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Most islanders are not bringing COVID-19 test upon return to Puerto Rico

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ata from the Puerto Rico Health Department reveals that 76.5% of residents who return to the island are not bringing with them a negative COVID-19 test performed 72 hours prior to traveling, as is now required under an administrative order issued by the agency.

The order, which imposes a $300 fine for noncompliance, went into effect on Wednesday.

According to information provided by the island health agency, global numbers that date from April 1 until Wednesday (April 28) showed that 49.7% of travelers arrived in Puerto Rico with a COVID-19 test, while 49.5% of passengers have arrived with a negative result.

However, when the data is broken down, the agency said, “23.5 of [Puerto Rico] residents arrive with [COVID-19 test] results, [while] 69.8% of nonresidents arrive with results.”

As of Wednesday, people who arrive on the island without a COVID-19 test are subject to the aforementioned fine; however, the administrative order provides violators a 48-hour waiver and a free referral to conduct a polymerase chain reactive (PCR) test at their preferred clinical laboratory and upload the results on the airport surveillance system in exchange for not paying the fine.

If a COVID-19 test result is not uploaded, violators must pay the fine and remain under quarantine indefinitely.

During a press conference held at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, Dr. Miriam Ramos Colón, who is in charge of the airport’s Epidemiological Surveillance System, said she assumed that the reason islanders are not bringing test results is because they don’t recognize that the requirement applies to returning residents.

“The nature of this [administrative] order is to optimize or maximize the resources we have available so that more people arrive with the test, a positive case does not reach us in Puerto Rico and all the scaffolding has to be lifted because everything starts at the airport, and this is not the only thing that exists in the surveillance system,” Ramos Colón said.

Ramos Colón pointed out meanwhile that the surveillance system platform has new options for frequent travelers where they can generate their own profile in the system to store personal information indicating that change is not required.

As for submitting a false travel declaration, the epidemiologist said that anyone who submits false information to the surveillance system is exposed to “serious penalties,” such as arrest for perjury and a $5,000 fine.

“People should not play with this system,” she said. “This document, the travel declaration form, is validated by state laws, and the agency’s Investigation Office has the resources to carry this on to higher forums.”

Health Secretary-designate Carlos Mellado López emphasized that the administrative order was issued to urge both residents and non-residents who arrive in Puerto Rico to fill out their travel declaration forms and get tested.

Although Mellado López acknowledged that the system is “not perfect,” he said it would allow for better “monitoring” as the island faces around 200 coronavirus cases with at least six variants.

“What we are trying to reinforce and encourage is that every traveler arriving in Puerto Rico has the proof beforehand, in addition to the fact that the travel declaration form gives us the possibility of being able to have identification of that passenger, to have the specific address of where they are going to be, so that we can then ‘monitor’ that passenger through our system and the Investigations Office, and see that they are in compliance,” the island Health chief said.

Health Secretary-designate Carlos Mellado López emphasized that the administrative order was issued to urge both residents and non-residents who arrive in Puerto Rico to fill out their travel declaration forms and get tested.

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Judge reserves ruling on whether LUMA payments should be granted priority as critics note benefits have yet to be proven

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.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain reserved her ruling Wednesday on a petition from the federal Financial Oversight and Management Board to grant priority status over other debt to the payments that the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) must make to LUMA Energy once it takes over management of the utility’s transmission and distribution (T&D) system on June 1 under the terms of a supplemental agreement that would last for 18 months to allow PREPA to exit bankruptcy.

The oversight board’s attorney, Paul Possinger, stressed the need to transform PREPA and transfer its operations to private entities. He noted that the court already in October allowed payments made to LUMA Energy during the front-end transition phase to be declared an administrative expense. He said claims made by PREPA’s union, the Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union (UTIER by its Spanish acronym), and the pension system to the effect that the contract is invalid had no bearing in the petition. He also said claims made by Whitefish Energy and Cobra Acquisitions for payments for their work also have no bearing on the administrative expense request.

Peter Friedman, a lawyer for the commonwealth’s Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, addressed objections raised by the Unsecured Creditors Committee (UCC) to the effect that a $115 million termination fee, which would be paid to LUMA in the event the contract is terminated, should not be an administrative expense as requested by the oversight board.

Friedman said the termination fee was an essential component of LUMA Energy’s agreement to commence operation of PREPA’s T&D system while PREPA’s Title III case remains ongoing given the possibility that the contract could terminate at the end of the 18-month interim period if PREPA has not exited Title III, rather than the contract staying in effect for its full 15 years. The termination fee benefits PREPA by allowing it to realize the benefits of transformation while it completes its restructuring, he said.

LUMA Energy, a joint venture between infrastructure company Quanta Services and ATCO, signed a 15-year contract last summer with an initial 10- to 12-month transition period.

The contract is valued between $70 million, an amount that should go up to $105 million per year plus annual incentive fees.

Because PREPA is still in bankruptcy to restructure a $9 billion debt, LUMA Energy will rely on the terms of a supplemental agreement included in the contract once it takes over on June 1.

A crucial element in getting administrative expense priority is for LUMA to prove that the payments will benefit the estate.

UCC lawyer Luc Despins said LUMA as of April has already invoiced PREPA $116 million and expects to invoice $30 million more. Under the contract, they will be paid for all investments that they make. He said the transition fee also includes a 10% premium.

“They are getting fully compensated for work that they are doing,” Despins said.

He added that LUMA Energy was being paid for profits not earned yet and “that is not a benefit to the estate.”

He said the termination fee cannot be allowed as an administrative expense because it fails to qualify as an “actual and necessary” administrative expense under the Bankruptcy Code, and furthermore, because “there is no valid alternative basis for allowing the termination fee as an administrative expense.”

He said PREPA has not met the requirement that the debtor receive “actual” value or benefit and not a potential or speculative benefit.

Jessica Méndez, who spoke on behalf of UTIER, said the government has not met the burden of proving how the payments to LUMA Energy will be beneficial to PREPA, which already has a $400 million deficit, nor has it provided reasons for the benefit of declaring the payments an administrative expense.

“They are only speaking in generalities,” she said.

UTIER has said PREPA will be required to borrow some $894 million and spend approximately $60 million in interest over the 15-year term of the T&D contract.

Méndez defended the challenge to the legality of the contract on behalf of 5,000 union workers and 10,000 retirees, who risk losing pensions because PREPA will be required to pay LUMA Energy for its expenses ahead of paying its contributions to the pension system.

“The goal of this contract is to dismantle PREPA, which will be left without employees,” she said.

While the court hearing was going on, different groups supporting the use of renewable energy launched a protest after LUMA Energy confirmed in writing that it will not promote the radical transformation of the energy model to one of distributed renewable energy. The organizations that support the Queremos Sol proposal reiterated “that the LUMA contract does not suit Puerto Rico and should be canceled because, among other things, it will prevent reaching renewable energy goals using rooftop solar systems, result in higher bills and continue with the use of fossil fuels.”

In a motion presented to the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau on April 14, LUMA made reference to the Study of Integration

of Distributed Solar Resources in Puerto Rico presented by the organization Cambio in collaboration with the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. The island’s electrical system modeling study confirmed that, with $9.6 billion in federal funds available, Puerto Rico can cost-effectively put solar panels on all homes, as proposed by Queremos Sol. “In its motion, LUMA recognizes the analysis of the report as sensible and recognizes that improving the resilience of the system, as well as achieving renewable energy goals, is critical for Puerto Rico,” said Ingrid M. Vila Biaggi, president and co-founder of Cambio, one of the entities proposing the Queremos Sol initiative. “However, the company insists on its plan to spend the federal money available to repair the same current electrical system instead of promoting a transformation as proposed by the study.”

Ruth Santiago, a lawyer from the Environmental Dialogue Committee, stated that “LUMA confirms that the combination of distributed photovoltaic systems and energy storage is a tool to achieve the goals and that the general costs of these systems will go down, but this route to energy security and justice is totally ruled out.”

LUMA Energy objected to the proposal to facilitate an energy model focused on rooftop solar systems that would provide savings and energy security to 100% of the island’s homes, mainly in the most isolated areas, and to families that do not have the resources to purchase photovoltaic systems, the groups said.

“It even questions whether consumers are willing to allow the government to use federal reconstruction funds to install on our residential and commercial roofs, and in community areas, solar panels and battery storage that ensure electricity service to families for critical loads in the event of natural events or blackouts,” Vila Biaggi said. “The demand for these systems in the market, as well as our experience with the communities, confirms that yes, Puerto Rico is ready to move to an advanced energy system that can make the island a world reference.”

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Teachers unions call on islanders to join Workers’ Day caravan to ‘recover and transform’ Puerto Rico

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

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abor organizations such as the Puerto Rican University Professors Association (APPU by its Spanish acronym), Brotherhood of Exempt Non-Teaching Employees (HEEND) and Puerto Rico Teachers Federation (FMPR by its Spanish initials), and other teachers’ groups such as UNETE and EDUCAMOS, called for citizens on Wednesday to participate in a caravan on Saturday to commemorate International Workers’ Day. Some of the claims to be aired in the demonstration are for the government to stop cutting the University of Puerto Rico’s (UPR) budget, to improve the island’s public teaching system, and to repeal the public-private agreement with LUMA Energy.

According to a press release, a meeting is called for 11 a.m. at the main gate of the UPR Río Piedras Campus in San Juan, with the intention of commencing the caravan at 12 noon.

APPU President Ángel Rodríguez Rivera said the island’s primary institution higher education is immersed again “in a battle for its own survival in the face of a new budget cut that adds up to $94 million.”

“This new cut to the UPR is equivalent to rendering several of our institution’s facilities inoperative; hundreds of fellow teachers without a [permanent] job position are in danger of being left on the streets and entire academic programs will be decimated,” Rodríguez Rivera said. “The budget cuts not only affect the teaching and student sectors of UPR, but non-teaching employees are also already feeling the ravages of the cuts and the university administration that defends them.”

Meanwhile, HEEND Chairwoman Janell Santana said the current administration, led by UPR President Jorge Haddock,

has been determined to eliminate rights acquired in former collective bargaining agreements “with the excuse of the budget crisis.”

“They want to take away our medical plan, retirement system and breastfeeding time, among other things,” Santana said. “It is an abuse against the university community that we cannot allow.”

Both organizations urged the university community to demand a stop to the increases in enrollment and credit fees to students.

In addition to the UPR’s issues, the groups also pointed out that they have complaints related to the public education system. They said today’s government officials “have dedicated themselves to using the education of our children as a political football.”

FMPR President Mercedes Martínez said meanwhile that the teachers unions are promoting an “Intersectional Roundtable” that seeks to develop a profile for the person who is expected to direct the Education Department “with the purpose of depoliticizing the appointment and determining the

selection criteria of such an important position in the country, [along with] the repeal of the misnamed Educational Reform to work on a true reform in education.”

“Likewise, we demand a return to classes only when it is safe, and salary justice for teachers and non-teachers in the Education Department,” Martínez said as she called for the agency to conduct a “repair, construction, conditioning, disinfection and mitigation plan to bring all schools to earthquake resistance.”

“Additionally, we encourage the number of students per group to be reduced,” the FMPR chairwoman said.

UNETE President Liza Fournier said the demands of the educational groups for May 1 are framed in the context of a fight against the austerity and privatization policies established by the central government and the federal Financial Oversight and Management Board.

“The privatization of PREPA and the LUMA [Energy] contract are the focal points in the fight against these processes,” Fournier said. “We all say we are against LUMA from our caravan because both our education problems and the contract have the same root; both are the result of the Puerto Rico government surrendering itself to capital at the expense of the best interests of working people.”

EDUCAMOS spokesperson Migdalia Santiago concurred that the demands to repeal the contract with LUMA and in favor of accessible and quality education are fundamental at this time.

She said that is why it was important for islanders to join the May Day caravan, because the event is “the continuation of the processes of recovering and transforming our country toward a better one.”

Other professional and political organizations are expected to join the event.

Bill refiled in Congress to develop renewable energy in PR, USVI

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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.S. Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Darren Soto (D-Fla.), along with Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón (R-P.R.) and Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-U.S.V.I.), reintroduced the “Renewable Energy for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands Act” last week, legislation that seeks to help communities develop and use renewable energy sources.

According to a press release from González Colón, the measure announced Wednesday creates a grant program for investment in renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy storage, a smart grid, and microgrid projects, as well as training for local residents.

The grant would be awarded to nonprofit organizations, and national laboratories under the Department of Energy could provide technical assistance, the members of the U.S.

House of Representatives said in a written communication.

“The worsening climate crisis has revealed the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to dangerous natural disasters.

We introduced this bill for the first time after the impact of the hurricanes in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands in 2017.

We did it with the desire to prevent the months-long power outages that the islands experienced after the hurricanes,” Lieu said. “Beyond that, we wanted to help Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands become leaders in clean and renewable energy, while ensuring that their networks were strengthened in the event of another hurricane or disaster. Now is a crucial time for us to invest in our communities and the future of our country by creating clean jobs in renewable energy. Climate change is the greatest threat to our world, and it is one that we should face head-on.”

“The Renewable Energy for Puerto Rico and the U.S.Virgin Islands Act works to solve a critical problem facing our communities, especially after being affected by major disasters; that

of an obsolete and inefficient electric power infrastructure,” González Colón said.

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Thursday, April 29, 2021

Popular unveils new quarterly numbers

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opular Inc. reported net income of $262.6 million for the quarter ended March 31, compared to net income of $176.3 million for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2020.

At a news conference, Popular Inc. President & CEO Ignacio Álvarez said “We got off to a strong start in 2021, earning $262.6 million in the quarter, and are optimistic about the economy and our opportunities for the remainder of the year.”

“Our results include a benefit in the provision for credit losses of $82.2 million due to an improving macro-economic environment and lower credit losses,” he said. “Even after the benefit, our allowance for credit losses stands at $800 million, or 2.75% of loans-held-in-portfolio. Our capital levels remain strong, which, as evidenced by the recently announced capital actions for 2021, allows us to meet the needs of our customers as we prudently return capital to our shareholders.

Our colleagues continued to achieve impressive results under challenging circumstances,” Álvarez added. “We experienced growth in our top line revenue, which benefited from PPP [U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Payment Protection Program]-related income and an increase in the value of our mortgage servicing rights. We also achieved a record level of deposits and additional growth in active users of our digital platforms. Notwithstanding the demographic challenges we face in Puerto Rico, we added 12,000 new customers during the quarter. We also continue to support our small and middle market clients, approving close to 13,000 loans amounting to $478 million in PPP funding during the quarter.”

“I am especially proud of how we have partnered with local health authorities and community organizations by lending our facilities and personnel to help accelerate vaccination efforts in Puerto Rico,” he said. “As the data has demonstrated, mass vaccination is key to controlling the virus, and we are encouraged by the pace of vaccination, particularly on the island. I am happy to report that 80% of our employees in Puerto Rico have received at least one dose of the vaccine. We still have more to do in our other markets, and we are committed to encouraging and facilitating vaccination opportunities to all our colleagues.” Álvarez further noted that “in alignment with our corporate values, we expanded our efforts to promote financial inclusion by making a $1 million investment in Greenwood, a digital banking platform designed to address the financial needs of Afro-American and Latinx consumers.”

For the first quarter of 2021, the corporation recorded net income of $262.6 million, compared to a net income of $176.3 million for the previous quarter. The results include a release of the allowance for credit losses of $82.2 million mainly due to the improved macroeconomic outlook and improving credit quality. Net interest income was $479.1 million, an increase of $7.5 million compared to the previous quarter, driven by an increase in interest income and fees from the portfolio of loans under the SBA Payment Protection Program (PPP). The net interest margin improved 3 basis points to 3.07%. Total assets grew by $0.9 billion from the previous quarter, mainly

due to an increase in deposits across various sectors.

On April 12, the corporation announced the following capital actions: an increase in the corporation’s quarterly common stock dividend from $0.40 per share to $0.45 per share, commencing with the dividend payable in the third quarter of 2021, subject to the approval by the corporation’s board of directors; and common stock repurchases of up to $350 million during 2021.

The corporation’s planned common stock repurchases may be executed in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions. The timing and exact amount of such repurchases will be subject to various factors, including market conditions and the corporation’s capital position and financial performance.

Net interest income for the quarter ended March 31 was $479.1 million compared to $471.6 million in the previous quarter, an increase of $7.5 million. Net interest income, on a taxable equivalent basis, for the first quarter of 2021 was $529.8 million, an increase of $9.1 million when compared to $520.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2020.

The net interest income for the Banco Popular de Puerto Rico segment amounted to $410.3 million for the quarter ended March 31, compared to $402.1 million in the previous quarter.

The net interest margin for the first quarter of 2021 was 3.10%, an increase of 3 basis points when compared to 3.07% for the previous quarter. As discussed above, the net interest margin was positively impacted by higher interest income and fees from the repayment of PPP loans of approximately $11.2 million.

The cost of interest-bearing deposits was 0.21%, compared to 0.22% for the previous quarter. Total cost of deposits for the quarter was 0.16%, compared to 0.17% reported in the fourth quarter of 2020.

Net interest income for Popular Bank (PB) was $79.2 million for the quarter ended March 31, compared to $79.6 million during the previous quarter. Net interest margin for the quarter was 3.35%, flat quarter over quarter. The cost of interest-bearing deposits was 0.66%, compared to 0.79%

in the previous quarter, decreasing for the sixth consecutive quarter. Total cost of deposits for the quarter, including demand deposits, was 0.54%, compared to 0.65% reported in the fourth quarter of 2020.

Non-interest income increased by $8.8 million to $153.7 million for the quarter ended March 31, compared to $144.9 million for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2020.

Operating expenses for the first quarter of 2021 totaled $375.5 million, a decrease of $0.4 million from the fourth quarter of 2020. The fourth quarter reflected $23.2 million in expenses related to PB’s New York branch optimization initiative. Additionally, during the fourth quarter of last year, the corporation also reclassified $10 million of the provision expense for unfunded loan commitments to the provision for credit losses caption. Excluding those two items, the net increase would have been $12.8 million.

For the quarter ended March 31, the corporation recorded an income tax expense of $76.8 million, compared to $43 million for the previous quarter. The increase in income tax expense was mainly attributable to higher income before tax during the first quarter of 2021. The effective tax rate (ETR) for the first quarter of 2021 was 23%, compared to 20% for the previous quarter. The ETR of the corporation is impacted by the composition and source of its taxable income. The increase in the ETR rate for the first quarter of 2021 was primarily attributed to higher income at the Puerto Rico marginal tax rate.

During the first quarter of 2021, the corporation exhibited improved credit quality metrics and lower credit costs, driven by the improving economic environment, which reflects the impact of the unprecedented amounts of government stimulus in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We will continue to closely monitor economic conditions, the effect of the pandemic on our loan portfolios and associated risks,” the bank said. “However, management believes that the improvement over the last few years in the risk profile of the Corporation’s loan portfolios, along with the government stimulus, positions Popular to operate successfully under the current environment.”

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COVID on the border: Migrants aren’t tested on arrival in U.S.

By FRANCES ROBLES and MIRIAM JORDAN

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ora Eglis Ramírez and Pavel Brigido Rivero set out from Cuba to seek asylum in the United States last year, as the coronavirus rampaged across Latin America.

Starting their trek in Guyana, they managed to cross eight countries, sleeping in buses and doing odd jobs, without ever contracting the virus.

Then they crossed the border into the United States.

U.S. Border Patrol agents intercepted them late last month in Southern California and transported the couple to a heavily crowded border station. They spent 10 days and nights in cells crammed with Brazilians, Cubans, Ecuadoreans and Indians.

Rivero, 45, came down with the coronavirus and spent the next two weeks isolated, along with his stillhealthy wife, at a hotel with about 200 other migrants who had tested positive for the virus or had been exposed to someone who did.

“I was healthy until I got locked up,” he said.

As the United States vaccinates larger numbers of people and several states begin to reopen after seeing lower infection rates, the failure of U.S. authorities to test adult migrants for the coronavirus in jam-packed border processing centers is creating a potential for new transmissions, public health officials and shelter operators warn, even among migrants who may have arrived healthy at America’s door.

More than 170,000 migrants crossed the border in March — many coming from countries still grappling with high infection rates — but the Border Patrol is conducting no testing for the coronavirus during the several days that the newly arrived migrants are in U.S. custody except in cases where migrants show obvious symptoms.

The government says it has insufficient time and space to test migrants upon their arrival. So while migrants get a basic health screening, testing is being postponed until their release to local community groups, cities and counties, usually after the new arrivals have spent days confined in tight spaces with scores of strangers, often sleeping shoulder to shoulder on mats on the floor.

Unaccompanied children are being tested, but only after they have spent around three days in custody, just before being loaded onto buses or planes for transport to government-run shelters.

U.S. officials say the challenges to testing all the new arrivals when they are first apprehended are insurmountable. There have been no instances of mass spread at U.S. border facilities, and overall numbers of cases are relatively low, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

About 5% of all single adults and families tested after their release since March showed a positive result, according to the agency, while among the thousands of unaccompanied minors now in custody, the rate has been about 12%.

The Border Patrol says it has insufficient time and space to conduct coronavirus testing at crowded processing stations.

But local officials and shelter operators said they feared that the actual number of infections could be much higher.

“In theory, those who test positive could have infected other people before arriving here,” said Diego Piña Lopez, the program manager at Casa Alitas, a respite center for migrants in Tucson, Arizona. Staff members there have been performing rapid coronavirus tests on dozens of migrant families each day after their release by the Border Patrol.

Migrants who have a positive result are transferred to a shelter operated by the city. Others spend a night or two at the respite center and then board planes or buses to their destinations around the United States. Some of them could well have infections contracted in Border Patrol facilities that did not register on tests during the brief time they spent at the respite center, immigrant advocates warned, and could unknowingly expose others as they travel to join friends and family elsewhere in the country.

Dr. Pritesh Gandhi, the chief medical officer at the Department of Homeland Security, said that “operational limitations” have precluded doing virus testing “on the front end,” but that medical teams are working intensely with nonprofit groups and local officials to make sure migrants are screened immediately and tested later, a strategy that he said was starting to show results with fewer people getting sick.

“At the earliest possible moment we can do something about it, we test,” he said in an interview. “And so there are limitations. The question that any public health operator has to ask is, ‘What is the earliest point you can effect change?’ ” Some cities and counties have balked at having to conduct the bulk of all coronavirus testing for adult migrants.

In El Paso, Texas, the county judge, the local Catholic bishop and other community leaders sent a letter to the secretary of homeland security, Alejandro Mayorkas, arguing that testing migrants was “beyond the capacity of the combined

efforts of our local governments and NGO community.”

The mayor in Yuma, Arizona, Douglas J. Nicholls, said that before the local medical center took over testing, migrants were being dropped off by the immigration agents on roadsides or in parking lots — with no testing for the coronavirus.

“It’s completely crazy,” Nicholls said. “It’s not the way we should be handling things during a pandemic.”

Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit alleging that the federal government was “encouraging the spread of COVID-19 at the border” by keeping potentially infected migrants housed closely together in government custody.

Paxton said in a statement that President Joe Biden was demonstrating “outright disregard of the public health crisis” by “welcoming and encouraging mass gatherings” of migrants in border facilities.

In a few cities, a contractor hired by Immigration and Customs Enforcement has begun to conduct coronavirus testing of migrants after their release from the Border Patrol and is arranging isolation space in hotels for those who test positive.

The Biden administration has continued to expel many who have entered the country without authorization, using a public health emergency law initially invoked by former President Donald Trump.

But the government of Mexico has refused to take back families traveling with children younger than 7 along large stretches of the border with Texas. It has also rejected returns of migrants from outside Central America, who represent a growing number of crossers — many of them from Ecuador and Brazil, countries still hit hard by the coronavirus.

Department of Homeland Security officials stressed that there were no facilities for testing efforts at Border Patrol processing stations, particularly for children, who have to be separated by gender and age. Children are now traveling to shelters in separate buses depending on their COVID-19 status, an improvement from past months.

The agency’s focus has been on moving migrants out of custody faster, which is key to lowering their exposure, and the strategy has been successful: Data released Tuesday showed that the number of unaccompanied minors in custody had dropped 80% in the past month.

But even tracking those migrants who have the coronavirus can be tough.

Andrea Rudnik, whose nonprofit organization, Team Brownsville, provides aid to a hotel for coronavirus isolation in Brownsville, Texas, said many migrants who tested positive had disappeared before their mandatory separation period was up.

“They want to leave,” she said, “and if they realize, ‘Hey, I can just take a taxi from this hotel back to the bus station and get out of there,’ then they’ll do it.”

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Thursday, April 29, 2021

Children with autism miss out as school districts make their own rules

Eric Alarcon, 3, with his father, Reuben, and mother, Estafania, at home in Secaucus, N.J., where opportunities for classroom instruction have been rare.

By TRACEY TULLY

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ric Alarcon, who will be 4 next month, has autism. He can say a few words and identify a variety of dinosaurs. He lives with his parents in Secaucus, New Jersey, a 10-mile drive from midtown Manhattan.

Eric and his peers in a special-education class have had about 100 hours of in-person instruction in the first eight months of the school year.

Five miles away in Rutherford, a neighboring New Jersey town, young children with autism have spent more than 700 hours in class since September.

The two towns, hugging opposite sides of the Hackensack River, have nearly the same number of residents and educate about the same number of students. Each is in a county that has struggled with similarly high rates of coronavirus cases.

But as has happened across the country, the districts made radically different choices about whether and how to reopen public schools during the pandemic.

Rutherford schools have been mostly open.

Secaucus schools have been mostly closed.

“Virtual learning has done nothing — nothing — for my son,” said Eric’s father, Reuben Alarcon, 36.

Remote learning has been challenging for many students, including those who need more help because of disabilities. Perhaps nowhere is the strain of remote learning more acute than among the youngest, highest-need students, whose ability to access in-person early intervention classes, targeted behavior analysis and speech therapy is considered key to their academic success.

“Early, intensive relationship-based work is essential for children with autism,” said Gerard

Costa, the director of the Center for Autism and Early Childhood Mental Health at Montclair State University.

“We know the early years are critical,” he added.

Alarcon, part of a group of parents who have criticized the Secaucus Public School District’s reopening policies, said he was worried that the educational opportunities Eric lost during a crucial year of brain development would cause lifelong harm.

“He will sometimes use one or two words to ask for something. Sometimes he surprises us and he blurts out a sentence,” Alarcon said. “He would be so much more ahead had he had the full-time class.”

Secaucus parents say they were told that classrooms were not large enough to safely fit all special-education students at once, leading officials to split classes into two time slots. The school superintendent, Jennifer Montesano, did not respond to calls and emails seeking comment.

The youngest, most disabled students in Secaucus were in class for one hour, 40 minutes, four days a week, from September through late October. As virus cases began to spike in New Jersey during the fall, all Secaucus schools were closed for four months before reopening for hybrid instruction March 8.

Last week, Secaucus elementary schools expanded in-person instruction to five half days per week, and class time for the most severely disabled students increased to four hours a day.

But Rutherford’s public schools have been open five full days a week since September for most elementary students, including the most disabled students.

“We have no idea why two towns so similar in so many ways can operate so completely at odds with one another,” said Ruby Kish, a lawyer and mother of two who leads the Secaucus Special Education Parent Advocacy Committee.

The president of the Secaucus Education Association, the town’s teachers union, which has raised public health concerns about in-person learning, did not return repeated requests for comment.

But about a week before the town’s schools reopened in September for hybrid instruction, Nancy Lynch, who was the union’s president at the time, told the Board of Education that her members believed that all-virtual classes were the “safest option for the students and teachers.”

New Jersey Gov. Philip Murphy, a close ally of the New Jersey Education Association, the statewide union, initially gave districts wide latitude in deciding how and when to reopen.

A Democrat running for reelection, he has since encouraged schools to reopen more fully, citing relatively low virus transmission rates in schools and the availability of vaccines for adults.

All schools, he has said, should be open all day for all students in September.

Union leaders have argued that districts needed to be able to make individual choices based on the differences in the age and condition of school buildings, as well as the fast-changing virus rates.

Carrieann DeVito, director of special education services for the Secaucus district, said that even when children were not physically in classrooms, her team “worked diligently with parents, teachers and related service providers in order to think outside of the box and provide our students with what they needed.”

“All districts are different with different needs,” she said in a statement, “particularly with regards to special education.”

The leeway that districts were afforded in the year since New Jersey became an early epicenter of the pandemic has led to reopening strategies that can differ significantly from one town to the next, confounding some parents.

“He just gave too much flexibility,” Bill Miller, a Secaucus resident with children in first and fourth grade, said about the governor. “Not every school district can handle that.”

New York City, which operates the country’s largest school district, has been open for elementary school students for much of the school year and invited middle and high school students back to class over the past two months.

New Jersey’s two largest city districts, Newark and Elizabeth, began to partially reopen classrooms to elementary students in the middle of April.

Jersey City officials announced last week that schools would not reopen until September, only to reverse course days later after parents lashed out and the mayor and governor criticized the delay.

The youngest students are now expected to return to school Thursday.

In the state’s affluent suburbs, where schools with stellar reputations are a key reason families are willing to pay some of the nation’s highest taxes, parents have aggressively pressed for expanded school hours and days.

In many cases, it has worked: State officials said that 246 districts and charter school entities were offering full-time in-person classes and 470 had a combination of in-person and remote instruction.

Still, 47 districts, with a total of 117,618 students, remain closed, including many that have been shuttered for 13 months.

Like Rutherford, many New Jersey districts, recognizing the outsize needs of their most vulnerable students, reopened classrooms for disabled students full time starting in September.

“We really felt that our job was to provide in-person education for as many students as we could, as safely as we could,” said Jack Hurley, Rutherford’s superintendent. “We tried to find ways to be open, not to find ways why we should close.”

But other districts did not. Some, citing the extraordinary demands of the pandemic, even asked parents to waive the services their children are legally entitled to under their individualized education programs, or IEPs, prompting the state to bar the practice.

“Everybody was doing the best they could, presumably — not with a whole lot of direction,” said Peg Kinsell, the policy director for New Jersey SPAN, a special education parent advocacy network.

Still, many older special-education students, particularly those who struggle with anxiety, bullying or underlying medical needs, have thrived during remote instruction, Kinsell said, so much so that some parents have asked SPAN to lobby for virtual learning to remain an option in September.

“Like everything else in this pandemic, nothing is a one-size-fits-all,” she said.

Nationwide, there is little available data on how districts have grappled with the unique challenges of the country’s 7 million special education students, according to Laurie VanderPloeg of the Council for Exceptional Children, a nonprofit that advocates for children with disabilities.

“There certainly are discrepancies in terms of how the needs of students with disabilities are being met,” VanderPloeg said.

“It’s ‘How do we recover from it?’ That’s the question,” she added.

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Former White House adviser is charged with stealing from charter school network

By AZI PAYBARAH

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former senior adviser in the Obama administration was arrested Tuesday on charges that he stole more than $200,000 from a network of charter schools that he founded and used the money to get a lower interest rate on a mortgage for a Manhattan apartment, federal prosecutors said.

The founder, Seth Andrew, 42, is accused of taking money from bank accounts controlled by Democracy Prep Public Schools, which teaches mostly low-income students of color in New York and other states, and used it for the purchase of a $2 million apartment, prosecutors said.

Andrew is charged with one count each of wire fraud, money laundering and making a false statement to a bank. The first two charges both carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, and the third carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison, according to a statement Tuesday from Audrey Strauss, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the assistant director-in-charge of the New York field office of the FBI. “Today Andrew himself is learning one of life’s most basic lessons — what doesn’t belong to you is not yours for the taking,” Sweeney said in the statement.

Andrew pleaded not guilty and was released on bail, according to court records and his lawyer, Michael Lloyd Yaeger. “We’re currently reviewing the papers that were just unsealed this morning,” he said.

Natasha Trivers, the chief executive of Democracy Prep Public Schools, said that although the organization was not materially affected by the crimes Andrew was accused of, it was a stark departure from their values.

“His alleged actions are a profound betrayal of all that we stand for and to you and your children, the scholars and families that we serve,” Trivers wrote to students’ parents Tuesday.

Andrew was a young and ambitious educator when he founded Democracy Prep in 2005.

He had briefly taught in South Korea and “saw a

different model of education” there, he said in a 2017 interview with an education news site, The 74. That model “had taken an entire nation of 50 million people from poverty to prosperity,” and “they used education at the core. And they did it differently than America,” he said.

According to the network’s website, “Seth Andrew founded Democracy Prep in 2005 to ensure that every single student will work hard, go to college, and change the world!” The phrase “Change the world!” is on the back of the yellow baseball cap that Andrew made part of his signature look.

The network’s first school opened in Harlem in 2006. It eventually expanded to 23 schools, in the Bronx; Camden, New Jersey; San Antonio; and Las Vegas. Of the network’s 7,000 students, nearly all are people of color and 85% qualify for free lunch, according to the network’s website.

Under an agreement with the New York State Board of Regents, the charter network was required to “maintain an ‘escrow account’ that may be accessed only if the school dissolves,” prosecutors said. Andrew was a signatory to those accounts and had access to them, they said. The money in the accounts totaled a little more than $218,000.

Propelled by the network’s success, Andrew landed a job in 2013 in the U.S. Department of Education and later became a senior adviser in the Office of Educational Technology at the White House under President Barack Obama.

In the administration, Andrew helped promote and improve STEM education, a curriculum focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

While there, Andrew was still paid by the charter network, according to prosecutors. In November 2016, he left the administration, and by the following January he had formally severed ties with the charter network.

Two years later, Andrew began tapping into those escrow accounts, prosecutors said. On March 28, 2019, Andrew walked into a bank, closed two escrow accounts and walked out with two checks totaling more than $142,000, they said.

Later that day Andrew took one of those checks to open a new account at a different bank, prosecutors said. He told the second bank, which prosecutors did not identify, that he was a “key executive with control of” the charter network.

Days later, Andrew used an ATM to deposit the second check into that account, prosecutors said.

The new bank was not chosen at random: It offered customers a reduced interest rate on their mortgage “for every $250,000 on deposit, up to a total of $1 million,” prosecutors said. Using the $142,000 from the charter schools enabled Andrew to receive a reduction in the interest rate of 0.5 percentage points, they said.

In late August, Andrew and his wife, who was not charged, purchased a Manhattan apartment for $2,368,000; they got a mortgage from that second bank for $1,776,000 with an interest rate of 2.5%, according to prosecutors.

In October 2019, Andrew closed the third escrow account and received a check for more than $75,000, prosecutors said. He took that

money and opened a new account at a third bank, they said.

Later, Andrew withdrew more than $144,000 from the second bank and deposited that money into the newest account, bringing funds from all three escrow accounts together, according to prosecutors. He then put that money into a certificate of deposit, which matured on May 20, 2020, earning him more than $2,000, prosecutors said. He then took funds that had originated at Democracy Prep and put them into a new civic organization that he controls, they said.

Trivers, who took over leadership of Democracy Prep in 2019, said in her letter to parents, “Upon learning of the unauthorized withdrawals, Democracy Prep alerted the appropriate authorities.

“As the victim of this crime,” she wrote, “Democracy Prep has continued to assist the authorities as they investigate and prosecute this crime to the full extent of the law.”

Seth Andrew talking with students at Democracy Prep Charter School in Harlem on Jan. 29, 2010. Andrew, a former senior adviser in the Obama administration was arrested Tuesday, April 27, 2021, on charges that he stole more than $200,000 from a network of charter schools that he founded and used the money to get a lower interest rate on a mortgage for a Manhattan apartment, federal prosecutors said.

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As economy rebounds, manufacturers face new hurdles

By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ

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att Guse would hire a dozen machinists — if only he could find them.

The owner of MRS Machining, a maker of precision metal parts in rural Augusta, Wisconsin, Guse finds business is rebounding so quickly as the pandemic’s effect eases that his 47-worker shop is short-handed.

“I’ve turned down a million dollars’ worth of work in the last two weeks,” he said.

“Doing that, it’s hard to go to bed at night when you put your head to the pillow. I have open capacity, but I need more people.”

After a sharp downturn when the pandemic hit last year, factories are humming again.

But the recovery’s speed has left employers scrambling. Despite huge layoffs — manufacturing employment initially dropped by 1.4 million — some companies find themselves desperate for workers.

In other cases, supply chain disruptions and shortages of parts such as semiconductors have made orders hard to fill and created fresh uncertainty.

“It was a lot easier to turn the lights out than to ramp up,” said Diane Swonk, chief economist at the accounting firm Grant Thornton in Chicago. “Manufacturers weren’t prepared for a surge of demand in goods. They’ve been caught a bit flat-footed.”

The manufacturing recovery signals a turning point, with the Biden administration putting a fresh focus on increasing factory jobs, especially in areas like semiconductors and electric vehicles. That growth will be crucial if the overall economy is to expand rapidly in the months ahead.

The Commerce Department reported Monday that orders for durable goods — like cars and appliances — rose half a percentage

Workers at MacArthur Corporation, a sticker and decal producer for the automotive industry, in Grand Blanc, Mich., on April 27, 2021. After a sharp downturn when the coronavirus pandemic hit last year, factories are humming again, but the recovery’s speed has left employers scrambling. point in March, prompting Barclays to lift its tracking estimate of economic growth for the first quarter to 1.4%, or 5.6% at an annualized rate.

On Thursday, the government will release its initial reading on economic growth in the first three months of the year, and manufacturing is expected to be among the bright spots.

The consensus of analysts polled by Bloomberg is that the report will show gross domestic product expanded by 1.7%, up from 1.3%.

At one point, factory production was down substantially because of the pandemic, but it should return to pre-COVID-19 levels by the third quarter of this year, according to Chad Moutray, chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers.

“We’re seeing gangbuster levels of orders,” he said. “But the sector has a lot of challenges, like a rise in raw material costs, supply chain disruptions, logistics bottlenecks and worker shortages.”

At MRS Machining, Guse said, spot shortages of items like steel and metal plate are a constant issue. “Quotes for material goods from suppliers are usually good for three to six months,” he said. “Now it’s a matter of hours.”

As at many factories, the work pays well, starting at $18 to $20 an hour, and rising to around $30. But the most skilled workers, like machinists, remain hard to find, according to

Guse.

“We’re getting applicants, because people are moving out of Minneapolis and Chicago and looking to live in a more rural environment,” he said.

Despite the good news at MRS, rebuilding overall factory employment is a challenge, said Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, a policy group representing manufacturers and the United Steelworkers.

President Joe Biden is fighting a long-term trend. Nearly 12.3 million Americans work in factories. Two decades ago, that figure stood at just over 17 million.

After the last few economic downturns — the falloff in growth following the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, the slump after the attacks of Sept. 11, and the Great Recession — manufacturing failed to recover the lost jobs.

To be sure, the sector has made up a good amount of ground after losing nearly 1.4 million positions in the first months of the pandemic, but employment remains about 515,000 jobs short of where it was in February 2020.

Some experts question why policymakers focus so much on production when most Americans work in service industries that have been gaining jobs over the years and offer better growth prospects. But manufacturing offers one of the few paths to a middle-class

life for the two-thirds of U.S. adults who lack a college degree.

The average hourly wage of manufacturing workers is $29.15, while workers in leisure and hospitality, another field that draws people with less education, earn an average of $17.67 an hour.

Paul hopes that Biden’s plan to revitalize U.S.manufacturing as part of his larger infrastructure effort will bear fruit.

“He’s pretty serious about some form of industrial policy,” Paul said, citing the administration’s call for action in making products like semiconductors and electric vehicles. “It may be possible for Biden to do what no president has since manufacturing began its job decline and reverse the losses.”

The administration’s blueprint includes $50 billion in funding for investments in chip manufacturing and research as well as $174 billion in spending to advance electric vehicles.

The $2 trillion plan, with its focus on rebuilding roads and bridges as well as the electric grid, could help companies like Auburn Manufacturing of Maine, said its CEO, Kathie Leonard.

“We feed the companies whose products go into infrastructure,” said Leonard, describing the heat- and fire-resistant fabrics Auburn makes at two factories in central Maine, about a half-hour from Portland. “The infrastructure plan holds promise for companies like us.”

“You have to work at being an optimist,” she said. “We’re not going to hire 25 people, but maybe five. We need to hire a technical director, fabricators, and we need staff to help with e-commerce.”

The semiconductor shortages are a headache for Christie Wong Barrett, CEO of MacArthur Corp., a maker of labels and decals outside Flint, Michigan. She said orders had been delayed by car companies — her major customers — that can’t find enough of the chips they need to keep cars coming off the assembly lines.

Barrett was able to pivot and supply products for medical customers, averting all but a handful of layoffs for her workforce of 50. She remains optimistic, despite the current logistical backups.

“It’s a horrible disruption right now, but I’m anticipating a strong recovery,” she said.

“We never made major cuts, and as automotive production starts to recover more, I expect to hire several more people in the coming months.”

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U.S. companies are worried about inflation, equity investors less so

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growing chorus of U.S. companies are raising concerns about the rising costs of everything from labor to components, yet stock investors appear unfazed by the prospects of higher inflation as the economy bounces back from the coronavirus pandemic.

Streaming service provider Netflix (NFLX.O), which thrived during last year’s lockdowns, will be the first among the so called FAANG group to report quarterly numbers. Its shares slipped about 0.3% in pre-market trading, ahead of its results after markets close.

International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) rose 2.7% as it recorded the biggest rise in quarterly sales in more than two years, boosted by its bets on the highmargin cloud computing business.

Chipmaker Intel Corp (INTC.O) is slated to report results on Thursday.

“We are getting a little bit of weakness ... even though the earnings and economic data is good,” said Ryan Detrick, senior market strategist at LPL Financial in Charlotte, North Carolina.

“The underlying fundamentals are extremely strong and it wouldn’t be overly concerning after the rally we have seen in the past 13 months for the market to catch its breath a little bit more in the face of strong earnings.”

After blockbuster earnings from major U.S. banks last week, analysts expect first-quarter profit for overall S&P 500 firms to jump 30.9% from a year earlier, according to Refinitiv IBES data.

A pullback in longer-dated bond yields from 14-month highs has eased worries over higher borrowing costs, reviving demand for richly valued technology stocks.

Also, a string of robust economic data and expectations of a strong rebound in corporate earnings helped the S&P 500 and the Dow to hit record highs last week.

At 08:32 a.m. ET, Dow E-minis were down 154 points, or 0.45%, S&P 500 E-minis were down 18 points, or 0.43% and Nasdaq 100 E-minis were down 48.75 points, or 0.35%.

Tobacco companies, including Altria Group (MO.N) and Philip Morris (PM.N), fell as much as 4.2% after the Wall Street Journal reported that the Biden administration is considering a rule that would limit nicotine or ban menthol in cigarettes.

Abbott Laboratories (ABT.N) fell 3%, despite posting a three-fold jump in quarterly profit.

Nike Inc (NKE.N) dropped about 1.6% after Citigroup lowered its rating on the company’s shares to “neutral” from “buy”.

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India blames a virus variant as its COVID-19 crisis deepens

A COVID-19 patient in a vehicle receives oxygen at a Sikh gurdwara in Delhi, Sunday, April 25, 2021. Donors around the world are giving money for meals, medical expenses, P.P.E. and oxygen tanks, among other essential supplies.

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, SHALINI VENUGOPAL and APOORVA MANDAVILLI

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t Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, a huge facility in the middle of India’s capital, 37 fully vaccinated doctors came down with COVID-19 earlier this month.

The infections left most with mild symptoms, but it added to their growing fears that the virus behind India’s catastrophic second wave is different. They wonder if a more contagious variant that dodges the immune system could be fueling the epidemic inside the world’s hardest-hit nation.

So far the evidence is inconclusive, and researchers caution that other factors could explain the viciousness of the outbreak, which has overwhelmed India’s capital so quickly that hospitals are entirely overrun and crematories burn nonstop. Still, the presence of the variant could complicate the taming of India’s COVID-19 disaster.

“The current wave of COVID has a different clinical behavior,” said Dr. Sujay Shad, a senior cardiac surgeon at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, where two of the doctors needed supplemental oxygen to recover. “It’s affecting young adults. It’s affecting families. It’s a new thing altogether. Two-month-old babies are getting infected.”

India’s outbreak worsened even further

on Wednesday, as authorities reported nearly 3,300 daily deaths. That brings the official total to nearly 201,200 people lost, though experts believe the true figure is much higher. Daily new infections also surged to nearly 357,700, another record.

As supplies run dangerously low and hospitals are forced to turn away the sick, scientists are trying to determine what role variants of the virus might be playing. They are working with precious little data. India, like many other countries, has not built up a robust system to track viruses.

India’s worries have focused on a homegrown variant called B.1.617. The public, the popular press and many doctors have concluded that it is responsible for the severity of the second wave.

Researchers outside of India say the limited data so far suggests instead that a betterknown variant called B.1.1.7 may be a more considerable factor. That variant walloped Britain late last year, hit much of Europe and is now the most common source of new infection in the United States “While it’s almost certainly true B.1.617 is playing a role, it’s unclear how much it’s contributing directly to the surge and how that compares to other circulating variants, especially B.1.1.7,” said Kristian Andersen, a virologist at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego.

Beyond the variants, scientists believe there are other, possibly more obvious factors that could be powering India’s deadly second wave.

India has just scraped the surface in terms of vaccinating its population, with less than 2% fully vaccinated. Experts also blame lax public behavior after last year’s first wave and missteps

by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, such as recently holding large political rallies that may have spread the disease and sent a message to the people that the worst was over.

“There is a lot of jumping to conclusions that B.1.67 is the explanation for what’s happening,” said Jeffrey Barrett, director of the COVID-19 genomics initiative at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Britain. “These other things are probably more likely to be the explanation.”

Preliminary evidence suggests that the variant is still responsive to vaccines, although slightly less so. India relies heavily on the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which clinical trials show is less powerful than the vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna and could perhaps be more easily thwarted by mutations.

“For now the vaccines remain effective, but there is a trend toward less effectiveness,” said Dr. Céline Gounder, an infectious disease physician and epidemiologist at Bellevue Hospital in New York.

In India, a number of doctors point to anecdotal evidence that people who have been fully vaccinated are getting sick. Those doctors also say they are seeing children with serious symptoms, such as severe diarrhea, acidosis and falling blood pressure, even among otherwise healthy patients.

“This is very different from what we saw last year,” said Dr. Soonu Udani, head of critical care services at the SRCC Children’s Hospital in Mumbai.

Researchers say other factors could lead to more infections among young people, such as India’s schools, which had started reopening in recent months after the country’s first wave.

The variant in India is sometimes called “the double mutant,” though the name is a misnomer because it has many more mutations than two. It garnered the name because one of its three versions contains two genetic mutations found in other difficult-to-control variants of the coronavirus. One is present in the highly contagious variant that ripped through California earlier this year. The other is similar to

one found in the variant first identified in South Africa and is believed to make the vaccines slightly less effective.

“There are variants that are more transmissible than what we all coped with a year ago,” Barrett said of the many variants circulating in India. “Things can change really quickly, so if a country doesn’t react quickly enough, things can go from bad to very bad very quickly.”

Scientists say that different variants seem to dominate specific parts of India. For instance, the B.1.617 variant has been detected in a large number of samples from the central state of Maharashtra.

By contrast, the B.1.1.7 variant is rising quickly in New Delhi, said Dr. Sujeet Singh, director of India’s National Centre for Disease Control. It was prevalent in half of samples evaluated at the end of March, up from 28% just two weeks before. The B.1.617 variant is also circulating in New Delhi, he added.

But ultimately, the data from India is too thin to parse the distribution of variants around the country. Despite the huge number of new infections, India is performing very little genomic sequencing.

Officials in India are trying to track how many fully vaccinated people have fallen ill, a measure called the breakthrough infection rate. That could suggest how virulent any variant in India might be. They have focused on frontline medical workers, who are more likely to have received both doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

So far, data from the Indian Council of Medical Research up to April 21 shows an extremely low breakthrough infection rate, though perhaps not as low as that of the United States. The data shows 0.02% to 0.04% of vaccinated people falling ill. The rate in the United States, which relies on different vaccines, is 0.008%.

A broad lack of data plagues the scientific chase for variants and whether they are contributing to the severity of India’s crisis.

Fast-moving mutations complicate the picture because it isn’t immediately clear how quickly they spread or how they respond to vaccines.

In India, the health care system wasn’t on alert for the impact of variants at home, even as they began to spread globally, said Dr. Thekkekara Jacob John, a senior virologist in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.

“We were not looking for variants at all,” he said. “In other words, we missed the boat.”

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How Europe sealed a Pfizer vaccine deal with texts and calls

By MATINA STEVIS-GRIDNEFF

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t was February and things were going from bad to worse for the European Union’s vaccination campaign, and for its top executive, Ursula von der Leyen.

Much of Europe was in lockdown, people were dying, and the bloc was running low on doses of vaccines after its biggest supplier, AstraZeneca, announced production problems.

Critics inside and outside the European Union questioned von der Leyen’s leadership and accused her of mishandling the crisis.

It was at that low point that she caught a break.

For a month, von der Leyen had been exchanging texts and calls with Albert Bourla, the chief executive of Pfizer, another vaccine supplier to the bloc. And as they spoke, two things became clear: Pfizer might have more doses it could offer the bloc — many more. And the European Union would be thrilled to have them.

That personal diplomacy played a big role in a deal, to be finalized this week, in which the European Union will lock in 1.8 billion doses from Pfizer, which, with its smaller German partner, BioNTech, made the first COVID-19 vaccine to get regulatory approval in the European Union.

The new contract will include a 900-million-dose order through 2023, with an option for another 900 million, von der Leyen said in an interview.

“I am convinced that we are in this for the long haul,” she said.

The deal will establish the European Union as Pfizer’s biggest single client by far; the company has so far sold 300 million doses to the United States. The contract will permit the European Union to resell or donate the vaccines to partners, empowering it to conduct vaccine diplomacy and support struggling efforts to immunize people in poorer countries.

Von der Leyen and Bourla first connected in January, when the pharmaceutical boss had to explain why his company had to cut vaccine supplies temporarily while it upgraded manufacturing facilities in Belgium. In November, the European Union signed an initial deal with the company for 200 million doses, with the option to add 100 million.

As the improvements at the Belgium plant moved along with relative ease, the discussions between the EU leader and the pharmaceutical chief continued, both recounted in interviews with The New York Times.

As they talked, the pandemic was raging across Europe, and Pfizer and BioNTech were hard at work trying to step up production. To increase the companies’ production capacity even further, the chief commercial officer at BioNTech, Sean Marett, was lining up regulatory approval for a newly acquired plant in Germany, which was already producing vaccines and stockpiling them in anticipation of getting a green light.

By the end of March, when the plant got its authorization, it had already produced 11 million doses, which were soon directed to the European Union.

The calls resulted in a string of deals between the European Union and the companies.

On Feb. 17, the bloc announced an order for another 200 million shots. On April 19, it activated an option to get yet another 100 million.

Accounts of how the deals came about, related by von der Leyen, Bourla, Marett and nine other officials and experts involved, reveal a striking alignment of political survival and corporate hustle.

In her interview, von der Leyen played down the political pressures she had faced and said she had been confident things would improve.

“I knew that the upscaling of the deliveries would have a slow start by nature in the beginning, and, therefore, I also knew the first quarter was going to be tough,” she said. But, she added, “I did not expect it to be as tough, because we did not include the possibility that AstraZeneca would reduce deliveries by 75%.

That was a heavy setback.”

Despite the deals with Pfizer and BioNTech, Europe is still playing catch-up when it comes to vaccinating its citizens. As of this week, 22% of EU nationals have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, in contrast to half of Britons, 42% of Americans and more than 62% of Israelis, according to Our World in Data.

But the European Union has now made up for the vaccine it did not get from AstraZeneca — the bloc is suing over the missed doses — and has moved forward its target date for getting 70% of its adults fully immunized. It is now July, instead of September.

The contract to be finalized this week will permit the European Union to resell or donate the vaccines. The bloc is already one of the world’s biggest producers and exporters of COVID-19 vaccines, with just over 159 million doses shipped to 87 countries since December.

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For U.K.’s Johnson, plenty of mud but will it stick?

Customers gather at The Kentish Belle pub in Bexleyheath, near southeast London, which reopened at 12:01 a.m., Monday, April 12, 2021, as England begins to lift a coronavirus-related lockdown.

By MARK LANDLER and STEPHEN CASTLE

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rime Minister Boris Johnson has long had a weakness for a funny line, even in the face of an unfunny problem like the pandemic.

When coronavirus cases first spiked last spring, he promised that a lockdown would “squash the sombrero.” When he spoke to businesspeople about an emergency plan to manufacture ventilators, he joked that it could be called “Operation Last Gasp.”

Now, Johnson stands accused of something darker: declaring at a tense meeting last fall that he would not bow to pressure to impose yet another lockdown, even if it meant letting “the bodies pile high in their thousands.”

He has denied the claim, made by anonymous sources to multiple British newspapers.

But the papers, as well as the BBC, are not backing down from their reporting. The dispute has called into question not just Johnson’s credibility, which is regularly in doubt, but also his humanity, which is usually not.

It is one of a welter of charges and countercharges that have flown around the prime

minister’s offices and residence in Downing Street since last week, when a nasty feud broke out between Johnson and his disaffected former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings — a man who helped vault Johnson to power and now seems bent on tearing him down.

Among other things, Cummings accused Johnson of secretly planning to use political donations to pay for the costly refurbishment of his Downing Street home, and of trying to shut down an investigation of who leaked plans for a lockdown when it became clear that the probable leaker was a friend of his fiancée, Carrie Symonds.

“Boris Johnson has a serious problem with Cummings going rogue because everything we know about Dominic Cummings is that he is a loose cannon,” said Matthew Goodwin, a professor of politics at the University of Kent and an expert on the British right. “You don’t want him in the opposition camp.”

While the backbiting and knife fighting have riveted Britain’s political class, some analysts question whether it resonates much beyond the hothouse precincts of Westminster. Britons,

they say, are more swayed by their country’s robust vaccine rollout and their ability to buy a pint at the pub after a year of grinding lockdowns.

Plus, after decades on the political stage, Johnson’s foibles are hardly new.

As Goodwin put it, “The fact that he is seen as a bit of a clown and a bit of a buffoon is priced in.”

And yet, new polling data suggests that the steady drip of damaging charges is hurting Johnson with voters. Nearly 60% of people surveyed viewed the prime minister as untrustworthy, according to a new poll by the firm Ipsos Mori, compared with just 35% who viewed him as trustworthy.

In its sheer volume and bitterness, the palace intrigue is reminiscent of the Trump White House. After President Donald Trump ousted senior officials like Steve Bannon, his chief strategist, and John Bolton, one of his national security advisers, the administration was beset with unflattering, anonymously sourced accounts of the president’s behavior — or that of his purged lieutenants.

“What happened with Trump doesn’t usually happen in Downing Street,” said Jonathan Powell, who served as chief of staff to Prime Minister Tony Blair. “The more common phenomenon in No. 10 is that it goes into a bunker mentality. But clearly, getting rid of Cummings hasn’t stopped the leaking.”

The danger, he and other analysts said, is that the score settling could destabilize Johnson’s Conservative government much as it did Trump’s White House. Cummings posed a particular threat, they said, because of the central role he played in plotting the successful “Vote Leave” campaign before the 2016 Brexit referendum and in shaping the early response to the pandemic.

What worries Conservatives is that Cummings could have further ammunition to deploy against his former boss, and the opportunity to present it next month when he is called to testify before a parliamentary committee. His evidence could form the basis of a formal inquiry into the

government’s handling of the pandemic.

A steady stream of further allegations against Johnson could allow the Labour Party to build a narrative of sleazy dealings, cronyism and lying that inflicts real damage on a government that has overcome its succession of mistakes in its handling of the pandemic, largely thanks to the vaccine rollout.

Some analysts predicted the public would be forgiving of Johnson’s outburst about the lockdown because they, too, found the repeated restrictions burdensome and because no one believes he would actually welcome thousands of deaths. They would also take into account his own ordeal with the virus and his decision to order another severe lockdown after Christmas.

“People can be cross because they are tired,” said Andrew Gimson, one of Johnson’s biographers. “He was exhausted and he’d been through a near-fatal illness, from which he had not fully recovered when he made that remark.”

Others, however, predicted that the flap over Johnson’s refurbishment of his apartment would throw a harsh spotlight on his sense of impunity, lack of transparency and unwillingness to make do with the perks offered a prime minister.

Johnson already has access to an annual public grant of 30,000 pounds ($41,600) to upgrade his quarters. Newspaper reports say he augmented that with funds from a Conservative Party donor because Symonds wanted to get rid of the furniture used by his predecessor, Theresa May, which had been described as being in the style of the British department store, John Lewis.

The government insists Johnson paid for the upgrade out of his own pocket, though it is unclear whether he repaid money from the donor. However it was financed, the couple’s apparent disdain for John Lewis-style décor may sit badly with ordinary people, for whom the store is a symbol of bourgeois prosperity.

“Johnson has always stayed one step ahead of the sheriff,” Powell said. “But at some stage in No. 10, you can’t get away with lies that can be proven to be lies.”

How Europe sealed a Pfizer vaccine deal with texts and calls Fron page 13 That is almost exactly as many as it has kept at home to immunize its own people.

The agreement with Pfizer and BioNTech will stipulate that the shots be produced in Europe, bringing home not just the finished product but also most of the 280 components that go into making it, von der Leyen and Bourla of Pfizer said.

The deal is not without risks, or critics. Coun-

tries and experts worry that the European Union may be becoming too dependent on Pfizer and failing to hedge its bets in the event of problems with the vaccine or its production.

“I would caution against going for Pfizer/ BioNTech only,” said professor Peter Piot, a microbiologist who advises von der Leyen. “That is too high risk for me, scientifically,” he said, although he noted that mRNA technology vaccines like Pfizer’s

have so far been working well.

Of the new EU deal with Pfizer, Piot said, “My interpretation is, what works is who can deliver.”

Von der Leyen said the European Union could still procure doses from other companies.

Still, for von der Leyen, and for the European Union, the deal with Pfizer and BioNTech offers a chance to remedy past mistakes.

“Europe has decided to make sure that, un-

der any circumstances, they will be prepared if there’s more need, and as a consequence of that political decision, they are now prepared to take much bigger risks,” said Moncef Slaoui, who led the U.S. vaccine effort Operation Warp Speed and is in frequent contact with von der Leyen on EU strategy.

“Politics and science are intertwined here,” he said.

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Is there a war coming between China and the U.S.?

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

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f you’re looking for a compelling beach read this summer, I recommend the novel “2034,” by James Stavridis, a retired admiral, and Elliot Ackerman, a former Marine and intelligence officer. The book is about how China and America go to war in 2034, beginning with a naval battle near Taiwan and with China acting in a tacit alliance with Iran and Russia.

I’m not giving it all away to say China and the U.S. end up in a nuclear shootout and incinerate a few of each other’s cities, and the result is that neutral India becomes the dominant world power.

(Hey, it’s a novel!)

What made the book unnerving, though, was that when I’d put it down and pick up the day’s newspaper I’d read much of what it was predicting for 13 years from now: Iran and China just signed a 25-year cooperation agreement.

Vladimir Putin just massed troops on the border of Ukraine while warning the U.S. that anyone who threatens Russia “will regret their deeds more than they have regretted anything in a long time.” As fleets of Chinese fighter jets, armed with electronic warfare technology, now regularly buzz Taiwan, China’s top foreign affairs policymaker just declared that the U.S. “does not have the qualification ... to speak to China from a position of strength.”

Yikes, that’s life imitating art a little too closely for comfort.

Why now?

The answer can be found, in part, in a book I have written about before: Michael Mandelbaum’s “The Rise and Fall of Pea-

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ce on Earth.” It tracks how we went from a world defined by the Cold War between American democracy and Soviet communism — 1945 to 1989 — to a singularly peaceful quarter-century without big power conflict, buttressed by spreading democracy and global economic interdependence — 1989 to about 2015 — to our current, much more dangerous era in which China, Iran and Russia are each deflecting the pressures of democracy and the need to deliver constant economic growth by offering their people aggressive hypernationalism instead.

What has made this return of Chinese, Iranian and Russian aggressive nationalism even more dangerous is that, in each country, it is married to state-led industries — particularly military industries — and it’s emerging at a time when America’s democracy is weakening.

Our debilitating political and cultural civil war, inflamed by social networks, is hobbling Americans’ ability to act in unison and for Washington to be a global stabilizer and institution builder, as the United States was after World War II. Our foolish decision to expand NATO into Russia’s face — after the fall of the Soviet Union — hardened post-communist Russia into an enemy instead of a potential partner, creating the ideal conditions for an anti-Western autocrat like Putin to emerge. (Imagine if Russia, a country with which we have zero trade or border disputes, were OUR ally today vis-à-vis China and Iran and not THEIR ally in disputes with us.)

Meanwhile, the failure of the U.S. interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq to produce the pluralism and decency hoped for after 9/11, coupled with the 2008 economic crisis and the current pandemic — together with the general hollowing out of America’s manufacturing base — has weakened both American self-confidence and the world’s confidence in America.

The result? Right when China, Russia and Iran are challenging the post-World War II order more aggressively than ever, many wonder whether the United States has the energy, allies and resources for a new geopolitical brawl.

“Just because communism is gone — and we don’t have two political and economic systems that claim universal legitimacy competing to govern every country — doesn’t mean that ideological considerations have disappeared from international politics,” Mandelbaum argued to me.

Regimes like those in China, Iran and Russia feel much more threatened — more than we think — by democracy, Mandelbaum added. During the first decade of the 21st century, these regimes were able to generate sufficient public support through economic progress. But after that proved more difficult in the second decade of the 21st century, “the leaders of these countries need to find a substitute, and the one they have chosen is hypernationalism.”

Are we up to the challenge? I’m pretty sure we can keep a more aggressive, nationalistic Russia and Iran deterred at a reasonable cost, and with the help of our traditional allies.

But China is another question. So we’d better understand where our strengths and weaknesses lie, as well as China’s.

China is now a true peer competitor in the military, technological and economic realms, except — except in one critical

field: designing and manufacturing the most advanced microprocessors and logic and memory chips that are the base layer for artificial intelligence, machine learning, high-performance computing, electric vehicles, telecommunications — i.e., the whole digital economy that we’re moving into.

China’s massive, state-led effort to develop its own vertically integrated microchip industry has so far largely failed to master the physics and hardware to manipulate matter at the nano-scale, a skill required to mass produce super-sophisticated microprocessors.

However, just a few miles away from China sits the largest and most sophisticated contract chipmaker in the world: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. According to the Congressional Research Service, TSMC is one of only three manufacturers in the world that fabricate the most advanced semiconductor chips — and by far the biggest. The second and third are Samsung and Intel.

Most chip designers, like IBM, Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD (and even Intel to some extent) now use TSMC and Samsung to make the microprocessors they design.

But, just as important, three of the five companies that make the super-sophisticated lithography machines, tools and software used by TSMC and others to actually make the microchips — Applied Materials, Lam Research Corp. and KLA Corp. — are based in the United States. (The other two are Dutch and Japanese.)

China largely lacks this expertise.

As such, the U.S. government has the leverage to restrict TSMC from making advanced chips for Chinese companies. Indeed, just two weeks ago, the United States made TSMC suspend new orders from seven Chinese supercomputing centers suspected of assisting in the country’s weapons development.

The South China Morning Post quoted Francis Lau, a University of Hong Kong computer scientist, as saying: “The sanctions would definitely affect China’s ability to keep to its leading position in supercomputing,” because all of its current supercomputers mostly use processors from Intel or designed by AMD and IBM and manufactured by TSMC. Although there are Korean and Japanese alternatives, Lau added, they are not as powerful.

China, though, is doubling down on research in the physics, nanotechnology and material sciences that will drive the next generation of chips and chipmaking equipment. But it could take China a decade or more to reach the cutting edge.

That’s why — today — as much as China wants Taiwan for reasons of ideology, it wants TSMC in the pocket of Chinese military industries for reasons of strategy. And as much as U.S. strategists are committed to preserving Taiwan’s democracy, they are even more committed to ensuring that TSMC doesn’t fall into China’s hands for reasons of strategy. (TSMC is now building a new semiconductor factory in Phoenix). Because, in a digitizing world, he who controls the best chipmaker will control ... a lot.

Just read “2034.” In the novel, China gains the technological edge with superior AI-driven cybercloaking, satellite spoofing and stealth materials. It’s then able to launch a successful surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

And the first thing China does is seize Taiwan.

Let’s make sure that stays the stuff of fiction.

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Primer Organoide Puertorriqueño Generado por el Centro Comprensivo de Cáncer UPR y la Universidad de Michigan Por THE STAR

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l primer organoide intestinal o modelo de tejido celular trimensional derivado de células madres generado en Puerto Rico, fue creado por el Centro Comprensivo de Cáncer de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (CCCUPR) en colaboración con el “Translational Tissue Modeling Laboratory” (TTML) de la Universidad de Michigan, trascendió el miércoles.

“Con la creación de “Génesis”, nombre que se le asignado al organoide intestinal, el Centro Comprensivo de Cáncer UPR se posiciona como el primer laboratorio en cultivar este tipo de tejido parecidos a órganos humanos o a un tipo de tumor específico para analizar y experimental tratamientos noveles; esto significa que no tenemos que utilizar animales para conocer las respuestas” informó la doctora Marcia Cruz-Correa, gastroenteróloga y directora ejecutiva del Centro Comprensivo de Cáncer UPR en comunicación escrita.

Explicó que el tejido es el único en su clase en Puerto Rico y en el Caribe, mar-

cando una nueva era en la investigación médica para la examinación y conocer respuestas a fármacos o compuestos carcinogénicos para el beneficio de los tratamientos a los pacientes de cáncer.

El esfuerzo ha sido liderado por la Dra. María González-Pons, investigadora auxiliar del CCCUPR y la Dra. Daysha FerrerTorres, investigadora puertorriqueña de la Universidad de Michigan. Ambas implementaron la tecnología molecular con la

creación del Laboratorio de Ingeniería de Tejidos Humanos en el CCCUPR. “Nuestra meta es continuar generando organoides para estudiar los factores que llevan al desarrollo de los cánceres más comunes en los puertorriqueños” enfatizó la Dra. González Pons, quien posee un doctorado en Microbiología y Zoología Médica del Recinto de Ciencias Médicas y actualmente se desempeña como directora del Laboratorio de Ingeniería de Tejidos Humanos del Centro Comprensivo de Cáncer UPR. El organoide generado en el Laboratorios del CCCUPR proviene de un tejido extraído de una biopsía intestinal realizada a un paciente puertorriqueño. “Los organoides intestinales, han surgido como una alternativa para estudiar el cáncer colorrectal debido a que estos modelos tridimensional son más parecidos fisiológicamente al intestino grueso humano. Los organoides tienen todos tipos de células que están presente en el tejido intestinal normal y actualmente son una herramienta valiosa para examinar interacciones entre la microbiota intestinal y el huésped pa-

tógeno, conocer las respuestas a fármacos o compuestos carcinogénicos entre otras aplicaciones” explicaron las doctoras María González-Pons y Daysha Ferrer-Torres, quien funge como investigadora postdoctoral en el laboratorio del doctor Jason Spence de la Universidad de Michigan, donde su enfoque investigativo ha sido modelar tejidos humanos in vitro.

La doctora Ferrer-Torres señaló que los investigadores se han movido al desarrollo de estos avances tecnológicos de ingeniería molecular, debido a que los mecanismos que llevan al desarrollo del cáncer colorectal son complejos y hasta el momento aún no se comprenden por completo. “Por tal razón, se han desarrollado líneas celulares y modelos animales para estudiar la carcinogénesis colorrectal, pero las líneas celulares carecen de la complejidad celular que existen en el colon y en el recto humano, y los modelos de animales pueden no ser representativo de este órgano humano” concluyó la consultora del Laboratorio de Ingeniería de Tejidos Humanos del Centro Comprensivo de Cáncer UPR.

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a representante Jocelyne Rodríguez Negrón, quien preside la Comisión para el Desarrollo y Fiscalización de la Región Oeste, celebró el miércoles, una inspección ocular para conocer las condiciones de la Carretera Estatal Número 105 de Mayagüez.

En la inspección celebrada en Mayagüez, estuvieron presentes los representantes Kebin Maldonado Martiz y Jessie Cortés Ramos, además del señor Waldemar Forestier del Departamento de Obras Públicas(DTOP) y la ingeniera Ivellisse Pérez de la Autoridad de Carreteras (ACT).

“En el día de hoy hemos convocado a las agencias gubernamentales con injerencia en la atención de la infraestructura vial de nuestro pueblo de Mayagüez para atender las condiciones en las que se encuentra esta vía de rodaje. Para esta servidora, es de suma importancia que se prioricen los trabajos de mantenimiento que requiere esta carretera, de forma que salvaguardemos la seguridad de los cientos de personas que transitan a diario por esta vía”, expresó Rodríguez Negrón en comunicación escrita.

La también presidenta de esta comisión reconoció el continuo esfuerzo que realizan los residentes del lugar por asumir la tarea de dar mantenimiento a esta carretera, labor que, según destacó “es menester de la ACT y el DTOP”.

El recorrido comenzó desde el kilómetro 2.5 hasta el kilómetro 5.0 y durante este, se identificaron seis desprendimientos. de igual forma, se solicitaron los dise-

ños y costos de cada uno de los trabajos necesarios para reparar los daños ocasionados por los deslizamientos, establecer en qué fase se encuentran y si cuentan con fondos asignados para su reparación.

“Recorrí la carretera hasta el Km 8.8 y las áreas afectadas por el huracán María, y que no se impactaron porque, en aquel momento determinaron que estaban en unas condiciones que se podían mantener. A esta fecha, esta carretera está deteriorada y estamos tomando nota porque hay que hacer una revisión”, indicó Pérez de la Autoridad de Carreteras.

Mientras, la representante reiteró el trabajo en equipo con las agencias estatales para la rápida atención de esta situación. “Varios de los desprendimientos que vimos hoy llevan años sin ser atendidos. Nuestra Comisión tiene un compromiso de saber las fases en las que se encuentran cada uno de estos proyectos y ser colaboradores con el Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas para agilizar los mismos. Hemos requerido información de cada uno de los problemas estructurales que encontramos hoy en la inspección y le daremos el seguimiento que sea necesario”, culminó Rodríguez Negrón.

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Britney Spears asks to address court overseeing her conservatorship

By JOE COSCARELLI

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ritney Spears has something to say.

After years of relative silence regarding the court-approved conservatorship that has controlled much of her life since 2008, a lawyer for the pop singer requested Tuesday that Spears be allowed to speak at a hearing soon.

“The conservatee has requested that I seek from the court a status hearing at which she can address the court directly,” Samuel D. Ingham III, the court-appointed lawyer who represents Spears in her conservatorship, asked the judge overseeing the case. He proposed that the hearing be scheduled on an “expedited basis,” preferably within 30 days.

The judge, Brenda Penny, agreed, and she set the hearing regarding the status of the conservatorship for June 23. An additional hearing in the case was scheduled for July.

The request on behalf of Spears came during a remote virtual meeting in the case that mostly amounted to housekeeping between lawyers. But the possibility that the typically shrouded pop star would address the court represented a shift for Spears, who has rarely commented on the case for more than a decade.

It would mark the first time Spears has done so in court since seeking substantial changes to the conservatorship, including the removal of her father, Jamie Spears, from what had been a leading role in the arrangement.

For years, fans and observers have questioned why the singer was in a conservatorship, sometimes known as a guardianship, at all, with some arguing that she was being held against her will or taken advantage of. Conservatorships are typically reserved for the very ill, old or infirm, but Spears continued to perform and bring in millions of dollars.

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At a hearing in Los Angeles on Tuesday, a lawyer for Britney Spears requested that the pop singer be allowed to speak to the court soon.

Conversation around Spears’ situation — fueled in part by the fans calling themselves the #FreeBritney movement — picked up earlier this year following the release of “Framing Britney Spears,” a TV documentary by The New York Times.

Spears has been in a conservatorship for 13 years, following a prolonged public breakdown that required multiple hospitalizations. Her exact medical diagnosis is not known.

Outside the courtroom, Spears has referred only obliquely to her legal situation, assuring fans concerned about her well-being that she was “totally fine.”

“I’m extremely happy, I have a beautiful home, beautiful children,” Spears said on Instagram this month. “I’m taking a break right now because I’m enjoying myself.”

Things have been more contentious in court filings, where Ingham has said that Spears was “strongly opposed” to her father returning as her personal conservator.

Jamie Spears currently serves as a co-conservator of his daughter’s estate, helping to oversee her finances alongside Bessemer Trust, a corporate fiduciary. Previously, Jamie had also served as Britney’s personal conservator, helping to arrange her medical and mental health care, security and more. He stepped down from

that role in September 2019, citing health problems.

The singer had requested that Jodi Montgomery, a licensed professional conservator, remain in the role that she has held temporarily since 2019. Ingham has said that Spears was “afraid of her father,” and would not perform if he remained in charge.

Spears’ mother, Lynne, has also raised questions regarding $890,000 in legal fees for Jamie Spears, which her lawyers have called “procedurally improper” and “utterly excessive.” (Lawyers for Jamie Spears responded: “She has not been involved in her daughter’s conservatorship until very recently, and she is now raising objections to fees related to matters that she has no knowledge of.”)

Vivian Lee Thoreen, a lawyer for Jamie Spears, has said that the singer’s father “diligently and professionally carried out his duties,” and that his daughter’s safety was his top priority.

Jamie Spears “would love nothing more than to see Britney not need a conservatorship,” Thoreen said in March.

“Whether or not there is an end to the conservatorship really depends on Britney,” she added. “If she wants to end her conservatorship, she can file a petition to end it.”

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Rubén Blades, a salsa legend, swings in a different direction: jazz

Rubén Blades in New York, April 20, 2021. “Salswing!,” Blades’s new project with the Panamanian big band leader Roberto Delgado, celebrates the connections between Afro-Cuban music and jazz.

By ED MORALES

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ubén Blades is a renowned vocalist, one of the emblematic singer-songwriters of 1970s salsa. But he’s not always recognized for his achievements in other disciplines: He’s also a Broadway and Hollywood actor, a composer, a Harvard Law School master’s graduate and a one-time candidate for president of his native Panama. And don’t ever say he can’t sing a swing tune like Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett.

“We’re still segregated in many ways when it comes to music,” Blades, 72, said in a video conversation from his home in Manhattan. Outside of a few more wisps of gray in his beard, he hasn’t changed much, dressed in his typical all-black with an omnipresent porkpie hat.

“People think, if you’re a salsero that’s what you’re going to do in your life. It’s like you’re a horse, racing with blinders on — I don’t wear those things. For me, music is subversive, because art is subversive. You change things.”

Blades’ ambitious new project with Panamanian big band leader Roberto Delgado celebrates the fruits of evolution and cultural blending: the connections between Afro-Cuban music and jazz. It has arrived over the course of April in three packages: “Salswing!,” an 11-track album that freely mixes salsa classics like “Pau-

la C.” and “Tambó” with jazz standards like “Pennies From Heaven” and “The Way You Look Tonight”; and “Salsa Plus!” and “Swing!,” which emphasize the tracks from those genres.

Jazz has been flowing through Blades’ work for longer than many listeners realize. “Pedro Navaja,” arguably salsa’s most popular song, is best remembered as an unusually long piece that was initially frowned upon by the radio industry. According to Blades, a trio of heavyweight radio DJs told him that “Siembra,” the 1978 album it appears on, which he recorded with trombonist and arranger Willie Colón, would ruin Colón’s career.

The song was actually derived from “Mack the Knife” from Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera.” Blades had been smitten by Bronx-born Bobby Darin’s hit rendition while growing up in Panama.

“I heard that version in 1959 — I really liked the feel of it, the attitude, the insolence,” Blades said.

Blades’ wife, Luba Mason, a similarly eclectic jazz singer he met when they both appeared in Paul Simon’s short-lived musical “The Capeman,” credits Blades’ mother, Anoland Díaz, with his passion for show music.

“She loved the theater, playing the piano and singing,” she said. “I was a classical pianist for 13 years and when he heard that I think it sparked memories of her.”

While Blades’ interest in recording in English goes

back to “Nothing but the Truth” from 1988, which featured collaborations with Elvis Costello, Lou Reed and Sting, the “Salswing!” project had its roots in a performance he did in November 2014 with Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

“I’d always been drilling Wynton with Afro-Caribbean music and he started loving it more and more,” said Carlos Henriquez, the bassist and musical director of the orchestra’s cultural exchange with the Cuban Institute of Music in 2010. “So I told him, look, we could do this whole thing with Latin and swing, and the vocalist we should work with is Rubén Blades.”

For the 2014 show, which featured Blades singing Gershwin’s “They Can’t Take That Away From Me” alongside the Héctor Lavoe standard Blades wrote, “El Cantante,” he began to use the term “mixtura,” Spanish for mixture, as a kind of branding for Latino hybridity.

Blades’ sense of mixture is emblematic of how many artists and intellectuals have viewed Latin American culture as a whole — a layered conglomeration of racial and cultural influences, an identity defined by difference. He sees himself as a kind of creolized vessel of voices from Panama, Havana and New York (both uptown and downtown).

Increasingly it’s become clear that a dominant strand of mixtura is Blackness. Afro-Puerto Rican figures have been central in Blades’ career, and to salsa. Blades has spoken of singer Cheo Feliciano as his primary influence. He’s praised Tito Curet Alonso as the genre’s master songwriter. And on “Salswing!,” he’s included a highenergy remake of Pete “El Conde” Rodríguez’s “Tambó,” a paean to African drumming.

“The understanding of the African drum is what enables you to play both styles,” said Henríquez.

On “Salswing!,” Blades creatively navigates the intersection between the waning days of extravagant, highmodern big band jazz and recession-era, stripped-down salsa. He sticks to his trademark staccato sonero style on the salsa remakes “Contrabando” and “Tambó,” but on the bolero “Ya No me Duele,” some of the higherregister, Ella Fitzgerald-ish scatting he uses on “The Way You Look Tonight” and “Pennies From Heaven” seeps in.

The album also includes elegantly arranged swing standards like “Paula C.,” a post-breakup chronicle about one of Blades’ first mature romances. He wrote it soon after he arrived in New York in the mid-’70s, when he was working in the mailroom for Fania Records — known as the Motown of salsa — and subletting an apartment from Leon Gast, who directed the classic salsa documentary “Our Latin Thing.”

“It was a very inspiring time, in terms of creativity,” Blades recalled, citing the city’s thriving jazz and salsa scenes. “Everybody was at their best at that time, downtown punk rock was exploding, and you could still go to Tad’s Steaks and get for $1.99 a steak with a potato and corn on the cob.”

The San Juan Daily Star consta inscrita al folio 171 del tomo 1234 de Caguas, Finca ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Número 43423, Registro de la DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- Propiedad de Caguas, SecNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA ción I. La escritura de hipoteca SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS consta inscrita como asiento BANCO POPULAR DE abreviado al folio 38 vuelto del tomo 1790 de Caguas, Finca PUERTO RICO Número 43423, Registro de la Parte Demandante Vs. Propiedad de Caguas, Sección RAMÓN MATANZO I. Inscripción novena. DIRECVICENS, CARMEN CIÓN FÍSICA: QUINTAS DE MARGARITA ORTIZ SAN LUIS 1, A13 CALLE DALÍ, CAGUAS PR 00725-7601. SUPALACIOS T/C/C BASTAS: PRIMERA: 15 DE CARMEN M. ORTIZ JUNIO DE 2021 A LAS 9:00 PALACIOS Y LA DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNISOCIEDAD LEGAL MO: $279,720.00. SEGUNDA: 22 DE JUNIO DE 2021 A LAS DE GANANCIALES 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO COMPUESTA POR MÍNIMO: $186,480.00. TERAMBOS; ESTADOS CERA: 29 DE JUNIO DE 2021 UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Parte Demandada TIPO MÍNIMO: $139,860.00.

Civil Núm.: CG2019CV00862. El tipo mínimo para la primera Sala: 802. Sobre: COBRO DE subasta será de $279,720.00.

DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE De no haber adjudicación en la HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDI- primera subasta se celebrará NARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DÍA 22 DE JUNIO DE 2021, A DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO mínimo será de dos terceras DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Al- partes del tipo mínimo fijado guacil que suscribe por la pre- en la primera subasta, o sea, sente anuncia y hace constar $186,480.00. De no haber adjuque en cumplimiento de la Sen- dicación en la segunda subastencia dictada el 26 de junio de ta, se celebrará una TERCERA 2019, la Orden de Ejecución de SUBASTA el 29 DE JUNIO DE Sentencia del 20 de septiembre 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAde 2019 y el Mandamiento de ÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la Ejecución del 27 de septiembre cual el tipo mínimo será la mide 2019 en el caso de epígrafe, tad del precio pactado, o sea, procederé a vender el día 15 $139,860.00. Si se declarase DE JUNIO DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 desierta la tercera subasta, se DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, adjudicará la finca a favor del localizada en el Tribunal de Pri- acreedor por la totalidad de la mera Instancia, Centro Judicial cantidad adeudada si ésta es de Caguas, Sala Superior, en la igual o menor que el monto del Carretera Número Uno (#1) In- tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tersección con la Número 189, tribunal lo estima conveniente.

Entrada Norte, Urb. Bairoa, Ca- Se abonará dicho monto a la guas, Puerto Rico, al mejor pos- cantidad adeudada si ésta es tor en pago de contado y en mo- mayor. Dicho remate se llevará neda de los Estados Unidos de a cabo para con su producto América, cheque de gerente o satisfacer a la demandante el giro postal, todo título, derecho importe de la Sentencia por la o interés de la parte demanda- suma de $211,431.68 de princida sobre la siguiente propiedad: pal, más intereses sobre dicha URBANA: Solar marcado con el suma al 5.5% anual desde el 1 Número Trece (13) del bloque de diciembre de 2016 hasta su A de la Calle Número Dos (2) completo pago, más recargos en el plano de inscripción de la acumulados, más la cantidad Urbanización Quintas de San estipulada de $27,972.00 para Luis, localizado en el Barrio Río costas, gastos y honorarios de Cañas del término municipal de abogados, así como cualquier Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una otra suma que contenga el concabida superficial de 1385.493 trato de préstamo. Surge del metros cuadrados. En lindes Estudio de Título Registral que por el NORTE, en una distancia sobre esta propiedad pesan los de 27.440 metros, con el solar siguientes gravámenes postenúmero B-11; por el SUR, en riores a la hipoteca que por la una distancia de 35.890 metros presente se pretende ejecutar: con el solar número A-12 y la a. Embargo Estatal (Ley 12): Calle número 2; por el ESTE, en Anotado sobre cualquier prouna distancia de 43.880 metros, piedad perteneciente a Ramón con Expreso Las Américas; por D. Matanzo Vicens y Carmen el OESTE, en una distancia de D. Ortiz Palacios, por la suma 42.858 metros, con el solar nú- de $7,373.33, por concepto de mero B-24. Enclava una casa contribuciones sobre ingresos, de hormigón reforzado dedi- según certificación de fecha 28 cada a vivienda. La propiedad de septiembre de 2010, presen-

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Thursday, April 29, 2021 tada el 7 de octubre de 2010, al folio 106 número de Orden 422 del Libro de Embargos Estatales Número 1 de Caguas. b. Embargo Estatal (Ley 12): Anotado sobre cualquier propiedad perteneciente a Ramón D. Matanzo Vicens, por la suma de $9,591.40, por concepto de contribuciones sobre ingresos, según certificación de fecha 17 de junio de 2014, presentada el 20 de noviembre de 2014, al folio 98 número de Orden 384 del Libro de Embargos Estatales número 2 de Caguas. c. Embargo Federal: Anotado contra Ramón Matanzo Vicens, Seguro Social Número XXX-XX-2995, por la suma de $70,703.04, según certificación número 239164416, presentada el 27 de diciembre de 2016, al asiento 2016-010809-FED del Libro de Embargos Federales Karibe. d. Embargo Federal: Anotado contra Ramón Matanzo Vicens, Seguro Social Número XXX-XX-2995, por la suma de $3,720.30, según certificación número 239800616, presentada el 28 de diciembre de 2016, al asiento 2016-010872-FED del Libro de Embargos Federales Karibe. e. Embargo Federal: Anotado contra Ramón Matanzo Vicens, Seguro Social Número XXX-XX-2995, por la suma de $16,634.13, según certificación número 342478119, anotada el 1 de abril de 2019, al asiento 2019-002641-FED del Libro de Embargos Federales Karibe. f. Presentación: Al Asiento 2019-030676-CA01, presentada el 27 de marzo de 2019, Demanda de fecha 14 de marzo de 2019, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el Caso Civil Número CG2019CV00862, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Ramón Matanzo Vicens y su esposa Carmen Margarita Ortiz Palacios, también conocida como Carmen M. Ortiz Palacios y Estados Unidos de América, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $211,431.68 y otras cantidades, o la venta en pública subasta de la propiedad. Pendiente de anotación. 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

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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 19 de marzo de 2021. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

CAROLA RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: BY2019CV01186.

SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA “IN REM” (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado, o en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 11 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: APT. 5-203 COND. ALTURAS DE MONTE VERDE TOA ALTA, PR 00953 y que se describe a con-

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19 tinuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial de forma irregular, de una planta, identificado con el número cero cinco raya doscientos tres (05-203), localizado en la segunda planta del Edificio Cinco (5) del Condominio Alturas de Monte Verde, localizado en la Carretera número ochocientos sesenta y uno (861), kilómetro tres punto cinco (3.5), del Barrio Bucarabones, del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, con la descripción, área y colindancias a continuación: En lindes por el NORTE, en veintiocho pies con seis y media pulgadas (28’6 1/2 “), con elementos comunes y con el vestíbulo de entrada al Apartamento; por el SUR, en veinticinco pies con nueve y media pulgadas (25’9 1/2 “), con el apartamento numerado cero cuatro raya doscientos dos (04202); por el ESTE, en cuarenta y nueve pies con tres pulgadas (49’3”), con el Apartamento numerado cero cinco raya doscientos cuatro (05-204) y con el vestíbulo de entrada al apartamento; y por el OESTE, en cuarenta y nueve pies con tres pulgadas (49’3”), con elementos comunes. Tiene su puerta de entrada y salida por su lado Norte que da hacia el área de pasillo que conduce a las escaleras que le brindan acceso al edificio. Consta de un área de sala-comedor, balcón, cocina con closet, un área de lavandería, un baño completo, dos cuartos cada uno con closet, un closet que ubica en el pasillo que da acceso a los cuartos, un closet para el calentador y un cuarto principal con su propio baño completo, y un área de “walk in closet”. Le corresponde a este apartamento, como anejo, el uso exclusivo y particular de dos (2) espacios de estacionamiento descubiertos, uno detrás del otro, marcados ambos con el número cero cinco raya doscientos tres (05-203), ubicados en las áreas de estacionamientos del Condominio según ilustrado en el “Plot Plan” del apartamento, que se acompaña a la Escritura Matriz. Le corresponde a este apartamento, como anejo, el uso exclusivo y particular de un área de Patio, según ilustrada en el correspondiente “Plot Plan” del Apartamento, que se acompaña a la Escritura Matriz. El área total del apartamento y sus anejos es de mil seiscientos cuatro pies cuadrados con sesenta y dos centésimas de otro (1,604.62 p.c), equivalentes a ciento cuarenta y nueve metros cuadrados con ciento veintiocho milésimas de otro (149.128 m.c), que se distribuye de la siguiente forma: área del apartamento: mil trescientos diez pies cuadrados con cincuenta centé-

simas de otro (1,310.50 p.c), equivalentes a ciento veintiuno metros cuadrados con setecientas noventa y cuatro milésimas de otro (121.794 m.c); área de estacionamiento: doscientos noventa y cuatro pies cuadrados con doce centésimas de otro (294.12 p.c), equivalentes a veintisiete metros cuadrados con trescientas treinta y cinco milésimas de otro (27.335 m.c).

A este apartamento, además, le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes del Condominio de cero punto nueve dos tres cinco por ciento (.9235%). La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al folio 157 del tomo 541 de Toa Alta, finca número 27,300, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección de Tercera (3ra). El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $146,301.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 18 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA,. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $97,534.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 25 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA,. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $73,150.50. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 45, otorgada el día 27 de febrero de 2010, ante el Notario Humberto Soto Mainardi y consta inscrita al folio 157 del tomo 541 de Toa Alta, finca número 27,300, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Tercera (3ra), inscripción Segunda (2da). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido contra la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $128,114.84 por concepto de principal desde el 1ro de junio de 2017, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.00% anual. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte demandada adeuda a la parte Demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos

con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $14,630.10. Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $14,630.10 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $14,630.10 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta,

tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de abril de 2021. EDGARDO E. VARGAS SANTANA #193, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

CESAR NOEL VARGAS SOTO, NEREIDA DELGADO VELÁZQUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: HU2019CV01703.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 27 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LA 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: SR 908 (INT) KM 8.5 TEJAS WD YABUCOA, PR 00767 y que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Parcela de terreno localizada en el barrio Tejas del término municipal de Yabucoa, Puerto Rico; identificada con la letra B, con una cabida superficial de 1,886.7615 METROS CUADRADOS, equivalentes a 0.4800 CUERDAS. En lindes por el NORTE, en distancia de 87.70 metros lineales, con Petra Vega; por el SUR, en distan-

20 cia de 36.6867 metros, con solar H segregado; por el ESTE, en distancia de 52.5671 metros, con Petra Vega y por el OESTE, en distancia de 43.7818 metros, con la parcela municipal dedicada a uso público. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 119 del Tomo 281 de Yabucoa, Finca número 16,602, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $136,620.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 3 DE JUNIO DE 2021, A LA 1:30 DE LA TARDE. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $91,080.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 10 DE JUNIO DE 2021, A LA 1:30 DE LA TARDE. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $68,310.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 64 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de febrero de 2011, ante el notario José Humberto Martínez Camacho y consta inscrita al Folio 119 del Tomo 281 de Yabucoa, finca número 16,602, inscripción sexta (6ta) en el Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido contra la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $121,072.01 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de julio de 2017, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte co-demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $13,662.00. Además, la parte co-demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $13,662.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $13,662.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le con-

fiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad está sujeta a los siguientes gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Sujeto a Condiciones Restrictivas a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, bajo el Programa Bono de Vivienda, por conceder la suma de $5,338.78, para sufragar gastos de cierre, por el término de 10 años. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacionan a continuación. EMBARGO FEDERAL: Que contra CESAR NOEL VARGAS SOTO, no aparece gravamen alguno, pero que al Asiento 2019-007705-FED, aparece anotado un gravamen contra Cesar Noel Vargas y Lilliam Salas, para responder por la suma de $12,195.27 (que incluye intereses, penalidades y costas); con fecha de certificación de 25 de julio de 2019; bajo el número de embargo 372292419; con fecha de presentación 19 de agosto de 2019. Seguro Social XXX-XX-0128. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes poste-

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riores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de abril de 2021. MARIA DEL PILAR RIVERA RIVERA, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

IRIS NORIELY TORRES VÁZQUEZ T/C/C IRIS NORIELYS TORRES VÁZQUEZ T/C/C IRIS NORIELI TORRES VÁZQUEZ, ANGEL LUIS GONZÁLEZ RODRÍGUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: PA2019CV00069.

SOBRE: COBRO DE HIPOTECA Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PATILLAS, SALA SUPERIOR, , en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 12 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE PATILLAS, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: O-11 CALLE 13 URB. VALLES DE PATILLAS, PATILLAS, PR 00723 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA:

Urbanización Valles de Patillas de Patillas, Puerto Rico. Solar: O-11. Cabida: 314.959 metros cuadrados. Linderos NORTE, en 23.520 metros, con el Lote O-12 de la Urbanización; SUR, en 23.520 metros, con el Lote O-10 de la Urbanización; ESTE, en 13.115 metros, con la Calle número 13 de la Urbanización; OESTE, en 13.666 metros, con los Lotes O-33 y O-34 de la Urbanización. Enclava una estructura de bloques y concreto a destinarse para vivienda familiar, compuesta de tres cuartos dormitorios, dos cuartos de baño, sala-comedor, balcón, marquesina extendida y área de “laundry”. Como parte del equipo de la vivienda, incluye un calentador eléctrico de agua.

Afecto a servidumbre para líneas telefónicas en una franja de 1.52 metros de ancho a todo lo largo de su colindancia. Está afecto además, a servidumbre eléctrica en una franja de 1.50 metros de ancho en la esquina de su colindancia Noreste.

La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 179 del Tomo 234 de Patillas, finca número 10,675, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $79,117.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 19 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $52,744.66. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 26 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $39,558.50. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 543 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 16 de septiembre de 2016, ante el Notario Lesbia Hernández Miranda y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Patillas, finca número 10,675, inscripción Novena (9na). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido condenando a la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $77,959.78 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de septiembre de 2017, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte

demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $7,911.70. Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $7,911.70 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $7,911.70 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PATILLAS, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribu-

nal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en el Tribunal en Patillas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de abril de 2021. HÉCTOR E. MÁRQUEZ NERIS, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PATILLAS SALA SUPERIOR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC. Demandante v.

SUCESIÓN DE RUBÉN GONZÁLEZ TIRADO, COMPUESTA POR MARGARITA ORTÍZ SANTIAGO, POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA, ELLIOT RUBÉN GONZÁLEZ ORTIZ, JONATHAN GONZÁLEZ ORTIZ, CHRISTIAN GONZÁLEZ ORTIZ, VALERIE MARIE GONZÁLEZ ORTIZ COMO ÚNICOS Y UNIVERSALES HEREDEROS DEL CAUSANTE; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados CIVIL NUM.: ECD2014-0789.

SALA: 611. SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM”. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 11 de marzo de 2021, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en el Barrio San Antonio, término municipal de Caguas, con una cabida de 1,443.95 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 43.46 metros, con

solar número 3; por el SUR y OESTE, en 12.31 metros y en 43.63 metros, respectivamente, con terrenos del Sr. Juan Elías Camacho y por el ESTE, en siete alineaciones que suman 57.61 metros, con Camino Municipal. Inscrito al folio 23 del tomo 971 de Caguas, finca número #33,267 Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Caguas. La propiedad ubica en: Lot 4 SR 175 Km 1.3 Sector Buena Vista Bo San Antonio, Caguas, PR. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 18 de septiembre de 2019 y notificada el 23 de octubre de 2019, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $105,947.69 por concepto de principal; $5,230.90 por concepto de intereses acumulados, $559.80 por concepto de cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito; $1,917.80 por concepto de ‘’Escrow Advances’’ y la suma $10,908.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca, excepto el gravamen preferentes aquí antes mencionado. 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 1 DE JUNIO DE 2021 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Caguas,

Caguas, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $109,080.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 8 DE JUNIO DE 2021 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $72,720.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 15 DE JUNIO DE 2021 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $54,540.00, 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

LEGAL NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY The United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services (WS) program has issued a Decision and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for an Environmental Assessment (EA) that evaluated potential impacts to the quality of the human environment from the implementation of a management program to address damage caused by several mammal and reptile species in Puerto Rico. The EA was prepared to facilitate coordination between agencies, streamline program management, and clearly communicate with the public the analysis of individual and cumulative impacts of the proposed program. Based on the analyses contained in the EA, it was concluded that the proposed action would not have a significant impact upon the quality of the human environment.

Interested parties may obtain the Decision/FONSI and the final EA by contacting USDA/APHIS/ WS, 6155 Heath Road, Auburn, Alabama 36830 or by visiting the website at https://www.regulations.gov. In the search box on the website, enter APHIS-2021-0009.

The San Juan Daily Star 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 19 de abril de 2021. ALBERTO NEGRON ROMAN, Alguacil, División de Subastas, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

ALEXANDER FEBUS MEDINA, NELLY MARIZA DOMÍNGUEZ TAVERAS T/C/C NELLY DOMINGUEZ TAVERAS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: SJ2019CV02086 (604). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA).

EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Uni-

dos de América el 20 de mayo de 2021, ,a las 11:00 de la mañana, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en APARTAMENTO 103 CALLE ERNESTO CERRA 627 SAN JUAN, PR 00926 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento número ciento tres (103).

Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la primera planta del edificio marcado seiscientos veinte y siete (627) que está situado en Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. El área aproximada del apartamento es de quinientos cuarenta y uno con cuarenta y siete centésimas de pies cuadrados (541.47 p/c), equivalentes a cincuenta metros cuadrados con tres mil veinticinco diezmilésimas de metros cuadrado (50.3025 m/c). Sus linderos son los siguientes: Por el NORTE, con el patio interior y estacionamiento; al SUR, con solar de Gregorio Dimas; al ESTE, con el apartamento número ciento cuatro (104); y al OESTE, con el apartamento ciento dos (102).

La puerta de entrada de este apartamento esta situada en su lindero Norte. Consta de dos (2) habitaciones dormitorios, un baño, sala, comedor, cocina, patio interior con laundry. La sala, comedor y cocina están combinados. Le corresponde al apartamento ciento tres (103) el estacionamiento marcado número cuatro (4), sin techar, localizado en el primer nivel con una superficie de trece con cuatro centésimas (13.04 m/c).

Este colinda por el Norte con la Iglesia Católica, por el Sur, con patio del estacionamiento, por el Este con el estacionamiento marcado numero cinco (5); y por el Oeste con numero tres (3). Este apartamento tiene una participación equivalente a siete punto cinco mil ciento noventa y ocho por ciento (7.5198%) en los elementos comunes del Edificio. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 108 del Tomo 391 de Santurce Sur, finca número 21,849, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Primera (1ra). El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $45,900.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 27 de mayo de 2021, ,a las 11:00 de la mañana.

En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $30,600.00. Si tampoco hu-

Thursday, April 29, 2021 biere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 7 de junio de 2021, ,a las 11:00 de la mañana. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $22,950.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 1093 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de septiembre de 2003, ante el Notario Julio Francisco Fernández Rodríguez, y consta inscrita al folio 108 del tomo 391 de Santurce Sur, finca número 21,848, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Primera (1ra), inscripción Tercera (3ra).

Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido condenando a la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $35,383.57 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de septiembre de 2018, más intereses al tipo pactado de 7.95% anual. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación.

Además, la parte demandada adeuda los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $4,590.00. Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $4,590.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, y una suma equivalente a $4,590.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que

se relacionan a continuación.

Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de La Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $15,000.00, sin intereses, vencedero el día 19 de septiembre de 2011, constituida mediante la escritura número 1094, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de septiembre de 2003, ante el notario Julio Francisco Fernández Rodríguez, e inscrita al folio 108 del tomo 391 de Santurce Sur, finca número 21,849, inscripción 2da. Sujeta a Condiciones Restrictivas: Bajo el Programa “La llave para tu hogar”, los deudores hipotecarios no podrán vender, donar, permutar, o de cualquier otro modo, transferir la propiedad dentro de un período de ocho (8) años. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 19 de abril de 2021. PEDRO HIEYE GONZALEZ, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR.

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

JUAN.

BAUTISTA REO PR CORP. Demandante, v.

INMOBILIARIA DE DIEGO, INC.; CÉSAR CEDANO HERRERA, DAMARYS BREA TINEO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandada CIVIL NÚM.: KCD2014-0632 (503). SOBRE: ACCIÓN IN REM Y EJECUCIÓN DE PRENDA E HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S. El(la) Alguacil que suscribe, por la presente anuncia y hace constar, que la Sentencia In Rem, expedida el 3 de enero de 2018 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, quien pagará el importe de la venta en dinero efectivo o en cheque certificado o de gerente, a la orden del Alguacil suscribiente, en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, el día 24 de mayo de 2021, a la(s) 10:30 a.m. para la Finca número 19,582; en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de San Juan, todo título, derecho o interés que corresponda a la parte demandada sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: Finca Número 19,582. URBANA: Solar sito en el Barrio Monacillos de la Municipalidad de Río Piedras, marcado con el Número tres guión A (3-A) de la Manzana “Y” de la Urbanización Caparra Terrace, con un área superficial de doscientos treinta y ocho punto setecientos veinticinco metros cuadrados (238.725 m.c.), el cual colinda por el NORTE, con terrenos de la Iglesia Católica; por el SUR, con la Avenida Central de la Urbanización; por el ESTE, con propiedad tres B (3B) de la Manzana “Y”; y por el OESTE, con el Solar Número dos (2) de la Manzana “Y”.

Enclava una casa con pared medianera. Consta inscrita al folio ciento veintisiete (127) del tomo quinientos cincuenta y dos (552) de Monacillos, finca número diecinueve mil quinientos ochenta y dos (19,582), en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Tercera.

Dirección física: 1591 Ave. Jesus T. Piñero, Caparra Terrace Development, San Juan, Puerto Rico. La propiedad descrita anteriormente afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: a) Por su procedencia está afecta a: Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico. Condiciones restrictivas sobre edificación y uso.b) Por sí está afecta a: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la suma principal

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de $265,000.00, con intereses al 6.95% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 275, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de diciembre del 2003, ante el Notario Público Manuel L. Correa Márquez, e inscrita al folio 11 del tomo 995 de Monacillos, finca número 19,582, inscripción 11ra. c) Aviso de Demanda del día 24 de septiembre del 2012, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número KCD20122335, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por Doral Bank, contra Inmobiliaria de Diego, Inc., Cesar Cedano Herrera y su esposa Damarys Brea Tineo, por la suma de $455,931.26, anotado el día 8 de febrero del 2013, al folio 11, del tomo 995 de Monacillos, finca número 19,582, Anotación A. d) Embargo Federal contra César Cedano Herrera, por la suma de $19,464.36, notificación número 582062009, anotado el día 25 de septiembre del 2009, al folio 167, Asiento 1, del libro de Embargos Federales número 4. e) Embargo Federal contra César Cedano Herrera, Damarys Brea Tineo, dirección Ave. De Diego 614, San Juan, P.R., 00920, por la suma de $30,209.81, notificación número 132978614, anotado el día 8 de diciembre del 2014, al folio 156, Asiento 3, del libro de Embargos Federales número 7. f) Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra César Cedano Herrero y Damarys Brea Tineo, en la suma de $28,610.92, Embargo número GUA-18-0313, según Certificación de fecha 11 de abril del 2018, anotado el día 26 de julio del 2018 al Asiento 2018-005942-EST del Sistema Karibe. Registro de Embargos del ELA, incluyendo los de la Ley número 12 del día 20 de enero de 2010. Según pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca Número 275, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de diciembre de 2003, ante el Notario Público Manuel L. Correa Márquez, servirá como tipo mínimo para la primera subasta de la propiedad antes descrita la suma de $265,000.00. De no adjudicarse la Finca número 19,582 en la primera subasta, se celebrará una segunda subasta, en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 1 de junio de 2021, a la(s) 10:30 a.m.

El tipo mínimo para la segunda subasta será dos terceras partes (2/3) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $176,666.67. De no adjudicarse la Finca número 19,582 en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 8 de junio de 2021, a la(s) 10:30 a.m. El tipo mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo que se pactará para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma

de $132,500.00. La venta en pública subasta de la propiedad descrita anteriormente se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dicha propiedad. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si lo hubiera, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución, continuará subsistente, entendiéndose además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables.

El Alguacil 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. POR LA PRESENTE, se les notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas registrales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrará la SUBASTA en la fecha, hora y sitio anteriormente señalados, y se les invita a que concurran a dicha subasta, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecutante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efectuar tal subrogación.

Y PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde se celebrarán las subastas señaladas. Además, en un periódico de circulación general en dos (2) ocasiones y mediante correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada. EXPEDIDO el presente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 20 de abril de 2021. Edwin E. López Mulero, Alguacil Auxiliar, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

QUE EL 16 DE ABRIL DE 2021 , ESTE TRIBUNAL HA DICTADO SENTENCIA, SENTENCIA PARCIAL O RESOLUCION EN ESTE CASO, QUE HA SIDO DEBIDAMENTE REGISTRADA Y ARCHIVADA EN AUTOS DONDE PODRA USTED ENTERARSE DETALLADAMENTE DE LOS TERMINOS DE LA MISMA. ESTA NOTIFICACION SE PUBLICARA UNA SOLA VEZ EN UN PERIODICO DE CIRCULACION GENERAL EN LA ISLA DE PUERTO RICO, DENTRO DE LOS 10 DIAS SIGUIENTES A SU NOTIFICACION. Y, SIENDO O REPRESENTANDO USTED UNA PARTE EN EL PROCEDIMIENTO SUJETA A LOS TERMINOS DE LA SENTENCIA, SENTENCIA PARCIAL O RESOLUCION, DE LA CUAL PUEDE ESTABLECERSE RECURSO DE REVISION O APELACION DENTRO DEL TERMINO DE 30 DIAS CONTADOS A PARTIR DE LA PUBLICACION POR EDICTO DE ESTA NOTIFICACION, DIRIJO A USTED ESTA NOTIFICACION QUE SE CONSIDERARA HECHA EN LA FECHA DE LA PUBLICACION DE ESTE DICTO. COPIA DE ESTA NOTIFICACION HA SIDO ARCHIVADA EN LOS AUTOS DE ESTE CASO, CON FECHA DE 19 DE ABRIL DE 2021.

LIC. RODRÍGUEZ REYES, VÍCTOR M. VRODRIGUEZREYES@ FERRAIUOLI.COM EN GUAYAMA, PUERTO RICO, A 19 DE ABRIL DE 2021. MARISOL ROSADO RODRIGUEZ, SECRETARIO. POR: F/ SANDRA IRIS COLON GUZMAN, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR.

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

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

SUCESION DE PURA LUZ COLON DELGADO COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; LUIS ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ QUESADA

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Demandados TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSCIVIL NUM: RG2021CV00064 TANCIA SALA DE GUAYAMA(307). SOBRE: INTERPELASUPERIOR. CION, COBRO DE DINERO Y HIBISCUSPR LENDCO EJECUCION DE GARANTÍAS. LLC EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICVS TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE CRUZ RODRIGUEZ, DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS WALBERT CASO: GCD2011-0208. SO- EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIABRE: EJECUCION DE HIPO- DO DE PUERTO RICO. ss.

TECA.

A: LAURA ENID RODRIGUEZ LOPEZ

NOTIFICACION DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. EL SECRETARIO(A) QUE SUSCRIBE LE NOTIFICA A USTED

A: Fulano y Mengano de Tal como posibles herederos desconocidos de la Sucesión de Pura Luz Colón Delgado DIRECCION

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Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda enmendada 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 Casas (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramaiudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre interpelación, Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Garantías en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene a La a pagar: la suma principal de $42,243.66, la suma de $729.28, por concepto de atrasos acumulados pactados en la modificación, por concepto de atrasos acumulados por la moratoria debido al paso del huracán Maria, la suma de $10,424.20, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados.

Se le apercibe que si dejare de hacerlo, se dictara contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda enmendada, sin más citarle ni oírle. Se ordena a los herederos desconocido a que dentro del mismo termino de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de notificación, ACEPTEN O REPUDIEN la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de la causante Pura Luz Colon Delgado.

Se les apercibe que de no expresarse dentro del término de (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por aceptada.

Lcda. Carolina Maria Mejia Lugo, Numero del Tribunal Supremo 19857 221 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900, San Juan, PR 00917, Teléfono: (787) 296-9500, Correo electrónico: cmejia@lvprlaw.com EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 20 de abril de 2021. WANDAI.SEGUI REYES, Secretaria.

DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; LUIS ALFREDO RODRÍGUEZ QUESADA

Demandado CIVIL NUM: RG2021CV00064 (307). SOBRE: INTERPELACION, COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE GARANTIAS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. ss.

A: LUIS ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ QUESADA Barrio Carola, Parcela 95A, Calle 6, Rio Grande, PR, 00745 DE: FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda enmendada dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted debería presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Interpelación, Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de garantías en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene a la parte co-demandada La Sucesión de Pura Luz Colon Delgado compuesta por Fulano y Mengano de Tal a pagar: la suma principal de $42,243.66, la suma de $729.28, por concepto de atrasos acumulados pactados en la modificación, por concepto de atrasos acumulados por la moratoria debido al paso del Huracán Maria, la suma de $10,424.20, que incluye intereses, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se le apercibe que si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda enmendada, sin más citarle LEGAL NOTICE ni oírle.

Lcda. Carolina Maria Mejia Lugo, Numero del Tribunal Supremo 19857 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO 221 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUSan Juan, PR 00917, NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Teléfono: (787) 296-9500, SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARCorreo Electrónico: cmejia@lvprlaw.com DO EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA FIRSTBANK y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 20 de PUERTO RICO abril de 2021. WANDAI.SEGUI Demandante V. REYES, Secretaria.

SUCESION DE PURA LUZ COLÓN DELGADO COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO

The San Juan Daily Star

Thursday, April 29, 2021

mera lnstancia Sala Superior de tificación se publicará una sola San Juan. vez en un periódico de circulaBANCO POPULAR DE ción general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días PUERTO RICO siguientes a su notificación. Y, Parte Demandante vs. siendo o representando usted SUCESION DE una parte en el procedimiento GUILLERMO LIZALDO sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o ReRIVERO T/C/C GUILLERMO LIZARDO solución, de la cual puede esrecurso de revisión RIVERO, COMPUESTA tablecerse o apelación dentro del término POR SU VIUDA de 30 días contados a partir CECILIA MARCELINO de la publicación por edicto de CANDELARIO T/C/C ANA esta notificación, dirijo a usted notificación que se consiCECILIA MARCELINO esta derará hecha en la fecha de la CANDELARIO, POR publicación de este edicto. CoSi Y COMO MIEMBRO pia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este DE LA SUCESION caso, con fecha de 23 de abril DE GUILLERMO de 2021. En San Juan , PuerLIZALDO RIVERO to Rico, el 23 de abril de 2021.

T/C/C GUILLERMO GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLIZARDO RIVERO Y EN LLADO, Secretaria Regional. f/ REPRESENTACION DEL ELSA MAGALY CANDELARIO CABRERA, Secretaria Auxiliar.

INTERES DE LA MENOR ANGELICA LIZARDO MARCELINO, CESAR GUILERMNY LIZARDO MARCELINO, JOANY LIZARDO MARCELINO, KERLIN LIZARDO MARCELINO, Y CESAR MANUEL LIZARDO MARCELINO

Parte Demandada CIVILN OM: SJ2019CV05253 (506). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACION DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SUCESION DE GUILLERMO LIZALDO RIVERO T/C/C GUILLERMO LIZARDO RIVERO, COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDA CECILIA MARCELINO CANDELARIO T/C/C ANA CECILIA MARCELINO CANDELARIO, POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE GUILLERMO LIZALDO RIVERO T/C/C GUILLERMO LIZARDO RIVERO Y EN REPRESENTACION DEL INTERES DE LA MENOR ANGELICA LIZARDO MARCELINO, CESAR GUILERMNY LIZARDO MARCELINO, JOANY LIZARDO MARCELINO, KERLIN LIZARDO MARCELINO, Y CESAR MANUEL LIZARDO MARCELINO

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de abril de 2021 , este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada LEGAL NOTICE en autos donde podrá usted enEstado Libre Asociado de Puerterarse detalladamente de los to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL términos de la misma. Esta noDE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Pri-

demanda presentando el Original de la Contestación, ante el Tribunal correspondiente, con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotara la rebeldía y se dictara Sentencia para conceder el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA, y el sello del Tribunal en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 22 de abril de 2021. Wanda I Seguí Reyes, Sec Regional. Gloraida Rodríguez Rivera, Sec Auxiliar.

DERECHO DE DORAL BANK LLC, POR CONDUCTO DE SU AGENTE RESIDENTE FGR CORPORATE SERVICES, INC: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES CON INTERES

Ingresos Municipates; Estados Unidos de America

ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES CON INTERES

Sutano de Tal corno cualquier miembro aún desconocido de la Sucesión de Edna Margarita Rodriguez Ramos t/c/c Edna Rodriguez t/c/c Edna Rodriguez Ramos y/o como cualquier otra persona con interds en este caso.

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: CA2020CV00220.

SALA: 403. SOBRE: Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por Ia Via Ordinaria. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIDemandado (a) BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO Civil Num.: SJ2021CV00952.

RICO. LEGAL NOTICE Sala: 607. Sobre: CANCELAA: Ariadna Alvarez Estado Libre Asociado de Puer- CION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIAto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DO. NOTIFICACION DE SENRodriguez, Daniel DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Pri- TENCIA POR EDICTO. Ganbaroa Rodriguez, mera Instancia Sala Superior A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD Fulano de Tal y de CAROLINA.

BOSCO CREDIT X, LLC Demandante v.

JOSEFINA CRUZ PADILLA Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Civil Núm. CA2019CV00685.

SALA 409. Sobre: EJECUCION LEGAL NOTICE DE HIPOTECA VIA ORDINAESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO RIA (IN REM). NOTIFICACIÓN DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: ROBERTO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARBARRETO VELEZ (Nombre de las partes a las que se le DO. notifican la sentencia por edicto) KEYSHLA DIAZ GAR EL SECRETARIO(A) que susParte Demandante Vs. cribe le notifica a usted que el GADDIEL 22 de abril de 2021, este TriRODRÍGUEZ BÁEZ bunal ha dictado Sentencia, Parte Demandada Sentencia Parcial o Resolución CASO NUM: RG2021RF00013. en este caso, que ha sido debiSALA: 202. SOBRE: DIVOR- damente registrada y archivada CIO (Ruptura Irreparable). en autos donde podrá usted EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC- enterarse detalladamente de TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE los términos de la misma. Esta AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE notificación se publicará una DE LOS E.E.U.U. EL ESTADO sola vez en un periódico de LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR. SS. circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los A: GADDIEL 10 días siguientes a su notificaRODRÍGUEZ BÁEZ ción. Y, siendo o representando 158 Colorado St. usted una parte en el procediApt. 208 Muscatine, miento sujeta a los términos de Iowa City, Iowa, Estados la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede Unidos 52761 POR LA PRESENTE se le no- establecerse recurso de retifica que la demandante ha visión o apelación dentro del radicado una Demanda sobre término de 30 días contados a divorcio por la causal de rup- partir de la publicación por edictura irreparable. Habiéndose to de esta notificación, dirijo a ordenado la publicación de un usted esta notificación que se Emplazamiento por Edicto para considerará hecha en la fecha emplazarlo a usted, durante el de la publicación de este edicto. término que establece la Ley, Copia de esta notificación ha en un periódico de circulación sido archivada en los autos de general en la Isla de Puerto este caso, con fecha de 23 de Rico. POR ESTE MEDIO, se le abril de 2021. En CAROLINA, emplaza por Edicto y requiere a Puerto Rico, el 23 de abril de usted, la parte con interés, para 2021. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRIGUEZ, Secretaria. que notifique al: LCDO. RICARDO M. PRIETO GARCÍA, MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, a su dirección postal 6 CALLE CELlS Sec Auxiliar.

AGUILERA S, SUITE 201-A, FAJARDO, PUERTO RICO, 00738, LEGAL NOTICE Tel. (787) 860-0875, y/o a su email: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerprietolawoffice@yahoo.com, to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL con copia de su contestación DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Prialas alegaciones de la Demanmera Instancia Sala Superior da en este caso, las cuales pode San Juan. drá usted examinar en la Sala de Fajardo, del Tribunal de SANTANDER FINNACIAL Primera Instancia, Sección SuSERVICES INC perior, dentro de los treinta (30) Demandante días contados desde el siguienFEDERAL DEPOSIT te día a la fecha de la publicaINSURANCE ción de este Emplazamiento por CORPORATION (FDIC) Edicto, con la advertencia a los COMO SUCESOR EN efectos de que si no contesta la

EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de abril de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicara una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los diez (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 termino de 30 dias contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerara hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de abril de 2021. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 26 de abril de 2021. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Secretaria Regional. F/ MARTHA ALMODOVAR CABRERA, Secretaria Auxiliar.

POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en La Secretaria de este Tribunal la Demanda del caso del epígrafe solicitando Ia ejecución de hipoteca y el cobro de dinero relacionado at pagaré suscrito a favor de Senior Mortgage Bankers, Inc., o a su orden, por Ia suma principal de $204,000.00, más intereses computado s sobre Ia misma desde su fecha hasta su total y completo pago a razón de Ia tasa de interés de 5.060% anual, Ia cual será ajustada mensualmente, obligándose además al pago de costas, gastos y desembolsos del litigio, más honorarios de abogados en una suma de $20,400.00 equivalente at 10% de La suma principal original. Este pagaré fue suscrito bajo el afidávit número 6599 ante Ia notaria público Maria Georgina Chévere Mouriño. Lo anterior surge de Ia hipoteca constituida mediante LEGAL NOTICE Ia escritura número 953 otorgaESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO da el 26 de octubre de 2011, en DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, ante La 1W PRIMERA INSTANCIA notaria pUblico Maria Georgina Chévere Mouriño, inscrita a! FoSALA DE CAROLINA. lio 121 del Tomo 1,020 de CaWilmington Savings Registro de Ia Propiedad Fund Society, FSB, as rolina, de Puerto Rico, Sección I de trustee of Finance of Carolina, finca número 11,181.

America Structured La hipoteca grava Ia propiedad Securities Acquisition que describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar nUmero tres Trust 2019-HB1 del Bloque “L” de Ia UrbanizaDEMANDANTE Vs. ción Castellana Garden Barrio Sucesión de Edna Sabana Abajo de Carolina, Margarita Rodriguez Puerto Rico, con una cabida de trescientos metros quince centíRamos t/c/c Edna metros cuadrados. Colinda por Rodriguez t/c/c Edna el NORTE, en una distancia de Rodriguez Ramos trece metros cinco centímetros compuesta por Ariadna con el Solar L-diez; por el SUR, Alvarez Rodriguez, en trece metros cinco centímetros con la Calle catorce; por Daniel Ganbaroa Rodriguez, Sutano de tat el ESTE, en veintitrés metros con el Solar L-cuatro y por el y Fulano de tat; Centro OESTE, en veintitrés metros de Recaudaciones de con el Solar L-dos. A to largo de

la colindancia Norte existe una servidumbre a favor de Ia Puerto Rico Telephone Company y a to largo de su colindancia Este hay otra a favor de La Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico. Contiene una casa de concreto armado y bloques de concreto de una Solar planta que consiste de sala-comedor, cocina, tres dormitorios, dos baños, marquesina y balcón.

Property number 11,181, (previously 22972) recorded at page 156 of volume 295 of Carolina.

Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Carolina.

Se apercibe y advierte a ustedes como personas desconocidas, que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), at 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 Ia secretarIa del Tribunal. De no contestar Ia demanda radicando el original de Ia contestación ante Ia secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, y notificar copia de Ia contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda.

Charline Michelle Jiménez Echevarría, Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 009367308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, dentro de los próximos (60) días a partir de Ia publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diana general en Ia isla de Puerto Rico, se Ic anotara Ia rebeldía y se dictara sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitando en Ia Demanda sin más citarle ni oirle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 28 de febrero de 2020. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodriguez, Sec Regional. Eliann Reyes Morales, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de BAYAMON.

MIGUEL ANGEL GARCIA RIVERA, AIDA L. BERMUDEZ OQUENDO Y S/L/G Demandante v.

EX PARTE

Demandado(a) Civil: VB2020CV00465. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE, ISIDRO PANTOJA Y RESTAURANTE LA FAMILIA Y CUALQUIER OTRA PERSONA IGNORADA O DESCONOCIDA A QUIEN

The San Juan Daily Star

PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCION SOLICITADA

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 15 de abril de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de abril de 2021. En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 28 de abril de 2021. LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria. F/LUREIMY ALICEA GONZALEZ, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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

WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS CERTIFICATE TRUSTEE OF BOSCO CREDIT II TRUST SERIES 2017-1, BY FRANKLIN CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION AS SERVICER Plaintiff, v.

ANGEL MIGUEL GARCIA RODRIGUEZ; WILMARY BERENGUER CALDERON AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUED BETWEEN THEM;

Defendant CIVIL NO. 3:19-cv-02167DRD. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: ANGEL MIGUEL GARCIA RODRIGUEZ; WILMARY BERENGUER CALDERON AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUED BETWEEN THEM; AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC

WHEREAS: On June 17, 2020,

this Court entered Judgment in favor of Plaintiff, against Defendants. On August 3rd, 2020, this Court entered Order for Execution of Judgment. Pursuant to the Judgment, the Defendants were Ordered to pay Plaintiff the amount of $81,214.51 of principal of the said mortgage note, accrued interest at the annual rate of 6.375% which continues to accrue, plus fees, costs and any other amount expressly agreed upon in the mortgage deed, plus 10% for agreed upon attorneys’ fees in the amount of $8,500.00, plus all expenses and advances made by the plaintiff. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment and the Order for Execution of Judgment thereof, the following property belonging to the Defendants will be sold at a public auction: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Candelaria de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, compuesto de un área superficial de 509.605 en lindes: por el Norte, con terrenos de Manuel Casanova; por el Sur con el remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega, por el Este, con calle municipal y faja de terreno dedicado a uso público; y al Oeste, con Pepsi Cola Bottlers. Recorded at page 125 of volume 505 of Toa Baja, property number 27835, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Bayamón. The property is located at: SR-2, KM 19.9, Paco Davila St. 4th Lot at Right, Candelaria Arenas Toa Baja, Puerto Rico 00949. WHEREAS: The mortgage that encumbers the above described property is described as follows: MORTGAGE: For $85,000.00 with an annual interest of 6.375% in guarantee of a promissory note in favor of Doral Financial Corporation, DBA H.F. Mortgage Bankers or to order, due on July 1, 2034.

According to deed #451 executed in San Juan on June 30, 2004 before Jorge J. Villavicencio. Recorded on page 49 of volume 553 in Toa Baja, 4th entry. PARTIAL CANCELLATION AND MODIFICATION OF MORTGAGE: Partial cancellation of mortgage recorded on the 4th entry with a reduction amounting $5,114.16, for new principal of $79,885.84. Annual interest is modified to 5.375%.

Monthly payment including principal and interest will amount $361.58, beginning on November 1, 2015. Due on October 1, 2046. Debtors acknowledge that, of the actual outstanding balance, a final payment of $15,318.00 will remail. According to deed #506 executed in San Juan on October 31, 2016 before Julio E. Pijem Berríos.

Rectified by deed #332 executed in San Juan, on August 10, 2017 before the same notary.

Both recorded on volume Karibe of Section II in Bayamón, plot #27835 in Toa Baja, 6th entry and annotation on the margin, dated November 10, 2016.

Puerto Rico Housing Finance

Thursday, April 29, 2021 Authority has consented to the modification transaction. According to deed #87 executed on October 2, 2018 before Ramón Bordelies Díaz. Recorded on volume Karibe of Section II in Bayamón, plot #27835 in Toa Baja, on an annotation on the margin of the 6th entry, dated December 3, 2018. WHEREAS: The property is subject to the following junior liens: MORTGAGE: For $5,000.00, no interest, in guarantee of a promissory note in favor of the Puerto Rico Housing Finance Authority or to the order, due on June 30, 2010. According to deed #452 executed in San Juan on June 30, 2004 before Jorge J. Villavicencio. Recorded on page 49 of volume 553 in Toa Baja, 5th entry. FORECLOSURE NOTICE: Issued on civil case #DCD20153021 at Court of First Instance, Bayamón Part, pursued

by Scotiabank de Puerto Rico (Petitioner) v. Ángel Miguel Gacía Rodríguez and Wilmary Berenguer Calderón, husband and wife, and the community property regime instituted by both, (Defendants). Petitioners request payment of debt guaranteed by mortgage recorded on the 4th entry, reduced to the amount of $70,596.86, plus interests, and other amounts, or its settlement via public auction of the plot. Recorded on volume Karibe of Sectin II in Bayamón, plot #27835 in Toa Baha, annotation A, dated February 8, 2016. FORECLOSURE NOTICE: Issued on civil #FC-106080820 at the Court of First Instance, Bayamón Part, pursued

by Franklin Credit Management (Petitioner) vs. Ángel Miguel García Rodríguez (Defendant).

Petitioner requests payment of debt guaranteed by mortgage recorded on the 4th entry, which amounts to $73,123.15 plus interests and other amounts, or its settlement via public auction of the plot. Recorded on volume Karibe of Section II in Bayamón, plot #27835 in Toa Baja, annotation B (last annotation), dated February 19, 2019.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including, but not limited to any property tax, liens (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the price shall be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. WHEREAS: For the purpose of the first judicial sale, the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the mortgage deed will be $79,885.84, for the property and no lower offers will be accepted. Should the first judicial sale of the above descri-

bed property be unsuccessful, then the minimum bid for the property on the second judicial sale will be two-thirds the amount of the minimum bid for the first judicial sale, or $53,257.23.

The minimum bid for the third judicial sale, if the same is necessary, will be one-half of the minimum bid agreed upon the parties in the aforementioned mortgage deed, or $39,942.92.

(Known in the Spanish language as: “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”, 2015 Puerto Rico Laws Act 210 (H.B. 2479), Articule 104, as amended). WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 or 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. NOW THEREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before referred to, will, on the 9h day of July 2021 at 1:30 pm, in his offices located at Mayagüez Street #134, San Juan, Puerto Rico, in accordance with 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2001, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. Should the first judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the second judicial sale of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 16th day of July 2021 at 1:30 pm, in the Office of the Special Master located at the address indicated above. Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the third judicial sale of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 23th day of July 2021 at 1:30 pm, in the Office of the Special Master located at the address indicated above. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 14 day of April 2021.

Victor Encarnacion Pichardo, Appointed Special Master.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC. Demandante v.

JOHNNY MANUEL LIZARDO MATARRANZ, YADILZA MILAGROS MALDONADO ALCANTARA

Demandados CIVIL NUM.: DCD2013-0874.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO - EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, al PUBLICO EN GENERAL; y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: RG Premier Bank of Puerto Rico: A cuyo favor aparece una hipoteca por la suma principal de $235,665.75, con intereses al 6.500% anual, vencedero el día 1 de mayo de 2035, constituida mediante la escritura número 295, otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el día 10 de mayo de 2005, ante el notario Juan Antonio Morales Serrano, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Dorado, finca número 15,330, inscripción 3ra. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 5 de marzo de 2020, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Lote de terreno identificado como lote número 704, situado en la Urbanización Molino del Río del Barrio Río Lajas del Municipio de Dorado, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 452.37 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.1151 cuerdas, colindando por el NORTE, con la Calle Isabel de Castilla, en 29.00 metros lineales, en una línea recta de 5.50 metros lineales; por el SUR, con Lote número 703, en 32.50 metros lineales; por el ESTE, con la Calle Fernando de Aragón, en 10.50 metros lineales; y por el OESTE, con el Lote número 705, en 14.00 metros lineales. En el lote antes descrito se encuentra enclavada una residencia unifamiliar de construcción de hormigón armado y bloques. Esta estructura residencial se compone de 4 dormitorios, dos y medio baños, 2 salas, comedor, cocina y marquesina doble techada. Finca

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Número 15,330 inscrita al tomo Karibe de Dorado, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de Bayamón. La propiedad ubica en: Molinos de Río, #704 Fernando de Aragón, Dorado, PR. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 27 de diciembre de 2013 y notificada el 3 de septiembre de 2019 en el presente caso civil, a saber, la suma de $320,581.64 por concepto de principal; intereses al 4.375% y la suma $32,411.93 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 día 15 DE JULIO DE 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el quinto piso, Sala 503 del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es por la cantidad de $324,119.30.

Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 22 DE JULIO DE 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el quinto piso, Sala 503 del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $216,079.53, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 29 DE JULIO DE 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el quinto piso, Sala 503 del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $162,059.65, 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. Los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o 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 pueden concurrir a la subasta si les convienen 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.

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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de abril de 2021. MARIBEL LANZAR VELAZQUEZ, Alguacil, División de Subastas, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón .

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC. Demandante v.

VIRGILIO VALENTÍN ORTÍZ Demandados

CIVIL NUM.: DCD2015-2018.

SALA: 402. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 30 de marzo de 2021, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 18 de la Manzana “41”, en la Urbanización Santa Rosa, Barrio Juan Sánchez, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 344.62 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con solar número #17, en 21.00 metros; por el SUR, con solar número #19, en igual medida; por el ESTE, con Calle número #23, en 17.96 metros y un radio de 123 metros 50 centímetros y por el OESTE, con solares números 22 y 23, en 15 metros. Inscrito al folio 112 del tomo 1,846 de Bayamón, finca número #20,607, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Bayamón. La propiedad ubica en: #18 Blk-41 Calle 23 Urb. Santa Rosa, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 10 de marzo de 2017 y notificada el 21 de abril de 2017, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $116,416.75 por concepto de principal; $707.33 por concepto de intereses acumulados, $748.58 por concepto de 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 $12,457.60 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 15 DE JULIO DE 2021 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el quinto piso, Sala 503 del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $124,576.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 22 DE

24 JULIO DE 2021 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el quinto piso, Sala 503 del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $83,050.65, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 29 DE JULIO DE 2021 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el quinto piso, Sala 503 del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $62,288.00, 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, ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO sin destinarse a su extinción el LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERprecio del remate. EXPIDO, el TO RICO. presente EDICTO, en BayaA: ANTHONY JIMÉNEZ món, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de RODRÍGUEZ abril de 2021. MARIBEL LANZAR VELAZQUEZ, Alguacil, Di- 2504 Richland Ave, Apt A Metaire, LA 7001 visión de Subastas Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior ó ANTHONY JIMÉNEZ de Bayamón.

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUER- Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este TO RICO. Tribunal por la parte demandanReverse Mortgage te, una demanda sobre PrivaFunding, LLC ción de Patria Potestad. ReprePlaintiff v. senta a la parte demandante: Emilio Velázquez Santos NATALIE FIGUEROA RODRIGUEZ RUA NÚM. 19199 a/k/a Emilio Velázquez; PMB 325, PO Box 194000 Margarita Torres Arce San Juan, PR 00919-4000 Tel. 787-598-9531 a/k/a Margarita Torres; despacholegalfigueroa@gmail.com Conjugal Partnership Se le advierte que este edicto Velázquez Torres; United se publicará en un periódico States of America. de circulación general una sola Defendants vez y que si no comparece en el CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:19-cv- término de treinta (30) días des01188-JAG. NOTICE OF JUD- de su publicación a contestar la GMENT BY PUBLICATION. demanda radicando el original de la Contestación ante este To: Emilio Velázquez Tribunal, con copia al abogado Santos a/k/a Emilio de la parte demandante. Usted Velázquez; Margarita deberá presentar su alegación Torres Arce a/k/a responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y AdminisMargarita Torres; Conjugal Partnership tración de Casos (SUMAC), al puede acceder utilizando Velázquez Torres; United cual la siguiente dirección electróniStates of America ca: https://unired.ramajudicial.

The Clerk of the Court hereby pr, salvo que se presene por notifies defendant that on Ja- derecho propio, en cuyo caso nuary 19, 2021 this Court en- deberá presentar su alegación tered Judgment for Collection responsiva en la secretaría del of Monies and Foreclosure that tribunal. Si usted deja de preappears registered in the doc- sentar su alegación responsiva ket of this case, where you can dentro del referido término, el be informed of its terms. This tribunal podrá dictar sentencia Notice shall be published once en rebeldía en su contra y conin a newspaper of general cir- ceder el remedio solicitado en culation on the island of Puerto la demanda, o cualquier otro, Rico, during the term of ten (10) si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de days after its notification. And, su sana discreción, lo entienetaking into consideration that de procedente.

EXPEDIDO you have been a party to this bajo mi firma y sello del TRIBUcase and subject to the terms NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, of the Judgment from which you SALA DE Bayamón. En Bayacan request reconsideration or món, Puerto Rico, hoy 21 de appeal in the term of thirty (30) abril de 2021. LCDA. LAURA days from the date the notice of I SANTA SANCHEZ, Sec Rejudgment by publication is pu- gional. Evelyn Torres Figueroa, blished, this notice is entered, SubSecretaria. on this date, April 26th, 2021.

MARIA ANTONGIORGI-JORLEGAL NOTICE DAN, ESQ., Clerk of the Court .

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO By: ANA E. DURAN-CAPELLA, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDeputy Clerk.

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLEGAL NOTICE LINA. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO BANCO POPULAR DE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA PUERTO RICO SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAPARTE DEMANDANTE VS. MON. LA SUCESIÓN DE

JENNIFER GONZALEZ SANTANA Demandante v.

ANTHONY JIMENEZ RODRIGUEZ

Demandada Civil Núm.: CT2021RF00003.

SOBRE: PRIVACION PATRIA POTESTAD. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NORTE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS

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ENRIQUE MERCADO HERNÁNDEZ COMPUESTA POR TANIA KARINA MERCADO MUÑOZ, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, JOSEFA MERCEDES HERNÁNDEZ EN

LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA, DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES RELICTOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. CA2019CV01817.

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 dictada el 17 de diciembre de 2019, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 26 de enero de 2021 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 26 de enero de 2021 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 1 DE JUNIO DE 2021, a las 9:00 de la mañana, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, Carretera Número Tres (3) Kilómetro 11.7, Avenida 65 de Infantería, Intersección Carretera Número 853, Entrada Urb. Lomas de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número tres (3) del Bloque BL de la Urbanización Jardines de Country Club del Barrio Sabana Abajo del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área de trescientos metros treinta y ocho centésimas de metro cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 13.50 metros, con la calle número 116; por el SUR, en 13.50 metros con el solar número 26 del mismo bloque; por el ESTE, en 22.25 metros con el solar número 4 del mismo bloque; y por el OESTE, en 22.25 metros con el solar número 2 del mismo bloque.

Sobre dicho solar enclava una casa construida de concreto armado y bloques para fines residenciales. La propiedad consta inscrita al Folio 90 del Tomo 351 de Carolina, Registro de Carolina, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al Folio 108 del Tomo 937 de Carolina, Registro de Carolina, Sección I. Inscripción novena.

DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: JARDINES DE COUNTRY CLUB, BL‑3 CALLE 116, CAROLINA, PR 00983‑2019. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $113,680.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una segunda su-

basta, el día 8 DE JUNIO DE 2021, a las 9:00 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, $75,786.66. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 15 DE JUNIO DE 2021, a las 9:00 de la mañana en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $56,840.00. 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 $77,566.61 de principal, intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.5% anual desde el 1 de noviembre de 2018 hasta su completo pago, más $226.31 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $11,368.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del 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. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Sucesión de Enrique Mercado Hernández, compuesta por Tania Karina Mercado Muñoz, Fulano y Mengano de Tal, Josefa Mercedes Hernández, Departamento de Hacienda y el Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina en el caso civil número CA2019CV01817, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $77,566.61 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 23 de mayo de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Carolina. Anotación A. b. Embargo Estatal: Anotado sobre esta finca, como perteneciente a Enrique Mercado Hernández, por concepto de contribuciones sobre ingresos, por la suma de $1,437.70, según certificación de fecha 12 de mayo de 2015, expedido por Colector de Rentas Internas.

Anotada al Folio 2, Número de Orden 5 del Libro de Embargos Estatales Número 1 de Carolina, el 9 de julio de 2015. 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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 15 de abril de 2021. Manuel Villafañe Blanco, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.

SUCESIÓN de IRMA GONZÁLEZ ROMÁN t/c/c IRMA IDALIA GONZÁLEZ ROMÁN t/c/c IRMA GONZÁLEZ DE DÍAZ compuesta por: MELTON ORLANDO DÍAZ GONZÁLEZ, MELTON JAVIER DÍAZ GONZÁLEZ, MELTON ALEXIS DÍAZ GONZÁLEZ y MENGANO DE TAL, posible heredero desconocido, MELTON DÍAZ RIVERA t/c/c MELTRON DÍAZ RIVERA t/c/c MILTON JUAN DÍAZ RIVERA, por sí y en la cuota viudal usufructuaria, DEPARTAMENTO de HACIENDA por conducto de la DIVISIÓN de CAUDALES RELICTOS; CENTRO de RECAUDACIÓN de INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. CA2019CV01969 (408). 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 dictada el 30 de septiembre de 2019, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 26 de noviembre de 2019 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 9 de diciembre de 2019 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 1 DE JUNIO DE 2021, a las 9:15 de la mañana, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, Carretera Número Tres (3) Kilómetro 11.7, Avenida 65 de Infantería, Intersección Carretera Número 853, Entrada Urb. Lomas de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar en la Urbanización Villa Carolina, situada en el Barrio Hoyo Mulas de Carolina, Puerto Rico, marcado con el Número Tres (3) de la Manzana 155, con un área de 324.00 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número dos 2, distancia de 24.00 metros; por el SUR, con el solar número cuatro (4), en igual distancia; por el ESTE, con el solar número veintidós (22), distancia de 13.50 metros; y por el OESTE, con la Calle Número 429, en igual distancia. Contiene una casa en cemento para una familia.

La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 264 del tomo 729 de Carolina, Finca Número 29360, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II. La escritura de hipoteca y su modificación constan inscritas al folio 51 del tomo 1354 de Carolina, Finca Número 29360, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II. Inscripción sexta y séptima, respectivamente. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: VILLA CAROLINA, 155-3 CALLE 429, CAROLINA, PR 00985-4044. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $136,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una segunda subasta, el día 8 DE JUNIO DE 2021, 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, $90,666.66. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 15 DE JUNIO DE 2021, 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, $68,000.00. 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 $114,452.74 de principal, intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.25% anual desde el 1 de septiembre de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $303.84 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $12,337.33 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Sucesión de Irma González Román también conocida como Irma González de Díaz compuesta por Fulano y Mengano de Tal y Melton Díaz Rivera también conocido como Meltron Díaz Rivera, Departamento de Hacienda por conducto de la División de Caudales Relictos y el Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM), ante el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, en el caso civil número CA2019-CV01969, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $114,452.74 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 5 de junio de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Carolina. 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. 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 posterio-

The San Juan Daily Star res 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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 15 de abril de 2021. Manuel Villafañe Blanco, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P. Parte Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE HÉCTOR FUENTES OSORIO compuesta por Héctor Fuentes Navarro, Iris Fuentes Navarro, Víctor Manuel Fuentes López.

Lydia Osorio Fuentes; John Doe y Richard Roe como posibles herederos desconocidos de Héctor Fuentes Osorio ; y SUCESIÓN JUANA FUENTES LOPEZ compuesta por Florentino Osorio Fuentes, Lydia Osorio Fuentes, Pedro Osorio Fuentes Jesús Osorio Fuentes; y John Doe y Richard Roe como posibles herederos desconocidos de Juana Fuentes López; ADMINISTRACIÓN PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES, Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN SOBRE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; LA SUCESION DE HECTOR FUENTES NAVARRO compuesta por Iris Fuentes Navarro y John Doe y Richard Roe como herederos desconocidos; ADMINISTRACIÓN PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES, Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN SOBRE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Parte Demandada CASO CIVIL NUM: CA2019CV03098 (407). SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO Y NOTIFICACION DE INTERPELACION POR EDICTO. Estados Unidos de América Presidente de los Estados Unidos de América Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico.

A: John Doe y Richard Roe como posibles herederos desconocidos

de la Sucesión de Juana Fuentes López; y a Florentino Osorio Fuentes; Pedro Osario Fuentes y Jesús Osario Fuentes como herederos desconocidos de la Sucesión de Juana Fuentes López

POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto . Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/ , salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Leda.

Marjaliisa Colón Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970 , Ponce , P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787-843-4168 . 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 3 de abril de 2016, 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 $73,855.89 de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma al 7 .71600% anual, la suma de $1,610.99 balance diferido, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo la suma estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. 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: Solar número veinte (20) del bloque AD de la Urbanización Villas de Río Grande radicada en el Barrio Pueblo del Municipio de Rio Grande, compuesto de trescientos uno punto treinta (301.30) metros cuadrados. Colindante por el Norte, en veintitrés punto cero cero (23.00) metros, con el solar número veintidós (22); por el SUR, en veintitrés punto cero cero (23.00) metros con el solar número dieciocho (18); por

Thursday, April 29, 2021 el ESTE, en trece punto diez (13.10) metros con el solar número diecinueve (19) del bloque V; por el OESTE, en trece punto diez (13.10) metros con la calle número veinticuatro (24). Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio dieciocho ocho (18) del tomo ciento veintiséis (126) de Río Grande, finca número seis mil trescientos cuarenta (6,340).

Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina Sección III. 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. Además, como miembro de la Sucesión de Juana Fuentes López se ha presentado una solicitud de interpelación judicial para que sirva en el término de treinta (30) días aceptar o repudiar la herencia. Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a expresarse dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto en tomo a la aceptación o repudiación de la herencia, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante Juana Fuentes López y por consiguiente, responderán por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Art. 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. 82785. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 24 de marzo de 2021. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodriguez, Sec Regional. Ruth M. Colon Luciano, Sec Aux del Tribunal.

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MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P., Demandante v.

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. Se le apercibe que, de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. La parte demandante ha radicado una acción de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca por deuda vencida y la misma está garantizada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Los Sauces situada en el barrio Collores de la Municipalidad de Humacao, marcada con el número D-19 con un área 382.500 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 15.00 metros con la Calle Caoba (Calle Número 4); por el SUR, en una distancia de 15.00 metros con el solar número 7-D; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 25.500 metros con el solar número 18-D y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 25.500 metros con el solar número 20-D. Enclava una casa de concreto para residencia de una familia.

Consta inscrita al folio 255 del tomo 463 de Humacao, finca 20990, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: García-Chamorro Law Group, P.S.C., 1225 Ave. Ponce de León, VIG Tower, Suite 706, San Juan, PR 00907, Tel. (787) 977-1932, Fax (787) 722-1932 Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 19 de abril de 2021. Dominga Gomez Fuster, Sec Regional.

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José Antonio Carattini Diana por sí, Mildred Veguilla Flores por sí y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Wilmington Savings Gananciales Compuesta Fund Society, FSB, d/b/a por Ambos Christiana Trust, as Demandados indenture trustee, for the CIVIL NÚM.: HU2021CV00240.

CSMC 2015-PR1 Trust, SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Mortgage-Backed Notes, POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMSeries 2015-PR1,

PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. Estados Unidos de América Presidente de los Estados Unidos Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. S.S.

Demandante V.

Ismael Garcia Melendez; Estados Unidos de América

de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que, de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. La parte demandante ha radicado una acción de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca por deuda vencida y la misma está garantizada sobre la siguiente propiedad: R-36 Villas De San Cristóbal, Las Piedras, PR 00771. URBANA : Solar radicado en la Urbanización de San Cristóbal situada en el barrio Montones del término municipal de Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el piano de inscripción de la propiedad con el número, área y colindancias siguientes: Numero de/ solar: R-36 de la Calle doce (12) de la Urbanización. Área del solar: 454.533 metros cuadrados. En lindes al Norte, en una distancia de 25. 12 metros lineales con el solar R-37; al Sur, en una distancia de 26.61 metros lineales con el solar R-35; al Este, en una distancia de 16.25 metros lineales con la calle doce de la urbanización y al Oeste, en dos alineaciones de 4.97 y 13.97 metros lineales con el camino municipal Montones. En dicho solar enclava una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia.

Finca 16377 de Las Piedras.

Inscrita al tomo Karibe, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao.

Los abogados de la parte demandante son: García-Chamorro Law Group, P.S.C., 1606 Ave. Ponce de León, Edif. Julio Bogoricin, Ste. 900, San Juan, PR 00909, Tel. (787) 977-1932, Fax (787) 722-1932 Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 26 de marzo de 2021. DOMINGA GOMEZ FUSTER, Secretario Regional. MARISOL DAVILA ORTIZ, Sec Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYADemandada A: José Antonio Carattini CIVIL NÚM.: LP2021CV00029. GUEZ. Diana por sí, Mildred ORIENTAL BANK SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Veguilla Flores por sí y la Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Demandante vs.

Sociedad Legal de Bienes POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM- CESAR ROLANDO PEREZ Gananciales Compuesta PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. RODRIGUEZ y su esposa Estados Unidos de América por Ambos REBECCA CRISTINA Presidente de los Estados UniPor la presente se le emplaza ROURA ALCARAZ y la dos Estado Libre Asociado de y notifica que debe contestar Puerto Rico. SS. Sociedad Legal de Bienes la demanda dentro del término A: Ismael Gananciales compuesta de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto.

Garcia Melendez por ambos Usted deberá presentar su ale- Por la presente se le emplaza Demandados gación responsiva a través del y notifica que debe contestar CIVIL NÚM. ISCI201600908 Sistema Unificado de Manejo y la demanda dentro del término

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(206). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Ejecución De Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria) “IN REM”.

EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General A: CESAR ROLANDO PEREZ RODRIGUEZ y su esposa REBECCA CRISTINA ROURA ALCARAZ y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos; ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, por tener embargo anotado a su favor por la suma de $4,531.72

Yo, ALG. IVELISSE FIGUEROA VARGAS, PLACA #924, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 27 de mayo de 2021 a las 2:30 de la tarde en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Mayagüez durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 3 de junio de 2021, a las 2:30 de la tarde; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 10 de junio de 2021, a las 2:30 de la tarde en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado.

La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en la URBANIZACIÓN COLINAS DE ALTURAS DE MAYAGÜEZ del Barrio Miradero de Mayagüez, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización, con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: número Dos (2) de la Calle “A”. Área de TRESCIENTOS SESENTA Y TRES PUNTO DOSCIENTOS OCHENTA Y SEIS (363.286) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de TRECE PUNTO QUINIENTOS SIETE (13.507) METROS, con la Urbanización Alturas de Mayagüez; por el SUR, en una distancia de TRECE PUNTO QUINIENTOS (13.500) METROS, con la Calle “A” de la Urbanización; por el ESTE, en una distancia de

VEINTISÉIS PUNTO SEISCIENTOS NOVENTA (26.690) METROS, con el solar número Uno (1) de la Urbanización; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de VEINTISIETE PUNTO CIENTO TREINTA Y UNO (27.131) METROS, con el solar número Tres (3) de la Urbanización.

Sobre este solar enclava una casa de concreto reforzado, destinada a vivienda para una familia. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita en la finca número 38,270 de Mayagüez, inscripción sexta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Colinas de Alturas de Mayagüez, Solar Número 2, Calle A, Mayagüez , Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $145,143.96 de principal, intereses al 4.00% anual, desde el día 1ro. de marzo de 2016, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $15,805.00, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será la suma de $158,050.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $105,366.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $79,025.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública Subasta se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen posterior: Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra César A. Pérez Rodríguez y Rebecca C. Roura Alcaraz, seguro social número xxx-xx-3234 y xxx-xx-9639, por la suma principal de $4,531.72, embargo número MAY-19-474 del día 15 de abril de 2019, anotado el día 22 de julio de 2019, al Asiento 2019-003652-EST del Sistema Karibe. Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 22 de abril de 2021. ALG. IVELISSE FIGUEROA VARGAS, PLACA #924, ALGUACIL TRI-

BUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGUEZ.

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

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

JORGE COLÓN GONZÁLEZ y la Sucesión de MARGARITA NEGRON VENTURA compuesta por Jorge Colón Gonzalez, Wanda Colón Negrón; Yolanda Colón Negrón y John Doe y Richard Roe como posibles herederos desconocidos; ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Parte Demandada CASO CIVIL NUM: FA2021CV00113.

SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR.

A: ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramaiudiciaLpr/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 termino, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y concederá el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Lcda. Marjaliisa Colón Villanueva Número ante e! Tribunal Supremo: 17,341 WENDELL W. COLON LAW OFFICE PO Box 7970 Ponce, Puerto Rico, Ponce, PR 00732 Tel.(787) 843-4168 Fax. (787) 840-1049 Correo electrónico: mcolon@wwclaw.com EXPEDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA y el Sello de! Tribunal, hoy día 14 de abril de 2021. WANDA SEGUI REYEZ, Sec Regional. Por: Mildred Burgos Robles, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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The Florida Panthers are winning, both on and off the ice

By CAROL SCHRAM

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obert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, had a message for Vincent Viola when Viola purchased the Florida Panthers in 2013.

“He told Vinnie: ‘Be ready. This is going to take you about 10 years to figure this all out,’” said Matt Caldwell, current club president and CEO. The Panthers had made the Stanley Cup Final in their third NHL season, but the good times did not last. Since that 1996 series, the Panthers had made the playoffs just five times entering this season and hadn’t won a round. Attendance figures were routinely lackluster, despite being propped up by free and deeply discounted tickets.

“When you have some of that deeprooted mediocrity and failure, it takes a while to turn the ship around,” Caldwell said.

This year, there are signs the franchise has reversed course. The team is winning, and local participation in the sport and fan-engagement numbers are also trending in a positive direction.

Florida (32-14-5) clinched a playoff spot in the Central Division by beating Nashville, 7-4, on Tuesday. Having earned 69 points out of a possible 102 (.676), the Panthers are on track for their most successful regular season in franchise history by that measure.

First-year General Manager Bill Zito has reshaped the roster around the strong core of players he inherited, such as captain Aleksander Barkov, forward Jonathan Huberdeau and defenseman Aaron Ekblad. Zito’s arrival came one year after the signings of goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, a two-time Vezina Trophy winner, and Joel Quenneville, who ranks second in career wins and won three Cups as coach of the Chicago Blackhawks and one as an assistant on the Colorado Avalanche team that swept the Panthers in 1996.

Before this season, Zito made a number of player moves, including acquiring two-time Stanley Cup champion Patric Hornqvist in a trade with Pittsburgh and signing 2020 champion forward Carter Verhaeghe from Tampa Bay. He continued to tinker at the trade deadline, landing forward Sam Bennett in a deal with Calgary. Bennett made an

A rendering provided by Rossetti, shows the new War Memorial Auditorium in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The War Memorial Auditorium project is expected to be completed in 2022 and will include seating for Florida Panthers hockey practices. immediate impact, with five points in his first three games.

When Zito was hired, he also asked the organization to invest in building out his staff. The extensive group of new hires included three executives with past experience as NHL general managers — Rick Dudley, Les Jackson and Paul Fenton.

While some teams had cut back amid the pandemic — at least 17 of the 31 NHL teams had reduced pay in their hockey operations by September — the Panthers saw a chance to add, Caldwell said.

The organization has also hired former players into management roles.

After he retired at the end of the 2018-19 season, goalie Roberto Luongo was named special adviser to Zito’s predecessor, Dale Tallon.

One of Luongo’s teammates during his second Panthers tenure, Shawn Thornton, is also working with the team in retirement, on the business side. He serves as the club’s chief commercial officer, overseeing all revenue generation, including corporate partnerships, ticket

sales and marketing and community relations.

The Panthers have typically been in the bottom third of the league’s attendance figures, ranking 30th in 2018-19, the last complete 82-game season before the pandemic. The team had seen improvement before the 2019-20 season paused in March 2020, Thornton said.

When Viola and Doug Cifu took over, they found that up to 5,000 free tickets a game were being issued into the marketplace, Caldwell said. In the 200809 season, a first-time fan with a Florida driver’s license could even get in the door at no charge.

The organization made the decision to turn off the tap and establish a priceintegrity program. Some complimentary access was still granted to worthy community groups such as youth hockey teams and Boys and Girls Clubs. But for the most part, customers were assured that they weren’t paying for a ticket that someone else had obtained for free, or close to it.

“We said we have to be committed,” Caldwell said. “We have to have respect for our product.”

Not surprisingly, average attendance initially took a significant dip. Eventually, once fans understood that they’d have to pay the regular price to get through the gates, it started to rebound. As that demand increased, prices and revenues went up in lockstep.

That growth continues this year. Sponsorship renewals for next season are at 82%, which is 19% better than entering the 201920 season. Season-ticket renewals, at 72%, are on pace to exceed last year’s numbers, and the club has seen a 12% increase in new season-ticket holders compared with last season.

“My sales goal is to pace above where we were last season, even though we’re coming out of the pandemic,” Thornton said.

Hockey may not be the first sport that comes to mind in South Florida, but it is growing. Overall participation in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties is up by nearly 20% over the past five seasons, including more than 30% among boys and girls younger than 18, according to USA Hockey. Those numbers are tracking well ahead of the national averages, a 6.8% increase in overall participation, including 7.6% in youth programs.

Jerry Laing became an accidental hockey dad after the pandemic led to the closure of the karate studio that his son Daniel attended. As the family searched for a new sport, Daniel was invited to a birthday party at a skating rink.

“It just so happened, at that same time, a live kids’ hockey game was going on,” Laing said. “He went over and saw the game and he said, ‘I want to do that. This is what I want to do.’”

A coach gave him some used equipment. Now, Daniel has moved over to the Panthers IceDen, the club’s practice facility in Coral Springs. And his father is a first-year Panthers season-ticket holder.

“It’s just been brilliant, and we love it,” Laing said. “My family loves it, and I can’t believe the effect it’s had on my 9-year-old son.

“The cool part about this is, everything that the Florida Panthers are doing, it reaches out to everybody. When you walk through those doors, it’s your DNA. Everybody’s got the same DNA.”

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Olympics lays out ground rules for games: Daily tests and dining restrictions

By MOTOKO RICH

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thletes will be tested daily, but they will not need to quarantine. Visitors will be asked to stay off public transit. And members of the news media, along with other officials, will be urged to eat takeout meals alone.

Hoping to assuage a Japanese public jittery about the possibility that the rescheduled Summer Olympics could turn into a COVID superspreader event, organizers of the games released a second round of so-called playbooks Wednesday, with updated protocols for those taking part in the world’s largest sporting event in July.

Even without overseas spectators, whom organizers barred from the games last month, tens of thousands of people will enter Japan this summer after nearly a year in which the country’s borders have been mostly closed to nonresidents.

In several public polls in Japan, a majority said they would prefer the Olympics be postponed again or canceled altogether, and some public health experts have questioned whether the games are safe to stage under current pandemic conditions.

The new rules were unveiled after a meeting between leaders of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Paralympic Committee, the Tokyo organizers, Tokyo’s metropolitan government and the government of Japan.

In opening remarks, Thomas Bach, the IOC president, said the revised protocols were “based on the best scientific and medical expertise” and the experience of hundreds of sports events over the past year, involving thousands of athletes.

Together with the Tokyo organizing committee, Bach said, the IOC was ready “to take all the necessary measures to minimize risk to make the Japanese people feel safe,” including a commitment to “strictly enforce the compliance with these playbooks.”

“If the situation should require it,” Bach added, “we are also ready to take even stricter measures together.”

The organizers did not answer the question that many in Japan want ad-

Together with the Tokyo organizing committee, Mr. Bach said, the I.O.C. was ready “to take all the necessary measures to minimize risk to make the Japanese people feel safe,” including a commitment to “strictly enforce the compliance with these playbooks.” dressed: whether domestic spectators will be allowed into Olympic stadiums and arenas. They deferred a decision on that until June.

“As we look into the evolving situation with the domestic infections status involving new strains, we have agreed that a decision regarding spectator capacity at the Olympic and Paralympic venues will be made in June,” the organizers said in a statement.

Seiko Hashimoto, the president of the Tokyo organizing committee, said organizers were prepared “to have the games with no spectators,” but said, “On the other hand, we have hope that we want as many spectators as possible to see the games if the situation so allows.”

She added: “The objective is always a full stadium, but in view of the COVID measures in place, we must not obstruct the delivery of medical services.”

Organizers have not mandated that Olympians be vaccinated. Many in Japan have been concerned about the safety of an event that will feature thousands of people from more than 200 countries at

different stages of the pandemic. The vaccine rollout has been slow in Japan, where only about 1% of the public has been inoculated.

The updated Olympic protocols were released with Tokyo and other large cities in Japan in a state of emergency, with restrictions on indoor dining and spectators barred from sporting events.

This week, Japan passed the threshold of 10,000 deaths. While that count is relatively low compared with the United States or Europe, it has doubled in just three months.

And with the pandemic raging out of control in places like India, Japan is also seeing increases in cases of the double variant that is vexing epidemiologists in other countries.

According to Japanese government statistics, the number of double variant cases detected in Japan quadrupled in four days, to 21 on April 26, from just five on April 22. All but one were confirmed by testing of passengers landing at airports in Japan.

Hashimoto acknowledged reservations among some in the Japanese public.

“There are so many people who are looking forward to the Summer Games,” she said. “On the other hand, there are people who are worried and anxious about the hosting of the games. Both sides are true, and we have to face up to both sides.”

Organizers say they will try to ensure the safety of the Olympics with such measures as daily testing of athletes and asking that all participants, including coaches, officials and members of the news media, avoid public transit.

Nonathletes attending the games, such as coaches and officials, will be tested daily for three days after arrival and then “regularly,” depending on their roles and how closely they are in contact with athletes. They are also being asked to minimize contact with Japanese residents.

Toshiro Muto, the organizing committee’s chief executive, said that participants would be asked to sign a pledge, and that if they did not comply with the playbook protocols, “there will be a certain level of penalty” including, in the most severe cases, withdrawal of Olympic credentials.

Muto said that even if athletes or other participants have been vaccinated before arriving in Tokyo, they would be expected to adhere to the playbook rules.

Critics say organizers are more interested in scoring political points or satisfying sponsors and broadcasters than protecting the public.

“I think all of the establishment in Japan are colluding,” said Kaori Hayashi, a professor of media studies at the University of Tokyo.

Hayashi said she was concerned that the Japanese news media had not asked enough tough questions about why the Olympics is going forward at a time when the pandemic is not contained and the vaccine rollout in Japan is particularly slow.

“We have been getting many reports about the next wave and the next, next wave, and as I see the slow progress of the vaccine rollout, we cannot really expect that everybody would be vaccinated by the Summer Olympic Games,” she said. “I cannot really see the point of holding the games now.”

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How to watch the 2021 NFL draft

By EMMANUEL MORGAN

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he guessing will soon be over.

After months of projections and rumors, the NFL draft begins with the first round today, and with it comes a chance for all 32 teams to add new talent to their rosters. The coronavirus pandemic altered this year’s player evaluation process, but the end result will remain the same: More than 200 college players will formally be welcomed into the league during the three-day spectacle. Here’s what you need to know about it.

What time is the draft?

The first round of the NFL draft starts today at 8 p.m. Eastern time.

ESPN, ABC and NFL Network will broadcast the event. It can be streamed through services like Hulu, Sling TV, fuboTV and the ESPN and NFL apps.

Where is the draft?

Unlike in 2020, it won’t be held in NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s basement. The league will convene in Cleveland this season for a hybrid model — some remote segments, some in-person — after COVID-19 forced the league last year to conduct the ceremonies virtually.

Thirteen prospects will be on site to hug a vaccinated Goodell, if they so choose, after he calls their names. Others, including the presumed No. 1 pick Trevor Lawrence, a quarterback out of Clemson, will participate remotely. The NFL also organized in-person musical performances and other events for fans in attendance.

What’s the first-round draft order?

For the first 14 weeks of the 2020 season, the New York Jets were winless and seemed poised to inherit the No. 1 overall pick. But after winning two of their final three games, they forfeited that right and handed it to the Jacksonville Jaguars, who lost every game after winning their season opener.

The San Francisco 49ers leapt nine spots when they acquired the third overall pick through a trade last month with the Miami Dolphins, who then traded with the Philadelphia Eagles for the No. 6 pick.

The Baltimore Ravens also reshuffled the order when they received the No. 31 pick from the Kansas City Chiefs in a trade package that included offensive tackle Orlando Brown.

Kansas City, along with the Houston Texans, Seattle Seahawks and Los Angeles Rams, does not have a first-round pick because of previous trades. The Jaguars, Jets, Dolphins and Ravens each have two.

1. Jacksonville Jaguars; 2. New York Jets; 3. San Francisco 49ers; 4. Atlanta Falcons; 5. Cincinnati Bengals; 6. Miami Dolphins; 7. Detroit Lions; 8. Carolina Panthers; 9. Denver Broncos; 10. Dallas Cowboys; 11. New York Giants; 12. Philadelphia Eagles; 13. Los

Angeles Chargers; 14. Minnesota Vikings; 15. New England Patriots; 16. Arizona Cardinals; 17. Las Vegas Raiders; 18. Miami Dolphins; 19. Washington Football Team; 20. Chicago Bears; 21. Indianapolis Colts; 22. Tennessee Titans; 23. New York Jets; 24. Pittsburgh Steelers; 25. Jacksonville Jaguars; 26. Cleveland Browns; 27. Baltimore Ravens; 28. New Orleans Saints; 29. Green Bay Packers; 30. Buffalo Bills; 31.

Baltimore Ravens; 32. Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Who will be picked No. 1?

All signs point to the Jaguars’ selecting Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence. In three seasons as a starter, he led the Tigers to two national title games, winning after the 2018 season, and three consecutive College Football Playoff appearances. He lost only two games in his college career.

Lawrence declined the NFL’s invitation to attend the draft in person and instead will watch with his wife, Marissa, and family at their home near Clemson, South Carolina. Along with newly hired coach Urban Meyer, Lawrence will be charged with improving a franchise that has historically struggled to win. Since 2008, the Jaguars have finished above .500 only once.

If everyone knows who will be picked first, where is the drama?

Unless the Jets drift from their expected plan of selecting Brigham Young quarterback Zach Wilson with the No. 2 pick, the suspense starts with San Francisco.

The 49ers’ trade package to the Dolphins included two future first-round picks, a steep price San Francisco felt comfortable paying to add a quarterback. Their current starter, Jimmy Garoppolo, has been sidelined with major injuries, playing in fewer than seven games in two of the past three seasons.

Alabama’s Mac Jones, North Dakota State’s Trey Lance and Ohio State’s Justin Fields are the leading candidates to be picked by the 49ers. While Jones is an accurate pocket passer, Lance and Fields can throw and be effective runners, adding another stress to a defense and expanding coach Kyle Shanahan’s playbook.

But the 49ers can pick only one of them, leaving a bevy of options for the Atlanta Falcons with the fourth overall pick. Their franchise quarterback, Matt Ryan, 35, is the second-oldest quarterback in the NFC South, and although he arguably has productive seasons ahead of him, coach Arthur Smith and general manager Terry Fontenot, who both were hired this winter, may elect to start the line of succession.

Florida tight end Kyle Pitts could also make sense for the Falcons, especially since teams have reportedly tried to gauge their interest in trading star receiver Julio Jones. Atlanta could swap picks with a team searching for a quarterback and choose from talented players later in the first round.

Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence is expected to be taken No. 1 over all by the Jacksonville Jaguars in Thursday’s N.F.L. draft.

What about players who opted out of their college seasons?

More than 100 Division I players opted out of the 2020 college football season because of coronavirus concerns. Some of those players are expected to come off the board early, despite not having played a live snap in more than a year.

The Bengals, with the fifth pick, are expected to be the first team to select a player who opted out since the best available non-quarterbacks align with some of the team’s many, many needs. Cincinnati could either bolster its offensive line, which surrendered the third-most sacks in the NFL last season, by drafting Oregon offensive lineman Penei Sewell. Or it could reunite quarterback Joe Burrow with receiver Ja’Marr Chase, one of his teammates from Louisiana State’s national championship team.

Penn State linebacker Micah Parsons, Virginia Tech cornerback Caleb Farley, Miami defensive end Gregory Rousseau and Northwestern offensive lineman Rashawn Slater are also projected first-round selections who opted out of the 2020 season.

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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

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(Mar 21-April 20)

While the Moon in Scorpio aligns with underworld Pluto, this harmonious aspect can still be capable of scheming. Whatever you want today, you may be very determined to get it. Think about the consequences of your actions though, as they could be more far-reaching than you think. Still, you’ll have an inbuilt detector, that will let you know if someone is being truthful or not.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

There are times when others can see things we cannot, and this may be one of them. A focus on a deep emotional sector suggests that if you have reached an impasse, the insights of a friend or family member might be useful in helping you come through. Sometimes all it needs is a fresh angle to give you a sense of what your next step should be, and so begin a new phase, Libra.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

Your network of friends can be instrumental in bringing ideas your way, and connecting you to others on your wavelength. This can be a time when you greatly benefit from in-depth conversations, and the options that come out of them. And from this Gemini, something you are interested in could develop into a solid idea, that in turn, becomes a very worthwhile project.

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

This can be a time of opportunities which could arise from networking and from making new contacts. Whoever you connect with, you might find yourself involved in some interesting conversations, gleaning information that may be extremely useful.

With Saturn on the field, don’t shy away from formal events Archer, as these can hold much promise and are worth attending.

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

If it seems that you are rather too involved in your own plans, then make no apology. With a powerful focus on your sign, this is exactly how it should be. Relish the opportunity to put your interests first, and to push ahead with those things that give you a ripple of excitement. Still, with Neptune in the picture, linking up with friends can prove inspiring and give you a positive boost.

There could be some intense exchanges between you and another, that might make or break a relationship. Although the Moon/Pluto tie is positive, the emotions it drums up can encourage shades of obsession. Whatever the nature of your interactions, try not to push your agenda, Cancer. A relaxed approach is more likely to bring a positive outcome than a demanding one.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

If you’ve been looking into getting better value for your money and streamlining your finances, then making savings on your household expenses might give you extra cash. A positive focus on your home zone, can inspire you to make the most of any offers available, and to tailor your finances so that everything runs efficiently, hopefully leaving you much better off.

You know who your friends are, and may need to call on someone who can help you out with a tricky issue. This person is likely to be highly knowledgeable, with a level of expertise that is perfect for your needs.

Just a few words could pierce your confusion and dispel the fog in an instant. If you feel lost at sea, then their reassuring input might help you find your way.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

The Moon in your home zone and its aspect to potent Pluto, could be a call to rethink your lifestyle and exercise routine, and perhaps to zero in on those areas where you know you are having the most difficulty. This might require you to be truthful with yourself, but if you can, you’ll begin to make headway in these areas. Your energy levels should show signs of real improvement.

A lunar angle with Jupiter in your sign, can be a call to trust your gut if you have an idea in mind and aren’t sure how to go about it. With the Moon in a prominent zone, this could be the ideal time to move forward with a plan that enhances your image and gets you noticed. Don’t push too hard though, as this may have the opposite effect. A relaxed approach will bring excellent results.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

You’ll be able to zero in on another’s issues and weaknesses with ease, but should you talk about them? It may be best not to, unless you are asked for advice. Be sensitive to how others might feel Virgo, as this aspect can incline you to be very honest, and someone could find this difficult to take. Have a mystery to solve? If so, you’ll enjoy peeling back the layers and finding answers.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

You may have several options open to you, and deciding what to do next could have you in a spin. With an emphasis on your sector of talk and thought, your mind might be in overdrive and this can be part of the problem. Rather than over complicate matters, it helps to simplify them and to consider how much of your to-do list is necessary. Let your intuition lead the way, Pisces.

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