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Open Spaces: Earned income tax credit could get thousands out of poverty

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bout 125,000 people, or 54,920 families or taxpayers, could get out of poverty in Puerto Rico by incorporating the parameters of the new local Earned Income Credit (EITC) in the income tax returns analysis filed for taxable year 2019, said economist Daniel Santamaría Ots, senior public policy analyst at Espacios Abiertos (Open Spaces).

“The Credit for work is an incentive for formal work.

That it has the potential and capacity to lift nearly 55,000 families or 125,000 people above the poverty line,” Santamaría Ots said at a press conference. “Although there is still a long way to go to encourage formal work with decent wages in Puerto Rico, the credit — along with the increase in the minimum wage — points in the right direction.”

“From Open Spaces, we will continue to evaluate the effectiveness of the new credit for work to provide empirical evidence on its real impact on the living conditions of thousands of Puerto Rican families,” he added.

In the Espacios Abiertos study “The New Credit for Work and Its Impact on Poverty in Puerto Rico,” it was estimated that the local EITC could allow 420,683 people (216,393 tax units) to increase their levels of economic security. Of the 54,920 taxpayers who would cross the poverty line, another 161,473 taxpayers would have the possibility of being less poor in economic terms.

The economist made the estimates by incorporating the parameters of the new credit for work, which will take effect in 2022, to the approximately one million forms filed in 2019 that were requested by Open Spaces from the island Treasury Department last April. With this information, an analysis was made of the impact of the previous credit for work in 2019 and the potential impact on the poverty thresholds was analyzed with the parameters of the new credit that comes into force in 2022. This week, data was requested from the Treasury Department from taxable year 2020 to continue analyzing all the effects of the new credit.

Santamaría Ots noted that the increase in the number of taxpayers that could benefit from the new credit is due to three factors: the entry of young people between 19 and 26 years old (76,426 taxpayers), the entry of self-employed workers (13,238 taxpayers) and the expansion of the taxpayer base by increasing the maximum income limit of applicants for the new credit according to the new law (121,885 taxpayers) who did not qualify in 2019.

In other words, “if we apply the parameters of the new credit that will take effect in 2022 to the returns that were filed in taxable year 2019, some 211,549 taxpayers

(349,152 people) could receive the benefit of the credit in addition to the 254,757 taxpayers (496,149 people) who qualified in 2019, impacting a total potential of 466,306 tax units (845,301 people) in Puerto Rico,” the economist said.

The new average work credit would be around $1,800 per taxpayer if the demographic and socioeconomic composition of the 2019 tax units is maintained, he said.

An X-ray for taxable year 2019 showed that 13,937 people or 6,230 taxable units (families) managed to cross the poverty line upon receiving the credit, which averaged $450. That year, 87.67 percent of the tax units that received the work credit had incomes of less than $20,000 and 76.88 percent worked in the private sector.

In addition, 54.89 percent of the taxpayers who received the credit did not have dependents and 48.8 percent fluctuated between the ages of 31 and 45 years. Nearly 50 (49.72) percent of the taxpayers who received the credit for work were identified with the female sex (average credit of $468) and 49.74 percent with the male (average credit of $433).

The economist indicated that for the study, 1,612,681 observations and 22 variables extracted, directly or indirectly, from a total of about one million individual income tax returns filed in taxable year 2019 were analyzed. Of that total number of returns filed, 837,056 payroll reports reported income above zero.

The fields analyzed for each and every one of the observations included 22 variables: 13 variables extracted by the Treasury Department directly from the individual income tax returns for taxable year 2019, and nine variables formulated by Espacios Abiertos from the original variables extracted directly from the income tax returns of individuals for taxable year 2019.

Economist Daniel Santamaría Ots

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Governor convenes special legislative session for next week

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia on Wednesday convened a special session of the island Legislature that will begin Monday to deal with six measures.

Among the bills is one that would create the new “Law for the Prevention of Abuse and the Preservation of Family Unity” and another that amends several laws in force to allow government retirees to go back to work without affecting their pensions.

Also included is legislation that clarifies the requirements to occupy the position of commissioner of the Bureau of Emergency Management and Disaster Administration (NMEAD).

“As I have indicated previously, in special sessions, the matters that must be addressed are immediate and core ones that should not wait any longer,” the governor said. “In the case of the measure that creates the ‘Law for the Prevention of Abuse and the Preservation of Family Unity,’ if not approved, millions in federal funds needed to safeguard the welfare of our children will be lost. I called on all legislators to make way for extremely important legislation that directly affects the life and social environment of our minors and government pensioners, among other sectors of society.”

Another measure included in the special session is Administration Bill 51 (Senate Bill 654), which amends the Civil Code that came into force a year ago. The bill would clarify the statute of limitations for issues related to disabled individuals.

On pensioner issues, Pierluisi included

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Administration Bill 1 (House Bill 533) to provide the mechanisms for retired workers to obtain a regular job without impacting their pensions.

“Like all the pieces of legislation submitted, I look forward to this bill because any retired public servant who wishes to contribute again to Puerto Rico should do it without losing his pension,” Pierluisi said. “This will help us recruit staff trained for the sectors of education, family, security, among others.”

Under the debt adjustment plan, future retirees are slated to see changes to their benefits. However, current retirees whose pensions are higher than $1,500 a month will see cuts to their pensions.

Another bill that must be evaluated in the extraordinary session is Senate Bill 45, which amends the “Department of Public Safety Act” of 2017 to broaden the requirements for holding the position of NMEAD commissioner, a

post currently occupied on an interim basis by rescue professional Nino Correa Filomeno.

As proposed, the person occupying the position must have knowledge and skills in administration and evidence of having obtained, at least, a master’s degree.

After a thorough analysis of the measures included by the governor in the document convening a special session, Speaker of the House of Representatives Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez asked for the inclusion of labor reform in the list of bills.

“The House will meet this coming Monday and will fulfill its constitutional duty,” he said.

“However, it should be noted that the bills on the list are not urgent matters that were left pending from the second ordinary session that ended recently, and can be seen in detail in the month of January.”

Hernández Montañez noted that House

Bill 3 (Labor Reform) has not been included, considering that it is one of high interest to the working classes, which he said have pinned all their hopes on legislation that does them justice after so many years of constant violations of their labor rights.

“In the House we diligently attended to the Labor Reform and the Labor Affairs Committee, chaired by comrade Domingo Torres García, did an excellent job that included the high participation of various sectors and the unions that represent the country’s workers,” Hernández Montañez added. “We would not like to think that the governor continues to postpone true justice for the working class.”

Pierluisi reiterated to the leaders of the House and Senate his position regarding the amendments to Labor Reform and asked them to analyze the legislation in the next ordinary session, which begins in January.

“On October 31, I sent a letter to the legislative leaders in which I communicated my position regarding the approval of a measure that contains changes to the Labor Reform,” the governor said. “I reiterate that it is my best interest to continue promoting the workforce, and that is why I signed a measure that allows an increase in the minimum wage to begin next January. In addition, my administration is ensuring that our workers have a robust system of legislation that protects their rights.

That is why I believe it prudent that both the House of Representatives and the Senate of Puerto Rico can carry out a calm analysis that has the input of the interested parties and that they can reach a consensus measure in the next ordinary session.”

Secretary of state, governor to lead trade mission to Dominican Republic

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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uerto Rico Secretary of State Omar Marrero Díaz announced Wednesday that he will lead his first trade mission to the Dominican Republic to strengthen trade and investment ties, as well as identify new opportunities that benefit the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.

“Among the commitments of Gov. Pedro Pierluisi is to promote economic, commercial and business exchange between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic in order to establish an agenda for the future, in which relations with the sister country are part of our comprehensive strategy for the socioeconomic development of our island,” the secretary of state said in a written statement. “Along with Gov. Pedro Pierluisi, who will accompany us on this commercial journey,

Puerto Rico Secretary of State Omar Marrero Díaz

we will strengthen the ties that unite us, strengthening efforts to work in the search for common objectives and face the challenges of the new economic realities.”

Marrero Díaz said the agenda in the Dominican Republic includes a visit to the presidential palace with President Luis Abidaner, as well as formal visits with Foreign Minister Roberto Álvarez and other officials, including the neighboring nation’s director of immigration.

Another part of the agenda includes exchanges with a delegation of 20 Puerto Rican companies from various economic sectors, led by Puerto Rico Economic Development and Commerce Secretary Manuel Cidre Miranda.

Marrero Díaz pointed out that the initiative is strategic in nature and they will be open to listening to proposals, ideas and needs to achieve initiatives and projects that benefit Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

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Special election to replace Cataño mayor to be held in 30 days

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Wednesday that a special election will be held in 30 days to choose a new mayor for the municipality of Cataño after the resignation of Félix “El Cano” Delgado Montalvo.

“Now the important thing in the case of Cataño is to proceed to replace the mayor,” Pierluisi said in a radio interview. “The Electoral Code requires that a town election be held within 30 days. So I’m going to see that my party’s team makes sure that this election takes place and everyone who wants to aspire can do it.”

“Here I do not want to [designate a successor], here this has to be a democratic question,” he added.

Speaking in a radio interview earlier on Wednesday about Delgado Montalvo’s resignation, the governor said he “has cut off his future.”

“It is extremely regrettable. We will know the details. He made the decision to resign; I have to think that it is the right decision,” Pierluisi said. “It has to be that here there are going to be greater consequences for his behavior, whatever it was, there are many speculations and rumors and I am not going to go into what he did or did not do. We are going to know that because the truth always emerges. But I say, what a thing that these situations continue to happen; that is, enough is enough! And that does not have to do with parties, if we let ourselves be carried away by what has come out in the media, since

Félix Delgado Montalvo there is the possibility of similar situations with mayors of both main parties in Puerto Rico, so rather it is individual conduct [where there is a] lack of values.”

Delgado Montalvo, who resigned on Tuesday afternoon amid reports that he is under investigation by federal authorities, was in his second term after being reelected last year with over 77% of the vote. He was regarded by some as a rising star in the New Progressive Party.

“Clearly here his future is broken,” the governor added. “He is asking forgiveness from his family, his constituents, and the residents of Cataño.That’s awful! After he was reelected with a percentage never seen before; that is, why?

That must not happen. That is terrible, terrible.”

The resignation occurred amid reports of spending on luxuries and questionable management of funds in the San Juan metro area municipality. In September, the Comptroller’s Office seized computers from Cataño’s Administration Office as part of an investigation related to disbursements from the municipality.

The governor said he will be in charge of choosing a new mayor for Cataño within the next 30 days.

With an 11 to 3 vote on Tuesday afternoon, following Delgado Montalvo’s resignation announcement, the Cataño Municipal Assembly approved a municipal ordinance in which Gabriel Sicardó Ocasio was confirmed as vice mayor.

According to the town’s municipal code, the vice mayor takes over the duties of the mayor pending a special election with the resignation of the mayor. However, the current vice mayor, Honoris Machado, is due to resign because of age.

As Sicardó Ocasio noted in a press conference after his confirmation, “the mayor’s determination was to give the opportunity to the current vice mayor, the honorable Honoris Machado, who has been considering retirement.”

“She is already old enough to qualify for that retirement, and the mayor believed that yours truly could occupy that position on an interim basis, and tonight I have been confirmed by this [municipal] assembly.”

“The order of succession was followed through the ordinance,” added Sicardó Ocasio, who was the director of legal affairs of the Municipality of Cataño. “The Municipal Code provides that the mayor must present a draft ordinance where the order of succession is established. This was done. We have a succession where it indicates that the vice mayor, in the absence of the mayor, is the one who occupies

that position on an interim basis.”

Asked whether at the time of his being confirmed as vice mayor, Delgado Montalvo had resigned, Sicardó Ocasio said “the mayor has not resigned.”

“So far we do not have that knowledge,” he said. “We have not received a letter of resignation.”

“This assembly has not received a letter of resignation, which is the corresponding procedure according to the Municipal Code of Puerto Rico,” said Sicardó Ocasio, who was with the president of the Municipal Assembly, Jorge Malavé Santiago.

Prior to that press conference, Delgado Montalvo issued a statement through his Facebook account in which he apologized for his actions, as reported Wednesday by the STAR. “Cataño a thousand apologies, for all this bad time. Thank you for the privilege you gave me to be your mayor for five years and forgive me for not being able to meet all of your expectations,” Delgado Montalvo said. “Every day of my life I will try to be a better person to help those in need. To all those who in some way I offended, a thousand apologies. Many times power blinds and I’m sure it happened to me.”

“To my family, thank you for being the support and giving me the strength to continue life and make me understand that life is not a position but family and true friends, to you too my apologies, I love you with all my soul and I will work all the days to give back all the time that is taken away. Thanks again, Cataño,” he said.

SIP recommended for case involving ex-Santa Isabel mayor

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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he island Department of Justice recommended on Wednesday to the Office of the Special Independent Prosecutor Panel (OPFEI by its Spanish initials) the appointment of a Special Independent Prosecutor for former Santa Isabel Mayor Enrique Questell Alvarado because, OPFEI said, there is sufficient cause to believe that he violated various provisions of the Penal Code of Puerto Rico and special laws when appointing Carmen Rivera Torres to the position of interim director of finance of the municipality of Santa Isabel, in breach of the requirements established by law, and obstructing the audit processes carried out by

the Puerto Rico Comptroller’s Office (OCPR).

Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández made the announcement after accepting a report issued by the agency’s Division of Public Integrity and Comptroller Affairs (DIPAC by its Spanish initials) after completing a preliminary investigation originated by a referral from the OCPR. Pursuant to the DIPAC investigation, the former mayor may have violated the provisions of Articles 262 and 264 of the Puerto Rico Penal Code, on failure to comply with duty and misappropriation of public funds, respectively.

He may have also failed to comply with the requirements of the then-current Autonomous Municipalities Law and the Law to Classify as a Serious Crime the Obstruction of an Audit by

the Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico.

“The actions of the former mayor could constitute: (1) violation of the provisions of Article 1 of Act 37-2004, Law to Classify Obstruction of an Audit of the Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico as a Serious Crime,” reads the report. “That legislation classifies as a serious crime for a person or official to delay, obstruct or prevent an audit or investigation carried out by the OCPR, or any official designated by it to carry out said management; and (2) to Article 11.027 (a) of the then in force Autonomous Municipalities Law, which provides, as pertinent, that any person who intentionally violates any of the provisions of this law, or who violates the ordinances, regulations or rules approved by virtue of this, will incur a less serious crime.”

Former Santa Isabel Mayor Enrique Questell Alvarado

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Senators file bill to prohibit late-term abortions

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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even senators from the Popular Democratic Party, New Progressive Party and Dignity Project will introduce a bill to protect the lives of babies who are in advanced stages of pregnancy, the senators said Wednesday.

“In Puerto Rico, abortions are performed in late stages of pregnancy, when the conceived could survive outside the mother’s womb,” Sen. Joanne Sen. Rodríguez Veve said in a written statement. “During the public hearings of SB 591, the abortion gynecologist who deposed confirmed that she performs in her clinic around five abortions per month of unborn babies who are in the 23rd and 24th weeks of gestation, that is, during the sixth month of pregnancy. In these advanced stages of pregnancy, the abortion procedure is generally performed through inhumane methods that involve lethal injections for the fetus, dismemberment and fatal burns.”

The authors of the measure are the senators: Joanne Rodríguez Veve, Senate President José Luis Dalmau Santiago, Thomas Rivera Schatz, Rubén Soto Rivera, Keren Riquelme,

Sen. Joanne Rodríguez Veve Ramón Ruiz Nieves and Albert Torres Berríos.

Rodríguez Veve, of the Dignity Project, stated that in recognition of the jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court, they consider it meritorious to regulate the parameters aimed at preserving the life of the woman and that of the unborn child. The bill to be filed provides that in Puerto

Rico the termination of a pregnancy will not be carried out when the unborn baby is in the gestational stage of viability; that is, when she or he could already survive outside the mother’s womb.

Rodríguez Veve noted that in the seminal case Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992), the U.S. Supreme Court held that, from the viability of the conceived, the state can act in pursuit of the interest of preserving the “potentiality of human life,” regulating and even prohibiting, the termination of a pregnancy in late gestational stages, except when such practice is necessary, according to the most appropriate medical determination for the preservation of the mother’s life.

“As a public policy of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, we believe it necessary and important to guarantee that in any process of termination of pregnancy that takes place in Puerto Rico in a gestational stage of viability, the best practices of medicine are used to preserve the life of the woman and the one conceived,” Dalmau Santiago said.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of the prohibition of late-term abortions in Mississippi.

Gov’t bank accounts decreased by 1.3% in October

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overnment bank accounts had $25.43 billion as of Oct. 29, a 1.3% decrease from the balance on Sept. 30, according to a report from the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF by its Spanish initials) on Wednesday.

The report showed that as of Oct. 30 government accounts decreased by $330 million from $25.76 billion on Sept. 30.

The difference was the result of a $318 million increase in the central government’s Treasury Single Account (TSA) balance and a $3 million increase in

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pension-related funds. Meanwhile, the report noted a $69 million decrease in restricted accounts and/or those subject to Title III proceedings, a $272 million decrease in public corporations and legally separate entities, and a $310 million decrease in central government non-TSA accounts.

Among the instrumentalities with restricted accounts and/or accounts subject to Title III of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, the liquidity of the bankrupt Highways and Transportation Authority decreased to $259 million as of Oct. 29, from $267.6 million as of Sept. 30, the document says.

The bank account balance of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority decreased to $1.31 billion in October, from $1.37 billion in September. Meanwhile, the Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp.’s account balance decreased slightly to $21.6 million in October, the document showed.

The report also included the bank account balances for other instrumentalities such as the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, which decreased to $839 million in October from $843.7 million in September, and the University of Puerto Rico, which increased to $397.3 million in October from $382.4 million the previous month.

Also, for the first four months of fiscal year 2021 through Oct. 31, the Financial Oversight and Management Board has had revenues come to nearly $19.9 million and expenses of $15 million, a report from the oversight board showed.

The oversight board’s budget for the entire fiscal year amounts to nearly $59.6 million.

The oversight board had spent $3.2 million in payroll and related costs as of Oct. 31, $1.2 million in legal services and $8.7 million in professional services, including $7.1 million paid to Ernst andYoung Puerto Rico.

The oversight board saw revenues surpass expenditures by $1.3 million for the month of October only, according to its financial update.

As of Oct. 31, the board saw nearly $5 million in revenues, and expenses came to $3.6 million, the report showed.

The oversight board spent $2.1 million on professional services in October, the largest expense category. That category included a $2 million payment for various advisers for services in connection with some responsibilities related to the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, commonly known as PROMESA, the report showed.

The board also spent $826,322 on salaries and benefits, payroll taxes, and professional development and training in October, according to the document.

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In trial for Arbery killing, a strategic choice to downplay race

By DAVID LEONHARDT

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he most effective way to achieve racial justice can sometimes be to downplay race.

That may seem like a counterintuitive idea. And it can certainly feel unsatisfying to people who are committed to reducing the toll of racism in the United States. But it is one of the lessons of the murder convictions last week of three white men in Georgia, in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man.

I want to revisit the case because it has a broader relevance to U.S. politics.

By now, you’re probably familiar with the basic facts. Arbery was in a predominantly white neighborhood near his home in coastal Georgia on Feb. 23, 2020, when three men in pickup trucks chased and shot him.

Racism played a clear role in the killing. One of the defendants used a slur shortly after the shooting, according to another defendant. All three had a history of sending online messages tinged with white nationalism.

Nonetheless, the prosecutor in the case, Linda Dunikoski, decided mostly to ignore race during the trial.

She accused the defendants of having a racist motive only once, in a single line of her closing argument. She instead portrayed them as lawless figures who killed a young man.

Before the verdicts, some observers criticized the strategy, saying that Dunikoski was weakening her case by ignoring the defendants’ motive. “There were a lot of people who thought that it should have been very central to her argument,” said The New York Times’ Richard Fausset, who covered the killing and the trial. One law professor accused Dunikoski of “whitewashing” the facts. Another professor said that her strategy would be blamed if the defendants were acquitted.

No doubt, it would have been.

Dunikoski was deliberately leaving out a big part of the story. But she was doing so for a reason. (Or so it seems; she has not publicly discussed her strategy.) She evidently believed that

A makeshift memorial for Ahmaud Arbery at the entrance of the Satilla Shores neighborhood, where he was killed, in Brunswick, Ga., Nov. 22, 2021. emphasizing race would be a gift to the defense.

It could cause the jurors — all but one of whom were white — to retreat to their ideological corners. Conservative jurors would be reminded that they often disagree with allegations of racism. Many political moderates disagree sometimes, too, especially if they’re white. On the other hand, any jurors likely to be appalled by the racial nature of the case — three white men killing a Black man in broad daylight — would recognize the role of race without needing to be told about it.

The Anti-Bannon Strategy It was a miniature version of a tension that runs through U.S. politics.

Progressive activists often point out — accurately — the central role that race and racism play in the U.S. Polls show, for example, that a large percentage of Americans feel racial animus. That animus helped fuel Do-

nald Trump’s political rise, starting with his promotion of the lie that Barack Obama was born in Africa. And racial discrimination continues to shape our economy, schools, criminal justice system and more.

Yet when activists try to combat racism by calling it out, they often struggle to accomplish their goals.

Focusing on Trump’s racist behavior did not keep him from winning the presidency. The Black Lives Matter movement has mostly failed to implement its policy agenda on policing.

Affirmative-action programs generally lose when they appear on the ballot — including a landslide loss in California last year, helped by opposition from many Latino and Asian voters.

Race-based strategies are especially challenging in a country where living standards have stagnated in recent decades: Working-class families of all races have reason to distrust the notion

that they enjoy a privileged lifestyle.

No wonder that Steve Bannon, the farright political figure, once said that he wanted liberals “to talk about racism every day.” When they do, Bannon said, “I got ’em.”

‘Attack the Design’ The Arbery trial offers a reminder that calling out racism is not the only way to battle it. Sometimes, a more effective approach involves appealing to universal notions of fairness and justice.

Another example is child poverty.

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., was an early advocate of baby bonds — universal savings accounts for children, an idea that helped shape President Joe Biden’s focus on reducing child poverty. The beauty of the policy, Booker told me, is that it substantially reduces racial gaps in child poverty (because children of color are more likely to be poor) while still being inclusive.

“It’s very hard to undo centuries of racial policies by suddenly saying, ‘I’m now going to not be conscious of race in America,’ ” he said. But, he added, “This is a policy that I think can be embraced by you, whoever you are, whatever your background.”

Rep. James Clyburn, the highestranking Black Democrat in Congress, made a similar argument when explaining why he favored a version of slavery reparations that would also help poor white families. “Race is the reason income is what it is,” he told The Washington Post. “This is by design. So attack the design.”

The downside of this approach is clear enough. Given the long history of intense racism in the U.S., universal programs will never fully solve the problem. Of course, policies that fail to get enacted accomplish much less.

Dunikoski’s trial strategy may have felt uncomfortable to anybody repulsed by the defendants’ racism.

But imagine how uncomfortable an acquittal would have felt.

Arbery’s family members, notably, were not among Dunikoski’s critics, as Fausset has reported. Even before the verdict, the family liked the prosecution’s approach.

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CDC Reports First Omicron Case in the U.S.

By RONI CARYN RABIN, SHAWN HUBLER and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

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he first case of infection with the omicron variant of the coronavirus has been reported in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Wednesday.

The patient, a traveler who returned to California from South Africa on Nov. 22, is in isolation and aggressive contact tracing is underway. The individual was fully vaccinated and had mild symptoms that are improving.

The World Health Organization has warned that the risk posed by the variant, a new iteration of the coronavirus that was first identified in southern Africa, is “very high.” More than a dozen countries across four continents have detected the variant since it was first identified in southern Africa. Experts have said it was only a matter

of time before the variant showed up in the United States.

Omicron carries more than 50 genetic mutations that in theory may make it both more contagious and less vulnerable to the body’s immune defenses than previous variants. More than 30 of the mutations are in the virus’ spike, a protein on its surface.

Vaccines train the body’s immune defenses to target and attack these spikes.

Available vaccines may still offer substantial protection against severe illness and death following infection with the variant, and federal officials are calling on vaccinated people to get booster shots. The makers of the two most effective vaccines, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, are preparing to reformulate their shots if necessary, but that will take time.

Following news of the variant’s spread in South Africa, countries around the world curtailed air travel to and from southern Af-

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rica, measures that officials there described as unduly punitive, especially in light of the fact that Western countries have failed to deliver sufficient vaccines and logistical support to the continent.

Dutch officials said Tuesday that they identified cases of the variant a week before Friday, when 13 passengers who arrived on flights from South Africa tested positive for it, signaling that the variant was already present.

In South Africa, the variant accounts for most of the new daily cases reported in the nation’s most populous province, Gauteng, which is home to some 15 million people and the cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria.

The WHO says the emergence of omicron resulted from vaccine inequity in poor countries. Even so, some nations, including Britain and the United States, have renewed efforts to persuade citizens to get vaccine booster shots as quickly as possible.

In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul has declared a state of emergency, slated to go into effect on Friday, that will allow the state to acquire supplies, take steps to reduce staffing shortages at hospitals, and limit elective procedures.

New York City on Monday imposed an updated mask advisory urging people to wear them inside public spaces, regardless of vaccination status. The measure stops short of being a requirement.

In leading a 14-state lawsuit against the mandate, Attorney General Jeff Landry of Louisiana said the federal mandate would blow holes in state budgets and exacerbate shortages in healthcare facilities.

The Biden administration tied compliance with the vaccine mandate to federal funding, requiring immunizations of millions of workers at hospitals, nursing homes or other health facilities that heavily rely on the Medicare or Medicaid programs. But many health care providers — especially nursing home and rural hospital operators — complained that staff members who were hesitant to be immunized would leave, aggravating employee shortages that plagued the industry long before the pandemic.

Those complaints helped swell opposition in many states, like Texas and Florida, that have been vehemently against dictates on vaccines, mask-wearing and other federal policies at the heart of public health advice during the pandemic.

More than a dozen states and some employers joined forces to fight a broader mandate that would require private employers of 100 or more workers to impose company-wide immunization. An appeals court has temporarily blocked that mandate as well, as the challengers to the policy pursue their arguments that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration overstepped its authority.

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What we know about the Michigan high school shooting

By LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA and SOPHIE KASAKOVE

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gunman opened fire at Oxford High School in Michigan on Tuesday afternoon, shooting 11 people. Four students were killed and several others were left critically and seriously injured.

A 15-year-old male student was later arrested in connection with the shooting and was being held at a juvenile jail, authorities said.

The deadly gunfire in Oxford, in Oakland County — about 30 miles north of Detroit — added to a growing list of shootings on U.S. school grounds this year after a lull during the coronavirus pandemic, when many schools held classes remotely.

The shooting was the deadliest this year, according to Education Week, which tracks such shootings and reported that there had been 28 so far in 2021.

Many details, including the name of the suspect and a motive, remained unclear.

Here’s what we know.

What happened at the school?

At 12:51 p.m. Tuesday, authorities received the first of more than 100 calls to 911 about the shooting.

The suspect emerged from a bathroom and started firing at students in the hallway, authorities said Wednesday after viewing security camera footage of the attack.

When students at Oxford High School first heard the gunshots, they rushed for cover and used chairs to barricade themselves behind classroom doors. Within five minutes, authorities said, 11 people had been shot.

“I was just kind of sitting there shaking,” said Dale Schmalenberg, 16, who said he was in calculus class when his teacher heard a gunshot and locked down the classroom.

“I didn’t really know how to respond.”

The gunman fired 15-20 shots with a semi-automatic handgun before being apprehended by deputies in the school hallway, authorities said. Seven bullets remained in the gun, the county sheriff, Michael Bouchard, said at a news briefing Tuesday night.

Michael McCabe, the Oakland County undersheriff, said the suspect, who had been in class earlier Tuesday, “gave up without any problems.”

Investigators were poring through many hours of security camera footage to track the suspect’s actions, Bouchard told reporters Wednesday, but his targets “appeared random.” Investigators had not determined

Oakland County Sheriff Micheal Bouchard speaks addresses a news conference regarding the Oxford High School shooting, at the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office in Pontiac, Mich. on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. a possible motive for the shooting, which Bouchard described as “absolutely brutally cold hearted.”

Bouchard said investigators had been told that the gunman pretended to be an officer in order to access barricaded classrooms. “We know by witnesses he was tugging on doors, and we know from physical evidence he shot through doors up and down more than one hallway,” the sheriff said Wednesday.

Had there been no intervention, Bouchard said, “we might be, if it’s possible, in a worse situation.”

What was the aftermath?

After the shooting, students said they fled from the building. Some parents rushed to a nearby grocery store to reunite with their children.

Officials across the country expressed shock and issued statements of sadness and frustration, as residents of Oakland County announced a vigil and prepared for funerals.

Democratic leaders renewed their calls

for more to be done to reduce gun violence.

“No one should be afraid to go to school,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan said in a statement. Later, at a news conference, she added. “I think this is every parent’s worst nightmare.”

What do we know about the victims?

Authorities on Tuesday identified those killed as Hana St. Juliana, 14; Madisyn Baldwin, 17; and Tate Myre, 16, who died in a sheriff’s squad car while on the way to a hospital. A fourth student, Justin Shilling, 17, died Wednesday morning at McLaren Oakland Hospital in Pontiac, Michigan.

“There was no time to wait,” Bouchard said of the deputy who put Tate, who had recently won honors as a linebacker and tight end on his football team, into his car.

On Tuesday night, more than 25,000 people had signed a petition online to rename the school’s stadium after Tate, who had recently earned an all-region award from the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association.

Six other injured students ranged in

age from 14-17, officials said, including at least two who were in critical condition and another who was in serious condition.

They included a 15-year-old boy who had been shot in the head, a 17-year-old girl who had been hit in the chest and a 14-year-old girl who had been wounded in the chest and neck.

The wounded 14-year-old girl was on a ventilator Tuesday night. A hospital spokeswoman said Wednesday morning that the girl remained in critical condition, but had no further updates.

“It’s looking very tough for this young girl,” Bouchard said.

The only adult who was injured, an unidentified 47-year-old teacher whose shoulder was grazed by a bullet, had been discharged from the hospital, he added.

What do we know about the suspect?

Few details are known about the arrested student, whom authorities have described as a 15-year-old sophomore at Oxford High School and a resident of Oxford Village, a suburb with a population of fewer than 3,500 people.

When the boy’s parents went to a sheriff’s substation after the shooting, they declined to let investigators question their child, McCabe said. Officials served a search warrant Tuesday night at his family’s house and investigators were examining the contents of his computer and phone, including social media posts. The family has hired an attorney, officials said.

The suspect was being held at a juvenile jail Wednesday, awaiting possible charges.

“The person that’s got the most insight into the motive is not talking,” Bouchard said at the news briefing.

He added that the 9 mm Sig Sauer handgun used in the shooting had been bought by the suspect’s father four days earlier. The gun had 15-round magazines, he said, two of which had so far been found at the school.

Authorities said that they did not believe that the student had planned the shooting with anyone else and that they were still investigating.

Mass shootings at schools have been a recurring tragedy in the United States.

In 2018, a gunman killed 17 people and injured 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

That same year, a gunman killed 10 people at Santa Fe High School in Texas.

“This is a uniquely American problem that we need to address,” Whitmer said Tuesday.

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Supply chain problems have small retailers gambling on hoarding

By SAPNA MAHESHWARI and CORAL MURPHY MARCOS

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egan Searfoss has been hoarding sneakers in Connecticut.

Searfoss, the owner of two running stores in Darien and Ridgefield, Connecticut, would normally have about 3,000 pairs of shoes in stock ahead of the holiday season. But as she watched supply chain concerns in Vietnam mount this summer and into the fall, she secured a new storage facility and is now carrying around 4,100 pairs.

It’s a costly gamble for Searfoss, who said she is extended about $165,000 more than she would typically be in November because of worries about potential shortages.

“It’s placing a big bet and anticipating that what all the analysts are saying is correct,” Searfoss said. “Usually, we get through the New York City Marathon and then we stop buying shoes — we sell off what we have and go into January super, super lean. But we’re being told not to do that because there’s just not going to be any shoes.”

The buildup of running shoes in Connecticut is just one example of how supply chain woes and pandemic-related shortages are affecting thousands of small businesses around the United States this holiday season. While the widespread availability of vaccines is translating into a busier shopping season than last year, businesses of all sizes are grappling with the impact from factory shutdowns overseas, backups at ports, and trucking and other labor shortages.

For many small businesses, the unpredictability this year has forced them to make buying decisions months or weeks earlier than they normally would and to tie up more of their cash in inventory, which can be risky.

“The big thing is you really have to order in advance,” said Dan Quinn, an owner of What We Make, a furniture business in Algonquin, Illinois, which sells tables and other wares through Etsy. “I’ve got 14 weeks of projects.

Megan Searfoss, the owner of two running stores, at her new storage facility in Ridgefield, Conn., on Nov. 4, 2021.

I need to get most of that material in house as fast as possible and keep buying it until you have a stockpile basically.”

While many small businesses are affected by manufacturing issues overseas, some have used this moment to their advantage. Etsy, which powers online stores for millions of sellers, said that more than half of its U.S. vendors source materials from within their own states, allowing them to bypass many of the supply chain problems that are impacting the global economy.

Etsy stores “don’t have the complex supply chains that are vulnerable to single points of failure,” Josh Silverman, Etsy’s chief executive, said in an interview.

Still, the range of shortages can manifest themselves in unusual ways.

Isabel Amigon, owner of the online store Sololi, is still waiting on an order of Christmas tree ornaments she placed in April. The manufacturer alerted her that the order would be delayed because of a shortage in strings to tie on top of the decorated orbs.

Amigon, who is based in Westchester County, New York, said that she was worried that if she didn’t get them in time for the holiday season, she would have to wait until next year to make use of the inventory. The

string shortage has also led her to remove specific home goods items from her website, such as table runners and washcloths.

“Even if I get them by the end of November, I won’t be able to sell all of them because most people have already bought their ornaments,” Amigon said.

“I placed the orders early and I still have to face this situation.”

Other missing items are more traditional than string.

Earlier this year, Angela and Sean Arnold were planning to order another set of Disney princess dolls to fill some shelves in their toy store, Playmatters Toys, in Pepper Pike, Ohio. But they got a notification in September from the distributor alerting them and other toy store owners that the items were “indefinitely out of stock” because the factory in Vietnam where the dolls are manufactured was shut down because of a COVID-19 outbreak.

Even though they anticipated shipping delays and ordered some toys in mid-May instead of August, they could not get ahead of the global disruption.

And it’s not only dolls. The couple has been missing out on other toys and electronics because of shipping delays or disruptions in manufacturing plants in Vietnam. The couple has also been forced to raise prices on some products as they face higher transportation and wholesale costs from toy vendors.

“Some things we ordered in June and July are still coming in,” Sean Arnold said.

Because of these kind of delays, Etsy has viewed this moment as one in which small businesses can provide gift options that are not reliant on overseas factories and shipping. Extra consumer interest in small businesses, whether online or offline, would likely be welcome after the pandemic dealt a crippling blow to so many last year.

Etsy said it had seen searches for living room furniture soar by 1,572% and less dramatic but significant jumps for dining tables, checkers or chess boards, suggesting that some shoppers are coming to the site rather than going to

chain stores.

Etsy learned how to better handle large surges in demand after face masks exploded as a category on the site during the onset of the pandemic and it has made improvements designed to mitigate shipping issues it experienced then. Silverman said that now, virtually all items from sellers in the U.S. have an expected delivery date, which was not the case a year ago, and shoppers can filter products by geography to shop from vendors in their area, which can help accelerate shipping.

The company also said it checks in with sellers to ensure they have enough raw materials and supplies when its technology observes jumps in demand for specific items.

Quinn, the owner of the furniture seller What We Make, has seen his business boom as Americans grapple with long wait times and lack of availability for furniture from chains. Customers have been willing to wait 10 weeks for a dining table from him, particularly after seeing 20-week waits at chains like West Elm. While Quinn has been thriving in spite of competition from major furniture sellers, the country’s biggest retailers are often better equipped to handle supply chain issues than small businesses.

Companies like Walmart and Amazon are massive enough that they can charter airplanes to obtain certain goods.

“I hate that we have now gone right from Halloween to Christmas,” said Searfoss, the proprietor of the running stores, who said that she began holiday marketing on Nov. 1 for the first time. “I don’t want people to feel frantic but I do think it’s pretty serious that they’re not going to get what they want this year.”

She anticipated that shipping delays and out-of-stock issues at bigger chains might drive business to her stores.

“People, those days before Christmas, will be buying whatever they can from whatever local store they can,” she said.

“It’s just a little bit stressful for me, thinking, ‘OK, look at all that I’ve bought,’” Searfoss said. “If I buy it, will they come?”

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Fed signals inflation concerns and a possible end to supports

By JEANNA SMIALEK and ALAN RAPPEPORT

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erome Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, signaled earlier this week that the central bank was growing more concerned about high — and stubborn — inflation, and could speed up its plan to withdraw financial support from the economy as it tries to ensure that rapid price gains do not become long-lasting.

Powell, whom President Joe Biden plans to renominate for a second term, testified before the Senate Banking Committee at a fraught economic moment. Inflation has jumped to its highest level in three decades and a new coronavirus variant, omicron, threatens to keep the economy from returning to normal, potentially dragging out supply and demand mismatches.

Yet millions of workers are still missing from the job market — and the health threat could keep them on the sidelines.

As arguably the nation’s most important economic policymaker, Powell must navigate that divide. His comments Tuesday suggested that he was preparing to do it with an eye more firmly focused on the threat of inflation.

That could mean ending the Fed’s bond-buying program sooner than expected. The central bank had been buying $120 billion in government-backed securities each month throughout much of the pandemic to bolster the economy by keeping money flowing in financial markets.

In November, officials announced plans to slow those purchases by $15 billion a month, which would have the program ending midway through 2022. But Powell said the central bank could wrap up more quickly, reducing the amount of economic juice the Fed is adding.

“At this point, the economy is very strong, and inflationary pressures are high,” he said. “It is therefore appropriate in my view to consider wrapping up the taper of our asset purchases, which we actually announced at our November meeting, perhaps a few months sooner.”

His comments further rattled investors, who had already been fretting about omicron’s potential impact. Stocks, which had been down roughly 0.5% for much of the morning, tumbled after Powell’s com-

Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, pauses as he testifies before the Senate Banking Committee in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. ments and the S&P closed down 1.9%.

Short-term bond yields, which are heavily influenced by expectations for Fed rate increases, spiked as investors began to expect what is sometimes referred to as a “hawkish,” or aggressive approach to interest rate policy.

“The tone of his remarks was notably hawkish, suggesting that the Fed’s primary focus is on the risk of more persistent excess inflation,” Krishna Guha, an economist at Evercore ISI, wrote in a research note reacting to the testimony.

Powell said he expected Fed officials to discuss slowing bond purchases faster “at our upcoming meeting,” which is scheduled for Dec. 14-15. He stressed that between now and then, policymakers will get a better sense of the new omicron virus variant, a fresh labor market report and updated inflation numbers.

While he emphasized that much is unknown about omicron, he said experts could get a better sense of it “in about a month,” and will know at least something about the risks “within a week or 10 days.”

For now, he focused on the risk the central bank has already come to know: rapid price gains. Inflation is running at its fastest pace since the early 1990s in the United States, and prices have picked up in Europe and across many other advanced economies as booming consumer demand runs into sharply constrained supply. In the eurozone, annual inflation jumped to 4.9%, according to data released Tuesday,

the highest since records began in 1997.

Global factory shutdowns, clogged ports and unusual shipping patterns have driven shortages in couches, cars and computer chips.

Fed officials had for months predicted that the snarls would clear and price gains would fade. Instead, they have broadened — and that has made central bankers like Powell increasingly worried.

“Generally, the higher prices we’re seeing are related to the supply-anddemand imbalances that can be traced directly back to the pandemic and the reopening of the economy, but it’s also the case that price increases have spread much more broadly in the recent few months,” Powell said Tuesday. “I think the risk of higher inflation has increased.”

Monetary policymakers had spent recent months focused on helping the economy to heal, hoping to pull the millions of workers still missing from the job market back into work.

To that end, the Fed’s policy interest rate, its more traditional and more powerful tool, has remained set to near zero. Officials had been stressing that they would be patient in pulling back that support and cooling down the economy, giving missing employees more time to return.

But their tone appears to be shifting as prices for food, rent and goods are jumping.

Slowing bond purchases quickly would put officials in a position to raise

borrowing costs sooner than previously forecast. Lifting interest rates earlier or faster would pump the economic brakes, helping to slow home-building, business expansions and consumer spending. Weakening demand would in turn help to weigh down prices over time.

Powell’s willingness to pull back support faster despite the new variant — and his full-throated recognition that price gains are not poised to be as short-lived as officials had once hoped — caught investors’ attention.

“The Fed is the ultimate owner of the ‘transitory’ characterization, and the chair’s decision to move beyond that is a decidedly hawkish step,” wrote Ian Lyngen, head of U.S. rates strategy at BMO Capital Markets in New York, in a note to clients shortly after Powell’s comments.

At one point, Powell even said that at “coming meetings” he expected the Fed’s policy-setting committee would say that when it comes to inflation, its standard for lifting interest rates had been met.

That would mean that central bankers would simply be looking to the job market as they weighed when, whether and how much to raise borrowing costs.

For Powell, the timing is complicated. The Biden administration announced last week that it would renominate him as chair of the Fed, and that it would elevate Lael Brainard — now a governor — as the central bank’s vice chair. Both await Senate confirmation.

Inflation is factoring into the political moment, as well, as Republicans try to pin high inflation on the Biden administration and its policies. Several Republican senators asked combative questions of Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen during their joint testimony Tuesday, at times trying to back them into blaming rapidly rising prices on Biden’s policies.

“At what point do we just get back to a more normal execution of Fed policy?”

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., asked Powell.

“We have to be humble about our ability to predict this, or really understand,” Powell replied, after saying that the central bank did not expect the new omicron variant to have fallout that is “remotely comparable” to the initial pandemic-spurred state and local lockdowns.

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Wall Street bounces back from Omicron, inflation jitters W all Street’s main indexes rebounded more than 1% on Wednesday as investors appeared to look past concerns over rising inflation and the new Omicron coronavirus variant, while shares of Merck rose on progress in approval of its COVID-19 pill.

Merck & Co Inc (MRK.N) gained 1.9% after a panel of advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration narrowly voted to recommend the agency authorize the drugmaker’s antiviral pill to treat COVID-19.

All of the 11 major S&P sectors advanced in a broad-based rally, with energy (.SPNY) and utilities (.SPLRCU) shares jumping more than 2% each.

Banks (.SPXBK) added 1.7%, recouping some losses suffered in the previous session.

Shares of mega-cap technology titans Amazon.com (AMZN.O), Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Tesla Inc (TSLA.O), Google owner Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) and Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O), which are favored at times of uncertainty, added between 0.8% and 2.5% to provide the biggest boost to S&P 500 and the Nasdaq.

“People are just confident in the earnings predictability of tech stocks,” said Andre Bakhos, managing director at New Vines Capital LLC in Bernardsville, New Jersey.

In a hearing before the House Committee on Financial Services, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reiterated his comments from Tuesday about considering the acceleration of taper at the central bank’s December meeting amid a surge in inflation and a stronger economy.

Powell said the Fed’s two goals of price stability and jobs recovery are in tension and that it will use tools to make sure high inflation does not become entrenched.

U.S. stocks slumped on Tuesday after Powell’s hawkish tone served as a double whammy for markets, which were already nervous about the spread of the Omicron variant and its potential to hinder a global economic recovery.

“We’re seeing uncertainty manifest with a high level of volatile price action, as investors get their heads around what Powell’s comments mean, and keeping their finger on the pulse of Omicron,” Bakhos said.

Market participants were also awaiting a Fed report, known as the “Beige Book”, on current economic conditions to provide further insight into the central bank’s stance on inflation. The report is due at 2:00 p.m. ET (1900 GMT).

The World Health Organization expects to have more information on the transmissibility of the Omicron variant within days, and that the agency believes the existing COVID-19 vaccines will work against the variant.

At 11:57 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) was up 355.41 points, or 1.03%, at 34,839.13, the S&P 500 (.SPX) was up 66.83 points, or 1.46%, at 4,633.83, and the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) was up 189.11 points, or 1.22%, at 15,726.80.

Meanwhile, separate data showed U.S. private employers maintained a strong pace of hiring in November, while factory activity (USPMI=ECI) rose slightly as input prices eased, new orders gathered steam and the employment situation improved marginally.

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Omicron variant, in at least 20 nations, spread earlier than was known

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA

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he heavily mutated new coronavirus variant was in Europe several days earlier than previously known, health officials said earlier this week, and the number of countries where it has been found increased to at least 20, raising questions about whether the pandemic is about to surge once again.

The Netherlands’ National Institute for Public Health and the Environment said that samples taken on Nov. 19 and Nov. 23 — before the Nov. 24 announcement of omicron’s existence — tested positive for the variant. Health officials have notified the two infected people and are doing contact tracing to try to limit the spread.

Mutations in the omicron variant strongly suggest that it is more contagious than previous forms of the virus, scientists say. They caution that they cannot be sure without more testing and data, but the evidence so far is sobering.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it planned to toughen coronavirus testing and screening of people flying to the United States, by requiring all international passengers to provide a negative result from a test taken within 24 hours of departure.

“CDC is working to modify the current global testing order for travel as we learn more about the omicron variant,” said an agency spokesperson, Jason McDonald.

The concern is that the current rules, which allow fully vaccinated people to take a test up to three days before departing on a flight to the United States, might not be stringent enough.

A day after warning that the risk from omicron was “very high,” the World Health Organization on Tuesday said that unvaccinated people who are over age 60, are sick or have underlying health risks “should be advised to postpone travel.” In Greece, the prime minister announced that COVID vaccinations would be obligatory for people age 60 and older, and that those who

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during a Senate hearing in Washington on Nov. 4, 2021. failed to book a first shot by Jan. 16 would face fines.

In South Africa, where the variant was first announced and is already widespread, reported new coronavirus cases have rocketed from about 300 a day in mid-November to about 3,000 a day, the fastest rate of increase in the world. On two flights from South Africa to the Netherlands on Friday, just as a cascade of bans on travel from southern Africa were being announced, 61 passengers tested positive for the virus, at least 14 of them for omicron.

In addition to the question of omicron’s transmissibility, scientists still don’t have other answers the world is clamoring for: Are vaccines less effective against it? Are treatments? Does omicron cause more serious illness?

Experts cautioned not to put too much stock in reports that the variant is causing only mild illness, because the data is still sparse. Early evidence from South Africa indicates that omicron, more than previous variants, is infecting people who had already had COVID-19, but that, too, requires rigorous testing.

“It’s going to be two to four weeks, possibly a bit sooner,” before preliminary answers are available, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said Tuesday at a White House

briefing.

As of Tuesday evening, no omicron cases had been reported in the United States, though the variant has been detected in Canada. U.S. officials say that it is just a matter of time, and that the goal should be to slow its spread.

The variant has a very large number of mutations not seen in combination before, about 50, including more than 30 on the “spike” protein it uses to latch onto host cells; the spike is the primary target of the vaccines. That high degree of mutation is behind the fears about omicron, and the uncertainty over whether those fears are overblown.

Several times before, nations have relaxed their guard, thinking that the worst of the pandemic was behind them, only to be swamped by another wave — most recently the one caused by the highly contagious delta variant.

Vaccine makers are already looking into reformulating their shots to address omicron, a step that was not required for fighting delta.

And Regeneron, maker of an effective, injected monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID, said Tuesday that its therapy might not work as well against omicron. A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Tuesday recommended approval of an oral

treatment to reduce the severity of COVID, made by Merck, and will soon consider another from Pfizer.

In previous waves of the pandemic, by the time the first cases of the virus or a particular variant were detected, in reality there were vastly more and it was already widespread.

But the world’s supply of vaccines has gone primarily to the wealthiest countries, where many people have now received three shots before the vast majority of Africans have had even one. As long as many people are unvaccinated, the pandemic will continue and new variants will emerge.

“Vaccine equity is not charity; it’s in every country’s best interests,” Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the WHO, said Monday at the start of a conference intended to produce an international treaty to coordinate disease response.

“The time has come for countries to agree on a common, binding approach to a common threat that we cannot fully control nor prevent,” he said.

Vaccine doses are in fact becoming more plentiful, but African countries still face challenges in distribution and overcoming vaccine hesitancy. South Africa recently turned away a shipment, unsure that it could use the doses in time.

The new variant was first found in Botswana on Nov. 11 and days later in neighboring South Africa, where its genome was sequenced by scientists who announced its existence two weeks later.

Researchers in South Africa have found it in samples from as long ago as Nov. 9, and experts have said it was likely that further testing of old samples would show that it was circulating even earlier.

In Europe, the number of cases confirmed is small so far, under 100, but officials are bracing for more.

“Is there likely to be community transmission?” Sajid Javid, the British health secretary, said at a news conference. “I think we have to be realistic: There is likely to be, as we are seeing in other European countries. We would expect cases to rise as we now actively look for cases.”

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ISIS fighter convicted in death of enslaved 5-year-old girl

By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE

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German court on Tuesday convicted an Islamic State fighter for crimes against humanity and war crimes for tying up a 5-year-old Yazidi girl he had bought as a slave in Iraq, and leaving her in scorching heat to die of thirst.

The 29-year-old man, identified only as Taha Al-J. under German privacy laws, was sentenced to life in prison and ordered to pay 50,000 euros, or about $57,000, in compensation to the girl’s mother, who was a co-plaintiff in the case and was present when the verdict was read.

It was the first genocide conviction of a fighter for the Islamic State group, which systematically persecuted the Yazidi ethnic group in Iraq, according to Christoph Koller, the judge overseeing the trial in Frankfurt.

During its reign, the Islamic State killed thousands of Yazidi men, and kidnapped and forced into slavery thousands of Yazidi women and girls.

“This is the moment Yazidis have been waiting for,” Amal Clooney, a human rights lawyer and a member of the mother’s legal team, said in a statement. “To finally hear a judge, after seven years, declare that what they suffered was genocide.”

Even though neither the victim nor the killer were German, and the crime occurred in Fallujah, Iraq, the trial was held in Germany on the principle of universal jurisdiction, which German courts have been

using to try people accused of war crimes in countries like Iraq and Syria.

During the trial, which started in April 2020, the mother testified that she and her child were held captive by Taha Al-J. and his wife, Jennifer W., for several months in 2015 after the couple purchased them as slaves.

At their home in Fallujah, the mother said she was forced to do menial work in tough conditions, while the girl was supposed stay out of the way. One day, after the 5-year-old girl had wet her bed, Taha Al-J. took her out into the midday heat and tied her to a window grate, and left her there to die of thirst, she testified.

The girl’s mother, whose identity is being kept secret for safety reasons, lives in Germany under a witness-protection program. According to Deutsche Welle, she testified through a translator on five different occasions in Frankfurt.

Taha Al-J. was arrested in Athens, Greece, in May 2019 on a European arrest warrant and extradited to Germany under the principle of universal jurisdiction. In October, in a separate trial held in Munich, Jennifer W., who is a German citizen, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for allowing the girl to die.

The trial in Frankfurt is one in a series of trials brought to German courts in which neither defendants nor victims are German and crimes were not committed on German soil.

Taha Al-J., covering his face with a folder, speaking with his lawyers before he was convicted in the court in Frankfurt on Tuesday.

This summer the German federal prosecutor indicted a Syrian doctor for crimes against humanity for torturing and killing at least one victim for the Assad regime. Since April of 2020, Anwar Raslan, a colonel who worked in a secret prison in Syria, has been on trial in a court in the western German city of Koblenz. And Eyad al-Gharib, a lower-ranking Syrian official who worked in the same prison, was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison for crimes against humanity this April by the same court.

Clooney wrote that she was “grateful to Germany for defending the principle of universal jurisdiction which means that crimes like this must be prosecuted wherever

and whenever they occur.”

Roger Lu Phillips, the legal director of the Syrian Justice and Accountability Center in Washington, said that European courts have the obligation to prosecute such crimes if the perpetrators are in Europe. But he warned that single trials under the universal jurisdiction principle were not enough when dealing with crimes committed by the Islamic State group.

“The capacity of these courts is really a drop in the bucket when compared with the magnitude of crimes committed by ISIS,” Phillips said. “A more comprehensive process must be pursued, such as a special court for ISIS.”

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Months after Myanmar’s coup, worries of civil war

By RUSSELL GOLDMAN

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nrest has gripped Myanmar. Peaceful pro-democracy street demonstrations and work stoppages have given way to paramilitary operations in opposition to the country’s ruthless military, which seized power in a coup d’état on Feb. 1.

Military leaders’ initially restrained response to the first waves of protests, civil disobedience and general strikes grew more forceful over time, escalating into a brutal effort to put down the movement. The Tatmadaw, as the Myanmar military is known, is now trying to eliminate resistance along the border, firing rocket launchers and burning down homes.

The coup returned the country to full military rule after a short span of quasi-democracy that began in 2011, when the military, which had been in power since 1962, carried out parliamentary elections and other reforms. In the months since the coup, Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s ousted civilian leader, has faced charges in a secret court.

What led to the military coup in Myanmar?

In early 2021, the country’s Parliament had been expected to endorse recent election results and approve the next government. The National League for Democracy, Myanmar’s leading civilian party, had won 83% of the body’s available seats.

The military refused to accept the results of the vote, which was widely seen as a referendum on the popularity of Suu Kyi. As head of the National League for Democracy, she had been the de facto civilian leader since her election in 2015.

The possibility of the coup emerged after the military, which had tried in the country’s Supreme Court to argue that the election results were fraudulent, threatened to “take action” and surrounded the houses of Parliament with soldiers.

How was the coup carried out?

The military detained the leaders of the

People march in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, in protest of the recent military coup.

National League for Democracy and other civilian officials, including Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint, Cabinet ministers, the chief ministers of several regions, opposition politicians, writers and activists.

The coup was effectively announced on the military-owned Myawaddy TV station when a news presenter cited the 2008 Constitution, which allows the military to declare a national emergency.

The military quickly seized control of the country’s infrastructure, suspending most television broadcasts and canceling domestic and international flights.

Telephone and internet access was suspended in major cities. The stock market and commercial banks were closed, and long lines were seen outside ATMs in some places. In Yangon, the country’s largest city and former capital, residents ran to markets to stock up on food and other supplies.

How have people been protesting?

Weeks of relatively peaceful protests quickly turned deadly Feb. 20 when two unarmed protesters were killed by security forces in Mandalay, one of whom was a 16-year-old boy.

On Feb. 22, millions of people across the country took to the streets in a general strike. Since then, an expanded civil disobedience movement has paralyzed the banking system and made it difficult for the military to get much done.

As the demonstrations entered their second month, the military, notorious for having crushed democracy movements in 1988 and 2007 by shooting peaceful protesters, became more violent in its response. Since

the coup, nearly 1,300 people have been killed by the junta and more than 10,000 have been arrested, according to a monitoring group.

Among the protesters, there is a growing recognition that the Tatmadaw needs to be countered on its own terms. In the country’s jungles, people are training with firearms and hand grenades.

The country is now on the verge of a civil war, according to the departing U.N. special envoy on Myanmar.

How is the military continuing to quash resistance?

Since the bloody crackdown against protesters in major cities, the military has been moving aggressively to eliminate resistance along the country’s border. The Tatmadaw is targeting areas that are home to armed civilians known as the People’s Defense Force.

Residents have reported a large buildup of troops in northwest Myanmar. Soldiers have fired rocket launchers, burned down homes, cut off food supplies, and shot at fleeing civilians, according to residents.

Desperate to escape the violence, families are fleeing into neighboring India. An entire town of roughly 12,000 people has nearly emptied out. Aid groups, concerned about a humanitarian crisis, are preparing for a flood of refugees.

Why is Suu Kyi on trial?

A secret trial for Suu Kyi began Feb. 16.

Suu Kyi has been accused of violating import restrictions after walkie-talkies and other foreign equipment were found in her villa compound. She has also been charged with contravening a natural disaster manage-

ment law by interacting with a crowd during the coronavirus pandemic.

If convicted of all 11 charges against her, she could be sentenced to a maximum of 102 years in prison.

The United Nations and foreign governments have described the case as politically motivated. The junta has barred all five of her lawyers from speaking to the media, saying their communications could “destabilize the country.”

Who is Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing?

After the coup, the military handed power to the army chief, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing.

The move prolongs the general’s power even though he is supposed to age out as army chief this summer. His patronage network, centered on lucrative family businesses, could well have been undermined by his retirement, especially had he not been able to secure a clean exit.

Under the former power-sharing agreement, Min Aung Hlaing presided over two business conglomerates and was able to appoint three key Cabinet members who oversee the police and border guards.

The military never fell under the civilian government’s control. In recent years, the army, with Min Aung Hlaing at the helm, has overseen campaigns against several of the country’s ethnic minority groups, including the Rohingya, the Shan and the Kokang.

What has been the international reaction?

Several major world leaders quickly condemned the coup, demanding that Myanmar’s military immediately free Suu Kyi and the other detained government officials and honor the November election results.

But it was not immediately clear what sort of concrete actions, if any, other nations might take.

The Biden administration, which has sought to elevate human rights as a foreign policy priority, announced sanctions in late March in coordination with the European Union that named military officials and other entities in Myanmar for their violence against democracy advocates.

António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, said the coup developments “represent a serious blow to democratic reforms in Myanmar.” And Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain said in a Twitter post that the “vote of the people must be respected and civilian leaders released.” The U.S. ambassador to Myanmar, Thomas Vajda, called the bloodshed across the country on March 27 “horrifying.”

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As Attention Shifts to Omicron, the Delta Variant Overwhelms Europe

By JOSH HOLDER

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urope is once again at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, with more cases being reported each day on the continent than at any previous point. In Austria, Germany and the Netherlands, infection rates have already surged to double those of last winter’s peak.

In response, governments have been forced to reimpose the types of strict restrictions that most Europeans thought were behind them. Lockdowns have been ordered in Austria and Slovakia, with bars, restaurants and nonessential shops closing in an effort to bring the countries’ outbreaks under control.

The emergence of the new omicron variant, which the World Health Organization says could pose a higher risk of reinfection, has alarmed European leaders.

Cases of the variant have so far been detected in travelers to more than 10 European countries, including Denmark, the Netherlands and Britain.

Speaking during a visit to Latvia, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, said that although it will take two to three weeks for scientists to get a full picture of the variant, the highest priorities should be social distancing and administering booster doses.

“The general line is: Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst,” she added.

Even with highly effective vaccines, European health officials are still struggling to combat the highly contagious delta variant, as colder temperatures bring more gatherings indoors.

The winter surge has highlighted the disparities in vaccination rates across the continent. Even though cases have risen throughout the continent, it’s so far only in poorly vaccinated countries that deaths have reached the levels that followed similar surges last winter.

Experts agree that the only way to break the current cycle of surges and restrictions is to improve vaccination rates.

Bruno Ciancio, head of surveillance for the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, said that while lockdowns are the sole choice for countries once the virus’s spread becomes unsustainable, they only help in the short term.

“At the same time as implemen-

BC-EUROPE-VIRUS-NYT Europe is once again at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, with more cases being reported each day on the continent than at any previous point. ting such measures, it is imperative that everything is done to actually increase the level of protection in the population,” Ciancio said. “Otherwise, it will be just back and forth. And unfortunately, we are at risk of seeing this through the winter months.”

Europe is a patchwork of high and low vaccination rates. Portugal and Malta are two of the most highly vaccinated countries in the world, with 87% and 86% of their populations fully vaccinated. But in Eastern Europe, campaigns have been damaged by misinformation and distrust of governments. Romania has fully vaccinated 38% of its population, while Bulgaria has vaccinated only 25% of its population.

Older age groups are better protected across the continent, but vaccination rates in children still lag. The European Medicines Agency on Thursday approved the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, six months after it was approved in 12- to 15-year-olds.

Despite their low risk of hospitalization or death, unvaccinated children can fuel outbreaks in the wider population, as seen in England when infections in schools surged after pupils returned to class this fall. “If the virus circulates widely among younger people, it will unfortunately break through to older people as well,” Ciancio said. “And this will be more and more the case with waning immunity.”

Studies in numerous countries have found that the vaccines’ protection against symptomatic infection declines over time. A study in England found that two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was only 70% effective at preventing symptomatic infection 20 weeks after the second dose was administered, down from 90% after two weeks.

Most European countries vaccinated seniors and health care workers in the early stages of their vaccination campaigns, protecting them in the spring and summer, but leaving them more susceptible to waning immunity now.

In many European countries, an increase in case rates in seniors, who are more vulnerable to severe illness or death from the virus, has followed a rise in case rates in children and younger adults.

Portugal, Europe’s most widely vaccinated country, has announced new measures and a return to the “state of calamity” that was lifted four months ago. In the first week in January, more restrictions will be put into effect during a “containment week” aimed at preventing a post-holidays spike in cases: Working from home will be mandatory for those who are able, bars will be closed, and school vacations will be extended.

Many leaders are desperate to avoid strict restrictions that could harm their economies in the busy Christmas period. France is rolling out booster doses to all adults and will not renew health passes for those who refuse. At a news conference Thursday, the French health minister, Olivier Véran, said that “no lockdown, no curfew, no store closures, no travel restrictions” would be put in place. “We are making the choice to reconcile freedom and responsibility,” he said.

New restrictions have been met with resistance in many countries.

About 40,000 people protested in Austria on Nov. 20 after the announcement of a national lockdown and mandatory vaccination. On the previous day in the Netherlands, police officers fired warning shots and used water cannons against hundreds of demonstrators who set fires in protest of the country’s partial lockdown, in which bars, cafes and shops now shut at 5 p.m.

The discovery of the new omicron variant, classified by the World Health Organization on Friday as a “variant of concern,” has added an additional measure of urgency to European leaders’ efforts to curtail the continent’s surge in cases.

It will take time for scientists to determine whether the vaccines are still effective against the new variant, but the European Union has banned foreign travelers who have recently been in South Africa or Botswana, where the variant was first detected, or any of several neighboring countries.

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What Europe can teach us about jobs

By PAUL KRUGMAN

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mericans have a hard time learning from foreign experience. Our size and the role of English as an international language (which reduces our incentive to learn other tongues) conspire to make us oblivious to alternative ways of living and the possibilities of change.

Our insularity may be especially damaging when it comes to countries with whom we have a lot in common. Western Europe is our technological equal; labor productivity in northern Europe is just a little below productivity here. But Europe’s policies and institutions are very unlike ours, and we could learn a lot by looking at how those differences have played out. Unfortunately, any suggestion that Europe does something we might want to emulate tends to be shouted down with cries of “socialism.”

Which brings me to an under-discussed aspect of the current economic scene: Europe’s comparative success in getting workers idled by the pandemic back into the labor force.

You’re probably aware that the United States is ex-

Workers on the way to their offices in Paris.

periencing what many call the Great Resignation — a significant fall in the number of people willing to accept jobs, at least at pre-COVID wages. Four million fewer Americans are employed than were on the eve of the pandemic, yet the rate at which workers are quitting their jobs — usually a good indicator of labor market tightness — has hit a record, and the scramble of employers to find workers has led to rapid wage increases.

Earlier this year, many Republicans insisted that labor was scarce because generous unemployment benefits were discouraging workers from accepting jobs.

However, those enhanced benefits went away with no visible effect on participation in the labor force. So what is going on?

Well, a comparison with Europe may shed some light on the subject. For the Great Resignation, it turns out, is largely an American phenomenon. European nations have been much more successful than we have at getting people back to work. In France, in particular, employment and labor force participation are now well above pre-pandemic levels. What explains this difference?

Part of the answer may involve older workers. In the United States, the decline in the labor force has been especially steep among adults over 55, many of whom haven’t come back after pandemic layoffs. This may have been less of a factor in France, where workers tend to retire earlier than their U.S. counterparts. However, older adults in some European nations, like Denmark, are actually more likely to be employed than their American counterparts; yet Denmark has also avoided a Great Resignation.

Another answer may lie in trans-Atlantic differences in how we approached COVID relief. While the United States made some effort to help businesses stay afloat and retain their labor forces, mainly we helped displaced workers through enhanced unemployment benefits. Europe, on the other hand, mainly relied on job retention schemes — government aid intended to keep people on employer payrolls even if they weren’t working at the moment.

The problems with the U.S. approach are now becoming apparent. As I said, there’s no evidence that unemployment insurance has been significantly discouraging work. But where European labor support helped keep workers linked to their old jobs, facilitating a rapid return, U.S. policy allowed many of those links to be severed, making an employment recovery harder.

Finally, let me offer a speculative hypothesis: Perhaps one reason Europeans aren’t engaging in an American-style Great Resignation is that they don’t hate their jobs quite as much.

Anecdotally, one factor behind Americans’ unwillingness to return to their old jobs is that enforced idleness during the pandemic gave many people a chance

to reconsider their life choices — and a significant number may have realized that low-paying jobs with lousy working conditions weren’t worth having.

Of course, Europe is by no means a worker’s paradise. But some jobs that are grueling and poorly paid here are less awful on the other side of the Atlantic.

Famously, in Denmark McDonald’s pays more than $20 an hour and offers six weeks of paid vacation each year.

That may be an exceptional case, but the U.S. does stand out among wealthy countries for having a low minimum wage, for offering very little vacation time and for failing to offer parental and sick leave. Maybe the poor quality of U.S. jobs is one reason so many American workers are reluctant to return.

U.S. elite opinion, especially but not only on the right, has long assumed that making jobs better would backfire, because higher labor costs would reduce employment. But European experience says otherwise. Even before the pandemic, many European countries were doing pretty well at job creation. France, for example, has consistently had higher employment rates among prime-age adults than the United States.

And now, in the aftermath of a nightmarish disruption to working life, pro-worker policies also seem to be helping European economies achieve faster employment recovery than we’re managing here. Are we sure we have nothing to learn from their experience?

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Jenniffer González: “Nosotros no renunciaremos al Observatorio de Arecibo”

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ASHINGTON D.C. – La comisionada residente Jenniffer González Colón informó el miércoles, que presentó una resolución bipartita en la Cámara de Representantes federal, que destaca algunas de las contribuciones realizadas por el radiotelescopio de 305 metros del Observatorio de Arecibo, durante las seis décadas de su funcionamiento hasta su

colapso, ocurrido exactamente hace un año.

“El Congreso debe seguir reconociendo el importante activo que tenía nuestra nación en este instrumento, a medida que trabajamos con las agencias federales relevantes para avanzar y lo que es más importante, aprovechar las capacidades que una vez tuvimos con el telescopio anterior. Nosotros no renunciaremos al Observatorio, nos concentraremos en su futuro para el que deseo seguir trabajando junto a mis colegas en este tema tan importante”, dijo González Colón en declaraciones escritas.

La resolución fue copatrocinada por los congresistas Steven Palazzo (MS-4), Michael Waltz (FL-06), Stephanie Murphy (FL7), Brian Babin (TX-36), María Elvira Salazar (FL-27) y Darren Soto (FL-09).

Mencionó que el radiotelescopio jugó un

papel fundamental dentro de la comunidad científica y para el avance de la educación de ciencias, tecnología, ingeniería y matemáticas (STEM). La resolución reconoce la pérdida de esta singular herramienta de clase mundial que fue utilizada por investigadores en las áreas del espacio y ciencias atmosféricas, astronomía de radar, ciencias planetarias, la astronomía y la astrofísica. La resolución también alienta a la Fundación Nacional de las Ciencias (NSF), quienes son los actuales propietarios de la instalación, y a la Administración Nacional de Aeronáutica y del Espacio (NASA) junto a otras agencias estudiar los medios para reemplazar las capacidades que se perdieron después del colapso, utilizando nuevas tecnologías en el lugar.

“El colapso del Radiotelescopio de Arecibo causó un golpe devastador al des-

cubrimiento científico, la defensa planetaria, al pueblo de Puerto Rico y a la Universidad de Central Florida en mi distrito, quien administra el lugar”, dijo Murphy.

“El Gobierno federal debe actuar de una manera rápida y significativa para reemplazar las capacidades científicas y educativas que se perdieron debido al colapso’’, añadió.

“Durante décadas, el Observatorio de Arecibo destacó las contribuciones y el liderazgo en el área de las ciencias de Puerto Rico a los Estados Unidos. Hizo invaluables contribuciones a nuestro entendimiento del universo. Debemos reconocer los increíbles logros del Observatorio y asegurarnos de que estamos trabajando para reemplazar las capacidades que se perdieron a raíz de su colapso”, dijo la congresista Salazar.

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AN JUAN – Los representantes del sector docente y estudiantil ante la Junta Universitaria de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR) denunciaron este miércoles que la presidenta de la Junta de Gobierno de la UPR, doctora Mayda Velasco, “margina y excluye de discusiones en el cuerpo” a los representantes electos de la comunidad universitaria, según el representante claustral del Recinto de Río Piedras, doctor Jorge Colón.

“Es en la Junta de Gobierno donde se da esta situación de que los cuatro representantes de la comunidad universitaria, que no son nombrados por el gobernador, están siendo excluidos de algunas de las discusiones que se están dando en

la Junta de Gobierno”, dijo Colón en entrevista con CyberNews.

Mencionó que la Junta de Gobierno de la UPR, en su reunión extraordinaria del miércoles, 17 de noviembre de 2021 aprobó “de forma atropellada” cuatro mociones que fueron presentadas y consultadas previo a la reunión con los miembros nombrados por el gobernador, dejando afuera a los representantes estudiantiles y claustrales de este cuerpo.

“Esta acción implica que los miembros de la Junta nombrados por el Gobernador han decidido excluir de las discusiones internas sobre el Sistema de la UPR a los representantes legítimos electos de la comunidad universitaria”, añadió.

Explicó que las mociones presentadas en la reunión extraordinaria de

la Junta de Gobierno por los miembros nombrados por el gobernador invocaban la Ley 90 del 2017, las juntas de disciplina, limitar la participación estudiantil en los procesos de diálogo y continuar la confrontación; mociones que no contribuyen al proceso de diálogo que debe darse en toda institución educativa.

“Esas mociones fueron aprobadas en la Junta de Gobierno sin se-

guir los procesos parlamentarios que incluyen la discusión de mociones previo a la votación por las mismas.

La presidenta de la Junta de Gobierno indicó que no habría debate porque no había ni un solo miembro dispuesto a tomar un turno a favor de los méritos de esas cuatro mociones y que por lo tanto solo se podía proceder a votar sobre ellas sin permitir discusión”, señaló Colón.

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CNN suspends Chris Cuomo after new details on help he gave his brother

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and JOHN KOBLIN

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he star CNN anchor Chris Cuomo was suspended indefinitely by the network on earlier this week after new details emerged about his efforts to assist his brother, Andrew Cuomo, the former governor of New York, as he faced a cascade of sexual harassment accusations that led to the governor’s resignation.

Chris Cuomo had previously apologized for advising Andrew Cuomo’s senior political aides — a breach of traditional barriers between journalists and lawmakers — but thousands of pages of evidence released on Monday by the New York attorney general, Letitia James, revealed that the anchor’s role had been more intimate and involved than previously known.

“The documents, which we were not privy to before their public release, raise serious questions,” CNN said in a statement on Tuesday. “When Chris admitted to us that he had offered advice to his brother’s staff, he broke our rules and we acknowledged that publicly. But we also appreciated the unique position he was in and understood his need to put family first and job second. However, these documents point to a greater level of involvement in his brother’s efforts than we previously knew.

“As a result, we have suspended Chris indefinitely, pending further evaluation,” the network added.

Cuomo’s entanglement with the last 18 months of his brother’s governorship has proved a slow-moving headache for CNN, which had stood by its top-rated anchor even as a drip of uncomfortable revelations raised questions about the network’s adherence to journalistic standards.

Jeff Zucker, CNN’s president, supported Cuomo for months, declining to discipline him even after reports showed that the anchor had participated in strategy sessions with his brother’s political team, a breach of basic reportorial conduct. Earlier this year, the network floated the idea to Cuomo that he could take a temporary leave if he wanted to focus more formally on aiding his brother’s defense.

But this week presented a harsher set of facts for Zucker as he weighed the fate of his 9 p.m. host.

In scores of emails and text messages between Cuomo his brother’s inner circle, he repeatedly offered advice — “Please let me help with the prep,” he texted a senior aide in March — and made efforts to track down the status of pending articles at other news outlets, including Politico and The New Yorker, that concerned allegations of sexual harassment

by Andrew Cuomo.

At one point, the governor’s former top aide, Melissa DeRosa, asked the anchor if he could check his “sources” about a rumor that Politico was working on an article that included additional accusations. “On it,” Chris Cuomo responded.

The attorney general’s report also included a text from Cuomo to DeRosa sent a few days after a woman, Anna Ruch, told The New York Times that Andrew Cuomo had

Chris Cuomo at his office at CNN in New York, Dec. 12, 2017. Cuomo was suspended indefinitely by the network on Nov. 30, 2021, in the wake of new details about his efforts to assist his brother, Andrew Cuomo, the former governor of New York, amid a cascade of sexual harassment accusations that led to the governor’s resignation. made an unwanted advance toward her at a wedding in New York City. “I have a lead on the wedding girl,” the anchor wrote in the text.

Chris Cuomo later told investigators that he had heard from a friend that “maybe she had been put up to it,” referring to Ruch’s allegation. He said that Andrew Cuomo’s aides had disabused him of that notion and that he had set his friend’s claim aside. “So that’s that,” he said.

For months, some journalists in the CNN newsroom have expressed bewilderment at Chris Cuomo’s actions and the lack of discipline that he faced from the network. (In May, CNN did call Cuomo’s actions “inappropriate.”) Several employees said in interviews on Tuesday that James’ new report only deepened their unease.

An email to a representative for Cuomo was not returned. Anderson Cooper, the usual 8 p.m. anchor on CNN, will extend his broadcast for two hours on Tuesday to take over the hour previously occupied by “Cuomo Prime Time.”

A monologue delivered by Cuomo on his show on Aug. 16 has also drawn scrutiny in light of James’ report this week.

“I’m not an adviser, I’m a brother,” Cuomo told viewers, in his first public comments after Andrew Cuomo’s resignation. He added, “I never attacked nor encouraged anyone to attack any woman who came forward. I never made calls to the press about my brother’s situation.”

But the testimony and text messages released this week suggested that Cuomo did reach out to other journalists.

“When asked, I would reach out to sources, other journalists, to see if they had heard of anybody else coming out,” he told

investigators.

According to the documents, DeRosa texted Cuomo in mid-March to ask if he knew the status of an article about his brother by the New Yorker investigative reporter Ronan Farrow. “Story not ready for tomorrow,” Cuomo replied. Asked by investigators, he said he had obtained that information by reaching out to a “fellow journalist who works with Ronan a lot.”

Hours after the release of James’ report on Monday, CNN said only that its executives would “be having conversations and seeking additional clarity.” On his show that night, Cuomo made no mention of the attorney general’s documents and participated in his usual friendly on-air chat with Don Lemon, the host who follows him at 10.

By Tuesday afternoon, CNN’s top executives were mulling Cuomo’s fate just as they were convening for a meeting on the news network’s own corporate future.

Cuomo joined CNN in 2013, when Zucker hired him away from ABC News and installed him as the host of “New Day,” a morning show. Cuomo was a veteran correspondent who had covered California wildfires, shooting rampages and war zones.

In an on-air apology to viewers on May 20, after The Washington Post first reported his involvement with his brother’s political effort, Cuomo conceded he had made “a mistake” in advising the governor. But he also offered a defense, describing himself as “family first, job second.”

“I know where the line is,” Cuomo said. “I can respect it, and still be there for my family, which I must.”

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Josephine Baker becomes first black woman interred in France’s tomb of heroes

By ROGER COHEN

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osephine Baker, born in Missouri and beloved of France, whose life spanned French music-hall stardom and American civil rights activism, on Tuesday became the first Black woman to be inducted into the Panthéon, the nation’s hallowed tomb of heroes.

On a gray afternoon, 46 years after her death in Paris, soldiers from the Republican Guard bore a flag-draped coffin up the red-carpeted stairs of the Panthéon, where Baker joined 75 men and five women, including the author Émile Zola, the scientist Marie Curie, and the resistance hero Jean Moulin.

The coffin carried soil from the United States, France and Monaco — places that shaped Baker’s life. Her body, at the request of the family, will stay in Monaco.

The colonnaded facade of the Panthéon, with its engraved dedication to the “great men” of France, was lit with a remarkable collage of images ranging from Baker’s wild nights performing at the Folies Bergères in 1926 to her appearance in front of the Lincoln Memorial beside Martin Luther King Jr. on Aug. 28, 1963, as he spoke the words, “I have a dream.”

The ceremony beneath the cupola that rises above Paris marked the culmination of an extraordinary journey that began in the misery and racial segregation of St. Louis; led her to fame as the provocative dance star of “les années folles,” or crazy years, of 1920s Paris; and took her on to passionate political engagement in the cause of Europe’s freedom from the threat of fascism and American racial equality.

At a time of tension in France over issues of race and gender, and of friction with the United States, President Emmanuel Macron chose to honor Baker as a woman with “every form of courage and audacity,” and “an American who found refuge in Paris and captured what it is to be French.”

Five months from a divisive presidential election, he portrayed Baker as a symbol of unity — what he called “the beauty of collective destiny.” He held her up as an example of immigrant success, and of the multitudes a single life may contain.

“France is Josephine,” Macron de-

Ms. Baker in 1961. During World War II, she served as an ambulance driver and an intelligence agent, earning her medals of honor. clared, standing before the coffin. From the right to the left of the political spectrum, at least for a day, everyone seemed to agree.

The longing cadences of “J’ai Deux Amours,” or “I Have Two Loves,” perhaps Baker’s most famous song, filled the frescoed mausoleum during the ceremony.

Its avowal that Baker’s heart went out at once to “Paris et mon pays” — “Paris and my country” — seemed to capture her unusual odyssey.

At the time the song was recorded in 1930, Baker was still an American citizen. She became French in 1937, 12 years after her arrival in France. She is the first person of American origin to be entombed in the Panthéon, a distinction that was marked by the lighting Monday of the Empire State Building in the red, white and blue of the French flag.

“She had a double affection for the two countries,” Baker’s daughter, Marianne Bouillon-Baker, said at an American reception on the eve of the entombment.

After the racial violence she witnessed as a Black American child and the repeated humiliations of segregation and discrimination, Baker, who was born Freda Josephine McDonald, said she found a freedom and dignity in France for which she was “eternally grateful.”

Other Black American artists, includ-

ing James Baldwin and Richard Wright, had similar experiences, with the result that France is particularly sensitive to American criticism that its avowedly colorblind social model masks widespread discrimination.

Macron said that Baker’s life had encapsulated “a universal struggle.” Her goal was not “to define herself as Black before defining herself American or French.” Her guiding idea was not the “irreducibility of the Black cause,” but to be “a free and dignified citizen, completely,” he added.

His words appeared to reflect his government’s rejection of what it often portrays as divisive American identity politics that threatens to undermine French universalism. Macron’s characterization of Baker’s beliefs was consistent with his government’s fierce defense of universalism. Still, her presence on the Mall with King and her repeated expressions of outrage at the treatment of Blacks in the United States make clear that the specific Black fight for equality was very important to her.

Baker became an object of wild Parisian fascination when, just 20, she appeared in 1926 at the Folies Bergères theater dressed in little more than a skirt made of 16 rubber bananas at a show called “The Negro Review.”

The cabaret played off white male colonial obsessions with Black women and their bodies in a France then fascinated by Black and African arts. Clowning and exaggerating, gyrating and waving her arms, Baker contrived to use and subvert the stereotypes, ridiculing them through what Macron called her use of the “burlesque.”

Her fame extended far and wide; writers from Jean Cocteau to Ernest Hemingway fell under her thrall. But when artistic folly of the 1920s yielded to the Fascist military folly of the 1930s, Baker demonstrated that she did not take her success, or the gifts of her adoptive country, for granted. She joined the resistance.

It was in her Free French uniform, hung with her various French military and civilian honors, that she appeared with King at the March on Washington.

“I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents,” she said. “But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.”

She exhorted the crowd to fight on.

“You can’t go wrong,” she said. “The world is behind you.”

Gabriel Attal, the government spokesman, told Europe 1 radio that Baker was a “magnificent symbol who incarnates the love for France that can also come from people who are not born here.”

His statement seemed pointed at immigration, which remains an explosive subject in France — the main theme of the election, along with purchasing power at a time of economic difficulty.

If Baker embraced France, many immigrants, particularly from North Africa, have found that much harder because of the prejudice they have encountered.

The Pantheon ceremony came on the same day as Éric Zemmour, a hard-right polemicist and TV star with fierce antiimmigrant views, declared his candidacy for the presidency. Polls suggest he has significant support.

Of Baker, Macron said: “She did not defend a certain skin color. She had a certain idea of humankind and fought for the freedom of everyone. Her cause was universalism, the unity of humanity, the equality of everyone ahead of the identity of each single person.”

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

Lime Homes, LTD Plaintiff, v.

Suheil Cintrón Ortiz

Defendants CIVIL NO: 3:16-cv-02698-JAG. RE: Collection of Money and Mortgage Foreclosure. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: Suheil Cintrón Ortiz, General Public and all parties that may have an interest in the property

WHEREAS, Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $140,622.95 plus interest at a rate of 6.00% per annum since December 1, 2015 until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff late charges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due until the debt is paid in full. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($9,450.00) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation.

The records of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda-Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder and at Special Master’s Office located at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698579, -66.1124836) the following property: URBANA: Solar de forma rectangular que mide 12.00 metros de frente por 21.00 metros de fondo marcado con el número 30 de la manzana GE de la Urbanización Puerto Nuevo, propiedad de la Everlasting Develpment Corporation, que radica en el Barrio Monacillos de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, con un área su-

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perficial de 283.50 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en 21.00 metros lineales con el solar número 436 de la urbanización; por el Sur, en 21.00 metros lineales, con el solar número 500 y la parcela B de la urbanización; por el Este, en 13.50 metros con la Calle Apeninos de la urbanización; y por el Oeste, en 13.50 metros con el solar número 437 y la parcela C de la urbanización. Enclava edificación. The property is identified with the number 25,883 and is recorded at page number 95 of volume number 899 of Monacillos, in the Registry of Property of San Juan, Third Section. WHEREAS, The mortgage foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is recorded at page number 97 of volume number 988 of Monacillos, Fourth inscription in the Registry of Property of San Juan, Third Section. The mortgage was modified to increase the principal amount to $97,278.00 and to modified maturity date to April 1st, 2035, as per deed number 74, issued in San Juan, on April 29, 2005 by Notary Public Luis A. Arrufat Pimentel; recorded at page 191 of volume 1037 (ágora) of Monacillos, Registry of San Juan, Third Section, fifth entry. The mortgage was modified for a second time to increase the principal amount to $106,031.00 and to modified maturity date to April 1st, 2035, as per deed number 89, issued in San Juan on April 6, 2009 before Notary Public Luis A. Arrufat Pimentel; recorded at page 191 of volume 1037 (ágora) of Monacillos, Registry of San Juan, Third Section, sixth entry.

The mortgage was modified to increase the principal amount to $111,127.80 and to change maturity date to June 1st, 2041, as per deed number 95, issued in San Juan, on May 30, 2011 before Notary Public Carlos O. Bermúdez Monroig; recorded at page 191 of volume 1037 (ágora) of Monacillos, Registry of San Juan, Third Section, seventh sentry. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts

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

then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFORE, the FIRST public sale will be held on JANUARY 14, 2022 AT 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $111,127.80. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on JANUARY 21, 2022 AT 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $74,085.20. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction shall be held on JANUARY 28, 2022 AT 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $55,563.90. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this day of November 17, 2021. (sing.) Joel Ronda-Feliciano, Special Master (787) 565-0515, Email: rondajoel@me.com.

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

NEWREZ LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING Demandante V.

ARNALDO LOPEZ LLOPIZ; MADELINE RIVERA RAMOS; LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: GB2020CV00646.

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

A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A

staredictos@thesanjuandailystar.com

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, el 11 DE ENERO DE 2022, A LAS 11:40 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Terrazas de Guaynabo, situada en el Barrio Santa Rosa de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización con el número 32 de la manzana “D” con un área de solar de 350.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar D-10, distancia de 14.00 metros; por el SUR, con la Calle Violeta, distancia de 14.00 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar D-31, distancia de 25.00 metros; y por el OESTE, con paseo peatonal, distancia de 25.00 metros. Finca 19682 INSCRITA AL FOLIO 200 DEL TOMO 439 DE GUAYNABO, REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE GUAYNABO. Propiedad localizada en: Urb. Terrazas de Guaynabo, D32 Calla Violeta, Guaynabo, PR 00969. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: a. AVISO DE DEMANDA con fecha 4 de agosto de 2016 seguida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, en el caso civil número DCD20161739, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca; seguido por Ditech Financial LLC FKA Green Tree Servicing LLC, demandante v. Arnaldo López Llopiz; Madeline Rivera Ramos y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por ambos, demandado. Por la

(787) 743-3346

Thursday, December 2, 2021 misma se reclama el pago de $120,872.51, más otras sumas, correspondiente a la hipoteca relacionada en la inscripción 5ª de esta finca. Anotada el 7 de agosto de 2019 al Tomo Karibe, finca 19682 de Guaynabo, anotación “A”. b. AVISO DE DEMANDA con fecha 16 de octubre de 2020 seguida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, en el caso civil número GB2020CV00646, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca; seguido por Newrez LLC, h/n/c Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing, demandante v. Arnaldo López Llopiz; Madeline Rivera Ramos y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por ambos, Centro de Recaudaciones de Ingresos Municipales; Estados Unidos de América, demandado. Por la misma se reclama el pago de $120,872.51, más otras sumas, correspondiente a la hipoteca relacionada en la inscripción 5ª de esta finca. Anotada el 7 de diciembre de 2020 al Tomo Karibe, finca 19682 de Guaynabo, anotación “B”. c. EMBARGO FEDERAL contra Arnaldo López, con seguro social xxx-xx-8637, por la suma de $19,858.50. Notificación número 833181111.

Anotado el 15 de diciembre de 2011 al folio 83, asiento 3, del Tomo V de Embargos Federales de Guaynabo. d.

EMBARGO FEDERAL contra Arnaldo López, con seguro social xxx-xx-8637, por la suma de $5,821.88. Notificación número 884455012. Anotado el 9 de agosto de 2012 al folio 158, asiento 4, del Tomo V de Embargos Federales de Guaynabo. e. EMBARGO FEDERAL contra Arnaldo López, con seguro social xxx-xx-8637, por la suma de $11,462.38. Notificación número 892012312. Anotado el 19 de agosto de 2012 al folio 170, asiento 4, del Tomo V de Embargos Federales de Guaynabo. f. EMBARGO FEDERAL contra Arnaldo López, con seguro social xxx-xx-8637, por la suma de $12,582.37. Notificación número 431732821.

Anotado el7 de junio de 2021 al Tomo Karibe. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $127,200.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria

una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, el 18 DE ENERO DE 2022, A LAS 11:40 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $84,800.00, dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $63,600.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, el 25 DE ENERO DE 2022, A LAS 11:40 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $137,494.46 de principal, intereses al tipo del 4.25000% anual según ajustado desde el día 1 de octubre de 2017 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $12,720.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as).

Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 2 de noviembre de 2021.

FRANCES TORRES CONTRERAS, ALGUACIL PLACA #325, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS-

The San Juan Daily Star TANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal DE GUAYNABO, SALA SUPE- de Primera Instancia, Sala SuRIOR. perior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública LEGAL NOTICE subasta y al mejor postor, por ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO separado, de contado y por moDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- neda de curso legal de los EstaNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA dos Unidos de América y/o Giro SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO- Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el TribuLINA nal de Primera Instancia, Sala WILMINGTON SAVINGS de Carolina, el 19 DE ENERO FUND SOCIETY, FSB, DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT MAÑANA, todo derecho título, SOLELY AS TRUSTEE participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demanFOR FINANCE OF dada o cualquiera de ellos en AMERICA STRUCTURED el inmueble hipotecado objeto SECURITIES de ejecución que se describe a ACQUISITION TRUST continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el numero treinta 2018-HB1 y cinco (35) del Bloque “J” de la Demandante Vs. Urbanización Metrópolis, localiEUGENIO GARCIA DIAZ zado en el Barrio Martin GonT/C/C EUGENIO GARCIA zalez del término municipal de POR SI Y EN CUANTO Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una A LA CUOTA VIUDAL cabida superficial de quinientos ochenta y siete punto diecinueUSUFRUCTUARIA; ve (587.19) metros cuadrados; SUCESION NIDIA MARIA en lindes por el NORTE, con JIMENEZ ROSADO T/C/C numero treinta y cuatro (34) NYDIA MARIA JIMENEZ en una longitud de veinticinco ROSADO T/C/C NIDIA punto cero veintiséis (25.026) metros; por el SUR, con la CaM. JIMENEZ ROSADO lle número doce (12) en una T/C/C NYDIA M. JIMENEZ longitud de veintitrés punto ROSADO T/C/C NIDIA doscientos sesenta y cuatro JIMENEZ ROSADO T/C/C (23.264) metros; por el ESTE, con la calle número trece (13) NYDIA M. JIMENEZ y arco en una longitud de veintiROSADO T/C/C NIDIA trés punto seiscientos cuarenta MARIA JIMENEZ T/C/C y cinco (23.645) metros; y por NYDIA MARIA JIMENEZ el OESTE, con los Solares uno T/C/C NIDIA M. JIMENEZ (1) y dos (2) en una longitud de veintitrés punto seiscientos T/C/C NYDIA M. JIMENEZ siete (23.607) metros. Enclava T/C/C NIDIA JIMENEZ una casa de concreto y bloques T/C/C NYDIA JIMENEZ para vivienda. Consta inscrita al T/C/C NYDIA COMPUESTA folio 95 del tomo 892 de CaroliII, Finca número 35,893, RePOR EUGENIO GARCIA na gistro de la Propiedad de CaJIMENEZ, MARIA rolina, Sección II. La hipoteca CRISTINA GARCIA objeto de esta ejecución se encuentra inscrita al folio 180 del JIMENEZ, JOHN tomo 1348 de Carolina II, ReDOE Y JANE DOE; gistro de la Propiedad de CaroESTADOS UNIDOS DE lina, Sección II, Inscripción 9ª.

AMERICA; CENTRO Propiedad localizada en: URB. DE RECAUDACION DE METROPOLIS, J35 CALLE 13, INGRESOS MUNICIPALES CAROLINA, PR 00987. Según figuran en la certificación reDemandados gistral, la propiedad objeto de Civil Núm.: CA2019CV01723. ejecución está gravada por las (402). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN siguientes cargas anteriores DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE o preferentes: Nombre del TiSUBASTA. ESTADOS UNItular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PREN/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS N/A. Según figuran en la certiUNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ficación registral, la propiedad ASOCIADO DE PUERTO objeto de ejecución está graRICO, SS. vada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del A: LA PARTE crédito ejecutante: Nombre del DEMANDADA, AL (A Secretario de la VivienLA) SECRETARIO(A) DE Titular: da y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma HACIENDA DE PUERTO de la Carga: $285,000.00. FeRICO Y AL PÚBLICO cha de Vencimiento: 14 de septiembre de 2101. Se entenderá GENERAL: Certifico y Hago Constar: Que que todo licitador acepta como en cumplimiento con el Manda- bastante la titularidad de la promiento de Ejecución de Senten- piedad y que todas las cargas cia que me ha sido dirigido por y gravámenes anteriores y los

The San Juan Daily Star preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $285,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 26 DE ENERO DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $190,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $142,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 2 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $99,371.00 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $44,214.72 en intereses acumulados al 7 de octubre de 2020 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $10,941.64 en seguro hipotecario; $1,822.00 en seguro de la propiedad; $440.00 en tasaciones; $440.00 en inspecciones; $3,115.00 en adelantos de costas y honorarios; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $28,500.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta.

Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para

Thursday, December 2, 2021

ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de noviembre de 2021.

SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #713. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante, v.

FELIPE CANDELARIA SANTOS, su esposa SANDRA CEPEDA RODRIGUEZ y la SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados CIVIL NÚM. NSCI2017-023 (303). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: LOS CODEMANDADOS DE EPIGRAFE Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 11 de agosto de 2021 notificada el 13 de agosto de 2021; y de un Mandamiento de Ejecución emitido el día 14 de octubre de 2021, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, procederá a vender en subasta, y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, y/o giro postal, dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra bancaria, con similar garantía de todo título, derecho o interés de los demandados de epígrafe sobre el inmueble que adelante se describe. Se anuncia por la presente que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 6 de abril del año 2022 a las 10:00 de la mañana, en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Vistas de Luquillo, situada en el Barrio Mata de Plátano del

término municipal de Luquillo, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción con el número F-15, con un área superficial de 311.38 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 23.50 metros, con el solar #16 de dicho bloque; por el SUR, en 23.50 metros, con el solar #14 de dicho bloque; por el ESTE, en 13.25 metros, con la calle V-2 de dicha urbanización; y por el OESTE, en 13.25 metros, con Nicolás García. ENCLAVA: Una casa de concreto. Finca número 8822, inscrita al folio 55 del tomo 158 de Luquillo (Sección de Fajardo). Dirección física: F-15 V2 St. Vistas de Luquillo Luquillo PR 00773. El siguiente pagaré consta inscrito en la propiedad antes mencionada y es el que se pretende ejecutar: HIPOTECA: Por $76,500.00, con intereses al 9.50% anual, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, que vence el 1ro de julio de 2016. Según escritura #185, otorgada en Fajardo, el 15 de junio de 2001, ante José Herminio Santiago, inscrita al folio 181 del tomo 252 de Luquillo, inscripción 4ta. La referida hipoteca grava el bien inmueble antes descrito. Que según surge del estudio de título, la propiedad se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: EMBARGO FEDERAL: Por $5,975.47, contra Felipe Candelaria Santos. Número de Seguro Social Patronal: 660455886; número de Notificación: 579560609. Presentado y anotado al folio 141, asiento 1 del tomo 3 de Embargos Federales de Fajardo, con fecha de 28 de septiembre de 2009. AVISO DE DEMANDA: De fecha 13 de enero de 2017, dictada en el Caso Civil #NSCI2017023, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo; seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico (demandante) versus Félix Candelaria Santos, Sandra Cepeda Rodríguez y la sociedad legal de gananciales compuesta por ambos (demandados). Se reclama el pago de la deuda garantizada con hipoteca que grava esta finca, según su inscripción 4ta., reducida a $61,602.52, más intereses y otras sumas, o la venta de esta finca en pública subasta. Anotado al tomo Karibe de la Sección de Fajardo, finca #8822 de Luquillo, anotación B y última, con fecha de 31 de marzo de 2017. La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente según sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por las siguientes sumas: $61,602.52 por concepto de principal, más interese al 9.5% anual a partir del 1ro de agosto de 2016 hasta su completo pago, más 5%

por todo atraso, más $7,650.00 como cantidad estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Fajardo, durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá Libre de Cargas y Gravámenes posteriores. Los tipos mínimos a utilizarse para la subasta son los siguientes: El inmueble antes descrito ha sido tasado en la suma de SETENTA Y SEIS MIL QUINIENTOS DÓLARES ($76,500.00) para que dicha suma sirva de tipo mínimo en la primera subasta a celebrarse. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una segunda subasta en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 13 de abril del año 2022 a las 10:00 de la mañana, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha segunda subasta, una suma equivalente a las dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de CINCUENTA Y UN MIL DÓLARES ($51,000.00) para la finca antes descrita. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 21 de abril del año 2022 a las 10:00 de la mañana, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha tercera subasta, una suma equivalente a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de TREINTA Y OCHO MIL DOSCIENTOS CINCUENTA DÓLARES ($38,250.00) para la finca antes descrita. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy de noviembre de 2021, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico.

SHIRLEY SANCHEZ MARTINEZ, Alguacil Regional 161.

SANDRALIZ MARTINEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAJARDO.

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YADIRA FUENTES VÁZQUEZ Parte Demandante Vs.

FIRST FINANCIAL CARIBBEAN CORP., H/N/C HF MORTGAGE BANKERS AHORA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2021CV04503.

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

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS.

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, Lcda.

Marjaliisa Colón Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce. P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787-8434168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cancelación de pagaré extraviado.

Se alega en dicho procedimiento que se extravió pagaré por la suma de cincuenta y siete mil setecientos setenta y dos dólares ($57,772.00), con intereses al ocho por ciento (8%) anual, vencedero primero (1ro) de noviembre de dos mil veintidós (2022), a favor de First Financial Caribbean Corp., h/n/c HF Mortgage Bankers, ahora Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, según consta de la escritura número ochenta y dos (82), otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el día treinta y uno (31) de octubre de mil novecientos noventa y dos (1992), ante la notario Nyvia Enid Millán Falero. Inscrita al folio ciento setenta y cinco (175) del

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tomo sesenta y siete (67), finca número cinco mil cincuenta y cinco (5055), inscripción octava (8va. La propiedad que garantiza dicho pagaré: URBANA: Solar dos mil trescientos veintisiete (2327) del Bloque E, en la Urbanización Levittown, en el Barrio Sabana Seca de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, compuesto de trescientos veinticuatro (324) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE. en trece metros cincuenta centímetros, con Paseo Alegre, según plano de Calle trescientos veintiséis (326); por el SUR, en trece metros cincuenta centímetros, con Paseo Público; por el ESTE, en veinticuatro (24) metros con el solar número dos mil trescientos veintiséis (2326); por el OESTE, en veinticuatro (24) metros, con el solar número dos mil trescientos veintiocho (2328). Enclava casa.

Inscrita al folio ciento setenta y uno (171) del tomo sesenta y siete (67) de Toa Baja, finca número cinco mil cincuenta y cinco (5055). Registro de la Propiedad Sección Segunda (2da) de Bayamón. 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. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Bayamón Puerto Rico, a 22 de noviembre de 2021.

LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

MYRNA YAZMIN SANTIAGO PAGAN

Demandados CIVIL NÚM. N1CI201600538.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria). AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: LOS CODEMANDADOS DE EPIGRAFE Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 16 de julio de 2019 notificada el 25 de julio de 2019; y de un Mandamiento de Ejecución emitido el día 27 de octubre de 2021, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, procederá a

vender en subasta, y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, y/o giro postal, dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra bancaria, con similar garantía de todo título, derecho o interés de los demandados de epígrafe sobre el inmueble que adelante se describe. Se anuncia por la presente que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 6 de abril del año 2022 a las 10:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento identificado con el #105-A, el cual está localizado en el primer piso del edificio identificado con la letra A del Condominio Brisas de Ceiba Court, ubicado en la calle #8-A, esquina calle #8, Brisas de Ceiba, Ceiba Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida superficial de 821.65 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 76.36 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en distancia de 20’6” con el cuarto de mecánica; por el SUR, en distancia de 20’6” con el apartamento 106-A; por el ESTE, en distancia de 35’5” con el exterior y en una distancia de 4’3” con el exterior y por el OESTE, en distancia de 39’8” con el exterior. Su puerta principal de acceso se encuentra su lado Este, la cual le colinda con el pasillo de su piso. Contiene tres dormitorios, un baño, salacomedor, cocina y calentador de agua. PORCENTAJE: Elementos Comunes: Uno punto nueve cuatro siete cuatro por ciento (2.1700%)). ESTACIONAMIENTO: Le corresponde el espacio de estacionamiento marcado con el #105-A. Finca número #10336, inscrita al folio 22 del tomo 164 de Ceiba (Sección de Fajardo). Dirección física: Apt. 105 A Brisas de Ceiba Court, Ceiba PR 00735. El siguiente pagaré consta inscrito en la propiedad antes mencionada y es el que se pretende ejecutar: HIPOTECA: Por $63,050.00, con intereses al 5.60% anual, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de R&G Mortgage Corporation, que vence el 1ro de octubre de 2031. Según escritura #163, otorgada en Fajardo, el 2 de octubre de 2001, ante José A. Moure, inscrita al tomo Karibe de la Sección de Fajardo, finca #10336 de Ceiba, inscripción 5ta., con fecha de 12 de marzo de 2020. La referida hipoteca grava el bien inmueble antes descrito. Que según surge del estudio de título, la propiedad se encuentra afecta a lo siguiente: La Sra. Santiago-Pagán establece esta finca como su “Hogar Seguro”.

Según escritura #2, otorgada en San Juan, el 19 de julio de 2013, ante Christoper Daniel Reyes Ortiz, inscrita al tomo Karibe de la Sección de Fajardo, finca #10336 de Ceiba, inscripción 6ta., con fecha de 12 de marzo de 2020. La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente según sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por las siguientes sumas: $47,697.89 por concepto de principal, más intereses al 5.6% anual, más 5% de todo pago en atraso, más recargos por atraso, más $6,305.00 como una cantidad de 10% estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Fajardo, durante las horas laborables.

Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá Libre de Cargas y Gravámenes posteriores. Los tipos mínimos a utilizarse para la subasta son los siguientes: El inmueble antes descrito ha sido tasado en la suma de SESENTA Y TRES MIL CINCUENTA DÓLARES ($63,050.00) para que dicha suma sirva de tipo mínimo en la primera subasta a celebrarse. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una segunda subasta en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 13 de abril del año 2022 a las 10:30 de la mañana, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha segunda subasta, una suma equivalente a las dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de CUARENTA Y DOS MIL TREINTA Y TRES DÓLARES CON TREINTA Y TRES CENTAVOS ($42,033.33) para la finca antes descrita. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 21 de

24 abril del año 2022 a las 10:30 de la mañana, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha tercera subasta, una suma equivalente a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de TREINTA Y UN MIL QUINIENTOS VEINTICINCO DÓLARES ($31,525.00) para la finca antes descrita. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 22 de noviembre de 2021, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Shirley Sanchez Martinez, Alguacil Regional #161.

Sandraliz Martinez Torres, Alguacil Auxiliar, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAJARDO.

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

MARÍA D. FLORES GONZÁLEZ

Demandado(a) Civil: VI2020CV00120. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: MARÍA D. FLORES GONZÁLEZ. P/C LCDO. KENMUEL JOSÉ RUIZ LÓPEZ PARA SER PUBLICADA POR EDICTO.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de noviembre 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 24 de noviembre de 2021. En Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, el 24 de noviembre de

2021. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. DORIS A. RODRÍGUEZ COLÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2019-HB1 Parte Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE MODESTO PÉREZ JIMÉNEZ T/C/C MODESTO PÉREZ COMPUESTA POR MYRIAM PÉREZ LUGO, VILMA PÉREZ LUGO, ALMA PÉREZ LUGO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL; SUCESIÓN DE LUZ BELÉN LUGO TORRES T/C/C LUZ B. LUGO TORRES T/C/C LUZ BELÉN LUGO T/C/C BELEN LUGO COMPUESTA POR MYRIAM PÉREZ LUGO, VILMA PÉREZ LUGO, ALMA PÉREZ LUGO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV03544.

Sala (604). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: SUCESIÓN DE MODESTO PÉREZ JIMÉNEZ T/C/C MODESTO PÉREZ COMPUESTA POR MYRIAM PÉREZ LUGO, VILMA PÉREZ LUGO, ALMA PÉREZ LUGO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL; SUCESIÓN DE LUZ BELÉN LUGO TORRES T/C/C LUZ B. LUGO TORRES T/C/C LUZ BELÉN LUGO T/C/C BELEN LUGO COMPUESTA POR MYRIAM PÉREZ LUGO, VILMA PÉREZ LUGO,

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Thursday, December 2, 2021 ALMA PÉREZ LUGO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL.

Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda de EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA en sus contras. Se les notifica para que comparezcan ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso.

Se les apercibe y notifica que si no contestan la demanda radicada en su contra, radicando el original de la misma y enviando copia de su contestación a la parte demandante, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Adriana M. Vega Hernández; Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 00936-7308; Teléfono: 787-758-6550, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se les anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la Demanda, sin más citárseles, ni oírseles. Se ORDENA a los herederos de los referidos causantes a saber: SUCESIÓN DE MODESTO PÉREZ JIMÉNEZ T/C/C MODESTO PÉREZ COMPUESTA POR MYRIAM PÉREZ LUGO, VILMA PÉREZ LUGO, ALMA PÉREZ LUGO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL; SUCESIÓN DE LUZ BELÉN LUGO TORRES T/C/C LUZ B. LUGO TORRES T/C/C LUZ BELÉN LUGO T/C/C BELEN LUGO COMPUESTA POR MYRIAM PÉREZ LUGO, VILMA PÉREZ LUGO, ALMA PÉREZ LUGO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL, a que dentro del mismo término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación, ACEPTEN o REPUDIEN la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de los respectivos causantes. Se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por aceptada. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, a 24 de noviembre de 2021. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. FERNÁNDEZ DEL VALLE, LUZ E., SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

MORTGAGE BACKED NOTES, SERIES 2015-PR1 Plaintiff V.

JOSE DANIEL RODRIGUEZ AGUAYO, JOSE ALBERTO RODRIGUEZ AGUAYO MILAGROS GERALDINE RODRIGUEZ AGUAYO AND LYDIA PEDRAZA IN THE WIDOWS USUFRUCT, AS KNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE OF JOSE DANIEL RODRIGUEZ COLON, AND JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE AS UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE

Defendants Civil Num.: 21-CV-1179 (RAM).

Re: COLLECTION OF MONIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION.

Jose Daniel Rodriguez Colon, by certified mail/return receipt requested, addressed to its last know address. Should you fail to appear, plead or answer to the Complaint as ordered by the Court and noticed by this Summons, the Court will proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause against you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint, and the court shall proceed to adjudication without further notice. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 29th day of November, 2021. MARIA ANTONGIORGIJORDAN, ESQ., CLERK OF THE COURT. VIVIANA DIAZ - MULERO, DEPUTY CLERK.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO To: JOSE ALBERTO Demandante Vs. RODRIGUEZ AGUAYO POPULAR MORTGAGE, AND MILAGROS INC.; FIRST SECURITY GERALDINE RODRIGUEZ MORTGAGE, INC., AGUAYO AS KNOWN RAFAEL LUIS TORRES HEIRS OF THE ESTATE SUAREZ; ROSA NILDA OF JOSE DANIEL HERNÁNDEZ MARTINEZ; RODRIGUEZ COLON. FULANO DE TAL Y The Plaintiff has filed proceeSUTANO DE TAL COMO dings against Defendants for Collection of Money and Fore- POSIBLE PERSONA CON closure of Mortgage in the Uni- INTERÉS DE NOMBRES ted States District Court for the DESCONOCIDOS

District of Puerto Rico for the property located at: 11 Tropical St., Urb. Munoz Rivera, Guaynabo, PR 00969. This Court has entered an Order providing for summons by publication in accordance with the provisions of Rule 4.6 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and pursuant Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e) and Rule 4.6. THEREFORE, you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than twenty one (30) days after publication of this Summons by serving original plea or answer in the United State District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for Plaintiff: MARICELI PÉREZ GONZÁLEZ, Esq. No. 216,204 GARCIA CHAMORRO LAW GROUP, P.S.C. 1225 AVE. PONCE DE LEON SUITE 706 SAN JUAN, PR 00907 Tel. 787‐977-1932 / Fax. 787‐722-1932 Email: mperez@garciachamorro.com LEGAL NOTICE This Summons shall be puUNITED STATES DISTRICT blished by edict only once in a COURT FOR THE DISTRICT newspaper of general circulation in the island of Puerto Rico.

OF PUERTO RICO WILMINGTON SAVINGS Within ten (10) days following FUND SOCIETY, FSB, publication of this Summons, a copy of this Summons and D/B/A CHRISTIANA the Complaint will be sent to TRUST, AS INDENTURE defendants Jose Alberto RoTRUSTEE, FOR THE driguez Aguayo and Milagros CSMC 2015-PR1 TRUST, Geraldine Rodriguez Aguayo as known heirs of the Estate of

Demandados Civil Núm.: GM2019CV00917.

Sala: 303. Sobre: RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ CANCELADO POR ERROR. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLE PERSONA CON INTERÉS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS.

POR LA PRESENTE, se les notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la Demanda de epígrafe en la cual se alega que el pagaré que a continuación se describe se ha cancelado por error y se solicita la restitución del mismo: Pagaré emitido a favor de First Security Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden por la cantidad de $78,430.00 firmado por Rafael Luis Torres Suarez; Rosa Nilda Hernández Martinez bajo la escritura 105 otorgada el 30 de mayo de 1997 y con fecha de vencimiento el 1 de junio de 2027, ante el Notario Público Roy R. Sánchez Vahamonde Dieppa. El inmueble hipotecado para garantizar el pago del pagaré antes mencionado se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Jardines de Monte Olivo, situada en el Ba-

rrio Algarrobos del Municipio de Guayama, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización con el número, área y colindancia que se relacionan a continuación: número del Solar: Bloque E, Solar 11. Área del Solar 403.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 31.67 metros, con el Solar 12 del Bloque E; por el SUR, en 30.33 metros, con el Solar 10 del Bloque E; por el ESTE, en 13.00 metros, con la Calle 2; y por el OESTE, en 13.00 metros, con lo Solares 24 y 25. En este Solar enclava una casa de concreto para residencia de una familia. Finca Número 15,846, inscrita al tomo móvil de Guayama. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guayama. 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), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. De no contestar la demanda radicando el original de la contestación ante la secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guayama, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Genevieve López Stipes, Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, PR 009367308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, dentro de los próximos sesenta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 29 de noviembre de 2021. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ILEANA CRUZ VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

MUNICIPIO DE LUQUILLO Demandante V.

GREENTECH CONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS, LLC

bre: NULIDAD, RESTITUCIÓN DE FONDOS PÚBLICOS, INCUMPLIMIENTO CONTRACTUAL, DAÑOS POR INCUMPLIMIENTO CONTRACTUAL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR.

A: GREENTECH CONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS, LLC. 500 CALLE TANCA, #209, SAN JUAN, PR, 00902.

POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda sobre nulidad, restitución de fondos públicos incumplimiento contractual y daños. Habiéndose ordenado la publicación de un Emplazamiento por Edicto para emplazarlo a usted, durante el término que establece la Ley, en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico. POR ESTE MEDIO, se le emplaza por Edicto y requiere a usted, la parte demandada, para que notifique a la LCDA. JOSEPHINE M. RODRÍGUEZ RÍOS, RUA 15736 y al LCDO. RICARDO M. PRIETO GARCÍA COLEGIADO NÚM. 13,710, a su dirección PO BOX 889, FAJARDO, PR 00738, Tel. (787) 860-0875, y/o a su email: josephine.rodriguez@gmail.com y prietolawoffice@yahoo.com, con copia de su contestación a las alegaciones de la Demanda en este caso dentro de los treinta (30) días, contados desde el siguiente día a la fecha de la publicación de este Emplazamiento por 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. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más escucharle, ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA, y el sello del Tribunal en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 22 de noviembre de 2021.

WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. SHEILA ROBLES HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR I.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDemandados NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Núm.: LU2021CV00145. So- TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS-

TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CIALES

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

CARMEN M. OLIVO MIRANDA

Demandado(a) Civil: MV2021CV00044. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: CARMEN M. OLIVO MIRANDA

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de noviembre 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 24 de noviembre de 2021. En Ciales, Puerto Rico, el 24 de noviembre de 2021. VIVIAN FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. MADELINE GARCÍA PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante (a) VS.

GUILLERMO RAMOS VELEZ

Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV12101.

Sala: 506. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: GUILLERMO RAMOS VELEZ

EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de noviembre 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

The San Juan Daily Star 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 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 29 de noviembre de 2021.

En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 29 de noviembre de 2021.

Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Secretario Regional Interina. f/ Angela M. Rivera Hernández, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

Thursday, December 2, 2021

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 24 de NOVIEMBRE de 2021. En BAYAMON, el 24 de NOVIEMBRE de 2021. F/ LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria Auxiliar. F/VIVIAN J SANABRIA, Secretaria Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE Tribunal de los Estados Unidos del Distrito Norte de Illinois (UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS).

S&C ELECTRIC COMPANY, Demandante, vs.

EARTHSHINE CORP.

Demandado.

Civil Núm.: 21-cv-2872, caso pendiente en el Tribunal de LEGAL NOTICE los Estados Unidos del Distrito Estado Libre Asociado de PuerNorte de Illinois. to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL • Sobre: acción civil basada en DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Priincumplimiento de contrato y mera Instancia Sala Superior solicitud de sentencia declarade BAYAMON. tiva al respecto.

BANCO POPULAR DE • EMPLAZAMIENTO Y NOTIPUERTO RICO FICACIÓN DE LA DEMANDA Demandante Vs POR EDICTO LEGAL. Estados ERIC GUZMAN AVILES Unidos de América. POR LA PRESENTE, la parte demanY OTROS dante S&C Electric Company, Demandados Civil Núm. BY2021CV02960. mediante este edicto legal puSala: 403. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN blicado en el Periódico “The DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). NO- San Juan Daily Star,” emplaza y TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA notifica al público en general y a la parte demandada, EARTHSPOR EDICTO. A: ERIC GUZMAN AVILES HINE CORP., en cumplimiento con una Orden dictada por el T/C/C ERIC YOMAR Tribunal de los Estados Unidos GUZMAN AVILES, SU del Distrito Norte de Illinois en ESPOSA CARMEN el presente caso con fecha de MEDINA COLON 28 de octubre de 2021, de la fecha tope de la demandada, T/C/C CARMEN ANA MEDINA COLON Y LA EARTHSHINE Corp. de conSOCIEDAD LEGAL DE testar la demanda interpuesta por S&C Electric Company BIENES GANANCIALES contra EARTHSHINE Corp.

COMPUESTA POR por incumplimiento de contraAMBOS to, radicada ante el Tribunal de (Nombre de las partes a las que se le los Estados Unidos del Distrito notifican la sentencia por edicto) Norte de Illinois.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus• Por ende, se requiere que la cribe le notifica a usted que el demandada, EARTHSHINE 22 de NOVIEMBRE de 2021, Corp. conteste la demanda este Tribunal ha dictado Sendentro de los treinta (30) días tencia, Sentencia Parcial o siguientes a la publicación de Resolución en este caso, que este Edicto legal. La demandaha sido debidamente registrada, EARTHSHINE Corp. debeda y archivada en autos donde rá radicar su contestación ante podrá usted enterarse detael Tribunal correspondiente y lladamente de los términos de notificar con copia de la contesla misma. Esta notificación se tación a los abogados de la parpublicará una sola vez en un te demandante: Akerman LLP, periódico de circulación general Amy G. Doehring, Esq.; direcen la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro ción: 71 South Wacker Drive, de los 10 días siguientes a su 47th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606; notificación. Y, siendo o repreteléfono: 312 634 5730; correo sentando usted una parte en electrónico: amy.doehring@ el procedimiento sujeta a los akerman.com. términos de la Sentencia, Sen• En dicha demanda, presentencia Parcial o Resolución, tada por la demandante S&C de la cual puede establecerse ELECTRIC COMPANY el 27 recurso de revisión o apelación de mayo de 2021, se tramita dentro del término de 30 días un procedimiento de incumplie-

miento de un contrato pactado en el año 2014 por S&C ELECTRIC COMPANY y EARTHSHINE Corp., y se solicita un juicio declaratorio de que el contrato de representante de ventas entre estas partes, incluyendo la disposición de elección de ley de Illinois, es válido y ejecutable, que S&C ELECTRIC COMPANY puede rescindir el contrato de conformidad con sus términos, y que la única compensación adeuda a favor de EARTHSHINE Corp. después de la rescisión es solamente lo que se estipula expresamente en el contrato. También se alega en dicho procedimiento que EARTHSHINE Corp. incurrió en el incumplimiento del contrato.

• Nombre de la persona que emite la citación mediante publicación: Amy G. Doehring, Esq. • La fecha de emisión de este Edicto: 30 de noviembre del 2021.

• Advertencia: si EARTHSHINE CORP., Demandado, no responde a la denuncia presentando el original de la contestación ante el juzgado correspondiente, con copia al demandante, se procederá al desacato y se dictará sentencia otorgando el remedio solicitado por S&C ELECTRIC COMPANY sin mayor citación ni audiencia.

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

FIRST BANK PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs

MALDONADO

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de NOVIEMBRE 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 24 de NOVIEMBRE de 2021. En HUMACAO, el 24 de NOVIEMBRE de 2021. DOMINGA GOMEZ FUSTER, Secretaria Auxiliar. KEYLA PEREZ FIGUEROA, Secretaria Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE M&T 207023 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ A. Demandante v.

LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ, Rafael Abudo Masso t/c/c t/c/c JOSÉ LÓPEZ Rafael Alejandro Abudo RODRÍGUEZ y como Masso Demandado JOSÉ A. LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ, Compuesta CIVIL NÚM: KCD2012-0110 por FULANTO DE TAL Y (802). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE SUTANO DE TAL como HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORherederos desconocidos DINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASe HYLDA DE JESÚS TA. El Alguacil que suscribe UBILES t/c/c HILDA DE por la presente CERTIFICA, JESUS UBILES, por sí y ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: como cónyuge supérstite; Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de CRIM Sentencia que le ha sido dirigi-

Demandados Civil Núm. HU2021CV00319.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANTO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL como herederos desconocidos e HYLDA DE JESÚS UBILES t/c/c HILDA DE JESUS UBILES, por sí y como cónyuge supérstite; DIRECCION; DESCONOCIDA; P/C LCDA. MÓNICA TABALES

do 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 quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el día 11 DE ENERO DE 2022, A las 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBU-

NAL 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 Apt. 202 Cond. Wilson Condado, San Juan, PR 00907y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número 202. Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en el Segundo (2ndo.) Nivel del CONDOMINIO WILSON CONDADO PLAZA, situado en la Calle Wilson en el Sector El Condado en la Sección Norte del Barrio de SANTURCE, del término municipal de San Juan.

Puerto Rico. El área aproximada es de mil doscientos cuarenta punto veinte (1,240.20) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ciento quince punto dos mil seiscientos dos (115.2602) metros cuadrados. Son sus linderos: por el Norte, en una distancia de quince pies con ocho pulgadas (151 8’) con espacio común aéreo; por el Sur, en una distancia de diecinueve pies con dos pulgadas (19’ 2) con espacio común aéreo; por el Este, en una distancia de setenta y cuatro pies con seis pulgadas (74’ 6) con el apartamento número doscientos uno (201); por el Oeste, en una distancia de setenta y nueve pies ocho pulgadas (79’ 8) con apartamento número doscientos tres (203). La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está situada en su linden) Este. Consta de un balcón, una sala-comedor, una cocina con área para desayuno, un ‘ family room’, un ‘laundry closet’, un (1) baño y una habitación principal con un vanity, un ‘walk-in closet’ y un baño. Le corresponden dos (2) espacios de estacionamiento identificados con el mismo maniere, del apartamento, localizados uno detrás del otro en el Primer Nivel del Edificio. Este apartamento tiene una participación de tres punto ocho tres uno seis cinco seis por ciento (3.831656%) de los elementos comunes del CONDOMINIO. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Tomo móvil 1099 de Santurce Norte, finca número 43,522, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Primera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $393,000.00. 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 ENERO DE 2022, A las 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo

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las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $262,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 26 DE ENERO DE 2022, 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 $196,500.00.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 1,111, otorgada el día 30 de junio de 2004, ante el Notario Luis A. Archilla Díaz y consta inscrita en el Folio 127 del Tomo 1112 de Santurce Norte, finca número 43,522, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Primera, inscripción cuarta. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $353,645.89 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.125% anual desde el día 1 de junio de 2011. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación.

Se pagarán también los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento, la suma de $39,300.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $39,300.00 para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $39,300.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más intereses según provisto por la regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil.

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 titularidad del inmueble 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 de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores ni preferentes según 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 más adelante. A los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de, o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso, o al portador, garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor por la presente se notifica, 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. A: ANOTACION DE EMBARGO: A favor de Consejo de Titulares de Condominio Wilson Condado Plaza, según orden expedida el 2 de marzo de 2017 en el caso número KCM2016-2136 sobre Cobro de Dinero en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de San Juan por la cantidad de $8,706.30 anotado al tomo KARIBE de Santurce Norte, finca 43522, anotación B. 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 mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según aplique. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de NOVIEMBRE de 2021. FDO. ERIK F. OSUNA ACEVEDO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR SALA SUPERIOR SAN JUAN.

LEGAL NOTICE M&T 208198 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR.

Federal National Mortgage Association t/c/c Fannie Mae Demandante v.

José Santana Semidey t/c/c José A. Santana Semidey t/c/c José Angel Santana Semidey y Mary I. Ortiz Cotte t/c/c Mary Ivette Ortiz Cotte (Titulares Registrales); ahora La Sucesión de José Santana Semidey t/c/c José A. Santana Semidey t/c/c José Angel Santana Semidey compuesta por Mary I. Ortiz Cotte t/c/c Mary Ivette Ortiz Cotte por sí y en la cuota viudal usufructuaria y Fulano y Fulana de Tal como posibles herederos desconocidos

Demandados CIVIL NÚM: SJ2019CV05698.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA 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 quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el día 10 de ENERO de 2022, a las 11:30 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 White Tower C Apt. G-3 San Juan, PR 00921 t/c/c Solar #2 Medical Center Inc. Apt. Bo. Monacillos Río Piedras, San Juan, PR 00921 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento identificado como ‘GROUND TRES’ (G-3), localizado en el nivel ‘Ground’ del Condominio ‘White Tower’, a s vez localizado en la Calle número Tres, S.E., Urbanización La Riviera, en el Barrio Monacillos de Río Piedras, en el término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida superficial total de ochocientos treinta y siete punto treinta y dos pies cuadrados, equivalentes a setenta y siete punto setenta y nueve metros cuadrados. Colinda por el Norte, en una distancia de veintiocho pies cero pulgadas, con el

26 apartamento G-cuatro; por el Sur, en una distancia de veinticinco pies dos pulgadas, con espacio exterior común; por el Este, en una distancia de treinta y dos pies nueve pulgadas, con espacio exterior común y pasillo; y por el Oeste, en distancia de treinta y pies nueve pulgadas, con espacio exterior común. Contiene cocina, salacomedor, balcón, dos dormitorios, ‘laundry’, closet y un baño.

Su puerta principal de acceso se encuentra en su colindancia Este. Le pertenece a este apartamento el uso y disfrute de un área abierta de patio, localizado en su colindancia Oeste, con una cabida superficial de quinientos noventa y cinco punto cuatro mil setecientos pies cuadrados, equivalentes a cincuenta y cinco puno diecinueve metros cuadrados. Le corresponde un por ciento de participación en los elementos comunes generales de cero punto nueve cero siete tres por ciento y en los elementos comunes limitados le corresponde el quince punto cinco uno dos siete por ciento. Le corresponde el espacio de estacionamiento número cuarenta. TRACTO REGISTRAL: Se separa de la finca 21442, inscrita al folio 66 del tomo 1002 de Monacillos.

La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 96 del Tomo 1085 de Monacillos, finca número 26935, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Tercera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $108,800.00. 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 ENERO de 2022, a las 11:30 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 $72,533.33.

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 ENERO de 2022, a las 11:30 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 $54,400.00.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 202, otorgada el día 30 de agosto de 2005, ante el Notario Teresita Navarro García y consta inscrita en el Folio 96 del Tomo 1085 de Monacillos, finca número 26935, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Tercera, inscripción se-

gunda. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $84,901.39 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.950% anual desde el día 1 de agosto de 2017. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Se pagarán también los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento, la suma de $10,880.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $10,880.00para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $10,880.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más intereses según provisto por la Regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil.

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 titularidad del inmueble 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 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 que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Y para conocimien-

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to 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 mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según aplique. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de NOVIEMBRE de 2021. FDO. ERIK F. OSUNA ACEVEDO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.

TOMÁS GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA y LYLIAN LOZANO BELTRÁN

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. SJ2019CV04293.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 14 de enero de 2020 y enmendada el 9 de agosto de 2021, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 8 de octubre de 2021 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 15 de octubre de 2021 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 11 de enero de 2022, a las 11:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Superior, en la Avenida Muñoz Rivera, Esquina Coll y Toste, Parada 37, San Juan, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar marcado con el Número 19 en el Bloque FK del plano de inscripción de la Tercera Extensión de la Urbanización Coun-

try Club, situada en los Barrios Sabana Llana y Sabana Abajo, de los Municipios de Río Piedras y Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área de 300.15 metros.

Colinda por el Noreste, en trece metros cinco centímetros [13.05 m.], con la Calle Ciento Dieciocho [118] de dicha urbanización; por el Suroeste, en trece metros cinco centímetros [13.05 m.], con el Solar Trece [13] del bloque FK de dicha urbanización; por el Sureste, en veintitrés metros [23.00 m.] con el Solar Veinte [20] del bloque FK de dicha urbanización; y por el Noroeste, en veintitrés metros [23.00 m.] con el Solar Dieciocho [18] del bloque FK de dicha urbanización. La parte de dicho solar situado en el Barrio Sabana Llana, Sector de Río Piedras, Municipio de San Juan, se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar Número 19 de la Manzana FK de la Urbanización Country Club, radicado en el Barrio Sabana Llana, Sector Río Piedras, Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, compuesto de 39.04 metros de forma triangular. Colinda por el Norte, en 15.82 metros con el Solar Número 19 de Carolina; por el Sur, en 5.23 metros con el Solar Número 13 de la Manzana FK; y por el Este, en 14.93 metros con el Solar Número 20 de la Manzana FK de la Urbanización. Enclava casa.

Nota: No expresa colindancia Oeste. Inscrita al folio 22 del tomo 202 de Sabana Llana, Finca Número 9025, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. Describiéndose la parte que radica en el Barrio Sabana Abajo de Carolina, según el documento como sigue: URBANA: Solar Número 19 de la Manzana FK de la Urbanización Country Club, radicado en el Barrio Sabana Abajo del Municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico, compuesto de 261.11 metros cuadrados. Colindando por el Norte, en 23.00 metros con el Solar Número 18 de la Manzana FK; por el Sur, en dos alineaciones, una de 15.82 metros, con el Solar Número 19 de la Manzana FK y la otra de 8.07 metros, con el Solar Número 20 de la Manzana FK; por el Este, en 13.05 con la Calle Número 118 de la Urbanización; y por el Oeste, en 7.82 metros con el Solar Número 13 de la Manzana FK de la Urbanización. Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio 99 del tomo 78 de Carolina, Finca Número 2917 antes (7709), Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 105 del tomo 78 de Carolina, Finca Número 2917, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I, Inscripción décima (10ma). DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: URB. COUNTRY CLUB, 1034 CALLE FORBES,

SAN JUAN, PR 00924-2547.

Primera Subasta: 11 de enero de 2022 a las 11:30 am, Tipo Mínimo: $79,300.00. Segunda Subasta: 19 de enero de 2022 a las 11:30 am, Tipo Mínimo: $52,866.66. Tercera Subasta: 26 de enero de 2022 a las 11:30 am, Tipo Mínimo: $39,650.00.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $79,300.00.

De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una segunda subasta, el día 19 de enero de 2022, a las 11:30 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, $52,866.66.

De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 26 de enero de 2022, a las 11:30 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $39,650.00. 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 de $47,487.31 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.5% anual desde el 1 de abril de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $667.61 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $7,930.00 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 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. Tomás González García y Lylian Lozano Beltrán (ambos solteros), ante el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el Caso Civil Número SJ2019CV04293, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca con un balance de $47,487.31 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 1 de mayo 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 hipote-

ca, 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 San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 24 de noviembre de 2021. Edwin E. López Mulero, Alguacil Auxiliar, 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 BAYAMÓN

LEGACY MORTGAGE ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1 Demandante Vs.

DORAL BANK AHORA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2021CV03804.

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

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS.

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 ale-

gación 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, LCDA. MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEVA a su dirección: PO. Box 7970 Ponce, PR. 00732. Tel: 787-843-4168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cancelación de pagaré extraviado. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que se extravió un pagaré hipotecario a favor de Doral Bank, ahora Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma ciento treinta y ocho mil setecientos treinta y siete dólares ($138,737.00). con intereses al cinco punto cincuenta por ciento (5.50%) anual, vencedero el primero (1ro) de octubre de dos mil treinta (2030), según surge del testimonio número tres mil seiscientos cincuenta y ocho (3658) de la escritura número quinientos cincuenta (550), otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día veinticinco (25) de septiembre de dos mil cinco (2005), ante la notario Jacqueline Feliciano Archilla, y cuya obligación está inscrita al sistema Karibe, finca número cincuenta y nueve mil cuatrocientos setenta (59,470) de Bayamón, inscripción séptima (7ma). Inscrita en virtud de la Ley doscientos dieciséis (216) del asiento abreviado. Que, la propiedad sobre la cual se constituyó dicha hipoteca es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Residencial Villa Bella, localizada en el barrio Minillas del municipio de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con el número veinte guión G (20-G), con un área de cuatrocientos noventa y tres punto sesenta y ocho (493.68) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el Hospital Regional, distancia de catorce punto cincuenta y dos (14.52) metros; por el SUR, con a calle número seis (6), distancia de catorce punto cincuenta y dos (14.52) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar veintinueve (29), distancia de treinta y cuatro punto cero cero (34.00) metros.

Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio doscientos dieciséis (216) del tomo mil trescientos veinte (1320) de Bayamón, finca número cincuenta y nueve mil cuatrocientos setenta (59,470) del Registro de la Propiedad Sección Primera (1ra) de Bayamón. 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. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a día 18 de noviembre de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARÍA E. COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

AMERICAS LEADING FINANCE, LLC. Demandante V.

MANUEL MATOS GONZALEZ Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Civil: CA2021CV00714. 402.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GRAVAMEN INMOVILARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: MANUEL MATOS GONZALEZ, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de NOVIEMBRE 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 30 de NOVIEMBRE de 2021. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 30 de NOVIEMBRE de 2021. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Is there a way to stop a Tom Brady-Bill Belichick Super Bowl?

By MIKE TANIER

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magine a weeklong cross-country bus ride seated between a colicky infant and someone with onion breath shouting along to a Limp Bizkit playlist while the person behind you kicks your seat and the bus engine keeps backfiring. Now imagine that millions of people across the nation are enduring the same experience.

That is what a Super Bowl between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the New England Patriots will feel like.

Quarterback Tom Brady’s Buccaneers and coach Bill Belichick’s Patriots appear to be on a collision course for Super Bowl LVI. The Patriots have won six consecutive games and seven of their last eight. The Buccaneers are 8-3, and their late-season schedule is a stroll down a red carpet. Football Outsiders calculates a 14.8% chance of a Patriots-Buccaneers Super Bowl, the highest probability of any matchup.

A duel between Brady and his former team would be a boon for broadcasters who cater to a casual audience and a welcome matchup for the few remaining fans who still find the 20-year-plus Brady story fascinating. For those tired of seeing a few individuals gorge themselves on success for decades, a Super Bowlsize director’s cut of “Brady vs. Belichick: Dawn of Just Us” will be migraine fuel.

Get ready for weeks of philosophical musings about “legacies.” Brace yourself for interviews with forgotten fourthstringers recounting the sordid details of Brady-Belichick spats they overheard in 2006. Prepare to suppress your gag reflex while a nation fawns yet again over the 44-year-old Brady’s apparent immortality and Belichick’s tactical brilliance. The run-up to such a Super Bowl would be like watching the seven-hour-plus documentary “The Beatles: Get Back” on a continuous loop, except with all the timeless music replaced by sports talk segments.

The Brady-Belichick divorce was supposed to have been settled in 2020: Belichick got the house; Brady got custody of the children (Rob Gronkowski, at least) and the Lombardi Trophy. The 2020

Quarterback Tom Brady, foreground, led Tampa Bay to a 19-17 victory against his former team, the Patriots, coached by Bill Belichick, background, in October.

Patriots fell to 7-9 as Belichick grumbled uncharacteristic excuses for losses while wearing grimier-than-usual sweatshirts.

This year, Brady even returned to Foxborough, Massachusetts, to reassert his dominance, leading his team to a 19-17 victory Oct. 3 that improved the Buccaneers’ record to 3-1 while dropping the Patriots to 1-3 and what appeared at the time to be irrelevance.

The Patriots have pulled themselves together since then. Veterans like linebacker Dont’a Hightower (who opted out of the 2020 season) and offensive linemen David Andrews and Shaq Mason are enjoying bounce-back years. Free-agent acquisitions like pass rusher Matt Judon, receiver Kendrick Bourne and tight end Hunter Henry have been much-needed upgrades to a roster that grew too dependent on Brady in the late 2010s. And a schedule full of New York Jets, Houston Texans and opponents in injury-exacerbated free fall (like the Tennessee Titans, who lost to the Patriots in Week 12) has also played a part.

Rookie quarterback Mac Jones also deserves credit, though his recent success is more a result of the Patriots’ turn-

around than the cause. Jones has done a fine job of not crashing Belichick’s luxury sedan while driving with a provisional license, but the rush to anoint him as the Next Brady has been premature and selfconsciously shrill.

Troy Aikman, a television analyst, said Jones would be Belichick’s “signal caller for the next 15 to 18 years” as the player tossed routine passes during a victory over the Atlanta Falcons, who could lose to a gentle breeze. If Jones reaches the Super Bowl, Patriots fans may demand that his birthday be designated a national holiday.

Meanwhile, Brady continues his victory lap around the NFC. He can still hit some of the high notes when called upon, but he leads the Buccaneers to most victories by distributing the ball to Pro Bowl playmakers from behind one of the league’s most impregnable offensive lines.

Even the schedule caters to Brady’s needs: The final six Buccaneers games come against opponents with a combined 7-17 record since Nov. 1, including the Jets, who refused to take sides during the separation.

A championship clash between the greatest player of the 21st century and his former mentor should be an objectively compelling sporting event with universal appeal. Unfortunately, Super Bowl hype is as noisy and persistent as a neighborhood full of leaf blowers, and both Brady’s faraway news conference stare and Belichick’s impatient growls lost their limited charm over the decades.

In the absence of fresh personalities and storylines, Super Bowl week faces the prospect of ceaseless contrived debates about whether the quarterback or coach “deserves credit” for all those past championships. There could be strained efforts to heap new superlatives on men already spoken of in near-messianic terms and a queasy feeling that everyone west of Interstate 91 will be obligated to smile uncomfortably while Boston-area fans whip themselves into an ecstatic frenzy.

Those hoping to avoid the football equivalent of madness-inducing, Lovecraftian horror must root for the Buffalo Bills (7-4), who face the Patriots twice, including Monday night, and the Buccaneers once down the stretch. Assuming the Bills fail in their ersatz Van Helsing role, as they have for most of the past 20 years, the AFC’s best hope lies in potential playoff foes like the Kansas City Chiefs (7-4) and the Baltimore Ravens (8-3), the flashy-but-unreliable hares to Belichick’s tortoise.

The best bet to beat Brady’s Buccaneers in the NFC playoffs may be the Green Bay Packers (9-3). Yes, the thought of a Brady-Belichick Super Bowl is so chilling that it makes rooting for Aaron Rodgers appealing by comparison.

If dread of a potential Brady Bowl fills you with an urge to renounce football and spend the winter in a Himalayan yurt, know that you are not alone.

Yet there is another option: Put the NFL in proper perspective among life’s priorities, tune out the histrionics and learn to celebrate the achievements of others and enjoy the game.

If you achieve that level of enlightenment by the time a Brady-Belichick Super Bowl inevitably arrives, please keep those of us for whom it’s too late in your hearts.

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Mark Roth, top bowler who brought power to the sport, dies at 70

By RICHARD SANDOMIR

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ark Roth, whose explosive power game made him one of bowling’s all-time greats and the second to earn $1 million in career earnings in the sport, died Friday in Oswego, New York.

He was 70.

The cause was congestive heart failure, his wife, Denise Roth, said. Since 2009, he had two strokes — the first ended his career — and two heart attacks and was in a long-care facility at his death.

Roth was a star of the Professional Bowlers Association in the 1970s and ’80s and a mainstay of its PBA Tour. He won 34 titles, a record eight of them in 1978; earned $1.5 million on the tour; and was named the PBA’s player of the year four times. He was inducted into the association’s Hall of Fame in 1987 and in 2008 was voted its fifth greatest player.

Roth brought a nearly violent approach to bowling, one that he once compared to “ripping the cover off the ball.” By turning his wrist severely as he released the ball, he created great speed and spin, causing the ball to hook toward the strike pocket.

“Sometimes I throw rockets,” Roth told Sports Illustrated in 1978. “My ball can even overpower lane conditions at times.”

Marshall Holman, a longtime rival of Roth’s, said in a phone interview, “Mark brought power and accuracy together, which made him so dynamic and arguably the best spare shooter the game has seen in the past half century.”

Roth’s most famous spare — knocking down the remaining pins with the second bowl thrown in a frame — was during a tournament in 1980 in Alameda, California.

He became the first bowler to convert the notoriously difficult 7-10 split — knocking down the two pins in the opposite corners of the back row — on national television.

“He had a little grin on his face,” said Holman, who was practicing on a lane nearby. “But I was going nuts. It was the coolest thing I’d ever seen.”

The aggressive torque of Roth’s release caused his right hand to grow callused and his thumb to bleed. At first he soaked his thumb in foot soap, but he later alleviated the problem somewhat by altering the angle of his ball’s thumb hole so that he could release the finger more easily.

Mark Stephen Roth was born April 10,

Mark Roth in about 1973. He brought a nearly violent approach to bowling, comparing it to “ripping the cover off the ball.”

1951, in Brooklyn, New York. His mother, Hilda (Rocker) Roth, was a legal secretary, and his father, Sidney, was a postal worker.

Bowling began to dominate his early life after Rainbow Lanes was built near his home.

At age 13, he was averaging 160; at 17, his average was up to 195 (he often averaged in the 210s as a professional). He also worked at the bowling alley, first as a pin boy and then as a mechanic operating the automatic pin-setting machines. He bowled for Sheepshead Bay High School’s team and traveled to other bowling centers in addition to Rainbow for doubles matches, sometimes with Johnny Petraglia, who would also be inducted into the PBA Hall of Fame.

“I got thrown out of lots of places,” Roth told Sports Illustrated. “They got tired of me winning, so they said, ‘Get out and don’t come back.’ ” After graduating, he bowled in some local tournaments until he earned enough

money to go on the PBA Tour in 1970. But his unorthodox, self-taught style had its doubters.

“Before I went on tour, people said, ‘You’ll never make it. You won’t last three years,’” he told Bowlers Journal in 2018. “I was so determined to shut these people up.”

“The same thing happened on tour,” he added. “They said, ‘You’ve got to throw it straighter,’ and do this and do that. I was determined to do it my way, and that was it.”

His success came gradually. In 1970, he earned only about $1,000, and he didn’t win his first title until 1975, at the King Louie Open in Overland Park, Kansas. He won three tournaments in 1976 and four more the next year. After taking eight tournament titles in 1978, he won six more in 1979.

In 1984, one of his four victories, at the Greater Detroit Open, pushed his career earnings above $1 million; with that

he joined Earl Anthony as the only other bowler to reach that level at the time. It was a particularly notable achievement for a sport whose prize money is modest compared with that of other sports.

Roth and a partner purchased Rainbow Lanes in 1984, and he remained an owner until the mid-1990s.

He won his final tournament on the PBA Tour in 1995, earning a $45,000 first prize at the IOF Foresters Open in Mississauga, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto. He joined the association’s senior PBA50 circuit and won one title in 2001 and a second in 2002.

“What Mark did seemed impossible when he did it,” Tom Clark, the PBA commissioner, said, referring to Roth’s power game. “Technology has evolved to make balls hook more and hit with more power — doing what he did naturally.”

Roth had a severe stroke in 2009 that partly paralyzed his left side; through physical therapy he was able to walk with a quad cane, bowl occasionally and give lessons at a bowling center in Liverpool, New York. He regularly attended the annual Mark Roth-Marshall Holman PBA Doubles Championship, held in various venues.

“He should have been bowling on the senior tour the last 12 years,” Denise Roth said.

He married Denise McKinney in 2003. A previous marriage, to Jacqueline Dente, ended in divorce.

In addition to his wife, Roth is survived by a daughter, Stephanie Roth, from his first marriage; a stepdaughter, Kimberly Gorton-David; a stepson, Mark MacIntyre; three step-grandsons; and one step-granddaughter.

Roth was known for being shy and quiet. But in 1978, Sports Illustrated was on hand to observe his eccentric morning hotel room ritual before he headed out to a tournament: He would shriek, pound his fists on the bed, stomp his feet, repeat the word “Firp” over and over and slam a pillow against the wall, letting its feathers fly.

“I do it because it makes me feel better and it helps my bowling,” he said.

“It took a while before I tried my routine on the tour. Since I started it, I’ve bowled better.”

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HOROSCOPE Aries

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(Mar 21-April 20)

Be ready for waves and crosscurrents, as dreamy Neptune turns direct after its rewind phase of several months. This planet’s influence can bring both confusion and clarity. At this changeable time, you might find yourself believing, then disbelieving something, and going between the two. Can’t decide what’s going on? Wait until lucidity dawns before making an important decision.

Taurus

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Gemini

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If you have doubts about something, keep them to yourself for now until you have more information, and can back them up with facts. Until then, it may be hard to get at the truth as matters could tend to slip and slide, and even to mean several things at once. Even the things you like or dislike might seem to shift and change, as can your relationship to a certain person.

Be ready for waves and crosscurrents, as dreamy Neptune turns direct after its rewind phase of several months. This planet’s influence can bring both confusion and clarity. At this changeable time, you might find yourself believing, then disbelieving something, and going between the two. Can’t decide what’s going on? Wait until lucidity dawns before making an important decision.

Cancer

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(June 22-July 23)

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

A dreamy Venus link can find you in a sensitive mood, making it more difficult to handle people who seem critical or overwhelming. Current energies reveal you don’t have to please everyone. Slow down and consider your feelings, as they really do count.

As Neptune forges ahead from today, you’ll realize you’re stronger than you think, you just need to let others see this, Libra.

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Small challenges can sometimes be a blessing in disguise, if they encourage you to make important changes. And the coming days could spotlight a major opportunity. It’s likely nothing you can’t easily handle, yet may be enough to encourage your resourceful side to emerge. The act of dealing with this can present you with other developments you won’t want to miss, Scorpio.

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

A livelier phase is on the cards, as the coming Eclipse suggests seizing an opportunity that could improve your lot. Don’t get too far ahead of yourself though, as you’ll need to do the groundwork first.

And while this option may have been on the backburner for some while, matters can now be ripe for take-off, if you adopt a steady pace and don’t try to do too much too soon, Archer.

Ready to embrace new beliefs or a different philosophy? Various options might appeal, but do some research first. Whether you’re looking to connect with a teacher, life coach or adopt new ways of seeing the world, try not to take anything for granted. With aquatic Neptune forging ahead from today, there could be some confusion about what’s best. Don’t do anything until you’re sure.

The quest for more of whatever life has to offer continues, and can see you eager to get moving on opportunities that have inspired you. With a developing Eclipse in a key zone enhancing your motivation, the coming days could see you ready to embrace a new phase. Mind, with ephemeral Neptune turning direct from today, make sure necessary information comes from a good source.

Leo

Aquarius

(July 24-Aug 23)

Having second thoughts about a new opportunity that seemed great at the outset? As ethereal Neptune changes direction today, you might realise you were too hasty, and that it could be more complex and expensive than you thought. As if to confirm this, you may get news of others who have changed their mind. It’s not just you, and until you hear otherwise, it’s best to steer clear.

Virgo

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

The focus on your work and lifestyle sector is further enhanced, with positive links adding warmth to everyday interactions and relationships. Although these influences hint at progress, there is also a suggestion that you’ll benefit from discussing issues that aren’t all that clear cut. A decisive approach can help shed light on areas that need clarification and certainty, Virgo.

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

The tide may be turning regarding your financial affairs, as oceanic Neptune steps forward from today after its long retrograde phase. If you’ve left money matters to drift, the coming weeks can be an opportunity to get back in control. Need advice?

Choose someone with a good reputation. The more discerning you are about your resources, the more you’ll have to enjoy and save.

Pisces

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

You often shift and adapt to the company you keep, meaning it’s easy for you to fit in just about anywhere, Pisces. As mystic Neptune turns direct in your sign though, it’s time to give some thought to how you want to appear to the world. What image do you want others to have of you? Your ideas may chop and change, but having a co-ordinated “look†could help you get noticed.

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Herman

Speed Bump

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Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

For Better or for Worse

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