”

Wilson pitched the idea to her husband, Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager, who offered the company’s support and persuaded the Polish National Opera to assist as well. The orchestra will assemble in mid-July in Warsaw for rehearsals and hold an opening concert at the Wielki Theater, home to the Polish National Opera.

Gelb said it was important that artistic groups spoke out against the Russian invasion. Shortly after the invasion began, the Met announced it would not engage performers or institutions that supported President Vladimir Putin of Russia. Last month, the Met staged a concert in support of Ukraine; banners forming the Ukrainian flag stretched across the exterior of the theater, bathed in blue and yellow floodlights.

“This is a world situation that is far beyond politics,” Gelb said. “It’s about saving humanity. The Met, as the largest performing arts company in the United States and one of the leading companies in the world, clearly has a role to play and we’ve been playing it.”

The Freedom Orchestra will perform a variety of works, including Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov’s Seventh Symphony; Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2, featuring Ukrainian pianist Anna Fedorova; Brahms’ Fourth Symphony; and Dvorak’s Ninth Symphony.

The renowned Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska, who is now singing the title role in Puccini’s “Turandot” at the Met, will perform an aria from Beethoven’s “Fidelio” that touches on themes of hope and peace.

The musicians represent a mix of Ukrainian ensembles, including the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kyiv National Opera and the Kharkiv Opera. Some are part of European ensembles, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the Tonkunstler Orchestra of Vienna and the Belgian National Orchestra.

The Ukraine Ministry of Culture will allow male musicians in the orchestra to participate in the tour, despite rules barring men of military age from leaving the country, the ensemble said.

Komonko, the violinist, who left Ukraine last month with his family for Sweden, where he is playing in an orchestra, said music could be a distraction from the violence.

“When you live through all of this, you look at music differently, through different lenses,” he said. “It takes my mind off the war. It allows people to keep living.”

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‘The Bad Guys’ and the crossroads its author faced

By CAT WOODS

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ustralian author and illustrator Aaron Blabey gave himself an ultimatum in 2014. The father of two, then 40 years old, had been working a series of increasingly dissatisfying day jobs — from acting to advertising — and although his children’s books were “warmly received” (as he put it), the earnings were not supporting his family. He decided that if he didn’t make a success of them, and quickly, he would pursue a permanent job instead, or as he said in a recent interview, “a life of surrendered dreams, low-level corporate creativity and mundane compromise.”

But in a single day, he came up with the concepts for what became the best-selling “The Bad Guys,” “Thelma the Unicorn” and “Pig the Pug.” In less than a decade, he has now sold more than 30 million books. “The Bad Guys” is his ultimate success, a series of graphic novels for children that has been adapted into an animated film that reached screens on Friday and features the voices of Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Awkwafina and Zazie Beetz.

The heart of the series is its charismatic gang of “bad guys” striving to be heroes — Mr. Wolf, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Snake, Mr. Shark and Ms. Tarantula — but failing hilariously time and again. (Book No. 15, “The Bad Guys in Open Wide and Say Arrrgh!,” is due July 19.)

“I’m the epitome of a late bloomer, I guess,” said the graybearded, bespectacled Blabey, dressed in a black Bikini Kill T-shirt. Before the series took off, “I’d had exactly 40 years of

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Aaron Blabey in Los Angeles on April 14, 2022. Unable to support his family with his children’s books, Blabey was ready to give up. Then he came up with the concept that’s now a best seller and an animated movie. zero commercial success of any kind.”

Speaking on a video call from his Los Angeles hotel room, which looked out onto a billboard for the “Bad Guys” movie, Blabey talked about what he was aiming for when he came up with the series concept and how Quentin Tarantino figures in.

These are edited excerpts from that conversation.

Q: Tell me who the Bad Guys are and when you first conjured them up in your imagination.

A: The Bad Guys are a group of shady animals with terrible reputations. In the books and in some ways in the movie, they decide to go good and do good deeds, whether you like it or not.

I had reached the age of 40, I had two little kids, and I needed to succeed somehow or I was going to give this away [writing and illustrating books] and [“The Bad Guys”] just popped into my head. They’re the culmination of what I had been looking for my entire life. What I wanted to do was create a book for kids that was as exciting as playing an Xbox or watching a movie.

I thought about what my kids loved at that age, they were 6 and 8, and what I loved at that age, and what I love now, which is where that Tarantino element came into it. I thought, How can I mash it all up and hotwire it in some way for kids?

Q: Then what happened?

A: All of those ideas converged on a walk through the countryside in 2014, and when I wrote the idea down with all the character names, I texted a friend and said, “What do you think of this?” and she texted back, “That sounds like a

DreamWorks movie.” We both laughed and I didn’t think about that again until I found myself in Hollywood, talking to all the studios and being at DreamWorks.

Q: Did you base the movie on the books or is it an allnew plot that readers won’t be familiar with?

A: It’s a little bit of both. The movie is based very loosely on the first four books of the series, but with an added heist plot of the screenwriter and the team. I was very protective of it, going in. There was a bunch of studios interested in [adapting] it, and a couple pursuing it aggressively, but I went with DreamWorks because I trusted their sense of tone, and they were reverent about the tone of the book; they wanted to preserve that.

When I knew the tone was secure, I was open-minded to what the actual story was. I was delighted to see how many moments directly from the books are peppered throughout the story. Kids will see all the stuff they love from the books, and they’ll recognize all the characters, but it will be a brand-new story.

Q: The Bad Guys were inspired by one of your favorite directors, Quentin Tarantino, right?

A: Absolutely. It begins with a scene that is a direct homage to the diner scene in “Pulp Fiction.” What I play with in the books is that you’re attracted to the things that you’re not allowed to get your hands on. The idea for me was taking the iconography from movies that were deemed too scary or too rude but tailored for kids.

Q: The movie hasn’t gone with that ultramodern, almost human-looking animation. It reminds me a bit of the “Danger Mouse” series from the 1980s.

A: I was surprised and delighted by that, because my drawings are limited at best. That’s part of the charm of the books and partly why the books are so successful. There’s a scrappiness and an energy that is really alive in my somewhat rudimentary drawings. [The filmmakers] added that whole 2D, comic-strip thing to it as well, so there’s a beautiful marriage of 2D and 3D, and a bunch of other influences brought in by the director [Pierre Perifel].

Q: Do your young readers contact you? Do they have a favorite character?

A: They do contact me. Mr. Piranha [voiced by Anthony Ramos in the film] has generally been the fan favorite because he’s probably the funniest of the group. My personal favorite has always been Mr. Snake [Maron] because he’s the most complicated of the group, and the one who struggles the most.

He’s kind of like a recovering alcoholic, he’s trying to stay on the path with the other guys, but he keeps falling off and they keep trying to help him out. The journey is more of a struggle for him.

I think the core relationship between Mr. Wolf [Rockwell], who is an optimist despite his circumstances, and Snake, who is a pessimist, creates a relatable tension that my kids loved from the outset and it seems that other kids get it, too.

Their relationship is messy and complicated, like the actual relationships between people, which is somewhat rare in books for the 6-to-12 market. My kids always loved that [complexity].

It didn’t feel “kiddie” to them. It felt like they were being treated like little adults who could understand stuff. Having said that, my own kids, who are now 14 and 16, also love Piranha because he’s the funniest.

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With a sniff and a signal, these dogs hunt down threats to bees

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ybil Preston stretched her bare hands into a noisy beehive and pulled out a frame of honeycomb, its waxy cells filled with nectar, its surface alive with bees.

“This girl right here was just born,” she said, pointing out a bee with a silvery thorax. “See how her hair is still matted down like a teddy bear?”

Preston, the chief apiary inspector for the Maryland Department of Agriculture, was on a routine survey of registered colonies northeast of Baltimore. “I’m always looking for signs and signals,” she said, as she examined a worker bee with a misshapen wing. “It’s like ‘CSI.’” Honeybees are a vital, invisible workforce in the food industry, pollinating about a third of the nation’s crops, and Preston leads a team that tracks their well-being. She pays close attention to Maryland’s commercial colonies, which beekeepers lease out to work blooms across the country — almonds in California, blueberries in Maine and New Jersey, citrus in Florida.

Preston, 45, certifies that each beehive crossing the state line is free of American foulbrood, bacteria that are harmless to humans but can spread quickly from hive to hive, decimating bee populations.

“Everything else that can go wrong with the hives is fixable,” she said, “but not that.”

Four years ago, Preston trained a dog to help her find foulbrood, figuring it out as she went along. She recently received a grant through the federal farm bill to expand her canine detection program, which could serve as a model for other states.

Unlike human inspectors, dogs don’t need the hives opened up to check them for foulbrood. They can trot by, sniffing at the comb, and tell if the bacteria have killed off any larvae. Four people working full time cover less than half of what her dog can, Preston said.

Her golden Labrador, Mack, inspected about 1,700 honeybee colonies last fall and winter. In the cold, when the bees were clustered and the comb was hard to inspect visually, Mack used his nose. This allowed Preston to continue certifying hives for shipment to warmer climates.

“If I didn’t have dogs, these bees just wouldn’t be able to move,” she said.

On a recent Friday morning, on the green slopes behind her home in Jarrettsville, Preston tossed a toy around for Tukka, a young springer spaniel she had just adopted.

At first glance, it didn’t look like a workday. But that toy had been sealed in a plastic bag with foulbrood, and Preston was in the early stages of training Tukka on the scent. With any luck, he will join her team before the end of the year.

Cybil Preston, chief apiary inspector for the Maryland Department of Agriculture, trains her golden Labrador, Mack, and springer spaniel, Tukka, to sniff out infected honeycombs in Jarrettsville, Md., June 24, 2018.

“You want Foulbrood Bunny?” she asked, throwing the fuzzy gray toy across the field.

Tukka caught the toy in a frenzy, salivating at the smell of it, chewing it with delirious pleasure. “This is what I want to see,” Preston said.

Soon, she will move on to putting foulbrood inside a small rubber toy and throwing it farther, or in an unexpected direction, to see if Tukka can sniff it out. Then she will hide the scent in the training installation she built exactly for this purpose — tubes mounted close together at various heights on an industrial plastic pallet.

If the exercises are successful, Tukka will learn to find even small traces of the scent, and communicate that to Preston by pointing with his nose, then sitting down.

Mack was a year and a half old when she found him living in a garage. Preston adopted him on the spot and took him to Mark Flynn, the K-9 unit commander at the state’s Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, to get his opinion.

Flynn trains dogs to associate scents with play.

“We’re looking for those dogs that’ll jump into water to get the ball, the ones completely obsessed with their toys,” he said. “Because when a dog is searching, he believes in his heart he’s trying to find his toy.”

This applies whether the dog is looking for contraband cellphones and drugs in prison cells, or foulbrood in beehives.

Many of the dogs Flynn trains are adopted through rescue organizations, exhibiting the kind of high-energy behavior and hunting instincts that make them unlikely to be adopted as family pets but ideal for scent work.

The hive of a single healthy colony may hold around

30,000 bees in the late fall, and closer to 20,000 by the end of the winter. This time of year, as the bees gear back up and forage, each hive could be buzzing with up to 60,000 bees. The tractor-trailers that carry hives across the country to pollinate crops are typically moving about seven million bees at a time. They are all vulnerable.

Marla Spivak, a professor in the entomology department at the University of Minnesota, has been working for more than a decade to understand why honeybee populations are dwindling.

She said it may be a result of environmental stress, weakened genetics, a lack of good nutrition from pollen (which affects bee immune systems) and a host of other reasons that interact with one another. Foulbrood, which has been reported in the United States since at least the 1930s, is particularly devastating now because bee health is so fragile.

“It’s super-complicated,” said Spivak, who noted that, paradoxically, as colonies are becoming harder to keep alive through regular management techniques, more amateurs are becoming backyard beekeepers.

If someone with even a single hive loses the colony to foulbrood and lets the empty hive sit around, other bees in the area will quickly move in, loot its resources and inadvertently carry the dangerous, spore-laden honey back to feed their larvae. As Preston put it, “It’s in every bee’s nature to rob.”

This makes even one hive a risk. “If there are foulbrood spores in the comb, they stay in the comb for probably a hundred years,” Spivak said. “The only solution is to burn the comb and equipment, and that’s harsh.”

Outbreaks are preventable, but beekeepers have to know what they’re looking for.

“Dogs are great because they can sniff it out at such low levels,” Spivak said. But they are also rare in the business, in part because of the investment in training them. She has seen a dog working among hives only once, and that was almost 30 years ago.

Maryland has run a canine detection program since the 1980s. But when Preston took over the department, both the dog handler and his dog retired at the same time. It took almost a year, but she built the program back up from scratch.

“All beekeepers are having trouble keeping their bees alive,” she said. “If they’re putting the effort in, I want to put the effort in.”

Just as she was throwing the scent-soaked toy for Tukka, Mack leapt up from his sunny spot in the grass and charged at the other dog full speed, only to delicately lick the Department of Agriculture’s newest employee right on his snout.

“You’re working with another living creature,” Preston said. “There’s no protocol here. We’re all just flying by the seat of our pants.”

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Which animal viruses could infect people? Computers are racing to find out.

By CARL ZIMMER

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olin Carlson, a biologist at Georgetown University, has started to worry about mousepox.

The virus, discovered in 1930, spreads among mice, killing them with ruthless efficiency. But scientists have never considered it a potential threat to humans. Now Carlson, his colleagues and their computers aren’t so sure.

Using a technique known as machine learning, the researchers have spent the past few years programming computers to teach themselves about viruses that can infect human cells. The computers have combed through vast amounts of information about the biology and ecology of the animal hosts of those viruses, as well as the genomes and other features of the viruses themselves. Over time, the computers came to recognize certain factors that would predict whether a virus has the potential to spill over into humans.

Once the computers proved their mettle on viruses that scientists had already studied intensely, Carlson and his colleagues deployed them on the unknown, ultimately producing a short list of animal viruses with the potential to jump the species barrier and cause human outbreaks.

In the latest runs, the algorithms unexpectedly put the mousepox virus in the top ranks of risky pathogens.

“Every time we run this model, it comes up super high,” Carlson said.

Puzzled, Carlson and his colleagues rooted around in the scientific literature. They came across documentation of a long-forgotten outbreak in 1987 in rural China. Schoolchildren came down with an infection that caused sore throats and inflammation in their hands and feet.

Years later, a team of scientists ran tests on throat swabs that had been collected during the outbreak and put into storage. These samples, as the group reported in 2012, contained mousepox DNA. But their study garnered little notice, and a decade later mousepox is still not considered a threat to humans.

If the computer programmed by Carlson and his colleagues is right, the virus deserves a new look.

“It’s just crazy that this was lost in the vast pile of stuff that public health has to sift through,” he said. “This actually changes the way that we think about this virus.”

Scientists have identified about 250 human diseases that arose when an animal virus jumped the species barrier. HIV jumped from chimpanzees, for example, and the new coronavirus originated in bats.

Ideally, scientists would like to recognize the next spillover virus before it has started infecting people. But there are far too many animal viruses for virus experts to study. Scientists have identified more than 1,000 viruses in mammals, but that is most likely a tiny fraction of the true number. Some researchers suspect that mammals carry tens of thousands of viruses, while others put the number in the hundreds of thousands.

To identify potential new spillovers, researchers like Carlson are using computers to spot hidden patterns in scientific data. The machines can zero in on viruses that may be

Colin Carlson, a biologist at Georgetown University, in Washington, April 11, 2022. Carlson has been programming computers to teach themselves about viruses. particularly likely to give rise to a human disease, for example, and can also predict which animals are most likely to harbor dangerous viruses we don’t know about yet.

“It feels like you have a new set of eyes,” said Barbara Han, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York, who collaborates with Carlson. “You just can’t see in as many dimensions as the model can.”

In March, Carlson and his colleagues unveiled an openaccess database called VIRION, which has amassed half a million pieces of information about 9,521 viruses and their 3,692 animal hosts — and is still growing.

Databases such as VIRION are now making it possible to ask more focused questions about new pandemics. When the COVID pandemic struck, it soon became clear that it was caused by a new virus called SARS-CoV-2. Carlson, Han and their colleagues created programs to identify the animals most likely to harbor relatives of the new coronavirus.

SARS-CoV-2 belongs to a group of species called betacoronaviruses, which also includes the viruses that caused the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) epidemics among humans. For the most part, betacoronaviruses infect bats. When SARS-CoV-2 was discovered in January 2020, 79 species of bats were known to carry them.

But scientists have not systematically searched all 1,447 species of bats for betacoronaviruses, and such a project would take years to complete.

By feeding biological data about the various types of bats — their diet, the length of their wings, and so on — into their computer, Carlson, Han and their colleagues created a model that could offer predictions about the bats most likely to harbor betacoronaviruses. They found more than 300 species that fit the bill.

Since that prediction in 2020, researchers have indeed found betacoronaviruses in 47 species of bats — all of which were on the prediction lists produced by some of the computer models they had created for their study.

Nardus Mollentze, a computational virus expert at the University of Glasgow, and his colleagues have pioneered a method that could markedly increase the accuracy of the models. Rather than looking at a virus’ hosts, their models look at its genes. A computer can be taught to recognize subtle features in the genes of viruses that can infect humans.

In their first report on this technique, Mollentze and his colleagues developed a model that could correctly recognize human-infecting viruses more than 70% of the time. Mollentze can’t yet say why his gene-based model worked, but he has some ideas. Our cells can recognize foreign genes and send out an alarm to the immune system. Viruses that can infect our cells may have the ability to mimic our own DNA as a kind of viral camouflage.

When they applied the model to animal viruses, they came up with a list of 272 species at high risk of spilling over.

That is too many for virus experts to study in any depth.

“You can only work on so many viruses,” said Emmie de Wit, a virus expert at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, who oversees research on the new coronavirus, influenza and other viruses. “On our end, we would really need to narrow it down.”

Mollentze acknowledged that he and his colleagues need to find a way to pinpoint the worst of the worst among animal viruses.

“This is only a start,” he said.

To follow up on his initial study, Mollentze is working with Carlson and his colleagues to merge data about the genes of viruses with data related to the biology and ecology of their hosts. The researchers are getting some promising results from this approach, including the tantalizing mousepox lead.

De Wit said that machine learning models could some day guide virus experts like herself to study certain animal viruses.

“There’s definitely a great benefit that’s going to come from this,” she said.

But she noted that the models so far have focused mainly on a pathogen’s potential for infecting human cells. Before causing a new human disease, a virus also has to spread from one person to another and cause serious symptoms along the way. She is waiting for a new generation of machine learning models that can make those predictions, too.

“What we really want to know is not necessarily which viruses can infect humans, but which viruses can cause an outbreak,” she said. “So that’s really the next step that we need to figure out.”

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Thursday, April 28, 2022

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The Coronavirus Has Infected More Than Half of Americans, the C.D.C. Reports

By SHARON LaFRANIERE

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ixty percent of Americans, including 75 percent of children, had been infected with the coronavirus by February, federal health officials reported on Tuesday — another remarkable milestone in a pandemic that continues to confound expectations.

The highly contagious Omicron variant was responsible for much of the toll.

In December 2021, as the variant began spreading, only half as many people had antibodies indicating prior infection, according to new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

While the numbers came as a shock to many Americans, some scientists said they had expected the figures to be even higher, given the contagious variants that have marched through the nation over the past two years.

There may be good news in the data, some experts said. A gain in populationwide immunity may offer at least a partial bulwark against future waves. And the trend may explain why the surge that is now roaring through China and many countries in Europe has been muted in the United States.

A high percentage of previous infections may also mean that there are now fewer cases of life-threatening illness or death relative to infections. “We will see less and less severe disease, and more and more a shift toward clinically mild disease,” said Florian Krammer, an immunologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

“It will be more and more difficult for the virus to do serious damage,” he added.

Administration officials, too, believe that the data augur a new phase of the pandemic in which infections may be common at times but cause less harm.

At a news briefing on Tuesday, Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House’s new Covid coordinator, said that stopping infections was “not even a policy goal. The goal of our policy should be: obviously, minimize infections whenever possible, but to make sure people don’t get seriously ill.”

The average number of confirmed new cases a day in the United States — more than 49,000 as of Monday, according to a New York Times database — is comparable to levels last seen in late July, even as cases have risen by over 50 percent over

Covid testing at a site in Oakland, Calif. The country has seen about a five-fold drop in P.C.R. testing since the Omicron peak, so tracking new cases has been difficult. the past two weeks, a trend infectious disease experts have attributed to new Omicron subvariants.

Dr. Jha and other officials warned against complacency, and urged Americans to continue receiving vaccinations and booster shots, saying that antibodies from prior infections did not guarantee protection from the virus.

During the Omicron surge, infections rose most sharply among children and adolescents, according to the new research.

Prior infections increased least among adults aged 65 and older, who have the highest rates of vaccination and may be most likely to take precautions.

“Evidence of previous Covid-19 infections substantially increased among every age group,” Dr. Kristie Clarke, the agency researcher who led the new study, said at a news briefing on Tuesday.

Widespread infection raises a troubling prospect: a potential increase in cases of long Covid, a poorly understood constellation of lingering symptoms.

Up to 30 percent of people infected with the coronavirus may have persistent symptoms, including worrisome changes to the brain and heart. Vaccination is thought to lower the odds of long Covid, although it is unclear by how much.

“The long-term impacts on health care are not clear but certainly worth taking very seriously, as a fraction of people will be struggling for a long time with the consequences,” said Bill Hanage, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Even a very small percentage of infected or vaccinated people who develop Covid would translate to millions nationwide.

While the focus is often on preventing the health care system from buckling under a surge, “we should also be concerned that our health care system will be overwhelmed by the ongoing health care needs of a population with long Covid,” said Zoë McLaren, a health policy expert at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

There are still tens of millions of Americans with no immunity to the virus, and they remain vulnerable to both the shortand long-term consequences of infection, said Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

“Betting that you are in the 60 percent is a big gamble,” he said. “For anyone who’s not been vaccinated and boosted, I would take this new data as a direct mes-

sage to get that done or expect that the virus is likely to catch up to you if it hasn’t already.”

Although cases are once again on the upswing, particularly in the Northeast, the rise in hospitalizations has been minimal, and deaths are still dropping. According to the agency’s most recent criteria, more than 98 percent of Americans live in communities with a low or medium level of risk.

Even among those who are hospitalized, “we’re seeing less oxygen use, less I.C.U. stays and we haven’t, fortunately, seen any increase in deaths associated with them,” said the C.D.C.’s director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky. “We are hopeful that positive trends will continue.”

The country has recorded about a five-fold drop in P.C.R. testing for the virus since the Omicron peak, and so tracking new cases has become difficult. But the reported count is far less, about 70-fold lower, said Dr. Walensky, reflecting “a true and reliable drop in our overall cases.”

New subvariants of Omicron, called BA.2 and BA.2.12.1, have supplanted the previous iteration, BA.1, which began circulating in the country in late November and sent cases soaring to record highs in a matter of weeks.

“Of course, even more have been infected now, because BA.2 will have infected some who avoided it thus far,” Dr. Hanage said.

By February, three of four children and adolescents in the country had already been infected with the virus, compared with one-third of older adults, according to the new study.

That so many children are carrying antibodies may offer comfort to parents of those aged 5 and under, who do not qualify for vaccination, since many may have acquired at least some immunity through infection.

But Dr. Clarke urged parents to immunize children who qualify as soon as regulators approve a vaccine for them, regardless of their prior infection. Among children who are hospitalized with the virus, up to 30 percent may need intensive care, she noted.

Although many of those children also have other medical conditions, about 70 percent of cases of multisystem inflammatory disease, a rare consequence of Covid-19 infection, occur in otherwise healthy children.

26 LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIAN.

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LA SUCESION DE ISRAEL MENDEZ MENDEZ compuesta JUDITH ENID MENDEZ ROMAN, JOSUE ANDRES MENDEZ ROMAN, ALEJANDRO MENDEZ ROMAN , John Doe y Richard Roe como posibles herederos desconocidos; Administración para el Sustento de Menores, Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales; LILLIAM MORALES RIVERA por si y como miembro de la Sucesión de Israel Méndez Méndez

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Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 25 de marzo de 2022 a las 11:30 de la mañana y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $28,560.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA por el OESTE, con la parcela CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYA- P guion uno(P-1) en doce punMÓN SALA SUPERIOR to cuatro ocho cero (12.480) metros lineales. Sobre la proFIRSTBANK piedad enclava una estructura PUERTO RICO construida para fines residenParte Demandante Vs. ciales, conforme a los planos HAKIM KHAN GÓMEZ y especificaciones aprobados Parte Demandada por las agencias e instrumentaCaso Civil Núm.: lidades pertinentes, dedicadas BY2021CV02516. Sobre: EJE- para vivienda de una familia.

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En lindes por el desierta la tercera subasta, se NORTE, con el solar once (11) dará por terminado el procedien dieciséis punto nueve cero miento, pudiendo adjudicarse siete (16.907) metros lineales; el inmueble al acreedor hipopor el SUR, con la calle número tecario dentro de los diez días ocho (8) , en tres (3) distancias siguientes a la fecha de la últidiferentes que suman un total ma subasta, si así lo estimase de dieciocho punto nueve tres conveniente, por la totalidad de siete (18.937) metros lineales ; la cantidad adeudada conforLEGAL NOTICE por el ESTE, con el solar nue- me a la sentencia, si ésta fueESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ve (9) en dieciséis punto cero ra igual o menor que el monto DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- cero (16.00) metros lineales; y del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. 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 en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 210-2015). Expedido el presente en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico a 10 de enero de 2022. Luis A Nieves Rivera, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN SEBASTIAN.

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Thursday, April 28, 2022 y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. 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 en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables.

(Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm.

210-2015). Expedido el presente en Bayamón, Puerto Rico a 6 de abril de 2022. Edgardo Elías Vargas Santana, Alguacil Auxiliar Placa #193.

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MÓN

FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C FANNIE MAE Demandante Vs.

CATIA RAMÍREZ MELÉNDEZ

Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2021CV03445.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Bayamón, 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 22 de febrero de 2022 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 29 de marzo de 2022, 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: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento #E-401 localizado en el primer piso del edificio “E” del Condominio Palacios de Versalles, cuyo condominio está localizado en los barrios Ortiz y Piñas de Toa Alta. Consiste de una vivienda residencial de un piso con un área superficial de 1,589.36 pies cuadrados equivalentes a 147.71 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, con elemento común general exterior y las escaleras del edificio “E”, en una distancia de 15.42 metros; por el SUR, con patio que es un elemento común limitado de los apartamentos ubicados en el primer piso del edificio “E” y elemento común exterior general, en una distancia de 15.42 metros; por el ESTE, con el apartamento E-301 y las escaleras y vestíbulo del edificio “E”, en una distancia de 11.66 metros; y por el OESTE, con elemento común general exterior, en una distancia de 11.66 metros. El apartamento número E-401 está compuesto de recibidor, sala, área familiar (“family room”), cocina, comedor, terraza cubierta, pasillo interior, un baño en el área del pasillo interior, closet para calentador (“water heater closet”), closet de lavandería (“laundry”), closet de pasillo interior, dos (2) dormitorios con un closet cada uno y un dormitorio principal (“master bedroom”) con closet, closet con pasillo (walk-in-closet), área del tocador (“powder room”) y baño. La entrada principal de este apartamento está localizada en su lindero Este, la cual

conecta el apartamento con el vestíbulo del primer piso del edificio “E” del Condominio Palacios de Versalles, el cual es un elemento común general del Condominio Palacios de Versalles. Le corresponde como elemento común limitado del Condominio Palacios de Versalles, dos (2) estacionamientos sencillos identificados con los números sesenta (#60) y Sesenta y Uno (#61) y los patios adyacentes a los apartamentos ubicados en el primer piso del edificio “E”. Este apartamento tiene una participación de 0.7004% en los elementos comunes generales del Condominio Palacios de Versalles y una participación de 0.7019% en los elementos comunes limitados del Condominio Palacios de Versalles.

FINCA NÚMERO: 28,788, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Toa Alta, sección III de Bayamón. Nota aclaratoria: En el Registro de la Propiedad, Sección III de Bayamón, la descripción registral consta tal y como se transcribió anteriormente. En la escritura de Modificación y Ampliación de Hipoteca número 635, otorgada el 25 de octubre de 2013, se indica que al apartamento E-401, le pertenecen los estacionamientos número 80 y número 61. Dirección Física: COND. PALACIOS DE VERSALLES APT. E-401, TOA ALTA, PR 00953. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 19 DE MAYO DE 2022, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Bayamón. 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 $158,042.02. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 26 DE MAYO DE 2022, A LAS 9:15 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 $105,361.34. 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 2 DE JUNIO DE 2022, A LAS 9:15 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 $79,021.01. Si se declare

The San Juan Daily Star 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. El Tribunal dictó Sentencia declarando con lugar la demanda y por consiguiente ordenó a la parte demandada, CATIA RAMÍREZ MELÉNDEZ a pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $154,067.35 de principal. Esta suma no incluye los intereses acumulados los cuales aumentan a razón del 4.125% de intereses al año hasta su completo pago, ni cargos por demora, ni el diez por ciento (10%) para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados y cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. 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. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial.

No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Por la presente también se notifica e informa a la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico por éstos contar con unas Condiciones Restrictivas a su favor por la suma de $9,650.00, a vencer en 10 años, según consta de la escritura #5, otorgada en Guaynabo, inscrito al tomo Karibe de Toa Alta, finca 28,788, inscripción 3ra. También se notifica e informa a Popular Mortgage Inc., por éstos contar con una hipoteca a su favor por la suma de $10,000.00, con intereses al 5.50% anual y a vencer el 1 de marzo de 2042, según consta de escritura número 10, otorgada en San Juan, inscrito al tomo

Thursday, April 28, 2022

Karibe de Toa Alta, finca número 28,788, inscripción 5ta. Se notifica e informa además a Banco Popular de Puerto Rico por éstos contar con un Aviso de Demanda en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Toa Alta, en el caso civil número D3CD2016-0097, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la suma de $154,067.35, anotado al tomo Karibe de Toa Alta, finca número 28,788, anotación “A” el 13 de noviembre de 2019. Además, 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 12 de abril de 2022. Edgardo Elías Vargas Santana, Alguacil Auxiliar Placa #193, Sala Superior De Bayamón. ***

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GURABO EN CAGUAS

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC., COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC. Demandante Vs.

MIRIAM OCASIO MORALES Y FULANO

DE TAL; AMBOS POR SI Y COMO PARTE DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA

Demandada Caso Núm.: GR2021CV00238.

Salón Núm.: 705. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: LOS DEMANDADOS. URB. LOS SUEÑOS 75 CALLE ENSUEÑO GURABO, P.R. 00778-7810.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kenmuel J. Ruiz López cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.riuz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de febrero de 2022.

IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA INTERINA. BRENDA L. TORRES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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751 SANTA ISABEL, P.R. 00757.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kenmuel J. Ruiz López cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.riuz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de enero de 2022. En Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico, el 20 de enero de 2022.

LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. DORIS A. RODRÍGUEZ COLÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

MICHAEL ANGELO LÓPEZ VÉLEZ

Demandado Civil Núm.: CG2021CV02560.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS ISLAND PORTFOLIO LIBRE ASOSERVICES, LLC., COMO UNIDOS,ESTADO CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, AGENTE DE ACE ONE SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El FUNDING, LLC. que suscribe, Alguacil del TriDemandante Vs. bunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, CaJOSE L. guas, Puerto Rico, hago saber, LEON RODRIGUEZ a la parte demandada y al PÚDemandado BLICO EN GENERAL: Que en Civil Núm.: SI2021CV00068. cumplimiento del MandamienSobre: COBRO DE DINERO. to de Ejecución de Sentencia EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICexpedido el día 24 de marzo TO. de 2022, por la Secretaría del A: JOSE L. LEON Tribunal, procederé a vender RODRIGUEZ: PO BOX y venderé en pública subasta 751 SANTA ISABEL, P.R. y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a conti00757-0751; RT BOX ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SANTA ISABEL EN JUANA DÍAZ

nuación: RUSTICA: Parcela de terreno, marcada con el número 5-2 del Plano de Inscripción, localizada en el Barrio Beatriz de la municipalidad de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 4,016.7794 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 1.0220 cuerdas y en lindes por el NORTE, con terrenos de la finca de la cual se segrega, en una distancia de 55.973 metros; por el SUR, con la calle municipal número uno de Alturas de Caguas, en varias distancias que suman 52.950 metros; por el ESTE, con la calle municipal número dos de Alturas de Caguas, en una distancia de 17.810 metros, con terrenos de la finca de la cual se segrega en varias distancias que suman 79.761; y por el OESTE, con terrenos de la finca de la cual se segrega, en una distancia de 86.460 metros. Inscrita al folio 210 del tomo 1,219, finca número 42,910 de Caguas. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Caguas.

La propiedad está ubicada, según pagaré, en: 5.2 KM 42.1 PR 1, Miramelinda, Sector Alturas de Caguas, Barrio Beatriz, Caguas, Puerto Rico 00725. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 27 de enero de 2022, y notificada el 28 de enero de 2022 en el presente caso civil, a saber, la suma de $177,837.78 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 6.5% desde el 1ro de junio de 2013; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $19,430.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 6 DE JUNIO DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal de Caguas, Sala Superior, Caguas, Puerto Rico.

Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $194,300.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 13 DE JUNIO DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal de Caguas, Sala Superior, Caguas, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $129,533.33, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para

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la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 21 DE JUNIO DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal de Caguas, Sala Superior, Caguas, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $97,150.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a.

Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes.

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

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de abril de 2022. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, DIVISIÓN DE

SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE PUERTO RICO. SS. SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS. A: Judith Santana Robles

y su esposo Luis Angel Medina; Roberto Santana ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Robles y su esposa DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Marilyn Carradero CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMABARRIO RIO, CARR. CAO SECCION SUPERIOR. 31, RAMAL 948 LAS Gloria Santanas Robles PIEDRAS, PUERTO RICO (Demandante) Vs. 00771; María Esther Santana A: Efraín Santana Díaz, Robles, Luis Alberto Yariel Santana Díaz, Serrano, González y la Yadiel Santana Díaz y Sociedad de Gananciales Luis Alberto Serrano compuesta por María Santana.

Esther Santana Robles BARRIO RIO BLANCO y Luis Alberto Serrano NAGUABO, PUERTO González; Roberto RICO 00718 Santana Robles, POR LA PRESENTE, se le Marilyn Carradero y la y emplaza y requiere para que Sociedad de Gananciales conteste la demanda dentro de compuesta por Roberto los treinta (30) días siguientes Santa Robles, Marilyn a la publicación de este Edicto, deberá presentar su alegación Carradero; Efraín Santana responsiva a través del Sistema Robles Ana Delia Díaz y la Unificado de Manejo y AdminisSociedad de Gananciales tración de Casos (SUMAC), al compuesta por Efraín cual puede acceder utilizando Santana Robles y Ana la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.

Delia Díaz; Judith Santana pr, salvo que se represente por Robles, Luis Angel derecho propio, en cuyo caso Medina y Sociedad de deberá presentar su alegación Gananciales compuesta responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal, ante e! Tribunal Supepor Judith Santana rior de Humacao y notificando Robles Luis Angel con copia al abogado de la parMedina; Galier González; te demandante: LCDO. JULIO LUIS CASTRO (RUA Santana, Jane Doe y 4929) Sociedad de Gananciales HC# I Buzón 4593 Yabucoa, Puerto Rico 00767 compuesta por Galier Fax (787) 893-6937 Serrano Santana y Jane Tel. (787) 407-8043 jIcIo(äyahoo.com Doe; Luis Alberto Serrano Este caso trata de la Partición Santana, Jennie Doe y la de la Herencia de don Gabriel Sociedad de Gananciales Santana Maldonado Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo, compuesta por Luis se le anotará la rebeldía y se Alberto Serrano Santana dictará sentencia concediendo y Jennie Doe; Yariel el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.

Santana Díaz Fulana de Tal y la Sociedad de EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy 25 Gananciales compuesta de marzo de 2022. Dominga por Yariel Santana Diaz Gomez Fuster, Sec Regional. y Fulana de Tal; Yadiel Norte I Mercado Laboy, SubSecretaria.

Santana Díaz Fulana de Tal y la Sociedad de LEGAL NOTICE Gananciales compuesta IN THE UNITED STATES DISpor Yadiel Santana TRICT COURT FOR THE DISDíaz Fulana de Tal; TRICT OF PUERTO RICO Gabriela Marie Santana LIME HOMES, LTD. Plaintiff V. Román, Pancho Doe y la Sociedad de Gananciales LUIS ANTONIO ESTEVES compuesta por Gabriela RIVERA; AND BRENDA LIZ LUGO VELEZ Marie Santana Román Defendants y Pancho Doe; Efraír Civil No.: 17-01308. PAD. Re: Santana Díaz, Perenseja MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE de Tal y la Sociedad de AND COLLECTION OF MOGananciales compuesta NIES. NOTICE OF SALE. Efraín Santana Díaz y To: LUIS ANTONIO Perenseja de Tal. ESTEVES RIVERA AND (Demandados) BRENDA LIZ LUGO CIVIL NUM. HU2021CV01292.

VELEZ, AND ALL SOBRE: PARTICION DE HEPARTIES THAT MAY HAVE RENCIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO AN INTEREST IN THE POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIPROPERTY. LEGAL NOTICE

DENTE DE LOS ESTADOS EL WHEREAS: Judgment in favor

28 of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $171,557.17 of principal balance of the mortgage note, plus interest at a rate of 4.2500% per annum since April 1st, 2015, over said balance.

Interest will continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full in accordance with the tenents of 28 U.S.C. sec 1691. In addition, the defendant owes Plaintiff late charges amounting to 5.000% of any and any payments or installments in arrears over fifteen (15) days since the installment is due. The defendant also owes Plaintiff pursuant to the provisions or dispositions of the all of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. advances made by Plaintiff pursuant to the provision or dispositions of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. The defendant also owes the Plaintiff an amount equivalent to 10% of the original principal balance as liquidated amount to cover the costs, expenses and attorney fees.

The record of the case and of the proceedings may be examined by the interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States district Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building Office 150, 150 Carlos Chardon Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918 the following property belonging, describe in Spanish as follows: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento residencial número quinientos veintiuno (521) de forma irregular, constituido por un nivel, localizado en la segunda (2da) planta del módulo número cinco (5) del Condominio Point Lagoon Estates que este situado en el Barrio Cangrejos Arriba del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Consta de un nivel, siendo sus linderos los siguientes: Por el Norte, con el apartamento cuatrocientos veintidós (422), en distancia de diez punto trece (10.13) metros lineales, por el Sur, con área común, en una distancia de doce punto setenta y siete (12.77) metros lineales, por el Este, con área abierta, en una distancia de once punto cincuenta y tres (11.53) metros lineales.

Consta el mismo de tres (3) habitaciones con sus respectivos “closets”, una sala-comedor, cocina, dos (2) baños, área de almacenar, “laundry” y terraza cubierta. Los baños están equipados con bañera, lavamanos y servicio sanitario. Se incluye bidet en el baño del cuarto

principal. El área total del apartamento es de ciento treinta y siete punto noventa (137.90) metros cuadrados. La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está situada en su lindero Sur y por ella se sale a la escalera y el área de circulación del proyecto. Este apartamento tiene una participación de cero punto ochocientos setenta y siete mil veintiún por ciento (0.877021%) en los elementos comunes generales del condominio. Le pertenece el uso y disfrute de dos estacionamientos marcados con los números veintinueve (29) y treinta (30). The property is identified as property number 41,008, recorded at page number 24 of volume number 983 of Carolina, in the Registry of the Property, Section of Carolina I. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with holders thereof. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior lien. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on JUNE 9TH, 2022 AT 3:00PM. The minimum bid that will be accepted in the first public sale is the sum of $269,000.00. In the event that said first public sale does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the JUNE 16TH, 2022 AT 3:00PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $179,333.33. If said second public sale does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the JUNE 23RD, 2022 AT 3:00PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $134,500.00. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens that are attached to the property referred to above. 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. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 19 of April 2022.

BEATRIZ VÁZQUEZ SOLIS, SPECIAL MASTER.

The San Juan Daily Star

Thursday, April 28, 2022

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Demandante Vs.

GABINA SUAREZ Y CAMEJO T/C/C GABINA SUAREZ CAMEJO; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2020CV01955.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 24 DE MAYO DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBAN: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: Apartment number A dash four hundred thirty three (A-433).

Rectangular shaped apartment with a total constructions area of five hundred sixty one (561) square feet, equivalent to fifty two point twelve (52.12) square meters. Its average general measurements are thirty five (35) feet long by sixteen feet one inch (16’1”) wide. The main entrance to this apartment is located on its western side, which leads towards the communal areas of the Regime.

This apartment is located on the fifth (5th) floor of the building, wing “D”. Its boundaries area: by the North with an exterior Wall which separates it from the exterior communal areas; by the South, with an exterior Wall which separates it from the common corridor; by the East, with a communal Wall which separates it from apartment four hundred thirty three dash A (433-A); and on the West, with a common Wall that separates it from the elevaLEGAL NOTICE tor draft and common staircaESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO se. This apartment contains a living bedroom area, a kitchen

dining area, with its closet, a bathroom with a dresser area and a balcony. Le corresponde a este apartamento el estacionamiento número trescientos diez (310). Le corresponde una participación pro-indiviso en los elementos comunes del Régimen equivalentes a cero punto nueve ocho seis (0.1986). Inscrita al folio 151 del tomo 1096 de Rio Piedras Norte, finca 31,523, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección II. Propiedad localizada en: EL MONTE NORTE COND., HOSTOS AVE. APT A-433, SAN JUAN, PR 00918. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $192,000.00.

Fecha de Vencimiento: 3 de abril de 2082. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $128,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 1RO DE JUNIO DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $85,333.33, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $64,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 8 DE JUNIO DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $115,804.14 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $18,532.27 en intereses acumulados al 30 de septiembre de 2021 y los cua-

les continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.571% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $4,631.83 en seguro hipotecario; $5,180.00 en tarifas de servicios; $429.00 en seguro; $375.00 de tasaciones; $500.00 de inspecciones; $2,438.50 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $12,800.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o 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 esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 19 de abril de 2022. GILBERTO FIGUEROA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ERIK F. OSUNA ACEVEDO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #390.

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

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Demandante Vs.

SUCESION FRANCISCO ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ AGUILU T/C/C FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ AGUILU COMPUESTA POR FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ RAMOS, SONIA RODRIGUEZ RAMOS Y MYRIAM RODRIGUEZ RAMOS; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; MYRIAM RAMOS OLIVENCIA T/C/C MYRIAM RAMOS DE RODRIGUEZ POR SÍ Y EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE

AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2020CV01170.

(506). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 24 DE MAYO DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número veinte (20) del Bloque “S” cuatro (S-4) del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Quintas del Norte del Señorial, antes, ahora Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Paraná, situada en el Barrio Monacillos de Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de mil ciento quince punto noventa y dos metros cuadrados (1,115.92 mc). En lindes por el Norte, en varias distancias a saber una de diez punto ciento cincuenta y ocho metros (10.158 m), otra de dos punto novecientos cincuenta y dos metros (2.952 m) y otra de doce punto ciento sesenta metros (12.160 m), con terrenos de Cupey Highlands Development Corporation, antes, ahora terrón de Don Celso Ortiz; por el Sur, en veinte punto diez metros (20.10 m), con la calle número tres (3); por el Este, en veintiocho punto seiscientos cincuenta y cuatro metros (28.654 m), con el solar número veintiuno (21); y por el Oeste, en cincuenta punto veintiséis metros (50.26 m), con el solar diecinueve (19). Enclava una edificación. Inscrita al folio 199 del tomo 161 de Monacillos Este, finca 5,021, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. Propiedad localizada en: URB. VILLAS DE PARANA, S-4 #20 CALLE 3, SAN JUAN, PR 00926. Según figuran en la certificación

registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $637,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 12 de septiembre de 2091. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $637,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 1 DE JUNIO DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $425,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $318,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 8 DE JUNIO DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $250,821.25 de principal, intereses pactados y computados sobre esta suma al tipo de 3.702% anual hasta su total y completo pago, contribuciones, recargos y primas de seguro adeudados y la suma de $25,082.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o 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 esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados

que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 19 de abril de 2022. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN RAFAEL BUSCAGLIA GUILLERMETY, ET AL.

Demandados Civil Núm.: KCD2015-1179.

(506). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Yo, EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, al público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 1 de abril de 2022 por la Secretaria de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Urbana: Solar número quince del Bloque “CC” de la Urbanización Extensión Borinquen Gardens, radicada en el Barrio Caimito del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, compuesto de cuatrocientos treinta y dos punto cero cero metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE y por el SUR, en dieciséis punto cero cero metros, respectivamente, con la calle Daisy y el solar número treinta y uno del Bloque “CC; por ESTE y el OESTE, en veintisiete punto cero cero metros, respectivamente, con los solares número dieciséis y catorce del Bloque “CC”. Contiene casa de concreto.” Finca número 4,959 inscrita al folio 73 del Tomo 143 de Rio Piedras Sur, Registro de la Propiedad, Sec-

The San Juan Daily Star ción IV de San Juan. Dirección Física: 15 CC Daisy Street, Urb. Borinquen Gardens, San Juan, P.R. 00926. La finca 4,959 está gravada con la siguiente hipoteca cuya ejecución se solicita en la subasta objeto de este edicto: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Popular Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $247,000.00, con intereses al 7% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 92, otorgada San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de marzo de 2007, ante la notario María I. De Mier Pérez, e inscrita al al folio 157 del tomo 758 de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 4,959, inscripción 5ta. La propiedad está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: A. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretary of Housing and Urban Development of Washington, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $247,000.00, con intereses al 7.0% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 93, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de marzo de 2007, ante la notario Maria I. De Mier Pérez, e inscrita al folio 157 del tomo 758 de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 4,959, inscripción 6ta. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Banco Popular de Puerto Rico por la hipoteca de $247,000.00, total o parcialmente. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Banco Popular de Puerto Rico total o parcialmente el importe de la Sentencia emitida el 30 de noviembre de 2021. El importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe asciende a las siguientes cantidades: $247,381.11 desde el 1 de mayo de 2015. Dicha cantidad continuará acumulándose a razón del 7% hasta el completo pago de la deuda. La demandada adeuda, además, una cantidad equivalente a $24,700.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, $24,700.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y $24,700.00 para cubrir intereses adicionales a los garantizados por ley, según pactado. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la antes descrita propiedad y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 23 DE MAYO DE 2022 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Tipo mínimo: $247,000.00, suma pactada entre los contratantes en la escritura de constitución de hipoteca. Si no se produce remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará la SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 31 DE MAYO DE 2022 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Tipo Mínimo: $164,666.66 dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado entre los contratantes en la escritura

de constitución de hipoteca. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 7 DE JUNIO DE 2022 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Tipo Mínimo: $123,500.00 la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado entre los contratantes en la escritura de constitución de hipoteca. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del producto obtenido en dicha venta, el Alguacil pagará en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hasta la suma convenida, en tercer término los intereses devengados hasta la fecha de la subasta, en cuarto término las sumas establecidas en la Sentencia para el pago de recargos por demora, contribuciones, seguros y en quinto término la suma principal adeudada conforme con la sentencia dictada. Disponiéndose que si quedara algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas o gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se le apercibe a los tenedores de gravámenes posteriores al que se ejecuta que, para proteger cualesquiera derechos que tengan sobre el inmueble, deberán comparecer a la subasta, pues de no hacerlo así y de no igualar el precio de venta del gravamen hipotecario que se ejecuta, el Tribunal ordenará la cancelación de todos los gravámenes posteriores. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si se declara 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. Los autos y todos los documentos

Thursday, April 28, 2022 correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de San Juan durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico una vez por semana por un término de dos (2) semanas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre cada publicación. Se fijará además, en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía de dicho Municipio. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a su dirección que obra en autos. Una vez efectuada la correspondiente venta judicial, otorgaré la escritura del traspaso al licitador victorioso, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la Sentencia. Colocaré al licitador victorioso en posesión física de la Propiedad mediante el lanzamiento de los ocupantes en el término legal de veinte (20) días desde la fecha de la venta en pública subasta y para ello procederé a romper candados de ser necesario. 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 o ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. El Registrador de la Propiedad cancelará, libre de derechos, todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción, y procederá a la inscripción de la venta a favor del comprador en subasta libre de todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 19 de abril de 2022. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

JOHN DOE

Demandado(a) Civil: BY2022CV00851. (702).

Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE.

(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 20 de abril de 2022, 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 21 de abril de 2022. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 21 de abril de 2022. LAURA I SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. NÉLIDA OCASIO ORTEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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GURABO, PR 00778.

15374 SUMMIT PLACE CIRCLE NAPLES FL 34119.

(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 20 de abril de 2022, 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 20 de abril de 2022. En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, el 21 de abril de 2022.

LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. VILMA OYOLA RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Parte Demandante Vs.

SUCESION ELENA GARCIA PEÑA T/C/C ELENA GARCIA T/C/C ELENA GARCIA DE SAN CARLOS ZAYAS COMPUESTA MORTGAGE LLC. POR LAURA ZAYAS Demandante V. GARCIA, MARIA ISABEL GAMAL ABDEL RIVERA ZAYAS GARCIA, PEDRO O’NEILL, MAYRA ZAYAS GARCIA, JUAN LARACUENTE BERNAT, Y DIEGO ZAYAS GARCIA, LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GUADALUPE ZAYAS BIENES GANANCIALES GARCIA; JOHN DOE POR ESTOS COMPUESTA Y JANE DOE COMO Demandado(a) Civil: GR2021CV00185. 705. POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. SUCESION LUIS ZAYAS NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENROSADO COMPUESTA CIA POR EDICTO. POR LAURA ZAYAS A: GAMAL ABDEL GARCIA, MARIA ISABEL RIVERA O’NEILL, POR SÍ ZAYAS GARCIA, PEDRO Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN ZAYAS GARCIA, JUAN DE LA SOCIEDAD DIEGO ZAYAS GARCIA, LEGAL DE BIENES GUADALUPE ZAYAS GANANCIALES GARCIA; JOHN ROE COMPUESTA POR ESTE Y JANE ROE COMO Y SU ESPOSA MAYRA POSIBLES HEREDEROS LARACUENTE BERNAT. DESCONOCIDOS; APT. 3302 PASEO GALES,

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ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2021CV00698.

Sala: 201. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A LA PARTE DEMANDADA: JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN LUIS ZAYAS ROSADO.

Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda sobre Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la cual se alega que la parte demandada obtuvo un préstamo hipotecario el 29 de julio de 2009, concedido por BeeWee Mortgage Bankers Corporation garantizado por una hipoteca revertida (en adelante la “Hipoteca Revertida”), por la suma de $275,000.00, con intereses al 3.285% anual, los cuales serán ajustables mensualmente, obligándose además al pago de costas, gastos y desembolsos del litigio, más honorarios de abogado equivalentes al 10% del valor del principal de la hipoteca y vencimiento el 25 de julio de 2086 otorgada ante la Notaria Rosa E. Permuy Calderón y mediante su escritura número 239. La Hipoteca Revertida grava la propiedad que se describe a continuación: APARTAMENTO DOCE GUIÓN A (12-A): Apartamento localizado en el piso número Doce (12), de forma irregular situado en el centro del lado Norte del Edificio denominado CONDOMINIO TORRIMAR PLAZA (ANTES ALTOMAR), y que consta de sala, comedor, tres (3) cuartos dormitorios con sus respectivos “closet”, sirviendo uno de ellos como vestidor, tres (3) cuartos de baño, dos de los cuales tienen el lavamanos fuera de la paredes del área del baño, cocina con espacio de lavandería, plafón lumínico colgante, además de un “closet” de almacenamiento ocupado parcialmente ocupado parcialmente por el calentador de agua, un balcón con espacio para la unidad de condensación del aire acondicionado central del apartamento, en los pasillos hay tres (3) “closets”, uno de los cuales es para el evaporador del aire acondicionado central de Apartamento, en otro de los “closets” se encuentra un conducto de ventilación cuya área no se incluye en el área del Apartamento, todas las dependencias del Apartamento se comunican interiormente. Este Apartamento tiene

acceso a través de un pasillo y un vestíbulo de uso común que se comunica directamente con la sala. Tiene un área aproximada de MIL SEISCIENTOS SETENTA Y OCHO PUNTO CERO CERO PIES CUADRADOS (1,678.00 P.C.), equivalentes a CIENTO CINCUENTA Y CINCO PUNTO NOVENTA Y CONCO METROS CUADRADOS (155.95 M.C.). Colinda; por el NORTE, con área verde del patio posterior que separa el edificio de la servidumbre de paso de la Carretera Estatal número Ciento Setenta y Siete (177); por el SUR, con el pasillo de uso común limitado, con un conducto de ventilaCión y con el “closet” de teléfono; por el ESTE, con pared que lo separa del espacio libre; y por el OESTE, con pared que lo separa del Apartamento número Doce guión B (12-B). Le corresponde el espacio de estacionamiento marcado con el número Noventa y Uno (91). Noventa y Dos (92) y Ciento Dos (102). Le corresponde un porcentaje de uno punto cuarenta por ciento (1.40%). Inscrita al folio 270 del tomo 532 de Guaynabo, finca 22,090, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 160 del tomo 1430 de Guaynabo, finca 22,090, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo, inscripción 5a. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto y que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Se le(s) emplaza y requiere que dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publicación de este edicto conteste(n) la demanda presentando su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y enviando copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de LCDA. FRANCES L. ASENCIO-GUIDO; GREENSPOON MARDER, LLP, TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700, 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309; TEL. (954) 343-6273; Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com, Abogada de la Parte Demandante. Se le(s) advierte que si dejare(n) de contestar la Demanda en el período de tiempo antes mencionado, podrá dictarse contra usted(es) Sentencia en Rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal.

LCDA. LAURA l. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MAIRENI TRINTA MALDONADO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO ORIENTAL Parte Demandante V.

JAIME TORRES ADORNO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2021CV00243.

Sala: 705. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JAIME TORRES ADORNO.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: AGS LEGAL COLLECTIONS, LLC Abogados de la parte demandante Lcdo. Ricardo A Acevedo Bianchi RUA 20637 Lcdo. José R. González RiveraRUA 13105 Lcdo. Juan A Santos Berríos RUA 9774 P.O. Box 10242 Humacao, Puerto Rico 00792 Teléfono: (939) 545-4300 Email: rab@agslegalpr.com o jrg@ agslegalpr.com POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva, con copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante, dentro de los 30 días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día su publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Extendido bajo mi firma y Sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de abril de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. ILEANA MIRANDA ARROYO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

RALPH PAGÁN ARCHEVAL, MARITZA

30 MULERO DÍAZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2019CV02994.

Sala: 703. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 14 de octubre de 2021, enmendada nunc pro tunc el 28 de diciembre de 2021, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 14 de marzo de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia del 23 de marzo de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el DÍA 31 DE MAYO DE 2022, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Sala Superior, en la Carretera Número Uno (PR 1), Intersección PR 189, Kilómetro 0.4, Barrio Bairoa, (Entrada norte Pueblo Caguas), Caguas, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar identificado con el Número Once (#11) del Bloque W en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Praderas de Navarro, en el término municipal de Gurabo, Puerto Rico, con cabida de 350.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en distancia de 25.00 metros con el solar número doce (#12) del bloque W; por el SUR, en distancia de 25.00 metros, con el solar número diez (#10) del bloque W; por el ESTE, en distancia de 14.00 metros con la Calle Número Veinticinco (#25); y por el OESTE, en distancia de 14.00 metros, con el solar número dos (#2) del bloque W. Enclava una estructura de hormigón para fines residenciales. La propiedad, la escritura de hipoteca y su modificación constan inscritas al Folio 213 del Tomo 417 de Gurabo, Finca Número 15,837.

Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. Inscripción segunda y cuarta. Dirección Física: Praderas de Navarro, W11 Calle 25, Gurabo, PR 00778.

Número de Catastro: 47-225069-461-59-000. SUBASTAS: FECHAS: PRIMERA: 31 DE MAYO DE 2022 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $176,440.14. SEGUNDA: 7 DE JUNIO DE 2022 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $117,626.76. TERCERA:

14 DE JUNIO DE 2022 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $88,220.07. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $176,440.14. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 7 DE JUNIO DE 2022, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $117,626.76.

De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE JUNIO DE 2022, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $88,220.07. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $161,211.16 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.875% anual desde el 1 de septiembre de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $1,373.61 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $17,644.01 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a. Hipoteca: Constituida por Ralph Pagán Archeval y su esposa Maritza Mulero Díaz, en garantía a un pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la suma de $47,980.00, sus intereses al 5.875% anual y vencedero el 1 de febrero de 2035, según Escritura Número 59, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 31 de enero de 2005, ante el Notario Gildren S. Caro Pérez. Inscrita al Folio 213 vuelto del Tomo 417 de Gurabo, Inscripción tercera. b. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Ralph Pagán Archeval y su esposa Maritza Mulero Díaz, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el Caso Civil Número CG2019CV02994, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $161,211.16 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 15 de agosto de 2019.

Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Gurabo. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea.

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Thursday, April 28, 2022

Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. 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; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm.

210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 20 de abril de 2022. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR.

AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2021CV00697.

Sala: 201. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A LA PARTE DEMANDADA: JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN ANA ESTHER PEREZ SERRA T/C/C ANA E. PEREZ SERRA T/C/C ANA PEREZ SERRA T/C/C ANNIE PEREZ SUCI T/C/C ANA ESTHER; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN GLADYS PROVIDENCIA PEREZ SERRA T/C/C GLADYS P. PEREZ SERRA T/C/C GLADYS PEREZ SERRA T/CLC GLADYS PROVIDENCIA T/C/C GLADYS PEREZ.

Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda sobre Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la cual se incluyen como demandados John Roe y Jane Roe, John Doe y Jane Doe como posibles herederos desconocidos, no porque garanticen personal y LEGAL NOTICE solidariamente la deuda que se ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO describe a continuación, sino DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL porque ellos como herederos, DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA podrían adquirir participación SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYen la titularidad de la propiedad NABO que se pretende ejecutar. Se REVERSE MORTGAGE alega que Ana Esther Perez FUNDING, LLC Serra t/c/c Ana E. Perez Serra Parte Demandante Vs. t/c/c Ana Perez Serra t/c/c AnSUCESION ANA ESTHER nie Perez Suci t/c/c Ana Esther y Gladys Providencia Perez PEREZ SERRA T/C/C t/c/c Gladys P. Perez ANA E. PEREZ SERRA Serra Serra t/c/c Gladys Perez Serra T/C/C ANA PEREZ SERRA t/c/c Gladys Providencia t/c/c T/C/C ANNIE PEREZ Gladys Perez obtuvieron un SUCI T/C/C ANA ESTHER préstamo hipotecario el 24 de COMPUESTA POR JOHN septiembre de 2009, concedido por The Money House, Inc. gaROE Y JANE ROE COMO rantizado por una hipoteca rePOSIBLES HEREDEROS vertida (en adelante la “Hipoteca Revertida”), por la suma de DESCONOCIDOS; $262,500.00, con intereses al SUCESION GLADYS anual, los cuales serán PROVIDENCIA PEREZ 3.496% ajustables mensualmente, obliSERRA T/C/C GLADYS gándose además al pago de P. PEREZ SERRA costas, gastos y desembolsos T/C/C GLADYS PEREZ del litigio, más honorarios de SERRA T/C/C GLADYS abogado equivalentes al 10% del valor del principal de la hipoPROVIDENCIA T/C/C teca y vencimiento el 17 de noGLADYS PEREZ viembre de 2080 otorgada ante COMPUESTA POR JOHN la Notaria Laura Mia González DOE Y JANE DOE COMO Bonilla y mediante su escritura 585. La Hipoteca RePOSIBLES HEREDEROS número vertida grava la propiedad que DESCONOCIDOS; se describe a continuación: URESTADOS UNIDOS DE BANA: Propiedad Horizontal:

Apartamento número dos guión “D”’ (2-D) residencial en forma irregular en la segunda planta del Condominio Villa Caparra Tower localizado en la Calle “A” de la Urbanización Caparra en el Barrio Pueblo Viejo, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Dicho apartamento mide aproximadamente mil doscientos setenta y siete punto quince (1277.15 p/c) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ciento dieciocho punto setenta (118.70 m.c) metros cuadrados y contiene un salón de entrada (foyer), sala, comedor, cocina, dos baños, dos dormitorios, y terraza. Su entrada principal está localizada en la pared que separa el salón de entrada al apartamento del pasillo que conduce a los ascensores, a las escaleras, al incinerador, al closet de instalaciones eléctricas y a los demás apartamentos de la misma planta. Sus colindancias son las siguientes: por el Norte, en una línea quebrada y distancia de treinta y, siete pies con tres pulgadas (37’ 3”), equivalentes a once punto treinta y seis (11.36 m.) metros, con la pared exterior del edifico que lo separa del área del estacionamiento de ese lado; por el Sur, en treinta y siete pies con tres pulgadas (37’ 3”), equivalentes a once punto treinta y seis (11.36 m.) metros y en tres alineaciones con pared exterior del edificio que lo separa del área de estacionamiento de ese lado Este. Con el apartamento número dos guión “D” (2D), y con el pasillo que conduce a los ascensores, a las escaleras, al incinerador, al closet de instalaciones eléctricas y a los demás apartamentos de la misma planta; por el Este, en línea quebrada y distancia de treinta y ocho pies con dos pulgadas (38’ 2”), equivalentes a once punto sesenta y cuatro (11.64 m.) metros, con el área de estacionamiento de ese lado; y por el Oeste, en línea quebrada y distancia de treinta y ocho pies con dos pulgadas (38’ 2”), equivalentes a once punto sesenta y cuatro (11.64 m.) metros, con área verde y de juegos. A este apartamento le corresponde como parte integral del mismo y área privativa, el área de estacionamiento marcada con el número cinco (5) de los planos de construcción del edificio del cual este apartamento forma parte. Le corresponde en los elementos comunes limitados una participación de dos punto diecinueve por ciento (2.19%).

Inscrita al folio 240 del tomo 4 70 de Guaynabo, finca 20,378, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 1724 del tomo 1543 de Guaynabo, finca 20,378, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo, inscripción 8a. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto y que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Se le(s) emplaza y requiere

que dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publicación de este edicto conteste(n) la demanda presentando su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y enviando copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de Greenspoon Marder, LLP, Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido, TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309, Telephone: (954) 343-6273, Frances.Asencio@ gmlaw.com, Abogada de la Parte Demandante. Se le(s) advierte que si dejare(n) de contestar la Demanda en el periodo de tiempo antes mencionado, podrá dictarse contra usted(es) Sentencia en Rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s).

EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. Dada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, a 21 de abril de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.

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607-609 CONDADO ST., LLC. Demandante V.

AUGUSTO BOBONIS LANG; LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN BELÉN ZEQUEIRA, COMPUESTA POR CÉSAR BOBONIS ZEQUEIRA, FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, MENGANA DE TAL, MENGANO DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL, SUTANA DE TAL; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV00829.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN BELÉN ZEQUEIRA, COMPUESTA POR CÉSAR BOBONIS

ZEQUEIRA, FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, MENGANA DE TAL, MENGANO DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL, SUTANA DE TAL.

Queda notificado que en este Tribunal se ha solicitado y aceptado, una interpelación judicial de la parte demandante a los herederos de la Sucesión de Carmen Belén Zequeira, a saber, César Bobonis Zequeira, Fulano De Tal, Fulana De Tal, Mengana De Tal, Mengano De Tal, Sutano De Tal, Sutana De Tal; conforme dispone el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 LP.R.A. §11021. Se ordena a dichos codemandados a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación del presente Edicto, acepte o repudie la participación que le corresponda en la Sucesión de Carmen Belén Zequeira. Si los herederos antes mencionados no se expresaren dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de la herencia, ésta se tendrá por aceptada. También se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación del presente Edicto, se presumirá que ha aceptado la herencia del causante, y por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme disponen los Artículos 1587 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §11041, y 1588, 31 L.P.R.A. §11042. La abogada de la parte demandante es la Lcda. Ana Deseda Belaval, cuya dirección física y postal es: Cond. El Centro I, Suite 801, 500 Muñoz Rivera Ave., San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918; cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 946-5268, y su correo electrónico es: anadeseda@bellverlaw.com.

Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que, si no comparecen a repudiar o aceptar la herencia, radicando el original de la misma través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se presumirá que ha aceptado la herencia del causante, y por consiguiente, responde por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme disponen los Artículos 1587 y 1588 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico.

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en San Juan,

Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de abril de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SUBSECRETARIA.

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

607-609 CONDADO ST., LLC. Demandante V.

AUGUSTO BOBONIS LANG; LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN BELÉN ZEQUEIRA, COMPUESTA POR CÉSAR BOBONIS ZEQUEIRA, FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, MENGANA DE TAL, MENGANO DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL, SUTANA DE TAL; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV00829.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: AUGUSTO BOBONIS LANG, Y LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN BELÉN ZEQUEIRA, COMPUESTA POR CÉSAR BOBONIS ZEQUEIRA, FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, MENGANA DE TAL, MENGANO DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL.

Quedan emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que la parte demandada AUGUSTO BOBONIS LANG; LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN BELÉN ZEQUEIRA, compuesta por CÉSAR BOBONIS ZEQUEIRA, FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, MENGANA DE TAL, MENGANO DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL, SUTANA DE TAL; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA, le adeudan solidariamente a 607-609 Condado St., LLC., la suma de $14,046.44 por concepto de gastos comunes de mantenimiento adeudados a la fecha de radicación, las cantidades que se acumulen por concepto de mensualidades de gastos comunes, intereses, penalidades y recargos que se continúen acumulando, más las costas, gastos y una suma

The San Juan Daily Star razonable por honorarios de abogado. Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que, si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarles ni oírles. La abogada de la parte demandante es la Lcda. Ana Deseda Belaval, cuya dirección física y postal es: Cond. El Centro I, Suite 801, 500 Muñoz Rivera Ave., San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918; cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 946-5268, y su correo electrónico es: anadeseda@bellverlaw.com. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de abril de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ROSA M. TORRÉNS COLÓN, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

Thursday, April 28, 2022

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA FONSECA, POR SÍ Y DE RECAUDACIÓN SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA DE IMPUESTOS JOSEFINA MEJÍA ABREU. EN REPRESENTACIÓN SALA DE CAGUAS. Consejo de Titulares DE LA CUOTA VIUDAL MUNICIPALES JANE DOE COMO Vista Real I Demandado(a) USUFRUCTUARIA, SUS Condominio MIEMBROS Demandante Vs. DESCONOCIDOS DE LA HEREDEROS MARITZA Ivelisse Marrero Marrero Civil: CA2020CV02013. 407.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOGONZÁLEZ, CRISTINA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA Demandada TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINAGONZÁLEZ, CORALMARI Civil Núm.: CG2021CV01593. RIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENJOSEFINA MEJÍA GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA Y Salón: 705. Sobre: COBRO TENCIA POR EDICTO. ABREU. 61 ST. 3-69 RICHARD ROE COMO DE CUOTAS DE MANTENI- A: RAMONITA BURGOS SIERRA BAYAMÓN DEV. MIENTO. EMPLAZAMIENTO CARABALLO T/C/C BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO POSIBLES HEREDEROS POR EDICTO. Estados Unidos RAMONA BURGOS DESCONOCIDOS; 00960. de América Presidente de los Por la presente se le notifica a CARABALLO; SUTANO Estados Unidos Estado Libre DEPARTAMENTO usted que se ha radicado en Asociado de Puerto Rico. S.S. DE TAL Y FULANO DE DE HACIENDA; esta Secretaría la demanda A: IVELISSE TAL. DEPARTAMENTO DE de epígrafe. Se le emplaza y MARRERO MARRERO (Nombre de las partes a las que se le RECAUDACIONES DE requiere para que notifique al linotifican la sentencia por edicto) cenciado: Alberto De Diego Co- INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Queda emplazado y notificado EL SECRETARIO(A) que susque en este Tribunal se ha rallar, DE DIEGO LAW OFFICES, (CRIM), ESTADOS dicado Demanda en su contra. cribe le notifica a usted que PSC, PO BOX 79552, CaroliUNIDOS DE AMERICA Se le notifica para que compa- el 22 de abril de 2022, este na, PR 00984-9552, Teléfono:

(787)622-3939, abogado de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la demanda dentro del término antes indicado, radicando el LEGAL NOTICE original de la contestación ante ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO el Tribunal correspondiente, y DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUnotificando con copia a la parte NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA demandante, se le anotará la SALA DE BAYAMÓN rebeldía y se le dictará SentenORIENTAL BANK cia en su contra concediendo Demandante V. el remedio solicitado a favor de KEN AIR CONTRACTORS, la parte demandante sin mas CORP.; JOSE ANTONIO citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO POLANCO UREÑA, POR BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE Rico, hoy día 22 de abril 2022.

LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNJOSEFINA MEJÍA ABREU CHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIOCOMPUESTA POR ÉL NAL. VIVIAN J. SANABRIA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL Y JANE DOE Y JOHN TRIBUNAL I.

DOE, COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA JOSEFINA MEJÍA ABREU; CENTRO DE DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA DIVISION DE CAUDALES RELICTOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2021CV04864.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA

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FRANKLIN CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIOS DE WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY FSB, SINDICO DEL FIDEICOMISO BOSCO CREDIT 11 TRUST SERIES 2017-1 Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE REYNALDO GONZÁLEZ MOORE, COMPUESTA POR YOLANDA MARÍA GARCÍA

Demandado(a) Civil: CA2019CV01140. 406.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: MARITZA GONZALEZ Y CRISTINA GONZALEZ COMO HEREDERAS CONOCIDAS DE LA SUCESION DE REYNALDO GONZALEZ MOORE Y JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE REYNALDO GONZALEZ MOORE.

(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 22 de ABRIL de 2022, 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 22 de ABRIL de 2022. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 22 DE ABRIL de 2022.

MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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rezca ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a su derecho convenga en el presente caso. Se le apercibe y notifica que si dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación del edicto no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la 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 secretaria del tribunal y sala que se menciona en el epígrafe de este edicto con copia a la parte aquí demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte: Andres Saez Marrero, Mays Ochoa Bldg. Westgatc Industrial Park #515, Calle 2, Bo. Palmas, Cataño, PR 00962.

Tel. 787-590-4619. Correo electrónico: lcdo.andressaez@ gmail.com. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 30 de diciembre de 2021. Lisilde Martinez Agosto, Secretaria. Vilma Oyola Rivera, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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 22 de abril de 2022. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 22 de abril de 2022.

LCDA MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. DENISE M. AMARO MACHUCA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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CASCADE FUNDING MORTGAGE TRUST HB 5 Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE RAMÓN VÉLEZ PEÑA COMPUESTA POR RAMONITA BURGOS CARABALLO T/C/C RAMONA BURGOS CARABALLO; RAMONITA BURGOS CARABALLO T/C/C RAMONA BURGOS CARABALLO; LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA; Y EL CENTRO

MATTA RODRÍGUEZ

Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV06518.

Sala: 903. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOSÉ ENRIQUE MATTA RODRÍGUEZ.

(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 19 de abril de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted

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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 20 de abril de 2022. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 20 de abril de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MILDRED J. FRANCO REVENTOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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CINTRÓN o LA SUCESIÓN GABRIEL RODRÍGUEZ DE JUANITA MARTÍNEZ MALAVÉ, ROSAIDA CINTRÓN, compuesta TORRES FIGUEROA, Y por FRANKIE SEDA LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL MARTINEZ y ANETTE DE GANANCIALES SEDA MARTINEZ; COMPUESTA POR NORMA MARTÍNEZ AMBOS CINTRÓN o SUCESIÓN PARTE DEMANDANTE VS. DE NORMA MARTÍNEZ BANCO Y AGENCIA CINTRÓN, compuesta DE FINANCIAMIENTO por EDWIN RODRIGUEZ DE LA VIVIENDA DE MARTINEZ e IVETTE PUERTO RICO POR RODRIGUEZ MARTINEZ; CONDUCTO DE SU INAHI MARTÍNEZ SUCESOR EN DERECHO, CINTRÓN; ROBERTO AUTORIDAD PARA MARTÍNEZ SEDA O EL FINANCIAMIENTO SUCESIÓN DE ROBERTO DE LA VIVIENDA DE MARTÍNEZ CINTRÓN, PUERTO RICO; FULANO compuesta por: ANGEL Y MENGANO DE TAL, LUIS MARTINEZ, LEGAL NOTICE POSIBLES TENEDORES ROBERTO MARTÍNEZ, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DESCONOCIDOS DEL DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL MINERVA MARTINEZ e PAGARÉ GENERAL DE JUSITICIA TRIIVELISSE MARTINEZ; PARTE DEMANDADA BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIVIL NÚM. LU2022CV00047.

MIGDA ISABEL CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN DE MARTÍNEZ PADILLA, MAYAGUEZ SALA SUPERIOR. PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR JOSÉ ALFREDO AURELIO LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLAMARTÍNEZ PADILLA y ZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. MARTÍNEZ PADILLA WALDEMAR MARTÍNEZ ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉDEMANDANTE v.

PADILLA; FULANO DE RICA EL PRESIDENTE DE JUANITA MARTÍNEZ TAL y MENGANO MAS LOS E.E.U.U. EL ESTADO LICINTRÓN O LA BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO CUAL SUCESIÓN DE JUANITA RICO. MARTÍNEZ CINTRÓN, POR LA PRESENTE se le emA: FULANO Y para que presente al tricompuesta por FRANKIE plaza MENGANO DE TAL, bunal su alegación responsiva SEDA MARTINEZ dentro de los 30 días de haber POSIBLES TENEDORES y ANETTE SEDA sido diligenciado este emplazaDESCONOCIDOS DEL miento, excluyéndose el día del MARTINEZ; NORMA PAGARÉ MARTÍNEZ CINTRÓN O diligenciamiento. Usted deberá 1. Queda usted notificado que presentar su alegación responSUCESIÓN DE NORMA siva a través de del Sistema en este Tribunal se ha radicado MARTÍNEZ CINTRÓN, Unificado de Manejo y Adminis- Demanda sobre cancelación de extraviado por la vía jucompuesta por EDWIN tración de Casos (SUMAC), al pagaré dicial. El pagaré extraviado fue cual puede acceder utilizando RODRIGUEZ MARTINEZ suscrito. El 27 de abril de 1999, siguiente dirección electrónie IVETTE RODRIGUEZ la se constituyó un pagaré a favor ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. de Banco y Agencia de FinanMARTINEZ; INAHI pr, salvo que se represente por MARTÍNEZ CINTRÓN; derecho propio, en cuyo caso ciamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico., o a su orden, por ROBERTO MARTÍNEZ deberá presentar su alegación setenta y dos mil setecientos responsiva en la secretaria del SEDA O SUCESIÓN DE cincuenta dólares ($72,750.00), tribunal. Si usted deja de preROBERTO MARTÍNEZ sentar su alegación responsiva al seis punto setenta y cinco CINTRÓN, compuesta dentro del referido término, el por ciento (6.75%), vencedero el primero de mayo de dos tribunal podrá dictar sentencia por: ANGEL LUIS mil veintinueve (01/05/2029), en rebeldía en su contra y conMARTINEZ, ROBERTO según escritura número ciento ceder el remedio solicitado en MARTÍNEZ, MINERVA la demanda, o cualquier otro, veintiocho (128), en San Juan, MARTINEZ e IVELISSE si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de a veintisiete de abril de mil novecientos noventa y nueve MARTINEZ; MIGDA su sana discreción, lo entiende (27/04/1999), ante la notario procedente .

ISABEL MARTÍNEZ Irma J. Planadeball Moreno, LCDO. CARLOS L. SEGARRA MATOS PADILLA, JOSÉ inscrita al folio 131 del tomo RUA: 15441 198 de Luquillo, finca número ALFREDO MARTÍNEZ LCDA. VERONICA DEL CARMEN 10,819, inscripción segunda., CRESPO PEÑA PADILLA y WALDEMAR RUAL 17638 sobre la siguiente propiedad: MARTÍNEZ PADILLA; 2510 carretera 100, kilómetro 3.5 URBANA: Propiedad horizonCabo Rojo, Puerto Rico 00623 FULANO DE TAL y tal: Apartamento residencial 787-851-3582 MENGANO MAS CUAL marcado con el número dosclsegarra@yahoo.com DEMANDADOS CASO NÚM. MZ2022CV00384.

SALA: 206. SOBRE: DIVISION DE COMUNIDAD HEREDITARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO A LA PARTE DEMANDADA; Y FULANO DE TAL & MENGANO MÁS CUAL. ESTA-

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, el 25 de abril de 2022. NORMA G SANTANA IRIZARRY, Secretaria Regional. Alexandra M Lopez, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal I.

cientos dos (202), ubicado en la tercera planta o nivel del Condominio Luquillo Beach Classic, situado en el Barrio Mata de Plátanos del término municipal de Luquillo, Puerto Rico, midiendo sus puntos más distantes veintinueve pies

32 aproximadamente por veintidós pulgadas (29’22”) de ancho, aproximadamente con un área superficial de quinientos ochenta y ocho punto ochenta y siete cero tres (588.8703) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a cincuenta y cuatro punto setenta y tres cincuenta y nueve (54.7359) metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con pared interior que lo separa del apartamento número doscientos siete (207) en una distancia de veintidós pies (22’), equivalentes a seis punto setenta y un metros (6.71 m); por el SUR, con pared exterior que lo separa del patio lateral en una distancia de veintidós pies (22’); equivalentes a seis punto setenta y un metros (6.71 m); por el ESTE, con pared interior que lo separa del apartamento número doscientos uno (201) en una distancia de veintiséis pies (26’), equivalentes a siete punto noventa y dos metros (7.92 m.). En esta colindancia está ubicada la puerta de entrada que le da acceso al pasillo común a través del cual tiene acceso al exterior del edificio por su salida Este; por el OESTE, con pared interior que lo separa del apartamento número doscientos tres (203), en una distancia de veintinueve pies (29’), equivalentes a ocho punto ochenta y cuatro metros (8.84 m.). Consta de sala-comedor, cocina, dormitorio convertible a una habitación con un closet, un cuarto de baño y un balcón que mira hacia su colindancia Sur. A este apartamento le corresponde el espacio de estacionamiento marcado con el número diez (10). Le corresponde una participación de tres punto cuarenta y tres por ciento (3.43%) en los elementos comunes generales y veinte punto setenta y cuatro por ciento (20.74%) en los elementos comunes limitados. Consta Inscrita al folio 130 del tomo 198 de Luquillo finca número 10,819, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. 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.ramaudicial. 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. Cindy Cruz Rivera, cuya dirección es: 46-A #AS- 4 Valle Arriba Heights, Carolina, PR 00983, Teléfono (787) 463-8338, correo electrónico: cindycruzriveragmajl.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 21 de abril de 2022, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, Sec Regional. Sheila Robles Hernandez, Sec Auxiliar I.

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COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO SAULO D. RODRIGUEZ (GURACOOP) Demandante V.

SUCESION DE RAMON RODRIGUEZ TC/C RAMON RODRIGUEZ REYES COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL; CARMEN MILAGROS CINTRON BERRIOS, EN SU CARÁCTER PERSONAL Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE IMPUESTOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA

Demandada Civil Núm.: GR2018CV00155.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADO UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: CERTIFICO Y HAGO CONSTAR:

Que en cumplimiento con un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el(la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda del cuño legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, el día 1 DE JUNIO DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho, título o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Solar número veintisiete (27) de la manzana C según el

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plano de inscripción del proyecto de solares denominado Villa Alegre radicado en la zona Urbana del término municipal de Gurabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos noventa y tres punto nueve uno (393.91) metros cuadrados; en lindes por el NORTE, con la calle existente y el solar C guión veintiocho (C-28) en treinta y seis punto seis cuatro (36.64) metros; por el SUR, con el solar C guión veinticinco (C-25) en diecisiete punto siete nueve (17.79) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar C guión veintiséis (C-26) en dieciocho punto tres cero (18.30) metros; por el OESTE, con los solares C guión veinticuatro (C-24) y C guión dieciocho (C-18) en treinta y cinco punto noventa y ocho (35.98) metros. Consta inscrita a la finca número siete mil treinta y uno (7031), inscrita al folio doscientos veinte (220) del tomo ciento ochenta y cuatro (184) de Gurabo. Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda. La dirección residencial es: Villa Alegre Calle 9, C-27 Gurabo, Puerto Rico 00778. Se establece como tipo mínimo para la primera subasta, según acordado entre las partes la suma de $24,500.00.

De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera la misma se celebrará el día 8 DE JUNIO DE 2022 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como tipo mínimo para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $16,333.33, 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remanente ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como tipo mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $12,500.00, la mitad (½) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará el día 15 DE JUNIO DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO SAULO D. RODRIGUEZ (GURACOOP) el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $14,003.75 de principal del referido del pagaré; más los intereses al 8.375% cargos por demora, primas de seguro, adelantos y contribuciones acumulados, así como los que se acumulen hasta el saldo total de la obligación más, $1,400.37 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Honorable Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinados por los (las) interesados(as). Y para su publicación en el periódico, The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas

consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores.

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 lo hubiere, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos.

Sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPEDIDO en Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 22 de abril de 2022. CARLOS DELGADO CRUZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

JUAN GABRIEL MORA SEMPRIT

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: DCD2017-0442.

Sala: 703. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía del 19 de junio de 2017, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 10 de agosto de 2017 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 15 de agosto de 2017 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender día 25 DE MAYO DE 2022, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA en el Cuarto Piso de la Oficina del Alguacil de Subastas, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior, ubicado en la Carretera Número Dos (#2), Kilómetro 10.4, Esquina Esteban Padilla, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar marcado con el Número Veintisiete (27) del Bloque A de la Urbanización Monte Elena, radicada en el Barrio Higuillar del término municipal de Dorado, Puerto Rico. Con un área de 373.272 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con terrenos del Barrio Higuillar en 12.27 metros lineales; por el SUR, con servidumbres a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company de 1.5 metros de ancho y con la Avenida Principal de la Urbanización en 14.33 metros lineales; por el ESTE, con el Solar Número Veintiséis (26) del Bloque A en 28.76 metros lineales; y por el OESTE, con el Solar Número Veintiocho (28) del Bloque A, en 27.37 metros lineales. Enclava en este solar una casa de hormigón para fines residenciales de una planta conteniendo sala, comedor, family room, cocina tres (3) cuartos dormitorios, dos (2) baños y una marquesina abierta para dos (2) automóviles. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 233 del tomo 236 de Dorado, Finca Número 11034, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección IV. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 223 del tomo 236 de Dorado, Finca Número 11034, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección IV. Inscripción cuarta.

La escritura de modificación consta inscrita al folio 143 del tomo 283 de Dorado, Finca Número 11034, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección IV. Inscripción quinta. Dirección Física: Urb. Monte Elena, A27 Calle Alelí, Dorado, PR 00646.

Número de Catastro: 11-037064-017-40-000. SUBASTAS: FECHAS: PRIMERA: 25 DE MAYO DE 2022 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $126,645.11. SEGUNDA: 1 DE JUNIO DE 2022 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $84,430.07. TERCERA: 8 DE JUNIO DE 2022 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $63,322.55.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $126,645.11.

De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 1 DE JUNIO DE 2022 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA. Tipo Mínimo:, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $84,430.07.

De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 8 DE JUNIO DE 2022, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $63,322.55. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente.

Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $121,262.09 de princi-

pal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.5% anual desde el 1 de julio de 2016 hasta su completo pago, más $2,897.48 de recargos adeudados desde el día 1 de agosto de 2016 hasta su total pago, más la cantidad estipulada de $12,664.51 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a. Condiciones Restrictivas: Comparece La Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, por la suma de $20,000.00, para subvencionar el pago mensual de la hipoteca, sin intereses y vencedero en cinco (5) años, según consta de la Escritura Número 153, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 19 de octubre de 2012, ante el Notario Félix Joel Zambrana Ortiz. Inscrita al margen del Folio 143 del Tomo 283 de Dorado, Finca Número 11034, Inscripción Cuarta. b. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Doral Bank Vs. Persona jurídica no expresada, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, en el Caso Civil Número DCD2010-0847, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $126,097.94 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 11 de marzo de 2010.

Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Dorado, Anotación A. Nota: Se procede a transcribir y convalidar asiento abreviado (A) por haberse firmado en el Sistema Ágora por la Registradora Beatriz Beato Díaz, el 13 de agosto de 2015 y haberse olvidado la impresión y firma del folio real. c. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Juan Gabriel Mora Semprit casado con Ivette Calderón Casalduc, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, en el Caso Civil Número DCD2017-0442, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $121,262.09 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 12 de abril de 2017. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Dorado, Anotación B. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general

en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. 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; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm.

210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 26 de abril de 2022. MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA 73#5, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR.

SANCHEZ VALDEJULLY T/C/C IRMA SOCORRO SANCHEZ VALDEJULLI T/C/C IRMA SANCHEZ VALDEJULLI

Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV08075.

Sala: 508. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: LA SUCESION DE WILLIAM BETANCOURT LORA COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, LA SUCESION DE IRMA SOCORRO SANCHEZ VALDEJULLY T/C/C IRMA SANCHEZ VALDEJULLY T/C/C IRMA SOCORRO SANCHEZ VALDEJULLI T/C/C IRMA SANCHEZ VALDEJULLI COMPUESTA POR: SUTANO Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, MARIA LEGAL NOTICE DE LOS ANGELES ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- BETANCOURT SANCHEZ, NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA WILLIAM GERARDO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSBETANCOURT SANCHEZ, TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FRANCISCO JAVIER SAN JUAN BETANCOURT SANCHEZ, BANCO POPULAR DE MARIA TERESITA PUERTO RICO BETANCOURT SANCHEZ Demandante COMO HEREDEROS DE LA SUCESION DE WILLIAM BETANCOURT WILLIAM BETANCOURT LORA Y DE IRMA LORA COMPUESTA SOCORRO SANCHEZ POR FULANO Y VALDEJULLY T/C/C IRMA MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS SANCHEZ VALDEJULLY T/C/C IRMA SOCORRO DESCONOCIDOS, LA SANCHEZ VALDEJULLI SUCESION DE IRMA T/C/C IRMA SANCHEZ SOCORRO SANCHEZ VALDEJULLI. VALDEJULLY T/C/C EL SECRETARIO (A) que susIRMA SANCHEZ cribe le notifica a usted que el 6 VALDEJULLY T/C/C IRMA de abril de 2022, este Tribunal SOCORRO SANCHEZ ha dictado Sentencia, SentenVALDEJULLI T/C/C IRMA cia Parcial o Resolución en este SANCHEZ VALDEJULLI caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos COMPUESTA POR: donde podrá usted enterarse SUTANO Y PERENCEJO detalladamente de los términos DE TAL, POSIBLES de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, MARIA periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro DE LOS ANGELES de los diez (10) días siguientes BETANCOURT SANCHEZ, a su notificación. Y, siendo o WILLIAM GERARDO representando usted una parte BETANCOURT SANCHEZ, en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, SenFRANCISCO JAVIER tencia Parcial o Resolución, BETANCOURT SANCHEZ, de la cual puede establecerse MARIA TERESITA recurso de revisión o apelación BETANCOURT SANCHEZ dentro del término de 30 días COMO HEREDEROS DE contados a partir de la publicapor edicto de esta notificaWILLIAM BETANCOURT ción ción, dirijo a usted esta notificaLORA Y DE IRMA ción que se considerará hecha SOCORRO SANCHEZ en la fecha de la publicación VALDEJULLY T/C/C IRMA de este edicto. Copia de esta

The San Juan Daily Star notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 25 de abril de 2022.

En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 25 de abril de 2022. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Martha Almodovar Cabrera, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

FERNANDO BERMÚDEZ ACEVEDO; MAYRA ENID MEDINA MONTAÑEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2022CV00227.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: MAYRA ENID MEDINA MONTAÑEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON FERDNANDO BERMUDEZ ACEVEDO.

En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de mayo de 2019, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes.

Además adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de $71,428.84, más intereses a razón del 7.50% anual, desde el 1 de abril de 2019, hasta el presente, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo una suma equivalente al 10% de la suma principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado.

La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es

Thursday, April 28, 2022

la siguiente: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villas de Loíza, situada en el Barrio Canóvanas del Municipio de Loíza, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la urbanización, con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación que contiene una casa de concreto reforzado, diseñada para una sola familia. Solar número seis (6) del Bloque AO con un área de doscientos sesenta y nueve punto cincuenta y tres metros cuadrados (269.53 mc).

En lindes por el NORTE, en veinte punto seis tres metros con Play Lot Area; por el ESTE, en trece punto cuatro cero siete metros con Angila Creek; por el SUR, en veinticuatro punto seis siete cinco metros con solar cinco; y por el OESTE, en doce punto cero cero metros con Calle treinta y dos B. Consta inscrita al folio 37 del tomo 175 de Canóvanas, finca número #8,579 Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Carolina. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. POR LO ANTERIORMENTE INDICADO, se les emplaza y requiere que, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este EDICTO, notifiquen si aceptan o repudian la herencia a: LCDO. ROBERTO C. LATIMER VALENTIN; LBRG LAW OFFICE, P.O. Box 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512, Tel. 787-724-0230; apercibiéndole que, de no contestar la Demanda, radicando el original en la Corte ante el Tribunal correspondiente, con copia a la parte Demandante, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy, día 26 de abril de 2022. Lcda.

Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional Interina I.

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

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

SUCESION DE CLARA CRISTINA STEFANI CRUZ COMPUESTA POR LARITSSA PERAETA STEFANI; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; Y CRIM

Demandado(s) Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV00893.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC-

TO E INTERPELACIÓN DE HEREDEROS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS.

de nueve pies diez pulgadas (9’10”) por veintitrés pies seis pulgadas (23’6”). Su puerta principal de entrada comunica directa e indirectamente con los accesos que conducen y tienen salida a la vía pública, o sea, la Calle Orinoco. Le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes de veintidós punto cero cuatro por ciento (22.04%). El apartamento antes descrito forma parte del edificio conocido con el nombre de Condominio Orinoco dieciséis cero siete (1607). Consta inscrita al folio 57 del tomo 186 de Monacillos Este y El Cinco, finca número #5,892. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección V de San Juan.

SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.

Interpelación de Herederos: Por la presente se le notifica a los herederos anteriormente señalados que por haber aceptado la herencia responden por las sumas reclamadas en esta demanda por ser la continuación de la causante Sucesión de Clara Cristina Stefani Cruz, en la alternativa de no haber los herederos anteriormente relacionados aceptado o rechazado la herencia esta demanda constituye interpelación a los herederos para que la acepten o la rechacen dentro del término de 45 días desde recibir copia de la misma. Se les apercibe que de no hacer su declaración dentro del plazo de cuarenta y cinco días se dará la herencia por aceptada según lo dispuesto en el artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 2020; (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria v. Latino Americana de Exportaciones (164 DPR 689). POR LO ANTERIORMENTE INDICADO, se les emplaza y requiere que, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este EDICTO, notifiquen si aceptan o repudian la herencia a: LCDO. ROBERTO C. LATIMER VALENTIN; LBRG LAW OFFICE, P.O. Box 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512, Tel. 787724-0230; apercibiéndole que, de no contestar la Demanda, radicando el original en la Corte ante el Tribunal correspondiente, con copia a la parte Demandante, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy, día 25 de abril de 2022. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional Interina I. Brenda Hernández Zavala, Secretaria De Servicios A Sala.

En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de agosto de 2019, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes.

Además adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de $109,582.49, más intereses a razón del 5.875% anual, desde el 1ro de julio de 2019, hasta el presente, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo una suma equivalente al 20% de la suma principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Apartamento número uno (1): Apartamento residencial de forma sustancialmente regular que radicada en el primer piso del Condominio Orinoco milseiscientos siete (1607) en la Urbanización Extensión Paraíso, con un área privada de mil ciento veinte pies cuadrados (1120.00 pc), equivalentes a ciento cuatro punto cero seis metros cuadrados (104.06 mc) mas de una terraza descubierta de trescientos cuarenta y seis pies cuadrados (346.00 pc), equivalentes a treinta y dos (32.00 m) siendo sus medidas lineales mayores de veintinueve pies diez pulgadas (29’10”) en su ancho por cuarenta y un pies cero pulgadas (41’10”) en su largo, el cual contiene sala, comedor, cocina, family room, una habitación, cuarto de baño, lavandería y terraza descubierta. Colinda por el NORTE, con el solar número quince (15) del Bloque J; por el SUR, con solar diecinueve (19) del Bloque J; por el ESTE, con apartamento LEGAL NOTICE dos guión A (2-A) y dos guión B (2-B); y por el OESTE, con ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO la Calle Orinoco. Incluye par- DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUking privado número uno (1)

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NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Plano de Inscripción de la Proyecto de Vivienda a bajo Costo SALA DE ARECIBO WILMINGTON SAVINGS denominado “PRHA” setenta radicado en el Barrio FUND SOCIETY, FSB, “PRHA70” Coto del término municipal de NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT Arecibo, Puerto Rico, con una SOLELY AS TRUSTEE cabida superficial de trescientos cincuenta y cuatro punto FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED cuarenta y cinco (354.45 m.c.) metros cuadrados, en lindes SECURITIES por el NORTE, con Solar diez ACQUISITION TRUST (10); por el SUR, Calle A; por el ESTE, Solar veintiuno (21); 2019-HB1 y por el OESTE, Solares seis Demandante Vs. (6) y siete (7). Número 14,836, SUCESIÓN DE al folio 31 del tomo 371 ISRAEL CONCEPCIÓN inscrita de Arecibo, Registro de la ProHERNÁNDEZ T/C/C piedad de Puerto Rico, Sección ISRAEL CONCEPCIÓN I de Arecibo. Se apercibe y advierte a ustedes como personas COMPUESTA POR desconocidas, que deberá preMARÍA DE LOS sentar su alegación responsiva ANGELES CONCEPCIÓN a través del Sistema Unificado CONCEPCIÓN, CARMEN de Administración y Manejo de ISIDRA CONCEPCIÓN Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede CONCEPCIÓN, FULANO accesar utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.ramaDE TAL Y SUTANO juducial.pr, salvo que se repreDE TAL; CENTRO sente por Derechos Propio, en DE RECAUDACIÓN cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; ESTADOS secretaria del Tribunal De no contestar la demanda radicanUNIDOS DE AMÉRICA do el original de la contestación Demandados ante la secretaria del Tribunal Civil Núm.: AR2021CV01855. de Primera Instancia, Sala de Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOSan Juan, y notificar copia de la TECA - IN REM. EMPLAZAcontestación de esta a la parte MIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTAdemandante por conducto de DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, su abogada, GLS LEGAL SEREL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda.

TADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO Adriana M. Vega Hernandez LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERDirección: P.O. Box 367308, TO RICO. San Juan, P.R. 00936-7308, A: FULANO DE TAL Teléfono: 787-758-6550, dentro de los próximos 30 días a Y SUTANO DE TAL partir de la publicación de este COMO MIEMBROS por edicto, que DE LA SUCESIÓN DE emplazamiento será publicado una sola vez en ISRAEL CONCEPCIÓN un periódico de circulación diaHERNÁNDEZ T/C/C ria general en la isla de Puerto ISRAEL CONCEPCIÓN. Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía POR LA PRESENTE, se les y se dictará sentencia, conceemplaza y se les notifica que se diendo el remedio solicitando ha presentado en la Secretaria en la Demanda sin más citarle de este Tribunal la Demanda ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma del caso del epígrafe solicitan- y sello del Tribunal hoy 25 de do la ejecución de hipoteca y abril de 2022. Vivian Y. Fresse el cobro de dinero relacionado González, Secretaria Regional. al pagaré suscrito a favor de Eimmy Feliciano Torres, SecreThe Money House, Inc, o a su taria Auxiliar. orden, por la suma principal de $153,000.00, con intereses computados sobre la misma desde su fecha hasta su total y completo pago a razón de la tasa de interés de 5.060% anual, la cual será ajustada mensualmente, obligándose además al pago de costas, gastos y desembolsos del litigio, más honorarios de abogados en una suma de $15,3000.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original. Este pagaré fue suscrito bajo el affidávit número 2851 ante el notario Dinorah Collazo Ortiz. Lo anterior surge de la hipoteca constituida mediante la escritura número 12 otorgada el 14 de diciembre de 2012, ante el mismo notario público, inscrita bajo la ley 216-2010, al tomo Karibe de Arecibo, finca número 14,836, inscripción 4ta. URBANA: Solar marcado con el veinte (20) del

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GONZALEZ FEBUS Y ABIGAIL GONZALEZ FEBUS, POR SI R COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE A: JONATHAN ROQUE GONZALEZ COLLAZO MONTES, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SANTOS; NANCY RIVERA PONCE Y CRISTINA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE LOUBRIEL PONCE, GANANCIALES POR COMO MIEMBROS AMBOS COMPUESTA DE LA SUCESION - URB. JARD. DE DE GLADYS PONCE PALMAREJO MM18 CALLE 32, CANÓVANAS, SANTIAGO; SOL TERESA GONZALEZ MARRERO PR 00729-2861.

POR LA PRESENTE se le Y MARIA GONZALEZ emplaza y requiere para que MARRERO POR SI Y conteste la demanda dentro de COMO MIEMBROS DE los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. LA SUCESION DE JOSE Usted deberá presentar su aleGONZALEZ SANTOS, gación responsiva a través del TAMBIEN CONOCIDO Sistema Unificado de Manejo y COMO JOSE GONZALEZ; Administración de Casos (SUFULANO DE TAL Y MAC), la cual puede acceder ZUTANO DE TAL, utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.

COMO HEREDEROS ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se DESCONOCIDOS CON represente por derecho propio, POSIBLE INTERES EN en cuyo caso deberá presenLAS SUCESIONES DE tar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal.

ANTERO GONZALEZ Si usted deja de presentar su MARTINEZ Y GLADYS alegación responsiva dentro PONCE SANTIAGO; del referido término, el tribunal MENGANO DE TAL Y podrá dictar sentencia en reMENGANO DE CUAL beldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la deCOMO HEREDEROS manda o cualquier otro sin más DESCONOCIDOS CON citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en POSIBLE INTERES EN el ejercicio de su sana discreLA SUCESION DE JOSE ción, lo entiende procedente.

GONZALEZ SANTOS, El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parTAMBIEN CONOCIDO te demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin COMO JOSE GONZALEZ.

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

Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de febrero de 2022. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 28 de febrero de 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional.

Maricruz Aponte Alicea, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Demandante Vs.

JONTATHAN COLLAZO MONTES, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCN DE ANTERO GONZALEZ MARTINEZ, COMPUESTA POR ADELAIDA GONZALEZ SANTOS Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Civil: TA2021CV01084. Sobre: Demandado EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Civil Núm.: CN2021CV00391. POR VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFISalón: 408. Sobre: COBRO CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EM- EDICTO. PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: NATALLY MICHELLE

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MLB letter confirms Yankees were penalized for sign stealing

By JAMES WAGNER

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ign stealing has long been a part of baseball strategy. When a batter is hitting, his teammates carefully watch a catcher’s fingers or body language to figure out what pitch is about to be thrown. That is all fair play as long as teams do not use any electronic devices, such as cameras or computers, to facilitate the process.

During past seasons — according to a newly released, partially redacted letter from Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred to New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman sent in 2017 — the Yankees used electronic devices to decipher and share opposing teams’ signs. The letter came after the Yankees had accused the Boston Red Sox of using a similar process.

“The Yankees’ use of the dugout phone to relay information about an opposing Club’s signs during the 2015 season, and part of the 2016 season, constitutes a material violation of the Replay Review Regulations,” Manfred wrote to Cashman.

“By using the phone in the video review room to instantaneously transmit information regarding signs to the dugout in violation of the Regulations, the Yankees were able to provide real-time information to their players regarding an opposing Club’s sign sequence — the same objective of the Red Sox’s scheme that was the subject of the Yankees’ complaint.”

The reason the Yankees were punished in a less severe way (a $100,000 fine earmarked for a charitable cause) than the Houston Astros and the Boston Red Sox, World Serieswinning teams that were dealt suspensions, fines, a loss of draft picks and public scorn?

Those teams continued their sign-stealing ways after MLB began cracking down on it and instituted clear terms of punishment.

The contents of that MLB letter to the Yankees — which became public Tuesday before an expected unsealing in court — weren’t exactly new or surprising. Paranoia about opponents stealing signs between pitchers and catchers has existed throughout baseball history, but the influx of technology in the game had introduced new fears.

New ways to skirt the rules emerged in 2014, when MLB expanded its use of instant replay review, which established rooms near each team’s dugout with live video feeds to help coaches decide whether or not to chal-

A letter revealed that the Yankees used electronic devices to decode and relay opposing teams’ signs during the 2015 season and the first half of the 2016 season. lenge a play. Players were also allowed to visit these rooms during games to consult video of their pitching or hitting. But any use of technology to decode or relay opponents’ signs during a game was still prohibited.

Although concern had been building among many teams that their opponents were going too far, the first big public sign that technology was being abused came in 2017, when The New York Times reported that the Yankees had filed a complaint with MLB accusing the Red Sox of relaying signs from video replay personnel to the dugout via an Apple Watch. After an investigation of the Red Sox, which led to a fine, MLB admitted that it had become increasingly difficult to monitor the inappropriate use of electronics.

“At that point in time, sign stealing was utilized as a competitive tool by numerous teams throughout Major League Baseball and only became illegal after the Commissioner’s specific delineation of the rules on September 15, 2017,” the Yankees said in a statement Tuesday, later adding that they have had “no infractions or violations” since.

That day, Manfred sent a memorandum to all 30 teams warning them about illegal sign-stealing and stating that club management, not players, would be held accountable for any such cheating. In March 2018, MLB sent another memorandum to teams that made clear that replay rooms and video feeds were not allowed to be used for stealing signs during games.

(MLB has since taken further steps to try

to curb such behavior.)

This is where the Yankees’ story, though, veers from those of the Astros and the Red Sox. The Astros were found, according to a MLB investigation released in January 2020, to have employed a scheme through the 2017 playoffs and for at least part of the 2018 season that involved using cameras and monitors to decode opposing teams’ signs and tip off Houston’s batters, often by banging on a trash can just outside the dugout.

Manfred punished the Astros by issuing one-year suspensions to general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager A.J. Hinch, both of whom were subsequently fired by team owner Jim Crane, and by fining the team $5 million and docking a first- and second-round draft pick in 2020 and 2021.

The Red Sox were found, according to a separate MLB investigation released in April 2020, to have used a scheme in 2018 that was more limited in scope than the Astros’ but still involved decoding opponents’ signs while watching live video during games and passing that information along to players.

Manfred punished the Red Sox by issuing one-year suspensions to manager Alex Cora, who was also part of the 2017 Astros’ scheme, and J.T. Watkins, Boston’s video replay operator. The team also lost its secondround pick in 2020.

Manfred’s once-private letter to the Yankees came out now because of a court case, dismissed by U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff

in April 2020, between fantasy sports contestants who claimed they were damaged by sign stealing in MLB. The fans, who sued MLB, the Astros and Red Sox, claimed that Manfred’s 2017 letter to Cashman, which emerged during discovery, contradicted the league’s public statements at the time.

The Yankees tried to keep the letter sealed, arguing that they weren’t a party to the case and that it would harm their reputation. Multiple judges disagreed and argued that most of the letter had already been disclosed by MLB in its 2017 statement. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week denied a request by the Yankees to rehear the team’s case to keep the letter sealed.

The three-page letter from Manfred to Cashman explained how MLB had found that the Red Sox had violated league rules. Manfred wrote that during the investigation into the Red Sox, the league was told (by a person or group whose identity was redacted) that the Yankees “used a similar scheme to that of the Red Sox” to decode opposing teams’ signs and relay them to the batter when a runner was on second base.

Manfred also wrote that a redacted person or group, who noticed the Red Sox using the Apple Watch, told the league that during the 2015 season and part of the 2016 season that they provided information on opponents’ signs to players and coaches in the Yankee Stadium replay room, and they relayed that to the dugout.

Finally, Manfred wrote that his office didn’t find any merit to a formal complaint by the Red Sox that accused the Yankees of pointing their YES Network cameras at Boston’s dugout when coaches and players gave signs.

In their statements Tuesday, MLB and the Yankees pointed out that much of the contents of the letter had been known for some time.

“The Yankees vigorously fought the production of this letter, not only for the legal principle involved, but to prevent the incorrect equating of events that occurred before the establishment of the Commissioner’s signstealing rules with those that took place after,” the Yankees said. “What should be made vibrantly clear is this: the fine noted in Major League Baseball’s letter was imposed before MLB’s new regulations and standards were issued.”

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A convincing win that was anything but convincing

By RORY SMITH

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irst thing Wednesday morning, Pep Guardiola’s staff would have delivered to the Manchester City manager a meticulously annotated report of his team’s Champions League semifinal against Real Madrid. At roughly the same time, Carlo Ancelotti, his counterpart in the Spanish capital, would have received something very similar.

Those dossiers would contain brief snatches of video, each highlighting some key tactical detail. There would be photos, too, offering a snapshot of a scarcely perceptible flaw in a player’s positioning or an expanse of the field left exposed or a darting run left unconsummated. There would be, perhaps, giant arrows in some lurid shade.

There would certainly be reams of statistics.

Guardiola and Ancelotti will settle down and comb through them, panning for whatever seam of wisdom they might find, mining deep into the detail in the hope of finding some kernel, some insight that might prove the difference when they play again next week. And as they do it, they will know, deep down, that it is all absolutely, fundamentally, unavoidably pointless.

There is no hidden explanation, buried deep in a screed of numbers or encoded in high resolution pixels, for how host Manchester City managed to beat Real Madrid yet ended the evening feeling like it had lost. Or for how it finished with four goals and the sensation that it should have had half a dozen more, or how it landed a succession of knockout blows only to find its opponent still standing there, smiling, complaining only of the mildest headache.

The raw numbers of the game are not a magic eye puzzle; they are barely even a Rorschach test. No matter how long and hard you stare at them, they will not suddenly become an image, clear and sharp, of something that bears analysis and interpretation.

They will not tell Guardiola how his team could be so obviously, so vastly superior by every available metric and in every conceivable way — slicker in possession and more inventive and creative and youthful and

n the first leg of the Champions League semifinal between Real Madrid and Manchester City, Gabriel Jesus (at right) and City came away with a 4-3 win. dynamic — and yet wholly incapable of shaking Madrid from its tail.

And they will not enlighten Ancelotti as to how his team, somehow, remains alive and fighting in this semifinal, with a chance over 90 minutes in front of its own fans, baying and roaring, to defy all human logic and make the Champions League final. They will certainly not tell him how Real Madrid manages to keep doing this, over and over again, seeming to draw strength as it comes ever closer to the edge, continually finding the will and the wit to conjure its curious, self-perpetuating magic.

Guardiola himself had acknowledged that before the game, half in jest, suggesting that there was not a vast amount of point in conducting the usual, instinctive analysis of Real Madrid because Ancelotti’s team is, by its very nature, so chimerical. He meant it, most likely, as a reflection on the virtuosity of Karim Benzema and Luka Modric, the ability of some of the finest players of their generation to bend a game to their will, but it sounded just

a little like he was saying Real Madrid does not make sense.

He is, of course, too respectful — even of Real Madrid, the club that stood as his archenemy for the first four decades of his career — to say that out loud, but his experience at the Etihad would not have contradicted him.

Real was beaten within 10 minutes: two goals down, ruthlessly exposed, looking suddenly like the expensive collection of gifted but ill-matched individuals that all right-thinking people dismissed them as about four Champions League titles ago. David Alaba, his entire career spent among the elite, appeared to have been replaced by some callow ingénue. Toni Kroos appeared to age several decades with every passing minute.

And then, from nowhere, Ferland Mendy slung in a cross, the sort that comes more in hope than expectation, and Benzema planted his foot and shifted his weight and scored, even though it was not immediately clear whether both the human body and the laws of physics are designed to work

like that.

No matter. City was still slicing Madrid apart at will. Riyad Mahrez hit the post. Phil Foden had one cleared off the line. A beat later, Foden converted an artful, clipped cross to restore City’s cushion, to relieve the tension swaddling the Etihad.

The ball had come from the foot of Fernandinho, a creaking central midfielder reborn for the evening — in extenuating circumstances — as a marauding fullback. His rejuvenation lasted two minutes. Guardiola was still celebrating when Vinicius slipped past his makeshift opponent, sprinted half the length of the field, and slipped the ball past Éderson.

City came again, Bernardo Silva dispensing with all nuance and intricacy and simply kicking the ball, as hard as he could, his shot flashing past Thibaut Courtois. Benzema turned away, grinning ruefully, as though he could not quite believe the holes from which he has to retrieve his teammates.

On anyone else, it might have looked like an admission of defeat, a final acquiescence to fate. But it is Real Madrid, and it is Benzema, and it is the Champions League, so obviously what happened was that Aymeric Laporte inadvertently — but inarguably — handled the ball in his own penalty area, and Benzema stood up and chipped a shot, languidly and confidently, straight down the middle of Éderson’s goal.

Guardiola sat on an icebox in the technical area, his fingers steepling against his forehead, in horrified awe, as if trying to impose some reason on it all. It is a thankless task. This game did not make sense. Its outcome, the one that meant Real Madrid left Manchester with something more concrete than hope, with 90 minutes in front of a baying, willing Bernabeu between Ancelotti’s players and another Champions League final, did not make sense.

There is no data point, no vignette, no piece of analysis that will adequately explain how Manchester City could beat Ancelotti’s team so comprehensively and yet leave with the tie poised so delicately. Real Madrid does not make sense, not in the Champions League, and all you can do is allow yourself to be washed away by it.

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NFL draft demands well-rounded linemen who can still flatten

By ROBERT O’CONNELL

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ffensive linemen have always loved “pancakes” — no-doubtabout-it blocks that end as they flex over flattened defenders.

But Ikem Ekwonu, a likely top-10 pick in this year’s NFL draft, which begins Thursday, is a rarity: He is agile and dynamic enough to add a bonus pancake after another big play.

In an October game against Louisiana Tech, Ekwonu’s North Carolina State team ran a standard handoff. His job was to wedge the defender opposite him toward the sideline and create space for running back Ricky Person Jr. At the snap, the 6-foot-4, 310-pound Ekwonu shot out of his stance so quickly that he had time to swivel around and wall off his matchup with his back turned, waving Person through the alley he had opened for a 25-yard touchdown run.

“Then he runs another 20 yards downfield and pancakes another guy,” John Garrison, the Wolfpack offensive line coach, said.

Highlights like that one have cemented Ekwonu’s status at the vanguard of a wave of offensive line prospects, including Evan Neal of Alabama and Charles Cross of Mississippi State, who are expected to be selected early in the draft. Their speed and mobility are in high demand at what have traditionally been football’s burliest positions. At this year’s draft scouting combine, Cross was one of 12 offensive linemen who ran the 40-yard dash in less than five seconds; Ekwonu clocked in at 4.93 seconds. That is twice as many as the previous record of six, set in 2013.

“When they think of offensive linemen, people get stuck on the numbers — height and weight,” Ekwonu, 21, said this month. “But the intangible stuff — are you flexible? Can you bend? Can you sprint around a corner, get square, keep your balance? That stuff is really important, and it’s all tied to mobility.”

In 2013, the last time a lineman was drafted first overall, the NFL had just finished a season in which five quarterbacks ran for at least 300 yards. Last season featured 10 such quarterbacks.

Where a decade ago a tackle’s assign-

Ikem Ekwonu was one of 12 offensive linemen to run the 40-yard dash in less than five seconds at this year’s draft scouting combine. Ekwonu clocked in at 4.93 seconds. ment was often straightforward — keep a pocket passer upright — that player now may have to chaperone a trick-play end around on one snap and run interference for a scrambling signal-caller the next.

“Back when it was Tom Brady versus Peyton Manning, it was more oldschool football,” Jordan Reid, an ESPN draft analyst, said. “You had these big, powerful men trying to overpower guys at the point of attack. Now it’s all about winning with angles, having these athletic linemen that can seal off pass rushers and run defenders as opposed to trying to just plow through them.”

It’s also a matter of keeping up with the athletes opposite them. Teams a decade ago didn’t have to block Aaron Donald, the undersized but blink-quick pass rusher who paced the Los Angeles Rams’ Super Bowl run last season.

“You have these defensive linemen now who are freak athletes,” Geoff Schwartz, an offensive lineman who played six NFL seasons, said. “That’s why

it’s so important that these offensive linemen are matching that athleticism.”

Entering college, Ekwonu did not look like a future first-rounder. A youth football coach called him Ickey, after former Cincinnati Bengals running back Ickey Woods, and the name stuck as he became a three-star recruit. He landed at North Carolina State in 2019 at 288 pounds, lacking the dimensions to stand out among linemen. (Top prospects can be 6-6 and weigh well over 300 pounds entering college.)

But Garrison and the rest of the Wolfpack coaches saw potential in Ekwonu’s light feet, loose hips and balance, attributes he had developed wrestling and, on a couple of occasions, used to anchor the 4x100 relay team at Providence Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina.

“The first time I saw him, he was walking in a handstand across the room,” Garrison said. “Just his athleticism and quick-twitch speed were very impressive.”

Ekwonu’s weight passed 300 pounds as a freshman, and he thrived in a system that asked him to be more than a “jug butt,” as Garrison calls all-muscleno-hustle maulers. Ekwonu’s routes from snap to snap had nearly as much variety as those of a wide receiver.

On up-the-middle runs, he would bring defensive ends to a standstill; on wide pitches, he would speed out toward the sideline and wallop a linebacker. In all, he notched 67 pancakes in his last season at North Carolina State.

“Teams knew what we were going to run,” Ekwonu said. “That just made me want to beat them even more. Anytime you can run the ball on someone who knows what’s coming, it just feels good.”

Leading up to the combine, Ekwonu worked with trainers from the biomechanics company Sports Academy. He had two main goals: to lock in a reliable 40 time — he hadn’t run one in more than five years — and to prep for the even bigger demands on NFL linemen.

His trainers likened Ekwonu’s burst to that of a skill position player more than 100 pounds lighter, a quality that might once have been a luxury and is now almost requisite.

“You have to be more athletic and able to carry on a play for a longer duration,” Taylor Ramsey, a Sports Academy trainer, said. “It’s not three to six seconds anymore, it’s five to eight — being able to make one play at the line and then another one downfield.”

Ekwonu’s NFL idol is Trent Williams, a 2021 All-Pro for the 49ers who ran a 4.81-second 40-yard dash at the combine in 2010. As part of San Francisco’s intricate schemes, which can involve fullbacks’ splitting out to wide receiver and wideouts’ taking handoffs, Williams sometimes lines up away from his normal left tackle position. When Williams shifts into the backfield, ready to hurry to some surprising spot and knock over whomever he meets there, Ekwonu sees a blueprint for how his future team might use him.

“I feel like the NFL is really good at playing to the personnel they have,” Ekwonu said. “Really playing to their strengths.” His next team will have a few to choose from.

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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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(Mar 21-April 20)

As luscious Venus aligns with Neptune, you could feel a sense of frustration concerning a bond that never seems to take off. This might come to a head now, and may lead to further tensions. If someone doesn’t want to commit to a relationship, project or collaboration, then it can be best to back off. You may be better using your energy on more fruitful and fulfilling associations.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Someone may find you very attractive, but do you feel the same about them? Your personality could be quite different to theirs. You might be ready to steer clear, or eager to know them better. There is a dreamy quality around social and romantic relationships that can make for some special dates Taurus, or that may leave you wondering where you stand and a tad confused.

Delectable Venus in sensitive Pisces and aligning with ethereal Neptune, can encourage you to be kind and compassionate, and this could conflict with an intense and more determined attitude to life and relationships. You’ll need to find the middle path Gemini. Being too accommodating may see you taken advantage of, while an assertive approach might prove too much for some people.

Cancer

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(June 22-July 23)

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

With dynamic Mars in your sector of work and lifestyle, you may be more forthright than usual, Libra.

And yet if someone should flash you a helpless smile, you could come running in an instant. Don’t feel you have to drop everything to assist another, especially if they can help themselves. You might be drawn to those who may take advantage, so be a little savvy here.

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Whether you spend on yourself or spend on others, there may be a tendency to let money run through your fingers over coming days. If you feel like treating yourself, then make it something that will benefit you, such as a relaxing massage or a spa day. Falling for someone? There’s no need to splash the cash to impress, Scorpio. Just be your usual intense and magnetic self.

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

If you’ve reached a dead end regarding a key project, then consider teaming up with a friend, as their high-energy may be contagious. What you really need is fresh ideas, and these might be possible with a good brainstorming session. Plus, with dynamic Mars stirring up your love of knowledge, it’s worth reaching out to others who could have some expertise in this area, Archer.

An opportunity can appear very attractive, and may seem to glitter like gold. And while it could be perfect, there’s also a chance that it might not be good for you. With Venus and Neptune aligning, you’ll need to see past the hype to what is really on offer.

It’s worth waiting a few days and finding out as much as you can. Once you are involved, it could be hard to beat a retreat.

There is no point in resisting the inevitable. Clinging to the past may keep you stuck, whereas embracing fresh ideas can seem a tad risky, and yet be so freeing.

Something new might be waiting in the wings, and it just needs an invitation from you to set it in motion.

Thinking of making a few changes to your home?

Research prices, as you could cut the cost of plans considerably.

Leo

Aquarius

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

On the surface you may appear very confident about a project or new romance, but the way you feel on the inside could be a different matter altogether. You seem outward going and ready to grasp the metal, but in reality, you might prefer to use magnetic charm to attract those golden opportunities. A mix can see you being both beguiling and sassy, which may just work, Leo.

You could spend far more than intended on something that might be cheaper, if you remove the veneer of glamour that comes with it. Whether you’re tempted to redecorate your place or change your image, it’s worth looking around and avoiding the temptation of buying expensive in the hope it may be better. If you are discerning, you can get something similar at a good price.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

The Moon/Jupiter link hints at a lively encounter, that may be memorable for more reasons than one.

This person might have interesting and life-changing information to share. Look into it, and you could see the significance right away, and be fascinated by what it can do for you. You might also be drawn to someone, and yet wary of them. No harm in asking a few questions first!

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Something can be blindingly obvious, but you might not want to see it, Pisces. It could be far easier to look at the illusion, rather than the reality. Yet over the next day or so, you may not be able to avoid the truth. Someone could point it out to you, or you’ll have to admit to it when it becomes so obvious you can no longer ignore it. Now you’ll be able to do something about it.

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CARTOONS

Herman

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

BC

Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

For Better or for Worse

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