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resident Donald Trump announced his intention Tuesday to appoint two new members to Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board and to keep a third member on the entity charged with supervising the island’s fiscal recovery.

According to information that was confirmed by the oversight board itself, the designated members are John E. Nixon, from Utah, and Dr. Betty A. Rosa, from New York. Andrew George Biggs, who currently serves on the board, was reappointed.

Trump appointed Justin Peterson to the oversight board in October.

Nixon is a certified public accountant who was the director of the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget. According to his LinkedIn webpage, he served as Michigan’s budget director from 2011 to 2014, reporting directly to Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, and he presently serves as senior vice president and senior account executive at IT service management company CNSI, focusing on corporate strategy, government relations and client management.

Rosa is the interim commissioner of education and president of the University of the State of New York. She has also received the Education Leadership Award from the National Puerto Rican Day Parade.

According to the New York State Education Department website, she is a nationally recognized leader in education and received education doctorate and master’s degrees in administration, planning and social policy from Harvard University.

The oversight board is chaired by David Skeel, who was appointed chairman last October following the resignation of the entity’s first chairman, José Carrión III. It was not immediately clear whether the new members are replacing current ones or will be taking empty seats. There are currently four members on the seven-member board.

Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón welcomed Trump’s announcement regarding appointments to the oversight board.

“These appointments provide for continuity and institutional memory with the reappointment of Mr. Biggs, and incorporate new members whom I hope we can count on to bring a new perspective that allows us to advance toward a greater focus on the social and economic recovery of Puerto Rico,” González Colón said. “Dr. Rosa’s experience in educational planning is a valuable resource that should help bring attention to this component, which is so critical in the long-term development of any society, while Nixon’s experience in drawing up budgets in state governments should help [the board] to note the importance of allowing the government of Puerto Rico flexibility in the way in which the goals of restoring fiscal stability are met.”

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After reports, are some island hospitals filled to capacity with COVID-19 patients? Here’s what you need to know.

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

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ith Deputy Health Secretary Iris Cardona Gerena saying Tuesday in an interview on Radio Isla 1320 AM that there are hospitals in Puerto Rico with rooms full of COVID-19 patients, the Star gathered reactions from members of the public health field in order to understand the statements.

Puerto Rico Hospitals Association President Jaime Plá responded that as far as the inventory of regular hospital beds, “there are still enough beds, as around 3,000 beds are available.”

“Where we have some issues are in [regional] areas with intensive care units (ICUs). There have been areas that have been more filled with COVID-19 patients than others, and when you look at some hospitals, their intensive care bed inventory, their number is smaller than other hospitals,” Plá said. “In general terms, around 200 ICU beds are available -- that number fluctuates around 190, 200 and 189, but it has remained on that level. However, there have been some hospitals that have hospitalized a higher number of COVID-19 patients; therefore, their ICU is more filled than others. This is where hospitals are conducting patient transfer programs when they need to, or sending the patient to other hospitals that have a bed available.”

When the Star asked if this might raise concerns with hospital personnel, Plá said people must understand that first responders are working under tension.

“They’re working with challenging patients, they’re working with patients who can get worse at any moment, with patients who are hard to work with,” he said. “There’s an ongoing concern that our patients do not die and, simultaneously, that our employees don’t get contaminated. It’s a really complicated situation.”

Meanwhile, Plá said that as part of the guidelines provided by the island Health Department to try to expand ICUs with negative pressure rooms and attend to the rising numbers of COVID-19 patients, “there are patients who have been secluded in negative pressure rooms to address the situation.”

“It’s not that hospitals are collapsing, it’s that some hospitals are more filled up than others, and you have to navigate patients into hospitals that have more intensive care beds available than other hospitals,” he said.

Puerto Rico Physicians & Surgeons Association (CMCPR by its Spanish initials) President Víctor Ramos contradicted Plá, saying “there were hospitals that reported 100 percent capacity in intensive care beds last weekend.”

“Jaime’s position is difficult; members of his association are private entities that compete against each other and will never say that they aren’t doing well because no patients will show up at their hospitals, similar to businesspeople, where no one gets infected in their enterprises, restaurants, gyms; everyone, it looks like everyone gets infected due to the air,” he said. “Beds are not only for COVID patients, there’s COVID-19 and plenty of other ailments to attend to.”

Ramos reiterated what he told the Star on July 20, that pressure was building among hospitals outside the metropolitan region.

“This should not be seen as a whole, but rather the regions should be analyzed. Most cases are in larger metropolitan areas, but the majority of the country’s hospital capacity, by far, is in those larger metropolitan areas,” Ramos said. “You don’t need the San Juan cases to collapse other regions. There are plenty of almost full hospitals in Manatí, in Arecibo, in Mayagüez, in Fajardo, and certainly, that worries us because there is not the hospital capacity that there is in the metro area.”

He noted the island town of Vieques as an example of that concern, where the municipality on Sunday reported 27 positive COVID-19 cases in one day, which represents an 11 percent positivity rate.

“There are no hospitals in Vieques; if patients become severe, where will you transfer them if Fajardo’s hospital capacity is not big enough?” the CMCPR president said. “From the beginning [of the pandemic], I was saying that this should be seen regionally, San Juan is not Puerto Rico.”

As of press time, Cardona could not give the Star a response or clarify the information regarding her statements in the Radio Isla interview.

Health Dept. expects 340,000 COVID-19 vaccines by the end of December Agency’s deputy secretary announces vaccination process to begin 48 hours after FDA issues emergency use authorization

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

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eputy Health Secretary Iris Cardona Gerena told the Star on Tuesday that by the end of December the Puerto Rico Health Department expects to receive 340,000 coronavirus vaccines.

“An additional 30,000 doses will be from Pfizer, but expectations are that, by December 20, we will begin to receive vaccines from Moderna,” Cardona Gerena said. “We hope this number keeps rising [in] January.”

As for when inoculations will begin, the deputy secretary told the Star that the Health Department expects to begin 48 hours after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issues an emergency use authorization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices submits their specific recommendations, which

she added might take place around Dec. 10 to Dec. 15.

“We know that we will have enough vaccines for the population because its distribution will depend on the population from the U.S. state or territory. What will determine it is how quick the vaccines are produced,” Cardona Gerena said. “There will be vaccines for every person who has to be vaccinated, but it is an orderly process guided by a framework that considers science, where the vaccine works, logistics, how it will be delivered, and ethics, which mainly focus on who we must vaccinate first, who is more exposed [to the coronavirus] and, if they were to become ill, who will face more complications.”

“This does not mean that we will begin vaccination on Dec. 15 and it will take until next May; this is an orderly process that will depend on how fast vaccines arrive,” she added.

In the first inoculation phase, Cardona Gerena said the Health Department will start vaccinating “those who work in hospitals, but including everyone else in an orderly process, and all residents of long-term care facilities, all people in [group] settings, and all those patients who, because of age or medical condition, are at risk for complications.”

“All of this is included in the first vaccination phase; what happens is that we structured it in different parts, hospitals,

health care centers, medical offices, pharmacies, among others,” she said. “Then we would conduct activities aimed at the large group of workers that society would not run without, which includes first responders, firefighters, police, emergency management officers, medical emergency workers, but also includes those who provide basic services such as water, electricity, communications, food service, education, government agencies, essential agencies, federal agencies.”

As for the vaccine’s safety, Cardona said “the vaccines that we expect to be authorized for use in the coming days have clinical research studies with more than 73,000 patients that demonstrate a good safety profile, where the only side effects that were seen and were statistically significant were headaches and some fatigue after inoculation.”

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After endless traffic jams and chaos, police modify schedule of roadblocks

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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uerto Rico Police Bureau Commissioner Henry Escalera Rivera said Tuesday in a radio interview that the police will modify the schedule of roadblocks, which have been implemented to help stop the rise in coronavirus infections on the island.

On Monday the roadblocks caused extensive traffic congestion.

“The schedules are going to be modified. It depends on the region that is being impacted,” Escalera Rivera said in a radio interview with Rubén Sánchez on WKAQ 580 AM. “We are going to make adjustments so that what citizens are protesting does not happen.”

“It should not happen again” that someone is in a traffic jam for hours due to a roadblock, Escalera Rivera added in response to complaints by afternoon commuters of being delayed for hours due to the roadblocks.

“We are going to evaluate [the scheduling of roadblocks] so that they are not at a time that harms the citizens who are going to their jobs, to their residences,” the police commissioner said.

According to the latest executive order issued by Gov.

Wanda Vázquez Garced, the overnight curfew began Monday at 9 p.m. instead of 10 p.m., as had been the case for many months. The nightly curfew ends at 5 a.m.

The new executive order will apply until Thursday, Jan. 7.

On Monday, Lt. Elvin Zeno, director of the Police Traffic Bureau, said Escalera Rivera “gave us instructions to start the blockades [on the roads] again.”

“We had essentially stopped [the roadblocks] since February because of COVID-19,” Zeno said. “We already started [them] again. And since he [Escalera Rivera] gave us the instructions, we are going to comply with them. There will be three blockades every day in different police areas.”

Starting at 4 p.m. Monday there were roadblocks in the

police areas of Aguadilla, Caguas and Carolina. Tuesday blockades took place in the police areas of Fajardo, Ponce and Utuado.

“We will be very attentive to any violation and we will observe, for example, that if the people who are [in] a vehicle are not part of the same nuclear family, they must be wearing masks or they will be subject to a fine of $100 each,” Zeno said Monday. “The blockades will be carried out in an orderly manner to avoid, as far as possible, affecting traffic. The line at a roadblock will be established in the area of the shoulder of the road so that traffic flow in the lanes is maintained.”

Public Safety Secretary Pedro Janer said meanwhile that there will be roadblocks around the island throughout December.

“Our commitment to our citizens is to guarantee safety on the highways and ensure compliance with Executive Order 2020-087 signed by Governor Vázquez Garced, in force until Jan. 7, 2021,” Janer said in a written statement Monday. “This year, the holiday season will be different from what we are used to and we urge people to stay safe and celebrate holidays only with those who make up their nuclear family, only in this way can we prevent COVID-19 infection.”

Head of incoming gov’t transition committee scolds PREPA governing board

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he chairman of the incoming government transition committee, Ramón Luis Rivera Cruz, on Tuesday criticized the governing board of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) for ratifying Efran Paredes as executive director of the utility instead of allowing the incoming government to make the decision.

“I would at least have waited for a dialogue with the new governor to tell him what we are doing and at least there would have been that communication,” Rivera Cruz said.

“That’s the least I would have expected.”

However, most of the discussion at Tuesday’s government transition hearing centered on the 15-year contract signed with LUMA Energy. Paredes said a small office with expertise on energy affairs should be managing the contract, not the Public Private Partnership Authority.

Rivera Cruz noted that PREPA has very little say about the ultimate liability of the actions undertaken by LUMA Energy. For instance, at a time when PREPA is slated to get some $10 billion in federal aid for repairs, LUMA Energy will be able to award up to $30 million in contracts without the input of PREPA. The contract has very few guide-

lines on the metrics for measuring LUMA Energy’s performance in order to award it incentive payments. Governor-elect Pedro Pierluisi wants to amend the contract but he has not been forthcoming about specific amendments.

When Rivera Cruz asked Paredes about specific changes he would like to see in the LUMA Energy contract, the PREPA executive said he does not see an organized transition because very little information has been given to employees to help them decide whether they should move to LUMA Energy or leave PREPA for another government agency.

“All they are doing is publishing job notices with little information, and that is causing a lot of problems,” Paredes said.

Under the government’s energy policy transformation, all PREPA employees were supposed to move to the new entity with the same salaries and benefits, but that has not been the case. LUMA Energy refuses to accept the working conditions established in the collective bargaining agreements with the unions. PREPA’s unions, including the Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union, have told employees to refrain from applying for jobs with LUMA Energy.

PREPA employees who do not want to work for LUMA Energy will have to get new jobs in the government, which is in

bankruptcy and will have to make cuts.

“The government will have a problem if not all of the workers opt to move to LUMA Energy,” Paredes said. “They have been calling people and telling them that if they do not get enough workers from PREPA, they will hire new outside workers.”

PREPA Finance Director Jaime López said that as of last Friday, LUMA Energy had made 423 job postings and 7,508 applicants had applied. Of those, 2,224 applications come from some 708 PREPA workers who have applied for more than one position.

About 1,000 of the 5,480 PREPA employees work in generation and not in transmission and distribution.

Rivera Cruz asked Paredes about what led PREPA toward bankruptcy if it is one of the public entities with the highest income, but then interrupted him to scold PREPA’s board for giving Paredes and two other officials about $36,000 in differential payments at a meeting last week and giving some top officials salary raises.

When PREPA Governing Board Chairman Ralph Kreil said such benefits and salaries are the same ones enjoyed by other officials in the past, Rivera Cruz reminded him that the utility is in bankruptcy.

“You have said in documents given to us that you expect to end the year with a $500 million loss,” Rivera Cruz said.

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Teachers union demands halt to attendance and punctuality policy

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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richelle Toledo, the general secretary of the Puerto Rico Teachers Association, demanded Tuesday that Education (DE) Secretary Eligio Hernández and the designated secretary of Education, Elba Aponte Santos, stop the implementation of the department’s attendance and punctuality policy until it is a transparent and reliable process.

“For years we have denounced the inefficiency of the system that records teacher attendance, and the abrupt implementation of this policy is causing harm to our teachers, who have been notified

through the DE-14 [internet] portal that they have [instances of tardiness] or absences that are not real,” Toledo said in a written statement. “This is an abusive practice and it must be stopped, because in the midst of this pandemic we do not need actions that hurt our teachers.”

Toledo said teachers are receiving notifications electronically with confusing information.

“We request that this policy not be implemented until the DE assures us that the process is reliable,” she said. “This action could mean an [adverse] economic impact on our educators, and we believe that in the middle of Christmas it is an attack on the stability of the teaching profession.”

Caguas appoints COVID-19 compliance monitor

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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he Caguas municipal government has reinforced its “Apoyo Positivo Criollo” program with a monitor to ensure compliance with COVID-19 prevention measures in the town, the municipality south of San Juan announced Tuesday.

The position will be filled by retired Police Col. Miguel de Jesús, who will be responsible for ensuring compliance with the measures established by commonwealth executive orders and ordinances established by the municipal assembly to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.

In addition, de Jesús will serve as a link with the security component of the Caguas municipal administration to make referrals and intervene when necessary. As part of his functions, the monitor will guide, visit and investigate compliance with the protocols established against COVID-19 in organizations and businesses in Caguas.

“Our [mission] is to stop the advance of the coronavirus in the city and our initiatives have gone from orientation and education, distribution of materials for

hygiene, disinfection of the city to the establishment of a municipal ordinance to guarantee compliance with health protocols,” Caguas Mayor William Miranda Torres said in a written statement. “Now, with the compliance monitor, we redouble our efforts to ensure that citizens and businesses are in tune with what the correct protocols must be to prevent the spread of this virus.”

In addition to monitoring compliance, the Ayudo Positivo Criollo program is strengthening its services with an intense orientation and education campaign during the Christmas period. For example, a campaign will be developed along with Los Pleneros Apoyo Positivo to disseminate services among different establishments and to deliver protection material and an educational message through music.

Also, recognized figures from sports, arts and music will be part of an educational campaign to specify prevention and control measures against COVID-19.

The motivator and communicator Lily García has also joined the direct services team to carry a hopeful and optimistic message at Christmas.

Meanwhile, the program’s services will be promoted in clinical spaces and laboratories, and health-related events will be held that add value to both the prevention and direct service areas.

At the beginning of the pandemic, the Apoyo Positivo Criollo program was established at the municipal level to serve citizens. The confidential telephone line for the program’s COVID-19 Infection Tracking and Control Center is 787-296-9292.

The services available under the municipal initiative include a case investigation and contact tracing system, educational intervention and delivery of protective materials in the community, psychological services, nutrition, delivery of supplies to prevent people from leaving their

home, referrals for telemedicine and for COVID-19 tests, health education with the collaboration of the SANOS Corp., and general psychological and grief counseling services. The phone line is available Monday through Sunday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

The email supportpositivo@caguas.gov.pr is also available.

The requirements for obtaining services from the Apoyo Positivo Criollo program are: being a resident of Caguas, having been at risk of contracting the COVID-19 (coronavirus) infection, and having evidence of a clinical diagnosis of COVID-19 for the food delivery service.

“We have been creative in carrying the prevention message this Christmas. These are atypical times and [we have been for] many months in a constant fight against COVID-19. We can’t let our guard down on the holidays,” the Caguas mayor said. “We have to be more responsible than ever and prevent infections from continuing to increase and we will ensure that this is the case.”

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Trump asked Pennsylvania House speaker about overturning his loss

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ntensifying his efforts to undo his loss to Joe Biden, President Donald Trump twice called the Republican speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in recent days to encourage challenges to the official results in the state.

Trump pressed the speaker, Bryan Cutler, on how Republicans planned to reverse the results of an election that Biden was certified to have won by more than 80,000 votes, a spokesman for Cutler, Michael Straub, said Monday night.

“He did ask what options were available to the legislature,” Straub said, referring to the president.

A series of lawsuits by the Trump campaign and its allies claiming widespread voting fraud in Pennsylvania have been tossed out of state and federal courts.

Supporters of Trump’s baseless fraud claims have called on Republican-led legislatures in several states to overturn the results, although Pennsylvania’s General Assembly is out of session and cannot be called back except by Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat.

“Cutler made it very clear what power the legislature has and does not have,” said Straub, who characterized the president’s calls as seeking

information rather than pressuring the speaker.

The calls were reported earlier by The Washington Post.

Pennsylvania is the third state in which Trump is known to have reached out to top elected Republicans to try to reverse the will of voters. He earlier summoned Michigan legislative leaders to the White House, and over the weekend he pressed Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia to call upon that state’s legislature to reverse the election.

At a rally in Georgia on Saturday, Trump said Kemp “could stop it very easily if he knew what the hell he was doing.” But Kemp has repeatedly declined to call for a special session of the legislature, and state election officials recertified Georgia’s results Monday after another recount again showed that Biden had won the state.

Nearly every state has certified its results, and Biden has officially secured more than the 270 Electoral College votes needed to become president.

In Pennsylvania, Biden was certified the winner last month by the Department of State, and Wolf signed a “certificate of ascertainment” for Biden’s slate of electors to be appointed to the Electoral College, which votes Dec. 14.

Nonetheless, 64 Republicans in the General Assembly, including Cutler and other members of the leadership, called Friday for Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation

to reject the electoral votes for Biden when Congress meets Jan. 6 to confirm the Electoral College results. The effort is highly unlikely, not least because the Democraticled House of Representatives would need to agree to it.

Pennsylvania’s most senior congressional Republican, Sen. Pat Toomey, has said through his office that he “will not be objecting” to Biden’s 20 electoral votes from the state.

Trump’s personal attacks on the few top Republicans who debunk his fraud claims, such as in Georgia and Arizona, as well as his efforts to enlist allies in the party in his brazen effort to reverse the will of voters, such as in Pennsylvania, are likely to make the issue crucial to elections next year and in the 2022 midterms. Republican primaries could become contests of who stood behind Trump in his baseless claims that undermined faith in democracy.

State Rep. Joanna E. McClinton, the minority leader of the Pennsylvania House Democrats, called Republican assertions of widespread fraud, which have echoed Trump’s descent into conspiracy theories and disinformation, “outrageous.”

“We are seeing extremists who claim they love the Constitution,” she said, “but who want to throw the Constitution away just because the president lost his bid for reelection.”

Biden plans to tap Lloyd Austin, former Iraq commander, as Defense Secretary

By HELENE COOPER and JONATHAN MARTIN

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resident-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate retired Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, a former commander of the U.S. military effort in Iraq, to be the next secretary of defense, according to two people with knowledge of the selection.

If confirmed by the Senate, Austin would make history as the first African American to lead the country’s 1.3 million active-duty troops and the enormous bureaucracy that backs them up.

Austin, 67, was for years a formidable figure at the Pentagon and is the only African American to have headed U.S. Central Command, the military’s marquee combat command, with responsibility for Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria — most of the places where the United States is at war.

Austin is known as a strong battlefield commander but is less known for his political instincts. He has sometimes stumbled in congressional hearings, including a session in 2015 when he acknowledged, under testy questioning, that the Department of Defense’s $500 million program to raise an army of Syrian fighters had gone nowhere.

Still, Austin, who retired as a four-star general in

2016 after 41 years in the military, is respected in the Army, especially among African American officers and enlisted soldiers, as one of the rare Black men to crack the glass ceiling that has kept the upper ranks of the military largely the domain of white men.

Supporters of Austin say he broke through that barrier because of his intellect, his command experience and the mentorship of a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, who plucked him to run the staff of the Joint Chiefs’ office.

Shortly after the election, Austin took part in an online session that Biden had with former national security officials. His selection was reported earlier by Politico.

In choosing Austin, Biden bypassed Michèle A. Flournoy, a former top Obama administration DOD official, who would have been the first woman in the job.

Like Jim Mattis, who was President Donald Trump’s first defense secretary, Austin would have to get a congressional waiver to serve, since he has been out of the military for only four years and U.S. law requires a seven-year waiting period between active duty and becoming Pentagon chief.

Austin is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy.

He and his wife Charlene have been married for 40 years.

Gen. Lloyd Austin, commander of U.S. Central Command, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 16, 2015.

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Pfizer’s vaccine offers strong protection after first dose

A nurse at the Royal Free Hospital in London simulating the administration of Pfizer’s vaccine during a training session last week.

By NOAH WEILAND and CARL ZIMMER

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he coronavirus vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech provides strong protection against COVID-19 within about 10 days of the first dose, according to documents published Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration before a meeting of its vaccine advisory group.

The finding is one of several significant new results featured in the briefing materials, which include more than 100 pages of data analyses from the agency and from Pfizer. Last month, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that their two-dose vaccine had an efficacy rate of 95% after two doses administered three weeks apart. The new analyses show that the protection starts kicking in far earlier.

What’s more, the vaccine worked well regardless of a volunteer’s race, weight or age. While the trial did not find any serious adverse events caused by the vaccine, many participants did experience aches, fevers and other side effects.

On Thursday, FDA’s vaccine advisory panel will discuss these materials in advance of a vote on whether

to recommend authorization of Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine.

Pfizer and BioNTech began a large-scale clinical trial in July, recruiting 44,000 people in the United States, Brazil and Argentina. Half of the volunteers got the vaccine, and half got the placebo.

New coronavirus cases quickly tapered off in the vaccinated group of volunteers about 10 days after the first dose, according to one graph in the briefing materials. In the placebo group, cases kept steadily increasing.

The vaccine’s swift impact could benefit not just the people who get it but the country’s strained hospitals, curbing the flow of new patients into intensive care units.

Despite the early protection afforded by the first dose, it’s unclear how long that protection would last on its own, underscoring the importance of the second dose. Previous studies have found that the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine gives the immune system a major, long-term boost, an effect seen in many other vaccines.

Many experts have expressed concern that the coronavirus vaccines might protect some people better than others. But the results in the briefing materials indicate no

such problem. The vaccine has a high efficacy rate in both men and women, as well as similar rates in white, Black and Latino people. It also worked well in obese people, who carry a greater risk of getting sick with COVID-19.

Some vaccines for other diseases set off a weak immune response in older adults. But Pfizer and BioNTech found that people over 65 got about as much protection from the coronavirus vaccine as younger people did.

Even if the vaccine is authorized by the FDA, the trial will continue. In the briefing documents, the companies said that they would encourage people to stay in the trial as long as possible, not knowing whether they got the vaccine or the placebo, so that the researchers could continue to collect information about whether the vaccine was safe and effective.

The briefing materials also provide a deeper look at the safety of the vaccine. In any large clinical trial, some people who get vaccines experience health conditions that have nothing to do with the vaccine itself. Comparing their rates of symptoms with those of the placebo group as well as with background rates in a population can point to symptoms that may actually be caused by a vaccine.

The FDA concluded that there were no “meaningful imbalances” in serious health complications, known as adverse events, between the two groups. The agency noted that four people in the vaccinated group experienced a form of facial paralysis called Bell’s palsy, with no cases in the placebo group. The difference between the two groups wasn’t meaningful, and the rate in the vaccinated group was not significantly higher than in the general population.

The new Pfizer analysis revealed that many volunteers who received the vaccine felt ill in the hours after the second dose, suggesting that many people might have to request a day off work or be prepared to rest until the symptoms subside. Among those between ages 16 and 55, more than half developed fatigue, and more than half also reported headaches. Just over one-third felt chills, and 37% felt muscle pain. About half of those over age 55 felt fatigued, one-third developed a headache, and about one-quarter felt chills, while 29% experienced muscle pain.

On Monday, Kristen Choi, a psychiatric nurse and health services researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, published a first-person account of the symptoms she experienced as a participant in the Pfizer-BioNTech trial, which included chills, nausea, headache and fever..

“Clinicians will need to be prepared to discuss with patients why they should trust the vaccine and that its adverse effects could look a lot like COVID-19,” Choi wrote in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. She advised doctors to tell patients that these unpleasant symptoms were “a sign that the vaccine is working, despite the unfortunate similarities with the disease’s symptoms.”

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Indoor dining may be banned again, threatening many NYC restaurants

By MICHAEL GOLD

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ince the pandemic forced most New York City businesses to shut down nine months ago, the restaurant industry has warned that it was facing a crisis.

Though many restaurateurs tried to adapt once some of the restrictions were lifted — shifting to takeout and delivery, then moving outside, then cautiously welcoming customers indoors — they say that they are still barely hanging on.

Now, New York City’s restaurants face yet another possible blow. On Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, citing the growing spread of the coronavirus, announced a new restrictions model that could halt indoor dining in the city as soon as next week if hospitalization rates do not stabilize — a prospect he said seemed likely.

The move, which Cuomo said was spurred by recent federal guidance that described indoor dining as “particularly high-risk,” could further devastate the industry at the same time that plunging temperatures threaten to keep customers away from outdoor dining.

Restaurant owners are warning that the industry, which employs thousands of low-income workers and is vital to the city’s culture, risks even further collapse without some form of aid.

“They’re not going to make it,” said Tren’ness WoodsBlack, the vice president of communications at Sylvia’s, the soul food mainstay in Harlem. “That’s the truth of the matter. There are a lot of businesses that simply will not make it. And that’s heartbreaking.”

Cuomo’s announcement came as the virus has been spreading more rapidly in New York City. According to the state, the city’s seven-day average rate of positive test results last week surpassed 4% for the first time since late May. On Sunday, 1,416 people were believed to be hospitalized with the virus, according to state data, the city’s highest total since early June.

Included in the governor’s new plan for restrictions is a “clamp down” on indoor dining in any region where hospitalization rates do not stabilize for five days. Cuomo did not provide a specific measure or threshold. His office did not immediately respond to questions seeking more details.

Though restaurants in NewYork City would be required to end indoor dining, restaurants in other regions where hospitalization rates do not stabilize would have to reduce their indoor dining capacity from 50% to 25%.

New York is not the only state taking this patchwork approach. In California, where cases are also climbing, shutdown restrictions also vary by region.

Cuomo echoed calls for federal financial assistance, saying restaurants and bars had faced “a long year and they have bills to pay.” However, he did not provide any details about what threshold would need to be met for indoor dining to resume once closed, providing an uncertainty that frustrated the city’s restaurant owners.

“When you cut indoor dining without a plan, it really sends the wrong message to everyone,” said George

Customers dine inside plastic domes at Cafe du Soleil in Manhattan on Sept. 23, 2020. On Monday, Dec. 7, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, citing the growing spread of the coronavirus, announced a new restrictions model that could halt indoor dining in the city as soon as next week if hospitalization rates do not stabilize.

Constantinou, who owns three restaurants in Brooklyn. “To customers, to employees, and everyone in the industry.”

Indoor dining only resumed in New York City at the end of September, even as restaurants in other parts of the state were allowed to resume serving customers indoors throughout the summer.

But there were limits. Establishments were held to seating at 25% capacity and had to keep their tables spaced at least 6 feet apart — a significant reduction in potential business, especially at cramped city restaurants where diners used to be packed into tables.

Still, both Woods-Black and Constantinou said that their restaurants welcomed the change at the time, noting that every table helped with the bottom line in a business where, even before the pandemic, profit margins were often tight.

Woods-Black said that Sylvia’s had started to see more of its business shift indoors as the weather cooled.

About 60% of its sales from last week were from indoor dining, she said.

The restaurant had only recently started to hire back staff members that it had laid off to accommodate the change in demand. Now it was facing the prospect of dismissing employees again.

“They’re very worried,” she said of her workers. “And we’re worried for them.”

Still, Sylvia’s planned to do whatever it would take to stay open, she said. Until the governor’s order took effect, the restaurant would continue to serve customers indoors.

Constantinou, who owns Bogota Latin Bistro, Miti Miti Modern Mexican and Medusa Greek Taverna in Park Slope, said that he would spend the next week adjusting his staffing in preparation for the end of indoor dining.

Already, he said, he had been reducing shifts at his restaurants as cooler weather brought fewer customers to his outdoor tables. Over the course of the pandemic, he went from employing more than 150 people to around 80, and he anticipated more cuts would come.

Given the numerous limits placed on indoor dining, he had anticipated that more New Yorkers would choose to eat inside, helping his revenues during what was normally a slower winter season.

“If you have a choice to sit outdoors at 30 degrees or indoors at 25% capacity, I would say 8 out of 10 people would sit indoors as long as it’s not crowded,” he said.

“Because people don’t want to freeze.”

Instead, he faced the prospect that the restaurants he had worked to cautiously reopen, whose atmosphere he had carefully cultivated, would again fall silent.

“The restaurants will be dead again,” he said. “And to have outdoor dining in a dead restaurant — it’s not the vibe you really want to give out.”

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Army investigates deaths of Green Beret and veteran at Fort Bragg

By MICHAEL LEVENSON, JOHN ISMAY and KWAME OPAM

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he Army said it was investigating the deaths last week of a Green Beret and an Army veteran whose bodies were found in a training area at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.

The men’s bodies were discovered on Wednesday, the Army said. Officials have not said how they died, but they said the deaths were not related to official unit training activities.

Fort Bragg identified the Army veteran as Timothy Dumas, 44, of Pinehurst, North Carolina.

U.S. Army Special Operations Command identified the Green Beret as Master Sgt. William J. Lavigne II, 37, who had been assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company.

“I can confirm that we are investigating this as a homicide investigation,” Chris Grey, a spokesman for the Army Criminal Inves-

tigation Command, or CID, said in a statement. “I will release more at the appropriate time.”

The investigation was unfolding after the death of a 21-year-old Fort Bragg soldier whose severed head washed ashore on North Carolina’s Outer Banks in May was ruled a homicide last month.

Fort Bragg, the home of Airborne and Special Operations forces, is the largest U.S. Army base, with approximately 57,000 military personnel, 11,000 civilian employees and 23,000 family members. While a series of suicides, homicides and fatal accidents has rattled Fort Hood in Texas this year, Fort Bragg, which is larger, has been relatively calm, with just one homicide this year before the latest investigations began.

Lt. Col. Justin Duvall, the commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company for Army Special Operations Command, praised Lavigne for his service.

“The loss of a soldier is always tragic,” Duvall said in a statement on Friday. “Master

The bodies were found in a training area at the Army base in North Carolina.

Sgt. Lavigne dedicated himself to the Army for 19 years and deployed multiple times in the defense of our nation. Our condolences go out to his family during this difficult time.”

After enlisting in the Army in 2001, Lavigne graduated from the Special Forces Qualification Course in 2007 and was assigned to the 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) and to Special Operations Command.

He deployed multiple times to Afghanistan and Iraq and was awarded two Bronze Stars, one with the “V” device for valor; the Meritorious Service Medal; and the Joint Service Commendation Medal, among other awards and decorations.

In March 2018, Lavigne was investigated in connection with the death of Mark D. Leshikar, 33, a soldier from Fort Bragg, who was fatally shot at a home off the base, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office.

“He was involved, it was determined to be justified and the case was closed,” Lt. Sean Swain, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office, said.

The Army CID conducted its own investigation and reached the same conclusion as the sheriff’s office: that the shooting was an act of justifiable self-defense, according to Special Operations Command. Lavigne was never charged.

Dumas, a chief warrant officer, served in the Army as a property accounting technician from November 1996 to March 2016, an Army spokesman said. He deployed to Afghanistan four times, officials said.

The deaths of Lavigne and Dumas were not thought to be related to that of Spc. Enrique Roman-Martinez, 21, an 82nd Airborne Division soldier also based at Fort Bragg, who disappeared on a camping trip at the Cape Lookout National Seashore, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, on May 22.

The death was ruled a homicide, according to an autopsy report issued last month, a copy of which The New York Times obtained.

Roman-Martinez’s severed head washed ashore at Cape Lookout on May 29, but the rest of his body has not been found. The autopsy found “multiple chop injuries.” It was not clear if those injuries were inflicted before or after he died.

Griselda Martinez, Roman-Martinez’s sister, expressed frustration with the CID, saying she felt unheard during its investigation.

“To not show up and just go missing should have been a big red flag,” she said, adding that her brother had a strong work ethic. “Why would someone like him go AWOL?” A spokesman for the 82nd Airborne Division said officials had been in regular contact with Roman-Martinez’s family in the months since he disappeared.

“The senseless killing of Enrique has been felt across our organization and we stand with his family in the pursuit of justice,” said the spokesman, Lt. Col. Michael Burns.

“We’re doing everything humanly possible to find those responsible for his death.”

Seven special agents of the Army’s CID are working full time on Roman-Martinez’s death as part of a task force involving the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, Burns said. This week agents were searching Cape Lookout for a third time since Roman-Martinez disappeared, and there was a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest, Burns said.

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Uber, after years of trying, is handing off its self-driving car project

By CADE METZ and KATE CONGER

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ber, which spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a selfdriving car project that executives once believed was a key to becoming profitable, is handing the autonomous vehicle effort over to a Silicon Valley startup, the companies said Monday.

Uber will also invest $400 million in the startup, called Aurora, so it is essentially paying the company to take over the autonomous car operation, which had become a financial and legal headache. Uber is likely to license whatever technology Aurora manages to create.

The deal amounts to a fire-sale end to a high-profile but star-crossed effort to replace Uber’s human drivers with machines that could drive on their own. It is also indicative of the challenges facing other autonomous vehicle projects, which have received billions in investments from Silicon Valley and automakers but have not produced the fleets of robotic vehicles some thought would be on the streets by now.

Aurora’s chief executive, Chris Urmson, said Aurora’s first product will not be a robot taxi that could help with Uber’s ridehailing business. Instead, it will likely be a self-driving truck, which Urmson believes has a better chance of success in the near term because long-haul truck driving on highways is more predictable and does not involve passengers.

In a statement, the Uber chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, said he was looking forward to bringing Aurora technology to market “in the years ahead.” Uber declined to comment further on the agreement.

Among self-driving car projects, Uber’s effort, which led to the death of a pedestrian in Arizona; a lawsuit from Waymo, the self-driving car company owned by the same parent company as Google; and a guilty plea from a former Uber executive accused of stealing intellectual property, was particularly fraught.

It began with an ambitious — but in hindsight fanciful — proposition: Uber’s biggest expense was its drivers. If it could replace the drivers with machines, it could eventually reduce expenses and become profitable, ending years and billions of losses.

Uber began its work on autonomous vehicles around 2015 when it announced a partnership with Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Center. Uber poached 40 engineers and scientists from Carnegie Mellon later, establishing the foundation for its autonomous vehicle unit, called the Uber Advanced Technologies Group, or ATG. It came to have 1,200 employees.

In 2016, Uber acquired autonomous trucking startup Otto, led by Anthony Levandowski, a former Google engineer. When Google first tested its self-driving car on public roads a decade ago, Levandowski and Urmson, who played a key role in Google’s original self-driving car project before co-founding Aurora, were two of the project’s engineers. The test was a milestone that eventually led to an investment frenzy.

The acquisition, which valued Otto at $680 million, turned sour when Waymo filed a lawsuit against Uber in early 2017, claiming that Levandowski had stolen trade secrets from Google.

Uber fired Levandowski, and though the case went to trial, the

companies eventually settled. Uber agreed to give Google a stake in the company valued at $72 million.

Federal prosecutors charged Levandowski with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets from Google. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison earlier this year.

The death of a woman in Tempe, Arizona, in March 2018 — ultimately attributed to driver error and other safety shortcomings — was a grim turning point for Uber and other self-driving car projects. Uber and other companies suspended their road tests. Even after tests resumed, new investments slowed. When Uber finally returned its cars to the road, they continued to fall short of expectations.

In 2018, Uber received a $500 million investment from Toyota to help keep the self-driving unit afloat. The investment marked a shift in Uber’s strategy, signaling that the company no longer wanted to develop its own self-driving car but rather plug its navigation technology into a vehicle made by a traditional manufacturer.

A year later, Toyota added to its investment, partnering with Denso and the SoftBank Vision Fund to pour $1 billion into Uber’s self-driving effort. The deal valued Uber’s ATG at $7.25 billion.

The cash infusion bought ATG some time, but its long-term future at Uber remained unclear. The unit was expensive to operate, though Uber maintained it would become profitable by 2021.

In 2019, when a well-known startup sold itself to Apple, the

nascent autonomous vehicle industry began to consolidate.

The coronavirus pandemic presented more problems. It curtailed testing because social-distancing rules prevented companies from keeping multiple drivers in cars to guard against accidents. Some industry veterans admitted that success was further away than they had expected.

The pandemic also put financial strain on Uber, which saw its core ride-hailing business decline as people stopped traveling. Investors had long pressured Khosrowshahi to sell the self-driving unit.

The demands became more urgent as Uber’s revenue plummeted.

Aurora has its headquarters in Silicon Valley but also runs an office in Pittsburgh, where its chief technology officer, Drew Bagnell, a Carnegie Mellon professor and former Uber employee, works. As well as acquiring Uber’s self-driving technology it is acquiring engineers and support staff, most of whom are based in Pittsburgh. In all, it employs 600 people.

As part of the agreement between the two companies, Uber is taking a 26% stake in the startup and Khosrowshahi will take a seat on the Aurora board of directors.

“Uber can still have a hand in the game, without putting out the enormous amount of money they were spending with ATG, but still have a path to market when this technology is actually deployable in several years,” said Elliot Katz, co-founder and chief business officer of Phantom Auto, a startup that helps companies remotely control autonomous vehicles.

A garage at the Aurora office in Palo Alto, Calif., Jan. 3, 2018. Uber, which spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a self-driving car project that executives once believed was a key to becoming profitable, is handing the autonomous vehicle effort over to Aurora, and will also invest $400 million in the start-up, the companies said on Monday, Dec. 7, 2020.

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A rare pandemic silver lining: Mental health startups

Using teletherapy, metrics and matching algorithms, entrepreneurs are focusing on addressing aspects of the mental health care system that they view as broken.

By ELLEN ROSEN

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riela Safira was on a mission.

Shaken by the attempted suicide of a friend during her freshman year at Stanford University in 2013, Safira sought to understand the opaque mental health care system. She soon learned of the shortage of qualified therapists and, even where they are more plentiful, of the hurdles to obtaining care. Although a computer science and math major, she eventually enrolled in a clinical psychology graduate program at Columbia University.

But she kept coming back to a fundamental view: that there is often a mismatch between need and services, an essential supply-and-demand question.

“It’s very difficult to start and keep up a therapy business,” Safira said. “It’s a 10-person job, not a one-person job, from marketing yourself, doing your own financing and managing your own rent. But even before you get to a place where you manage all those things, what’s so challenging is making a name for yourself so that people want to go to you.”

And so, in 2019, she founded Real Therapy, a small business designed to tackle mental health and overall wellness by easing access and offering a range of services to answer clients’ needs.

Driven by personal experience —

and further motivated by the pandemic, which has caused an increase in anxiety and depression among the general population, including among young adults — entrepreneurs like Safira are focusing on addressing aspects of the mental health care system that they view as broken. They seem undeterred by the complicated nature of that system: a Byzantine insurance process, a wide range of provider types, and elusive fits between patient and therapist.

“It’s a crowded space,” Alex Katz, founder of Two Chairs, which opened its doors with a single clinic in San Francisco in 2017, said of the mental health startup scene. Nonetheless, he said, “because the problems are massive, we need a lot of great companies working in innovative ways to address the different populations, diagnoses and delivery of care.”

Katz, another Stanford graduate, began working at Palantir, the data analytics and software company, but sought to understand mental health services when his partner “was going through a tough time in her life.” He eventually quit his job and began to tap into his network of friends and family to understand the mental health care system.

He soon learned that one of the system’s biggest challenges was matching a therapist with a patient, something he

thought technology could solve. Yet, after interviewing clinicians, he chose to start a physical clinic, rather than a virtual one.

In trying to raise funds for his fledgling business, “I joke that I had three strikes against me: I was a first-time, solo founder of a bricks-and-mortar company in health care.” But from its inception, Two Chairs has relied on technology, using a frequently updated proprietary algorithm to match client and therapist after a prospective client’s first intake meeting.

Although both Safira and Katz initially focused on in-person care, with virtual therapy as a long-term goal, they had no choice but to change direction once the pandemic hit. Safira and her small team quickly had to shift from the Manhattan space they carefully designed and renovated, but never opened, to go completely remote. Within eight long days, she produced a remote platform to provide five types of services, largely group-oriented (one-on-one sessions will wait until the in-person location opens). Katz — whose company had grown to seven locations in the Bay Area, with a new one set to open in Los Angeles next year — also made the decision in March to continue his business by going fully virtual.

Because both had planned, eventually, to offer remote services, they already knew that the efficacy of remote sessions was already proven. David Mohr, director of the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, who has studied the issue, said that researchers had long found that teletherapy could be as effective as in-person therapy.

“There are no substantial differences in outcomes between remote and faceto-face” therapy, he said, adding that a remote option can solve issues of distance and time constraints that often discourage people from seeking therapy. (Mohr, through his work at Northwestern, is the principal investigator for IntelliCare, a university program that provides pre-therapy tools for anxiety and depression.) Practitioners have been resistant to this change, but the pandemic has forced their hands.

“We are at an inflection point,” he said. “There is a greater acceptance of the use of technology in mental health care, while at the same time there is a tremen-

dous decrease in the stigma” that had been associated with emotional problems.

Like Safira, it was personal experience that propelled Kyle Robertson to explore a platform for virtual therapy. The son of a psychiatrist and therapist, Robertson had difficulty finding help in dealing with his own depression and anxiety while a student at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He said his parents were hands-off but “definitely pushed early on for making sure that there was integration across medication and therapy,” which they all viewed as sometimes lacking in current practice, whether remote or inperson (only psychiatrists can prescribe medication).

After running a beta test of roughly 100 users at the end of 2019, he co-founded Cerebral in 2019. His timing, of course, proved prescient, and he has secured significant venture funding as well an uptick in clients throughout the year.

As with Two Chairs, Cerebral clients can schedule individual therapy, though group sessions are not yet available. The platform asks clients to keep track of their symptoms and report them monthly. Those responses can trigger a notification to the clinician to alert them if there is any worsening of conditions. If someone doesn’t respond, then someone on the team will reach out to check in, Robertson said.

All three companies seek to provide access quickly — the first interviews can be the same day after a client has signed up, in an effort to preempt mental health emergencies. The goal, Robertson said, is for new clients to speak to someone “within 10 minutes, something we’re able to do with a network of clinicians across geographies.” (Some of the regulations regarding licensing have been relaxed during the pandemic to enable telemedicine across all specialties, not just mental health care.)

And though these providers must comply with the stringent privacy laws that govern medical care, they are able to use data that they gather to analyze outcomes.

“It’s been hard to aggregate data and use it in an effective way in the past,” Robertson said. “Many therapists are in the equivalent of mom-and-pop shops who don’t have the resources, or the time, to analyze the data.”

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Vaccine boost helps send Wall Street to record

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.S. stocks rose on Tuesday as each of the major averages touched record levels in part due to a boost from the healthcare sector on positive COVID-19 vaccine news, while uncertainty over fresh fiscal stimulus held gains in check.Nine out of 11 of the major S&P 500 sectors fell, with the energy index tumbling 5.4% and leading losses, tracking a drop in crude prices.

Johnson & Johnson gained 1.67% to help lift both the Dow and S&P 500 after the company said it could obtain late-stage trial results of a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine it is developing in January, earlier than expected.

Pfizer Inc also advanced 1.67% as it cleared the next hurdle in the race to get its COVID-19 vaccine approved for emergency use, after the U.S. health regulator released documents raising no new safety or efficacy issues.

Wall Street’s main indexes have traded in a tight range to start the trading week, as investors look for more stimulus in the face of surging COVID-19 cases and fresh restrictions in California.

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday she supported including another round of $1,200 direct payments for Americans in a fresh package, which is currently not included in the $908 billion proposal put forth by a bipartisan group of lawmakers last week.

“The market has already priced in something, and what we are going to get now is probably less than what the market expected,” said Ken Polcari, managing partner at Kace Capital Advisors in Jupiter, Florida.After an explosion in infections and business restrictions this month that stalled the U.S. labor market recovery, the focus has shifted to Tuesday’s address by Fed Chair Jerome Powell before the Senate Banking Committee, the Fed’s Beige Book on Wednesday and the monthly jobs report on Friday. Graphic: S&P 500 set for its best November ever The Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.06% to 12,198.74.

For November, the S&P 500 gained 10.8%, the Dow added 11.9% and the Nasdaq climbed 11.8%. It was the biggest monthly gain for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq since April.

The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies surged 18.3% in November, its strongest monthly performance ever.

U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar said on Monday the first two vaccines against the novel coronavirus could be available to Americans before Christmas.

Moderna Inc surged 20% after it unveiled plans to apply for U.S. and European emergency authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine.

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Pfizer’s vaccine debuts in Britain as the world’s first fully tested vaccine

Margaret Keenan, the first patient in Britain to receive the coronavirus vaccine, hopes to set an example for people hesitant to get vaccinated.

By BENJAMIN MUELLER

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ritain’s National Health Service delivered its first shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, opening a mass vaccination campaign with little precedent in modern medicine and making Britons the first people in the world to receive a clinically authorized, fully tested vaccine.

At 6:31 a.m. Tuesday, Margaret Keenan, 90, a former jewelry shop assistant, rolled up the sleeve of her “Merry Christmas” T-shirt to receive the first shot, and her image quickly became an emblem of the remarkable race to produce a vaccine and the global effort to end a pandemic that has killed 1.5 million people worldwide.

“I feel so privileged to be the first person vaccinated against COVID-19,” said Keenan, who lives in Coventry, in central England. “It means I can finally look forward to spending time with my family and friends in the new year after being on my own for most of the year.”

British regulators leapt ahead of their American counterparts last week to authorize a coronavirus vaccine, upsetting the White

House and setting off a spirited debate about whether Britain had moved too hastily, or if the United States was wasting valuable time as the virus was killing about 1,500 Americans a day.

President Donald Trump planned Tuesday to issue an executive order proclaiming that other nations will not get U.S. supplies of its vaccine until Americans have been inoculated, a directive that appeared to have no real teeth but nevertheless was indicative of the heated race to secure shipments of doses.

For the people receiving vaccinations in Britain, among them doctors and nurses who have fortified the country’s ailing National Health Service this year, the shots were an early glimpse at post-pandemic life. Besides Keenan, none attracted as much attention as William Shakespeare, who was second in line for a shot in Coventry and who, the NHS confirmed, really is named William Shakespeare.

“Today is a great day for medical science, and the future,” Chris Whitty, Britain’s chief medical officer, said Tuesday.

The first 800,000 doses of the PfizerBioNTech vaccine for Britain were transported in recent days from a manufacturing plant in

Belgium to government warehouses in Britain and then to hospitals.

Fifty hospitals will be administering the shots until the government can refine a plan for delivering them at nursing homes and doctor’s offices. The vaccine must be transported at South Pole-like temperatures before it can be stored for five days in a normal refrigerator, Pfizer has said. First to receive the vaccine will be doctors and nurses, certain people aged 80 and over, and nursing home workers.

Some doctors and nurses have received invitations in recent days to sign up for appointments, with the first shots intended for those at the highest risk of severe illness. The government has indicated that people aged 80 and over who already have visits with doctors scheduled for this week, or who are being discharged from certain hospitals, will also be among the first to receive shots.

Nursing home residents, who were supposed to be the government’s top priority, will be vaccinated in the coming weeks, once health officials start distributing doses beyond hospitals.

Hundreds of people are still dying in

Britain each day from the virus, and the country has made allowances for travel over the Christmas period that scientists fear will seed another uptick in infections.

“It is amazing to see the vaccine, but we can’t afford to relax now,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain said Tuesday morning as he visited a London hospital. Trying to calm a recipient’s nerves about needles, he suggested, “I always try to think of something else — recite some poetry.”

Keenan, the first vaccine recipient, showed no such nerves. Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, said on Twitter that watching Keenan receive the shot gave her “a bit of a lump in the throat.”

“Feels like such a milestone moment after a tough year for everyone,” Sturgeon added.

Administering Keenan’s shot was May Parsons, a nurse who is originally from the Philippines and has worked for the National Health Service for 24 years.

“The last few months have been tough for all of us working in the NHS,” she said, “but now it feels like there is light at the end of the tunnel.”

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The Kremlin is offering Russians free vaccines, but will they take them?

By ANTON TROIANOVSKI

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lexei Zakharov, a Moscow economics professor, got the Russian coronavirus vaccine injected into his upper arm over the weekend.

Getting the shot was an easy decision, he said — not because the Russian government said it was safe, but because scores of Russians have shared their experience with it on social media.

“I trust the grassroots collection of information far more, of course, than what the state says, at least before the testing results are available and published in a medical journal,” Zakharov, 44, said in a telephone interview Monday, already clear of a mild fever — a side-effect of the vaccine. “There’s no safe, no-risk option here. Either you get the vaccine or you risk getting sick.”

Russia made its coronavirus vaccine available for free in recent days to teachers, medical workers and social-service employees younger than 61 in Moscow.

But even more than in the West, a lack of trust is hobbling Russia’s rollout of a vaccine: The country’s scientists may well have made great strides in battling the pandemic, but many Russians are not ready to believe it.

That distrust looms large as Russia races to roll out the vaccine while facing the fiercest onslaught of the pandemic yet, with some 500 deaths per day.

The government, in part, has itself to blame. President Vladimir Putin proclaimed in August that Russia had become the first country in the world to approve a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, to great fanfare in the state media, even though it had not been tested in a large-scale medical trial. Putin said the vaccine worked “effectively enough,” given the health emergency, but critics charged that he was dangerously short-circuiting the long-established process for developing safe vaccines.

In research afterward, an independent polling institute, the Levada Center, found that the first-in-the-world bombast may have only deepened Russians’ suspicions: in October, 59% of respondents said they would not get a coronavirus vaccine, even if it was voluntary and free of charge.

Denis Volkov, Levada’s deputy director, said the typical response on the matter in focus groups was: “On the one hand, we are happy that we are first. But we won’t get it ourselves — let it go through the trials.”

“I’m not planning on getting vaccinated because half the people say it’s not a particularly good idea,” Valery Patrin, a 21-year-old jazz orchestra musician, said in an interview in Moscow on Monday. “There’s no way the vaccine will be tested normally.”

Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader now recuperating in Germany from a nerve-agent attack, voiced doubts about the safety of the vaccine Saturday, calling on top government officials to get vaccinated themselves “under the eye of doctors and journalists.”

While many members of the Russian elite — from top business executives and governors to the editor of the Kremlin’s RT television network — have said they have already gotten the vaccine, Putin has not, although he says his daughter has.

The Russian government entity that makes the vaccine being distributed says its product is 95% effective, but outside experts are skeptical of those claims. The name of the vaccine, Sputnik V, suggests the Kremlin views the vaccine as part of its competition with the West: Sputnik was the first satellite launched by the Soviet Union, in 1957, a high point for Moscow during the Cold War. “Our Sputnik V is unpretentious and reliable, like the Kalashnikov rifle,” state television host Dmitry Kiselyov said on his show last month, describing the Russian vaccine as superior to the one co-developed by the U.S. company Pfizer.

At a state-run community clinic in the neighborhood of Golyanovo, on the outskirts of Moscow, on Monday morning, a steady stream of people who had previously signed up for a time slot online presented identification and paperwork showing they worked in education, medicine or social services. Clinic employees checked patients’ medical records for issues like allergies or having received a different vaccine in the last 30 days, then performed a quick checkup.

“I believe that before referring my patients, I need to be a pioneer,” a 38-year-old physician, Lyudmila Soboleva, said as she waited for her shot. “I need to get vaccinated myself.”

A nurse removed a vial of the vaccine, containing five doses, from a special freezer showing a temperature

of minus 36 degrees Fahrenheit, and waited for it to thaw.

Along with the half-milliliter shot of adenovirus-based vaccine, the patients received a stamped immunization certificate and a pamphlet explaining that nausea and fatigue were normal side effects.

Before leaving, they signed up to come back for a booster shot in three weeks.

“We have one feeling: pride,” said Maria V. Sokolova, the clinic’s head doctor. “After all, we were the first to develop a vaccine, and now we are the first in the world to begin vaccinations.”

Indeed, Russia is pushing ahead with its vaccination approval and administration one step faster than Western countries, although the rollout has been hobbled by production challenges. On Wednesday, the country’s health minister, Mikhail Murashko, said that more than 100,000 people had been vaccinated with Sputnik V, including members of the military.

But that is a fraction of the country’s population of 140 million. If Russia’s vaccination effort is to succeed, it appears likely that it will depend on positive word-of-mouth. Over the summer, polling firm Ipsos found Russians to be more skeptical of a coronavirus vaccine than the public anywhere else in the 27 countries polled.

Only 27% of Russians trust the official data on the coronavirus, according to Levada. Of those who do not, about half believe the numbers are too high, and half believe the numbers are too low. The distrust, Levada’s Volkov said, is in line with Russians’ overall disenchantment with Putin after years of economic stagnation.

“There is a disbelief in official information, by default,” Volkov said.

Lyudmila Soboleva, a doctor, is inoculated with Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for COVID-19, in Moscow, Dec. 7, 2020.

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Christchurch inquiry says New Zealand couldn’t have prevented mosque attacks

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY

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e was a socially anxious loner who was radicalized partly by extremist content on YouTube. But even as he traveled abroad extensively to places linked to far-right violence; amassed weapons, ammunition, tactical gear and unprescribed steroids; and was treated in a hospital after a firearms accident in his living room, he never came to the attention of the New Zealand authorities.

The result was catastrophic.

With the inheritance left by his father — his only income — running out, Brenton Tarrant, an Australian white supremacist, carried out the terrorist attack he had planned for two years, murdering 51 Muslims at two mosques in Christchurch in March 2019.

Ever since, the country has grappled with the question of whether the massacre, New Zealand’s worst peacetime attack, could have been prevented. On Tuesday came an

official answer: There was “no plausible way” the terrorist’s plans could have been detected

by New Zealand’s government agencies “except by chance,” according to a major independent inquiry into the attack.

Still, the Royal Commission — the highest-level inquiry that can be conducted in New Zealand — found that lax gun regulations had allowed Tarrant to obtain a firearms license when he should not have qualified, and that the country’s “fragile” intelligence agencies had a limited understanding of rightwing threats and had not assigned sufficient resources to examine dangers other than Islamist terrorism.

A system mired in bureaucracy and unclear leadership was ineffective. But the two independent commissioners who conducted the inquiry stopped short of saying that the disproportionate focus on Muslims as a potential source of violence had allowed Tarrant’s attack to happen.

A memorial to the victims of the mosque shootings last year in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Instead, they said, a counterterrorism strategy more engaged with the public — something successive New Zealand governments had failed to implement — could have provoked public reports of concern about Tarrant’s behavior before the attacks.

New Zealand has firm limits on its intelligence agencies, the report said, so the government had been reluctant to enact public campaigns about terrorism. The inquiry devoted many of its recommendations to ideas for bolstered defenses and increased monitoring — a matter likely to prove controversial in liberal New Zealand.

Other recommendations — the inquiry made 44 — advocated changes to gun licensing; greater support for the bereaved families and survivors of the attack, many of whom told the inquiry they had struggled to obtain the help they needed; bolstered hate speech laws; and policies for improved social cohesion.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, in comments to reporters at Parliament in Wellington ahead of the report’s release on Tuesday, said her government had provisionally agreed to carry out every recommendation. She planned, too, to speak “directly to the leadership of YouTube” about the report’s revelations that Tarrant had been radicalized more on the platform than he had been influenced by darker corners of the internet.

“The commission made no findings that these issues would have stopped the attack,” Ardern said in remarks that were echoed by other agency chiefs who spoke to reporters.

Still, Ardern apologized “on behalf of the government” for failings among the intelligence agencies and the lax firearms licensing system. Within a month of the attacks, Ardern passed laws in Parliament outlawing all the weapons that Tarrant had used.

The massacre 21 months ago prompted a national outpouring of grief and love, thrusting New Zealand, and Ardern, who has been praised for her compassion, onto the world

stage. It also provoked a reckoning with the effects of far-right radicalization online: Tarrant broadcast video of his attack live on Facebook and published a racist manifesto steeped in trolling and far-right memes.

In March of this year, the terrorist abruptly pleaded guilty to all charges he faced over the attacks at the Al Noor and Linwood mosques, averting a planned trial. In August, he was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole, the first time such a sentence had been handed down in New Zealand.

His admission of guilt generated relief among those bereaved over the attack and its survivors.

But given the mass of evidence that the police had accumulated that was never aired in court, their consolation soon gave way to questions: about how Tarrant could have traveled so widely and planned his attack at such length without detection, given the scrutiny they say their mosques had received by the intelligence agencies.

The Royal Commission — which took place behind closed doors as it interviewed politicians, public servants, Muslim residents and others — was viewed by some as their last chance for answers. But they were anxious about whether the report would contain the information they sought.

“In New Zealand, inquiries are to tell the government what happened so the government can fix it, even when it’s the government that’s being inquired into,” said Andrew Geddis, a law professor at Otago University, Dunedin. Unlike the 9/11 commission into the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York and at the Pentagon, Geddis added, the investigation was not written for the New Zealand public — or even for victims of the attack.

“Those affected are interested far more in how and why their loved ones died and what has created people who do this, but the inquiry wasn’t set up to answer those sort of questions,” Geddis said.

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In Poland, protests over abortion ban could revolutionize politics

By AMANDA TAUB

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omen have been at the heart of a protest movement that has grown and battled on Poland’s streets since October, sparked by a court decision to ban most abortions. But this was never just a one-issue protest. Something deeper is going on, and it has been building for years.

Hundreds of thousands of women, teenagers and their male allies have been turning out every few days on the streets of cities and small towns across the country for weeks, braving tear gas, court orders, harsh police tactics and surging COVID infections.

Ask them why, and many will say that an uprising felt inevitable.

“There is pressure to go to every single protest, even if you are totally exhausted and you don’t have energy to work, to go to school,” said Zoe lusarczyk, from Warsaw, who at 15 is a member of a newly active younger generation that has flocked to the protests and shocked the government.

What is underway in Poland is a forceful renegotiation of the foundations of government power, and the backroom deals, almost exclusively among men, that built them.

Women’s demands for reproductive freedom and their calls for greater equality threaten to upend a power structure that has held since the fall of Communism.

Such disruptions have been seen globally in the wake of the #MeToo movement, which has toppled many powerful men, but none have gone to the heart of politics as directly as in Poland. Gender equality would disrupt a political arrangement in the country that has been set for decades: a symbiotic relationship in which the Catholic Church lends its authority to politicians in exchange for the government’s enforcing ecclesiastical morality, including by restricting abortion.

That arrangement now seems to many like a failed bargain with an institution that has been found lacking, after revelations that the church, when it was led by Pope John Paul II before he became pontiff, had protected pedophile priests. The Polish Catholic Church declined to comment for this article but referred The New York Times to previous statements on the sanctity of life and protection of children.

And the church’s claim to be the defender of Polish democracy, won by supporting the Solidarity movement against Communism in the 1980s, has been undermined by its embrace of the governing Law and Justice party, which has dismantled liberal institutions and promoted xenophobic and authoritarian policies.

‘A Contract Between Bishops and Politicians’ Most scholars of political transitions will tell you that successful transformations have one thing in common: Their leaders do not allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good.

Poland’s transition to democracy, and the compromises that were made, was no exception. After the fall of Communism in 1989, the Catholic Church gave crucial support to the pro-democracy movement. But while that enabled a smoother transition to democracy than in many other post-

Communist countries, it left the church deeply embedded in politics and able to insist that the new government legislate the church’s position on social issues.

One of the church’s main priorities was a law restricting abortion, which had been widely available in the Communist era.

The resulting 1993 abortion law was “like a contract between politicians and bishops,” said Joanna ScheuringWielgus, a leftist member of Parliament known for her investigations of child sexual abuse within the church. The law came with some exceptions: It allowed abortions in the case of rape or incest, danger to the life of the mother, or fetal abnormality.

But there was no hiding the fact that women had more reproductive freedom under Communist rule than they did in the new democracy.

“It was not a compromise for modern society, for women,” said Danuta Huebner, a Polish member of the European Parliament. “Emotionally, this thing was never solved.”

Subsequent governments have struck similar bargains over issues like Poland’s membership in the European Union.

And in 2015, the Law and Justice Party, led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, swept to power with a pitch to voters that combined economic generosity and disgruntled nationalism with Catholic social conservatism. The party’s presidential candidate, Andrzej Duda, won reelection this year.

But women have gained economic and social power even as the far-right government pushes to preserve traditional gender roles that remain popular with voters, both men and women, in many rural areas. According to data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the gender wage gap for median earners in Poland is only 10%, one of the smallest differentials among the group’s countries.

Forty-three percent of young women earn university degrees, compared with only 29% of young men. When Poland joined the European Union, that brought new opportunities to work and travel in more secular countries.

‘Us’ and ‘Them’ Kaczynski says the Catholic Church is fundamentally interwoven with the Polish nation and Polishness itself. And that has meant embracing its values.

Party leaders have claimed that homosexuality is a threat to the soul of the nation and that the secular values of the European Union are incompatible with Polish life. lusarczyk, the high schooler from Warsaw, said she fears those who believe in that vision of Polishness and believes that many hate her for not conforming to it.

“If I go out of the house and I see someone wearing a shirt with a Polish flag or a national symbol or a symbol of the independence day, I feel afraid,” she said. “Because of the way the country is divided, it’s always ‘us’ and ‘them.’”

No issue has provoked open conflict between those factions like abortion. In 2016, Law and Justice tried to pass a law outlawing abortion in the case of fetal abnormality, which accounts for more than 80% of the procedures performed each year, but failed after large protests erupted.

A depiction of Pope John Paul II at the Bishop’s Palace, where he resided prior to his papacy, in Krakow, Poland, Dec. 10, 2018 The government then turned to the constitutional court, which was packed with party loyalists, and asked for the same restrictions on constitutional grounds.

When the court issued its decision Oct. 22, the country exploded in even larger protests.

Even though the government later delayed putting the abortion law into effect, the protests have continued, with expectations high that it will eventually be pushed through.

Anna Jakubowska, 40, a businesswoman from Warsaw, kept returning to one word when trying to explain what had moved her and so many other women to protest: anger.

“We are very angry,” Jakubowska said, at politicians who legislate that women must give birth to severely disabled children but fail to support them as parents, and at fathers and grandfathers who wave away the trauma of unwanted pregnancy. Above all, she said, she was angry at the power afforded to the church even though it excludes women from its hierarchy.

A Generation Rejecting the Church’s Power Huebner, the member of the European Parliament, said that for young Poles, “this discontent has been brewing for a long time.”

“The church having this impact on the ruling party, this relation of host-parasite that exists in Poland, people do not approve of it anymore,” she said.

Poland’s protests have been disruptive, but their outcome remains uncertain. Change can be frightening, even for those who disapprove of the symbiosis between church and state. Unraveling that entanglement will also touch on personal relationships, religious faith, career decisions; for many, that prospect is too daunting.

“The crucial thing is to talk about it,” lusarczyk said.

“For example, to grandmas and fathers, people who don’t get it because they never were taught to get it.”

But Jakubowska believes that change is inevitable.

“Even girls in small towns, even if they are still under the rule of men — because they are — they are changing,” she said. “In a few years there will be a great change because the church will be empty.”

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Why is the GOP refusing to recognize its own success?

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ar from overwhelming the Republican Party and sweeping it out of power, the extraordinarily high turnout of the 2020 presidential election probably saved its political prospects.

The top of the ticket lost, of course, but otherwise Republican candidates thrived, fending off very well-funded Democratic challengers and winning back seats lost in the 2018 midterm “blue wave.” The conventional wisdom for both parties — that high turnout gives Democrats an advantage — was wrong.

Losing the White House means that it is too much to call this a success, but it appears to be a foundation for future growth and a sign, perhaps, that a future, less divisive Republican president could lead the party to an outright popular majority.

Republicans should be optimistic. Instead, the party and most of its leaders have retreated into fantasy, at least in public. With few exceptions, Republican lawmakers have either embraced the president’s attempt to overturn the election results using false allegations of voter fraud, given it their tacit support or quietly watched as the effort has unfolded, unwilling to say or do anything in opposition (assuming they’re opposed). Out of 249 Republicans in the House and Senate, according to The Washington Post, 27 acknowledge Joe Biden’s win over President Donald Trump. Among Re-

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Voters in Florida on Election Day, wearing masks and hats. publican voters, likewise, most say the election was marred by fraud.

The upshot of all of this — the charges of fraud, the refusal to acknowledge the president’s defeat — is a party prepared to do even more than it already has to restrict voting. “This election has shown we need major reforms to our election systems, including voter ID laws across the nation, to protect against fraud and rebuild the American people’s trust in fair outcomes,” Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said in a statement touting a federal bill that would introduce a strict ID requirement in addition to making it more difficult to get a mail-in ballot. Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas has similarly called for new ID requirements and a crackdown on mailin voting. And Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky told his Twitter followers to “look at the evidence” of fraud “and decide for yourself” while he shared a conspiratorial blog post on “anomalies in vote counts.”

The results of the election clearly show that Republicans can compete in high-turnout conditions as much as they can when there are fewer people voting. But they have convinced themselves that voters are the obstacle and that a smaller electorate is their best path back to power. Or, as Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said just after the election, “If Republicans don’t challenge and change the U.S. election system, there will never be another Republican president elected again.”

The obvious question is why are they doing all this.

The president’s decision to spread conspiracies about the election is part of the answer, yes, but the commitment to anti-majoritarian politics runs deeper than just fealty to Trump. One way to understand the dynamic at work in the reflexive Republican retrenchment against voting rights is to think of it as a habit, not in the conventional sense, but as defined by philosopher and social theorist John Dewey.

In his 1922 book “Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology,” Dewey defined “habit” as “special sensitiveness or accessibility to certain classes of stimuli, standing predilections and aversions, rather than bare

recurrence of specific acts.” This use of “habit” he explained, “may seem twisted somewhat from its customary use when employed as we have been using it. But we need a word to express that kind of human activity which is influenced by prior activity and in that sense acquired; which contains within itself a certain ordering or systematization of minor elements of action; which is projective, dynamic in quality, ready for overt manifestation; and which is operative in some subdued subordinate form even when not obviously dominating activity.”

A Deweyan “habit” isn’t simply an action that repeats itself. It is, instead, an “active disposition” that shapes one’s response to one’s environment. We don’t deliberate about many or even most of our actions, we simply react.

And the exact nature of those reactions are habits, acquired through our interactions with others, shaped by the conditions set by “prior customs,” part of the embedded context of our lives.

In 2008, record turnout among young people, Black Americans and other underrepresented groups put Barack Obama in the White House. In the wake of that victory, Republicans introduced a host of new voting restrictions. “Following the Tea Party’s triumph in the 2010 elections,” wrote Ari Berman in his chronicle of the post-1960s fight for voting rights, “Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America,” “half the states in the country, nearly all of them under Republican control — from Texas to Wisconsin to Pennsylvania — passed laws making it harder to vote.”

These measures — strict photo identification rules, limits on early voting and mass purges of voting rolls — targeted the groups that got Obama across the finish line.

Few Republicans of note came out against this effort.

Just the opposite: A cottage industry of voices selling the myth of mass voter fraud to eager listeners emerged on the right. And the president, of course, has used his power and platform to do the same. Years of rhetoric and legislation and propaganda have inculcated both a fervent belief in mass fraud and a particular response to Democratic victories.

Republicans, in other words, have developed a habit — an active disposition ready for overt manifestation — toward restricting the vote when met with electoral setbacks. And this reflex is so powerful that it overwhelms the evidence that Republicans might actually be better off with more lowpropensity voters in the electorate.

You can probably see the irony. If, with their hold on state legislatures, Republicans successfully restrict voting access next year, they may inadvertently remove from the scene some of the voters who helped them thrive in an otherwise difficult year. This habit, in other words, won’t just harm democracy, it will harm their own partisan interests.

Then again, the Republican Party has developed another habit — reliance on our institutions of minority rule — and so far, it doesn’t seem to have the will or desire to break itself of that reflex, either.

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Desestiman demanda de “Tatito” Hernández que buscaba iniciar la transición en la Cámara Por THE STAR

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l juez Anthony Cuevas Ramos desestimó el martes, un recurso de Mandamus que presentó el representante del Partido Popular Democrático (PPD), Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez contra el presidente de la Cámara, Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Núñez en la que buscaba iniciar el proceso de transición.

“En este caso, al no existir una disposición legal que obligue a los miembros salientes de la Cámara de Representantes a llevar a cabo un proceso de transición, este Tribunal no debe convertirse en legislador y obligar a llevar a cabo un procedimiento interno de otra rama de gobierno, por más que se entienda que es un procedimiento necesario.

Por todo lo anterior, entendemos que la OA-2016-02 perdió su vigencia tan pronto concluyó el procedimiento de transición en el que la Decimoctava

Asamblea Legislativa tomo el poder, según lo establece la misma orden.

Por lo tanto, al no existir disposición legal vigente que obligue al Hon. Carlos Méndez Núñez a llevar a cabo el proceso de transición, procede que se

desestime la presente demanda.

En vista de lo anteriormente expuesto, este Tribunal declara Ha Lugar a la moción de desestimación presentada por el Hon. Carlos J Méndez Núñez. En su consecuencia, se deses-

tima la presente demanda por ausencia de un deber ministerial”, expuso el juez Cuevas Ramos en su sentencia.

Hernández Montañez acudió ante el Tribunal para compeler al presidente cameral Carlos Méndez a cumplir con su deber ministerial de comenzar el procedimiento de transición según lo establece la Orden Administrativa Número 2016-02 (OA-2016-02) y que se mantuvo vigente por la Orden Administrativa Número 2017-001 (OA2017-001). Según estos, la OA-201602 establece el deber ministerial de comenzar la transición en la Cámara de Representantes comenzando luego de 10 días de la elección hasta el 31 de diciembre del año electoral. A pesar de lo anterior, Carlos Méndez se ha negado a cumplir con lo que establece la Orden Administrativa, por lo que se solicita que se expida una orden de mandamus obligándole a Carlos Méndez a comenzar el proceso de transición.

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l secretario de Educación, Eligio Hernández Pérez, sostuvo el martes la primera reunión con la designada secretaria, Elba Aponte Santos, como parte del inicio de la transición dentro de la agencia.

“Ha sido una reunión muy productiva donde ambos hemos tenido la oportunidad de conversar sobre temas prioritarios que se atenderán para el mejor beneficio de los estudiantes y los maestros del DE. La designada secretaria tiene toda la colaboración de nuestro equipo de trabajo para que su desempeño sea exitoso”, indicó el titular del DE en comunicación escrita.

Durante el encuentro entre los educadores, se discutieron importantes te-

mas relacionados a los protocolos que ha implementado el DE para el manejo de la pandemia del COVID-19, el estatus de la infraestructura de las escuelas, en particular las escuelas de la zona sur que se afectaron tras los temblores de enero pasado.

Otros de los temas que conversaron fueron el plan de trabajo para un posi-

ble inicio de clases presenciales anteponiendo la salud y la seguridad de los estudiantes y los maestros del sistema, Asimismo, discutieron detalles relacionados al presupuesto del DE y los planes que ya encaminó el secretario Hernández Pérez en torno a la distribución de computadoras, subsidio para pago de internet y la distribución de libros

digitales a todos los estudiantes.

Por su parte, la secretaria designada, Elba Aponte Santos, se mostró complacida por la reunión y los temas discutidos con el secretario. Añadió que le permitirán conocer en detalle aspectos importantes para priorizar planes de trabajo durante su gestión.

“La reunión con el secretario, Hernández Pérez, ha sido productiva, por lo que me permite continuar desarrollando un plan de trabajo completo para que el Departamento pueda continuar varios programas que han sido exitosos y que podamos atender asuntos que son de la más alta prioridad para la educación de nuestros estudiantes. Auguro que lograremos un trabajo en equipo con todas las áreas y las regiones educativas”, expresó Aponte Santos.

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Being Boba Fett: Temuera Morrison discusses ‘The Mandalorian’

Boba Fett (Temura Morrison), the bounty hunter from the original “Star Wars” movies, showed up in “The Mandalorian” on Friday.

By DAVE ITZKOFF

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t has been nearly 40 years since moviegoers saw Boba Fett, the fearsome bounty hunter of the original “Star Wars” saga, take an ill-fated tumble into the Great Pit of Carkoon, where he was presumed to have been devoured by the Sarlacc.

But death is often just a temporary state in “Star Wars,” and after his memorable (if mortifying) demise in “Return of the Jedi,” a very-much-alive Boba Fett has reappeared in subsequent novels, comic books and other media, having survived that seemingly fatal fall.

“The Mandalorian,” the Disney+ series set in the “Star Wars” universe, has also been building up to a fuller return of the enigmatic Boba Fett: The character has been shown in cameo in past episodes, and in the most recent installment, “The Tragedy,” Boba Fett played a central role when he came after the show’s title hero (Pedro Pascal) in search of his missing armor.

On “The Mandalorian,” Boba Fett is played by Temuera Morrison, a veteran of the “Star Wars” prequel movies. Morrison previously portrayed Jango Fett, the silver-suited soldier of fortune from “Episode II — Attack of the Clones” who provides the genetic template for the Republic’s Clone Army as well as for his own son, Boba, the future merce-

nary and nemesis of Han Solo.

(Multiple Morrisons appear in “Episode III — Revenge of the Sith,” in which he played various clone soldiers; he has also voiced Boba Fett and Jango Fett in several “Star Wars” video games, and his voice has been retroactively added to Boba Fett’s scenes in “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi.”)

Morrison, who has also starred in films like “Once Were Warriors,” “Moana” and “Aquaman,” spoke Friday about assuming the mantle of Boba Fett and his history with the “Star Wars” franchise. These are edited excerpts from that conversation.

Q: How long have you been awaiting your opportunity to return to the “Star Wars” series?

A: There was a lot of stuff online about a possible “Star Wars” bounty-hunter film, and then I was watching all the new “Star Wars” movies coming out, wondering if they were ever going to do anything with Jango Fett. My agent and I had a number of discussions — when are they going to call me?

But then I kept forgetting about it. In this day and age, they have a number of options.

They could have called other people to play the part. They can go with a fresh face. They could have called the Rock. I felt so grateful that after all this time, something came to be.

Q: What happened when you finally

got the call that series creator Jon Favreau and executive producer Dave Filoni wanted to meet with you?

A: I wasn’t even quite sure what “The Mandalorian” was about, but I kind of knew that Jango and Boba had their own Mandalorian history. At the time, I was in Los Angeles, meeting on another film, so I was pleasantly surprised to get the call. I actually got to the meeting quite early — I was so excited I got there about two hours early — and there were conceptual drawings on the wall. I saw an image that looked like me, and I said, “I’m sure that’s me.” But even then, I didn’t want to get too excited.

Q: What did you discuss with them in that meeting?

A: I was just listening — I wasn’t discussing anything. I’m just nodding, going, yes, yes. Obviously they had their ideas about what they wanted to do, and they must have told me that they wanted me to play the role again. But I was so nervous that some of it was just going straight over my head. I was just going: “Wow! This is great.” It wasn’t until I got back in the car after the meeting that I went, “Is this actually going to happen?” But as you saw, it happened, all right.

Q: Did they talk about his being a different, more seasoned Boba Fett than we saw in the early “Star Wars” films?

A: Yes. When we find Boba, he’s wellworn, and he’s been through a lot. He’s a survivor, and he’s weathered. Now it was time to find out more about what makes Boba tick.

Is he more than just a simple man, trying to make his way through the galaxy? Is he tired of all the fighting? Is he tired of all the killing?

The one thing I can relate to is, I’m quite a mature man now and things always change. Sometimes you’re in Hollywood, in all the magazines and newspapers. And sometimes you end up in the fish and chip shop in New Zealand, where all the old magazines and papers go. You’re old news.

(Laughs.)

Q: Did your makeup and costume also help you find the character?

A: I was doing that kind of background work — what’s this guy going to look like?

What’s he going to sound like? — and while they’re applying makeup, I’m going, “Well, here he is.” We did quite a number of makeup tests, and I worked closely with the make-

up artist Brian Sipe. When I saw some of the scars on my face, I thought, well, maybe he does talk a little bit gravelly. Maybe his vocal cords have been affected as well. Then you put the costume on and it gives you a sense of power. The costume makes you feel like Superman. When I put the armor on for the first time, it just felt right.

Q: How did you want to incorporate your cultural background into the role?

A: I come from the Maori nation of New Zealand, the Indigenous people — we’re the Down Under Polynesians — and I wanted to bring that kind of spirit and energy, which we call wairua. I’ve been trained in my cultural dance, which we call the haka.

I’ve also been trained in some of our weapons, so that’s how I was able to manipulate some of the weapons in my fight scenes and work with the gaffi stick, which my character has.

Q: I’m sorry that you’re going to get this question a lot, but “The Tragedy” doesn’t address how Boba Fett survived his encounter with the Sarlacc. Has that been explained to you? And do you know how the character stayed alive?

A: Ah, no, I don’t. There’s quite a bit of loose ends, and I’m not one of those guys that knows too much about the actual history. The fans of “Star Wars,” they have better knowledge of, “What’s happened? How can he still be alive? I thought he was stuck in this place?” I can find out more on the internet.

Q: Has there been any talk of your returning as Boba Fett, whether on “The Mandalorian” or other “Star Wars” projects — even a series of his own?

A: I’m just going to have to wait and see. I think a lot of it depends on how things go with this season, but I don’t really know. I wanted to bring everything I had to that (episode) and give them a glimmer of what I can offer. There’s room for this to go someplace. I hope I’m going to be included.

Q: Are you hoping to team up with Baby Yoda at some point?

A: Baby Yoda’s probably the biggest actor in Hollywood at the moment, but I never got to work with him very closely or with the people who move him around. I was using him in a not-so-good way, as bait. But hopefully I’ll get to meet him and we can have a little bonding session.

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La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer hasta donde sea posible, para responder por las siguientes cantidades: $15,662.01; más la cantidad de $447.55 en intereses, los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el total y TO: NEYDA L. ACEVEDO completo pago de la deuda a GONZALEZ - Defendant in razón de $3.20 diarios; más la the above entitiled action. suma de $562.47, por concepTAKE NOTICE that a pleading to de cargos por mora; más seeking relief against you has $30.00 por concepto de tranbeen filed in the above-entitled sacciones devueltas; más 5% action. The nature of the relief del balance adeudado, equivabeing sought is an absolute di- lente a $835.10, por concepto vorce. You are required to make de honorarios de abogado; defense to such pleading not la- para un total de $17,537.13, ter than January 15, 2021, and más intereses que se acumulen upon your failure to do so the hasta el pago total y completo party seeking service against de la deuda. Por tal razón diyou will apply to the court for cho producto será consignado the relief sought. This the 25th judicialmente para que su desday of November, 2020. Debra embolso esté condicionado a la J. Radtke, HEDAHL & RAD- ulterior resolución por el TribuTKE, Attorney at Law, 1015 nal con competencia sobre el Arsenal Avenue Fayetteville, caso de epígrafe. Se apercibe NC 28305. a todos los interesados que el * vehículo objeto de la subasta se encuentra localizada en el LEGAL NOT ICE Centro Industrial Rio Cañas, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Calle North, Lote 1516, Carr.

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU175, Entrada Carrraizo, CaNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA guas, Puerto Rico, por lo que SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN todo aquel que quiera participar JUAN. de su subasta podrá pasar por FIRSTBANK dicha localización, en horas PUERTO RICO laborables, previo a su celebraDemandante v. ción, para inspeccionarlo físicamente. La subasta se llevará a VICTOR M. cabo el día y a la hora señalada ARROYO ALGARIN habiendo las personas intereDemandados CIVIL NÚM. SJ2019CV01411 sadas inspeccionado o no el (802). Sobre: COBRO DE DI- mencionado bien. En adición, NERO; INCUMPLIMIENTO por la presente se informa que DE CONTRATO. EDICTO DE siendo la propiedad a subastarse un bien mueble no habrá SUBASTA. tipo mínimo en la misma, por AL PUBLICO EN lo que el vehículo será adjuGENERAL; A LA dicado al mejor postor en ese PARTE DEMANDADA momento. La forma de pago Y A LOS TENEDORES deberá ser en efectivo, giro o cheque de gerente a nombre DE GRAVÁMENES del Alguacil del Tribunal de PriPOSTERIORES mera Instancia. Si se declarase Yo, ANGEL GOMEZ GOMEZ, desierta la subasta, se dará Alguacil del Tribunal de Primepor terminado este procedira Instancia, Sala Superior de miento pudiendo adjudicarse Caguas, al público en general: el acreedor el vehículo dentro CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: de los diez (10) días siguientes, Cumpliendo con un Mandasi así lo estimare conveniente, miento de Venta de Ejecución por la totalidad de la cantidad de Sentencia del Secretario del adeudada, si ésta fuera igual o Tribunal de Primera Instancia, menor que el monto del tipo de Sala de San Juan, venderé en la subasta, y abonándose dicho pública subasta al mejor postor monto a la cantidad adeudada en moneda legal de los Estasi ésta fuere mayor. Los autos dos Unidos, el cual se encueny todos los documentos correstra en: Centro Industrial Rio pondientes al procedimiento Cañas, Calle North, Lote 1516, incoado estarán manifiestos Carr. 175, Entrada Carrraizo, en la Secretaría del Tribunal Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 15 con competencia sobre el caso de enero de 2020 a las 10:30 de epígrafe durante horas lade la mañana el siguiente bien

Defendant In the General Court of Justice District Court Division; File Number: 20 CVD 3227. NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION.

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Wednesday, December 9, 2020 borables. De acuerdo al mejor conocimiento de la parte demandante, la propiedad antes descrita que ha de venderse en subasta no tiene gravámenes anteriores, ni posteriores.

Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas preferentes, si alguna continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad del mismo, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Para la publicación de este Edicto en un periódico de circulación general una vez por semana durante dos (2) semanas consecutivas, y para la colocación del mismo en tres (3) sitios públicos visibles del municipio en que se celebre la subasta, al igual que en el municipio en que reside la parte demandada, libro el presente en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 23 de noviembre de 2020. ANGEL GOMEZ GOMEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

JUAN E. MERCADO VELAZQUEZ

Demandado CIVIL NÚM. SJ2020CV00723 (802). Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL; A LA PARTE DEMANDADA Y A LOS TENEDORES DE GRAVÁMENES POSTERIORES

YO, ANGEL GOMEZ GOMEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, al público en general: CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Cumpliendo con un Mandamiento de Venta de Ejecución de Sentencia del Secretario del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, venderé en pública subasta al mejor postor en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos, el cual se encuentra en: Centro Industrial Rio Cañas, Calle North, Lote 1516, Carr. 175, Entrada Carrraízo, Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 15 de enero de 2021 a las 10:00 de la mañana el siguiente bien mueble:

MARCA: PORSCHE MODELO: PANAMERA P400

staredictos@thesanjuandailystar.com

AÑO: 2018 NUMERO DE SERIE: WPOAE2A72JL127636 TABLILLA: JFD-544

La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer hasta donde sea posible, para responder por las siguientes cantidades: $159,212.27 de principal; la cantidad de $374.80, por concepto de cargos por mora; el 30% del total adeudado, por concepto de honorarios de abogado según pactado, ascendente a $47,876.12; para un total de $207,463.19, más intereses que se acumulen hasta el pago total de la deuda. Por tal razón dicho producto será consignado judicialmente para que su desembolso esté condicionado a la ulterior resolución por el Tribunal con competencia sobre el caso de epígrafe. Se apercibe a todos los interesados que el vehículo objeto de la subasta se encuentra localizada en el Centro Industrial Rio Cañas, Calle North, Lote 1516, Carr. 175, Entrada Carrraízo, Caguas, Puerto Rico, por lo que todo aquel que quiera participar de su subasta podrá pasar por dicha localización, en horas laborables, previo a su celebración, para inspeccionarlo físicamente. La subasta se llevará a cabo el día y a la hora señalada habiendo las personas interesadas inspeccionado o no el mencionado bien. En adición, por la presente se informa que siendo la propiedad a subastarse un bien mueble no habrá tipo mínimo en la misma, por lo que el vehículo será adjudicado al mejor postor en ese momento. La forma de pago deberá ser en efectivo, giro o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Si se declarase desierta la subasta, se dará por terminado este procedimiento pudiendo adjudicarse el acreedor el vehículo dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la subasta, y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuere mayor. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán manifiestos en la Secretaría del Tribunal con competencia sobre el caso de epígrafe durante horas laborables. De acuerdo con el mejor conocimiento de la parte demandante, la propiedad antes descrita que ha de venderse en subasta no tiene gravámenes anteriores, ni posteriores.

Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas preferentes, si alguna continuará

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21 subsistente; entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad del mismo, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Para la publicación de este Edicto en un periódico de circulación general una vez por semana durante dos (2) semanas consecutivas, y para la colocación del mismo en tres (3) sitios públicos visibles del municipio en que se celebre la subasta, al igual que en el municipio en que reside la parte demandada, libro el presente en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 23 de NOVIEMBRE de 2020. ANGEL GOMEZ GOMEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

JUAN ANTONIO HERNANDEZ REYES T/C/C JUAN A. HERNANDEZ REYES T/C./C JUAN HERNANDEZ REYES

Demandados CIVIL NÚM. BY2018CV03622 (502). Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO Y REPOSESION. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL; A LA PARTE DEMANDADA Y A LOS TENEDORES DE GRAVÁMENES POSTERIORES

YO, ANGEL GOMEZ GOMEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, al público en general: CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER; Cumpliendo con un Mandamiento de Venta de Ejecución de Sentencia del Secretario del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, venderé en pública subasta al mejor postor en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos, el cual se encuentra en: Carr. #1 Intersección Carr. 175, Parque Industrial Rio Cañas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 15 de enero de 2021 a las 11:00 de la mañana el siguiente bien mueble:

MARCA: KIA MODELO: RIO AÑO: 2014; TABLILLA: IHB-793 VIN: KNADM4A3XE6325214

La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer

hasta donde sea posible, para responder por las siguientes cantidades: $13,606.60 de principal, más $1,428.04 de intereses acumulados hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda, más $160.42 de cargos acumulados hasta el pago total y completo de la deuda, más una suma equivalente al 5% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogados incurridos por FirstBank en este procedimiento. Por tal razón dicho producto será consignado judicialmente para que su desembolso esté condicionado a la ulterior resolución por el Tribunal con competencia sobre el caso de epígrafe. Se apercibe a todos los interesados que el vehículo objeto de la subasta se encuentra localizada en el Carr. #1 Intersección Carr. 175, Parque Industrial Rio Cañas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, por lo que todo aquel que quiera participar de su subasta podrá pasar por dicha localización, en horas laborables, previo a su celebración, para inspeccionarlo físicamente. La subasta se llevará a cabo el día y a la hora señalada habiendo las personas interesadas inspeccionado o no el mencionado bien. En adición, por la presente se informa que siendo la propiedad a subastarse un bien mueble no habrá tipo mínimo en la misma, por lo que el vehículo será adjudicado al mejor postor en ese momento. La forma de pago deberá ser en efectivo, giro o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Si se declarase desierta la subasta, se dará por terminado este procedimiento pudiendo adjudicarse el acreedor el vehículo dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la subasta, y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuere mayor. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán manifiestos en la Secretaría del Tribunal con competencia sobre el caso de epígrafe durante horas laborables. De acuerdo al mejor conocimiento de la parte demandante, la propiedad antes descrita que ha de venderse en subasta no tiene gravámenes anteriores, ni posteriores.

Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas preferentes, si alguna, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogad o en la responsabilidad del mismo, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Para la publicación

de este Edicto en un periódico de circulación general una vez por semana durante dos (2) semanas consecutivas, y para la colocación del mismo en tres (3) sitios públicos visibles del municipio en que se celebre la subasta, al igual que en el municipio en que reside la parte demandada, libro el presente en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 23 de noviembre de 2020.ANGEL GOMEZ GOMEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

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

BOSCO IX OVERSEAS, LLC, representado por su Agente de Servicios FRANKLIN CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION Demandante vs.

ALISON ESCOBAR LOPEZ, su esposa IRIS CARRASQUILLO SANTIAGO, también conocida como IRIS CARRASQUILLO SANTA y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos

Demandados CIVIL NÚM. FBCI201700863 (409). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General A: ALISON ESCOBAR LOPEZ, su esposa IRIS CARRASQUILLO SANTIAGO, también conocida como IRIS CARRASQUILLO SANTA y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, por tener embargos anotados a su favor por las sumas de $6,742.41 y $14,108.70

Yo, MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 12 de enero de 2021, a las 10:45 de la mañana en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante

se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Carolina durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 19 de enero de 2021, a las 10:45 de la mañana y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 26 de enero de 2021, a las 10:45 de la mañana en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número Doscientos Dieciocho guión A (218-A) en el plano de parcelación de la COMUNIDAD RURAL SAN ISIDRO del Barrio San Isidro del término municipal de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de MIL DOSCIENTOS NOVENTA Y CUATRO PUNTO SETENTA Y SEIS (1,294.76) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con terrenos de la Autoridad de Tierras; por el SUR, con Calle número Uno (1) de la Comunidad; por el ESTE, con parcelas número Doscientos Diecisiete (217) y la Doscientos Dieciséis (216) de la Comunidad; y por el OESTE, con parcela número Doscientos Diecinueve (219) de la Comunidad. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 203 del tomo 435 de Canóvanas, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera, finca número 12,818, inscripción cuarta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Parcela 218-A, Calle 1, Barrio San Isidro, Canóvanas, Puerto Rico. La Subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $38,758.08 de principal, intereses al 7.50% anual, desde el día 1ro de marzo de 2017, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $7,000.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado y recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $70,000.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $46,666.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta,

22 la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $35,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública Subasta se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: Embargo Federal, contra A. Escobar López, seguro social número xxx-xx-8037, dirección Calle 2, Parcela 149, Canóvanas, Puerto Rico 00729-0000, por la suma de $6,742.41, notificación número 992236014, presentado el día 11 de abril de 2014 y anotado al folio 22, Asiento 3 del libro de Embargos Federales Número 4. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera. Embargo Federal, contra A. Escobar López e I. Carrasquillo, seguro social número xxx-xx-8037, dirección Calle 2, Parcela 149, Canóvanas, Puerto Rico 00729-0000, por la suma de $14,108.70, notificación número 992235914, presentado el día 11 de abril de 2014 y anotado al folio 22, Asiento 4 del libro de Embargos Federales Número 4. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 10 de noviembre de 2020. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA. ****

CIVIL NÚM. NG2020CV00079.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACION. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS.

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

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO JESUS OBRERO

A: DANIEL SANTANA CRUZ; Y JOHN DOE Demandante v.

Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS SANDRA MATEO RIVERA, SUTANO DE TAL, DESCONOCIDOS MENGANA MAS CUAL, Queda emplazada y notificada que en este Tribunal se ha ra- CORPORACION ABC, INC

dicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero en su contra. Se le notifica para que comparezca 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. 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.ramaiudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, y notificando copia de dicha contestación a los abogados de la parte demandante: Ledo. Francisco Fernández Chiqués a du dirección: Fernández Chiqués, LLC, P.O. Box 9749, San Juan, P.R. 00908; Teléfono 787-722-3040 dentro del término de Treinta (30) días de haberse publicado este edicto, descontando la fecha de la publicación del edicto. Se le advierte que, 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 ejercicio de su sana discreción lo entiende procedente. Se le ORDENA además a usted(es) a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días, de haberse publicado del presente edicto, descontando la fecha de su publicación, acepte o repudie LEGAL NOTICE la participación que le corresESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ponda en la herencia de JoDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- sefina Cruz Sanchez. SE LES NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA APERCIBE a los herederos antes mencionados que de no SALA DE HUMACAO. expresarse dentro de ese térmiCONDADO 3, LLC no de treinta (30) días en torno Demandante, V. aceptación o repudiación SUCESION DE JOSEFINA adesuherencia, se presumirá que CRUZ SANCHEZ han aceptado la herencia de la COMPUESTA POR causante, Josefina Cruz Sanchez, y, por consiguiente, resDANIEL SANTANA ponden por las cargas de dicha CRUZ, JOHN DOE herencia conforme dispone el Y JANE DOE COMO Artículo 957 del Código Civil, POSIBLES HEREDEROS 31 L.P.R.A 2785. EXPEDIDO DESCONOCIDOS, BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ADMINISTRACION ESTE TRIBUNAL. En HumaPARA EL SUSTENTO DE cao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de MENORES Y CENTRO diciembre de 2020. Dominga Fuster, Secretaria ReDE RECAUDACION DE Gomez gional. Marisol Dávila Ortíz, INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Secretaria Auxiliar.

Demandados

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Demandado(a) Civil: Núm. CO2019CV00624.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, REPOSESION DE GARANTIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SANDRA MATEO RIVERA

(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 agosto de 2020, 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 2 de diciembre de 2020. En COAMO, Puerto Rico, el 2 de diciembre de 2020. ELIZABETH GONZALEZ RIVERA, Secretario(a). f/ CARMEN L. APONTE FLORES, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

ACEVEDO VEGA

(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 25 de noviembre de 2020, 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 3 de diciembre de 2020. En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, el 3 de diciembre de 2020. CARMEN ANA PEREIRA ORTIZ, Secretario(a). f/LILI RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

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 3 de diciembre de 2020. En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 3 de diciembre de 2020. F/LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretario(a). MARILYN COLON CARRASQUILLO, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

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

BAUTISTA REO PR CORP Demandante (a) VS.

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 3 de diciembre de 2020. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 3 de diciembre de 2020. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Secretario Regional. f/ Angela M. Rivera Hernández, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

Civil Núm.: SJ2020CV03518.

Sala: 506. SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA IN REM. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL como posibles miembros de la Sucesión de Edia Elvira Pérez Muñoz t/c/c Edia Pérez Muñoz

EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 2 de diciembre de 2020 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 diez (10) días siguientes a su

LEGAL NOTICE

VIRGILIO ROSADO REYES Y SU ESPOSA MARIBEL ROSADO CANDELARIO

JOANN M. RIVERA RIVERA; ANGEL GARCIA ROSA

Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL Demandado(a) DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Pri- Civil: Núm. CG2020CV01528. mera Instancia Sala Superior Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE de TOA ALTA. CONTRATO, COBRO DE DINERO Y REPOSESION. NOEUGENIO ROSADO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA GARCIA Y MARIA POR EDICTO.

MILAGROS MELENDEZ Demandante v.

FIRST BANK PUERTO RICO Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Civil: Núm. TA2020CV00014.

Sobre: CANCELACION DE PALEGAL NOTICE GARE EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFIEstado Libre Asociado de Puer- CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL EDICTO. DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de PriA: JUAN DEL PUEBLO mera Instancia Sala Superior Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y de GUAYNABO.

SUCESIÓN DE EDIA ELVIRA PÉREZ MUÑOZ Demandante v.

T/C/C EDIA PÉREZ MUÑOZ COMPUESTA LA SUCN DESCONOCIDA DE JOSE TORRES POR JOBSE IBZÁN LEBRÓN PÉREZ, Y JOSÉ CORREA COMPUESTA POR A, B Y C ANTONIO LEBRÓN Demandado(a) LEGAL NOTICE SOTO T/C/C JOSÉ A. Núm. BY2019CV06187.

Estado Libre Asociado de PuerLEBRÓN SOTO, POR SÍ Civil: SALA 201. Sobre: ACCION CIto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL Y COMO MIEMBRO DE VIL SOBRE SEGREGACION DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de PriLA SUCESIÓN DE EDIA OTORGAMIENTO DE ESCRImera Instancia Sala Superior ELVIRA PÉREZ MUÑOZ TURA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE de BAYAMON. SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. T/C/C EDIA PÉREZ IRENE LUISA TORRES A: LA SUCN MUÑOZ; FULANO DE SEDA T/C/C IRENE DESCONOCIDA TAL Y MENGANO DE TORRES SEDA, IRENES DE JOSE TORRES TORRES SEDA Y IRENES TAL COMO POSIBLES CORREA COMPUESTA MIEMBROS DE LA TORRES; NORMA IRIS POR A, B Y C SUCESIÓN DE EDIA LOPEZ TORRES; DENNIS (Nombre de las partes a las que se le ELVIRA PÉREZ MUÑOZ notifican la sentencia por edicto) LOPEZ COLLAZO; EL SECRETARIO(A) que susT/C/C EDIA PÉREZ KAREN LOPEZ COLLAZO cribe le notifica a usted que el MUÑOZ Demandante v.

1 de diciembre de 2020 , este Demandado (a) ALEX LOPEZ COLLAZO Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia,

Demandado(a) Civil: Núm. BY2020CV02959.

Sala: 506. Sobre: LIQUIDACION SOCIEDAD LEGAL POST GANANCIAL, DIVISION DE COMUNIDAD HEREDILEGAL NOTICE TARIA Y AUTORIZACION DE Estado Libre Asociado de PuerVENTA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de PriA: ALEX mera Instancia Sala Superior LOPEZ COLLAZO de CAGUAS. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le DLJ MORTGAGE notifican la sentencia por edicto) CAPITAL INC. EL SECRETARIO(A) que susDemandante v. cribe le notifica a usted que el 2 de diciembre de 2020, este WANDA PAGAN Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, MORALES y NANCY Sentencia Parcial o Resolución ACEVEDO VEGA en este caso, que ha sido debiDemandado(a) damente registrada y archivada Civil: Núm. CG2019CV02846. en autos donde podrá usted enSobre: EJECUCION DE HIPOterarse detalladamente de los TECA POR VIA ORDINARIA términos de la misma. Esta noIN REM. NOTIFICACIÓN DE tificación se publicará una sola SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. vez en un periódico de circulaA: WANDA PAGAN ción general en la Isla de PuerMORALES y NANCY to Rico, dentro de los 10 días

de 2020. En GUAYNABO, mera Instancia Sala Superior Puerto Rico, el 2 de diciembre de CAGUAS. de 2020. LCDA LAURA I. SANFIRSTBANK TA SÁNCHEZ, Secretario(a). F/ PUERTO RICO MAIRENI TRINTA MALDONADemandante v.

DO, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

CUALQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERES EN LA OBLIGACION CUYA CANCELACION POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA

(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 17 de noviembre de 2020, 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 3 de diciembre de 2020. En TOA ALTA, Puerto Rico, el 3 de diciembre de 2020. CC: LCDA. ZILMARIE DELGADO PIERAS - 33 CALLE RESOLUCION SUITE 302 SAN JUAN PUERTO RICO 00920-2727 LCDA. LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria Regional. LIRIAM M HERNANDEZ OTERO, Sec Auxiliar.

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 LEGAL NOTICE esta notificación ha sido archiEstado Libre Asociado de Puervada en los autos de este caso, to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL con fecha de 2 de diciembre DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Pri-

A: JOANN M. RIVERA RIVERA

(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 2 de diciembre de 2020, 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 3 de diciembre de 2020. En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, el 3 de diciembre de 2020. CARMEN ANA PEREIRA ORTIZ, Secretario(a). f/YARITZA ROSARIO PLACERES, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

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

DLJ MORTGAGE CAPITAL INC. Demandante v.

SUCESION DE EDUARDO CRUZ CLAUDIO Y/O

Demandado(a) Civil: Núm. CA2019CV03405.

Sala: 403. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: AWILDA CANCEL RIVERA

(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 25 de noviembre de 2020, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi-

The San Juan Daily Star damente 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 4 de diciembre de 2020. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 4 de diciembre de 2020. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRIGUEZ, Secretario(a). f/LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

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

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC VS

RUIZ MARTY, TERESITA (SUCN)

CASO: ISCI201800408. SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA.

JULIO JOSE SANCHEZ RUIZ, JOHN DOE y JANE DOE

NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. EL SECRETARIO(A) QUE SUSCRIBE LE NOTIFICA A USTED QUE EL 16 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2020 , ESTE TRIBUNAL HA DICTADO SENTENCIA, SENTENCIA PARCIAL O RESOLUCION EN ESTE CASO, QUE HA SIDO DEBIDAMENTE REGISTRADA Y ARCHIVADA EN AUTOS DONDE PODRA USTED ENTERARSE DETALLADAMENTE DE LOS TERMINOS DE LA MISMA. ESTA NOTIFICACION SE PUBLICARA UNA SOLA VEZ EN UN PERIODICO DE CIRCULACION GENERAL EN LA ISLA DE PUERTO RICO, DENTRO DE LOS 10 DIAS SIGUIENTES A SU NOTIFICACION. Y, SIENDO O REPRESENTANDO USTED UNA PARTE EN EL PROCEDIMIENTO SUJETA A LOS TERMINOS DE LA SENTENCIA, SENTENCIA PARCIAL O RESOLUCION, DE LA CUAL PUEDE ESTABLECERSE RECURSO DE REVISION O APELACION DENTRO DEL TERMINO DE 30 DIAS CONTADOS A PARTIR DE LA PUBLICACION POR EDICTO DE ESTA NOTIFICACION, DIRIJO A USTED

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

ESTA NOTIFICACION QUE SE CONSIDERARA HECHA EN LA FECHA DE LA PUBLICACION DE ESTE DICTO. COPIA DE ESTA NOTIFICACION HA SIDO ARCHIVADA EN LOS AUTOS DE ESTE CASO, CON FECHA DE 01 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2020.

LIC. ASENCIO GUIDO,FRANCES L. FRANCES.ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM EN MAYAGUEZ, PUERTO RICO, EL 01 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2020. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIO. POR: F/ WANDA RENTAS BURGOS, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR.

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

AUREA IRENE RIVERA PÉREZ T/C/C AUREA I. RIVERA PÉREZ Y AUREA RIVERA Demandante Vs.

H. F. INC., FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL

Demandados Civil: Núm. MZ2019CV01453.

Sobre: CANCELACION DE PAGARE HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: H. F. INC., FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL

(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 2020, 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 2 de diciembre de 2020. En MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico, el 2 de diciembre de 2020. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, Secretario(a). f/ZAHIRA RODRIGUEZ SOLER, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLIN.A-

SUPERIOR.

ESQUILIN GONZALEZ, JUAN

Series 2007-SEA1

piedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble María Mercedes antes relacionado, será el disPlaintiff, v.

Méndez Torres puesto en la Escritura de ModifiDemandada FRANCISCO E. cación de Hipoteca, es decir la DELGADO-CANABAL, CIVIL NÚM: CA2019CV03224. suma de $71,093.62. Si no huSOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO biere remate ni adjudicación en et al., Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA la primera subasta del inmueble Defendants Defendants POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. mencionado, se celebrará una Civil No. 20-1532 (FAB).

SUMCIVIL NO. 20-01151(PAD). FoEDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Al- segunda subasta en las oficinas reclosure of Mortgage. SUM- MONS. guacil que suscribe por la pre- del Alguacil que suscribe el día TO: Francisco E. MONS BY PUBLICATION. sente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y 26 de enero de 2021, a las 2:45 Delgado-Canabal as a hace CONSTAR: Que en cum- de la tarde. En la segunda suTO: Áurea Collado known member of the plimiento de un Mandamiento basta que se celebre servirá de Guzmán as known Ejecución de Sentencia que tipo mínimo las dos terceras Estate of José Eladio de member of the Estate of le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil partes (2/3) del precio pactado Delgado-Cabán a/k/a José Benicio Collado Gómez; que suscribe por la Secretaría en la primera subasta, o sea la Elba Iris Collado González E. Delgado-Cabán a/k/a del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA suma de $47,395.75. Si tampoand Luis Alberto Collado José Delgado-Cabán, and INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDI- co hubiere remate ni adjudicaof the Estate of Josefa CIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SU- ción en la segunda subasta se González as known en el caso de epígrafe celebrará una tercera subasta Canabal-Olivera a/k/a PERIOR, members of the Estates procederá a vender en pública en las oficinas del Alguacil que of Benicio Collado Gómez Josefa Canabal; John subasta al mejor postor quién suscribe el día 2 de febrero Doe and Richard Roe, as pagará de contado y en mone- 2021, a las 2:45 de la tarde. and Elba González da de curso legal de los Estaunknown heirs to both Camacho; John Doe & Para la tercera subasta servirá dos Unidos de América, giro de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del Estates Richard Roe as unknown postal o por cheque de gerente members of both estates Pursuant to the Order Authori- a nombre del Alguacil del Tribu- precio pactado para el caso de zing Service of Process by Puejecución, o sea, la suma de Pursuant to the Order for Sernal de Primera Instancia el día $35,546.81. La hipoteca a ejevice by Publication entered blication entered on December 19 de enero de 2021, a las 2:45 cutarse en el caso de epígrafe on December 3, 2020, by the 7, 2020 by the Court, (Docket de la tarde en su oficina sita en fue constituida mediante la esHonorable Pedro A. Delgado, No. 7,) you are SUMMONED el local que ocupa en el edificio critura número 497, otorgada el to appear and answer the United States District Judge del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA día 24 de septiembre de 2005, Complaint, no later than thirty (Docket No. 20), you are heINSTANCIA CENTRO JUDI- ante el Notario Oscar M. Gonreby SUMMONED to appear, (30) days after publication of CIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SU- zález Rivera y consta inscrita en this Summons, by serving the plead or answer the Complaint PERIOR, todo derecho, título e el Folio 656 del Tomo 445 de original answer in this Court, filed herein no later than thirty interés que tenga la parte de- Canóvanas, finca número (30) days after publication of and serving a copy to counsel mandada de epígrafe en el in- 4,989, en el Registro de la Prothis Summons by serving the for plaintiff: Attorney Juan C. mueble de su propiedad que piedad de Carolina, Sección original plea or answer in the Fortuño-Fas, at P.O. Box 3908, ubica en Jardines de Palmarejo, Tercera, inscripción cuarta. El United States District Court Guaynabo, PR 00970, telephoL9 calle 5, Canóvanas, PR pagaré y la escritura de hipotefor the District of Puerto Rico, ne numbers 787-751-5290 and 00729-2844 y que se describe a ca fueron modificados el 28 de 787-751-5616.

This Summons and serving a copy to counsel continuación: URBANA: Solar abril de 2014 mediante la escrishall be published only once in for plaintiff: Attorney Juan C. marcado con el número 9 de la tura núm 403 sobre Cancelaa newspaper of general circulaFortuño Fas, at PO Box 3908 manzana L del plano preparado ción Parcial y Modificación de Guaynabo, PR 00970, telepho- tion in Puerto Rico. Within ten por la Corporación de Renova- Hipoteca otorgada ante la Nota(10) days following publication ne numbers 787-751-5290 and ción Urbana y Vivienda de rio Magda V. Alsina Figueroa. of this Summons, a copy of this 787-751-5616. This Summons Puerto Rico, para su proyecto En virtud de la misma, se estashall be published by edict only Summons and the Complaint de solares denominado Jardi- bleció como nuevo principal once in a newspaper of general will be sent to the defendants nes de Palamarejo en el Barrio adeudado la cantidad de by certified mail/return receipt circulation in the island of PuerSan Isidro del término municipal $71,093.62, se redujo la tasa de requested, addressed to their to Rico. Within ten (10) days fode Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, interés anual a 5.38% y se estallowing publication of this Sum- last known addresses. Should con una cabida superficial de bleció como nueva fecha de you fail to appear and answer mons, a copy of this Summons 260.70 metros cuadrados. En vencimiento el 1 de mayo de the Complaint as ordered by the and the Complaint will be sent lindes por el Norte con la calle 2054. El pagaré y la escritura de Court and notified by this Sumto aforemtioned co-defendants número 5, en una distancia de hipoteca fueron nuevamente by certified mail/return receipt mons, the Court will enter de11.85 metros: por el Sur, con modificados el 28 de junio de fault against you, and proceed requested, addressed to their LEGAL NOTICE terrenos propiedad de la Autori- 2016 mediante el documento tito hear and adjudicate this case last known addresses. Should UNITED STATES DISTRICT you fail to appear, plead or based on the relief demanded dad de Tierras en una distancia tulado Home Affordable ModifiCOURT FOR THE DISTRICT answer to the Complaint as or- in the Complaint. BY ORDER de 11.85 metros; por el Este con cation Agreement, a través del el solar número 10, en una dis- cual se aumenta el principal a la OF PUERTO RICO. dered by the Court and noticed OF THE COURT, summons tancia de 22.00 metros; y por el cantidad de $72,580.13, se reis issued pursuant to Federal UNITED STATES OF by this Summons, the Court will Rules Civil Procedure 4(e) and Oeste, con el solar número 8, dujo la tasa de interés anual a enter default against you and AMERICA, acting Rule 4.6 of the Rules of Civil en una distancia de 22.00 me- 3.25%, y finalizando con un through the United States proceed to hear and adjudicate Procedure for the Common- tros. Enclava una casa de hor- pago “balloon” de $6,779.50 a cause based on the relief migón de una sola planta, tipo la fecha de vencimiento, 1 de Department of Agriculture this demanded in the Complaint. wealth of Puerto Rico. In San duplex semi-terminado, com- mayo de 2054. Dicha subasta Plaintiff v.

BY ORDER OF THE COURT, Juan, Puerto Rico, December puesta de losa de piso, dos pa- se llevará a cabo para con su LUCIA COLLADO 7, 2020.

MARIA ANTONGIORsummons is issued pursuant to redes de carga y losa de techo producto satisfacer al DemanGI-JORDAN, ESQ., CLERK OF GUZMAN, ANGEL Federal Rules Civil Procedure THE COURT. By: Viviana Diaz, unida a la casa contigua por dante total o parcialmente se4(e) and Rule 4.6 of the Rules COLLADO GUZMAN, una pared medianera en hormi- gún sea el caso el importe de la Deputy Clerk.

ADA COLLADO GUZMAN, of Civil Procedure for the Comgón armado, localizado en la Sentencia que ha obtenido asmonwealth of Puerto Rico. In LEGAL NOTICE colindancia del solar, paredes cendente a la suma de AUREA COLLADO San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 4th del baño en bloques de hormi- $71,451.61 por concepto de GUZMAN, ELBA IRIS day of December, 2020. MA- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO gón, instalación sanitario, sin principal, más intereses al tipo DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUCOLLADO GONZALEZ, RIA ANTONGIORGI-JORDAN, incluir alumbrado ni accesorios; pactado de 3.25% anual desde NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA ESQ., CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT and LUIS ALBERTO CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO- instalación eléctrica sin incluir el día 1 de octubre de 2017. DiCOURT. By: Viviana Diaz MuleCOLLADO GONZALEZ, accesorios; instalación de agua chos intereses continúan acuLINA SALA SUPERIOR. ro, Deputy Clerk. y caliente, sin incluir plu- mulándose hasta el pago total as known members of Deutsche Bank National fría mas, ni accesorios con un área de la obligación. Se pagarán the Estate of BENICIO LEGAL NOTICE Trust Company, as de piso de quinientos noventi- también los cargos por demora COLLADO GOMEZ; IN THE UNITED STATES DISTrustee for GSAMP dos pies cuadrados. La propie- equivalentes a 5.000% de la ELBA IRIS COLLADO TRICT COURT FOR THE DISdad antes relacionada consta suma de aquellos pagos con Trust 2007-SEA1, GONZALEZ, and LUIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO. Mortgage Pass-Through inscrita en el Folio 287 del Tomo atrasos en exceso de 15 días 91 de Canóvanas, finca número calendarios de la fecha venciUNITED STATES OF ALBERTO COLLADO Certificates, 4,989, en el Registro de la Pro- miento, la suma de $7,109.36 AMERICA, acting

DESCONOCIDA.

N O T I F I C A C I O N DE.SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. vs EL SECRETARIO(A) QUE SANTIAGO GOMEZ, SUSCRIBE LE NOTIFICA A LUZ EDNA USTED QUE EL 24 DE NOCASO: FAC2016-0035. SOVIEMBRE DE 2020 , ESTE BRE: PARTICION DE HERENTRIBUNAL HA DICTADO CIA. SENTENCIA , SENTENCIA FRANK POE, SU PARCIAL O RESOLUCION EN CONYUGE PATRICIA MAE ESTE CASO, QUE HA SIDO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DEBIDAMENTE REGISTRADA. Y ARCHIVADA EN AUTOS DE GANANCIALES DONDE PODRA USTED ENCONSTITUIDA POR TERARSE DETALLADAMENAMBOS, JAMES TOE, SU TE DE LOS TERMINOS DE LA CONYUGE JESSICA FOE MISMA. ESTA NOTIFICACION Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL SE PUBLICARA UNA SOLA VEZ EN UN PERIODICO DE DE GANANCIALES, CIRCULACION GENERAL EN PERSONAS NATURALES LA ISLA DE PUERTO RICO, IDENTIFICADAS CON DENTRO DE LOS 10 DIAS NOMBRES FICTICIOS SIGUIENTES A SU NOTIFICACION. Y, SIENDO O REPREPOR SABERSE QUE SENTANDO USTED UNA PAREXISTEN PERO TE EN EL PROCEDIMIENTO DESCONOCERSE SUJETA A LOS TERMINOS DE SUS VERDADEROS LA SENTENCIA , SENTENCIA PARCIAL O RESOLUCION , NOMBRES, SUS DE LA CUAL PUEDE ESTAHEREDEROS, BLECERSE RECURSO DE SUCESORES, REVISION O APELACION CAUSAHABIENTES Y/O DENTRO DEL TERMINO DE CESIONARIOS.IRAIDA 30 DIAS CONTADOS A PARRODRIGUEZ , JOHANY TIR DE LA PUBLICACION ROHENA RODRIGUEZ POR EDICTO DE ESTA NOTIFICACION , DIRIJO A USTED ,YARITZA ROHENA ESTA NOTIFICACION QUE SE RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS CONSIDERARA HECHA EN ROHENA RODRIGUEZ LA FECHA DE LA PUBLICACION DE ESTE DICTO. COPIA Y CARLOS ROHENA MOJICA, MIEMBROS DE DE ESTA NOTIFICACION HA SIDO ARCHIVADA EN LOS LA SUCESION DE RUBEN AUTOS DE ESTE CASO, CON ROHENA SANTIADO FECHA DE 01 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2020 Y A SU VEZ DE LA BETANCOURT, SUCESION DE ANGELICA LIC. BETANCOURT DALMARIS SANTIAGO GOMEZ, DALMABET@GMAIL.COM TODOS CON DIRECCION EN CAROLINA , PUERTO DESCONOCIDA , JORGE RICO, A 01 DE DICIEMBRE LUIS CORREA ROHENA, DE 2020. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRIGUEZ, SEWALESKA CORREA CRETARIO. F/ RUTH MERAR! ROHENA Y LUIS M. COLON LUCIANO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. CORREA ROHENA,

MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE MARIA ROHENA SANTIAGO Y A SU VEZ DE LA SUCESION DE ANGELICA SANTIAGO GOMEZ. TODOS CON DIRECCION DESCONOCIDA, JANE DOE. VUIDA DE LUIS JORGE ROHENA SANTIAGO , JOHN DOE, VIUDO DE CARMEN LUZ SANTIAGO GOMEZ, PERENSEJO , PERENSEJA Y SALLY ROE, MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE JORGE LUIS RIVERA SANTIAGO Y A SU VEZ DE LA SUCESION DE ELIZABETH SANTIAGO GOMEZ Y MENGANO, EL VUIDO ESTA ULTIMA TODOS CON DIRECCION

through the United States Department of Agriculture,

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Demandante v.

24 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $7,109.36 para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $7,109.36 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 CAROLINA 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 está sujeta a los siguientes gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad: HIPOTECA constituida por Eddie Vázquez Carrasquillo y su esposa, María M. Méndez Torres, en garantía a un pagaré a favor de LA CORPORACION DE RENOVACION URBANA Y VIVIENDA, o a su orden, por la suma de $4,100.00, sus intereses al 6% anual y vencedero el 1 de marzo de 1987, según escritura número 65, otorgada en San Juan, el 13 de octubre de 1976, ante el notario Rafael Alvarez Fortuño. Inscrita al folio 287 del tomo 91 de Canóvanas. Inscripción primera. La cancelación del antes mencionado gravamen preferente fue presentada el 27 de septiembre de 2019, al asiento 2019-102187-CR03, Instancia de fecha 23 de septiembre de 2019 para que se cancele la hipoteca por la suma de $4,100.00. 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: Presentada el 8 de abril de 2014, al asiento 1528 del diario 260, Demanda de fecha 17 de marzo de 2014, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Canóvanas, en el caso civil número -FBCI 2014-000639, seguido por Doral Bank vs. María Mercedes Méndez Torres también conocido como María M. Méndez Torres y María Méndez Torres, (soltera), sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $64,075.28 y otras cantidades, o la venta en pública subasta de la propiedad. Pendiente de anotación. 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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de diciembre de 2020. FDO. SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL.

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ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC. DEMANDANTE VS.

LUIS ENRIQUE BUTLER ALICEA

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: HU2019CV01068.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 3 DE MARZO

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: #601 CALLE 20 URB. VERDE MAR HUMACAO, PR 00791 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Punta Santiago del término municipal de Humacao, Puerto Rico, cuyo número, área y colindancias se describen a continuación: Número del solar: 601. Área del solar: 296.70 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 12.90 metros, con terrenos propiedad de C. Brewer Puerto Rico, Inc.; por el SUR, en 12.90 metros, con la calle #20 de dicha Urbanización; por el ESTE, en 23.00 metros, con el solar #600 de dicha Urbanización; y por el OESTE, en 23.00 metros, con el solar #602(#302 Según Escritura de Hipoteca). ENCLAVA: Una casa para una familia.

La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 194 del Tomo 299 de Humacao, Finca número 12,032 en el Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $75,113.00.

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 10 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $50,075.33.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 17 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $37,556.50. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 690 otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el día 4 de octubre de 2016, ante el notario Alejandro José Mues Arias y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Humacao, finca número 12,032, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao, inscripción Decimoprimera (11ra). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido condenando a la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $72,646.89 por

concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de septiembre de 2018, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $7,511.30.

Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $7,511.30 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $7,511.30 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores ni preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento

de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de diciembre de 2020. MARIA DEL PILAR RIVERA RIVERA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR.

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

ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC. DEMANDANTE VS.

ÁNGEL LUIS RAMOS OSORIO

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: HU2019CV01066.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 3 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: #525 CALLE 16 URB. VERDE MAR HUMACAO, PR 00741 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Verde Mar, situada en el barrio Punta Santiago del término municipal de Humacao, Puerto Rico, marcado con el #525, con un área de 324.03 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, en 19.18 metros y 3.075 metros en arco, con la calle #25 de dicha urbanización; por el SUR, en 23.00 metros con el solar

#524 de dicha urbanización; por el ESTE, en 12.08 metros con el solar #504 de dicha urbanización y por el OESTE, en 12.22 metros y 3.075 metros en arco con la calle #16 de dicha urbanización. ENCLAVA: Casa de vivienda de hormigón y bloques de hormigón de una sola planta, con marquesina y balcón, modelo sencillo. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 100 del Tomo 287 de Humacao, Finca número 11,349 en el Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $88,880.00.

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 10 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $59,253.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 17 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $44,440.00.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 67 otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 12 de abril de 2017, ante el notario Carlos Martínez Olmo y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Humacao, finca número 11,349, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao, inscripción Novena (9na). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido condenando a la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $88,430.04 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de octubre de 2017, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.75% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $8,888.00.

Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $8,888.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de

la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $8,888.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de diciembre de 2020. Maria del Pilar Rivera Rivera, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDI-

CIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR.

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

LIME HOMES, LTD Demandante vs.

LA SUCESION DE MARIA ESTHER APONTE RIVERA COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJAS JEANNETTE FANTAUZZI APONTE, JULIA FANTAUZZI APONTE Y SU NIETO, BRANDON LEE CABRERA; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; WALMARIE PEREZ BONILLA COMO TITULAR; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA Y CRIM Demandados CIVIL NUM. N3CI201500752 (002). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: La Parte Demandada, al (a la) Secretario(a) de Hacienda de Puerto Rico y al Público General:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Rio Grande en Fajardo, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Rio Grande en Fajardo, el 11 de enero de 2021 a las 2:30 de la tarde, 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 URBANIZACION ALTURAS DE RIO GRANDE, SITUADA EN EL BARRIO CIENAGA DEL TERMINO MUNICIPAL DE RIO GRANDE, PUERTO RICO, QUE SE DESCRIBE EN EL PLANO DE INSCRIPCION DE LA URBANIZACION CON EL NUMERO, AREA Y COLINDANCIAS QUE SE RELACIONAN A CONTINUACION: SOLAR NUMERO 39 DEL BLOQUE “A”, CON UN AREA

The San Juan Daily Star DE 300.39 METROS CUADRADOS. EN LINDES POR EL NORTE, EN 12.92 METROS CON LA CALLE MAIN; POR EL SUR, EN 12.92 METROS CON LA CALLE NUMERO 1; POR EL ESTE, EN 23.25 METROS CON EL SOLAR NUMERO 38 DEL BLOQUE “A”; Y POR EL OESTE, EN 23.25 METROS CON EL SOLAR NUMERO 40 DEL BLOQUE “A”. SOBRE ESTE SOLAR ENCLAVA UNA CASA PARA FINES RESIDENCIALES. FINCA: 6406 INSCRITA AL FOLIO 72 DEL TOMO 128 DE RIO GRANDE, SECCION TERCERA, REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE CAROLINA. Propiedad localizada en: Calle 4 A-39, Alturas de Rio Grande, Rio Grande, PR 00745. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. 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 $69,524.99, 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 Rio Grande en Fajardo, el 19 de enero de 2021 a las 2:30 de la tarde, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $46,349.99, 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 $34,762.50, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Rio Grande en Fajardo, el 26 de enero de 2021 a las 2:30 de la tarde. 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 $53,397.19 de principal, intereses al tipo del 8.63100% anual según ajusta-

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do desde el día 6 de marzo de 2014 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $6,952.50 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 Rio Grande en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de noviembre de 2020. Shirley Sanchez Martinez, Alguacil Regional #161.

Denise Bruno Ortiz, Alguacil Auxiliar # 266.

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BOSCO IX OVERSEAS, LLC, BY FRANKLIN CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION AS SERVICER Demandante v.

MARINES ORTIZ HERNÁNDEZ

Demandado CIVIL NÚM: SJ2019CV03278.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo Pedro Hieye González, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, al público en general. CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 8 de julio de 2020, que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior

de San Juan, en el caso arriba indicado, venderé en la fecha o fechas que más adelante se indican, en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal, en mi oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, Puerto Rico, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada, en el inmueble que se describe a continuación, propiedad de la parte demandada, Marines Ortiz Hernández.

Dirección Física: RD 842 KM 9.1, Lot H, Cupey Alto, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926. Finca 18,979, inscrita al folio 171 del tomo 602 de Rio Piedras Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de San Juan. RÚSTICA: Solar numero 1: Predio de terreno situado en el kilómetro 9.1 en el Ramal de la Carretera Estatal 842 del Sector Marcelo Alto del Barrio Cupey Alto, de Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, identificado como solar número uno en el plano de inscripción y lotificación aprobado por la Administración de Reglamentos y Permisos Oficina Regional de San Juan, en el caso 97-17-A-879-SPLS. Con una cabida superficial de 902.5323 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a .2296 cuerdas.

En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 33.105 metros cuadrados, con el solar número 2 del mismo plano; por el SUR, en distancia de 22.332 metros cuadrados, con el solar segregado caso 5-75-0177 de la Administración de Reglamentos y Permisos, y en distancia de 9.668 metros cuadrados, con el solar número 4 del mismo plano; por el ESTE, en distancia de 27.750 metros cuadrados, con el mismo solar numero 4; y por el OESTE, en distancia de 27.42750 metros cuadrados, con el camino municipal asfaltado (existente). Finca 18,979.

Por su procedencia está afecta a: Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico. Por sí está: a) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de RG Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $179,340.00, con intereses al 6.5% anual, vencedero el día 1 de mayo de 2038, constituida mediante la escritura número 39, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 7 de mayo de 2008, ante el notario Monica del C. Diaz Nieves, e inscrita al folio 69 del tomo 785 de Rio Piedras Sur, finca número 18,979, inscripción 5ta. b) Aviso de Demanda de fecha 28 de octubre de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Caso Civil número SJ2019-CV-03278, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por Bosco IX Overseas LLC by Franklin Credit Management

Corp. Services, versus Marines Ortiz Hernández, por la suma de $155,339.52 y otras sumas, anotado el día 28 de octubre de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Rio Piedras Sur, finca número 18,979, Anotación A. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 18,979 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: Primera Subasta: 14 de enero de 2021, Hora: 9:00 am, Precio Mínimo: $179,340.00, Hipoteca: Escritura Número 39 sobre Primera Hipoteca, otorgada el día 7 de mayo de 2008, ante la notario Monica Diaz Nieves.

Segunda Subasta: 25 de enero de 2021. Hora: 9:00 am, Precio Mínimo: $119,560.00. Tercera Subasta: 1 de febrero de 2021, Hora: 9:00 am, Precio Minimo: $89,670.00. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación que se transmite y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si las hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante las acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de las mismas, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Conforme a la Sentencia dictada el día 14 de enero de 2020 y archivada en los autos el 21 de enero de 2020, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: La suma principal de $155,339.52, más intereses a razón de 6.5%, desde el 1 de julio de 2017, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de $1,317.48 por cargos por mora, más la suma de $1,073.39 en conexión con la cuenta de reserva, más la suma de $17,934.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propie-

dad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de noviembre de 2020. Pedro Hieye Gonzalez, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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Parte demandante, v.

LA SUCESION DEL FINADO ABRAHAM ANTONIO ROSA MORALES T/C/C ABRAHAM A. ROSA MORALES COMPUESTA POR MARIA ISABEL GONZALEZ SANTIAGO T/C/C MARIA I. GONZALEZ SANTIAGO POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA, BAYREZ ROSA RIVERA, YOVANIA ROSA GOMEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DEL FINADO ABRAHAM ANTONIO ROSA MORALES T/C/C ABRAHAM A. ROSA MORALES Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Parte Demandada CASO NUM.: SJ2018CV04647.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: LA SUCESION DEL FINADO ABRAHAM ANTONIO ROSA MORALES T/C/C ABRAHAM A. ROSA MORALES COMPUESTA POR MARIA ISABEL GONZALEZ SANTIAGO T/C/C MARIA I. GONZALEZ SANTIAGO POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA, BAYREZ ROSA RIVERA,

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YOVANIA ROSA GOMEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DEL FINADO ABRAHAM ANTONIO ROSA MORALES T/C/C ABRAHAM A. ROSA MORALES Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO: Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante a saber: ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO: A favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por la suma de $18,381.48, Embargo #100-01/2003 y otros, según certificaci6n expedida 7 de julio de 2005, presentado el 19 de agosto de 2005, anotado en asiento abreviado el 4 de abril de 2019, en Karibe de Sabana Llana, finca #32,127, inscripci6n 8va. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 9 de junio de 2020, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que se describe a continuación: Condominio Puerta del Sol, #2000, Apto.

706, San Juan, P.R. 00926: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento 706. Apartamento residencial número 706, de forma rectangular localizado en el piso número 7 del Condominio Puerta del Sol, que ubica en la Carretera Estatal número 181 del Barrio Sabana Llana de Rio Piedras, municipio de San Juan Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1408.13 pies cuadrados, siendo sus medidas lineales 66 pies 0 pulgadas de largo por 22 pies 9 pulgadas,

donde enclava el edificio, por el SUR, en una distancia de 66 pies 0 pulgadas, con terrenos donde enclava el edificio.

La puerta principal de este apartamento tiene acceso al pasillo central del piso. Esta unidad residencial consta de lo siguiente: sala-comedor, baño, pasillo con closet, cocina y tres cuartos dormitorios, con su closet cada uno y dormitorio máster con walk-in-closet y baño. Le corresponde el 0.0090629% en los elementos comunes generales. Consta inscrita al tomo 973 del sistema de folio móvil de Sabana Llana, finca número 32127, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico Sección Quinta de San Juan. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 12 de agosto de 2019, la suma de $51,085.48, intereses al 5.875% anual, que al 16 de mayo de 2019 ascendían a $4,060.05 y los cuales se continúan acumulando a razón de $8.34 día (“per diem”), $166.00 de cargos por demora, más la suma de $7,015.00 equivalente al 10% del principal de pagare, para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados. Esta obligación continuara acumulando intereses a razón de 5.875% anual hasta el saldo total de la deuda, para cubrir el principal adeudado, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a los demandados previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca.

La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 19 de enero de 2021, a las 9:00 de la mañana , en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $70,150.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 26 de enero de 2021, a las 9:00 de la mañana, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $46,766.67, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 2 de febrero de 2021, a las

9:00 de la mañana, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $35,075.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a.

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

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

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de noviembre de 2020.

Pedro Hieye Gonzalez, Alguacil, División de Subastas, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan.

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26 SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO- dad objeto de ejecución está LINA. gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: AJAX MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2018-F, Nombre de Titular: N/A Suma de la Carga: N/A Fecha de VenMORTGAGE-BACKEDS cimiento: N/A Según figuran ECURITIES, SERIES en la certificación registral. la propiedad objeto de ejecución 2018-F, BY U.S. está gravada por Las siguienBANK NATIONAL tes cargas posteriores a la insASSOCIATIONA, S cripción del crédito ejecutante: INDENTURET RUSTEE Nombre del Titular: N/A Suma Demandante vs. de la Carga: N/A Fecha de DANIEL ANTONIO Vencimiento: N/A Se entenderá FUENTES ESCALERA que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la proY MADELINE DE LA piedad y que todas las cargas CRUZ MARTINEZ Y y gravámenes anteriores y los LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL preferentes al crédito ejecutanDE GANANCIALES te antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

COMPUESTA POR El rematante acepta dichas AMBOS, cargas y gravámenes anterioDemandados CIVIL NUM. CN2018CV00243. res, y queda subrogado en la SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO responsabilidad de los mismos, Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTE- sin destinarse a su extinción el CA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. precio del remate. Se establece EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTA- como tipo mínimo de subasta DOS UNIDOS DE AMERlCA EL la suma de $70,500.00, según PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA- acordado entre las partes en el DOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LI- precio pactado en la escritura BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO de hipoteca De ser necesaria una segunda subasta por deRICO. SS. desierta la primera, A: La Parte Demandada, clararse la misma se celebrará en mi al (a la) Secretario(a) de oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal Hacienda de Puerto Rico de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 22 de enero de y al Público General: Certifico y Hago Constar: Que 2021 a las 9:00 de la mañana, en cumplimiento con el Manda- y se establece como mínima miento de Ejecución de Senten- para dicha segunda subasta la cia que me ha sido dirigido por suma de $47,000.00, dos terceel (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal ras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo de Primera Instancia, Sala Su- establecido originalmente. Si perior de Carolina, en el caso tampoco se produce remate de epígrafe, venderé en públi- ni adjudicación en la segunda ca subasta y al mejor postor, subasta, se establece como por separado, de contado y mínima para la tercera subasta, por moneda de curso legal de la suma de $35,250.00, la mitad los Estados Unidos de América (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Cer- subasta se celebrará en mi ofitificado, en mi oficina ubicada cina, ubicada en el Tribunal de en el Tribunal de Primera Ins- Primera Instancia, Sala de Catancia, Sala de Carolina, el 14 rolina, el 29 de enero de 2021 a de enero de 2021 a las 9:00 de 1as 9:00 de la mañana. Dicha la mañana, todo derecho título, subasta te llevará a cabo para, participación o interés que le con su producto satisfacer a la corresponda a la parte deman- parte demandante, el importe dada o cualquiera de ellos en de la Sentencia dictada a su el inmueble hipotecado objeto favor ascendente a la suma de ejecución que se describe a de $54,256.07 de principal, continuación: URBANA: Solar intereses al tipo del 7.25000% marcado con el número 31 del anual según ajustado desde Bloque D de la Urbanización el día 1 de octubre de 2015 Quintas de Canóvanas, en el hasta el pago de la deuda en término Municipal de Canóva- su totalidad, más la suma de nas, Puerto Rico compuesto $7,050.00 por concepto de hode 275.00 metros cuadrados, norarios de abogado y costas en lindes por el NORTE, con el autorizadas por el tribunal, más solar 30 en 25.00 metros linea- las cantidades que 1e adeudan les; por el SUR. con el solar 32 mensualmente por concepto de en 25.00 metros lineales; por el seguro hipotecario, cargos por ESTE. con la Calle 5 en 11.00 demora, y otros adeudados que metros lineales y por el OESTE, se hagan en virtud de la escricon el solar 16 en 11.00 metros tura de hipoteca. La venta en lineales. En dicho solar enclavo pública subasta de la referida una casa construida para fines propiedad se verificará libre de residenciales diseñada para toda carga o gravamen postevivienda para una familia . Es rior que afecte la mencionada segregación de la finca 10749 finca cuyo efecto se notifica y inscrita al folio 3 del tomo de se hace saber la fecha, hora y Canóvanas. Propiedad locali- sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNzada en: Quintas de Canova- DA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, na, 538 Calle 5, Canovanas, si esto fuera necesario, a los PR 00729 Según figuran en la efectos de que cualquier percertificación registral, la propie- sona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la

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celebración de dicha subasta.

Se notifica a todos los interesados que tu actas y demás constancia del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la secretaria del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinados por los (las) interesados(as).

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A: La Parte Demandada, al (a la) Secretario (a ) de Hacienda de Puerto Rico y al Publico General:

Certifico y Hago Constar : Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento, de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de PONCE, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en publica subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de America y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 9 de febrero de 2021, a las 1:45 de la tarde, todo derecho titulo, 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 numero sesenta y nueve ( 69 ) de la Urbanización Camino Real, radicada en el Barrio Cintrona, del termino municipal de Juan Diaz, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de aproximadamente quinientos noventa y tres punto cinco mil novecientos cuarenta y dos (593. 5942) metros cuadrados , equivalentes a cero punto mil quinientos once (0.1511) cuerdas. Colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia de veintiséis punto ochenta y ocho (26.88) metros, con el Solar numero setenta (70) de la Urbanización; por el SUR, en una distancia de veintinueve punto quince (29.15) metros, con “Camino Real Avenue”; por el ESTE, en cuatro (4) distancias, una de dos punto treinta y un (2.31) metros, una de dos punto treinta y cuatro (2. 34) metros , una de doce punto setenta y siete (12.77) metros, y una de nueve punto veintidós (9.22) metros, con la Calle Quinta Real (“Quinta Real Street “) y “Recreational Facilities l” ; y par el OESTE, en dos (2) distancias, una de trece punto ochenta y un (13 . 81) metros y otra de seis punto setenta y cuatro (6.74) metros, con la Carretera Estatal PR ciento cuarenta y nueve (PR 149 ). Contiene una casa pare fines residenciales.

Consta inscrita a l folio 209 del tomo 515 de Juana Diaz, Finca 19, 165 de Juana Diaz, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I. La hipoteca objeto de ejecución consta inscrita al folio 209 del tomo 515 de Juana Diaz, Finca 19,165 de Juana Diaz, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I, inscripción 3a. Propiedad localizada en : #69 Camino Real, Juan Diaz, Puerto Rico 00795. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución esta 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 esta gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: N/A Suma de la Carga: N/A Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante l a titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las car gas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuaran 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 $154,700.00 , 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 mis ma se celebrara en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 16 de febrero de 2021, a las 1:45 de la tarde, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $103,133.33, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en l a segunda subasta, se establece como mi n i ma para la tercera subasta, la suma de $77,350.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrara en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia , Sala de Ponce, el 23 de febrero de 2021, a las 1:45 de la tarde. Dicha subasta se llevara 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 $129,743.60, balance de principal del referido pagare, los intereses que al tipo convenido del 7.125% anual devengado sobre dicha suma desde el lro de enero de 2019, y los que s e de venguen hasta el total y completo pago del principal, los cargos por demo r a incurridos hasta esta fecha y los que se devenguen hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda, cualesquiera adelantos hechos por la demandante para el pago de primas de seguro, contribuciones sobre la propiedad, contribuciones especiales, cualquier otro gasto desembolsado por la parte demandante y la suma de $15,470.00, para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado del demandante según pactados en el pagare, así como en el contra to de hipoteca . La venta en publica subasta de la referid a propiedad se verificara libre de t oda 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 Secretaria 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 , en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. 2020 . Expedido en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy 30 de noviembre de 2020. Jorge M Hernandez Pagan, Alguacil.

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Mets’ largesse can’t beat Rangers’ location for Chris Young

By TYLER KEPNER

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ll the billions in the world, apparently, cannot change one stubborn truth about modern baseball: everything takes time. The New York Mets will have a general manager someday, and the new owner, Steven A. Cohen, will surely find players to take a small slice of his fortune. But for now, the industry is adjusting its batting gloves, stepping off the rubber and checking the defensive-alignment card tucked inside its cap. So we wait.

In normal times, executives and agents would be prowling the halls of a hotel in Dallas at the winter meetings this week. The pandemic canceled the event, but the Metroplex’s local team made some news. The Texas Rangers introduced former pitcher Chris Young as their general manager Monday, hiring a rising star who had interested the Mets for the same vacancy.

Young, 41, had been a vice president for Major League Baseball, handling player discipline, overseeing umpires and serving as the primary liaison between the commissioner’s office and field managers. He is the second general manager hired this offseason from the MLB office, after Kim Ng of the Miami Marlins.

Cohen, whose record $2.475 billion purchase of the Mets closed Nov. 6, had pledged to hire both a president of baseball operations and a general manager to work under Sandy Alderson, the new team president. Alderson, the general manager of the Mets’ pennant-winning team in 2015, quickly realized that teams have become increasingly protective of intellectual capital.

Blocked from speaking to some of his top targets, Alderson scaled back the search and committed to taking on more baseball operations responsibilities himself. But the team still needs a general manager, and he reached out to Young, a fellow Ivy Leaguer who pitched for San Diego when Alderson was the chief executive of the Padres in the 2000s.

(Alderson is a Dartmouth man; Young a Princeton graduate.)

“Sandy is someone whom I greatly respect and admire,” said Young, who will report to Jon Daniels, the president of baseball operations, with the Rangers.

Young, a lanky 6-foot-10 right-hander, pitched for the Mets for two seasons and started a game against them in the 2015 World Series.

“He has been, like J.D., somewhat of a mentor to me throughout my career. Out of respect for him, I wanted to have a conversation there; he asked me to. He’s got an unbelievable vision.”

But Young explained that he is raising his young family in his hometown of Dallas, where he grew up rooting for the Rangers, the team he made his major league debut with in 2004. There was nothing the Mets could do to match that pull.

“I’m a Texas Ranger,” Young said.

“As much as I respect Sandy and think that Steve Cohen will do great things in New York, I belong here.”

Free agency means free choice, as Yankees general manager Brian Cashman likes to say, a reminder that some decisions are ultimately out of a team’s control. The Mets have signed one free agent this month, former Minnesota Twins reliever Trevor May, for two years and $15.5 million. But others will have their own reasons to accept or reject the Mets’ overtures, and as usual, the players at the top of the market — starter Trevor Bauer, center fielder George Springer, catcher J.T. Realmuto, infielder D.J. LeMahieu — are taking their time.

Cohen’s influence will surely help the Mets’ pursuit of a World Series title

within his stated timeline of five years.

Not just his willingness to spend, but his fresh vision, endearing fandom and customer engagement can only make the Mets a more alluring destination. The man spent $410,000 to own a certain little roller up along first from 1986, after all. His heart is in the right place.

But for Young, at least, the right place was not Flushing. He lived in the New York area for a while after joining MLB in May 2018, but eventually moved back to Dallas. Young has ties to the Mets, too — he pitched for them in 2011 and 2012 and made his only World Series start at Citi Field, for the Kansas City Royals — but the chance to revive his favorite team was too tempting to resist.

“These opportunities do not present themselves often, and I recognize what a special opportunity this is and I’m up for the challenge,” Young said. “To me, that’s everything. I am a competitor by nature and what the Texas Rangers mean to this fan base and this community and what they’ve meant to me — that, to me, is the most compelling aspect of this decision.”

Young is a big loss for the commissioner’s office. As a 13-year major leaguer who was playing as recently as 2017 — and who happens to be 6-foot-

10 — he commanded respect and had a keen understanding of the game on the field, something many players find lacking from the league office.

Young’s formal role did not extend to labor relations, but it did not hurt to have a longtime player on staff — especially with the sides still unsure if pandemic-year rule changes (universal designated hitter, expanded playoffs, the runner on second base at the start of extra innings in the regular season) will be in play again for 2021. Young was a go-to resource for Commissioner Rob Manfred on everything from the composition of the ball to the impact of analytics on the pace of action. Those bigpicture answers will have to come from elsewhere now.

“We’re in an era where there is countless information available,” Young said. “Has that impacted the style of play in our game? Probably, to some degree. And does it make for the most compelling entertainment value? That’s something the central office is evaluating.”

As for Young, he will be evaluating just one team now — far from New York, where a rich and ready superfan is learning all about the peculiar, plodding rhythms of the baseball winter.

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Israeli soccer team, infamous for anti-Arab fans, has new co-owner: a Sheikh

By DAVID M. HALBFINGER and ADAM RASGON

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top-tier Israeli soccer team with a notoriously racist, Arab-hating fan base has sold a 50 percent ownership stake to a member of one of the royal families of the United Arab Emirates.

The barrier-shattering deal is among the first fruits of Israel’s nearly 3-month-old normalization agreement with the Emirates and carries outsize symbolic importance: It puts a Muslim sheikh at the helm of Beitar Jerusalem, the only Israeli team that has never fielded an Arab player — and whose most extremist fans routinely chant virulent slurs like “Death to Arabs.”

The new co-owners, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, 50, and Moshe Hogeg, 39, an Israeli cryptocurrency executive who acquired the team in 2018, said in a telephone interview Monday night that their union was motivated in large part by the goal of combating exactly that sort of hatred.

“Our message is that we are all equal,” Hogeg said. “We want to show to young kids that we are all equal and that we can work and do beautiful things together. The message is more powerful than the football.”

Sheikh Hamad, a first cousin of the de facto Emirati ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, suggested Beitar could soon have an Arab member on its squad.

“The door’s open to anyone, for any talented player, no matter where he is from or what his religion is,” he said. “It should be based on merit.”

He said he opposed building walls between people. “We should teach them that we are taking a positive step towards peace and harmony,” he said.

Already, several prominent Arab players have expressed a willingness to break the Beitar barrier, said Uri Levy, a soccer writer who runs the Israeli fan site BabaGol. (An Arab midfielder on the Israeli national soccer team, Diaa Sabia, was signed in September to the Al Nasr team in Dubai.)

Israeli liberals skeptical about the country’s normalization deals nonetheless found reason to cheer the conspicuous twist of the new alliance.

“The sale of Beitar to the Arabs is the clearest sign that God exists,” Noa Landau, the diplomatic correspondent for Haaretz, wrote on Twitter.

Many Arab commentators jeered, however.

Beitar Jerusalem fans at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem in 2016.

Saied Hasnen, a sports radio host, called the deal “shameful.” He said that he opposed any Arab normalization of Israel, but particularly lamented the sheikh’s decision to go into business with Beitar, calling the team and its supporters “a sinful and dirty swamp of racists who hate Arabs — the worst people in society.”

Khalid Dokhi, the director-general of Bnei Sakhnin, Israel’s most successful Arab club, expressed mixed feelings. “If it leads to a change in the racist culture, that would be beneficial,” said Dokhi, whose team plays in an Arab city. “But if it doesn’t, it’s a waste of money.”

Sheikh Hamad’s investment appears to be a giant leap forward in what has been a long and often tempestuous struggle by several team owners to tame Beitar Jerusalem’s ultra-right-wing fan base.

While other clubs have long fielded Jewish and Arab players, who regularly play together for the Israeli national soccer team, Beitar’s far-right supporters’ group, La Familia, agitated against such a move, sometimes violently. The club has regularly been fined and handed stadium bans for violent behavior as well as racist chants.

A Nigerian Muslim who joined the team in 2004 was regularly harassed and quit after less than a year. In 2005, La Familia protested over reports that Beitar might sign

Abbas Suan, an Israeli-Arab who starred for Bnei Sakhnin. When he scored a vital goal for Israel in a World Cup qualification match against Ireland, Beitar supporters held up a banner saying, “Abbas Suan, you do not represent us.”

Another attempt was made in 2013 when two Muslim players, this time from Chechnya, were signed. Again there was violent opposition, captured searingly in the documentary “Forever Pure.”

When one of the Chechens, striker Zaur Sadayev, scored his first goal for the club to secure a 1-1 tie with rival Maccabi Netanya, hundreds of Beitar fans chose to leave the stadium in disgust rather than celebrate. The Chechen players lasted only a handful of games.

Levy, the soccer writer, said the film was a turning point. “It opened the eyes of many Beitar fans about the need to grow up and let go of this vicious, evil and ancient stance that has no place anywhere in the world anymore,” he said.

Maya Zinshtein, the film’s director, said it held a mirror up to what she called Beitar’s “silent majority” — passionate but less extreme fans who she said were repulsed by the film’s depiction of La Familia’s overt racism and how it was sullying Israel’s image.

Zinshtein said a change could be seen last year after Beitar signed Ali Mohamed,

a Nigerien Christian of Muslim lineage, who was eventually accepted. “You need to start from somewhere,” she said.

Moshe Zimmerman, a retired professor of sports history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said Beitar’s right-wing fans were confronting a double conundrum in the sale to Sheikh Hamad, “because the one to blame is the man Beitar admires most” — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who struck the normalization deal with the Emiratis.

But Zimmerman predicted that hardcore Beitar fans would find a way to make peace with their new co-owner. “They could say the Emiratis are the good Arabs and the others are the bad Arabs,” he said.

Sheikh Hamad said he planned to invest about $92 million into the club over the next decade.

In the interview, Hogeg said he had been drawn by the challenge of turning around Beitar’s reputation. “I thought it should be a great thing to do — to fix this and show the other side,” he said.

Hogeg said he had taken the trouble of obtaining the blessing of a leading Israeli ultra-Orthodox rabbi before going ahead with the deal.

Sheikh Hamad, asked how the deal had come together, responded simply: “God connected us.”

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

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

Crossword

Answers on page 30

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GAMES

HOROSCOPE Aries

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(Mar 21-April 20)

The days ahead are full of potential Aries, and you may already have a sense of how exciting this could be. You might get recognition for a project that puts you firmly in the spotlight, or you can find that sharing a bold idea allows you to stand out from the crowd. Connecting with the right people may also be another way to positively influence your destiny at this propitious time.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Insights which seem to well up deep within you, could result in an idea that resolves a domestic issue or a matter that is personal to you. A decision to forgive and forget and to release unwanted and negative emotions, can clear the decks and free up your energy on many levels. As a result, a plan or project you’ve been working towards for some time, may begin to fall into place.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

Your creative abilities can come into their own, with today’s lunar ties providing you with ample opportunity to put some of your ideas into action. It may be helpful to bring others on board as well Taurus, as their positive input and optimistic mindset could help push away any fears of things not working.

Over coming weeks, you might find yourself in the spotlight.

After a time in which it might have seemed that nothing much was happening, lunar aspects may bring the news that you’ve been waiting for. If you’ve been hoping for support to make alterations to your place, or even to purchase or rent a home, there is a possibility that this could be forthcoming. Been too busy to unwind? If you can take time out for some self-care, go for it.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

There may be much to celebrate over coming days, as things finally seem to be going your way, Cancer.

Relationships seem to take a turn for the better, and this can lead to all kinds of ideas being exchanged, and to the possibility of collaborating on a job or project that you’ll really enjoy. You could give your creativity full rein too, and this in itself might be very rewarding to you.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

The ideas you entertain can lead to positive changes in your financial situation and your circumstances.

There may be the opportunity of a better job, or other positive developments that could provide extra cash.

Even so, whatever your ideas or intentions, paying attention to your instincts might allow you to get the best deal possible, and emerge victorious over coming days.

Virgo

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

You could feel more optimistic, and this may be down to an exciting blend of energies involving the Moon in your sign, expansive Jupiter and compelling Pluto. You might feel as though you are a force to be reckoned with, and that you can accomplish almost anything. Whatever plans you have in mind, setting them in motion now could set the pace for a more productive time ahead.

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

With Venus in your sign, your congenial mood can attract others, and this could be the reason you become involved with some interesting people. This is very much a time to socialize and attend events where you feel it is safe to do so, as encounters may lead to opportunities that might not come about otherwise. Ready to shop? A savvy approach can save you money, Scorpio.

A goal or ambition can show signs of major progress, which could be very heart-warming. The effort you’ve put in, despite delays and obstacles, may now begin to bear fruit. If other opportunities should arise because of the work you’ve done, this is certainly the time to grasp them. Your intuition might play a big part in helping you make the choices that are best for you.

Resourceful friends may be keen to involve you in plans that you’ll welcome. Their suggestions can be bold and ambitious, but your practical and ambitious nature could play a part here too.While they might be the driving force, your ability to organize and plan can be the keystone that enables things to develop in a timely way, and in a matter than ensures things go well, Capricorn.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

You may be one step closer to realizing a goal, which might have a healing angle as well as a spiritual one.

Getting others involved by pooling resources and talents can be a big part of this, and assist in making it a success. If you really want to do well, the cosmos suggests you put yourself in the frame of mind to flourish, as this could draw the right people and circumstances your way.

Pisces

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Lively adventures could await you, and the more you are willing to involve others, the better they can be. You may find yourself pushing forward with the help of key people, and feeling confident that together you might accomplish something wonderful, Pisces. With the Moon in your relationship zone linking to key planets, the connections you make today could prove beneficial.

Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29

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