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sland Health Secretary-designate Carlos Mellado López and Puerto Rico National Guard Adj. Gen. José Reyes said Thursday that snowstorms in the mainland United States have delayed administering the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccinations slated for Thursday to March 4, as well as those scheduled for today to March 5.

However, the schedule for administering the second dose of the vaccine to individuals over the age of 65 and others will continue, they said.

“At this time, we do not know when the vaccines are going to arrive, so the vaccination process has been delayed,” Mellado López said.

Both vaccines on the U.S. market -- developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna -- require two doses to reach about 95% efficacy, and the second doses were intended to be administered 21 days and 28 days after the first, respectively.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, however, the second dose of the vaccine can be administered up to 42 days, or six weeks, after the initial inoculation.

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Mellado López also presented a Health Department dashboard that incorporates statistics on positive COVID-19 tests, patients who have died and the day of each death. There is also information on the vaccinations.

Reyes said that as of Thursday, vaccinations have been administered in 44 of the 178 elderly homes for some 3,369 people.

The National Guard is also in charge of vaccinations for 55,000 workers in public and private schools as well as Head Starts. The Guard has administered some 43,207 first doses of the vaccine and 9,215 second doses of the vaccine.

The nonprofit Puerto Rico Vaccination Coalition Inc., commonly known as VOCES, has vaccinated some 16,560 elderly adults. Some 1,500 people have appointments to get their second dose on Monday and organizers are hoping to have the second doses in Puerto Rico before that.

“While we wait for the second dose, we still have to follow the guidelines of social distancing and wear masks,” Mellado López said.

The Health chief announced that a memorandum of understanding is being established with each municipality to give them 3,000 vaccines to be administered.

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SJ mayor announces initiatives to help homeless citizens They include free housing and essential service programs

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

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an Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo announced Thursday that the capital city, along with the Social and Community Development Department, will begin initiatives to assist homeless citizens.

The joint effort will also include the island Family Department and the Mental Health & Anti-Addiction Services Administration.

As part of the initiative, Romero Lugo said, at least 114 home leases will be provided to participants that include a voucher that will cover housing, water, and electric power expenses for a year, a housing certification, and “access to a decent home.” During a press conference held in Río Piedras, he handed out some 20 home leases.

“The participants were chosen through programs such as Casas Nuestra Gente, which is close to Luis Muñoz Rivera Avenue, and the San Juan Municipality Shelter Center,” Romero Lugo said. “There are a large number of cases that are underway; what we want is for all cases to be able to have access to their vouchers, certifications,

and their new homes as soon as possible.”

“Our goal is that the person, in one year, is capable to have self-sufficiency and the greatest level of health and, during that term, to give them the utmost support in an integrated manner,” the mayor added.

As for how the program works, Romero Lugo said “it works similarly to a Plan 8 voucher.” He said participants will be able to choose their preferred residence within the project and will have access to social workers for additional support.

The mayor also said a $542,000 allocation to San Juan from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development made the initiative possible.

Romero Lugo added that he would be restarting free essential services to homeless citizens through the “Camino a tu Recuperación” program, which consists of providing services such as general aid, coronavirus screenings, and HIV tests through the capital city’s mobile unit.

“This comes from the transition hearings, where it was revealed that a unit that was purchased four years ago for more than $382,000 was not being used to provide services to homeless people,” he said.

The San Juan mayor also announced that the Family Department has allocated $210,000 to establish centers that provide free personal hygiene services for homeless citizens.

The efforts are being coordinated between the municipality and more than 20 non-profit organizations.

“We will continue to work to allocate the necessary resources for this population in a responsive and efficient manner,” Romero Lugo said. “Meanwhile, today we celebrate the new beginning for these 20 participants of a new stage of independence and success in their lives.”

San Juan District 3 Rep. Juan Oscar Morales congratulated Romero Lugo on the initiative.

“What he has promised during his campaign, he’s working to make a reality,” the legislator said.

“I am sure that this will be one of many projects that we are contemplating in Río Piedras,” Morales added. “From the Legislature, we will be contributing to making these dreams and more come true.”

SJ mayor: CVM candidate’s challenge won’t change election result

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

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an Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo said Thursday that the outcome of the November mayoral race will not change because a challenge of the results of that election being waged by the Citizen Victory Movement mayoral candidate for the office, Manuel Natal Albelo, “has no substance nor any merit.”

Earlier this week, the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals

Citizen Victory Movement mayoral candidate Manuel Natal Albelo

overturned a Superior Court ruling that had dismissed the challenge filed by Natal Albelo against the capital city mayor citing alleged irregularities in the general elections’ early and mail voting processes.

During a press conference in Río Piedras to announce new projects to aid homeless citizens, Romero Lugo said Natal Albelo’s request “has already been resolved at an administrative level [by the State Elections Commission (SEC)], where there is not one single piece of evidence that sustains the allegations.”

In regard to the allegations, the mayor referred to “stories that claimed the filing of affidavits by people who voted without having the right to, and people who passed away and appeared as voters.”

“That was the noise that was made during the general vote count, where it was alleged and the use of the word ‘fraud’ was insisted on; however, they [Natal Albelo’s legal team] have not dared to write the word in a single legal document as those have to be filed under oath, and they only speak about irregularities,” Romero Lugo said. “Beyond repeating once again that, there are people who, in the absence of votes, they like to generate fuss and controversy in order to maintain some kind of media presence, we will see what the Supreme Court decides …”

When asked why not participate in a special electoral event to re-elect the capital city mayor, Romero Lugo said that “from a constitutional provision, elections are held every

four years, not every four years and another election in three months because the results were not in your favor.”

“Rules are the same for everyone,” he added. “We are a law-and-order jurisdiction. These are the people who tried to delay a transition process; we had to go to the Supreme Court to have a transition that was as orderly as possible.”

As for filing a petition with the Supreme Court to overturn the Appeals Court panel’s ruling, Romero Lugo said his legal team is working on it and will announce it once it is filed.

On Dec. 30, the Puerto Rico Office of the Inspector General (OIG by its Spanish initials) released a report in response to a request from SEC Chairman Francisco Rosado Colomer.

The OIG reported eight issues in ballot purchases and ballot production, and imbalances within the SEC and Absentee and Early Voting Administrative Board (JAVAA) inventories.

In addition, the OIG reported failures in filing weekly reports at the SEC on the total number of authorized early and absentee voting requests. In addition, the office pointed out the absence of an input and output registry for the JAVAA ballot case vault and the absence of minutes from JAVAA meetings.

On Jan. 14, Natal Albelo challenged Romero Lugo’s election as mayor of San Juan, citing alleged irregularities that he said could change the results of the election. The lawsuit refers to “at least 6,593 municipal ballots from Unit 77 that are illegal and whose voters, chain of custody and provenance are impossible to determine …”

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Lawmaker: LUMA contract ‘is not a P3’ but rather a privatization of energy utility

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s the island House of Representatives gets ready to start public hearings next week into the adequacy of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) contract with LUMA Energy, the Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union (UTIER in Spanish) asked the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals to revive its challenge to a lower court order granting priority status to some $140 million in payments that the bankrupt PREPA will make to the consortium to take over transmission and distribution functions.

The island government over the summer signed a contract with LUMA Energy to manage PREPA’s transmission and distribution system as part of a public-private partnership that will lead to PREPA’s eventual phaseout as a company.

“This is not a P3. This is a contract that would privatize PREPA and put it in private hands,” said Popular Democratic Party Rep. Luis Raúl Torres. “We are giving away our assets because PREPA will disappear.”

Torres, who chairs the Economic Development, Planning, Telecommunications, Public-Private Partnerships and Energy Committee in the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, will start an investigation into the contract in public hearings onTuesday.The first witness will be Fermín Fontanés Gómez, executive director of the Public-Private Partnerships Authority. The hearings will continue Wednesday with the testimony of Edison Avilés Deliz, chairman of the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau.

“From the beginning, the contract award-

ed to LUMA Energy has been plagued with irregularities and conflicts of interest. Various sectors of the country have charged that this process took place without their participation or the transparency required,” Torres said. “It is known that neither the Electric Power Authority nor the government of Puerto Rico have the money to comply with what is required in the contract with LUMA. This contract will be an unsustainable burden for the government, which would have to contribute some $884 million to fulfill the contract. There is no conclusive evidence that guarantees that the contract with LUMA would generate savings to pay the debt contracted, much less the debt already incurred.”

Meanwhile, UTIER, the primary union representing PREPA workers, in an appeal this week challenged the first right payments or administrative expense priority status granted to PREPA payments to LUMA Energy during the transition period before the company takes over for good in June.

According to the union, the U.S. District Court was deceived by the federal Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB) into thinking that PREPA was engaged in a profitable and mutually beneficial contractual relationship, one that was just the first step to creating a more prosperous and efficient electrical system. As such, the oversight board said PREPA’s obligations under that contract deserve priority status over PREPA’s other creditors, including its pensioners and bondholders.

“LUMA Energy will be transitioning in, setting up its own business and replacing PREPA,

on PREPA’s dime,” the union said. “These are the payments that the FOMB wants to prioritize over PREPA’s other creditors in the Title III proceeding, particularly PREPA’s retirement pension obligations.”

The oversight board threw its support behind the $60 million fixed fee, plus expenses and hourly wages currently estimated at around $80 million, to transition front-end services related to management of the electricity grid to LUMA, on the grounds that the expenditure would lead to a smooth transition from PREPA management.

But UTIER and PREPA’s retirement system members argued that the fees have sunk PREPA into a $132 million deficit and have necessitated an $894 million loan from the commonwealth to fund services that directly benefit LUMA’s business objectives on the island, according to the brief.

“We have before us a contractual relationship where only one party stands to benefit directly, and that party is LUMA Energy,” UTIER said. “In fact, this contract expressly dismantles PREPA and deprives it of its functions, assets, and revenues. Furthermore, the contract does not serve PREPA, its creditors, or its ratepayers, in any conceivable way.

“However, the upcoming execution of the contract is not the issue before this court.

The question here is that the contract includes a precedent condition for its execution that requires the FOMB to request priority for LUMA Energy’s payments. While the contract with LUMA Energy is blatantly prejudicial to PREPA, in this case, the FOMB rubs sand in the

wound by requesting priority status, not even for the services that LUMA Energy will render to PREPA or its ratepayers, but for LUMA Energy’s transition costs to set up its own shop. To be clear, these expenses are those that PREPA will pay so that LUMA Energy can transition its operations to Puerto Rico and take over PREPA’s operations, without yet providing any services.”

Under the relevant case law, administrative expense priority status is granted only to those obligations that somehow help a debtor’s bankruptcy or keep the debtor’s business running.

“Yet, the FOMB is requesting this priority status for payments that have nothing to do with and contribute nothing to PREPA’s bankruptcy but instead take away PREPA’s business,” UTIER said.

Granting priority for LUMA Energy’s transition expenses will prioritize millions of dollars worth of payments to LUMA Energy for its self-serving actions over the claims of PREPA’s pensions, employees, bondholders, and other unsecured creditors. In the face of such a course of action, the Title III proceeding has lost its purpose, the union said.

UTIER said the District Court committed an error in law when it determined that Section 503(b)(1)(A) of the Bankruptcy Code, which allows priority status for “necessary costs and expenses to preserve the estate,” applies in the Title III proceedings under the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act of 2016 (generally known as PROMESA), where there is no estate to preserve.

Concerns raised over delegation of debt audit to comptroller

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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he Citizen Commission for the Comprehensive Audit of Public Credit expressed concern on Thursday over House Resolution 63, which seeks to delegate the audit of public debt to the Office of the Comptroller.

“The Comptroller’s Office does not have the tools to do a forensic debt audit, as is needed, because its experience has been with compliance audits,” said José González Taboada, a certified public accountant and professor of accounting at the University of Puerto Rico and member of the commission. “Furthermore, the current comptroller, Yesmín Valdivieso, has spoken out against and constantly refused to carry out an audit of the debt for more than five years.”

Nylca Muñoz, an attorney and law profes-

sor, added that “there is a conflict of interest with the Department of Justice, to whom the measure assigns technical support tasks in the audit.”

“Several of the bond issues have an opinion from the secretary of Justice certifying their legality and many of these issues were issued in violation of the Constitution, as has been indicated in pre-audits and by the Financial Oversight and Management Board itself,” she said.

For the commission, auditing the debt means assigning responsibility and responding to all the actions and omissions that led to the worst fiscal crisis in the island’s history and the largest bankruptcy under the jurisdiction of the United States government, Muñoz said.

González Taboada added that “[a]lthough the measure mandates referrals to the Department of Justice in the face of findings of illegal debt, we are concerned that the claim to promote

the cancellation of illegal debt through this mechanism will become academic, particularly given that, while this project is being announced, La Fortaleza and AAFAF [the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority] support that the [federal oversight] board submit a new Debt Adjustment Plan to the federal court that seeks to restructure, not cancel, the central government’s debt.”

The members of the commission also questioned the measure’s failure to include language that classifies all the information related to this audit as public, and that it does not have mechanisms for transparency and citizen participation in the audit process.

Another deficiency of the draft resolution, the commission said, is the meager budget that is allocated to audit 70 years of debt with only $1 million, when the commission created by

law had a budget of $5 million in expenses and the oversight board paid Kobre & Kim $16 million to study just a handful of issuances.

“We welcome any proposal for an independent audit of the public debt,” González Taboada said. “However, it cannot be a symbolic or futile exercise, but rather a comprehensive, independent, transparent audit with broad citizen participation so that it has credibility with the people.”

The commission is a non-profit corporation that has the mission of conducting a comprehensive audit of public credit for the benefit of the people of Puerto Rico. The commission, of a strictly citizen nature, gives continuity to the work begun by the Commission for the Comprehensive Audit of Public Credit created by Law 97 of 2015, which was eliminated in 2017.

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FEMA allocates $1.3 million to PR Police

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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he Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Thursday announced the allocation of $1.3 million by FEMA to the Puerto Rico Police Bureau to address damages caused by Hurricane Maria to various police facilities throughout the island.

The allocation brings to $45 million the amount in FEMA funds earmarked for repairing stations, and replacing essential police equipment and video system equipment on roads, FEMA said in a press release.

According to the federal agency, part of the recently obligated funds is for the acquisition of computers, maintenance and repair equipment for patrol cars and other essential items for some 47 police stations.

“Public safety is one of the main pillars of the country that preserves freedom, order and peace in our communities,” said José Baquero Tirado, the federal disaster recovery coordinator for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. “Our efforts in advancing recovery are essential to carry out this important social function.”

The allocation also includes more than $660,000 to repair the interior of the San Juan police headquarters.

The improvements include the replacement of

wood ceiling panels, cubicles and security systems in the facility.

In addition, an allocation of nearly $62,000 will be used to repair the structure and physical plant supporting the permanent work approved for the Police Bureau’s command center, which has some 22,000 employees, over half of whom are active police officers.

In addition, over $123,000 will be used to replace around 63 closed-circuit security cameras along Baldorioty de Castro Avenue. This equipment is indispensable in assisting police officers in their investigative efforts, said the press release.

“Our police officers need and deserve to have adequate places to work. It is equally important that they have the tools to help them fulfill their mission of saving lives and protecting property, said Department of Public Safety Secretary-designate Alexis Torres Ríos. “We appreciate FEMA’s work in awarding these obligations that will help support public safety in Puerto Rico.”

Funds were also earmarked to rehabilitate facilities at the Rescue Unit and Air Unit of the Isla Grande Airport and the Intelligence Section of the Special Weapons and Tactics Division (SWAT), both belonging to the Joint Forces of Rapid Action division, known as FURA. Obligations of approximately $30,000 and $7,000, respectively, will

enable those entities to acquire electronic equipment and furniture that was destroyed by the hurricane.

Manuel A. Laboy Rivera, executive director of the Puerto Rico Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience (COR3), said “the Puerto Rico Police is the first line of protection for our people in times of social crisis and natural disasters.”

“Our team at COR3 will provide the necessary assistance to guarantee the development of the projects under this new obligation,” he said.

More information on Puerto Rico’s recovery from Hurricane Maria can be found at fema.gov/disaster/4339 and recuperacion.pr, and by following the social networks at Facebook.com/FEMAPuertoRico, Facebook. com/COR3pr and Twitter @COR3pr.

Official: Coliseo de Puerto Rico will reopen; repairs in progress

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uerto Rico Convention District Authority Executive Director Mariela Vallines Fernández announced Thursday that the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot is preparing to reopen for repairs and for the resumption of events and concerts, while dismissing reports

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that the venue in Hato Rey is going to close permanently.

Vallines Fernández said improvements are currently being carried out on the coliseum’s structures and facilities.

“As of today, 14 capital improvement projects are being carried out with an investment of $2.2 million,” she said. “In addition, 27 other necessary improvement projects were identified and we are in the process of identifying and requesting the funds in order to start the work. The fiscal impact of the improvements is estimated at $19.3 million.”

The official said that “no improvements are made to a facility that is going to close” as she rejected the notion that the main venue for events and shows in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean is going to close operations, as stated by a media outlet.

“The ban on holding events in the coliseum as a result of the pandemic has been taken advantage of in order to do the improvement work,” Vallines Fernández said. “Let’s remember that the nature of these venues is to receive thousands of people per event; this makes it difficult to do work of this nature when the facilities are in operation.”

“We have event producers representing local and international artists interested in reserving their dates,” she added.

Vallines Fernández gave assurances that “the Coliseo de Puerto Rico is not bankrupt or closed; on the contrary,

when we reopen the public will find an improved facility, in optimal condition and ready to receive both our artists and the public, in a safe environment and in full compliance with the protocols for avoiding COVID infections.”

“We will soon face the situation that we will not have [enough] dates to accommodate the offer of shows that they want to present at our coliseum in Puerto Rico,” the official said.

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Desperate for light and warmth, Texans see no end for winter storm

By MARIA JIMENEZ MOYA, CAMPBELL ROBERTSON and ALLYSON WALLER

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alfway through the week that Texas froze over, everything seemed to be in a state of frigid chaos.

Some homes had no water at all while others watched it gush from burst pipes into their hallways and living rooms. In Galveston, Texas, where dozens had huddled on Monday and Tuesday in a county-run warming center, the newest pressing need was refrigerated trucks — to hold the bodies expected to be found in the days ahead. And on Wednesday more than 2.5 million people were still without power, while at least twice as many were being told to boil their water.

The onslaught of winter was far from finished. In central Texas, where many roads have already been impassible for days, another barrage of sleet and snow was expected late into Wednesday evening. The new storm was forecast to march toward the Mid-Atlantic states, hitting parts of North Carolina and Virginia that are already laboring under the ice from the last storm.

In Houston, Catherine Saenz and her family, like most of their neighbors, have had no power or water for days, as the city remains in the grip of the fiercest winter in memory. But they are fortunate: They have a fireplace.

Even fireplaces have to be fed, though, and to keep the two parents, two daughters and two grandmothers from freezing, her husband has spent hours in the afternoon scouring the neighborhood for fallen trees and rotten wood.

As the storm moved east, Duke Energy warned its customers in the Carolinas that there could be 1 million power outages in the days ahead. Maryland’s governor, Larry Hogan, gave a similar warning, telling residents to keep their phones charged and to prepare themselves for the coming snow and ice.

Already, at least 31 people have died nationwide since the punishing winter weather began last week. Some died in crashes on icy roads, some succumbed to the cold and others were killed when desperate attempts at finding some warmth turned deadly.

Across the country, homes were still without power — more than 150,000 outages in Oregon, 111,000 in Louisiana and 88,000 in Kentucky as of Wednesday afternoon — but nowhere was it as bad as it is in Texas. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages the state’s power grid, said Wednesday that about 700,000 homes had electricity restored overnight but that more than 2.6 million customers were still without power. The Houston mayor’s office posted on Twitter Wednesday that the power outages there would “likely last another few days.”

During a news conference Wednesday, Gov. Greg Abbott said there remained a lack of power within the electrical grid. “Every source of power that the state of Texas has been compromised,” Abbott said, from coal and renewable energy to nuclear power.

He signed an executive order Wednesday directing

Signs block the entrance to Interstate 10 due to ice and snow in San Antonio, Texas on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. Millions in Texas were still without electricity, while more snow and ice was expected to sweep across the region in the coming days. natural gas providers to halt all shipments of gas outside the state, ordering them to instead direct those sales to Texas power generators.

W. Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, said several state agencies have been working together to meet the demands of nursing homes, hospitals and dialysis centers, which have reported a variety of problems including water main breaks and oxygen shortages. As another storm moves in, the state increased the number of warming centers to more than 300.

Water has also emerged as a major problem, with almost 7 million Texans under a boil water advisory, and about 263,000 people affected by nonfunctioning water providers.

The crisis highlighted a deeper warning for power systems throughout the country. Electric grids can be engineered to handle a wide range of severe conditions — as long as grid operators can reliably predict the dangers ahead. But as climate change accelerates, many electric grids will face novel and extreme weather events that go beyond the historical conditions those grids were designed for, putting the systems at risk of catastrophic failure.

In a sign of just how fundamental the needs are in Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has sent blankets, bottled water and meals, in addition to 60 generators, to help the state power “critical infrastructure” like hospitals. FEMA will also provide the state with diesel fuel “to ensure the continued availability of backup power,” Jen Psaki, White House press secretary, said at a briefing on Wednesday.

Despite hard-won experience with natural disasters like hurricanes, this was a whole new kind of misery in Texas, all the more distressing because it was so unfamiliar. Calls were coming into 911 and other law enforcement lines at three times the normal rate, said Jason Spencer, a spokesperson for the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, from people desperately seeking advice about burst pipes, asking what the symptoms of hypothermia might be or just looking for some deliverance from the bitter cold.

Emergency workers, many leaving behind their own families in frozen and powerless homes, have had to respond to calls for assistance by navigating dangerously icy roads.

Some of the direst situations will only be learned about in the days to come.

“We’re fully expecting that when things start to thaw out and people start checking on each other that we’re going to find some people who didn’t make it through the storm,” Spencer said. “We’ve responded to death calls, we’ve had suicides, we’ve had at least one homeless person who we believe died from hypothermia.”

But, he said, that is likely “just the tip of the iceberg.”

That disasters do not fall evenly on the rich and poor is a lesson Texans have learned from the past, and seemed to be no less true this week.

“I understand we live in a less-cared-for neighborhood, but we’re human like everyone else,” said Justin Chavez, who had been living with his wife and eight children in a powerless home in San Antonio for days.

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Woman, 90, walked 6 miles in the snow for a vaccine

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o get her coronavirus vaccination last weekend, Frances H. Goldman, 90, went to an extraordinary length: 6 miles. On

It was too snowy to drive at 8 a.m. Sunday when Goldman took out her hiking poles, dusted off her snow boots and started out from her home in the Seattle neighborhood of View Ridge. She made her way to the Burke-Gilman Trail on the edge of the city, where she wended her way alongside a set of old railroad tracks, heading south. Then she traversed the residential streets of Laurelhurst to reach the Seattle Children’s Hospital.

It was a quiet walk, Goldman said. People were scarce. She caught glimpses of Lake Washington through falling snow. It would have been more difficult, she said, had she not gotten a bad hip replaced last year.

At the hospital, about 3 miles and an

hour from home, she got the shot. Then she bundled up again and walked back the way she had come.

It was an extraordinary effort — but that was not the extent of it. Goldman, who became eligible for a vaccine last month, had already tried everything she could think of to secure an appointment. She had made repeated phone calls and fruitless visits to the websites of local pharmacies, hospitals and government health departments. She enlisted a daughter in New York and a friend in Arizona to help her find an appointment.

Finally, on Friday, a visit to the Seattle Children’s Hospital website yielded results.

“Lo and behold, a whole list of times popped up,” she said in a phone interview Wednesday. “I couldn’t believe my eyes. I went and got my glasses to make sure I was seeing it right.”

Then came the snow, which would ultimately drop more than 10 inches in one of

Seattle’s snowiest weekends on record. Wary of driving on hilly, unplowed roads, Goldman decided to go to the hospital on foot. She took a test walk part of the way Saturday to get a sense of how long the trip might take.

And on Sunday, she trekked all the way to the hospital to get her vaccine.

The appointment went smoothly, she said. And it carried a special significance for Goldman because she could recall the joy of national celebrations in 1955, when another important vaccine was developed.

“I can remember back to when the polio vaccine was rolled out,” Goldman said. She was a young mother at the time, and polio was sickening tens of thousands of children, sometimes leading to paralysis or death, and she remembers taking her children to get the vaccine at a school in Cincinnati, where she lived.

That vaccine rollout “was done in a very organized manner, and it made a huge difference in the way people could live in the summer — not only that people didn’t get sick, but they also didn’t have to live with the threat of getting sick.”

This time around, Goldman has been disappointed by the vaccine distribution. “There’s no excuse for it being done the way it was,” she said. “It was unorganized. Completely unorganized.”

Seattle is just one of many places across the United States where residents have struggled to get access to the vaccine.

“There’s just not enough vaccine across the state and the nation,” said Sharon Bogan, a spokeswoman for the Public Health Department of Seattle and King County. “Even under the best of circumstances, we knew this would take time. We know that eligible residents like Ms. Goldman are having trouble accessing ap-

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pointments given limited supply of the vaccine.”

The rollout in Washington state has been complicated by failures of technology, shortfalls in equity and a persistent imbalance of supply and demand. State officials have struggled to set up the infrastructure necessary to schedule and vaccinate the millions of people who are already eligible.

And while similar stories have played out across the country, vaccine distribution is slowly improving in the United States. President Joe Biden said this week that every American who wanted a COVID-19 vaccination should be able to get one by the end of July, but he has also cautioned that the logistics of distribution will continue to pose difficulties.

In King County, health officials grappling with limited supplies have been working to deliver the vaccine equitably, according to Bogan. “We are focusing our efforts on those eligible high-risk persons who are not connected to a doctor or the health system and setting up sites to reach older adults in communities that have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19,” she said.

Goldman is scheduled to receive her second dose of the vaccine next month. She plans to drive.

And when this is all over, she hopes to host people in her home again, resume her work as a volunteer at a nearby arboretum and hold her new great-grandchild, whom she has refrained from touching at all.

For now, she is fielding a lot of phone calls — her long walk has been covered by numerous local and national news outlets.

The attention, she said, has not bothered her.

“I hope that it will inspire people to get their shots,” she said. “I think it’s important for the whole country.”

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For Black aides on Capitol Hill, Jan. 6 brought particular trauma

J

abir McKnight woke up on the morning of Jan. 6 with an uneasy feeling.

The day before had been great: He and another congressional staff member had celebrated Founders Day for their historically Black fraternity, Kappa Alpha Psi. But as McKnight walked that Wednesday to Capitol Hill, where he had always felt safe, images of white supremacist violence in Charleston, South Carolina, and Charlottesville, Virginia, began to race through his head.

Hours before the violent pro-Trump mob rampaged through the halls of Congress, leaving nearly 140 police officers injured and five people dead, McKnight recalled, he could not shake the sense that something very bad was about to happen.

“The writing was on the wall for this,” said McKnight, 23, who is the communications director for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas.

He pointed to examples of right-wing violence in recent months and years. “For Black staffers, it’s a little bit different, because a lot of these attacks are directed toward our people,” he said. “We’ve seen these things happen over and over and over again. I don’t think we were blinded that people who are domestic terrorists would say, ‘Oh, it’s the Capitol, we’ll stop there.’”

Symbols of racism and white supremacy were on full display at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Rioters paraded the Confederate battle flag through the halls. One man wore a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt, others flew the flag of the fictional country Kekistan, which mimics a Nazi war flag.

Black Capitol Police officers have described the intense racism they endured from the mob; one told Buzzfeed News he was called a racist slur 15 times, causing him to break down in tears.

Only a small percentage of congressional aides are Black. Since the attack, McKnight and others who were in nearby offices in the Capitol complex that day have been talking among themselves about how close the violence came to them, what it means to experience such a virulent expression of racism in what is supposed to be a citadel of liberty, and the suspicion they now feel toward other aides, members of Congress and random people they encounter as they go about their business on Capitol Hill.

“It makes the trauma worse,” McKnight said. “Because as you’re walking around, you don’t know who could have been involved with what.”

For some Black staff members, the Capitol attack brought back memories of how they had tried to avoid people they felt could be prone to racist violence — only to find them at their place of work.

“This was the ugliest display of racism that I’ve seen ever. And I’m from the South,” says Remmington Belford, 30, the communications director for Rep. Yvette

Jabir McKnight, Mike McQuerry, and Remmington Belford, sit on the House steps at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. They were all in the Capitol during the mob attack on Jan. 6.

Clarke, D-N.Y. “There’s a specific demographic of people that you know conduct themselves that way, and you find your way away from them. Those people came to Capitol Hill. The people who believe in supremacy due to genetics were on Capitol Hill, and they were armed, and they were incensed.”

The staff members described feelings of fear about the physical threat and anger about the psychic damage done by the mob.

“I never though I’d see the Confederate flag walked through the halls of Congress,” said Mike McQuerry, 50, the communications director for Delegate Stacey Plaskett, D-Virgin Islands and an impeachment manager in the trial of former President Donald Trump. “As much as we think we’ve had progress, we haven’t progressed that much.”

McQuerry said that white rioters, using force and rage, gained access to parts of the Capitol that had always been off-limits to him, like Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office or the floor of the Senate.

As they watched the mayhem that day, the aides said, they feared for their lives, realizing that not only lawmakers could be attacked but so could they.

After the siege, congressional aides have reported trouble sleeping and feeling anxious, claustrophobic, angry and depressed. Lawmakers have requested additional resources to support the mental health needs of employees in response to surging demand.

“It was the first time I realized that post-traumatic stress syndrome is a thing,” said Belford, who is from Houston. “We as staffers are still dealing with the trauma.”

Despite what they experienced that day, McQuerry, who is from Detroit, said staff members felt an obligation to push on with work.

“There’s not that many of us that work up here,” he said of Black aides to members of Congress. “It’s affected us tremendously. We have to just push through. I think we deal with it every day. PTSD is really real.”

During the riot, some Democratic lawmakers said they thought they might be able to blend in with Republican members of Congress to avoid the violence. Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., said recently on the House floor that he recognized his privilege when this thought occurred to him.

“Within moments, I realized that blending in was not an option available to our colleagues color,” he said.

“So I’m here tonight to say to my brothers and sisters in Congress, and all around our country: I’m sorry. I’m sorry. For I had never understood, really understood, what privilege really means.”

Aides who represent members of color said they were well aware that Black lawmakers could be targeted because “our members are some of the most vocal against Trump’s harmful and divisive practices,” Belford said. “The fear was very present. We cannot blend in.

We cannot not be visible. Our skin color often becomes a target.”

As traumatizing as the riot was, the staff members said they had also received an outpouring of support.

During the attack, Plaskett posted on Twitter a photograph of her staff, including McQuerry, telling the public they were safe. McQuerry said he received a flood of texts containing messages such as “I love you” and “be safe.”

McKnight said he was also inundated with support from friends, family and acquaintances.

“We could have lost our lives,” he said. “Not only were people watching, but people cared.”

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Promotions for female generals were delayed over fears of Trump’s reaction

President Barack Obama speaks with Gen. Jacqueline D. Van Ovost of the Air Force before boarding Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Dec. 6, 2011.

Last fall, the Pentagon’s most senior leaders agreed that two female top generals should be promoted to elite, four-star commands — but the leaders feared that any candidates other than white men for jobs mostly held by white men might run into turmoil once their nominations got to the White House during the Trump administration.

By ERIC SCHMIT and HELENE COOPER

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Ovost of the Air Force and Lt. Gen. Laura J. Richardson of the Army — the Trump White House would replace them with their own candidates before leaving office.

So the Pentagon officials agreed on an unusual strategy: They held back their recommendations until after the November elections, betting that if Joe Biden won, he and his aides would be more supportive of the Pentagon picks than Trump, who had feuded with Esper and has a history of disparaging women. They stuck to the plan even after Trump fired Esper six days after the election.

“They were chosen because they were the best officers for the jobs, and I didn’t want their promotions derailed because someone in the Trump White House saw that I recommended them or thought DOD was playing politics,” Esper said in an interview, referring to the Department of Defense. “This was not the case.

They were the best qualified. We were doing the right thing.”

The strategy may soon pay off. In the next few weeks, Esper’s successor, Lloyd Austin, and Milley are expected to send the delayed recommendations to the White House, where officials are expected to endorse the nominations and formally submit them to the Senate for approval.

The story of the two officers’ unusual path to promotion — Van Ovost to head Transportation Command, which oversees the military’s global transportation network; and Richardson to head Southern Command, which oversees military activities in Latin America — underscores the uncertainty clouding the final weeks of the Trump administration and the unorthodox steps that senior officials took to shield the Defense Department from actions they believed could jeopardize policy and personnel.

Pentagon officials say Esper and Milley had good reason to worry.

Trump’s abrupt firing of Esper and the installation of a group of hard-line loyalists into senior jobs at the Pentagon elevated officials who had pushed for more aggressive actions against Iran and for an imminent withdrawal of most U.S. forces from Afghanistan over the objections of the military.

Trump also named one of those loyalists, Michael Ellis, to be general counsel at the National Security Agency, over the objections of the agency’s director, Gen. Paul Nakasone. The White House rushed to appoint several Trump loyalists to Pentagon advisory boards, the governing boards of military service academies and other positions that could outlast the Trump administration.

Trump, in the last tumultuous months of his presidency, had grown sour on both Esper

and Milley, whom he viewed as too open to the views of the movement for change that swept the country after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police last year.

When Milley in June apologized for joining Trump in his photo-op walk across Lafayette Square that had been emptied of protesters by law enforcement in riot gear using tear gas, Trump derided his top general’s apology to aides.

Then, when Esper and Milley, also in June, floated a plan to rename 10 Army bases that honored Confederate generals, Trump smacked them down in a string of Twitter messages, writing that “my administration will not even consider the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations.”

And after Esper and Milley both opposed Trump’s expressed wishes to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty troops on U.S. streets to battle supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, Trump made clear to aides that he was unhappy with both men. He was talked out of firing Esper last summer out of concerns of injecting the appearance of even more instability into an already tumultuous administration. But Nov. 9, days after he lost the election, Trump made good on his wishes and replaced his defense secretary.

Amid these hectic personnel changes and the unpredictability of a department led

by Christopher Miller, an inexperienced acting defense secretary, Esper and Milley decided to hold back some top nominees, including Van Ovost and Richardson, until Trump and his aides left office.

Some former Trump administration officials disputed the notion that the nominations were delayed because of any White House animus toward female candidates. The Senate was unlikely to have time to consider any year-end nominations, the officials said, so the Pentagon decided to submit their names after the new Congress took office in January.

“It was about timing considerations, not that they were women,” Miller, who served as acting defense secretary for nearly three months, said in an interview.

Had Trump won reelection, officials said, Milley would most likely have sent the recommendations to the White House for approval, hoping for the best. But the general and Esper thought the personnel choices faced a smoother selection process under a new Biden administration.

Biden and Austin could always pick other candidates, but Esper and Milley were confident the new team would endorse their selections, who had been vetted and evaluated over several months.

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Facebook and Google diverge in response to proposed Australian law

By MIKE ISAAC, DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI, DAMIEN CAVE and EDMUND LEE

F

or months, Facebook and Google have been locked in a stare-down with news publishers and lawmakers in Australia.

At the heart of the fight is whether the tech giants should pay news organizations for the news articles that are shared on their networks. Under a proposed law from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, both Google and Facebook would be required to negotiate with media publishers and compensate them for the content that appears on their sites.

Facebook and Google have fought hard to prevent the Australian law — which is expected to pass this week or next — from forcing their hands. But on Wednesday, the two companies sharply diverged on how to head off that regulatory future.

Google began the day by unveiling a three-year global agreement with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to pay for the publisher’s news content, one of several such deals it has announced recently where it appears to be effectively capitulating to publishers’ demands. Hours later, Facebook took the opposite tack and said it would restrict people and publishers from sharing or viewing news links in Australia, in a move that was effective immediately.

In conciliatory language toward publishers, Don Harrison, president for global partnerships at Google, said that the company had invested to help news organizations over the years and that it hoped “to announce even more partnerships soon.”

Facebook struck a distinctly different tone. “The proposed law fundamentally misunderstands the relationship between our platform and publishers who use it to share news content,” William Easton, managing director of Facebook Australia and New Zealand, said of the draft Australian legislation.

The divergence illustrates the different ways that Facebook and Google approach news. For years, the two internet giants had treated news publishers more or less the same. Both had little incentive to pay news outlets for content and argued, correctly, that they helped drive a lot of readers to news stories that would otherwise go unnoticed on lightly trafficked websites.

Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., Sept. 12, 2017. With Australia moving to make the tech companies pay for news, Facebook said it would block news links in the country while Google has struck deals to pay publishers.

But the steady decline of newspapers — juxtaposed against the billions of dollars Google and Facebook reaped in digital advertising — intensified questions over whether the platforms had a responsibility to financially support publishers. In recent years, both companies started paying news organizations through various programs as criticism about misinformation on their platforms seemed to heighten the need for quality journalism.

Now the situation in Australia has underlined that the lockstep approach can go only so far because Facebook and Google ultimately value news differently. Google’s mission statement has long been to organize the world’s information, an ambition that is not achievable without up-to-theminute news. For Facebook, news is not as central. Instead, the company positions itself as a network of users coming together to share photos, political views, internet memes, videos — and, on occasion, news articles.

“Google is already used to playing a different game in every different country,” Siva Vaidhyanathan, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia, said of the companies’ different approaches. While he said Facebook was taking what it considers a moral stance, Google “may have gotten beyond

this fantasy of a universalized approach to doing business in the world.”

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the country’s top competition authority, has spent the past year drafting a bill for the Australian Parliament that would require Facebook and Google to negotiate with media publishers and pay them for content. The legislation includes a code of conduct that would allow media companies to bargain individually or collectively with digital platforms over the value of their news content.

Google and Facebook saw the proposed legislation as a worrisome precedent. As the negotiations over the proposal continued throughout 2020, both companies openly said that they might have to resort to more drastic measures against it.

In August, Facebook said it would block users and news organizations in Australia from sharing local and international news stories on its social network and Instagram if the bill were to move forward. Last month, Google also threatened to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government approved the legislation.

But in recent weeks, Google has sought to blunt the impact of the proposed legislation by striking deals with media companies such as Reuters and The Financial Ti-

mes. Last year, Google said it would commit to paying $1 billion in license fees over three years to news publishers for content that shows up within Google’s News page, as well as Discover, the news feed that appears in Google’s mobile search app.

Google’s agreement on Wednesday with Murdoch’s News Corp. was particularly notable. Both have shown open animosity toward each other for years, dating back to the earliest days of the search engine.

Facebook’s decision on Wednesday was consistent with its past statements about blocking news links in Australia. The move could prove deeply difficult for Australians, with publishers no longer being able to share or post any content from their Facebook pages and users unable to view news articles shared on Facebook by overseas publishers.

Within Australia, Facebook’s news ban seemed to roll out haphazardly. News pages worked and then didn’t work, with error messages for some users and streams of posts disappearing for others.

But by 9 a.m. in Sydney, the impact was apparent and even more wide-reaching than Facebook’s statements suggested. In addition to news publishers being blocked, pages for Fire and Rescue New South Wales, the Bureau of Meteorology and state police departments had all been wiped clean. Even state government pages with public health information about the pandemic were blocked, prompting outrage from many officials and lawmakers, including Sen. Sarah Hanson-Young of South Australia.

In a statement, Facebook’s Easton said that the social network had largely helped the media industry and that publishers would not be able to increase their revenue in the same way without the company’s aid.

“The value exchange between Facebook and publishers runs in favor of the publishers,” he said. “Last year Facebook generated approximately 5.1 billion free referrals to Australian publishers worth an estimated AU$407 million.”

Josh Frydenberg, the Australian Federal Treasurer and deputy leader of the Liberal Party, said in a tweet that he and Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, had a “constructive discussion” on Wednesday.

They would continue to “try and find a pathway forward,” Frydenberg said.

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A shadowy but powerful Wall St. firm has its moment in Washington

The head of Citadel, Kenneth C. Griffin, is scheduled to testify on Thursday before a House committee looking into the recent GameStop trading frenzy.

By MATT PHILLIPS and KATE KELLY

T

he GameStop saga was a David-versusGoliath story pitting small traders against big hedge funds and a cautionary tale about what happens when fast-moving Silicon Valley collides with the heavily regulated world of Wall Street.

Among its ensemble cast is one of the finance world’s most influential — and perhaps least visible — figures, Chicago billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin.

And when the House Financial Services Committee meets Thursday to question key players in the GameStop madness, Griffin will

be asked about the two distinct roles his companies played in a two-week trading frenzy that created and destroyed billions of dollars in wealth.

The first business, Citadel, is a hedge fund firm that had placed a small bet that GameStop shares would fall. It suffered when the shares rose because millions of small investors began buying up the stock, but not nearly as badly as another hedge fund, Melvin Capital, which took a $2 billion investment from Citadel and some of its employees to shore up its finances.

The second business, Citadel Securities, is a wholesale broker that says it handles more than a quarter of all stock trading in the United States. It pays Robinhood and other retail brokerages for the right to fulfill their customers’ trades, and makes money by pocketing tiny price discrepancies between buy and sell orders, which can quickly add up. And as small investors were furiously buying and selling GameStop shares — many through trading apps such as Robinhood — Citadel Securities was doing brisk business.

“Citadel is one of the many really gigantic financial firms that are incredibly important and interwoven throughout the financial system but are never visible to the public,” said Dennis M. Kelleher, president and chief executive officer of Better Markets, a nonprofit group that supports additional financial regulation. “They operate in the shadows and

want to stay in the shadows and don’t want anyone looking at how they conduct their business.”

On Thursday, lawmakers will put a spotlight on Griffin. He is scheduled — along with the chief executives of Robinhood and Reddit, the social media site — to testify before the House committee about the GameStop rally.

Also on the witness list is Keith Gill, a Reddit user and YouTube poster who made millions off the GameStop trade he helped popularize, and Gabe Plotkin, the founder and chief executive of Melvin, who was so badly squeezed he accepted Citadel’s help.

In particular, Griffin will have to address speculation that he used his firms’ involvement to manipulate the situation for his own benefit. Small investors who were irritated that Robinhood put curbs on GameStop trading have suggested that Citadel was behind the limits, applying pressure to Robinhood to protect its own bet against the video game retailer — assertions that both Citadel and Robinhood have denied.

“There’s a giant pachyderm running around, and that’s the insane theory that we induced Robinhood or any other firm to impose trading restrictions on GameStop,” Griffin said in an interview Wednesday. “Never in my life have I seen such a completely absurd theory.”

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., who leads the committee, said the hearing — the first of three she has planned — would be a fact-finding mission.

“They will tell their story,” she said of Citadel and the other witnesses. “We hope the hearing will give us some facts, and a very clear understanding of who did what.”

For Griffin, who began trading as a sophomore at Harvard, the answer to such questions will depend on precisely which arm of his financial empire officials are asking about.

Citadel — the hedge fund — had only limited holdings of GameStop and other “meme” stocks that surged last month. As of Jan. 22, the Friday before GameStop went through the roof, Citadel’s bet against GameStop was limited to just 92 shares, said a person familiar with the firm’s position at the time.

But after GameStop started soaring, Griffin — one of the financial world’s savviest operators — spotted an opening at the beleaguered Melvin.

One of Griffin’s lieutenants called Plotkin to express an interest in investing, Griffin said. By day’s end, Citadel and Melvin had a

handshake deal. Citadel and some of its senior managers would buy a stake of less than 10% in Melvin for $2 billion in cash, said a person familiar with the details of the transaction, who was not authorized to disclose confidential details of it. That money, along with $750 million from the hedge fund Point72, allowed Melvin to weather heavy losses as GameStop — a stock it had bet would fall — soared more than 600%.

Melvin’s losses were stunning: 53% in January. Citadel, which by then had a small exposure to Melvin’s losses and a loss on its own GameStop investment, was down 3%.

(The S&P 500 was down 1.1% for the month.)

But the opportunity that GameStop’s rise presented to Griffin’s hedge fund is entwined with the other role his companies played, in particular Citadel Securities. And it is here that aggrieved investors have smelled a conspiracy.

On the morning of Jan. 28, Robinhood, the Silicon Valley startup that had become a go-to destination for small investors, curbed the selling of GameStop and a few other stocks. The reasons were not fully explained, and they had the immediate effect of reversing the rally.

Users were furious — first with Robinhood, and then with Citadel.

Griffin said he and his team were paying little attention to the online chatter because they were occupied with the enormous flood of trades. On Jan. 28, for example, Citadel Securities handled trades totaling 7.4 billion shares — roughly the same as the entire stock market volume on a given day in 2019.

But once Griffin realized the reputational risk of the rumor mill, he put out statements from both firms to deny any role in Robinhood’s decision to limit trading.

Citadel Securities had no commercial reason to want to slow or stop the trading, Griffin and other company officials said, because of its business model. The company collects the tiny gap between a buy and sell price on an individual stock order as a fee, and slower trading limited Citadel Securities’ ability to make money.

But the vitriol aimed at Citadel has not abated, even after Robinhood’s chief executive, Vlad Tenev, came forward with the reason for the slowdown: The heavy trading in a wildly swinging stock by Robinhood’s users meant it needed to make a hefty safety-net payment to the industry-run clearinghouse that finalizes trades.

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Wall Street slips as tech slide resumes, jobless claims rise

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all Street’s main indexes fell on Thursday as investors resumed a shift out of big technology-related firms, while an unexpected rise in weekly jobless claims pointed to a fragile recovery in the labor market.

Shares of Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, Tesla Inc and Alphabet Inc were down between 1.1% and 2.5%, pressuring both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq.

Facebook Inc shares slipped 2.4% as Wall Street assessed the wider ramifications of its move to block all news content in Australia.

A stronger-than-expected earnings season, progress in countrywide vaccination efforts and hopes of a $1.9 trillion dollar stimulus package helped U.S. stock indexes hit record highs at the beginning of the week.

However, concerns over a potential rise in inflation have pushed investors to book profit on stocks with high valuation in the S&P 500 technology and communications services sectors, which have underpinned a 76% rise in the benchmark index since its March 2020 lows.

“There was a lot of irrational exuberance built into things heading into the year ... then we started to enter an environment where risk actually became a factor once again and notably inflationary risk,” said Peter Essele, head of portfolio management at Commonwealth Financial Network in Boston.

“Now it’s a question of whether the fundamentals are going to match the level of prices that currently exist in the market.”

The Labor Department’s report showed initial claims for state unemployment benefits were 861,000 last week, compared with 848,000 in the prior week, partly due to potential claims related to the temporary closure of automobile plants due to a global semiconductor chip shortage.

“It’s going to be some time and a choppy return to a normal employment environment. But, by and large, as vaccines begin to take hold as we get out from under the COVID overhang, you’re going to see a decline in unemployment,” Essele said.

Only the defensive utilities sector was in positive territory, out of the 11 major S&P 500 sectors.

Walmart Inc slid 5.5% after the world’s largest retailer missed quarterly profit estimates and predicted fiscal 2022 net sales to rise in low single digits.

At 12:13 p.m. ET the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 275.87 points, or 0.87%, at 31,337.15, the S&P 500 was down 39.18 points, or 1.00%, at 3,892.15 and the Nasdaq Composite was down 199.51 points, or 1.43%, at 13,765.99.

Marriott International Inc was down 0.1% after reporting a quarterly loss as the hotel chain’s bookings declined due to pandemic-induced travel restrictions.

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Cuban-made coronavirus vaccine nears final phase of testing to obtain drugs produced abroad.

The island’s biotech sector is also well developed. Cuba makes eight of the 12 vaccines administered to children on the island and exports vaccines to more than 30 countries.

“It is a biotech juggernaut,” said Gail Reed, the editor of MEDICC Review, a peerreviewed journal of Cuban and developing world medicine, about the island. “The accomplishments are undeniable.”

Cuban scientists have also developed innovative treatments, including a lung cancer vaccine, which is in trials with the New York-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.

“Sometimes people think because it’s Cuba, they’re just making these drugs in their garage and giving them to people, and that’s not true,” said Candace Johnson, Roswell Park’s president. “They’re very much practicing with exactly the same high stanA technician working on the Sovereign 2 vaccine in Havana. The island hopes to dards that every other country does producinoculate all of its population and begin exports abroad by year’s end. ing these drugs.”

Johnson said that Cuban scientists

By ED AUGUSTIN and NATALIE KITROEFF irresistible cocktail of sun, sand and a shot demonstrated that they “adhered to all the appropriate standards and controls” before of Sovereign 2. eople wait in line for four hours to buy Vicente Vérez, one of the scientists she was able to bring the lung cancer drug detergent in Havana. Cuban pharma- leading the team that developed the vac- to New York.

Producing the coronavirus vaccine cies are out of pain medication. There cine, has said that the island could offer vacwas made more complicated by the Trump are national bread shortages. cinations to all foreigners who travel there.

And yet the Cuban government says “It’s not just medicine and humani- administration’s tightening of sanctions on it is on the brink of an extraordinary scien- tarianism; there’s a big economic payoff if Cuba. Scientists say they haven’t been able tific achievement: the mass production of a they can get the virus under control,” said to buy all the equipment and raw materials coronavirus vaccine invented on the island. Richard Feinberg, a Cuba expert at the Uni- they need, including spectrometers used for One of the four vaccines developed versity of California San Diego. “It will be quality control. The two research groups

by Cuban scientists will enter a final phase not only immediate income, but a boost to working on the drug have only one that is of testing next month, a crucial step toward the reputation of the Cuban pharmaceutical powerful enough to analyze the vaccine, regulatory approval that, if successful, could biotech sector, which will enable them to Guillén said, and it’s about 20 years old.

“Cubans not only are able to make old put the island on the path to inoculate its market other medical products.” entire population and begin exports abroad Cuban scientists say the government cars still work, they can manage to make by year’s end. will probably give away some doses to poor old equipment work,” said Mitchell Valdes If the vaccine proves safe and effec- countries, in keeping with its long-standing Sosa, the director of the Cuban Neuroscitive, it would hand the Cuban government a practice of strengthening international re- ences Center.

The Sovereign 2 vaccine has prosignificant political victory — and a shot at lations by donating medicine and sendgressed through two phases of trials and is rescuing the nation from economic ruin. For ing doctors to address public health crises set to enter a third phase, where it will be a country that has for decades touted its so- abroad. phisticated health care system as evidence “Cuba always donated vaccines,” said tested on around 150,000 people in Cuba of the benefits of socialism, the vaccine also Gerardo Guillén, a scientist developing two and in Iran, which has shown interest in puroffers a unique public relations opportunity. of the four vaccines at the state-owned Cen- chasing the drug. Mexico is also in talks with The vaccine heading for a final phase ter for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnol- the Cubans to participate in the third phase of trials. of trials is called Sovereign 2, in a nod to the ogy. “We help other countries.”

Like the vaccine being developed by pride the island takes in its autonomy, deCuba began to pour money into bioNovavax, a U.S. company, Sovereign 2 is a spite decades of hostility from its neighbor tech in the 1980s, as part of Fidel Castro’s protein-based vaccine that contains part of to the north. Already, Cuba is floating the drive to make the nation self-sufficient in the idea of enticing tourists to its shores with the face of a U.S. embargo that made it difficult the COVID-19 virus. It requires three doses

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administered in two-week intervals and, unlike the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, does not need to be stored in deep freeze — which may be a draw for poorer countries that often lack the equipment to keep so many doses frozen.

Vérez said in a text message that Sovereign 2 is “very safe with very few adverse effects,” a requirement to move onto a third and final phase of trials. Scientists will not publish its efficacy rate until the trials are completed. It is still unclear whether the vaccine will protect against new variants, one of which has already been detected on the island.

And opening the doors to vaccinehungry tourists may create new problems.

Cuba limited the spread of the virus early on, leaning on its tight control of the population and an efficient system for delivering health care. Anyone diagnosed with the virus was immediately hospitalized and put on a mixture of Cuban and generic drugs.

The government isolated their close contacts and monitored them for symptoms. Cuba reported just 12,225 confirmed coronavirus cases and 146 deaths in 2020, among the lowest rates in the Western Hemisphere.

Then, following the decision to open international air travel in November after a seven-month closure, case numbers spiked.

Authorities are now battling the worst outbreak since the pandemic began, with more cases registered in January than in all of last year, and recently set a 9 p.m. curfew in Havana.

The plan to open vaccination to tourists appears, to some, to be a risky and shrewdly capitalist gambit to attract visitors, and with them the hard currency the island desperately needs. The combination of the pandemic and sanctions have created the worst economic crisis the country has experienced since the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, experts say.

Cuban scientists, however, insist the goal is to spread health. Any profit, they say, is merely a side effect.

“We are not a multinational where return on investment is our No. 1 priority,” Vérez, who is leading development of the vaccine, said in a recent news conference. “Our first priority is to create health, and return on investment is a consequence of that.”

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U.K. approves study that will deliberately infect volunteers with coronavirus

By BENJAMIN MUELLER

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n the coming weeks, a small, carefully selected group of volunteers is expected to arrive on the 11th floor of a London hospital to be given what the rest of the world’s 7.8 billion people have been trying to avoid: a coronavirus infection.

They will be administered tiny droplets of the virus into their nostrils as part of a plan authorized by British regulators Wednesday to deliberately infect unvaccinated volunteers with the coronavirus.

The scientists hope to eventually expose vaccinated people to the virus as a way of comparing the effectiveness of different vaccines. But before that, the project’s backers have to expose unvaccinated volunteers in order to determine the lowest dose of the virus that will reliably infect them.

By controlling the amount of the virus people are subjected to and monitoring them from the moment they are infected, scientists hope to discover things about how the immune system responds to the coronavirus that would be impossible outside a lab — and to develop ways of directly comparing the efficacy of treatments and vaccines.

“We are going to learn an awful lot about the immunology of the virus,” Peter Openshaw, an Imperial College London professor involved in the study, said Wednesday. He added that the study would be able “to accelerate not only understanding of diseases caused by infection, but also to accelerate the discovery of new treatments and of vaccines.”

The idea of such a study, called a human

challenge trial, has been hotly debated since the early months of the pandemic.

In the past, scientists have deliberately exposed volunteers to diseases like typhoid and cholera to test vaccines. But infected people could be cured of those diseases; COVID-19 has no known cure, putting the scientists in charge of the British study in largely uncharted ethical territory.

To ensure that participants do not become seriously ill, the British study will be restricted to healthy volunteers, in an 18 to 30 age range.

But there have been severe COVID-19 cases even in those types of patients, and the long-term consequences of an infection are also largely unknown. The age restrictions also may make it difficult to translate the findings to older adults or people with preexisting conditions, whose immune responses might be different and who are the target group for treatments and vaccines.

“It will be a limited study,” said Ian Jones, a professor of virology at the University of Reading who is not part of the study. “And you could argue that, by definition, it’s not going to study those in whom it’s most important to know what’s going on.”

For now, the only part of the study to be formally authorized by British regulators is the experiment to determine the lowest dose of virus needed to infect people.

After being exposed to the virus, the participants will be isolated for two weeks in the hospital. For that and the year’s worth of follow-up appointments that are planned, they will be paid 4,500 pounds, or about $6,200. The researchers said that would compensate people for time away

British regulators ruled that scientists could begin deliberately infecting volunteers with the coronavirus as part of the world’s first study of how vaccinated people respond to being intentionally exposed to the virus. from jobs or families without creating too large an economic incentive for people to participate.

When the idea of human challenge trials was first floated last year, some scientists saw it as a way of shaving off crucial time in the race to identify a vaccine. Unlike in large clinical trials, in which scientists wait for vaccinated people to encounter the virus in their communities, researchers in this project would eventually purposely infect vaccinated people.

Now that several vaccines have been authorized, the goals of this human challenge trial are somewhat different.

For now, the researchers will be exposing people to the version of the virus that has been circulating in Britain since last spring, and not the more contagious and potentially deadlier variant that has taken hold more recently. But eventually, they said, they could give people experimental vaccines designed to address the effect of new, worrisome variants and then subject them to those versions of the virus.

Infecting unvaccinated people with even

low doses of the virus could yield important insights, said Andrew Catchpole, the chief scientific officer at hVIVO, a company specializing in human challenge trials that is involved in the study.

As intensely as the coronavirus has been studied, relatively little is understood about how people’s immune systems react in the immediate aftermath of being infected.

Nor do scientists yet know the specific type or level of immune responses that are necessary to completely protect most people from infection, a clue to how the dozens of vaccines that are still being studied will perform against the virus.

“One of the things we don’t understand is what is a truly protective response,” said Lawrence Young, a virus expert at Warwick Medical School, who is not involved in the study. “It’s a good way of understanding the host-pathogen interaction, though it does come with a whole heap of ethical issues, obviously.”

In the first part of the study, the scientists will administer tiny doses of the virus to a small cohort of volunteers. If they do not become infected, the scientists will give slightly bigger doses to a different group of volunteers, repeating the process in up to 90 participants until they have determined the right dose.

By this spring, the scientists hope to repeat a version of their experiment by exposing vaccinated people to the virus. The British government, which is helping fund the study, will help choose the vaccines. Those and other future stages of the trial would require new regulatory approvals.

There has been no shortage of interest among potential volunteers in these types of trials, with thousands of people around the world registering their interest with 1Day Sooner, a group that advocates human challenge trials as a way of speeding the development of enough vaccines to inoculate people in parts of the world still waiting for doses.

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New Zealand to roll out free period products to all students

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand and Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, right, the director general of health, at Parliament in Wellington last year.

By NATASHA FROST

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rime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Thursday that all schools would make free menstrual products available to students for the next three years, adding New Zealand to the global effort to reduce “period poverty” — a lack of access to pads or tampons that could negatively affect education, health or employment.

The announcement came after a sixmonth pilot program involving 3,200 students across 15 schools in the country’s Waikato region. The national initiative, which will begin in June at primary, intermediate and secondary schools, is expected to cost 25 million

New Zealand dollars ($17.96 million) Ardern said.

“Young people should not miss out on their education because of something that is a normal part of life for half the population,” she said outside a school in the city of Hamilton.

In November, Scotland became the first country to announce that it would make period products freely available to all who need them. Other countries have taken smaller steps toward addressing period inequity. In January, Britain said it would repeal the socalled tampon tax, which classed sanitary products as nonessential, luxury items. At least 30 American states still have similar ta-

xes in place. But the White House announced plans this week for a Gender Policy Council to address issues related to women’s lives, including national security, health care and economics.

Though New Zealand is among the world’s wealthiest nations, a study published last year by the charity KidsCan found that up to 20,000 New Zealand students were at risk of not being able to afford tampons or other products.

With low wages, a high cost of living and a growing housing shortage driving up prices, many people in New Zealand simply cannot afford sanitary items, said Sarah Donovan, a researcher from the University of Otago.

“Kids aren’t going to go to school if they haven’t got menstrual products, because it’s so shameful and embarrassing — there’s still this big stigma around it,” she said. “It’s been this hidden problem of social inequity that no one had thought of.”

The issue affects children from primary school onward. The average age that children begin menstruating in New Zealand is 13, but

some start as young as 8 or 9, Donovan said.

While providing free products is a great first step, she said, schools also need to teach students “what a period is, how do you manage them.”

“If it’s going to be primary school and above,” she said, “some of the kids wouldn’t have had the health education around that stuff yet, either at home or at school.”

A study led by Donovan found that students from New Zealand’s Maori and Pacific Island immigrant communities, who are statistically more likely to be affected by poverty, were also more likely to be unable to afford period products. Fifteen percent of Maori students and 14% of Pacific students have missed school because they did not have menstrual items, the study showed.

Sanitary products can cost as much as 15,000 New Zealand dollars, or $10,800, over a person’s lifetime, said Miranda Hitchings, co-founder of Dignity NZ, a for-profit organization that provides free sanitary items to schools, youth and community organizations.

“That is a significant cost that could be part of a student loan, or a house deposit,” she said. “But because of the gendered cyclical nature of poverty, it’s another thing that puts women, or people with periods, on the back foot.”

Before local news reports in 2016 shined a light on the extent of period poverty in New Zealand, there was relatively little public awareness of the problem, Hitchings said.

“We went and talked to schools and found that not only was it real, but it was incredibly prevalent,” she said. “We also found that local people individually, like nurses and teachers at schools, were purchasing products for their students out of their own pockets.”

There has also been a sharp increase in period poverty since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, she said.

A campaign for free period products gained steam in late 2019, when Hitchings, her co-founder, Jacinta Gulasekharam, and other campaigners submitted a petition with 3,000 signatures to the country’s Parliament calling for free period products for all students.

It was picked up by the office of Julie Anne Genter of the Green Party, who was then the minister for women. She encouraged the prime minister’s office to support the cause.

“It’s great progress and a great first step,” Genter said.

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Trump’s dreaded nickname

By GAIL COLLINS

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’ve got to say I loved it when Joe Biden described Donald Trump as “the former guy.”

This was at a CNN town hall, and Biden was pursuing his goal of changing the subject from … his predecessor. Part of the strategy seems to be avoiding his actual name.

Excellent agenda. Sitting in disgraced, doubleimpeached political purgatory, Trump has been trying to retrain the world to refer to him as “the 45th president” during his unwelcome retirement. (If you are lucky enough to get a mass email from him, the return address will be “45 office.”) How cool would it be if he had to sit in front of the TV listening to people talk about “the former guy?”

DJT = TFG Biden’s current mission is to make the world focus on his $1.9 trillion plan for a coronavirus comeback.

It’s currently in the House, where the Democratic majority is expected to pass it readily, once the poor bill makes its way through all the subcommittee chairs who want a little poke at it. But sometime in March it’ll be in the hands of Sen. Chuck Schumer, whose majority consists entirely of Kamala Harris breaking tie votes.

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Hey, that’s entertainment. Schumer is not necessarily the most exciting politician on the planet, but he works like a demon. I’ve known him since the 1980s, when he was in the House and he was one of the very few members of Congress who had both young children and a full-time working spouse.

(Another, Rep. Pat Schroeder, had two small kids and a lawyer husband. People, add to my list if you can come up with anybody else. I do like this kind of factoid.)

You’ve got to be a little grateful to the senators for staging this big game. The Super Bowl is over. The weather’s deadly. You can’t go out to a party, and you don’t want to admit you’re still watching “The Bachelor.”

Schumer is up against now-minority leader Mitch McConnell, who isn’t exactly what you’d call charismatic. But he did make a very big play with his public denunciation of Trump’s behavior during the Capitol riot: “a disgraceful dereliction of duty.” Which would have been extremely moving had it not come right after he was voting against impeachment conviction.

Trump — excuse me, The Former Guy — was certainly paying attention. “Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack,” he responded in a statement.

Feel free to enjoy the fact that he wasn’t allowed to tweet it.

Think of McConnell as a classic — “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” comes to mind. Some people might have been surprised that he could despise Trump while tossing him a supportive vote. But just remember, this is the guy who has attacked the idea of federal aid to state and local governments as a “blue state bailout.”

Despite the fact that his old Kentucky home receives an estimated $2.61 in federal money for every dollar of taxes the state sends to Washington.

Best not obsess about McConnell too long. Whenever he comes on TV or pops up on your cellphone saying something depressing, drop everything and do eight push-ups. If you don’t like exercise, memorize all the former presidents. By summer, you’ll either be in good shape or know exactly who came after Millard Fillmore.

Meanwhile, there’s Schumer, who I want you to think of as the Tom Brady of the Senate Democratic Caucus. Really, we’re trying to have a little entertainment here. And Brady has a long history of playing with the same number of people on both sides. Yeah, the Senate is split 50-50, so on party-line votes, Schumer needs every one of his members to come through.

That includes people like Joe Manchin of West

Virginia. Under normal circumstances you would not be sitting on the edge of your seat wondering what Manchin might say next. But he’s not always predictable. Like rain. Or Pennsylvania voters.

Exciting as we desperately hope March politics is going to be, we’re going to have to gird ourselves for some deeply senatorial delays. Like a filibuster.

Remember a valiant Jimmy Stewart passing out from exhaustion after talking endlessly to protect a plan for a national boys’ camp in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”? Well, OK, that was in a 1939 movie. How about Strom Thurmond ranting for more than 24 hours to try to derail civil rights? Ted Cruz talking for 21 hours in an attempt to kill Obamacare? These days, you can get bathroom breaks, and valiant is in the eye of the beholder.

The bottom line here, people, is that Biden’s plan to attach a $15 minimum wage to the coronavirus bill is probably doomed. (Spiked by the senator from West Virginia!) And then most of the package will pass, probably before we get halfway down the vaccine line.

Movie’s over.

But we’ve still got Trump, desperate for our attention. The Former Guy says he’s going to devote himself to permanently remaking the Republican Party in his own image. Unless, of course, he gets hauled off to debtors’ prison first.

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l presidente de la Cámara de Representantes, Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez, comunicó el jueves que se mantendrá en cuarentena por los próximos cinco días ya que estuvo en contacto con un empleado de la Oficina de Prensa de dicho cuerpo que dio positivo al COVID-19.

“Por recomendación médica me estoy aislando como medida preventiva hasta hacerme la prueba y recibir los resultados.

De esta manera evitamos que otras personas puedan estar expuestas. Es la manera

responsable de actuar ante la situación, y tratar de que los trabajos de la Cámara se afecten lo menos posible”, indicó Hernández Montañez en comunicación escrita.

A tenor con la situación se impartieron instrucciones a los empleados de la oficina de prensa del cuerpo, así como a los demás empleados que estuvieron expuestos, para que también permanezcan en aislamiento por los próximos cinco días y entonces procedan a realizarse las pruebas.

El líder cameral también informó que se comunicó personalmente con

las legisladoras Sol Higgins, Lydia Méndez, Deborah Soto y Mariana Nogales, para que tomen las medidas cautelares con su personal y que se mantengan también en aislamiento preventivo.

“Esperamos que nadie se vea afectado por esta situación de salud, y que las medidas que estamos tomando sean efectivas en cortar la posible cadena de contagios. El personal de manejo de emergencias del distrito capitolino se mantiene haciendo el rastreo y dando seguimiento a la situación”, concluyó.

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l representante por acumulación del Partido Popular Democrático (PPD), Héctor Ferrer Santiago, solicitó el jueves al Departamento de Salud que presente a la legislatura un informe sobre el proceso de vacunación contra el COVID-19 en Puerto Rico y detalle sus estrategias, estadísticas, incidencias, y cualquier otra información relacionada al proceso, con el propósito de auditar la administración y el suministro de las vacunas.“Han transcurrido 10 meses de limitaciones y protocolos con el fin de evitar la mayor cantidad de muertes posibles. Sin embargo, a pesar de los esfuerzos realizados, hemos perdido sobre 1700 vidas por causa de este nefasto virus. La solución más efectiva para controlar y erradicar la propagación de este virus la tenemos en nuestras manos y es la vacunación”, sostuvo Ferrer Santiago en comunicación escrita.

Asimismo, en la Resolución Conjunta de la Cámara 65 que fue radicada por Ferrer Santiago junto a Lydia Méndez y Sol Higgins, indica que durante el Huracán Maria y los terremotos del suroeste de Puerto Rico, se reportaron numerosas irregularidades relacionadas al manejo de las ayudas a los damnificados, por lo que es inaceptable que el gobierno central no se cerciore que los procesos para suministrar ayudas se efectúen adecuada y eficientemente.

“Para que esto no se repita, nuestro deber es velar y fiscalizar las ejecutorias de las agencias, entidades y dependencias gubernamentales, en especial el Departamento de Salud. Es imperativo que se audite y supervise el proceso de vacunación para garantizar que se ejecute de manera adecuada y transparente por el bien del pueblo”, sentenció Ferrer Santiago.

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15 Essentials from Johnny Pacheco and Fania Records, the ‘Motown of Salsa’

By ED MORALES

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n many crucial ways, Johnny Pacheco’s life told a typical New York Latino story: He was a Dominican immigrant playing Cuban music for a mostly Puerto Rican audience. Like many self-styled New York entrepreneurs, he knew he had to hit the pavement with his product and get to know his customers face-to-face, driving around Harlem and the Bronx selling records out of the trunk of an old Mercedes-Benz.

Pacheco had been working several variations of the son genre at the Bronx nightclub Triton’s, making a name for himself, according to scholar Juan Flores’ book “Salsa Rising,” by adding a hop and flashing a hankie while dancing onstage to a hot new style called pachanga. Dreaming of starting his own record company (and in the midst of ending a marriage), he met Jerry Masucci, an Italian American divorce attorney with a love for the Cuban sound. The two hit it off so well they started a new record label they called Fania, which became home to salsa’s greatest talents.

Pacheco and Masucci’s experiment blew up beyond their wildest dreams. By capitalizing on the streamlining term “salsa,” which had appeared years before in Cuba and Venezuela, Fania Records conflated the Afro-Latin fad bugalú (think: “I Like It Like That”) with the remnants of Cuban sounds blunted by the radio silence of the post-revolution embargo to create an international dance mania. Making stars out of Puerto Ricans like Willie Colón and Héctor Lavoe, Cuban diva Celia Cruz, a Brooklyn Jew named Larry Harlow, and a Panamanian troubadour named Rubén Blades, Fania Records spread the new Latin groove from Yankee Stadium to Kinshasa, Zaire.

Here are 15 examples of how Pacheco, who died this week at 85, and his Fania cohort made music history.

Johnny Pacheco, ‘El Güiro de Macorina’ (1961) From his second album, “Johnny Pacheco y su Charanga,” this is a riveting distillation of Pacheco’s early pachanga sound, featuring the full effect of a Cuban charanga-style orchestra, heavy on the flutes and violins. The relentless percussion embellishes lyrics that tell the story of a woman who scrapes the percussive güiro instrument to the narrator’s satisfaction. If you can picture

Johnny Pecheco co-founded Fania Records, which became home to salsa’s greatest talents.

Pacheco quick stepping on the downbeat, you’re witnessing the creation of New Yorkstyle salsa dancing.

Johnny Pacheco featuring Pete ‘El Conde’ Rodríguez, ‘La Esencia del Guaguancó’ (1970) Pacheco’s collaboration with underrecognized vocalist Pete “El Conde” Rodríguez (not to be mistaken for bugalú’s Pete Rodríguez) captures a more polished stage of his career. Propelled by the guaguancó rhythm that would become salsa’s go-to template, Rodríguez’s edgy, velvety rasp recalls Afro Puerto Rican peers like Ismael Rivera and Cheo Feliciano. Pacheco’s arrangements, creating an easy flow between piano and horns, were rapidly becoming the salsa sound.

Fania All-Stars, ‘Live at the Cheetah’ (1971) Pacheco and Masucci’s coordination of the Fania All-Stars, an unimaginably potent group of the emerging stars of the genre, was perhaps the most single-handedly important factor in salsa’s rise. This recording, made at the Cheetah Club, which once hosted bugalú as well as the first production of “Hair” before its Broadway run, features lengthy jams like “Anacaona,” a tribute to a rebellious female Taíno leader, with powerful vocals by Cheo Feliciano, backed by Willie Colón, Larry Harlow and Ray Barretto, among many others.

Johnny Pacheco with Celia Cruz, ‘Químbara’ (1974) Celia Cruz was already a star with Sonora Matancera when she left Cuba in 1960, replacing the legendary La Lupe as Tito Puente’s lead singer in 1966. Her collaboration with Pacheco on “Celia and Johnny” was key to propelling her to recognition as the Queen of Salsa. Pacheco’s precision pacing and evolving wall of sound made this guaguancó a dizzying, onomatopoetic utterance of percussive instruments.

Héctor Lavoe, ‘Mi Gente’ (1975) Probably salsa’s most beloved and talented vocalist, Héctor Lavoe was in many ways emblematic of the New York Puerto Rican experience. His wistful, nasal vocal style evoked that of a country boy simultaneously losing himself in and partying the hell out of the big city. Written by Pacheco, the emotional power of “Mi Gente” derived from its ability to bring New York’s diverse Latino community together to celebrate a dynamic self-awareness in the middle of a grinding fiscal crisis. The studio version is great, but the “Live at Yankee Stadium” version is the classic.

Willie Colón, ‘El Malo’ (1967) Born and raised in Mott Haven’s gritty tenements in the Bronx, Willie Colón recorded his first album at age 17, inspired by a sour, mocking tone that Barry Rogers gave his trombone in his collaborations with

Mon Rivera and Eddie Palmieri. Although there’s lots of bugalú here, this is strippeddown proto-salsa. Colón’s role in inventing salsa’s attitude through the “Malo” persona is evident here, the songs insisting on Spanish-speaking, Latin-dancing authenticity filtered through a gangster-style, streetfighting sense of heart.

‘Our Latin Thing/Nuestra Cosa Latina’ (1972) This low-budget ’70s film directed

by Leon Gast has the grainy subterranean feel that permeated later movies like Charlie Ahearn’s hip-hop origin story “Wild Style” and Glenn O’Brien’s reconstructed post-punk fever dream “Downtown 81.”

The best visual record of Fania All-Stars rehearsals, club gigs, impromptu bembés and street festival performances, it also stars the Africanist-hippie-fusion wardrobe of salsa dancers of the time. Just a few minutes in, on “Quítate Tu,” you can see how Pacheco effortlessly commands the multitudinous chorus of star singers while directing horns and percussion.

Ismael Rivera, ‘Las Caras Lindas’ (1979) Known as “El Sonero Mayor” (The Greatest Singer) in Puerto Rico, Ismael “Maelo” Rivera’s sound was formed through his collaborations with his childhood friend, percussionist Rafael Cortijo.

Recontextualizing the rustic bomba and plena genres by adding more instruments, the Rivera-Cortijo sound flowed easily into New York-style salsa. “Las Caras Lindas” comes from Rivera’s solo period with Fania — it’s written by renowned songwriter Tite Curet Alonso and celebrates the beauty of Afro-Puerto Ricans.

Ismael Miranda con Orchestra Harlow, ‘Abran Paso’ (1971) Harlow was a singular figure in the salsa scene — he was born and raised in Brooklyn, the son of a mambo musician who couldn’t get the Cuban sound out of his head. A whiplash pianist, Harlow named himself “El Judío Maravilloso” (The Marvelous Jew) after his hero Arsenio Rodríguez, known as “El Ciego Maravilloso.”

“Abran Paso,” sung by his favorite vocalist, Ismael Miranda, is at once an invocation of Santería mysticism and a metaphor for an emerging Latino community.

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February 19-21, 2021

Guggenheim Museum reaches agreement with new union

By ZACHARY SMALL

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fter nearly 18 months of negotiations, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has signed an agreement with the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 30 that will provide new benefits to some of the cultural institution’s workers.

The three-year collective bargaining agreement covers 22 full-time employees and 145 on-call staffers who make up the museum’s facilities, maintenance and art handling crews.

Under the terms of the agreement, salaries will increase by approximately 10% over the life of the contract; employees will not have to contribute to health insurance premiums; and scheduling practices and safety procedures will be improved, according to the museum.

Union officials declined to release the exact terms of the contract, citing concerns for the privacy of their workers.

“We are pleased to have reached a contract agreement,” Richard Armstrong, the Guggenheim’s director, said in a statement. “I am grateful to our skilled colleagues who are members of IUOE Local 30 for their contributions towards fulfilling the museum’s mission. I look forward to an ongoing productive relationship with these

Outside the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. After nearly 18 months of negotiations, the museum has signed an agreement with the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 30 that will provide new benefits to some of the cultural institution’s workers. talented employees and their union representatives.”

William Lynn, a Local 30 vice president, added that the agreement would provide employees with “a real voice in the workplace and protect them from

unfair discipline.”

“Our collective struggle to unionize led to negotiating a historic contract that raises working conditions,” Lynn added.

“With the Guggenheim, we will continue to improve standards together.”

In 2019, some Guggenheim workers voted to unionize in what marked the beginning of a revitalized labor movement in the art world. This unit of the Operating Engineers is the first union local to represent workers at the museum.

In recent years, employees have organized at other major institutions, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Negotiations between museums and their workers have frequently become confrontational. When the Guggenheim reopened its doors in September following its temporary shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, employees protested at its front doors by blaring Led Zeppelin and parking a truck equipped with digital screens that flashed messages about stalled contract talks along with photos of museum officials.

“Throughout negotiations, it was clear that management understood the level of work we produce in support of world-class exhibitions, but that they had no intention of compensating us fairly,” Bryan Cook, a union member and part-time staff member who helps to construct Guggenheim exhibits, said in an email. “We have never received what we deserve, but we all deserve this contract.”

15 Essentials from Johnny Pacheco and Fania Records, the ‘Motown of Salsa’ From page 19 Héctor Lavoe, Willie Colón and Yomo Toro, ‘Asalto Navideño’ (1970) This was a Christmas album with a twist — rather than trot out the Fania AllStars to do salsa versions of “Silent Night” and “Jingle Bells,” Willie Colón and Héctor Lavoe decided to record classic Puerto Rican aguinaldos with a kind of Bad Santa New York feel. This album is inescapable around the holidays if you have extended Puerto Rican family, balancing reverence for tradition with an incredible sense of swing. A highlight is the first appearance of Yomo Toro, sometimes known as the Jimi Hendrix of cuatro, a rustic 10-string lute that explodes from the vinyl.

Ray Barretto, ‘Indestructible’ (1973) The emotional percussive core of the

Fania All-Stars, Ray Barretto was a remarkably versatile conga player whose career ran the gamut from bugalú to salsa, Latin jazz, and even session work for the Rolling Stones.

His mid-period excellence is crystallized in “Indestructible,” which rode unparalleled waves of frenetic dance energy. The title track describes a promise salseros make to themselves to keep getting up no matter how many times they get knocked down.

Rubén Blades and Willie Colón, ‘Siembra’ (1978) For many years the bestselling salsa album of all time, “Siembra” was the culmination of the Blades-Colón partnership. The album is an attempt to fuse a cinematic concept of New York Latino life with the idea of a classic rock concept album, and the performances are singular and immortal. As a songwriting team, the two had no competi-

tion; Blades was at the top of his vocal game, and Colón’s arrangements were never more brilliant.

Tommy Olivencia and Chamaco Ramírez, ‘Planté Bandera’ (1975) Another anthemic crowd pleaser, “Plante Bandera” alludes to the growing sense of nationalism and pride that tied together salsa fans, as well as a growing awareness of Latino presence in the United States and the projection of the salsa genre itself. Chamaco Ramírez’s sometimes-overlooked plaintive style hits all the right notes, and the band’s percussive momentum, punctuated by a tenacious horn section, pushes the lyrics to their maximum effect.

Rubén Blades, ‘Bohemio y Poeta’ (1979) The multitalented poet/troubadour/ Hollywood actor shines here on his groun-

dbreaking solo album, combining lyrical elements of Cuban nueva trova with lush Colón orchestral salsa arrangements. With songs like “Pablo Pueblo,” he defined the workingclass Latino subject, disillusioned with urban misery after being promised the American dream. On “Paula C” he remembers a lost love with the skill of a Magic Realism boom novelist.

Ricardo Ray and Bobby Cruz, ‘Sonido Bestial’ (1971) Ray and Cruz were one of salsa’s most successful internationalizing forces, spreading the promise of its sound to countries like Colombia, in particular. Evolving from their bugalú roots into a mainstream salsa machine, Ray and Cruz have a following of rabid devotees. This particular track features a break based on a Chopin étude, which is always a live crowd-pleaser.

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How to think about wine vintages

By ERIC ASIMOV

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ecently, I took part in a brief exploration of the Northern California vintage of 2011, a year that was widely regarded at the time as the worst in recent memory for cabernet sauvignon.

James Laube, a columnist for Wine Spectator magazine, called it “the most damning vintage in perhaps 15 years.”

Yet the six wines we tasted for the exploration, all cabernet-based, were gorgeous, evocative, complex and elegant, not at all what one might have predicted going by the general depictions of a mediocre year.

The disparity may have arisen because the wines we were drinking came from superstar producers — two bottles each from the Ridge Monte Bello estate in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Cathy Corison in Napa Valley and Inglenook, also in Napa, which in 2011 was just beginning a stylistic evolution under its proprietor, Francis Ford Coppola.

Great producers often find a way to coax loveliness out of the most difficult situations. Each of them succeeded in this tasting.

But more important, the gap between the beauty of the wines and the conventional wisdom about 2011 in Northern California demonstrated the limitations that come with vintage characterizations and the possible consequences for consumers who adhere too closely to them.

The impulse to speak generally about a vintage — to evaluate and even rate it — is easy to understand.

Few things stamp themselves on a wine more lastingly than the conditions of a particular growing season. Temperature spikes, too much precipitation (or not enough), a calamity like frost or hail at the wrong time — all of these events will be expressed in the wine itself, although not always in the same way.

The skill and intent of a producer, along with the flexibility to adjust to a vintage’s particular conditions, can go a long way toward making wines that transcend a year’s difficult growing

Conventional wisdom can often lead consumers away from delicious wines — it’s better to think of individual years in terms of character than of quality. conditions. What’s more, those who are judging vintages, primarily influential critics at wine publications, often bring their personal tastes and stylistic expectations to the evaluation, further complicating a shorthand assessment.

The 2011 vintage in Northern California was a perfect example of this dynamic. At the time, many critics were exalting a powerful, high-alcohol style of cabernet sauvignon marked by rich, opulent fruit and soft, plush textures.

The typical weather conditions in Napa Valley — sunny, hot days and cool nights that can last well into October — generally permit cabernet growers to harvest their grapes when the fruit is soft and dimpled, a stage that farmers more attuned to classical styles might consider overripe.

But that was not the case in 2011.

Spring was cold and wet, delaying the flowering of the vines and the ripening cycle of the grapes. The year stayed cool, and heavy storms near harvest time forced many growers to pick grapes earlier than they might have wished, not allowing them to achieve their vision of

ripeness. The dampness and humidity caused a great deal of mold and rot in the grapes, reducing the yield and the subsequent wine production.

The vintage forced many producers to make difficult decisions. They could make wines in a less overtly fruity style, taking what the year had given them. Or they could try to force the issue in the winery, using modern technologies to try to create greater concentration in the wines.

“I’ve never seen a more difficult vintage,” Corison said of 2011, despite what she was able to achieve with the wines.

Using its 100-point scale, Wine Spectator rated the vintage 86, the only vintage in Northern California from 2006 to 2016 that it scored below 94.

Wine Advocate, another consumer publication, gave it an 82.

It so happens that, regardless of the vintage, the three producers in our tasting all seek a more elegant, less jammy, lower-alcohol style of cabernet sauvignon. Their strengths were perhaps less affected by the vintage than those of other producers might have been, and they were each able to make wines in 2011 stylistically consistent with their aims, notwithstanding the adversity.

Consumers might have missed these wines if they were guided solely by the vintage assessments, which can sometimes focus more on the weather conditions and growing difficulties than on the quality of the wines.

If declaring that a vintage is mediocre can sometimes be a problem, so can the characterization of a year

as great. Too often, I’ve seen consumers who become fixated on vintages deemed great by critics dismissing wines from other years that might give enormous pleasure, often for much less money.

Maybe critics need to reevaluate what makes a great year. Is a vintage that will drink well after 50 years but offers little pleasure in its first 20 years really better than a vintage that is delicious for 20 years but may not be enjoyed as well by your grandchildren?

Must vintages always be judged hierarchically, on a single universal scale? Perhaps we ought to consider them simply as different from one another rather than good or bad, with one better for drinkers and the other for collectors and investors.

I want to be clear: Vintage differences are often important. Chablis lovers know that in the 2017 vintage, the wines are in the classic style, with all the minerally nuances that make Chablis singular among chardonnay wines.

The much warmer 2018 vintage produced a far more powerful, fruity Chablis, noteworthy at this point for impact rather than nuance. How will the ones from 2018 develop? I’m not sure.

Even if vintages have pronounced differences, I believe we should pay less attention to them than perhaps we do. Far more important than obsessively following vintages is to single out producers whose styles you like.

It is both more fun and better practice to follow producers you admire through every vintage. How do they manage the particular conditions each year? How do the wines reflect each year? One thing I consistently hear from good producers: They are prouder of their wines in bad vintages when they had to work hard to achieve good quality than they are in great vintages, when the farming was relatively effortless.

Ultimately, the variations among vintages are reassuring characteristics of good wines. It’s a sign of minimal manipulation. If you’re seeking smooth consistency, the soft-drink aisle of the supermarket is a good place to look.

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How much exercise do you need for better heart health?

By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

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f you want a healthy heart, the more you exercise, the better, according to an encouraging new study of the links between physical activity and cardiovascular disease. It finds that people who often exercise and stay active are much less likely to develop heart disease than people who rarely move, whether that exercise consists of a few minutes a day of jogging or multiple hours a week of walking.

The large-scale study, which relied on objective data about exercise from more than 90,000 adults, bolsters the growing evidence that almost any amount of physical activity seems to be good for cardiovascular health, with no apparent upper limit to the benefits.

For generations, of course, we have known that active people tend to have strong hearts. Back in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Jeremy Morris, a British public health researcher, famously found that British bus conductors, who spent their days strolling aisles and climbing steps on the double-decker vehicles, were about half as likely to have a heart attack as the buses’ drivers, who sat all day.

Since then, countless epidemiological studies have uncovered similar links between physical activity and cardiovascular problems. In most, greater amounts of physical activity aligned closely with less risk of heart disease.

In other words, people who moved a lot tended also to be people with sound hearts and arteries.

In some of those and other studies, though, there was a limit. As the amounts and intensities of people’s exercise rose, the benefits for their hearts plateaued or even plummeted. In a few studies, prolonged intense workouts over the course of years seemed to contribute to an increased risk for heart problems, suggesting that too much exercise may damage the heart. But those studies generally were small and focused on specific groups of people, such as male masters athletes.

Even the larger-scale, epidemiological studies of exercise and heart health, though, often relied on people’s memories and self-reports about their exercise habits, which are not always accurate.

So, some aspects of the relationship between physical activity and cardiovascular health have remained opaque. Can we work out too much for the sake of our hearts? Do men and women get the same cardiovasculardisease risk reductions from the same amounts of physical activity? How much do we actually move around during the day?

Those questions interested Dr. Terence Dwyer, an emeritus professor of epidemiology at the University of Oxford in England, and his colleagues, who long had studied the interplay of lifestyle and disease risk. And they knew of a potential source of increased clarity about possible answers, in the U.K. Biobank.

The U.K. Biobank is an impressively large database of health and lifestyle information about more than 500,000 adult men and women in the United Kingdom.

Beginning in 2006, these volunteers provided blood, urine and saliva samples for genetic and medical testing; answered lengthy questionnaires about their lives; and completed full health and medical screenings. More than 100,000 of them also agreed to wear activity trackers for a week, to carefully measure how much they moved.

Dwyer and his colleagues then drew the records for more than 90,000 of the men and women who had worn the trackers, skipping anyone with a known history of heart disease when they joined the study. They divided them into four groups, depending on how many minutes, in total, they moved every week, and how much of this activity was moderate, such as walking, or relatively vigorous, such as jogging, as verified by their trackers.

Finally, the researchers gathered data from hospitals and death records about who, among the 90,000 volunteers, developed heart disease in the years after joining the study, and began cross-checking their diagnoses against their activity habits.

To no one’s surprise, being active was protective against heart disease. People in the least-active group, who rarely walked around or formally exercised, were more than twice as likely to have heart disease now as the most-active men and women. Just moving from the leastactive group to the not-quite-as-inactive group dropped the risk of heart disease by almost 30%, even when the researchers controlled for body composition, smoking, socioeconomic status and other factors.

The researchers also found no upper limit to the benefits. The men and women who moved the most, walking as much as 1,100 minutes a week, or more than two hours a day (a total that included both their actual exercise and everyday activities such as grocery shopping or doing housework), while also often working out intensely for 50 minutes or more a week, showed no increased risk for heart problems. Instead, this group enjoyed the greatest risk reductions, with both men and women showing about equal benefits.

The results “provide even stronger evidence than has been available previously (that) physical activity, including vigorous physical activity, is important for reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease,” Dwyer said, adding that the benefits were “about double what had been found with most self-report studies.”

This study is associational, though, showing that active people happen also to be people with healthy hearts.

It does not prove that walks and other activities directly strengthen people’s hearts, only that the two are linked.

Dwyer also pointed out that the number of people in the study who completed extremely high amounts of intense activity was small, so it remains conceivable that longterm, intense exercise might, at some point, stop being good for hearts. That possibility requires more scrutiny, he said.

But for most of us, he said, increasing our exercise “to much higher levels or more vigorous levels” should substantially reduce our chances, later, for heart disease.

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Scientists are trying to spot new viruses before they cause pandemics

By VERONIQUE GREENWOOD

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ack in the summer, Dr. Michael Mina made a deal with a cold storage company. With many of its restaurant clients closed down, the firm had freezers to spare. And Mina, a public health researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, had a half-million vials of plasma from human blood coming to his lab from across the country, samples dating back to the carefree days of January 2020.

The vials, now in three hulking freezers outside Mina’s lab, are at the center of a pilot project for what he and his collaborators call the Global Immunological Observatory. They envision an immense surveillance system that can check blood from all over the world for the presence of antibodies to hundreds of viruses at once. That way, when the next pandemic washes over us, scientists will have detailed, real-time information on how many people have been infected by the virus and how their bodies responded.

It might even offer some early notice, like a tornado warning. Although this monitoring system will not be able to detect new viruses or variants directly, it could show when large numbers of people start acquiring immunity to a particular kind of virus.

The human immune system keeps a record of pathogens it has met before, in the form of antibodies that fight against them and then stick around for life. By testing for these antibodies, scientists can get a snapshot of which flu viruses you have had, what that rhinovirus was that breezed through you last fall, even whether you had a respiratory syncytial virus as a child. Even if an infection never made you sick, it would still be picked up by this diagnostic method, called serological testing.

“We’re all like little recorders,” keeping track of viruses without realizing it, Mina said.

Spotting patterns This type of readout from the immune system is different from a test that looks for an active viral infection.

The immune system starts to produce antibodies one to two weeks after an infection begins, so serology is retrospective, looking back at what you have caught. Also, closely related viruses may produce similar responses, provoking antibodies that bind to the same kinds of viral proteins. That means carefully designed assays are needed to distinguish between different coronaviruses, for example.

But serology uncovers things that virus testing does not, said Derek Cummings, a public health researcher at the University of Florida. With a large database of samples and clinical details, scientists can begin to see patterns emerge in how the immune system responds in someone with no symptoms compared to someone struggling to clear the virus. Serology can also reveal before an outbreak starts whether a population has robust immunity to a given virus, or if it is dangerously low.

“You want to understand what has happened in a population, and how prepared that population is for future

Cities and community groups are wrestling with how to shelter a vulnerable population without exposing it to an airborne virus that spreads most easily indoors. attacks of a particular pathogen,” Cummings said.

The approach could also detect events in the viral ecosystem that otherwise go unnoticed, Cummings said.

For example, the 2015 Zika outbreak was detected by doctors in Brazil who noticed a cluster of babies with abnormally small heads, born seven to nine months after their mothers were infected. “A serological observatory could conceivably have picked this up before then,” he said.

Serological surveys are often small and difficult to set up, since they require drawing blood from volunteers.

But for several years Mina and his colleagues have been discussing the idea of a large and automated surveillance system using leftover samples from routine lab tests.

“Had we had it set up in 2019, then when this virus hit the U.S., we would have had ready access to data that would have allowed us to see it circulating in New York City, for example, without doing anything different,” Mina said.

Although the observatory would not have been able to identify the new coronavirus, it would have revealed an unusually high number of infections from the coronavirus family, which includes those that cause common colds. It might also have shown that the new coronavirus was interacting with patients’ immune systems in unexpected ways, resulting in telltale markers in the blood. That would have been a signal to start genetic sequencing of patient samples, to identify the culprit, and might have provided grounds to

shut down the city earlier, Mina said. (Similarly, serology would not be able to spot the emergency of a new virus variant, like the contagious coronavirus variants that were discovered in South Africa and England before spreading elsewhere. For that, researchers must rely on standard genomic sequencing of virus test samples.)

A powerful investment The observatory would require agreements with hospitals, blood banks and other sources of blood, as well as a system for acquiring consent from patients and donors. It also faces the problem of financing, noted Alex Greninger, a virus expert at the University of Washington. Health insurance companies would be unlikely to foot the bill, since serology tests are usually not used by doctors to treat people.

Mina estimated that the observatory would cost about $100 million to get off the ground. He pointed out that, according to his calculations, the federal government has allocated more than twice that much to diagnostics company Ellume to produce enough rapid COVID tests to cover the American demand for only a handful of days. A pathogen observatory, he said, is like a weather forecasting system that draws on vast numbers of buoys and sensors around the globe, passively reporting on events where and when they arise. These systems have been funded by government grants and are widely valued.

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

BAUTISTA REO PR CORP. Plaintiff, v.

MIRNA DÍAZ CRUZ, and THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil No. 17-1910 (GAG). COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE AND PLEDGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: DEFENDANT AND GENERAL PUBLIC

Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff, as of December 1, 2019, in the total amount of $205,303.76 in principal; plus interests in the amount of $40,557.00, which continue to accrue daily, even post-judgment as per the agreement of the parties, at a rate of $29.94, until full payment of the debt; plus accrued late charges in the amount of $2,574.19; plus $4,222.72 of escrow balance; plus any other advance, charge, fee or disbursements made

by Bautista on behalf of Defendant in accordance with Promissory Notes I, II and III, the Mortgage Note, the Loan Agreement, as well as under the other loan documents; plus $27,609.02 in accordance with the Promissory Note IV, the Loan Agreement, as well as under the other loan documents; plus costs and agreed attorney’s fees under the Mortgage Note in the amount of $25,000.00. Pursuant to the said judgment and/or the Order of Execution of Judgment, the undersigned appointed Special Master was ordered to sell, at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check, without appraisement or right to redemption, to the highest bidder, at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or at any other place designated by said Clerk, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: URBAN: Lot of land marked with # 4 of block DA of Residential Bairoa Development, located at Bairoa Ward of Caguas, with a surface area of 305.89 square meters. Its boundaries are: by the NORTH, with lot #3, in a distance of 21.00 meters; by the SOUTH, with lot #5, in a distance of 21.00 meters; by the EAST, with España Street, in a distance of 2.286 meters and 12.004 meters in an arch; and by the WEST, with Eugenio Astel Avenue, in a distance of

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2.286 meters and 12.557 meters in an arch. It contains a concrete dwelling for a single family. The property described above is recorded at page 40 of volume 973 of Caguas, property number 32,049, Registry of Property of Caguas, First Section. The Property is described in the Spanish language as follows: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Residencial Bairoa situada en el Barrio Bairoa del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico que se describe con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: número del solar: Cuatro (4) de la Manzana “DA”, con un área del solar: trescientos cinco punto ochenta y nueve (305.89) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con el solar número tres (3) en una distancias de veintiún (21.00) metros; por el Sur, con el solar número Cinco (5) en una distancia de veintiún (21.00) metros; por el Este, con la Calle España, en una distancia de dos punto doscientos ochenta y seis (2.286) metros y doce punto cero cero cuatro (12.004) metros en arco; por el Oeste, con la Avenida Eugenio Astel, en una distancia de dos punto doscientos ochenta y seis (2.286) metros y doce punto quinientos cincuenta y siete (12.557) metros en arco. Enclava una casa. The property described above is recorded at page 40 of volume 973 of Caguas, property number 32,049, Registry of Property of Caguas, First Section. The property is subject to the following liens:

BY ITS ORIGIN: To the charges that are extensively related in the inscription 1 of property #6461, registered to page 1 of volume 943 of Caguas. By itself: MORTGAGE in guarantee of note in favor of Doral Mortgage Corporation, or to its order, in the principal amount of$ 250,000.00, with a yearly interest rate of 6.95%, due on April 01, 2014, as per Deed No. 37, executed in Guayama, Puerto Rico, on March 19, 2004 before Notary Public Ivelisse Toro Zambrana, recorded at page 166 of volume 1788 of Caguas, property #1788, 4th inscription, entry extended on August 20, 2015 under Law 216 of December 27, 2010. LIENS in favor of BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, plaintiff vs.

MYRNA DIAZ CRUZ, (thus arises), defendant, to answer for: A) First cause of Action (VISA NOVEL Card) for $47,443.37 plus interest from filing of the lawsuit until its total and complete payment, plus the costs that this litigation avoids as well as the attorneys’ fees for (VISA NOVEL Card) $4,744.33. B) Of the first cause of Action for

(VISA NOVEL Card) the sum of $36,992.64 more for (VISA NOVEL card) for$ 3,699.26. C) 1st inscription cause of action (for charges to the American Express Ultra Card) for $37,011.31; (for American Express Ultra card charges) for the amount of $3,701.13. D) of the registration 1st cause of action (for Reserve account) for $ 4,473.98; (for Reserve account) for the sum of $447.39. Preventive Annotation is extended according to the Order of February 3, 2012, COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE, CAGUAS ROOM, Civil Case #ECD-20110010 on MONEY COLLECTION. Noted on August 20, 2015. Recorded at page 166 of volume 1788 of CAGUAS, property # 32049, Annotation A and LAST. Entry. 1259 to Daily 1175, of August 2, 2013, as per deed# 671, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 28, 2013, before the notary public Gadiel O. Rosario Rivera, through the which Doral Bank and Mirna Díaz Cruz appear and modify the mortgage that arises from the 4th inscription regarding the following: The new principal will be$ 218,017.47, which will be divided into 3 amounts of: A. $198,000.00 with a monthly payment of $ 1,093.36; B. $ 4,017.00 with a monthly payment of$ 22.18; and C. $ 16,000.47 with a monthly payment of $ 88.36; and to expire on June 28, 2016, with a final Ballon payment of principal owed and interest due; interest A, B and Cat 6.25%. The mortgage note is partially canceled for$ 31,982.53. Entry 2017075184-CA01, of July 5, 2017, FILE OF DEMAND filed on July 3, 2017, by United States District Court, for the District of Puerto Rico, by Baptist Cayman Asset Company, plaintiff Vs Mirna Diaz Cruz plus The United States of America; civil case #Case 3: 17-CV-01910-GAG on MONEY COLLECTION AND MORTGAGE EXECUTION, for the following amounts: $ 205,303.76 of principal and other sums, related to 1 to 3; $ 27,609.02 related to # 4 payments; in addition to $ 25,000.00 of costs and attorney cost agreements. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect. It being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the res-

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ponsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The liens executed are over the property, and for the purposes of the first judicial sale the minimum bid amount is as follows: The amount of $250,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, as amended, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned total amount or $166,666.67, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $125,000.00. Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property may be executed and delivered after the judicial sale.

Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. THEREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before referred to, will, on the 12th day of March, 2021, at 10:00 a.m., on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. Should the first judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the second judicial sale of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 19th day of March, 2021, at 10:00 a.m., on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the third judicial sale of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 26th day of March, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

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Friday, February 19, 2021 Juan, Puerto Rico, this 22th day en el lado ESTE que se deof January, 2021. ÁGUEDO DE signa como Lote “A” está compuesto de dos punto cincuenta LA TORRE. y siete cuerdas (2.57 cds), LEGAL NOTICE equivalentes a diez mil ciento ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO catorce punto ocho ocho meDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- tros cuadrados (10,114.88 mc) NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA y está en lindes por el NORTE, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CA- con una faja de terreno dedicaGUAS SALA SUPERIOR. da a uso público que la separa PR RECOVERY & del Rio Grande de Loíza; por el DEVELOPMENT JV, LLC SUR, con Pablo Vallejo; por el ESTE, con Alberto Rivas y por Demandante v.

SUCESIÓN DE MARIO el OESTE, con una franja de terreno dedicada a uso públiSERGIO RIOS MILLAN, co. El lote que ubica en el lado COMPUESTA POR OESTE que se designa como PAMELA MARIE RIOS lote “B” está compuesto por STEBBINS T/C/C PAMELA uno punto veintidós cuerdas cds), equivalentes a cuaMARIE RIOS, ANTHONY (1.22 tro mil ochocientos diecinueve STEVEN RIOS STEBBINS, punto cinco cero seis metros MARCY CHRISTINA RIOS cuadrados (4,819.506 mc), y SATER T/C/C MARCY está en lindes por el NORTE, RULLAN RIOS, Y MARIO con una faja de terreno dedicada a uso público que la seANTHONY RIOS SATER para del Rio Grande de Loíza T/C/C MARIO ANTHONY y el solar segregado rotulado con el número uno (1) y Pablo RIOS Vallejo; por el ESTE, con una Demandados CIVIL NÚM. ECD2014-1305. franja de terreno dedicada a SALA: 802. SOBRE: cobro de uso público; y por el OESTE, dinero, INCUMPLIMIENTO con Bibiano Mojica, el solar seDE CONTRATO, EJECUCION gregado rotulado con el númeDE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ro uno (1) y una faja de terreno ORDINARIA Y EJECUCIÓN dedicado a uso público que lo DE GRAVÁMEN MOBILIARIO. separa de la Carretera Estatal AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTA- número ciento ochenta y uno DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA (181). Consta inscrita al folio 25 EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS del tomo 318 de San Lorenzo, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ- finca 1,485, Registro de la ProRICA EL PUEBLO DE PUER- piedad de Puerto Rico, Sección TO RICO. S.S. YO, ANGEL Segunda de Caguas. DIRECGOMEZ GOMEZ, el Alguacil CIÓN FÍSICA: PR 181 KM 8.2 que suscribe, por la presente Barrio Quebrada Honda, San anuncia y hace constar, que en Lorenzo, PR 00754. AFECTA cumplimiento del Mandamien- POR SU PROCEDENCIA: Lito de Ejecución de Sentencia bre de Cargas. AFECTA POR expedido por la Secretaria del SI: HIPOTECA en garantía de Tribunal de Primera Instancia un pagaré a favor del Banco de Puerto Rico, procederé a De Desarrollo Económico Para vender en pública subasta y al Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por mejor postor, quien pagará el la suma de $167,899.00, con importe de la venta en dinero interés al 1% sobre Prime Rate, efectivo, en cheque certificado y vencedero el 5 de noviembre o en cheque de gerente a la de 2038, según consta escrituorden del alguacil suscribiente ra #68, otorgada el día 29 de en moneda de curso legal de octubre de 2008, ante el notalos Estados Unidos de América rio público Eduardo Tamargo, el día 4 DE MARZO DE 2021 inscrita al folio 60 del tomo 495 A LAS 9:30 AM, en mi ofici- de San Lorenzo, finca #1485, na localizada en el CENTRO inscripción 9NA, asiento abreJUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, todo viado. Al asiento 417 del diario título, derecho o interés que 674, el día 25 de noviembre de corresponda a las partes co- 2013, se encuentra presentada demandadas sobre el inmueble una RESOLUCION con fecha que se describe a continuación: del 6 de agosto de 2013, ex--RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno pedida por el Tribunal de Priradicado en el Barrio Quebrada mera Instancia, Sala Superior Honda de San Lorenzo, Puerto de Caguas, para el Caso Civil Rico, con una cabida super- #EJV-2013-0732(405), sobre ficial de TRES PUNTO SE- Declaratoria de Herederos de TENTA Y NUEVE CUERDAS Don Mario Sergio Ríos Millán a (3.79 cds), equivalentes a CA- favor de sus hijos: Pamela MaTORCE MIL NOVECIENTOS rie Ríos Stebbins, t/c/c Pamela TREINTA Y CUATRO PUNTO Marie Ríos; Anthony Steven TRECIENTOS OCHENTA Y Ríos Stebbins; Marcy Christina SEIS METROS CUADRADOS Ríos Sater t/c/c Marcy Christi(14,934.386 mc), el cual está na Ríos y como Marcy Jullian dividido en dos lotes por una Ríos; y Mario Anthony Ríos franja de terreno dedicada a Sater t/c/c Mario Anthony Ríos. uso público. El lote que ubica El gravamen objeto de ejecu-

The San Juan Daily Star ción en este procedimiento es la que surge de la Escritura de Primera Hipoteca número 68 otorgada el 29 de octubre de 2008 el Notario Público Eduardo Tamargo, en la cual se establece como precio mínimo para la PRIMERA SUBASTA la suma de $167,899.00. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 11 DE MARZO DE 2021 A LAS 9:30 AM. El precio mínimo para la segunda subasta serán dos terceras partes (2/3) del tipo mínimo que se pactó para la primera subasta, o sea, $111,932.67.

De no adjudicarse la propiedad en esa segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 18 DE MARZO DE 2021 A LAS 9:30 AM. El precio mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo que se pactó para la primera subasta, o sea, $83,949.50. Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer al demandante, hasta donde alcance, el importe adeudado al PR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT JV, LLC., según la sentencia dictada a su favor en este caso que al 22 de agosto del 2019 ascendía a la cantidad total de $104,822.00, más los intereses que se acumulen hasta el pago total y completo de la deuda, y una cantidad adicional de $16,789.90 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, según pactado. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titularidad que da base a las mismas. La venta en pública subasta de la propiedad descrita anteriormente se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dicha propiedad. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si lo hubiera, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución, continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas registrales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrarán las SUBASTAS en las fechas, horas y sitio anteriormente señalados, y se les invita a que concurran a dichas subastas, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecu-

tante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efectuar tal subrogación. SE HACE CONSTAR que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables, bajo el epígrafe de este caso. Y PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en dos (2) lugares públicos del Municipio dónde se celebrarán las subastas señaladas. Además, en un periódico de circulación general en dos ocasiones y mediante correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada. EXPEDIDO el presente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 21 de enero de 2021.

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 DE VEGA BAJA.

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION DEMANDANTE VS.

YE-VETTA WILSON SHEPPARD

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM. : D4CD2016-0011.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 3 de diciembre de 2019, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro:---. Propiedad Horizontal: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento: A-203 SEMANA 44. Cabida 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-203 and includes the right to use such unit during 44 week of each year until December 31 of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 44 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day

The San Juan Daily Star of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-203 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such excessive, other owners of Vacation Club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare of Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Se separa del Régimen Vacacional Haciendas del Mar finca 12633 al folio 10 del tomo 232 de Vega Alta Descrita conforme a la inscripción 1ª, al Tomo de Hoja número 100 de Vega Alta. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 12,780 inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 44 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $24,393.22 por concepto de principal adeudado. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 19 de marzo de 2021, a las 9:15 a.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo

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adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Vega Baja, durante horas laborables.

Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones.

Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja y además, en la colecturía del Municipio de Manatí, por no haber colecturía en Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 3 de febrero de 2021. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN.

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION DEMANDANTE vs.

JORGE MELÉNDEZ MAYSONET, MYRIAM LUZ CAMPILLO y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: SJ2018CV03284 (607). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 15 de julio de 2020, por la Secretaría del Tribunal de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con

similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro:---.Urbana: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: A 401 SEMANA 34.

Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-401 and includes the right to use such unit during the 34 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 11 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit A-401 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval.

In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132 % in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 13,189 inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 50 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Association el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $8,879.71 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 19 de marzo de 2021, a las 9:30 a.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de di-

cha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, durante horas laborables.

Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones.

Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja y además, en la colecturía del Municipio de Manatí, por no haber colecturía en Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 3 de febrero de 2021. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE TOA ALTA.

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION DEMANDANTE VS.

JESÚS COLÓN APONTE

DEMANDADO CIVIL NUM. : D3CD2016-0032.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, Freddy Omar Rodriguez

Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 12 de febrero de 2020, por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Toa Alta, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro:---. Propiedad Horizontal: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento: B-210 SEMANA 25. Cabida 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-210 and includes the right to use such unit during 25 week of each year until December 31 of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 25 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B-210 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such excessive, other owners of Vacation Club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare of Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.194% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime.

Se separa de la finca 14140 inscrita al folio 51 del Tomo 257 de Vega Alta. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 14209 inscrita en tomo de hoja móvil número 64 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Association el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el

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caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $23,438.53 por concepto de cuotas vencidas y no pagadas.

La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 19 de marzo de 2021, a las 9:45 a.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Toa Alta, durante horas laborables.

Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones.

Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja y además, en la colecturía del Municipio de Manatí, por no haber colecturía en Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 03 de febrero de 2021. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

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

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION DEMANDANTE VS.

HÉCTOR MANUEL JIMÉNEZ DINGUI Y AIDA ESTHER PÉREZ ZAMBRANA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM. : FECI2017-00424.

Sala: 002. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 23 de junio de 2020, por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Carolin, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro:---. Propiedad Horizontal: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento: A-406 SEMANA 20. Cabida 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-406 and includes the right to use such unit during 20 week of each year until December 31 of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 20 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-406 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such excessive, other owners of Vacation Club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare of Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis and the owner

of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Se separa del Régimen Vacacional Hacienda del Mar inscrita al folio 85 del Tomo 232 de Vega Alta. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 16575 inscrita en tomo de hoja móvil número 93 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Association el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $5,780.44 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 19 de marzo de 2021, a las 10:00 a.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones.

Se fijará, además, por espacio

26 cessor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-503 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such excessive, other owners of Vacation Club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare of Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club LEGAL NOTICE Regime and in such other affiESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO liated resorts, as more fully desDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- cribed in the Deed of Dedication NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation SALA DE VEGA BAJA. Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This vacation HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% DEMANDANTE VS. in the Facilities and common THERESA ELLEN expenses of the vacation club KROLL, FRANK regime. Se separa del RégiGERARD KROLL Y LA men Vacacional Haciendas del SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE Mar, finca 12651 al folio 100 del 232 de Vega Alta. DescriBIENES GANANCIALES, tomo ta conforme a la inscripción 1ª, COMPUESTA POR al Tomo de Hoja número 100 AMBOS de Vega Alta. Esta descripción DEMANDADOS de la propiedad corresponde a CIVIL NUM. : CD16-348. SO- la finca número 15,350 inscrita BRE: COBRO DE DINERO. al tomo de Hoja Móvil númeEDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, ro 84 de Vega Alta. La venta Freddy Omar Rodriguez Co- se llevará a cabo para con su llazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Su- producto satisfacer a Hacienda perior de Puerto Rico, Sala de del Mar Owners Associaton el Vega Baja, al Público HAGO importe de la Sentencia dictada SABER: Que en cumplimiento en el caso de epígrafe, ascende un Mandamiento de Ejecu- dente a las siguientes cantidación de Sentencia que se me des: $5,523.11 por concepto de libró con fecha de 23 de octu- principal adeudado, intereses bre de 2019, por la Secretaría legales al 4.25% anual desde de este Tribunal, en el caso de la fecha de la sentencia, $200 epígrafe, venderé en pública de gastos y $500 de honorasubasta y al mejor postor con rios de abogado. La fecha y dinero en efectivo, cheque de hora de la subasta es como gerente o letra bancaria con sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará similar garantía, todo título, el día 19 de marzo de 2021, a derecho o interés de la parte las 10:15 a.m.. La subasta de demandada de epígrafe sobre dicha propiedad se llevará a la siguiente propiedad inmue- efecto en mi oficina situada en ble perteneciente a la parte el local que ocupa este Tribunal demandada, la cual se descri- en el Centro Judicial de Vega be a continuación: Número de Baja, advirtiéndose que el que Catastro:---. Propiedad Hori- obtuviere la buena pro de dizontal: CONDOMINIO CLUB cha propiedad consignará en el VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL acto del remate el importe de su MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamen- oferta en moneda legal, en adito: A-503 SEMANA 13. Cabida ción a los gastos de la subasta, 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. This siendo éste el mejor postor. Se specific Vacation Club Right is entenderá que todo licitador coupled with a special property acepta como bastante el título right to the above mentioned del inmueble y las cargas y graUnit A-503 and includes the vámenes anteriores y los preferight to use such unit during 13 rentes al crédito del ejecutante, week of each year until Decem- si los hubiere, continuarán subber 31 of the year 2070, such sistiendo, entendiéndose que el week commencing at 12:00 rematante los acepta y queda noon on the 33 Saturday of subrogado en la responsabilieach calendar year and ending dad de los mismos sin destinarat 12:00 noon of the same day se a su extinción el precio del of the following week, coupled remate. Si se declara desierta with the membership in the la subasta se dará por terminaHyatt Vacation Club a suc- do el procedimiento, pudiendo

de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja y además, en la colecturía del Municipio de Manatí, por no haber colecturía en Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 3 de febrero de 2021. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

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adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Vega Baja, durante horas laborables.

Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones.

Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja y además, en la colecturía del Municipio de Manatí, por no haber colecturía en Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 3 de febrero de 2021. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

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

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION DEMANDANTE VS.

JOSÉ ALFREDO ORTIZ LAMBOY E INIABELLE CARTAGENA HERNÁNDEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM. : EDC2017-0011 (801). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 27 de febrero de 2020, por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública

subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Numero de Catastro --- Propiedad Horizontal CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento: A-502 SEMANA 49. Cabida 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-502 and includes the right to use such unit during 49 week of each year until December 31 of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 49 Saturday of each calendar year at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-502 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such excessive, other owners of Vacation. Club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare of Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 15344 inscrita al tomo de Hoja Móvil número 83 de Vega Alta, inscripción ira.

Bayamón III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $16,332.09 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 19 de marzo de 2021, a las 10:30. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que

obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Caguas, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones.

Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja y además, en la colecturía del Municipio de Manatí, por no haber colecturía en Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 3 de febrero de 2021. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

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

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

DANMARIS

CRUZ GUZMÁN

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: BY2018CV03242.

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 BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR, , en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 4 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en su oficina sita (sala 503) en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: C-2183 CALLE PASEO ARPA URB. LEVITTOWN TOA BAJA, PR 00949 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar #2183 del bloque “C” de la Urbanización Levittown, en el barrio Sabana Seca de Toa Baja, compuesto de 310.50 metros cuadrados , en lindes por el NORTE, en 23.00 metros con el solar #2184; por el SUR, en 23.00 metros con el solar #2182; por el ESTE, en 13.50 metros con un paseo público y por el OESTE, en 13.50 metros con el Paseo Arpa (Calle #313, según plano). La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 67 del Tomo 64 de Toa Baja, finca número 4,887, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Segunda (2da).

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $123,717.00.

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 11 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $82,478.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 18 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $61,858.50.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de

hipoteca número 38 otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de febrero de 2017, ante el Notario Carlos Martínez Olmo y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Toa Baja, finca número 4,887, inscripción Octava (8va).

Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido contra la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $121,644.71 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de mayo de 2018, 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 $12,371.70.

Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $12,371.70 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $12,371.70 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que

puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en el Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de febrero de 2021. Jose F. Marrero Robles #131, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON SALA SUPERIOR.

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

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

GEOVANNIE RIVERA RAMOS Y JENNIFER BÁEZ BURGOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: BY2019CV02068.

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 BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR, , en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 4 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: D-5 CALLE 2 URB. VICTORIA HEIGHTS,

The San Juan Daily Star BAYAMON, PR 00959 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar #20 del bloque “Z”, radicado en la Urbanización Reparto Valencia, situada en el barrio Hato Tejas de Bayamón, con un área de 364.00 metros cuadrados; en lindes: por el NORTE, en 14.00 metros con la calle 1; por el SUR, en 14.00 metros con la Avenida Orquídea; por el ESTE, en 26.00 metros con el solar #21 y por el OESTE, en 26.00 metros con el solar #19. ENCLAVA: Una casa de concreto reforzado destinada a vivienda. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 21 del Tomo 1133 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 50,341, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Primera (1ra). El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $110,953.00. 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 11 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $73,968.66. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 18 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LA 2:15 DE LAS TARDE. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $55,476.50.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 42, otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de junio de 2016, ante la Notario Alfredo A. Infante Gutiérrez y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Bayamón Sur, finca número 50,341, en el Registro de a Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Primera (1ra), inscripción Sexta (6ta). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido contra la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $107,151.50 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de noviembre de 2018, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.00% anual. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación.

Además, la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritu-

ra de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $11,095.30.

Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $11,095.30 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $11,095.30 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 BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente 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

Friday, February 19, 2021 el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en el Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de febrero de 2021. Jose F. Marrero Robles, #131, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON SALA SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON SALA SUPERIOR.

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

JOSÉ MANUEL RIJOS LÓPEZ, WANDA IVELISSE FERRER WESTERBAND Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS (DEUDORES HIPOTECARIOS); EDWIN PEREZ SALVA, MARIA YOLANDA CRUZ CENTENO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS (TITULARES REGISTRALES)

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: BY2019CV05934.

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 BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 4 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LA 1:45 DE LA TARDE, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR, QUINTO PISO SALA 503, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: #1258 (C-12) CALLE FINLANDIA URB. PLAZA DE LA FUENTE TOA ALTA, PR 00953 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización “Plaza de la Fuente”, localizada el barrio Mucarabones del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico en el plano de inscripción, con el #12-C. Área del solar: 427.130 metros cuadra-

dos. En lindes: Por el NORTE, en una distancia de 30.00 metros lineales con el solar #11 del mismo bloque; por el SUR, en una distancia de 30.00 metros lineales con el solar #13 del mismo bloque; por el ESTE, en dos alineaciones continuas, que suman 14.01 metros lineales con la calle #2 de la urbanización y por el OESTE, en dos alineaciones continuas que suman 13.05 metros lineales con los solares #16 y 17 del mismo bloque. ENCLAVA: Una casa en concreto, para fines residenciales. El expresado solar se halla afecto a la siguiente servidumbre: Franja de terrero de 5 pies de ancho que discurre a lo largo de la colindancia ESTE. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 196 del Tomo 437 de Toa Alta, finca número 22,377, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Tercera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $189,000.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 11 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LA 1:45 DE LA TARDE. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $126,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 18 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LA 1:45 DE LA TARDE. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $94,500.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 111 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 16 de julio de 2018, ante el Notario Pedro J. Díaz García, inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Toa Alta, finca número 22,377, 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 ascendente a la suma de $187,272.38 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de junio de 2019, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte co-demandada José Manuel Rijos López, Wanda Ivelisse Ferrer Westerband y La Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos 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 $18,900.00. Además, la parte co-demandada José Manuel Rijos López, Wanda Ivelisse Ferrer Westerband y La Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $18,900.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $18,900.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad está sujeta a los siguientes gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Condiciones Restrictivas a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, bajo el Programa Mi Nuevo Hogar, por conceder la suma de $8,225.35, para sufragar gastos de cierre, por un término de 10 años, según escritura número 2, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el dia 5 de enero de 2012, ante el notario Edwin Raúl Colón Torres, inscrita al folio 209 del tomo 698 de Toa Alta, finca número 22,377, inscripción 6ta. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesa el gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relaciona a continuación: EMBARGO POR CONTRIBUCIÓN: por $2,573.73, contra José M. Rijos Pérez y Wanda I. Ferrer Westerband, de fecha 11 de junio de 2019. Seguro social XXX-XX-7858 / XXX-XX-5938.

Embargo #CAG19-0386. Anotado en el Tomo Karibe de Embargos bajo el Asiento 2019004679-EST, con fecha de 6 de agosto de 2019. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados

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con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de febrero de 2021. Jose F. Marrero Robles #131, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON SALA SUPERIOR.

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

RICARDO GUIDINI DA SILVA, GRETCHEN VELÁZQUEZ GONZÁLEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado CIVIL NÚM: SJ2019CV07250.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS (IN REM). ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo Edwin E. Lopez Mulero, 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 17 de diciembre 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 dere-

cho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada, en el inmueble que se describe a continuación, propiedad de la parte demandada, Ricardo Guidini Da Silva, Gretchen Velázquez González y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos. Dirección Física: B-79 Calle 5, Colinas de Cupey, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926. Finca 6,990, inscrita al folio 201 del tomo 211 de Rio Piedras Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de San Juan. URBANA: Urbanización Colinas De Cupey de Rio Piedras Sur. Solar: 79 Bloque B. Cabida: 401.67 Metros Cuadrados. Solar radicado en los Barrios Cupey y Caimito del término Municipal de San Juan (antes Rio Piedras), Puerto Rico, en lindes por el NORTE, en dos distancias una de 12.50 metros y la otra de 2.75 metros con la Calle número 5; por el SUR, en 15.550 metros con el solar número 80; por el ESTE, en dos distancias, una de 22.500 metros y dos otra de 2.75 metros con la calle número 4; y por el OESTE, en 26.0 metros con el solar número 68.

En dicho solar enclava una vivienda de concreto para una sola familia. Finca 6,990. Por su procedencia está afecta a: a. Condiciones restrictivas sobre edificación de uso. b. Servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company. c.

Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados. d. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico. e. Servidumbre a favor del Municipio de San Juan. Por sí está: a) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Metro Island Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $160,000.00, con intereses al 6.75% anual, vencedero el día 1 de enero de 2038, constituida mediante la escritura número 312, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de diciembre de 2007, ante el notario Jorge Laborde Corretjer, e inscrita al folio 189 del tomo 669 de Rio Piedras Sur, finca número 6,990, inscripción 8va. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 6,990 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: Primera Subasta: 9 de marzo de 2021, Hora: 10:00am, Precio Mínimo: $160,000.00, Hipoteca: Escritura Número 312 sobre Primera Hipoteca, otorgada el día 14 de diciembre de 2007, ante el notario Jorge Laborde Corretjer.

Segunda Subasta: 16 de marzo de 2021, Hora: 10:00am, Precio Mínimo: $106,666.67. Tercera Subasta: 24 de marzo de 2021, Hora: 10:00am, Precio Mínimo: $80,000.00. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta

como bastante la titulación que se transmite y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si las hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante las acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de las mismas, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Conforme a la Sentencia dictada el día 10 de noviembre de 2020 y archivada en los autos el 12 de noviembre 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 $137,808.86, más intereses a razón de 6.75%, desde el 1 de agosto de 2017, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de $1,707.04 por cargos por mora, más la suma de $72.01 en conexión con la cuenta de reserva, más la suma de $16,000.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de febrero de 2021. Edwin E. Lopez Mulero, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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ORIENTAL BANK Demandante v.

AIDA DE LAS MERCEDES HEREDIA GÓMEZ T/C/C AIDA HEREDIA GÓMEZ

Demandado CIVIL NÚM: SJ2019CV12820.

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 Edwin E. Lopez Mulero, 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 11 de enero de 2021 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso arriba indicado, venderé en la fecha o fechas que más adelante se indican, en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal, 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, AIDA DE LAS MERCEDES HEREDIA GOMEZ T/C/C AIDA HEREDIA GOMEZ. Dirección Física: Apt. 908, Cond. New Center Plaza, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico 00917.

Finca 39,100, al folio 1 del tomo 1,444 de Rio Piedras Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de San Juan. URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número novecientos ocho (908). Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la novena planta del Condominio New Center Plaza, situado en el Barrio Hato Rey del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico. El área aproximada del apartamento es de seiscientos ochenta y dos punto setenta y dos pies cuadrados (682.72) equivalentes a setenta y tres punto cuarenta y dos (73.42) metros cuadrados. Son sus linderos por el NORTE, en veintisiete pies con una pulgada (27’1”) con área común, corredor que sirve de acceso a los apartamentos, en cuatro pies con once pulgadas (4’11”) con cuarto eléctrico o de transformadores; por el SUR, en treinta y dos pies con cero pulgadas (32’0”) con el espacio exterior; por el ESTE, en dieciocho pies con ocho pulgadas (18’8”) con el apartamento número novecientos siete (907), en tres pies con diez pulgadas (3’10”) con el espacio exterior; y por el OESTE, en siete pies con siete pulgadas (7’7”), con área común, cuarto eléctrico o de transfor-

madores, en catorce pies con once pulgadas (14’11”) con el apartamento número novecientos nueve (909). La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está situada en su lindero Norte. Consta de sala-comedor, cuarto de estar, habitación principal con closet, baño, corredor, alacena, cocina y lavandería.

Le corresponde un (1) espacio de estacionamiento identificado con los números novecientos ocho (908) localizados en el área de estacionamiento del condominio. Este apartamento tiene una participación de 0.465144 por ciento en los elementos comunes del Condominio.” Finca 39,100. Por su procedencia está: a. Condiciones restrictivas sobre edificación de uso. b. Servidumbre a favor de los Estados Unidos de América. c. Servidumbre perpetua de alcantarillado y acueducto a favor de la finca propiedad de los Estados Unidos de América.

Por sí está afecta a: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Banco y Agencia del Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $75,250.00, con intereses al 6 ¾% anual, vencedero el día 1 de septiembre de 2030, constituida mediante la escritura número 184, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de agosto de 2000, ante la notario Rita Lynne Rodríguez De la Rocha, e inscrita al folio 213 del tomo 1,628 de Río Piedras Norte, finca número 39,100, inscripción 2da. b. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 12 de diciembre de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número SJ2019CV12820, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Scotiabank de Puerto Rico versus Aida De las Mercedes Heredia Gómez, también conocida como Aida Heredia Gómez, mediante la cual se ordena el pago por la suma de $45,848.96, más costas y en su defecto la venta en Pública Subasta, anotado el día 18 de junio de 2020, al tomo Karibe de Río Piedras Norte, finca número 39,100, Anotación “A”. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 39,100 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: Primera Subasta: 9 de marzo de 2021, Hora: 9:30am, Precio Mínimo: $75,250.00, Hipoteca: Escritura Número 184, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 30 de agosto de 2000, ante el Notario Rita Lynne Rodríguez De la Rocha.

Segunda Subasta: 16 de marzo de 2021, Hora: 9:30am, Precio Mínimo: $50,166.67. Tercera Subasta: 24 de marzo de 2021, Hora: 9:30am, Precio Mínimo: $37,625.00. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Se enten-

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derá 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 13 de octubre de 2020 y archivada en los autos el 15 de octubre de 2020 y publicada el 21 de octubre 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 $45,848.96, más intereses a razón de 6.75%, desde el 1 de julio de 2019 y hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de $411.72 por cargos por mora, más la suma de $7,525.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de febrero de 2021. Edwin E. Lopez Mulero, ALGUACIL SUBASTA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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

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

SUCESION DE ANDRÉS TORRES PADILLA Y NEREIDA MUÑOZ LÓPEZ, T/C/C NEREIDA M. DE TORRES, T/C/C NEREIDA TORRES COMPUESTA POR NEREIDA TORRES MUÑOZ Y FRANK RAÚL TORRES MUÑOZ COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION Y POR SI; FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES DE PUERTO RICO (CRIM)

Demandado CIVIL NÚM: SJ2017CV01150 (802). 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, Edwin E. Lopez Mulero, 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 14 de octubre 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, Sucesión de Andrés Torres Padilla y Nereida Muñoz López, t/c/c Nereida M. De Torres, t/c/c Nereida Torres compuesta por Nereida Torres Muñoz y Frank Raúl Torres Muñoz como miembro de la sucesión y por sí; Fulano y Mengano de Tal como posibles herederos desconocidos; Departamento de Hacienda de Puerto Rico y Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM).

Dirección Física: Barrio El Chicaro, 753 Manatí, San Juan, PR 00916. Finca 682, inscrita al folio 248 del tomo 15 de Santurce Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de

San Juan. URBANA: Solar de trescientos metros cuadrados (300.00 m.c.) con una casa, en la Calle El Chicharro, Santurce Norte de San Juan, Puerto Rico. En lindes por el NORTE, con Justo Concepción, antes hoy Canuto Mauso; por el SUR, con la Calle El Chicharro, antes, hoy Calle Manatí; por el ESTE, con Agueda Paris; y por el OESTE, con Matilde Bret. Finca 682.

Por su procedencia está afecta a: LIBRE DE CARGAS. Por sí está: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Banco y Agencia de Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $33,950.00, con intereses al 6 ¾ % anual, vencedero el día 1 de junio de 2030, constituida mediante la escritura número 124, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 16 de mayo de 2000, ante la notario Rita Lynn Rodríguez de la Rocha, e inscrita al tomo móvil 1099 de Santurce Norte, finca número 682, inscripción 24ta. EL SIGUIENTE DOCUMENTO SE ENCUENTRA PRESENTADO Y PENDIENTE DE DESPACHO: AL ASIENTO 2017-110219SJ01 DEL SISTEMA KARIBE, se presentó el día 11 de diciembre de 2017, Aviso de Demanda de fecha 1 de diciembre de 2017, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Caso Civil número SJ2017CV01150(508), por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por Scotiabank de Puerto Rico, versus Andrés Torres Padilla, Nereida Mira Torres y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos; y Frank Raúl Torres Muñoz, por la suma de $23,351.06 y otras sumas. Se solicita pago y/o venta en pública subasta. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 682 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: Primera Subasta: 9 de marzo de 2021, Hora: 9:00am, Precio Mínimo: $33,950.00, Hipoteca: Escritura Número 124 sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el día 16 de mayo de 2000, ante la notario Rita Lynn Rodríguez De La Rocha. Segunda Subasta: 16 de marzo de 2021, Hora: 9:00am, Precio Mínimo: $22,633.33. Tercera Subasta: 24 de marzo de 2021, Hora: 9:00am, Precio Mínimo: $16,975.00. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación que se transmite y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si las hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante las acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de las mismas, sin destinarse a su extinción el

precio del remate. Conforme a la Sentencia dictada el día 19 de agosto de 2020, notificada el 24 de agosto de 2020 y publicada el 28 de agosto 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 $23,351.06, más intereses a razón de 6 ¾ %, desde el 1 de enero de 2017, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de $87.30 por cargos por mora, más la suma de $51.80 en conexión con la cuenta de reserva, más la suma de $3,395.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de febrero de 2021. Edwin E. Lopez Mulero, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

LEGAL NOTICE M&T 42352 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR.

Legacy Mortgage Asset Trust 2019-GS6.

Demandante v.

Wilfredo Santiago Colón

Demandado CIVIL NÚM: BY2020CV01363.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA

POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el día 9 de marzo de 2021, a las 3:15 de la tarde en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en la sala 503 en el edificio del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en Urb. San Carlos, 232 calle 1, Dorado, PR 00646 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 232 del plano de inscripción del Proyecto de solares denominado San Carlos radicado en el Barrio Higuillar del término municipal de Dorado, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 283.371 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con la calle número 5, en una distancia de 9.50 metros, más 2.75 metros en curva; por el Sur, con el solar número 269, en una distancia de 13.00 metros; por el Este, con la calle G, en una distancia de 18.50 metros más 2.75 metros en curva y por el Oeste, con el solar número 233, en una distancia de 22.00 metros. Enclava una casa de cemento y aluminio con piso de hormigón armado, techo de cemento de una sola planta, con un área de piso de 672 pies cuadrados. Tiene sala-comedor-cocina, tres dormitorios, cuarto sanitario y portal.

La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el folio 8 del tomo 85 de Dorado, finca número 3,755, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Cuarta. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $100,880.00. 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 16 de marzo de 2021, a las 3:15 de la tarde. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $67,253.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que

suscribe el día 24 de marzo de 2021, a las 3:15 de la tarde Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $50,440.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 456, otorgada el día 30 de noviembre de 2004, ante el Notario Carlos Martínez Olmo y consta inscrita en el folio 194 del tomo 253 de Dorado, finca número 3,755, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Cuarta, inscripción tercera. El pagaré y la escritura de hipoteca fueron modificadas por las partes el 23 de mayo de 2011 mediante la escritura núm. 123 sobre Modificación de Hipoteca otorgada ante el Notario Emil J. Rodríguez Escudero. En virtud del mismo, se estableció como nuevo principal adeudado la cantidad de $108, 953.54 y se extendió la fecha de vencimiento al 1 de mayo de 2051. La referida escritura consta inscrita al folio 194 del tomo 253 de Dorado, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Cuarta, finca número 3,755, inscripción cuarta. El pagaré y la escritura de hipoteca fueron modificados por las partes el 27 de noviembre de 2015 mediante el documento titulado Loan Modificacion Agreement. En virtud del mismo, se estableció como nuevo principal adeudado la cantidad de 115,535.50 y se modificó la tasa de interés de la siguiente forma: (a) La tasa de interés anual sería 2.50% desde el 1 de diciembre de 2015 hasta el 30 de noviembre de 2018; (b) La tasa de interés anual sería 3.50% desde el 1 de diciembre de 2018 hasta el 30 de noviembre de 2019; (c) La tasa de interés anual sería 4.50% desde el 1 de diciembre de 2019 hasta el 30 de noviembre de 2020; (d) La tasa de interés anual sería 5.50% desde el 1 de diciembre de 2020 hasta el 30 de noviembre de 2021 y (e) La tasa de interés anual sería 6.00 desde el 1 de diciembre de 2021 hasta la fecha de vencimiento. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $109,306.60 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.500% anual desde el día 1 de julio de 2019. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Se pagarán también los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento, la suma de $10,088.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $10,088.00 para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma

The San Juan Daily Star de $10,088.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más intereses según provisto por la regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes.

Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores ni preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad.

Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacionan más adelante. A los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de, o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso, o al portador, garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor por la presente se notifica, que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. PRESENTACION: Presentada el 10 de noviembre de 2020, al asiento 2020-088681-BY04, Demanda de fecha 12 de marzo de 2020, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior, en el caso civil número BY 2020 CV01363, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por Legacy Mortgage Asset Trust 2019-GS6 vs. Wilfredo Santiago Colón (soltero), en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $109,306.60 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 cele-

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brarse 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de febrero. FDO. JOSE F. MARRERO ROBLES, ALGUACIL #131.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante, v.

SUCESIÓN DE RAMÓN SANTIAGO RIVERA Y SUCESIÓN DE ANTONIA RIVERA RIVERA AMBAS COMPUESTAS POR SUS MIEMBROS CARLOS SANTIAGO, FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL Demandados

CIVIL NÚM. BY2019CV02854.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

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

El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe 20 de septiembre de 2019, notificada el 27 de septiembre de 2019 y publicada el 2 de octubre de 2019 y de un Mandamiento de Ejecución emitido el día 21 de febrero de 2020, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, procederá a vender en subasta, por separado, y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de los demandados de epígrafe sobre el inmueble que adelante se describe. Se anuncia por la presente que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 10 de marzo del año 2021 a las 2:00 de la tarde, en el quinto piso Sala 503 del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Las Colinas, en el barrio Candelaria del municipio de Toa Baja, marcado con el #11 de la manzana R, con un área de 337.50 metros cuadrados. En linderos: por

el NORTE, con la calle 17, en una distancia de 13.50 metros; por el SUR, con el solar 14, en una distancia de 13.50 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar 12, en una distancia de 25.00 metros y por el OESTE, con el solar 10, en una distancia de 25.00 metros. ENCLAVA: Una casa de hormigón y bloques diseñada para una sola familia. FINCA: Número veinte mil setecientos setenta y dos (20772), inscrita al folio 265 del tomo 349 de Toa Baja, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Segunda de Bayamón.

Dirección física: R-11, 17th Street, Las Colinas Dev. Toa Baja, PR 00949. El siguiente pagaré consta inscrito en la propiedad antes mencionada y es el que se pretende ejecutar: HIPOTECA: Por $110,127.00, con intereses al 6-1/2% anual, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de AAA Concordia Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, que vence el 1ro de mayo de 2034. Según escritura #356, otorgada en San Juan, el 15 de abril de 2004, ante Luis O. Dávila Alemán, inscrita al folio 41 del tomo 562 de Toa Baja, inscripción 4ta. La referida hipoteca grava el bien inmueble antes descrito. Que según surge del estudio de título, la propiedad se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: AVISO DE DEMANDA: De fecha 28 de mayo de 2019, dada en el Caso Civil #BY2019CV02854, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón; seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico (demandante) versus Sucesión de Ramón Santiago Rivera y Sucesión de Antonia Rivera Rivera, ambas compuestas por sus miembros, Carlos Santiago, Fulano de Tal y Fulana de Tal (demandados). Se reclama el pago de la deuda garantizada con hipoteca de la inscripción 4ta., reducida a $81,456.59, de principal, más intereses y otras sumas o la venta de esta finca en pública subasta. Anotada al tomo Karibe de la Sección II de Bayamón, finca #20772 de Toa Baja, anotación A y última, con fecha de 15 de agosto de 2019.

La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente según sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por las siguientes sumas: $81,456.59 por concepto de principal, más intereses al 6.5% anual, más recargos por todo pago en atraso, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Bayamón, durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que

todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá Libre de Cargas y Gravámenes posteriores. Los tipos mínimos a utilizarse para la subasta son los siguientes: El inmueble antes descrito ha sido tasado en la suma de CIENTO DIEZ MIL CIENTO VEINTISIETE DÓLARES ($110,127.00) para que dicha suma sirva de tipo mínimo en la primera subasta a celebrarse. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una segunda subasta en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 17 de marzo del año 2021 a las 2:00_de la tarde sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha segunda subasta, una suma equivalente a las dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de SETENTA Y TRES MIL CUATROCIENTOS DIECIOCHO DÓLARES ($73,418.00) para la finca antes descrita. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 25 de marzo del año 2021 a las 2:00 de la tarde, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha tercera subasta, una suma equivalente a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de CINCUENTA Y CINCO MIL SESENTA Y TRES DÓLARES CON CINCUENTA CENTAVOS ($55,063.50) para la finca antes descrita.

En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 09 de febrero de 2021, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Jose F. Marrero Robles #131, ALGUACIL.

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

LIME HOMES, LTD., Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN SOCORRO CALDERÓN RODRIGUEZ T/C/C CARMEN S. CALDERÓN RODRIGUEZ COMPUESTA POR: FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL A, B, Y C COMO HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; Y HONORABLE SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO,

Demandados Civil Núm. CG2019CV00314.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, Angel Gomez Gomez, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Caguas, a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 25 de noviembre de 2019 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $64,266.77 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 4 de octubre de 2019, notificada y archivada en autos el 8 de octubre de 2019, publicada el 17 de octubre de 2019 en el periódico procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Caguas, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 7 del Bloque M del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Caguas Norte, en el Barrio Bairoa de Caguas, con una cabida superficial de trescientos tres metros cuadrados con sesenta centímetros cuadrados (303.60mc) y colinda por el NORTE, en trece metros con veinte centímetros, con los solares número 7 y 8 del Bloque AJ; por el SUR, en trece metros con veinte centímetros, con la Calle Número 17; por el ESTE, en veintitrés metros, con el solar número 6 y por el OESTE, en veintitrés metros, con el solar número 8. Finca 31330, consta inscrita al Folio I del Tomo 926 de Caguas, finca número 32,707, del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Caguas.

Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $64,266.77 de principal; intereses, desde el 1ro de junio de 2018, al 5.000%,

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los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; recargos a razón del 5% de cada pago vencido no recibido dentro de los quince (15) días después de la fecha de vencimiento; más el 10% equivalente a $7,085.00 del principal para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados pactado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $64,459.79 según la escritura de hipoteca para la propiedad descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado: $42,973.19. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en la cual regirá como tipo mínimo para esta, la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo antes mencionado: $32,229.90. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el 4 de marzo de 2021, a las 10:00 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el 11 de marzo de 2021, a las 10:00 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el 18 de marzo de 2021, a las 10:00 de la mañana. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Caguas. Del Estudio de Título realizado surge el siguiente gravamen: Hipoteca constituida por Carmen Socorro Calderón Rodríguez, soltera, en garantía de pagaré a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por $10,000.00 sin intereses vencedero el 6 de diciembre de 2012, según Esc. #1043 en San Juan el 6 de diciembre de 2004 ante Luis O. Dávila Alemán, inscrita al folio 113vto de/ tomo 1685 de Caguas, finca #31330 inscripción 8va y última. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a

la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 10 de febrero de 2021. Angel Gomez Gomez #593, ALGUACIL. ****

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

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

ROLANDO PÉREZ CRUZ, RAQUEL IVELISSE LÓPEZ CRESPO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2020CV01927 (604) . SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS IN REM. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ROLANDO PÉREZ CRUZ, RAQUEL IVELISSE LÓPEZ CRESPO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 8 de febrero de 2021 este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted

enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de febrero de 2021. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 10 de febrero de 2021. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Secretario Regional. f/ Marily Lopez Martinez, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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

JAVIER ENRIQUE CARDENAS GONZALEZ Demandante V.

ALICE MIRIAM AVILES MUÑOZ

Demandados CASO Núm.: CY2020CV00398.

SALÓN NÚM.: ACCION CIVIL INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: ALICE MIRIAM AVILES MUÑOZ

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO, se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaria por la parte demandante, Demanda sobre Incumplimiento de Contrato, Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en la que se alega adeuda la suma de $36,000.00 de principal, intereses al 5% anual, desde el día 29 de junIo de 2011, hasta su completo pago, más la suma equivalente al 10% por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alega responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.rama-

30 judicial.pr/sumac/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su aIegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

La dirección postal del abogado de la parte demandante es la siguiente: Lcda. Patricia Pérez Surillo P.O. Box 9022623, San Juan, PR 00902-2623 Teléfono: 787 565 8841 Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 21 de enero de 2021. CARMEN ANA PEREIRA ORTIZ, SECRETARIA. MARTA DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

JAVIER ENRIQUE CARDENAS GONZALEZ Demandante v.

ARBORETUM ESTATES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION; FRANCISCO J. PACHECO ORTIZ Ex presidente de la Junta de Directores; FULANO DE TAL posible ex-miembro de la Junta de Directores de ARBORETUM ESTATES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

Demandados CASO Núm.: SA2020CV00220.

SALÓN NÚM.: ACCIÓN CIVIL INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO, (EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: FRANCISCO J. PACHECO ORTIZ ex presidente Junta de Directores de Arboretum Estates Development Corporation; FULANO DE TAL posible ex miembro de la Junta de Directores de Arboretum Estates Development Corporation

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO , se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante , Demanda sobre Incumplimiento

de Contrato, Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en la que se alega adeuda la suma de $364,5000.00 de principal , intereses al 5% anual , desde el día 12 de febrero de 2012, hasta su completo pago, más la suma equivalente al 10% por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado , todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento , excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC) , al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o :cualquier otro, si el tribunal , en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

La dirección postal del abogado de la parte demandante es la siguiente: Lcda. Patricia Pérez Surillo RUA: 16383 P.O. Box 9022623, San Juan, PR 00902-2623 Teléfono: 787 565 8841 Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en Salinas, Puerto Rico, hoy 10 de FEBRERO de 2021. MARISOL ROSADO RODRIGUEZ, SECRETARIA: REGIONAL. BRENDA L. RAMOS POMALES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

VILMARIS GARCÍA MARTÍNEZ Demandante v.

CARLOS JAVIER MARTÍNEZ CAMACHO

Demandado(a) Civil: Núm. AR2019RF00217.

Sobre: DIVORCIO-RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: CARLOS JAVIER MARTÍNEZ CAMACHO

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 8 de febrero de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi-

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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 9 de febrero de 2021. En ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, el 9 de febrero de 2021.

Vivian Y Fresse Gonzalez, Secretaria. f/Madeline Santiago Feliciano, Sec Auxiliar.

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vil y cumplir a cabalidad con lo dispuesto en dicha Regla. Conforme la Sección VII(4) de las Directrices Administrativas para la Presentación y Notificación Electrónica de Documentos Mediante el Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos, según enmendadas, el edicto publicado debe contener además un lenguaje similar al siguiente: Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal.” Se ordena a la secretaría del Tribunal expedir el emplazamiento por edicto de LIONEL SIMONETTI GARCIA. NOTIFÍQUESE. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 11 de febrero de 2021. f/MARÍA DE LOURDES CAMARENO DÁVILA, JUEZA SUPERIOR.

este caso, con fecha de 10 de febrero de 2021. En TOA ALTA , Puerto Rico , el 10 de febrero de 2021. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria Regional.

Gloribell Vázquez Maysonet, Sec.del Trib.Conf.I.

LEGAL NOT ICE Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior Municipal de San Juan.

f/ Angela M. Rivera Hernández, LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRIGUEZ, Secretaria. F/BETHSecretario(a) Auxiliar.

ZAIDA MERCADO ALVAREZ, LEGAL NOTICE Sec Auxiliar.

Estado Libre Asociado de PuerLEGAL NOTICE to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Pri- Estado Libre Asociado de Puermera Instancia Sala Superior to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL de CAROLINA. DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Pri-

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A: JOSE RAMON ROSADO GOMEZ, RAFAEL ROSADO GOMEZ, LESTER FIDEL ROSADO GOMEZ, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION JOSE RAMON ROSADO FONTANEZ T/C/C JOSE RAMON ROSADO FONTAY T/C/C JOSE ROSADO FONTANEZ

(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 4 de enero de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de febrero de 21. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico , el 11 de febrero de 2021.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUmera Instancia Sala Superior NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROde BAYAMON. LINA.

Demandante v.

BANCO POPULAR DE SUCESION JOSE PUERTO RICO. Demandante Vs. RAMON ROSADO REVERSE MORTGAGE LUIS A. RUBÍ GONZÁLEZ; FONTANEZ T/C/C JOSE FUNDING, LLC SUCESIÓN OLGA RAMON ROSADO Demandante (a) VS. BARBER MUÑIZ FONTAY T/C/C JOSE SUCESIÓN MYRTA COMPUESTA POR SUS ROSADO FONTANEZ MORALES SOSTRE, MIEMBROS, FULANO COMPUESTA POR JOHN T/C/C MYRTA MARÍA DE TAL, FULANA DE DOE Y JANE DOE COMO SOSTRES, T/C/C MYRTA TAL, MENGANO DE MORALES COMPUESTA POSIBLES HEREDEREOS TAL, MENGANA DE DESCONOCIDOS; POR FULANO DE TAL Y TAL, SUTANO DE TAL, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE SUTANO DE TAL COMO SUTANA DE TAL Y LUIS AMERICA; CENTRO POSIBLES HEREDEROS A. RUBÍ GONZÁLEZ DE RECAUDACION DE DE NOMBRES INGRESOS MUNICIPALES EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL DESCONOCIDOS; USUFRUCTUARIA (CRIM) CENTRO DE Demandado (a) Demandado(a) RECAUDACIONES Civil: Núm. CA2020CV01630. Civil Núm.: GB2018CV01212.

MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS SALA 404. Sobre: EJECU- Sala: 401. SOBRE: COBRO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE CION DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFI- DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORCACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR DINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE AMÉRICA

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO LEGAL NOTICE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL Estado Libre Asociado de PuerGENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA- to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL Demandado (a) MON. DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de PriNúm.: SJ2019CV10439.

KRICIA LÓPEZ SOTO mera Instancia Sala Superior Civil Sala: 506. SOBRE: COBRO de TOA ALTA. DEMANDANTE V. DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN BLANCA I LIONEL DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA SIERRA IRIZARRY SIMONETTI GARCIA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN Demandante v.

DEMANDADO DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. FERNANDO JAVIER CIVIL NUM.: BY2021RF00126.

A: Fulano de Tal y SOBRE: PRIVACIÓN PATRIA BAEZ PORTALATIN Sutano de Tal como POTESTAD. ORDEN DE EMDemandado(a) posibles herederos de PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. Civil: BY2020RF00495. Sobre: nombres desconocidos Vista la Solicitud de Emplaza- DIVORCIO (RI). NOTIFICAmiento por Edicto radicada por CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR de la Sucesión de Myrta la parte demandante y exami- EDICTO. Morales Sostre, t/c/c nados los autos del caso, el A: FERNANDO JAVIER Myrta María Sostres, t/c/c Tribunal le imparte su aprobaMyrta Morales ción y en su virtud autoriza el BAEZ PORTALATIN - 700 MAINSIELD AVE, APT EL SECRETARIO (A) que susemplazamiento por edicto concribe le notifica a usted que forme dispone el Artículo 4.6 de 1122, PTTSBURG PA el 10 de febrero de 2021 este las Reglas de Procedimiento 15205 Civil. Se ordena a la parte de- (Nombre de las partes a las que se le Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución mandante a que emplace por notifican la sentencia por edicto) Edicto a LIONEL SIMONETTI EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- en este caso, que ha sido debiGARCIA. Se ordena que se cribe le notifica a usted que 1 damente registrada y archivada emplace y notifique a dicha par- de febrero de 2021 , este Tri- en autos donde podrá usted ente demandada mediante la pu- bunal ha dictado Sentencia, terarse detalladamente de los blicación de un edicto, a esos Sentencia Parcial o Resolución términos de la misma. Esta noefectos, una (1) sola vez en un en este caso, que ha sido debi- tificación se publicará una sola periódico de circulación diaria damente registrada y archivada vez en un periódico de circulageneral de la Isla de Puerto en autos donde podrá usted ción general en la Isla de PuerRico. En el Edicto se deberá enterarse detalladamente de to Rico, dentro de los diez (10) apercibir a dicha parte deman- los términos de la misma. Esta días siguientes a su notificadada que, si no comparece a notificación se publicará una ción. Y, siendo o representando contestar la Demanda, presen- sola vez en un periódico de usted una parte en el proceditando el original de la misma circulación general en la Isla miento sujeta a los términos en el Tribunal, y notificando de Puerto Rico, dentro de los de la Sentencia, Sentencia copia al abogado de la parte 10 días siguientes a su notifica- Parcial o Resolución, de la cual demandante dentro del término ción. Y, siendo o representando puede establecerse recurso de de treinta (30) días a partir de usted una parte en el procedi- revisión o apelación dentro del la publicación del edicto, se le miento sujeta a los términos término de 30 días contados a anotará la rebeldía. La parte de la Sentencia, Sentencia partir de la publicación por edicdemandante deberá notificar Parcial o Resolución, de la cual to de esta notificación, dirijo a copia del emplazamiento y de puede establecerse recurso de usted esta notificación que se la demanda a la parte deman- revisión o apelación dentro del considerará hecha en la fecha dada a la última dirección cono- término de 30 días contados a de la publicación de este ediccida dentro de los diez (10) días partir de la publicación por edic- to. Copia de esta notificación ha siguientes a la publicación del to de esta notificación, dirijo a sido archivada en los autos de Edicto, por correo certificado usted esta notificación que se este caso, con fecha de 12 de con acuse de recibo. El conte- considerará hecha en la fecha febrero de 2021. En San Juan, nido del Edicto deberá contener de la publicación de este edic- Puerto Rico, el 12 de febrero la información dispuesta en la to. Copia de esta notificación ha de 2021. Griselda Rodriguez Regla 4.6 de Procedimiento Ci- sido archivada en los autos de Collado, Secretario Regional.

febrero de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretario Regional. VERONICA RIVERA RODRIGUEZ, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: LUIS A. RUBÍ GONZÁLEZ; SUCESIÓN OLGA BARBER MUÑIZ COMPUESTA POR SUS MIEMBROS, FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, MENGANO DE TAL, MENGANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL, SUTANA DE TAL Y LUIS A. RUBÍ GONZÁLEZ EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA

(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 5 de febrero de 2021 este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 9 de febrero de 2021. En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 9 de

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SUCESION LUIS E. PABON MEDIAVILLA T/C/C LUIS ENRIQUE PABON T/C/C LUIS ENRIQUE PABON MEDIAVILLA T/C/C LUIS PABON MEDIAVILLA T/C/C LUIS PABON T/C/C LOIS E. PABON COMPUESTA POR JORGE LUIS PABON ROMERO; LUIS ENRIQUE PABON COCA; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados CIVIL NUN. CA2019CV03658.

SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. MANDAMIENTO DE INTERPELACIóN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: JORGE LUIS PABON ROMERO; LUIS ENRIQUE PABON COCA; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION LUIS E. PABON MEDIAVILLA T/C/C LUIS ENRIQUE PABON T/C/C LUIS ENRIQUE PABON MEDIAVILLA T/C/C LUIS PABON MEDIAVILLA T/C/C LUIS PABON T/C/C LUIS E. PABON

El ArtIculo 959 del Cádigo Civil de P.R., 31 LPRA § 2787, dispone: “Instando, en juicio, un tercer interesado para que el heredero acepte o repudie, deberá el Tribunal Superior señalar a éste un término, que no pase de treinta (30) dIas, para que haga su declaracián; apercibido de que, si no la hace, se tendrá la herencia por aceptada.” Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al Art. 959, supra, y el caso Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), les ordena que el término de treinta (30) dias, hagan declaración aceptado o repudiando la herencia de

The San Juan Daily Star LUIS E. PABON MEDIAVILLA T/C/C LUIS ENRIQUE PABON T/C/C LUIS ENRIQUE PABON MEDIAVILLA T/C/C LUIS PABON MEDIAVILLA T/C/C LUIS PABON T/C/C LUIS E. PABON. Sc les apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: GREENSPOON MARDER, LLP, TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700, 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309, Tel. (954) 343 6273, Fax. (954) 343 6982. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 29 de enero de 2021. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodriguez, Secretaria Regional. IDA FERNANDEZ RODRIGUEZ, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal.

Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 8 de abril de 2021, a las 11:30 de la mañana, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villas de Loíza, situada en el Barrio Canóvanas del Municipio de Loíza, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación y que contiene una casa de concreto reforzado, diseñada para una sola familia, solar numero veintiocho (28) del bloque “R”. Área del solar: doscientos treinta (230.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en diez metros (10.00), con calle diecinueve (19); por el SUR, en diez LEGAL NOTICE (10.00) metros, con solar seis ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO (6) y siete (7); por el ESTE, en DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- veintitrés (23.00) metros, con el NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA solar veintinueve (29) y por el SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO- OESTE, en veintitrés (23.00) metros con el solar veintisiete LINA. Inscrita al folio 248 del REVERSE MORTGAGE (27). tomo 99 de Canóvanas, finca FUNDING LLC. 5317, Registro de la Propiedad Demandante vs. de Carolina, Sección III. La hiSUCESION ISMAEL SOTO poteca objeto de esta ejecución MADURO COMPUESTA se encuentra inscrita al folio 125 del tomo 399 de CanóvaPOR JOHN DOE Y nas, finca 5317, Registro de la JANE DOE COMO Propiedad de Carolina, Sección POSIBLES HEREDEROS III, inscripción 4ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. VILLAS E DESCONOCIDOS; LOIZA, R-28 CALLE 19, CASUCESION MARIA E. PR 00729. Según CALDERON T/C/C MARIA NOVANAS, figuran en la certificación reESTHER CALDERON gistral, la propiedad objeto de RIVERA COMPUESTA ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores POR JOHN DOE Y o preferentes: Nombre del TiJANE DOE COMO tular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: POSIBLES HEREDEROS N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: DESCONOCIDOS; N/A. Según figuran en la certiESTADOS UNIDOS DE ficación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está graAMERICA; CENTRO por las siguientes cargas DE RECAUDACION DE vada posteriores a la inscripción del INGRESOS MUNICIPALES crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Demandados Titular: Secretario de la VivienCIVIL NUM. CA2019CV02745. da y Desarrollo Urbano de los SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HI- Estados Unidos Suma de la POTECA. EDICTO DE SUBAS- Carga: $166,500.00. Fecha de TA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE Vencimiento: 12 de marzo de AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE 2087. Se entenderá que todo DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS licitador acepta como bastante EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA- la titularidad de la propiedad DO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. y que todas las cargas y graA: La Parte Demandada, vámenes anteriores y los preal (a la) Secretario(a) de ferentes al crédito ejecutante Hacienda de Puerto Rico antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El y al Público General: rematante acepta dichas carCertifico y Hago Constar: Que gas y gravámenes anteriores, en cumplimiento con el Many queda subrogado en la resdamiento de Ejecución de ponsabilidad de los mismos, Sentencia que me ha sido dirisin destinarse a su extinción el gido por el (la) Secretario(a) del precio del remate. Se establece Tribunal de Primera Instancia, como tipo de mínima subasta la Sala Superior de CAROLINA, suma de $166,500.00, según en el caso de epígrafe, venderé acordado entre las partes en el en pública subasta y al mejor precio pactado en la escritura postor, por separado, de conde hipoteca. De ser necesatado y por moneda de curso ria una segunda subasta por legal de los Estados Unidos declararse desierta la primera, de América y/o Giro Postal y la misma se celebrará en mi Cheque Certificado, en mi ofioficina, ubicada en el Tribunal cina ubicada en el Tribunal de

Friday, February 19, 2021 NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA el bien inmueble antes descrito.

SALA SUPERIOR DE CA- La subasta se llevará a cabo GUAS. para con su producto satisfacer BANCO POPULAR DE al demandante, total o parcialmente según sea el caso, de PUERTO RICO la referida sentencia que fue Demandante, v. dictada por las siguientes suORISEY GENAO DUARTE mas: $104,961.36 por concepto Demandados de principal, más intereses al CIVIL NÚM. CG2019CV01664. 4.75% anual, más $11,770.80 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO como cantidad estipulada para Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA costas, gastos y honorarios de POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. AVI- abogados, así como cualquier SO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. otra suma que contenga el A: LOS CODEMANDADOS contrato de préstamo. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS DE EPIGRAFE Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: PARTES INTERESADAS y del El Alguacil que suscribe por la público en general, se advierte presente anuncia y hace cons- que los autos de este caso y tar que en cumplimiento de una demás instancias están dispoSentencia dictada en el caso nibles para ser inspeccionadas de epígrafe el 28 de diciem- en la Secretaría del Tribunal de bre de 2020, notificada el 2 de Primera Instancia Sala Superior enero de 2020, y publicada el de Caguas, durante las horas 7 de enero de 2020, y de un laborables. Se entenderá que Mandamiento de Ejecución todo licitador acepta como basemitido el día 11 de diciembre tante la titularidad del inmueble de 2020, que le ha sido dirigido y que las cargas y gravámenes por la Secretaria del Tribunal anteriores y los preferentes al de Primera Instancia, Sala de crédito del ejecutante, incluyenCaguas, procederá a vender en do el gravamen por las contrisubasta, por separado, y al me- buciones sobre la propiedad jor postor con dinero en efecti- inmueble adeudadas, si los vo, cheque de gerente o letra hubiere, continuarán subsisbancaria con similar garantía, tentes, entendiéndose que el todo título, derecho o interés rematante los acepta y queda de los demandados de epígrafe responsable de los mismos sobre el inmueble que adelante sin destinarse a su extinción el se describe. Se anuncia por la precio del remate. La propiedad presente que la primera subas- a ser ejecutada se adquirirá Lita habrá de celebrarse el día 19 bre de Cargas y Gravámenes de abril del año 2021 a las 9:15 posteriores. Los tipos mínimos de la mañana, en mi oficina lo- a utilizarse para la subasta son calizada en el Tribunal de Pri- los siguientes: El inmueble anmera Instancia, Sala Superior tes descrito ha sido tasado en de Caguas, sobre el inmueble la suma de CIENTO DIECISIEque se describe a continuación: TE MIL SETECIENTOS OCHO RUSTICA: Predio de terreno DÓLARES ($117,708.00) para identificado como Lote #5, en el que dicha suma sirva de tipo plano de inscripción, localizado mínimo en la primera subasta en el barrio Rabanal del térmi- a celebrarse. De no producirno municipal de Cidra, Puerto se remate ni adjudicación en la Rico, con una cabida superficial primera subasta del antedicho de 0.7253 cuerdas, equivalente inmueble, se celebrará una a 2,850.853 metros cuadra- segunda subasta en el mismo dos. En lindes por el NORTE, lugar antes mencionado, el día en dos alineaciones distintas 26 de abril del año 2021 a las con el lote #5 y con Francisco 9:15 de la mañana, sirviendo Ortiz Santos; por el SUR, con como tipo mínimo para dicha Simón Meléndez Aguada; por segunda subasta, una suma el ESTE, con Francisco Ortiz equivalente a las dos terceras Santos y por el OESTE, en dos (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo alineaciones distintas con el pactado para la primera subaslote #4 y el lote “L”, dedicado ta, o sea, la suma de SETENTA a uso público. FINCA: Número Y OCHO MIL CUATROCIEN18777, inscrita al folio 53 del TOS SETENTA Y DOS DÓLAtomo 505 de Cidra, Registro de RES ($78,472.00) para la finca la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, antes descrita. De no producirSección II de Caguas. Dirección se remate ni adjudicación en la física: 5 Lot Road Km 2.1, Ra- segunda subasta del antedicho banal Ward, Cidra PR 00739. inmueble, se celebrará una terEl siguiente pagaré consta cera subasta en el mismo lugar inscrito en la propiedad antes antes mencionado, el día 3 de mencionada y es el que se mayo del año 2021 a las 9:15 pretende ejecutar: HIPOTECA: de la mañana, sirviendo como Por $117,708.00, con intereses tipo mínimo para dicha tercera al 4.75% anual, en garantía de subasta, una suma equivalente un pagaré a favor del Banco a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo Popular de Puerto Rico, o a fijado para la primera subasta, su orden, que vence el 1ro de o sea, la suma de CINCUENenero de 2034. Según escritura TA Y OCHO MIL OCHOCIEN#365, otorgada en Guaynabo, TOS CINCUENTA Y CUATRO el 31 de diciembre de 2013, DÓLARES ($58,854.00) para ante Luis G. Rivera Marín, ins- la finca antes descrita. En tesLEGAL NOTICE crita al folio 53vto del tomo 505 timonio de lo cual, expido el ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO de Cidra (ágora), inscripción presente aviso, el cual firmo DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- 6ta. La referida hipoteca grava y sello, hoy 10 de febrero de de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 15 de abril de 2021, a las 11:30 de la mañana, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $111,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la tercera subasta, la suma de $83,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 22 de abril de 2021, a las 11:30 de la mañana. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $96,056.76 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $9,027.49 en intereses acumulados al 5 de marzo de 2020 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.79% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $4,742.37 en MIP; $4,655.00 en cargos por servicio; $493.00 de seguro; $375.00 en tasaciones; $240.00 en inspecciones de la propiedad; $2,343.30 en fondos adeudados, más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $16,650.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 22 de enero de 2021. BETTY NAVARRO, #242, Alguacil Regional.

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2021, en Caguas, Puerto Rico. tificado en el plano de inscripANGEL GOMEZ GOMEZ, AL- ción del proyecto con el número GUACIL, Sala de Caguas. trece del bloque C, con un área superficial de trescientos cinLEGAL NOTICE cuenta y un metros cuadrados.

IN THE UNITED STATES DIS- En lindes por el NORTE, en una TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS- distancia de trece metros con TRICT OF PUERTO RICO. los solares C-Dos y C-Tres; por el SUR, en una distancia de treMMG I PR CR ce metros con la calle número Plaintiff, vs. siete; por el ESTE, en una disEDGARDO MARTIN tancia de veintisiete metros con WESTERBAND el lote C-Doce; y por el OESTE, RODRIGUEZ A/K/A en una distancia de veintisiete metros, con el lote C-Catorce.

EDGARDO M. Contiene una casa para fines WESTERBAND residenciales. Property number RODRIGUEZ AND 19,948, recorded at page 51 of HIS WIFE MYRAIDA volume 395 of Toa Alta, ProperDIAZ AVILES AND ty Registry of Bayamón, Puerto Rico, Section III. Physical adTHE CONJUGAL dress: Jardines de la Fuente PARTNERSHIP Kennedy, Solar 13-C, Toa Alta, CONSTITUTED BETWEEN Puerto Rico 00953. Potential THEM; JODIVAN MOLINA bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with NEGRON the holders thereof. It shall be Defendants CIVIL NO. 18-1475 (PAD). RE: understood that each bidder acCOLLECTION OF MONIES, cepts as sufficient the title and FORECLOSURE OF MORT- that prior or preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, GAGE. NOTICE OF SALE. TO: EDGARDO MARTIN including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, WESTERBAND tacit, implied or legal), or hoRODRIGUEZ A/K/A meowner associations dues, to EDGARDO M. the extent specified under the applicable Condominium Law, WESTERBAND shall continue in effect. It being RODRIGUEZ AND understood that the successful HIS WIFE MYRAIDA bidder accepts them and is suDIAZ AVILES AND brogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price THE CONJUGAL shall not be applied toward their PARTNERSHIP The present proCONSTITUTED BETWEEN cancellation. perty will be acquired free and THEM; JODIVAN MOLINA clear of all junior liens. THERENEGRON: AND TO THE FORE, the first public sale shall PUBLIC IN GENERAL: be held on the April 9th, 2021 UNITED STATES OF AME- at 10:25 a.m., and the minimum RICA PRESIDENT OF THE bid that will be accepted is the UNITED STATES COMMON- sum of $178,006.42. In the WEALTH OF PUERTO RICO. event said first public auction SS. Judgment in favor of plain- does not produce a bidder and tiff for the sum of $167,956.75, the property is not adjudicated, plus interest from the 19th day a second public auction shall be of March, 2019, at a rate of held on the April 16th, 2021 at 5.00% per annum per annum, 10:25 a.m., and the minimum accrued late charges and any bid that will be accepted is the other advance, charge, fee or sum of $118,670.95, 2/3 parts disbursements made by plain- of the minimum bid for the 1st tiff, on behalf of defendant, in public sale. If said second accordance with the mortgage auction does not result in the deed, plus costs, and 10% of adjudication and sale of the mortgage note principal balan- property, a third auction will be ce in attorney fees; Pursuant to held on the April 23rd, 2021 at the judgment, the undersigned 10:25 a.m., and the minimum Special Master was ordered to bid that will be accepted is the sell at public auction for United sum of $89,003.21, ½ of the States currency in cash or cer- minimum bid for the 1st public tified check without appraise- sale. Upon confirmation of the ment or right of redemption to sale, an order shall be issued the highest bidder to be held on canceling all junior liens. For the sidewalk in front of the main further particulars, reference is gate entrance of the United made to the judgment entered States District Court, Federal by the Court in this case, which Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, can be examined in the Office Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or any of the Clerk of the United States other place designated by said District Court, Federal Building, Special Master, to cover the Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, sums adjudged to be paid to the Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerplaintiff, the following property: to Rico, on February 2nd, 2021.

URBANA: Solar radicado en AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, Spela Urbanización Jardines de la cial Master.

Fuente, Sección Jardines de Casablanca, en el barrio Mucarabones del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, iden-

TRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

CONDADO 3 CFL, LLC Plaintiff, vs.

COLEGIO EL ARCO IRIS, INC.; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA

Defendants CIVIL NO. 18-1832 (PAD). RE: FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE IN-REM. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: COLEGIO EL ARCO IRIS, INC.; ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; FIRST FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP.; AND THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO. SS. Judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $59,133.11 in principal, accrued interest which continues to accrue until full payment of the debt at the rate of 6.98% per annum, accrued late charges and any other advance, charge, fee or disbursements made by plaintiff on behalf of defendants, in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs, and ten (10) percent in attorney fees; Pursuant to the judgment, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for United States currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder to be held on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or any other place designated by said Special Master, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Lomas Verdes en el barrio Minillas de Bayamón, marcado con el número Uno (1) de la manzana Dos “A” (2A) que mide trescientos cuarenta y siete puntos cincuenta y nueve metros cuadrados (347.59). En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle Power, distancia de catorce puntos cero uno metros; por el SUR, con el solar número treinta y cuatro, distancia de catorce punto cero uno metros; por el ESTE, con Centro Comercial propiedad de Minillas Development Corporation, distancia de veinticuatro punto ochenta y uno metros; por el OESTE, con el solar número Dos, distancia de veinticuatro punto ochenta y uno metros. Enclava una casa de concreto reforzado y bloque de concreto. Inscrita al folio 31 del tomo 252 de Bayamón Sur, Finca número 11,030. Registro de la Propiedad, Sección I de Bayamón. Physical address: 2A-1 Laurel Ave., Lomas Verdes, Puerto Rico 00961. The LEGAL NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DIS- property is subject to the foTRICT COURT FOR THE DIS- llowing preferential lien: 1.

MORTGAGE: Securing a mort-

32 gage note made in favor of First Financial Services Corp., or at its order, in the principal amount of $24,000.00, constituted to Deed number 66, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on May 12, 1978, before Notary Francisco Pedraza Algarín, recorded at page 33 (vuelto) of volume 252 of Bayamón, Property number 11,030, 3th inscription. The property is subject to the following junior lien: 2. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA: Presented against El Colegio El Arco Iris, Inc. Social Security XXX-XX-4140, for the sum of $4,468.61, recored at Book of tax garnishments 31 Page 17.

Order number 1658, BAY-142752 dated June 18, 2014, in the Registry of Property, First Section of Bayamón, Property number 11,030. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior or preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal), or homeowner associations dues, to the extent specified under the applicable Condominium Law, shall continue in effect. It being understood that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior lienes. THEREFORE, the first public sale shall be held on the April 9th, 2021 at 10:10 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $171,000.00. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a second public auction shall be held on the April 16th, 2021 at 10:010 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $114,000.00, 2/3 parts of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a third auction will be held on the April 23rd, 2021 at 10:10 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $85,500.00, ½ of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on February 2nd , 2021. AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, Special Master.

LEGAL NOTICE

The San Juan Daily Star

Friday, February 19, 2021

IN THE UNITED STATES DIS- ded at page 16 of volume 54 of TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS- Sabana Llana, Property RegisTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. try of San Juan, Fifth Section.

Physical address: #403 Libran MMG I PR CR, LLC Street, Urb. San Agustín, San Plaintiff, vs.

Juan, PR 00928: The property GRACE is subject to the following junior MONGE LAFOSSE, liens: 1. LAWSUIT ANNOTADefendant.

TION: Executed in the First CIVIL NO. 16-02805 (PAD). Instance Court of San Juan, ciRE: COLLECTION OF MO- vil case #KCD2009-2190 (508), NIES, FORECLOSURE OF on June 5th, 2009, for rason of MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF collection of Money and ForeSALE. clousure in favor of Firstbank TO: GRACE MONGE Puerto Rico, by the amount of LAFOSSE ; FIRSTBANK $35,685.99, plus interests, rePUERTO RICO ; BANCO corded on July 10, 2015 under abbreviated entry at page 35 of BILBAO VIZCAYA volume 1125 (ágora) of Sabana ARGENTARIA PUERTO Llana, property number 2,218, RICO; AND TO THE 23th Inscription. 2. LIEN ANPUBLIC IN GENERAL: NOTATION: Dated September UNITED STATES OF AME- 19th, 2011, executed in the First RICA PRESIDENT OF THE Instance Court of San Juan, ciUNITED STATES COMMON- vil case #KCD2009-2922 (807), WEALTH OF PUERTO RICO. for reason of Collection of MoSS. Judgment in favor of plain- ney by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya tiff for the sum of $378,982.75 Argentaria Puerto Rico, plaintiff, in principal, accrued interest versus Grace Monge Lafosse, which continues to accrue un- defendant, by the amount of til full payment of the debt at $29,644.71, plus interests, rethe rate of 7.95% per annum, corded on July 10th, 2015 under accrued late charges and any abbreviated entry at page 35 of other advance, charge, fee or volume 1125 of Sabana Llana, disbursements made by plain- property number 2,218, annotatiff, on behalf of defendant, in tion A. 3. MORTGAGE: In faaccordance with the mortgage vor of Firstbank Puerto Rico, in deed, plus costs and attorney the original principal amount of fees; Pursuant to the judg- $41,134.00, with 7.95% annual ment, the undersigned Special interests, due on July 1st, 2020, Master was ordered to sell at constituted by deed 169, exepublic auction for United Sta- cuted in San Juan, Puerto Rico, tes currency in cash or certified on June 17th, 2005, before check without appraisement or Yvannie Arroyo Casillas Notary right of redemption to the hig- Public, recorded on July 10th, hest bidder to be held on the 2015, under abbreviated ensidewalk in front of the main try at page 35 of volume 1125 gate entrance of the United (agora) of Sabana Llana, proStates District Court, Federal perty #2,218, 24th Inscription.

Building, 350 Chardon Ave- Potential bidders are advised to nue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or verify the extent of preferential any other place designated by liens with the holders thereof. It said Special Master, to cover shall be understood that each the sums adjudged to be paid bidder accepts as sufficient the to the plaintiff, the following title and that prior or preferenproperty: URBANA: Solar mar- tial liens to the one being forecado con el número ciento cua- closed upon, including but not renta y ocho (148) en el plano limited to any property tax liens de inscripción condicionado de (express, tacit, implied or legal), la Urbanización San Agustín, or homeowner associations radicado en el barrio Sabana dues, to the extent specified Llana, del sitio denominado under the applicable CondoRio Piedras, del término muni- minium Law, shall continue in cipal del Gobierno de la Capital effect. It being understood that de Puerto Rico, con una cabida the successful bidder accepts superficial de trescientos trein- them and is subrogated in the ta y uno punto doce (331.12) responsibility for the same and metros cuadrados y con las that the bid price shall not be siguientes colindancias; por el applied toward their cancellaNORTE, en trece punto cero tion. The present property will cinco (13.05) metros, con los be acquired free and clear of solares ciento cuarenta y seis all junior liens. THEREFORE, (146) y ciento cincuenta y uno the first public sale shall be held (151) del mencionado plano; on the April 9th, 2021 at 10:05 SUR, en trece punto veinticin- a.m., and the minimum bid that co (13.25) metros con la calle will be accepted is the sum número dos (2) del menciona- of $388,000.00. In the event do plano; ESTE, en veinticinco said first public auction does punto cero cero (25.00) metros not produce a bidder and the con el solar número ciento cua- property is not adjudicated, a renta y nueve (149) del men- second public auction shall be cionado plano y por el OESTE, held on the April 16th, 2021 at en veinticinco punto dieciocho 10:05 a.m., and the minimum (25.18) metros con el solar bid that will be accepted is the número ciento cuarenta y siete sum of $258,666.67, 2/3 parts (147) del mencionado plano. of the minimum bid for the 1st Property number 2,218, recor- public sale. If said second

auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a third auction will be held on the April 23rd, 2021 at 10:00 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $194,000.00, ½ of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on February 2nd, 2021.

AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, Special Master.

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

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

MILENIA INES CRUZ DE LA CRUZ t/c/c/ MILENIA I. CRUZ DE LA CRUZ

Parte Demandada CASO CIVIL NUM: PO2019CV03745.

SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Coamo, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $50,649.44, de balance principal, los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal y computados al 7% anual desde el día primero de septiembre de 2018 hasta su total pago y completo pago; más el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad, más la suma de $21.29 mensual en concepto de cargos por demora acumulados dese el 1 de septiembre de 2018, hasta la fecha de aceleración, y $6,400.00 como cantidad estipulada para costa, gastos y honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el nú-

mero cinco (5) del bloque F de la Urbanización Las Águilas de Coamo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de trescientos noventa y cinco punto treinta y nueve (395.39) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros, con la Carretera número catorce (14); por el SUR, en trece punto cero cero (13.00), con la calle número cuatro (4); por el ESTE, en treinta punto treinta y ocho (30.38) metros, con el solar número cuatro (4); por l OESTE, en treinta punto cuarenta y cinco (30.45) metros con el solar número seis (6).

Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio doscientos treinta y uno (231) del tomo ciento veinte (120) de Coamo, finca número dos mil doscientos ochenta y cinco (2,285). Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas.

Dirección de la propiedad: F-5 Calle 4 Urb. Las Águilas, Coamo, PR 00769. La propiedad anteriormente descrita se encuentra afecta a: HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagare a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda, o a su orden, por la suma de $15,000.00, sin intereses y vencedero en 8 años, según consta de la escritura número 326, otorgada en Hato Rey, el 23 de octubre de 2004, ante el notario Héctor Luis Torres Dávila, inscrito al folio 156 del tomo 292 de Coamo, finca 6285, inscripción 7ma. Sujeta a Condiciones de Subsidio Programa La Llave para tu Hogar, por 8 años. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 7 de abril de 2021 a las 10:00 de la mañana y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $64,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 14 de abril de 2021 a las 2:00 de la tarde y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $42,666.66.

Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 21 de abril de 2021, a las 2:00 de la tarde y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $32,000.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales, podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes

al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otros créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor.

Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante.

Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables.

(Art. 101 (1) de la Ley núm.

210-2015). Expedido el presente en Coamo, Puerto Rico a 9 de febrero de 2021. RODOLFO LARA MARTINEZ, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE COAMO.

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ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2020CV06821.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EM-

podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, personas procedente.

LCDO. JAVIER MONTALVO CINTRÓN desconocidas que se RUA NÚM. 17682 DELGADO & FERNÁNDEZ, LLC designan con estos PO Box 11750, nombres ficticios, que Fernández Juncos Station San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750, puedan ser tenedor o Tel. (787) 274-1414 / tenedores, o puedan tener Fax (787) 764-8241 algún interés en el pagaré E-mail: hipotecario a que se hace jmontalvo@delgadofernandez.com referencia más adelante Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 23 de dien el presente edicto, que ciembre de 2020. GRISELDA se publicará una sola vez. RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SESe les notifica que en la De- CRETARIA. FERNÁNDEZ DEL manda radicada en el caso de VALLE, LUZ E., SUB-SECREepígrafe se alega que el 13 de TARIA. octubre de 1995, se otorgó un LEGAL NOT ICE pagaré a favor de R&G Premier Bank of Puerto Rico (hoy Orien- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO tal Bank por fusión con Scotia- DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUbank), o a su orden, por la suma NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA de $47,850.00 de principal, con SALA SUPERIOR DE CAintereses al 8 1/2%anual, y GUAS. vencedero el primero 1 de noBANCO POPULAR DE viembre de 2025, ante la María PUERTO RICO de Lourdes Vizcarrondo López PARTE DEMANDANTE VS. Molina. En garantía del pagaré SUCESIÓN de MARIEL antes descrito se otorgó la escritura de hipoteca número 195, NUÑEZ ARZUAGA en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el compuesta por FULANO 13 de octubre de 1995, ante la y MENGANO DE TAL, Notario María de Lourdes Vizposibles herederos carrondo López Molina, inscrita al folio 217 del tomo 525 de desconocidos Santurce Norte, Finca Número PARTE DEMANDADA 18942, inscripción 3ra, Registro CIVIL NÚM. CG2019CV01536. de la Propiedad de San Juan, SALA: 802. SOBRE: EJECUSección l. El inmueble gravado CIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA mediante la hipoteca antes des- VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. EScrita es la finca número 18942 TADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA inscrita al folio 215 del tomo EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES525 de Santurce Norte, Re- TADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO gistro de la Propiedad de San LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERJuan, Sección l. La obligación TO RICO. SS. AVISO DE PÚevidenciada por el pagaré an- BLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil tes descrito fue saldada en su que suscribe por la presente totalidad. Dicho gravamen no anuncia y hace constar que en ha podido ser cancelado por cumplimiento de la Sentencia haberse extraviado el original dictada el 28 de diciembre de del pagaré. El original del paga- 2019, la Orden de Ejecución ré antes descrito no ha podido de Sentencia del 18 de marzo set· localizado, a pesar de las de 2020 y el Mandamiento de gestiones realizadas. R&G Pre- Ejecución del 31 de marzo de mier Bank of Puerto Rico (hoy 2020 en el caso de epígrafe, Oriental Bank por fusión con procederé a vender el día 8 Scotiabank) es el acreedor que DE ABRIL DE 2021, a las 9:45 consta en el Registro de la Pro- DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, piedad. El último tenedor cono- localizada en el Tribunal de Pricido del pagaré antes descrito mera Instancia, Centro Judicial fue la parte demandante. POR de Caguas, Sala Superior, en LA PRESENTE se le emplaza la Carretera Número Uno (#1), para que presente al tribunal Intersección con la Número su alegación responsiva den- 189, Entrada Norte, Urbanizatro de los 30 días de haber ción Bairoa, Caguas, Puerto sido diligenciado este empla- Rico, al mejor postor en pago zamiento, excluyéndose el día de contado y en moneda de los del diligenciamiento. Usted Estados Unidos de América, deberá presentar su alegación cheque de gerente o giro posresponsiva a través del Sistema tal todo título, derecho o interés Unificado de Manejo y Adminis- de la parte demandada sobre la tración de Casos (SUMAC), al siguiente propiedad: URBANA: cual puede acceder utilizando PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: la siguiente dirección electróni- Apartamento Número 1704. ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. Apartamento de forma irregupr, salvo que se represente por lar localizado al Noreste en la derecho propio, en cuyo caso primera planta del módulo 17 deberá presentar su alegación del Condominio Paseo Las Caresponsiva en la secretaría del talinas, situado en la Carretera tribunal. Si usted de presentar Estatal Número 876, kilómetro su alegación responsiva dentro 2.7 en el municipio de Caguas, del referido término, el tribunal Puerto Rico. El apartamento

PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

The San Juan Daily Star tiene un área total aproximada de 904.25 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 84.00 metros cuadrados.

Colinda por el NORTE, en una alineación que totalizan veinticuatro pies nueve pulgadas (24’ 9”), equivalentes a siete punto cincuenta y cuatro (7.54) metros, con el apartamento número 1804; por el SUR, en varias alineaciones que totalizan veinticuatro pies nueve pulgadas (24’ 9”), equivalentes a siete punto cincuenta y cuatro (7.54) metros, con el pasillo, las escaleras y el recibidor que accesa a ese piso; por el ESTE, en varias alineaciones de cuarenta y dos pies cero pulgadas (42’ 0”), equivalentes a doce punto ochenta (12.80) metros, con el área exterior del módulo; y por el OESTE, es una alineación de cuarenta y dos pies cero pulgadas (42’ 0”), equivalentes doce punto ochenta (12.80) metros, con el apartamento número 1701.

Esta unidad residencial consiste de tres (3) habitaciones con sus guardarropas, uno y medio (1½) baño, sala, comedor, cocina, lavandería y balcón. La unidad tiene el uso común limitado de un estacionamiento con cabida para dos (2) vehículos tipo “back to back”, enumerados con el número 1704. La entrada de esta unidad residencial está localizada hacia el Norte, conectando con su escalera de acceso a un área abierta que conduce hasta el área de estacionamiento y da acceso a la entrada del Condominio Paseo Las Catalinas. Le corresponde además una participación en los elementos comunes equivalentes a cero punto novecientos once por ciento (0.911%).

La propiedad consta inscrita al Folio 285 del Tomo 1625 de Caguas, Finca Número 54050, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca y su modificación constan inscritas al Folio 42 del Tomo 1707 de Caguas, Finca Número 54050, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. Inscripción quinta y sexta, respectivamente.

Dirección Física: 1704 Paseo Las Catalinas, Caguas, PR 00725-4919.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $127,869.31.

De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una segunda subasta, el día 15 DE ABRIL DE 2021, a las 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $85,246.20.

De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta día 22 DE ABRIL DE 2021, a las 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $63,934.65. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es

igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente.

Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $122,392.48 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.75% anual desde el 1 de agosto de 2016 hasta su completo pago, más $797.04 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $12,779.80 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, evidenciado por el pagaré que suscribió Mariel Núñez Arzuaga el 18 de febrero de 2009 y a su vez quedó garantizado por la Escritura Número 93, en esa misma fecha, ante la Notario Begoña I. De Jesús Meléndez. Modificada para un nuevo principal de $127,869.31, interés al 4.75% anual y vencimiento al 1 de diciembre de 2043, según Escritura Número 291, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico ante el Notario Antonio R. Pavía Vidal, el 3 de diciembre de 2013. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. La Sucesión de Mariel Núñez Arzuaga compuesta por Fulano y Mengano de Tal, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el Caso Civil Número CG2019CV-01536, Sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $122,392.48 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 3 de mayo de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Caguas. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda

Friday, February 19, 2021 subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 28 de enero de 2021. Ángel Gómez Gómez, Placa #593, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante vs.

JOSÉ A. GONZÁLEZ PAGÁN, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil: SI2020CV00091. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: JOSÉ A. GONZÁLEZ PAGÁN, FULANA DE TALY LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

Por la presente se le emplaza a usted y se le requiere para que dentro del término de TREINTA (30) días desde la fecha de la Publicación por Edicto de este Emplazamiento, notifique a la LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, Condominio Las Nereidas, Local 1-B, Calle Méndez Vigo esquina Amador Ramírez Silva, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680; Apartado 2342, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-2342, Teléfonos: (787) 832-9620 y (845) 345-3985, Abogada de la Parte Demandante, cuya dirección es la que queda indicada, copia de su Contestación a la Demanda, radicando el original de dicha Contestación en el Tribunal de Santa Isabel. Copia de la Demanda, así como de este Emplazamiento, podrán ser obtenidas en la Secretaría de este Tribunal, apercibiéndose que en caso de no hacerlo usted así dentro del término indicado, podrá anotarse la rebeldía en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expido bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 26 de enero de 2021. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. DORIS A. RODRÍGUEZ COLÓN, SUB-

SECRETARIA.

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MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P. Demandante Vs.

ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION B/N/C ASSOCIATES FINANCE; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2021CV00659.

SALA: 802. SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉIDCA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Se le notifica que se ha presentado una Demanda en su contra en este caso. En la Demanda se solicita se decrete judicialmente la cancelación de un (1) pagaré hipotecario a favor de Associates International Holdings Corporation h/n/c Associates Finance, o a su orden, por la suma de $20,599.99, con intereses al 12.08% anual, con vencimiento el día 5 de agosto de 2020. Este pagaré fue suscrito el 30 de agosto de 2005 ante el Notario Público Félix R. Figueroa Caban, y garantizado por una hipoteca constituida mediante la escritura núm.

553 de 30 de agosto de 2005, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, e inscrita al folio 121 del tomo 1047 de Sabana Llana, finca #24,965, inscripción 6ta, Registro de San Juan, Sección V, sobre la siguiente propiedad: EDIFICIO “B” Apartamento número mil ciento uno (11101): Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento residencial número mil ciento uno (1101) de forma rectangular, localizado en el piso once (11) edificio “B” del proyecto VBC guion ciento cincuenta y ocho (158) Condominio Vall de Berwind, hoy conocido como Torre d Cervantes, que ubica en la calle Elder esquina calle treinta y seis (36) del Barrio Sabana Llana del término municipal de río Piedras, del Municipio de San Juan, Puerto rico, con una cabida superficial de novecientos veintiún punto nueve mil ciento diecinueve (921.9119) pies cuadrados, siendo sus medidas lineales treinta y nueve pies cinco guion un cuarto pulgadas (39’5- l / 4 “) de largo por veinticuatro pies diez pulgadas (24’10”) de ancho en lindes: por el NORTE,

veinticuatro pies diez pulgadas (24’10”) con pared exterior del edificio, por el SUR, dieciocho pies cuatro pulgadas (18’4”) con el apartamento mil ciento tres (1103), por el ESTE, treinta y nueve pies cinco guion un cuarto (39’5- l / 4 “), con la pared exterior del edificio, por el OESTE, treinta pies guion siete tres cuarto pulgadas (30’7- 3/ 4 “) , con el pasillo. La puerta principal del apartamento tiene acceso al pasillo central del edificio.

Esta unidad residencial consta de lo siguiente: salacomedor, balcón, cocina baño, pasillo con closet, calentador de aguarle treinta (30) galones, nevera, estufa, y tres {3) cuartos dormitorios con sus closets cada uno.

Tiene una participación en los elementos comunes de punto cero cero dos cuatro uno cinco cuatro por ciento (.0024154%).

Le corresponde un espacio de estacionamiento identificado con el número del apartamento.

Inscrita al folio ciento cuarenta y nueve (149) del tomo seiscientos quince {615) de Sabana Llana, finca número veinticuatro mil novecientos sesenta y cinco (24,965). Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan Sección Quinta M. La parte demandante alega que el original del pagaré se extravió y la deuda evidenciada y garantizada por el mismo fue satisfecha, según consta más detalladamente en la Demanda presentada, la cual puede examinarse en la Secretaria de este Tribunal. Por la presente, se le emplaza y se le notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Deberá presentar la contestación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentarla ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de San Juan con copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante a la siguiente dirección: Lcda. Marjallisa Colón Villanueva, RUA Núm.

17341, Wendell W. Colón Law Offlce, PO Box 7970, Ponce, Puerto Rico 00732; Tel. (787) 843-4168; Fax (787) 840-1049; correo electrónico: mcolon@ wwclaw.com, colonlawofilce@ yahoo.com. Se le apercibe que, de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí establecido, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle.

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Parte Demandante VS

CORALY TORRES ROSAS

Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM. YU2020CV00357.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO(VÍA ORDINARIA).

EDICTO.

A: CORALY TORRES ROSAS

Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. Rafael Fabre Colón, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-265-0334, ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamientos y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida. Pueden ustedes obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación adicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Yauco, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de febrero de 2021.

Luz Mayra Caraballo Garcia, Sec General, Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Yauco. Dlia Aponte Velazquez, Sec Auxiliar.

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

VERONICA FIGUEROA CINTRON Parte Peticionaria v.

JEREMY SCOTT DICKISON

Parte Peticionada Caso Número OPA-2019010804. Sobre: VIOLENCIA DOMESTICA LEY 54-1989.

NOTIFICACION MEDIANTE EDICTO. Estados Unidos de América El Presidente de los EE. UU. El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. SS.

A: Jeremy Scott Dickison Calle Américo Salas, #1410 San Juan, PR 00909

Se le notifica por medio de este edicto que se solicitó en su contra ante el Tribunal de ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Primera Instancia, Sala MuniciDE PUERTO RICO TRIBUpal de san Juan, una orden de NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA protección, al amparo de la Ley SALA SUPERIOR DE YAUCO. 54-1989 para la que se señaló COOPERATIVA DE vista el 12 de abril de 2021.

AHORRO Y CRÉDITO Se expidió una orden de protección ex parte provisional de DE CABO ROJO

LEGAL NOTICE

la que podrá enterarse de los pormenores en la secretaría de este Tribunal. Por desconocerse de su paradero, el tribunal ordenó a que se le notifique y cite a usted por medio de este edicto el cuál será publicado es este periódico sólo una vez.

Se le advierte que deberá contestar la petición del término de (20) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, radicando el original en la Secretaría de este Tribunal y enviado copia a la peticionaria través de su abogada, Lic. Maricarmen Carrillo Justiniano, a la dirección más adelante indicada. De no hacerlo, o no comparecer a la vista señalada, podrá dictarse en su contra una Orden de Protección en Rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle o encontrarlo incurso en desacato y ordenar su arresto.

Lic. Maricarmen Carrillo Justiniano Box 8257 Bayamón, PR 00960 Tel: 787-945-9320 Maricarmen.carrillo@capr.org EXPEDIDA bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy día 15 de enero de 2021. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria y Rosa L. Rosario Rosa, Subsecretaria.

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

MARINA PDR OPERATIONS, LLC

PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.

ENRIQUE FABREGAS SUAREZ., ET AL

PARTE DEMANDADA CASO NUM.: FA2020CV-0622. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR. SS.

A: ENRIQUE FÁBREGAS SUÁREZ 31201 URB SERENA CAGUAS, PR 00727 o sea la parte demandada arriba mencionada.

POR LA PRESENTE se emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los TREINTA (30) días siguientes a este edicto usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través de! Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo casi deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal que corresponda y en cuyo caso deberá además notificar al Lcdo. Ricardo R. Lozada Franco (RUA 19823) al PO Box 10081, San Juan, PR 00908

y/o ariclozfra@gmail.com. Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.

EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal hoy día 8 de febrero de 2021. Wanda I Seguí Reyes, Sec del Tribunal.

Marilyn Sanchez, Sec Auxiliar.

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

JOANNE LIZETTE CASTILLO SEE Demandante v.

ORIENTAL BANK, SUCESOR EN INTERES DE RG PREMIER BANK, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD RO

Demandado(a) Civil: PO2020CV00501. Salon: 0601. Sobre: CANCELACION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE o sea, las personas ignoradas que puedan ser tenedores del pagare extraviado P/C Lcdo. Raul Rivera Burgos. Rua: 8879 Estancias de San Fernando, Calle 4, Numero A-35, Carolina PR 00985 Tel: (787) 238-7665 Email: raulrblaw@gmail.com

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 26 de octubre 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 noviembre de 2020. En PONCE , Puerto Rico , el 2 de noviembre de 2020. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCIA, Secretaria Regional. F/HILDA J ROSADO RODRIGUEZ, Sec Auxiliar.

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February 19-21, 2021

Naomi Osaka stopped Serena Williams and her latest Grand Slam record hopes

By KAREN CROUSE

N

aomi Osaka knocked Serena Williams out of the Australian Open on Thursday, but in relentlessly moving her from side to side on the court, did she also push Williams closer to retirement? After her 6-3, 6-4 defeat to Osaka in the semifinals, Williams left the Rod Laver Arena court to a standing ovation, which she recognized with a wave of her hand and a tapping of her heart.

After 20 Australian Opens, was Williams saying goodbye to a country of tennis fans that she described as “so amazing”?

“If I ever say farewell, I wouldn’t tell anyone,” she said in her post-match news conference, smiling weakly. “So …” Her voice trailed off.

Williams already had bemoaned her 18 unforced errors, including 10 on her forehand, considered one of the fiercest strokes in the women’s game.

“Not like I was on the run or anything,” she said, looking up at the ceiling to drive the tears back down. “They were just easy, easy mistakes.”

To what did she attribute all the unforced errors? Was it Osaka’s suffocating power? A bad day at the office? It was the eighth question of the news conference, and Williams’ composure crumbled.

“Uhh, I don’t know,” she said as she rose from her seat, crying. “I’m done.”

Williams has been stuck at 23 Grand Slam titles, one shy of the Australian Margaret Court’s career record, for four years, since winning the 2017 Australian Open while two months pregnant with her daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian.

Since returning to competition in 2018 after a difficult childbirth, which included a C-section delivery and complications stemming from blood clots, Williams has played in 11 Grand Slam tournaments and advanced to the semifinals or finals in six.

Meantime, the generation inspired

by Williams is asserting itself. Players like Osaka are building their own legacies.

Osaka quietly has compiled a 4-0 record in Grand Slam semifinals and won the championship in her previous three trips to the finals. “I have this mentality that people don’t remember the runners-up,” Osaka said, adding: “I fight the hardest in

Serena Williams congratulated Naomi Osaka warmly but began to cry during her post-match news conference. the finals. I think that’s where you sort of set yourself apart.”

Those are Williams’ sentiments exactly. During a recent tour of her South Florida home for Architectural Digest, she dismissed a runner-up prize on the shelf in her trophy room, saying she’d have to “put that one in the trash” because “we don’t keep second place” awards.

Over the past three years, Williams’ love for tennis and the joy she finds in competition have carried her through a pectoral injury, knee injuries and a left Achilles injury. She rededicated herself to the arduous — her word — task of improving her fitness, and where has it gotten her but on the wrong end of score lines in slugfests against considerably younger opponents like Osaka, 23, who fashioned her game after that of Williams, her childhood idol?

Williams looked fitter and faster in her first five matches of this tournament than she did when she made the final at Wimbledon in 2018 and 2019. She looked more formidable than when she played for the championship at the U.S. Open in 2018 and 2019. And she still couldn’t catch Court.

There will be a player representing the United States in Saturday’s final, but it

will be Jennifer Brady, 25, who defeated the Czech Republic’s Karolina Muchova, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, in the other semifinal.

Williams’ latest loss came five months after she took the first set off Victoria Azarenka but still exited the U.S. Open in the semifinals. Williams hurt her Achilles tendon in that match, which meant she could tell herself that if she could only stay healthy, victory would be hers. By coming up short in the semifinals in Melbourne, Williams technically went backward — in her mind, if in nobody else’s.

After advancing to his ninth Australian Open final, Novak Djokovic described Williams as “an amazing champion that inspires both male and female athletes around the world” and called what she is doing at her age “extraordinary.”

Djokovic, 33, who will be playing for his 18th Grand Slam singles title Sunday, said: “When you’re chasing big things that are related to the history of the sport, obviously it has a lot of weight, a lot of pressure. And regardless of the amount of years you have played on the tour and the experience that you have, you still feel it on your shoulders.”

Of course, Williams was devastated by the loss, Djokovic added. It’s part of

what makes her a champion. “But I think when you see a larger picture for her and who she is and what she stands for on and off the court, I mean, she’s one of the greatest athletes, not just tennis players,” Djokovic said Thursday. “I’m proud and honored to be playing at the same time she does.”

It is not by chance that in 77 Grand Slam appearances, Williams has withdrawn mid-Slam only twice, both times in the post-motherhood chapter of her career (the French Open in 2018 and 2020). Childbirth has given Williams more faith in her body’s strength and resilience. But no matter how young she feels, her body has absorbed three decades of pounding on the tennis court and one difficult labor.

Osaka acknowledged that her poor serving in the first set, where she put 36% of her first efforts in play, was because Williams was an intimidating presence on the other side of the net.

“I’ve grown up watching what she does to people’s returns when the serve is soft,” Osaka said, adding, “I was thinking about what could happen if I didn’t serve perfectly. I think that’s what made me sort of overdo it.”

Williams’ serve for a long time was considered the gold standard of the women’s game. But she was broken four times by Osaka, including at love right after Williams had broken Osaka to even the second set at 4-all. “I had all these thoughts about how she’s the best server, I’m probably not going to be able to break her,” said Osaka, who added, “Then I told myself to erase those thoughts. and just to, like, in a way I was telling myself I don’t care because I can only play one point at a time.”

Osaka held at love, winning the last eight points of the match. She described their hug at the net as “definitely a surreal thing” because of how much she looked up to her as a child.

It’s not a given that children will grow up to compete against, much less defeat, their idols on their sport’s biggest stage.

“Every time I play her, I feel like it’s something I’ll definitely remember a lot,” Osaka said, adding, “I want her to play forever. That’s the kid in me, I guess.”

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February 19-21, 2021

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Yankees’ optimism relies on offense and the law of averages

By TYLER KEPNER

A

aron Boone couldn’t help himself.

As much as it hurt to lose again in the American League playoffs last October, Boone needed to watch the World Series. Blame it on his lifetime spent in the game, the generations of baseball in his blood.

“Usually I go a day or two and I don’t watch, but then it pulls me back,” Boone said Wednesday, when the New York Yankees’ pitchers and catchers reported to spring training in Tampa, Florida.

“This game pulls me in. Ultimately, I love it so much that I’ve got to see it unfold.”

This has become routine by now for Boone, which says a lot about the state of the Yankees. He took over as manager in December 2017, just two months after the team had lost the AL Championship Series to Houston in seven games. Since then, the Yankees have fallen to the Boston Red Sox in a division series, the Astros in another ALCS, and the Tampa Bay Rays in another divisional round.

All three opponents went on to the World Series, which has not featured the Yankees since 2009. The Yankees have the most wins in the American League since then, but no pennants.

“I do feel like it’s that close, and I felt that way in ’18 and ’19 and last year — we’re late in the game against a team that goes on to the World Series again,” Boone said. “We’ve got to find a way to get over that last hump and beat that team that’s going on to the World Series.”

Boone added a qualifier that today’s Yankee fans know all too well: October is capricious, the difference between also-rans and champions is thin. One of these years, the Yankees’ luck is bound to turn, as it did for the Los Angeles Dodgers last fall and the Washington Nationals the fall before that. Both teams had also been strong for a while, without a title to show for it.

As the Yankees start again after a conservative offseason, their chances seem about the same as they always are.

Boone was optimistic as usual, speaking often of the need for players to be the best version of themselves. Every team has that same dream, but the Yankees believe their best case is better than most.

For what it’s worth, so does the algorithm at Baseball Prospectus. Their

Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton have struggled to stay healthy, but the team’s director of player health and performance, Eric Cressey, says both sluggers have taken a “dramatically different approach” to winter workouts. analysts’ mysterious PECOTA projection system forecasts the Yankees for 97 victories, the most in the AL and second in Major League Baseball only to the Dodgers, with 103. (The New York Mets are third, at 96.)

The Dodgers have brought back third baseman Justin Turner since those figures came out, so they actually should be even better. Barring a trade, Los Angeles will spend more than $250 million on its payroll, putting the team into the highest luxury-tax bracket and buying it the kind of depth the rest of the league cannot fathom.

Consider the Yankees’ starters behind Gerrit Cole: Corey Kluber, Jameson Taillon, Jordan Montgomery, Deivi García, Domingo Germán, Michael King, Clarke Schmidt and Luis Severino.

Would you be as confident as Boone was Wednesday?

“The amount of depth you see on our roster from a pitching standpoint gets me excited, because you know at their best they’re capable of being top-flight starters, and that’s across the board,” he said.

“Even when you consider our young guys that have gotten their feet wet, you

can kind of dream on them being really good pitchers in this league.”

The Dodgers don’t have to dream — with Clayton Kershaw, Trevor Bauer, Walker Buehler, David Price, Julio Urías, Dustin May and Tony Gonsolin, they are at least seven deep in healthy, proven performers. The Yankees essentially have Cole, Montgomery (ERA last season: 5.11) and a whole lot of questions.

Kluber hurt his shoulder last season and pitched one inning for the Texas Rangers. Taillon, whom the Yankees acquired last month in a trade with the Pittsburgh Pirates, spent the year recovering from Tommy John surgery.

Boone called them “potential high-end pitchers,” and they are — but it’s been a while. Both were also hurt in 2019, when they made seven starts apiece.

Severino had Tommy John surgery last spring. Germán missed the season while serving a domestic-violence suspension. García, King and Schmidt combined for a 6.28 ERA as rookies.

Could the Yankees shake out enough quality innings from that group to have a respectable rotation? Sure.

But until proven otherwise, it’s fair to be skeptical. For the Yankees to win, they’ll really have to hit — and that is where they separate themselves.

They led the AL in runs last season, despite lengthy absences of outfielders Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton and the troubles of catcher Gary Sánchez, whose .147 average was the lowest in the majors for players with at least 175 plate appearances. Even with J.T. Realmuto and James McCann available in free agency, the Yankees signed up for another year with Sánchez.

“We believe in him,” Boone said.

“We feel like he can be a game-changer-type player when he’s right. We’re going to continue to support him and try to get him to be the best version of himself that he can be. Hopefully this is the year when he can kind of put it all together. We certainly have a lot of confidence in that, but we’ve got to get it out of him, too.”

Patience has paid off with the ever-improving Clint Frazier, whose .905 on-base plus slugging percentage last season has finally earned him the everyday job in left field. (“He’s certainly earned that,” Boone said.)

As for Judge and Stanton, the Yankees trust Eric Cressey, the celebrated trainer they hired last year as director of player health and performance, to keep them on the field. Cressey told the YES Network this month that both players had taken a “dramatically different approach” to winter workouts, with less weight lifting and, especially in Judge’s case, more yoga.

Boone said the team expects Cressey’s influence to grow this season, after a year of scrambling because of the pandemic.

“I feel like our guys are certainly, across the board, in a better position to get the most out of themselves,” Boone said, and that is really what matters most. The Yankees’ talent is obvious; bringing it out, consistently, is the trick.

The feeling here is they’ll find a way to do it. Only one division rival, the Toronto Blue Jays, spent aggressively this winter, and Baltimore and Boston are rebuilding. The Rays need their special brand of sorcery to hold up for 162 games. The Yankees are the safe pick.

Then they’ll just need to get lucky in October. If nothing else, they are due.

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February 19-21, 2021

Fake doctors, fake documents, fake hospital: How a Russian doping lie fell apart

By TARIQ PANJA

I

f the cover-up was to work, high jumper Danil Lysenko realized far too late, he had better familiarize himself with the Moscow hospital where Russian track and field officials had insisted he had undergone a battery of medical tests.

The details mattered. The tests were the centerpiece of Russia’s explanation for why anti-doping officials had been unable to locate Lysenko in the spring of 2018.

The punishment mattered, too: Athletes found guilty of so-called whereabouts failures — effectively failing to make themselves available for random drug tests — can face suspensions of up to two years.

Those caught lying, falsifying documents or obstructing investigators risked even worse.

Either sanction, though, would most likely keep Lysenko, who has just turned 21, from representing Russia at the Tokyo Olympics.

So in September 2018, fearing investigators were closing in on the truth, a nervous Lysenko sent an email to a top Russian track official, asking if he could provide photographs of the hospital, so at least the athlete would know how to describe it if anyone asked. Then, accompanied by the same official, he drove to the address listed on the hospital’s website. When the car stopped and Lysenko looked around, he was stunned.

There was no hospital. There wasn’t even a building. All he could see was a construction site.

This was going to be harder to explain.

In the nearly five years since Russia’s huge, state-sponsored doping program was revealed, journalists, doping officials and investigators have uncovered one scandal after another. Samples passed through a hole in a laboratory wall. Doping results that disappeared. Broken agreements.

Shifting explanations. Willing accomplices.

Yet even by Russian standards, the story of the frantic — and ultimately failed — effort to explain Danil Lysenko’s whereabouts to track and field’s governing body may be in a class by itself.

The hospital was a lie. So were the tests and the excuses and even the names of the doctors on Lysenko’s medical reports. By the time the scheme fell apart, it involved a half-dozen top Russian track officials and an Olympic hopeful who could clear a 2-meter high-jump bar but couldn’t hold up under questioning.

On Wednesday, investigators from track and field’s investigative body — the

Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) — published the full details of their investigation in the Lysenko case. The report underscored not only how brazen Russia could be in its efforts to obstruct anti-doping investigations, and how top Russian officials often played an integral role in such schemes, but also the lengths sporting bodies must go to ferret out false information.

The scandal has already led to the resignation of the entire board of Russia’s track and field federation, and it is one of the main reasons Russia remains suspended from track and field, even as the country continues to wage a legal fight to smooth its reentry into world sports. Track and field is the only major sport that continues to punish Russia for its doping scheme; it has, for example, limited to 10 the number of Russians who can compete in this summer’s Olympics.

The former president at Russia’s track and field federation, Dmitry Shlyakhtin, and the organization’s executive director, Alexander Parkin, were among five top officials banned for between four and six years this week for their roles in the case.

Lysenko, who has been suspended since 2018, now faces a ban of up to eight years.

His coach could soon be suspended, too.

The investigation’s conclusion was hailed as the latest success of the AIU, a unit created in 2017 after the revelation that track and field’s former leadership had been paid millions to cover up failed Russian doping tests.

Financed by a subsidy of $8 million — 12% of the annual budget of track and field’s global governing body, World Athletics — the group includes former intelligence officials and has taken on cases involving some of the highest-profile athletes in an effort to restore track and field’s credibility.

In October last year, for example, its work led to the suspension of American sprinter Christian Coleman, the reigning 100-meter world champion, for whereabouts failures, derailing his hopes of Olympic gold.

The Lysenko case has been heralded as one of the unit’s biggest successes yet.

“These are offenses of the utmost seriousness committed by persons right at the top of RusAF, a World Athletics federation,” the tribunal that oversaw the case wrote in its finding. “It appears that most if not all of the senior management of RusAF were involved in this major fraud. This is quite shocking.”

As part of its investigation, the AIU said, it interviewed 22 witnesses, translated

7,000 documents and secured six terabytes of data linked to the case after seizing telephones and computer hard drives used by Lysenko and Russian federation officials.

By restoring files that had been hurriedly deleted before the handover, including emails and voice messages that were sent on platforms like WhatsApp, the investigators were able to recreate the frantic behind-the-scenes effort to help Lysenko escape censure. Presented with that timeline, which documented the cover-up in the words and actions of its own athlete and officials, the Russian athletics federation agreed to plead guilty last year and pay a $10 million fine.

The plan to protect Lysenko began in July 2018, after he missed a doping test and then twice failed to account for his location in a computer system created to help drug testers find elite athletes at any time.

Lysenko had explained to Russian track officials that his two whereabouts failures in 2018 had been the result of, first, ill health and then his involvement in a car crash.

Investigators told him they did not believe him.

According to the summary of the case, after Lysenko and his coach, Evgeny Zagorulko, were summoned to a meeting with Russian track officials to explain the accusations, Zagorulko contacted Artur Karamyan, a board member of the Russian track federation, to ask if a false medical certificate could be procured to bolster the high jumper’s story. Rather than report the effort to create a falsified document for use in a doping case, Karamyan provided one the next day.

The track and field investigators promptly demanded the athlete’s full medical records, as well as contact information for the doctors who had treated him. That led to a frenzied round of calls, text messages and emails between the Russians, and eventually produced a request that Lysenko arrange to have a series of tests and scans taken — wherever he was — that could be used to stand in for the ones he had claimed to have undergone in Moscow.

Lysenko took the tests in August 2018 at a facility in his hometown, Birsk, where he was training at the time, and then, pressed by the federation president, Shlyakhtin, immediately sent the results back to Moscow.

When they arrived, officials ensured they were backdated and made to look as if they had come from the fictional facility — now named the SD Clinic in the paperwork —

and Lysenko passed the documents on to world track officials.

But Lysenko appeared to be getting nervous. In early September, he emailed Karamyan, the board member tasked with overseeing the deception and asked for the details of the clinic.

“Hello!” Lysenko wrote, according to the investigators’ translated version. Could Karamyan send a few photos of the clinic, he asked, just so he knew what it looked like?

Three weeks later Lysenko, accompanied by Karamyan, drove to the address on the clinic’s website, only to find there was no facility at the address. The building that once stood there, investigators later confirmed, had been demolished in 2017, months before Lysenko claimed he had been treated in it.

“The conclusions of the investigation were that the SD Clinic did not exist,” the report said. (The clinic’s website was also fake; investigators later confirmed it was populated with photographs of at least two unrelated buildings.) The investigators also concluded that the medical explanation for Lysenko’s initial whereabouts failure — an attack of appendicitis — “was false and supported by fabricated documents.” The timeline for his second whereabouts failure, the car accident, didn’t add up, either.

With his story falling apart, and now facing an additional charge of tampering with evidence, Lysenko told his American lawyer, Paul Greene, about the effort to deceive investigators. Greene, according to the documents, advised Lysenko to tell the AIU the truth about the conspiracy or he would withdraw from his case.

Lysenko refused, the report said, and Greene ended their relationship. Greene, citing attorney client privilege, declined to comment on his work with Lysenko.

In April 2019, during an interview with the AIU, Lysenko — now represented by a Russian lawyer who had once represented the Russian track federation — tried to stick to his story. Eventually, though, as investigators picked holes in account, Lysenko broke.

“Mr. Lysenko admitted that the documents and explanations that he had provided to the AIU relating to his medical explanation and his stay at the SD Clinic were false and fabricated, and that ‘people from the federation’ had helped him create the story,” the tribunal report said.

The decision to fabricate the story and the evidence, Lysenko told the investigators, had been agreed to by all involved.

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

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Crossword

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GAMES

HOROSCOPE Aries

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(Mar 21-April 20)

As the focus shifts to a secluded sector, the coming four weeks can bring an opportunity to reflect on your plans and current situation, Aries. Use this opportunity to tie up loose ends, and find closure on those issues that have been a drain on you. Having thoughts about your finances? If you know what needs fixing, make a start. It’s wise to avoid impulsive buys for now, though.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Your social life may sparkle even more, as the Sun moves in for a four week stay. You can be keen to forge new connections, or to move in circles that could be linked to an interest or hobby. You might have other reasons for wanting to liaise with key people, especially if you have admired someone from afar. If feelings are running riot though, it’s not the best time to share.

You may be in the spotlight over coming weeks, and be eager to showcase your skills and talents. With other edgy angles in progress, doubts can show up, and you might wonder if you are doing the right thing. A side of you is keen to reach for new opportunities, but old patterns could kick in and hold you back. Let your mantra be, ‘€œFeel the fear and do it anyway,’€ Gemini.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

If life has seemed intense lately, you may get some respite as the Sun moves into your exploration and adventure zone. Although you might be busy dealing with a key situation, this lighter influence can allow new thoughts to percolate into your mind and enable a fresh take on an awkward situation. Need inspiration? A mentor or life-coach could help you move forward.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

Pay attention to your emotions, as they may give clues as to how you really feel about a difficult issue. This can be your chance to clear the decks, by letting go of anything that has become a hindrance.

You might need to be very honest with yourself Leo, especially in the face of pressure from others. But the opportunity to clean the slate could be the best way forward for you now.

Virgo

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

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While there is an emphasis on teamwork, the Sun’s move into your sector of relating encourages a more soulful approach to getting along with others. Trust your feelings Virgo, especially if you are uncertain about someone’s motives. With some stubborn angles showing up, you’ll make better progress by going with the flow and compromising, than by being rigid and unbending.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

The Sun’s move into Pisces for a four week stay lights up your lifestyle zone, and brings a chance to take stock of your schedule. Could you make better use of your days? And if so, how would you go about it?

Take a look at your goals and priorities, and go from there. What do you most want to accomplish? Plan for it in some detail Libra, as by doing so success can be yours.

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

The coming weeks have great potential, as the desire to express yourself and share your talents can be important to you. You may derive much satisfaction from discovering a hobby or reacquainting yourself with an interest you once enjoyed. This could also be a time when a love interest comes into your life, and when romance blossoms, whether online or off.

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

As proactive Mars continues its journey through your lifestyle zone and makes a lingering tie to dreamy Neptune in your home zone, you could feel like downing tools and relaxing. One side of you may be keen to initiate new ideas, while another can prefer to go with the flow. It could be that you need a break from routine Archer, and if so, a little self-care certainly won’t go amiss.

The coming weeks are great for strengthening connections and forging new relationships. Also, you may derive a lot of pleasure from doing some research about your local area and finding out about fresh developments. Keen to acquire new skills, catch up with friends or launch an online business?

Go for it! Even so, with Mercury about to turn direct, pay attention to the details.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

You may become aware of what is needed to improve your financial situation. You might also be keen to make your cash go further by recycling items or purchasing some goods second hand. The more in control you feel around money, the better for you.

Still, with the focus on your sign ongoing, you have more influence now than ever. This is the time to use it to your advantage.

Pisces

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

As the Sun enters your sign, you’ll align with those ideas and relationships that hold great meaning for you. Over the weeks ahead, you’re being encouraged to focus on those things that leave you energized. Following any intuitive nudges can lead you to fresh discoveries too. With your sixth sense super-charged right now, writing down insights and hunches will pay off.

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CARTOONS

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

BC

Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

For Better or for Worse

Herman

Ziggy

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