Wednesday Feb 24, 2021

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

San Juan The

50¢

DAILY

Star

The Latest Podcast Duo? Obama & Springsteen P19

Alexa Still Not Resting in Power P4

No Justice: A Year After Her Slaying, Citizens Remember Her & Other LGBQIAP+ Members Killed. What About the Authorities?

Terms Announced for Portion of Debt Restructuring Agreement P5

NOTICIAS EN ESPAÑOL P 18

P3A Executive Director Acknowledges PREPA Going Private P6

2

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

The San Juan Daily Star

GOOD MORNING

3

February 24, 2021

The San Juan Daily Star, the only paper with News Service in English in Puerto Rico, publishes 7 days a week, with a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday edition, along with a Weekend Edition to cover Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

With so many questions in the air, school directors receive virus training

Today’s

Weather

After a confusing morning in which DE chief asks for ‘a moment’ during an interview to appear in another

Day

Night

High

Low

84ºF

I

73ºF

Precip 22%

Precip 16%

Partly Cloudy

Few Clouds

Wind: Humidity: UV Index: Sunrise: Sunset:

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

From E 18 mph 66% 10 of 10 6:46 AM Local Time 6:28 PM Local Time

INDEX Local 3 Mainland 7 Business 11 International 14 Viewpoint 17 Noticias en Español 18 Entertainment 19 21 Fashion

Health Science Legals Sports Games Horoscope Cartoons

23 24 25 34 37 38 39

San JuanDAILY Star The

PO BOX 6537 CAGUAS PR 00726

sanjuanweeklypr@gmail.com (787) 743-5606

FAX

(787) 743-3346 • (787) 743-6537 (787) 743-5100

sland school directors received training on the protocol for the reopening of schools on Tuesday, announced Education Secretary-designate Elba Aponte Santos.

A group of directors took the training on Tuesday morning, while another group received it at 1 p.m., at the Pedro Rosselló González Convention Center in the Miramar neighborhood of San Juan.

In-person classes will begin next week in some schools in Puerto Rico, after a year of students taking distance courses due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Department of Education hopes to complete final preparations this week to be able to reopen some schools.

Tuesday morning was a busy and confusing one for the Education chief and the media.

During a radio interview, the secretary-designate did not give a complete answer to the question of what will be done when positive cases of COVID-19 arise in a school. Regarding the protocol should such a situation arise, Aponte Santos said that if “two cases arise in a room, then that room is closed,” and then asked the interviewer for “just a moment” during the interview with journalist Julio Rivera Saniel on the program “Pegaos en la Mañana” on Radio Isla.

After asking for a “moment,” Aponte Santos did not return to the phone interview. Her press spokeswoman, Cindy Villariaga, told the interviewer that the phone call was cut off. Moments later, Aponte Santos appeared in another phone interview on WKAQ 580 AM. Prior to the interruption of the first interview, Aponte Santos said that “what is sought in schools is that they have the station for taking the temperature, that they have the ‘hand sanitizer’ materials, that they are registered in the [Health Department] portal, that they have done the logistics in terms of the number of students there will be per class. And that they have separated the faculty, among other matters.”

“What we did was install 236 additional thermometers, because we already had additional

thermometers,” the designated Education secretary added. “This is part of the initiatives we are taking.

We are following everything that is in the protocol, established by the Department of Health.”

Aponte Santos said further that “[t]oday [Tuesday] we will be providing guidance to school directors.

There is a certification process that is going to take place.”

“We will be doubling down on what the custodians do so that they have more resources, particularly for the bathrooms, to be able to have a more rigorous cleaning of the bathrooms,” she said. “We are hiring additional staff. In this phase we are activating additional resources through what has always been done, a special recruitment with private companies.

But we have also ensured that they have the cleaning basket. And then we have cleaning material in stock to be able to provide additional materials. We are going to be identifying more masks, to offer more masks to schools.”

Regarding masks, Aponte Santos said “[t]he provision is what the Department of Health establishes, which is the surgical one.”

“They had also have made a donation [of masks] to the schools, also made of cloth, just in case of a major incident,” she said. “But we are going to provide so that they also have surgical masks in the schools. Students going to schools must wear their surgical mask. Also the teachers.”

With regard to ventilation, the designated Education secretary said that “what we preferably want is that there to be ventilation, that we have the windows open, preferably, but categorically we say that they will not have, if the heat worsens, any air conditioning that they can receive additionally, because we have not established that categorically.”

4

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

The San Juan Daily Star

No justice for Alexa a year later as murder case remains unsolved LGBQIAP+ organizations holding remembrance event to empower trans community

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

A

false report to authorities and a defamatory post on Facebook led Alexa Negrón Luciano, a homeless, Black, trans woman, to be threatened, harassed, assaulted, and insulted with transphobic epithets, which were recorded and uploaded to social media, later culminating in her murder on Feb. 24 in an empty lot at the intersection of PR-165 and PR-865 in Toa Baja.

A year after a crime that outraged Puerto Rico and sparked conversations about the struggles that members of the trans community face, the case remains unsolved and the community still demands respect.

As part of that call for respect, LGBQIAP+ organizations are holding an event titled “Reflejos: Recordando a Alexa’’ at the aforementioned intersection today at 3 p.m. to remember her and other people slain because of their gender identity or sexual orientation.

Toa Baja Mayor Bernardo “Betito” Márquez and legislators from both the island Senate and House of Representatives are expected to attend the remembrance event.

Vázquez Arciliares told the STAR that Popular Democratic Party District 10 Rep. Deborah Soto, Citizen Victory Movement Rep. José Bernardo Márquez and Sen. Ana Irma Rivera Lassen and Puerto Rican Independence Party Sen. María de Lourdes Santiago Negrón are confirmed to attend the event.

Moreover, the event will also have musical performances from Luis Enrique from Sonòsfera and transmasculine artist Wale Semidey.

“Where Alexa was murdered was where Alexa spent the night; Alexa was murdered in the same place where she lived and slept,” said Kimberly Vázquez Arciliares, who is a spokesperson for Arianna’s Center, a trans-led non-profit organization that is affiliated with the organization Waves Ahead.

The Arianna’s Center spokesperson told the STAR that the event is mainly focused on empowering trans people. She pointed out that Alexa’s murder scarred the community because Alexa was labeled for “being someone she was not.”

“There are some factors which make this murder come to nothing,” Vázquez Arciliares said. “Alexa, being a trans woman, being black, being from a minority group, being murdered, and people coming through social media outlets linking her to being a pedophile, [saying] that she went from bathroom to bathroom hitting on women and children, all that comes together so that the Police or whoever has to do with the investigation does not do much.”

Vázquez Arciliares added that neither did Alexa have a family to support her due to her trans experience, something she pointed out as another factor in the case remaining unsolved.

“This is coming from a personal viewpoint,” she said. “If I was the person murdered on Feb. 24, 2020, my family, my mom, or any other trans people who supported me would have been demanding to know what was happening with the case. They would have followed up.”

A year after Alexa’s murder, Vázquez Arciliares told the STAR that little progress has been made when it comes to the discourse on trans issues.

Nonetheless, she said, “although efforts have been small, we must carry on working.”

“I think that we are trying to put in our grain of salt to empower [ourselves] and make others understand that we are equal while sharing different thoughts and necessities,”Vázquez Arciliares said. “What we want is respect, what we want is for people to be identified the way they ask to be; as I told you at the beginning of the interview, my name is Kimberly Vázquez Arciliares, I am a trans woman, and I love when people refer to me using the ‘she’ pronoun.”

She told the STAR that meanwhile education still “goes on by the minute,” and now both allies and members of the LGBTQIAP+ community are coming together to raise awareness of their ongoing challenges.

When asked what measures the incoming government and Legislature should be considering for the trans community to be treated equally on the island, Vázquez Arciliares said they “must take action and try to keep false promises of what they will do for the LGBTQ+ community to themselves.”

“The government should empower itself on the subject, because many people, when the media asks them a question, go off on a tangent and perhaps do not know about the subject, and it is normal because there are many things that change on a daily basis and they are not used to talking about it on a daily basis,” she said. “It is also important to relate with community members from every identity so they can express their need and what is urgent so [political leaders] can begin taking action immediately and we become part of a community that receives health, housing, and any other essential service that is holistic for any person.”

Authorities: Case ‘has not stopped,’ investigation ‘changes day by day’ Bayamón Criminal Investigation Corps (CIC by its Spanish initials) Director Capt. Ricardo Haddock told the STAR on Tuesday that Alexa’s murder investigation remains open as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is working with the Puerto Rico Police Bureau on the case.

“Once the Police culminate the investigation, it will be decided if the federal branch takes jurisdiction or if it remains within the state,” Haddock said. “The investigation has not stopped even if a year has already passed since the unfortunate event.”

“On many occasions, people think that the case came to nothing, but the investigation is something that changes day by day,” Haddock added as he told the STAR that “people of interest have been interviewed and several search warrants have been filed.”

“What we all want is justice for Alexa,” the Bayamón CIC director said.

As for the FBI, Public Affairs Officer Limary Cruz-Rubio said the bureau “always has a program that works on cases where civil rights violations take place, and from that program, every time there’s a case like this, we will always offer our assistance in terms of resources.”

“If they [the Police] need evidence analysis, we are there for them; we offer anything that we have and we put it at their service,” Cruz-Rubio said. “There are legal provisions that address hate crimes from a state level, and other ones that address the same issue from a federal standpoint.”

“Until we can conclusively, through evidence, establish that there is a federal nexus, we, as such, will neither assume

jurisdiction nor open an investigation of our own -- that would be in broad terms,” she added. “I’m not saying that’s the case here, as we cannot confirm or deny the existence of investigations.”

Visibility, integrated solutions and gender-perspective education are required As the trans community has demanded equality, access to essential services, and respect from the government and its entities, attorney Iris Yaritza Rosario of the Independent Union of Lawyers for the Legal Aid Society told the STAR that the system must always bring visibility to their issues.

However, she said that in the process of making such issues visible, integrated solutions and educating law enforcement officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges from a gender perspective are required to reduce structural problems to “a level that does not entail so much violence.”

“This does not mean assuming the position of [Puerto Rico Supreme Court Chief Justice] Maité Oronoz, that hearings will be by videoconference, or that witnesses will not be cross-examined, no, it does not mean giving up the adversarial system, it means becoming aware that there is a problem and that the solutions will be transversal, not all can be from criminal law,” Rosario said.

As for Alexa’s murder case not being solved a year after it took place, unlike other murder cases, the attorney said the delay in such a case is not due to the murder being a hate crime or Alexa’s trans experience, but more so that such cases remain unsolved because witnesses “do not speak up.”

“People are scared or do not want to get involved in the case,” she said. “Many cases get solved, independent of the nature of the incident, through confessions made by the defendants by means of confidence.”

“That does not mean that I, as a criminal attorney, do not recognize that problems [in cases] that involve transphobia and femicides exist,” she pointed out.

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

5

Oversight board announces terms of debt restructuring agreement with some GO, PBA bondholders

By THE STAR STAFF

T

he Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico announced Tuesday the terms of a debt restructuring agreement with certain holders of commonwealth general obligation bonds (GO) and Public Buildings Authority (PBA) bonds that would reduce some $18.8 billion in debt to $7.4 billion.

The terms of the agreement reflect negotiations with creditors who were parties to the restructuring agreement the oversight board reached in February 2020 and follows months of court-supervised mediations after the oversight board’s assessment of the cumulative effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing recession, and a series of natural disasters over the last several years on Puerto Rico and its economy.

The new agreement with GO bondholders and PBA bondholders, in summary: • Reduces $18.8 billion of commonwealth debt held by GO and PBA bondholders by 61%, to $7.4 billion.

• Provides GO and PBA bondholders with $7.4 billion in bonds and $7 billion in cash, lifting the weight of unsustainable debt from future generations.

• Includes a contingent value instrument (CVI) that gives GO and PBA bondholders incremental value only if the Puerto Rico economy grows more than projected in the 2020 Certified Fiscal Plan for Puerto Rico.

“We achieved a fair, sustainable, and consensual agreement that puts Puerto Rico on a path to recovery and is an important tool to lift the weight of bankruptcy from the people and businesses of Puerto Rico,” said David Skeel, chairman of the oversight board. “I firmly believe this is the best outcome we could achieve in today’s economic uncertainty, not only for the people of Puerto Rico but also for creditors who have an interest in Puerto Rico’s long-term viability and creditworthiness.”

“This new agreement puts Puerto Rico in a significantly better fiscal position, both compared to the terms we were able to negotiate before the severe pandemic and compared to U.S. states with high levels of debt,” Skeel said. “The Plan of Adjustment we expect to present next month is based

Oversight board chairman David Skeel in part on this agreement with creditors, together with the agreements already achieved with the Official Committee of Retirees and certain unions, as well as the outcome of further ongoing mediation with other creditor groups. The Plan will ensure that Puerto Rico resolves its insolvency once and for all. That is the goal the Oversight Board set: once and done. We intend to achieve it.”

“We reached the agreement filed today through good-faith efforts on all sides and the leadership of our mediator,” Skeel added. “I would like to thank Judge Barbara Houser, as well as Judge Roberta Colton and their mediation team, for their important role in this process.”

The agreement reduces the maximum annual debt service payments to $1.15 billion for current interest bonds, compared to payments as high as $4.2 billion without restructuring. The annual debt service in the restructuring agreement reached before the pandemic was $1.5 billion, and the new agreement would free up more than $300 million per year for government services. The annual payments add up to a total of $34.1 billion over the life of the debt under the new agreement, a 62% reduction from the $90.4 billion Puerto Rico would have to pay under the original contractual debt agreements before the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) of 2016.

Without PROMESA, 30 cents of every dollar in taxes and fees the government collects from the people of Puerto Rico would go to creditors. The new agreement reduces the annual payments to less than 8 cents of every dollar the government collects.

“The reduction in annual debt service payments is a significant milestone on Puerto Rico’s road to recovery,” said the oversight board’s executive director, Natalie Jaresko. “Taken together with the debt policy legislated by the government last year that restricts incremental debt issuance to avoid the mistakes of the past, this agreement establishes sustainable debt levels, allows Puerto Rico to focus on structural reforms and growth, and provides the government the budgetary ability to provide the services people need and deserve. All of this puts Puerto Rico on a path to renewed market access.”

The new agreement’s cash and debt consideration to bondholders provides a 27% average reduction for GO bondholders and a 21% average reduction for PBA bondholders, in addition to reducing their claims by many years’ worth of interest payments.

Given the considerable uncertainty about Puerto Rico’s long-term economic growth after the hurricanes, earthquakes, and now the pandemic, the new agreement includes a CVI that shares a portion

of outperformance with creditors if Puerto Rico’s economy is growing more than the projections in the 2020 Certified Fiscal Plan for Puerto Rico. The CVI utilizes the 5.5% of Puerto Rico’s sales and use tax (IVU by its Spanish acronym) pledged to the Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp. as the measure for outperformance. Should the island government collect more of the 5.5% IVU than projected, the creditors who are parties to this agreement would receive 45% of the increment above the amount projected, subject to both annual and lifetime caps. If the economy performs as projected or falls below expectations, creditors receive no incremental compensation from the CVI. Under the plan support agreement (PSA), seven classes of bondholders holding GO bonds as well as PBA bonds will get anywhere between 67% and 80% in recoveries and while support for the new debt deal is less than 66% of the threshold needed, officials believe that in practical terms it will be confirmed.

The debt support agreement states that it must go into effect by Dec. 15 of this year or else the court may deny confirming it. A document provided by the oversight board shows that the PSA has more than 66% support in four classes of bonds but for three classes of bonds, the PSA has more than 50% support but less than 66% approval.

Skeel said the PSA has the support of 60% of the bonds. He said the PSA needs approval of two-thirds of each class of bonds but “keep in mind that is two-thirds of those who vote,” so “60% may well be in practice enough to confirm a plan because not every bondholder will vote but, we of course would like to get it over the threshold.”

Jaresko said the debt adjustment plan to be submitted on March 8 will include a proposed 8.5% cut to pensions higher than $1,500 per month but that it will also have a pension reserve to guarantee payments.

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said that while he supports the new debt deal, the government will not be a signatory to the PSA as it opposes any impact on pensions.

Lawmakers have also said they will not approve any bill that would enable a debt deal that has pension cuts.

6

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

P3A chief: LUMA Energy contract is first step in PREPA’s privatization

By THE STAR STAFF

P

uerto Rico Public-Private Partnership Authority (P3A) Executive Director Fermín Fontanés, who in the past has said the contract with LUMA Energy to manage the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) transmission and distribution (T&D) system is not privatization, acknowledgedTuesday that the power utility will disappear as a public entity once the T&D system and the power plants are put in private hands.

In response to questions from Popular Democratic Party Rep. Luis RaúlTorres, Fontanés said PREPA will be “reorganized” into two new entities: GridCo. and GenCo. LUMA Energy will take control of billing, T&D and customer service as well as control of employees. Another private entity or entities will handle the generation assets.

“That is the mandate of the law. The T&D must be put in private hands and the generation assets into one or more private hands,” Fontanés said.

The government will only keep ownership of the assets, he said.

The federal Financial Oversight and Management Board also acknowledged that PREPA will disappear.

“PREPA’s role in Puerto Rico’s transformed

energy system is limited to maintain[ing] ownership of the transmission and distribution assets and [possibly] maintain[ing] ownership of the legacy power generation assets” on behalf of the Puerto Rico government and “assisting the [P3A] in overseeing the Contractor’s performance of the Partnership Contract and compliance with the performance-based metrics set forth therein,” to the extent that such assistance is requested by the P3A,” the oversight board wrote in a document presented as an exhibit at the hearing. “As such, PREPA’s existing dayto-day roles and responsibilities [regarding] the operation of the energy system, deployment of federally and non-federally funded capital investments, short-, medium-, and long-term system planning and energy sector oversight are expected to be reduced over time as such roles

and responsibilities are taken up by the relevant Government agencies and private operators.”

Torres, chairman of the House Economic Development, Planning, Telecommunications, Public-Private Partnerships and Energy Committee, began hearings Tuesday to investigate the scope of the privatization contract awarded to LUMA Energy to operate, manage, maintain, repair and restore Puerto Rico’s electrical grid for a period of 15 years. While the contract is in the front-end transition phase, information at the hearing showed that LUMA has billed some $90 million already.

Fontanés said in response to questions that he did not have the System Remediation Plan, Manual of Acquisition of Federal Funds, Manual of Acquisition of Non Federal Funds, Emergency Response Plan or Study of Desirability and Convenience because they are being drafted

by LUMA Energy, which is slated to take over PREPA’s T&D on June 1.

LUMA Energy will take over all of the duties and responsibilities of PREPA, including the design of an integrated resource plan, which is the blueprint for the island’s energy needs, but will require the approval of the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau, Fontanés said.

In response to a question, Fontanés said the contract does not ban LUMA Energy from subcontracting its affiliated companies or its

parent companies to perform work.

Rep. Jorge Alfredo Rivera Segarra asked questions related to the workforce.

“I’ve gotten loads of questions from electric power employees who feel like they are in limbo. Why do employees who have worked for a considerable number of years have to go through a recruitment process?” Rivera Segarra asked.

The P3A chief said that process is part of the reorganization that LUMA will carry out.

“Recruitment is part of the process of identifying the functions and expertise, to know where that employee [fits] best,” he said.

However, of the 4,000 employees who work in T&D jobs, only 1,000 employees have passed over to LUMA Energy so far, which means that in 100 days some 3,000 workers may be left jobless.

“Now, as we get closer to the beginning of the contract, those employees will be moving,” Fontanés said.

Meanwhile, Torres asked what would happen to an employee who has been in PREPA for 20 years, and wishes to move to LUMA, and after two years is dismissed through Act 80, the Unfair Dismissal Act, by LUMA. “Would this compensation be according to 20 years or two years?” he asked.

“I understand that the compensation would be for the two years,” Fontanés said.

Méndez Núñez urges governor to sign retirement law

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

C

arlos “Johnny” Méndez Núñez, the minority leader for the New Progressive Party in the island House of Representatives, sent a letter to Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Ur-

WE BUY OR RENT IN 24HRS

787-349-1000

SALES • RENTALS • VACATIONS RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT (SOME RESTRICTIONS MAY APPLY).

FREE CONSULTS REALTOR

Ray A. Ruiz Licensed Real Estate Broker • Lic.19004 rruizrealestate1@gmail.com

rutia on Tuesday requesting that the governor sign House Bill 120, which creates the Law for a Dignified Retirement with the purpose of establishing a public policy of zero cuts to the pensions of participants in retirement systems and people who have retired from public service.

“This bill put forth, authored by colleague Lourdes Ramos Rivera, has the support of all the delegations that make up the House of Representatives and it must be approved unanimously,” Méndez Núñez said in the letter to the governor. “Our retirees from public service, those men and women who with great sacrifice built modern Puerto Rico, deserve nothing else than that the Government fulfill its promise, as contracted through various laws on retirement and pensions.”

“During my tenure as Speaker of the House of Representatives, I fought, along with representative Ramos Rivera and the rest of our delegation, against any cut in the pensions of our retirees,” the veteran lawmaker added. “We were very vocal about this position -- zero cuts -- in all forums, including before Congress. In fact, from day one we established a public policy of not approving, wherever it came from, any legislation that would reduce the amount committed to retirees.”

Méndez Núñez continues in the letter: “Meanwhile, our party, the New Progressive Party, established in its government platform the defense of the rights of retirees from public ser-

vice; today’s approval of HB 120 is part of that commitment, endorsed by the people at the polls during the general elections last November.”

“Given these realities, we request that when the Legislative Assembly sends HB 120 to you for your consideration, it be signed immediately for the benefit of over 200,000 retirees from public service,” the minority leader said in the letter.

“Our pensioners deserve this commitment.”

Rep. Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Núñez,

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

7

Texas can shape the country’s future, but first it must shed its present

By DAVID LEONHARDT

Y

ou can make a case that the state with the brightest long-term economic future is Texas.

It’s a more affordable place to live than much of the Northeast or West Coast and still has powerful ways to draw new residents, including a thriving cultural scene, a diverse population and top research universities. The state’s elementary schools and middle schools perform well above average in reading and math (and notably ahead of California’s schools), according to the Urban Institute.

These strengths have helped the population of Texas to surge by more than 15%, or about 4 million people, over the past decade. In the past few months, two high-profile technology companies — Oracle and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise — have announced they are moving their headquarters to the state, and Tesla may soon follow. As California was in the 20th century, Texas today looks like a state that can embody and shape the country’s future.

But Texas also has a big problem, as the world has just witnessed. A useful way to think of it is the fossil-fuel problem.

Even with its growing tech and health care industries, the Texas economy still revolves around oil and gas. And those fossil fuels have created two threats to the state’s economic future.

The first is climate change, which is making Texas a less pleasant place to live. The number of 95-degree days has spiked, and severe hurricanes have become more common, the worst recent one being Harvey, which brutalized Houston and the Gulf Coast in 2017. Paradoxically, climate change may also be weakening the jet stream, making bouts of frigid weather more common in winter.

Texas is obviously not responsible for climate change, but the state has stood in the way of solutions. Texas politicians have played a central role in preventing the United States from acting to slow climate change. On a local level, the state’s politicians failed to prepare its electricity grid for the new era of extreme weather, leaving millions of Texans without power and water over the last week.

Many residents feel abandoned by their leaders. In Copperas Cove, in central Texas, Daniel Peterson told my colleague Jack Healy on Saturday that he was utterly exasperated with the officials who had failed to restore power six days after it went out. He is planning to install a woodburning stove, because, as he said, “This’ll happen again.”

In Dallas, Tumaini Criss spent the weekend worried that she would not be able to afford a new home for her and her three sons after a leaky pipe caved in her ceiling and destroyed appliances and furniture. “I don’t know where that leaves me,” she said.

And in San Antonio, Juan Flores — a 73-year-old Navy veteran — told my colleague Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio that he was frustrated by the lack of communication

A child plays soccer near oil drilling rigs in West Odessa, Texas, Jan. 24, 2021. Even with its growing tech and health care industries, the Texas economy revolves around oil and gas. from local officials. When interviewed, Flores said he had not showered in days (and graciously warned her to stand back while interviewing him, saying, “I stink”). To get enough water to flush his toilet, he had walked to a local bar. To heat his apartment, he was boiling water on his stove.

The second threat to Texas’ future is related to climate change but different. It comes from the possibility that alternative energy sources like wind and solar power are becoming cheap enough to shrink Texas’ oil and gas industry.

“The cost advantage of solar and wind has become decisive, and promises to become vaster still,” Noah Smith, an economist and Texas native, wrote in his Substack newsletter. “I don’t want to see my home state become an economic backwater, shackled to the corpse of a dying fossil fuel age.”

Instead of investing adequately in these new energy forms, though, many Texas politicians have tried to protect fossil fuels. Last week, Gov. Greg Abbott went so far as to blame wind and solar energy — falsely — for causing the blackouts. The real culprit was the failure of natural gas.

As Smith explains, the best hope for Texas’ energy industry is probably to embrace wind and solar power,

not to scapegoat it. The state, after all, gets plenty of wind and sun. “Texas can be the future, instead of fighting the future,” he wrote.

The larger economic story here is a common one.

Companies — and places — that have succeeded for decades with one technology rarely welcome change. Kodak didn’t encourage digital photography, and neither The New York Times nor The Wall Street Journal created Craig’s List.

Texas’ political and business leaders have made a lot of successful moves in recent decades. They have avoided some of the political sclerosis that has held back parts of the Northeast and California, like zoning restrictions that benefit aging homeowners at the expense of young families who aspire to become homeowners.

But Texas’ leaders are sacrificing the future for the present in a different way. They have helped their fossil-fuel companies maximize short-term profits at the expense of the state’s long-term well-being. They have resisted regulation and investments that could have made their power grid more resilient to severe weather and have tried to wish away climate change even as it forces Texans to endure more miserable weather.

In those ways, Texas is offering a different — and more worrisome — glimpse into the future.

8

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

The San Juan Daily Star

This 105-year-old beat COVID. She credits gin-soaked raisins.

By TRACEY TULLY

A

sk Lucia DeClerck how she has lived to be 105, and she is quick with an answer.

“Prayer. Prayer. Prayer,” she offers.

“One step at a time. No junk food.”

But surviving the coronavirus, she said, also may have had something to do with another staple: the nine gin-soaked golden raisins she has eaten each morning for most of her life.

“Fill a jar,” she explained. “Nine raisins a day after it sits for nine days.”

Her children and grandchildren recall the ritual as just one of DeClerck’s endearing lifelong habits, like drinking aloe juice straight from the container and brushing her teeth with baking soda. (That worked, too: She did not have a cavity until she was 99, relatives said.)

“We would just think, ‘Grandma, what are you doing? You’re crazy,’” said her 53-yearold granddaughter, Shawn Laws O’Neil, of Los Angeles. “Now the laugh is on us. She has beaten everything that’s come her way.”

It is a long list. Born in 1916 in Hawaii to parents who came from Guatemala and Spain, she lived through the Spanish flu, two world wars and the deaths of three husbands and a son.

She moved to Wyoming, California and back to Hawaii before finally arriving in New Jersey, where she lived with her oldest son. After turning 90, she moved to an adult community in Manahawkin, New Jersey, along the Jersey Shore, where she remained active until she injured herself in a fall about four years ago.

“She is just the epitome of perseverance,” O’Neil said. “Her mind is so sharp.

She will remember things when I was a kid

that I don’t even remember.”

DeClerck, the oldest resident of her South Jersey nursing home, learned that she had contracted the virus on her 105th birthday, Jan. 25, the day after she had gotten her second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to Michael Neiman, the home’s administrator.

At first, she said she was scared. She did not like being isolated, and she missed the daily chatter from the parade of caregivers at Mystic Meadows Rehabilitation and Nursing, a 120bed facility in Little Egg Harbor.

She showed few symptoms, Neiman said.

And within two weeks she was back in her room, holding her rosary beads and wearing her trademark sunglasses and knit hat.

To her two surviving sons, five grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great grandchildren, who call her Grandma Lucia, she has a new moniker, O’Neil said: “The 105-yearold badass who kicked COVID.” On Monday, she got a shout-out from Gov. Phil Murphy, who described a phone call with her during a coronavirus news briefing.

“What an uplifting conversation,” the governor said.

DeClerck’s family gathered in January 2020 at Mystic Meadows to celebrate her 104th birthday before the onset of the pandemic. When they learned that she had contracted the virus, they braced for the worst.

“We were very concerned,” her son, Phillip Laws, 78, said.

“But she’s got a tenacity that is unbeliev- Lucia DeClerck, 105, said her secret to a long life was simple. “Prayer. Prayer. able,” he added. “And she’s got that rosary — all Prayer,” she said. “One step at a time. No junk food.” the time.”

A devout Catholic, DeClerck led rosary prayers each week at the nursing home and, me,’” Neiman said. before the pandemic, was a fixture at weekly She had also been vaccinated, which most Mass. likely contributed to her recovery. The first studShe raised three sons and ran a corner ies of Britain’s mass inoculation program showed store for decades with her first husband, Henry strong evidence Monday that even one dose Laws Jr., in Los Angeles. She married twice more of vaccine can help slash coronavirus-related after returning to Hawaii, where she worked as a hospitalizations. home health aide and welcomed grandchildren DeClerck is not the oldest person to beat for summerlong visits. the virus.

DeClerck is one of 62 residents of Mystic Europe’s oldest-known resident, Sister AnMeadows to have contracted the virus; four pa- dré, contracted the virus at 116. She celebrated tients died, including three who were receiving with a glass of Champagne on her 117th birthday hospice care, Neiman said. earlier this month at a nursing home in Toulon, “We’re as careful as possible,” he said, a city in southeastern France. “but this finds a way of sneaking in.”

Like Sister André, DeClerck may be ready In January, residents were being tested for a toast. twice a week, and a rapid test in the last week But it is likely to involve gin and a handful of the month showed that DeClerck had con- of golden raisins. Her family is following suit. tracted the virus.

“Now all of us are rushing out and get“At first she was a little apprehensive, ting Mason jars and yellow raisins and trying a little scared, but she said, ‘God will protect to catch up,” O’Neil said.

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

9

Trump’s tax returns are ‘one piece of the puzzle.’ Prosecutors are getting more.

By MIKE McINTIRE

W

hen New York prosecutors finally get to examine the federal tax returns of former President Donald Trump, they will discover a veritable how-to guide for getting rich while losing millions of dollars and paying little to no income taxes.

Whether they find evidence of crimes, however, will also depend on other information not found in the actual returns.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., to obtain eight years of Trump’s federal income tax returns and other records from his accountants. The decision capped a long-running legal battle over prosecutors’ access to the information.

The New York Times last year provided more or less a preview of what awaits Vance, when it obtained and analyzed decades of income tax data for Trump and his companies. The tax records provide an unprecedented and highly detailed look at the byzantine world of Trump’s finances, which for years he has simultaneously bragged about and sought to keep secret.

The Times’ examination showed that the former president reported hundreds of millions of dollars in business losses, went years without paying federal income taxes and faces an IRS audit of a $72.9 million tax refund he claimed a decade ago.

Among other things, the records revealed that Trump had paid just $750 in federal income taxes in his first year as president and no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years. They also showed he had written off $26 million in “consulting fees” as a business expense between 2010 and 2018, some of which appear to have been paid to his older daughter, Ivanka Trump, while she was a salaried employee of the Trump Organization.

The legitimacy of the fees, which reduced Trump’s taxable income, has since become a subject of Vance’s investigation, as well as a separate civil inquiry by Letitia James, the New York attorney general. James and Vance are Democrats, and Trump has sought to portray the multiple inquiries as politically motivated, while denying any wrongdoing.

Vance’s office has issued subpoenas and conducted interviews in recent months as it scrutinizes a variety of financial matters, including whether the Trump Organization misrepresented the value of assets when obtaining loans or paying property taxes, as well as the payment of $130,000 in hush money during the 2016 campaign to Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic film actress whose stage name is Stormy Daniels. Among those interviewed have been employees of Deutsche Bank, one of Trump’s largest lenders.

For all their revelations, Trump’s tax records are also noteworthy for what they do not show, including any new details about the payment to Clifford, which was the initial focus of Vance’s investigation when it began two years ago.

The tax returns represent a self-reported accounting of revenues and expenses, and often lack the specificity required to know, for instance, if legal costs related to hush-money payments were claimed as a tax write-off, or if money from Russia ever moved through Trump’s bank accounts. The absence of that level of detail underscores the potential value of other records that Vance won access to with Monday’s Supreme Court decision.

In addition to the tax returns, Trump’s accountants, Mazars USA, must also produce business records on which those returns are based and communications with the Trump Organization.

President Donald Trump at the White House on Dec. 17, 2019. The Supreme Court on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, cleared the way for the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., to obtain eight years of Trump’s federal income tax returns and other records from his accountants.

Such material could provide important context and background to decisions that Trump or his accountants made when preparing to file taxes.

John D. Fort, a former chief of the IRS criminal investigation division, said tax returns were a useful tool for uncovering leads, but could only be fully understood with additional financial information obtained elsewhere.

“It’s a very key personal financial document, but it’s just one piece of the puzzle,” said Fort, a CPA and the director of investigations with Kostelanetz & Fink in Washington. “What you find in the return will need to be followed up on with interviews and subpoenas.”

Still, the Times’ investigation of Trump’s returns exposed a number of misleading assertions and falsehoods he has propagated about his wealth and business acumen.

Numerous claims by Trump of generous philanthropy fell apart upon examination of his tax returns, which raised questions about both the amount of certain donations and the overall nature of his tax-deductible giving. For example, $119.3 million of the roughly $130 million in charitable deductions he claimed since 2005 turned out to be the estimated value of pledges not to develop real estate, sometimes after a planned project fell through.

At least two of those land-based charitable deductions, one related to a golf course in Los Angeles and the other a Westchester County, New York, estate called Seven Springs, are known to be part of the civil inquiry by James, who is examining whether appraisals supporting the tax write-offs were inflated.

More broadly, the tax records showed how the public disclosures he filed as a candidate and then as president offered a distorted view of his overall finances by reporting glowing numbers for his golf courses, hotels and other businesses based on the gross revenues they collected each year. The actual bottom line, after losses and expenses, was much gloomier: In 2018, while Trump’s public filings showed $434.9 million in revenue, his tax returns declared a total of $47.4 million in losses.

And such dire numbers were not an anomaly. Trump’s many golf courses, a core component of his business empire, reported losses of $315.6 million from 2000 to 2018, while the income from licensing his name to hotels and resorts had all but dried up by the time he entered the White House. In addition, Trump has hundreds of millions of dollars in loans, much of which he personally guaranteed, coming due in the next few years.

The Times’ investigation also found that he faces a potentially devastating IRS audit focusing on the huge refund he claimed in 2010, which covered all the federal income taxes he paid from 2005 to 2008, plus interest. Trump repeatedly cited the ongoing audit as the reason he could not release his tax returns, after initially saying he would, even though nothing about the audit process prevented him from doing so.

If an IRS ruling were to ultimately go against him, Trump could be forced to pay back more than $100 million, factoring in interest and possible penalties, in addition to some $21.2 million in state and local tax refunds that were based on the figures in his federal filings.

10

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

The San Juan Daily Star

U.S. arrests El Chapo’s wife, charging her with helping to run drug empire

Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of the Mexican crime lord known as El Chapo, is surrounded by reporters outside a Brooklyn courthouse on Feb. 12, 2019, after he was found guilty of all charges. She was arrested Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, and charged with helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire and plotting to break him out of prison after he was captured in 2014.

By ALAN FEUER and ALAN GOLDMAN

E

mma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexico’s most notorious drug trafficker, best known as El Chapo, was arrested Monday and charged with helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire and plotting to break him out of prison after he was captured in 2014.

Coronel, a former beauty queen, had been under investigation for at least two years by U.S. federal authorities for being an accomplice to her husband, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, who was convicted in 2019 at a trial in New York City of masterminding a huge drug conspiracy and was subsequently sentenced to life in prison.

Court documents filed in Coronel’s case said she relayed messages for Guzmán that helped him make drug shipments from 2012 to 2014 and evade capture by the legions of U.S. and Mexican authorities who had been pursuing him for years. Evidence emerged at Guzmán’s trial that Coronel was also a chief conspirator in a sophisticated plot to break him out of the Altiplano prison in Mexico by digging a nearly mile-long tunnel into the shower of his cell.

Coronel, 31, is a dual U.S.-Mexican citizen with roots in both Southern California and the city of Culiacán in Mexico’s Sinaloa state, which has long served as the base of operations for Guzmán’s drug organization, the Sinaloa cartel. She was taken into custody at Dulles International Airport, near Washington, and is scheduled to make an initial appearance Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Her lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, who also represented Guzmán, declined to comment on the arrest.

While it is unusual for law enforcement officials to go after the spouses of drug-world figures, prosecutors at Guzmán’s trial offered substantial evidence that Coronel, unlike other wives of narcotraffickers, was deeply enmeshed in her husband’s criminal business.

They introduced BlackBerry messages that made clear that she had helped Guzmán conduct his operations — sometimes with her own father.

Other messages indicated that she was intimately involved not only in Guzmán’s famous 2015 tunnel escape from Altiplano, but also in helping him to evade capture by U.S. and Mexican authorities after

a botched raid in 2012 in the Mexican resort town Cabo San Lucas.

At Guzmán’s trial, his onetime chief of staff, Dámaso López Núñez, told the jury that Coronel had sought to help her husband escape yet again after he was recaptured in 2016 and returned to Altiplano. According to testimony by López, Coronel hatched a plot to bribe Mexico’s top prison official, but before the plan could be carried out Guzmán was extradited to the United States to stand trial.

Coronel, who is Guzmán’s third — or possibly fourth — wife and the mother of two of his numerous children, grew up in the drug business. Court filings note that her father, Inés Coronel Barreras, who was taken into custody in 2013 in Mexico, was one of Guzmán’s top lieutenants.

Prosecutors have brought charges against several members of Guzmán’s nuclear family. His two eldest sons, Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar and Ivan Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, who remain at large in Mexico, have been under indictment in the United States for years. Two of his younger sons, Joaquín Guzmán López and Ovidio Guzmán López, were charged in Washington just days after their father’s conviction and also remain fugitives.

The FBI said Coronel married Guzmán in about 2007. The wedding — in the rough mountain country outside Culiacán — took place when Coronel was 17 and Guzmán was more than twice her age.

In an interview with The New York Times during Guzmán’s trial, Coronel stuck up for her husband, saying that she did not recognize him as the drug lord prosecutors had portrayed him as. “I admire him as the human being that I met,” she said, “and the one that I married.”

She was a constant presence in the courtroom in New York during the three-month trial, often showing up in the latest designer fashions. Fiercely loyal to her husband — despite his serial philandering — Coronel orchestrated one of the trial’s most dramatic nonlegal moments, sending a message to one of Guzmán’s mistresses, Lucero Guadalupe Sánchez López, who appeared one day as a witness.

After Sánchez López proclaimed her love for Guzmán from the stand, Coronel arranged for her husband to arrive in court the next day wearing a burgundy velvet smoking jacket, identical to the one she was wearing. It was a signal that Coronel was Guzmán’s wife and that Sánchez López, in her blue prison uniform, was merely the other woman.

It remained unclear Monday night why federal authorities arrested Coronel now after implicating her in her husband’s crime more than two years ago.

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

11

Facebook strikes deal to restore news sharing in Australia

By MIKE ISAAC and DAMIEN CAVE

F

acebook said Monday that it would restore the sharing and viewing of news links in Australia after gaining more time to negotiate over a proposed law that would require it to pay for news content that appears on its site.

The social network had blocked news links in Australia last week as the new law neared passage. 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.

Facebook had vigorously objected to the code, which would curb its power and drive up its spending for content, as well as setting a precedent for other governments to follow. The company had argued that news would not be worth the hassle in Australia if the bill became law.

But on Monday, Facebook returned to the negotiating table after the Australian government granted a few minor concessions. Under several amendments to the code, Facebook would get more time to cut deals with publishers so it would not be immediately forced into making payments. The amendments also suggested that if digital platforms had significantly contributed to the Australian news industry, the companies could avoid the code entirely, at least for now.

In exchange, Facebook agreed to restore news links and articles for Australian users “in the coming days,” according to a statement from Josh Frydenberg, Australia’s treasurer, and Paul Fletcher, the minister for communications, infrastructure, cities and the arts.

Campbell Brown, Facebook’s vice president of global news partnerships, said in a statement that the social network was restoring news in Australia as “the government has clarified we will retain the ability to decide if news appears on Facebook so that we won’t automatically be subject to a forced negotiation.”

The amendments offer a reprieve for both Facebook and the Australian government, which have been in a standoff over the proposed law for months. Those tensions came to a head last week when Facebook cut off news sharing in the country, causing disruption and confusion for millions of Australians.

Links to news articles were blocked, along with the Facebook pages for Australian state agencies, health departments and emergency services. Users became upset when a flood of false or misleading pages filled the information void, spreading bogus theories on the perils of 5G wireless technology and false claims about COVID-19 vaccinations.

The dispute between Australia and Facebook dates to when the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the country’s top competition authority, began drafting a bill last year. Australian officials have said the

The Facebook chief, Mark Zuckerberg, in Washington in 2019. bill’s main goal was to create the conditions for deals between platforms and publishers, which have been at odds for years over the value of journalism and whether either side should be paid by the other.

Google and Facebook, which have been accustomed to largely not paying for news content, both balked at the proposed legislation. 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 began striking deals with media companies such as Reuters, The Financial Times and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.

Facebook, by contrast, held firm against the proposed legislation. That was because the code contained terms such as “final arbitration,” which would give an independent arbiter the power to set the price for news content if a publisher and the digital platform could not agree on a payment.

Facebook has repeatedly argued that the law gets the value proposition backward because it has said it is the one that provides value to news publishers by sending tra-

ffic to media websites, which can then be monetized with advertising.

But supporters of the law have said that final arbitration — which is used for contract disputes between players and Major League Baseball in the United States — provides needed leverage when one side is powerful enough to otherwise avoid negotiation if it chooses.

The proposed law also opens up the potential for a long line of publishers to demand payouts. Any news publisher with more than 150,000 Australian dollars in annual revenue could seek to register as a party to the code, giving it the ability to force a company like Facebook into a negotiation.

The law would also grant enormous discretion to the federal treasurer. Frydenberg would have the power to designate which companies must negotiate under the code’s provisions, while also deciding which media companies were able to register. Facebook and Google have been aiming to avoid that designation.

With the new amendments, Australian officials appeared to give Facebook more time to produce the kinds of deals that Google has already delivered, while continuing to hold the hammer of final arbitration over the company’s head. Facebook maintains it can still eliminate news from its platform to potentially avoid a negotiation.

12

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

A city with Amazon at the center

More than 40,000 people in the Inland Empire, a region east of Los Angeles where Amazon is the largest private employer, handle or deliver Amazon orders, about double the number from two years ago.

By SHIRA OVIDE

W

hat happens when Amazon becomes a fixture in America’s towns and cities?

Erika Hayasaki wrote a recent article for The New York Times Magazine about Amazon’s influence on the Inland Empire, a region east of Los Angeles where the company is the largest private employer. More than 40,000 people in the region handle or deliver Amazon orders, about double the number from two years ago.

I spoke with Hayasaki, a professor in the Literary Journalism Program at the University of California, Irvine, about what she learned researching Amazon workers in the region and what the effects are — good and bad — when Amazon comes to town.

Q: What made you interested in writing about Amazon in the Inland Empire?

A: My family moved to a city there called Eastvale in 2018, and Amazon’s presence was immediately apparent. Near the Costco, you see

twin giant Amazon warehouses with more than 6,000 employees in total. You see Amazon semitrucks and new homes with Amazon products like Alexas built in.

Officials at the nearby Ontario International Airport showed me runways that were under construction partly for Amazon merchandise flying in and out. We see Amazon all the time as shoppers, but it’s different here. I started to talk with workers about what it was like for them.

Q: What did Amazon warehouse employees tell you that they like and don’t like about their jobs?

A: They appreciate that Amazon offers them health and retirement benefits — and that they have jobs at a time when many others have lost work.

The biggest concern that I heard was safety.

That’s not new, but when the pandemic hit it was intense to hear workers’ fears for their lives.

And some Amazon-related jobs are precarious. I rode around with an Amazon delivery driver who also worked for an app-based delivery

company. His girlfriend did, too. They were stringing together multiple forms of income for themselves and their five children. It’s not an easy way to live.

Q: Amazon is creating many new jobs with starting pay that’s more than double the minimum wage. Isn’t that good?

A: Most of the workers I spoke with would say that Amazon can do better given the company’s financial success. I heard workers ask why the company increased pay by $2 an hour but only temporarily. They’re working harder than ever and it’s still a pandemic.

Q: For Eastvale, what has been the effect of having Amazon there?

A: City officials said that they appreciated the new jobs Amazon created, but they were fearful that automation might slowly eliminate the work. And because of the way state taxes are structured, the city is getting less tax revenue than it expected from Amazon’s presence.

City officials also said there’s a lot of wear and tear on roads with so many Amazon vehicles.

And with so many people at the Amazon site, it generates a lot of calls to police and emergency services for worker injuries or just fender benders.

That’s a pull on local resources.

Q: Your article discussed “company towns” — cities like Hershey, Pennsylvania, that were once dominated by a single employer. Is Eastvale like that?

A: No, unlike company towns of the past, Amazon doesn’t control housing for employees or replace functions of the government. But in the Inland Empire there are some elements that are reminiscent of company towns. One that struck me was an Amazon career program for high school students. People spoke highly about it, but others in the community raised questions about teenagers being put on a pathway to an Amazon job.

Shoshana Zuboff, a professor emeritus at Harvard Business School, told me that Amazon goes beyond the company town phenomenon.

It’s a company world. Given Amazon’s presence in our lives, its size and how many people the company employs, that’s a combination unlike anything we’ve seen before.

TIP OF THE WEEK

When to Replace Your Gadgets Are you wondering how old is too old for that television set or internet router in your living room? The New York Times personal technology columnist Brian X. Chen explores when to consider replacing four of the important gadgets in our lives.

I’m an advocate for making your technology last as long as you possibly can. But at some point, it’s time to replace your phone, computer, TV set and internet router. It’s hard to know when, though. Here is a cheat sheet for when to consider retiring your current models: Smartphones: It’s wise to replace your device when your phone can no longer receive operating system updates. When that happens, some of your favorite apps may stop working properly, and you won’t easily be able to get security enhancements that protect you from attacks and malware.

Apple iPhones typically can get software updates for five years, and Android phones normally get software updates for two to three years.

Computers: Similarly, when your computer can no longer get important software updates, it’s probably time for it to go. But Windows and Mac PCs tend to get these updates for far longer than smartphones — from nine to 15 years. (I’m still rocking an iMac that I bought nine years ago.)

Within that time frame, though, other parts like your hard drive, laptop battery or screen may fail. When repair costs add up to become impractical, it may be time to look for a newer model.

Television sets: You could hold on to a TV for decades if you don’t mind missing out on improvements in video quality. But also think about what connects to your set. If your TV is so old that you can’t plug in modern devices that you want to use — video game consoles, streaming video sticks and audio equipment — then it’s probably time to retire it.

Internet routers: Your Wi-Fi hub is a critical piece of infrastructure that affects everything that connects to your home internet. Generally, new Wi-Fi technologies hit the market every five years.

If your router is more than five years old, you’ll want to get on the latest Wi-Fi technology, because you’ll probably see meaningful improvements to speed and coverage.

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

13 Stocks

EU targets online platforms after Wall Street short squeeze

O

nline platforms like Robinhood in the United States that offer commission-free share trading to retail investors would be illegal in the European Union, officials from the bloc said on Tuesday.

Optimism over monetary and fiscal support from policymakers, robust corporate earnings and the prospect that coronavirus vaccines could hasten a return to normality in the United States and other countries have bolstered risk sentiment.

But concern remained over the pace of vaccination, its efficacy against new variants of the novel coronavirus and the damage being done to economies, including the impact on the dollar of a $1.9 trillion stimulus package.

“We’ve come a long way in a short time,” said Josh Wein, portfolio manager with Hennessy Funds. “It won’t take a lot for the market to pause ... whether it’s deliberations over fiscal stimulus, or the occasional talk of inflation or interest rates getting some lift.”Tesla Inc was the only major technology stock trading higher.

At 11:53 a.m. ET the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 481.33 points, or 1.59%, to 30,872.93, the S&P 500 gained 41.22 points, or 1.11%, to 3,768.08, and the Nasdaq Composite gained 37.89 points, or 0.29%, to 12,856.85.

The small-cap Russell 2000 index jumped 2.5% to a record high.

Hopes of a vaccine-powered economic recovery in 2021 pushed Wall Street’s main indexes to record highs in lateDecember, with sectors that had previously lagged, including banks, industrials and energy, fuelling the rally.

Invesco Solar ETF gained about 10.6% on expectations that clean energy companies will benefit under a Democratcontrolled Congress, while bets on decriminalizing marijuana at the federal level lifted ETFMG Alternative Harvest ETF up 9.3%.

AmerisourceBergen Corp gained 7.3% after the U.S. drug wholesaler said it would buy Walgreens Boots Alliance’s drug distribution business for $6.5 billion to expand in Europe. Dow component Walgreens rose 4%.

Advancing issues outnumbered decliners for a 2-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and a 2.5-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.

The S&P 500 posted 75 new 52-week highs and no new low, while the Nasdaq recorded 370 new highs and 13 new lows.

Holders of a short position in stocks must disclose it to EU regulators and Bassi said potential changes could include publishing which stocks have short positions on a weekly or fortnighly basis.

“We could think of rules clarifying the duties of brokers or investment advisors and their firms when they participate in online chat rooms,” Bassi said.

Maijoor said there were only 20 stocks in Europe with net short positions of above 10%, limiting the risk of a GameStopstyle short squeeze.

MOST ASSERTIVE STOCKS

PUERTO RICO STOCKS

COMMODITIES

CURRENCY

LOCAL PERSONAL LOAN RATES Bank

LOCAL MORTGAGE RATES Bank

FHA 30-YR POINTS CONV 30-YR POINTS

BPPR Scotia CooPACA Money House First Mort Oriental

3.00% 0.00 3.50% 0.00 3.50% 2.00 3.75% 2.00 3.50% 0.00 3.50% 0.00

3.50% 000 4.00% 0.00 3.75% 2.00 3.75% 2.00 5.50% 0.00 3.75% 5.50

PERS.

CREDIT CARD

AUTO

BPPR --.-- 17.95 4.95 Scotia 4.99 14.99 4.99 CooPACA

6.95 9.95

2.95

Reliable

--.-- --.--

4.40

First Mort 7.99 --.-- --.-Oriental 4.99 11.95 4.99

14

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

The San Juan Daily Star

The pandemic is receding in the worst hotspots. Will it last?

A server wipes down a table at a restaurant in Nashville on Aug. 7, 2020. The 10 occupations with the largest projected declines relative to the baseline estimates include restaurant work, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

By ALLISON McCANN, LAUREN LEATHERBY and JOSH HOLDER

A

month ago, the pandemic looked bleak. More than 750,000 coronavirus cases were tallied worldwide in a single day. Infections surged across the entire United States. New variants identified in the United Kingdom, Brazil and South Africa threatened the rest of the world.

But the last month has brought a surprisingly fast, if partial, turnaround. New cases have declined to half their peak globally, driven largely by steady improvements in some of the same places that weathered devastating outbreaks this winter.

Cases are an imperfect measure, and uneven records and testing mask the scope of outbreaks, especially in parts of Africa, Latin America and South Asia. But fewer patients are showing up at hospitals in many countries with the highest rates of infection, giving experts confidence that the decline is real.

“It’s a great moment of optimism, but it’s also very fragile in a lot of ways,” said Wafaa El-Sadr, an epidemiologist at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. “We see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it’s still a long tunnel.”

The lull in many of the world’s worst outbreaks creates a critical opportunity to keep the virus in retreat as vaccinations begin to take effect. Experts believe vaccines have done little to slow most outbreaks so far, but a small group of countries, primarily wealthy ones, plans to vaccinate vulnerable groups by the spring.

The positive signs come with a number of caveats and risks.

Many countries are still struggling. Brazil is battling a serious resurgence in the face of a new variant discovered in the country. Hospitalizations in Spain are higher than they’ve ever been, even though official tallies show a decline in new cases.

And in a number of European countries — the Czech Republic, Estonia and Slovakia — the infection rate is worsening.

More contagious variants — or just lapses in social distancing and other control measures — could still bring new spikes in infections that could outpace the positive effects of vaccination.

A variant first found in Britain is spreading rapidly in the United States, and it has been implicated in surges in Ireland, Portugal and Jordan.

And while most countries have seen declines in cases over the past month, the total global reduction has been driven largely by just six countries with enormous epidemics.

There is no single cause behind the slowdowns, and the factors may differ in different places. Public health experts in the worst-hit countries attribute the progress to some combination of increased adherence to social distancing and mask wearing, the seasonality of the virus and a buildup of natural immunity among groups with high rates of existing infection.

Each factor may not be enough on its own. Natural immunity, for instance, is believed to be well short of levels required to stop the epidemic. But the factors can combine to slow the rate at which the virus spreads.

Although the United States did not impose a national lockdown, voluntary changes in behavior, along with some degree of immunity in hard-hit communities, may have helped prevent

an even worse outcome after the holidays, said Caitlin Rivers, a public health researcher at Johns Hopkins University.

“During the winter, when things were getting really bad, I think people saw how bad things were getting in their community and made different choices,” Rivers said. “They canceled gatherings, they stayed home more, they reached for the mask, and those things really do help, put together, to reduce transmission.”

The decline in South Africa has had many causes, but the main driver was the sheer intensity of the infection rate last month, said Marc Mendelson, the head of infectious disease and HIV medicine at the University of Cape Town.

“At some point the virus hits a barrier, because it cannot find new people to infect, and it can no longer continue increasing its transmission,” he said.

British experts attribute the decline to a strict national lockdown put in place after the holiday season. Vaccines don’t explain it: Even though a quarter of the population has been vaccinated, only the earliest recipients had significant protection

by Jan. 10, when cases there started to drop. Those early doses mostly went to health care workers and older patients already in the hospital.

And some of the worst outbreaks all over the Americas, southern Africa and Europe peaked during or just after the holidays, said El-Sadr, the Columbia University researcher. “Over these several months there have been all these occasions for people to mingle, mix and travel with family and friends. I think that also was probably driving that surge.”

The challenge of keeping infections down until vaccines take effect will be considerably greater in countries with slower vaccination programs.

Vaccinations had not begun at all in 130 countries as of early this month, according to the World Health Organization, and more than three-quarters of the vaccine doses administered have been in just 10 countries. Many rich nations are hoarding doses, ordering enough to immunize their residents multiple times over, while poorer nations have yet to receive any.

And a finding from South Africa that the AstraZeneca vaccine had little effect on a fast-spreading variant dealt another blow to countries that had planned to rely on the relatively cheap, easy-to-store vaccine as a part of their rollout.

“We are just starting our vaccine campaign in South Africa, and it’s going to be incredibly slow and nowhere near where we wanted to be right now,” Mendelson said. “For countries that have vaccines, it’s a slightly different landscape.”

Experts believe that vaccines will play a critical role in keeping infections down, preventing hospitalizations and deaths and even reducing the chance of future mutations if countries are able to vaccinate large swaths of their populations. But the next period will be critical to avoid another wave of infection.

“We have a small window of opportunity here to take advantage of the decreasing number of new infections,” said Bruno Ciancio, the head of disease surveillance at the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control. “We must continue with the public health measures in place and vaccinate as many people as possible.”

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

15

As pandemic took hold, suicide rose among Japanese women

By MOTOKO RICH and HIKARI HIDA

N

ot long after Japan ramped up its fight against the coronavirus last spring, Nazuna Hashimoto started suffering panic attacks. The gym in Osaka where she worked as a personal trainer suspended operations, and her friends were staying home at the recommendation of the government.

Afraid to be alone, she would call her boyfriend of just a few months and ask him to come over. Even then, she was sometimes unable to stop crying. Her depression, which had been diagnosed earlier in the year, spiraled. “The world I was living in was already small,” she said. “But I felt it become smaller.”

By July, Hashimoto could see no way out, and she tried to kill herself. Her boyfriend found her, called an ambulance and saved her life. She is speaking out publicly about her experience now because she wants to remove the stigma associated with talking about mental health in Japan.

While the pandemic has been difficult for many in Japan, the pressures have been compounded for women. As in many countries, more women have lost their jobs. In Tokyo, the country’s largest metropolis, about 1 in 5 women live alone, and the exhortations to stay home and avoid visiting family have exacerbated feelings of isolation. Other women have struggled with the deep disparities in the division of housework and child care during the work-from-home era, or suffered from a rise in domestic violence and sexual assault.

The rising psychological and physical toll of the pandemic has been accompanied by a worrisome spike in suicide among women. In Japan, 6,976 women took their lives last year, nearly 15% more than in 2019. It was the first year-over-year increase in more than a decade.

Each suicide — and suicide attempt — represents an individual tragedy rooted in a complex constellation of reasons. But the increase among women, which extended across seven straight months last year, has concerned government officials and mental health experts who have worked to reduce what had been among the highest rates of suicide in the world. (While more men than women killed themselves last year, fewer men did so than in 2019. Overall, suicides increased by slightly less than 4%.)

The situation has reinforced long-standing challenges for Japan. Talking about mental health issues, or seeking help, is still difficult in a society that emphasizes stoicism.

“Unfortunately the current tendency is to blame the victim,” said Michiko Ueda, an associate professor of political science at Waseda University in Tokyo who has researched suicide. Ueda found in surveys last year that 40% of respondents worried about social pressure if they contracted the virus.

“We don’t basically support you if you are not ‘one of us,’” said Ueda. “And if you have mental health issues you are not one of us.”

Experts have also worried that a succession of Japanese film and television stars who took their own lives last year may have spurred a string of copycat suicides. After Yuko Takeuchi, a popular, award-winning actress, took her life in late September, the number of women taking their own lives in the following month jumped by close to 90% compared to the previous year.

Shortly after Takeuchi’s death, Nao, 30, started writing a blog to chronicle her lifelong battles with depression and eating disorders.

She wrote candidly about her suicide attempt three years earlier.

Such openness about mental health struggles is still relatively rare in Japan. The celebrity suicides prompted Nao, whose family name has been withheld at her request to protect her privacy, to reflect on how she might have reacted if she had hit her emotional nadir during the pandemic.

“When you’re at home alone, you feel very isolated from society and that feeling is really painful,” she said. “Just imagining if I was in that situation right now, I think the suicide attempt would have happened a lot earlier, and probably I think I would have succeeded.”

During the pandemic, women have suffered disproportionate job losses. They made up the bulk of employees within the industries most affected by infection control measures, including restaurants, bars and hotels.

About half of all working women hold part-time or contract jobs, and when business flatlined, companies cut those employees first.

In the first nine months of last year, 1.44 million such workers lost their jobs, more than half of them women.

Although Nao quit her consulting job voluntarily to seek psychiatric treatment, she remembers feeling wracked with insecurity, no longer able to pay her rent. When she and her then-fiancé decided to accelerate their wedding plans, her father accused her of being selfish.

“I just felt like I lost everything,” she re-

called.

Those feelings, she said, triggered the depression that led to her suicide attempt.

After spending some time in a psychiatric hospital and continuing medication, her selfconfidence improved. She found a four-daya-week job working in the digital operation of a magazine group and is now able to manage the workload.

In the past, suicide rates in Japan have spiked during times of economic crisis, including after the burst of the property-based bubble in the 1990s and the global downturn in 2008.

During those periods, it was men who were most affected by job losses and who killed themselves at higher rates. Historically, suicides among men in Japan have outnumbered those among women by a factor of at least 2-1.

In Hashimoto’s case, fears of financial dependence contributed to her sense of hopelessness.

Even when the gym where she worked as a personal trainer reopened, she did not feel emotionally stable enough to return. She then felt guilty about relying on her boyfriend, emotionally and financially.

She had met Nozomu Takeda, 23, who works in the construction industry, at the gym, where he was her training client. They had been dating only three months when she confided that her depression was becoming untenable.

Unable to afford therapy and suffering

severe anxiety attacks, she said she identified with others who “felt very pushed into a corner.”

When she attempted suicide, all she could think about was freeing Takeda from the responsibility of taking care of her. “I wanted to take the burden off him,” she said.

Even those who have not lost jobs may have come under extra stress. Before the pandemic, working from home was extremely rare in Japan. Then women suddenly had to worry not only about pleasing their bosses from afar, but also about juggling new safety and hygiene protocols for their children, or protecting elderly parents who were more vulnerable to the virus.

The expectations to excel did not change, but their contact with friends and other support networks diminished.

“If they can’t get together with other people or share their stresses with other people, then it’s not really surprising” that they are feeling pressured or depressed, said Kumiko Nemoto, a professor of sociology at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies.

Having survived her own suicide attempt, Hashimoto now wants to help others learn to talk through their emotional problems and connect them to professionals.

Takeda says he appreciates how Hashimoto speaks openly about her depression.

“She is the type of person who really shares what she needs and what is wrong,” he said.

“So it was very easy for me to support her because she vocalizes what she needs.”

A women-only subway car in Osaka, Japan on Feb. 15, 2021. Last year saw more women, but fewer men, take their own lives in Japan.

16

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

The San Juan Daily Star

Afghan civilian casualties soared after peace talks’ start

By DAVID ZUCCHINO

C

ivilian casualties rose sharply in Afghanistan after peace negotiations between the government and the Taliban began in September, even as overall deaths and injuries dropped during 2020 compared with the previous year, the United Nations reported Tuesday.

In its annual report documenting civilian injuries and deaths, the United Nations’ mission in Afghanistan found that the escalation in civilian casualties began shortly after intra-Afghan negotiations opened on Sept. 12 in Doha, Qatar, increasing by 45% in the final quarter of 2020 versus the same time period in 2019. The number of civilian casualties in November was the highest of any year that month since the U.N. began systematically documenting Afghan casualties in 2009, the report said.

“2020 could have been the year of peace in Afghanistan,” said Deborah Lyons, the special representative of the U.N. secretary-general for Afghanistan. “Instead, thousands of Afghan civilians perished due to the conflict.”

The report was released as talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban remain stalled amid unrelenting violence, and a February 2020 agreement between the United States and the Taliban is under review by the Biden administration.

Following that agreement, made a year ago, the number of civilian casualties for the year was 15% lower than in 2019. The 8,820 civilian casualties documented in 2020 — 3,035 killed and 5,785 wounded — represented the first time since 2013 that this figure dropped below 10,000, the report said.

The decline was attributed to a reduction by the Taliban of mass casualty attacks in major cities and a decline in the number of U.S. airstrikes — both of which contributed to high civilian casualty rates in previous years.

But civilian casualties surged in the fourth quarter as fighting raged in the countryside between the Taliban and Afghan government forces. At the same time, a targeted assassination campaign of shootings and bombings killed government workers and security force members, journalists, civil society advocates and family members of combatants.

Also targeted were religious minorities, especially Hazaras, most of whom are Shiite Muslim, and the country’s small Sikh population.

The 2,792 civilian casualties (891 deaths and 1,901 injuries) recorded in the final three months of 2020 represented the second-highest total for this time period since 2009.

The Taliban have denied targeted attacks against anyone other than government employees or supporters, but the Afghan government has blamed the militants for most such attacks.

Last year was the seventh consecutive year that the U.N. has documented more than 3,000 civilian deaths, “with Afghanistan remaining among the deadliest places in the world to be a civilian,” the report said.

The report noted that many Afghans had hoped that violence would diminish after government and Taliban negotiators began formal talks, which are aimed at agreeing on a road map for a future Afghan government and working toward a comprehensive cease-fire.

“Instead, there was an escalation of violence with disturbing trends and consequences,” the U.N. report said.

After the two sides agreed on procedures to guide negotiations in early December, the talks were recessed until the first week of January. But there have been no formal negotiations since then. Instead, there has been heavy fighting, as both sides await a decision by the Biden administration on whether to honor or extend the May 1 deadline for withdrawing the remaining 2,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, as stipulated in the February 2020 agreement between the United States and the Taliban.

Part of the increase in fourth-quarter casualties was caused by an increase in homemade magnetic bombs attached to vehicles and detonated by timer or remote control.

The U.N. report also documented a continued high rate of civilian casualties caused by roadside and car bombs detonated by the Taliban and other anti-government elements.

The U.N. report attributed 62% of civilian casualties in 2020 to anti-government elements, with the Taliban blamed for 45% of the overall total and the Islamic State group in Afghanistan responsible for 8%. Another 9% was attributed to undetermined anti-government elements. Though the Isla-

mic State group has been weakened, and is mostly contained in the east, it has turned to guerrilla-style and mass-casualty attacks in urban areas, as it attempts to rebuild its ranks.

Government forces were responsible for 22% of civilian casualties for the year, according to the report, with an additional 2% attributed to pro-government armed groups.

The report attributed 13% of civilian casualties to crossfire or undetermined causes.

U.S.-led international forces were responsible for just 1% of civilian casualties in 2020, the report said — 120 civilian deaths and injuries, a decrease of 85% from 2019, when 786 casualties were attributed to international forces. It was the lowest number in that category since 2009.

After the February 2020 agreement, the Taliban refrained from attacking U.S. or other NATO forces. U.S. commanders have generally limited airstrikes to instances in which government forces were under extreme threat during Taliban assaults.

But that has not stopped U.S. aircraft from dropping hundreds of bombs with little accountability after the military stopped publicly reporting the strikes last year.

A full year has passed in Afghanistan without a U.S. combat death, the only such period since the United States invaded in 2001. The two most recent U.S. combat deaths in Afghanistan occurred on Feb. 8, 2020, three weeks before the agreement was signed between the Taliban and the United States.

Family members mourning Ahmad Ali Mohammedi, who was fatally shot at Kabul University on Nov. 2.

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

17

The COVID emergency must end

By ROSS DOUTHAT

C

hristmas of 2021: According to both President Joe Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci, together the two most prominent voices on public health in America right now, that’s when we can hope for a return to normalcy, the beginning of life after the emergency.

Even that not-exactly-optimistic prediction comes with hedges and caveats. Next Christmas won’t necessarily be the end of pandemic restrictions, according to Biden — just a time when “significantly fewer people having to be socially distanced, having to wear a mask.”

Likewise, Fauci has described his hope as “a degree of normality” by the end of 2021, with the possibility of widespread masking persisting into the following year.

I am not vested with Biden’s authority or Fauci’s expertise, but I can read trend lines and vaccine studies, and right now both their takes look way too pessimistic. A major setback is always possible, but right now, the conditions for the end of the emergency seem likely to arrive sometime in the summer, not at Christmastime. Those conditions don’t require the coronavirus to disappear entirely. They just require its dangers to diminish to the point where the reasons for suspending ordinary life no longer obtain, and the emergency measures taken against COVID-19 no longer justify their cost.

The looming arrival of herd immunity is part of this story. In a report over the weekend, two of my colleagues estimated that a combination of infections and vaccinations could deliver us into the herd-immunity range by July. If we speed up vaccination, the date might arrive even sooner. Alternatively, if social distancing declines rapidly in the interim or a more infectious variant spreads, then we’ll

PO BOX 6537 Caguas PR 00726 Telephones: (787) 743-3346 • (787) 743-6537 (787) 743-5606 • Fax (787) 743-5100

Dr. Ricardo Angulo Publisher Manuel Sierra

Ray Ruiz

General Manager

Legal Notice Director

María de L. Márquez

Sharon Ramírez

Business Director

Legal Notices Graphics Manager

R. Mariani

Elsa Velázquez

Circulation Director

Editor / Reporter

Lisette Martínez

María Rivera

Advertising Agency Director

Graphic Artist Manager

get a last spike of cases and more people will die — but more infections also means more immunity, so even in that grim scenario herd immunity could actually arrive sooner still.

A variant that is more infectious and much more vaccine or immunity-resistant could alter this timeline. But the leading candidate for that role, the South African variant, appears at least somewhat vulnerable to the vaccines that we already have. And even in South Africa itself, it only appears to have caused a temporary spike in cases, followed by a swift decline.

The other part of the optimistic story is vaccine availability.

By sometime in the summer, if not sooner, everyone in the United States who wants a vaccine should be able to get one. This will create new challenges as public health authorities try to woo vaccine skeptics. But even if the uptake rate isn’t as high as it needs to be and it takes longer than hoped to fully clear the herd-immunity threshold, the simple availability of vaccines will change the moral calculus around the disease. What has been up till now a collective-action problem, justifying restrictions and closures and mask mandates, will become more of a matter of individual responsibility, where people who don’t get a vaccine are primarily putting themselves rather than society at risk.

At that point, with herd immunity close and vaccines generally available, the arguments marshaled by COVID skeptics and lockdown critics, which have been mostly wrong or misguided up till now, will begin to make more sense.

It’s not much worse than the flu, skeptics have argued. Well, no, COVID isn’t remotely like normal influenza. But under conditions of mass vaccination, with vaccines that reduce the risk of death and severe illness even among the small share of vaccinated people who get sick, the coronavirus will actually look a lot more like the flu.

We can protect seniors and other vulnerable people while otherwise continuing with normal life, skeptics have argued. Well, no, we can’t, because the elderly and vulnerable are a huge population that can’t be easily segregated from the rest of society (and the segregation we’ve pursued has been quite cruel enough). But once you can vaccinate the elderly and others who are vulnerable, the disease can still circulate among younger and healthier people without it being a constant mass-fatality threat.

The damage to the economy and mental health from closures and restrictions outweighs the threat of the disease itself, skeptics have insisted. Well, maybe in certain cases, like elementary school closures — but in general a disease that has killed at least 500,000 Americans more than justified a robust attempt to stop its spread.

However: Once the old and vulnerable are genuinely protected, the death toll drops, and vaccines are generally available, the toll that emergency measures take on just about everyone — business owners, college kids, churches, parents, school-age children, the lonely and the old — really will become worse than whatever coronavirus threat remains.

But because some threat will probably endure — perhaps through the winter, perhaps indefinitely — there may be pressure on anxious governments to keep the emergency measures in place or lift them ver-r-r-r-y slowly, and similar pressure on public health officials to overstate the continuing risks.

For instance, the fact that a vaccine might not be approved for kids until 2022 could become a reason for schools to extend virtual

learning for yet another semester — even though teachers can be vaccinated and the coronavirus does not appear to be more dangerous for children than the flu.

Or again, the fear that a deadlier or vaccine-evading variant might come along could become a reason to maintain restrictions on restaurants, church services or private gatherings through the fall or winter — even though the possibility of a new variant could easily be with us every year, for decades, and we might as well start adapting now.

Or the fear of long-haul, chronic-seeming COVID — which is a genuinely frightening part of this disease — could be cited as a reason restrictions need to remain in place until the virus is entirely eradicated. But other illnesses can have chronic consequences, too, and yet life continues around them: We don’t close schools for the Epstein-Barr virus, despite its link to chronic fatigue syndrome, or expect New England state parks to shut down all spring and summer because of the risk that Lyme disease turns chronic.

To be clear, I can imagine scenarios for 2021’s fall or winter involving a particularly deadly variant or one that’s more dangerous to kids, where reimposing emergency measures might be necessary.

And if we end up maintaining mask mandates a little longer than needed, and there’s more mask-wearing in the winter months and on public transportation going forward, then that’s hardly the greatest burden in the world.

But the danger of the overcautious, wait-for-Christmas public rhetoric from Biden and Fauci is that it provides cover and encouragement for fearful officials to extend the whole suite of emergency measures for many unnecessary months.

No doubt both men have strategic reasons for their approach.

Biden presumably hopes to underpromise and overdeliver, while Fauci clearly has a theory of his own role that involves steering public expectations rather than just saying flatly what he thinks.

But after a year of misery, death and sacrifice, the public has a right to know in advance when the emergency should reasonably be over. People who are struggling or despairing right now need a sense of hope, of light at the end of winter’s tunnel. People who are unsure whether to be vaccinated deserve to be told that it can actually change all of our lives, and quickly. And officials struggling to balance risk aversion and the reopening imperative need to be given a permission structure that encourages them to choose normalcy, and soon.

Just under a year ago, Donald Trump was justifiably pilloried when he suggested, without evidence, that the worst of the pandemic might be over by Easter.

But today the situation is radically different. And Joe Biden would be doing our struggling, freezing country a great service if he suggested, with evidence, that with continued effort and reasonably good fortune, the era of emergency might be over by the Fourth of July.

18

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

The San Juan Daily Star

Representante del Distrito 20 levanta bandera ante alza en ola criminal en Cabo Rojo Por THE STAR

E

l representante Kebin Maldonado Martiz, levantó bandera el martes, ante la crisis de seguridad que enfrenta el municipio de Cabo Rojo luego de perder dos cuarteles de la Policía, reportarse tres asesinatos en lo que va del año y el más reciente incidente donde una intervención se convirtió en una persecución que terminó en el Sector La 22.

“La falta de presencia policial en Cabo Rojo ha desencadenado un alza en la incidencia delictiva jamás antes vista en la historia de nuestro pueblo.

Hoy, más que nunca, alzo mi voz en reclamo para que se atienda esta situa-

ción, ya que nuestra ciudad cuenta con una población flotante de 1.3 millones de personas anuales, por lo que es inconcebible que se encuentre sin seguridad”, destacó el legislador en comunicación escrita.

Maldonado Martiz anunció que desde el pasado 4 de enero del 2021, presentó ante la Comisión de Seguridad la Resolución de la Cámara 48, con el fin de investigar las condiciones en las que se encuentra el sistema de seguridad ante el cierre del cuartel ubicado en el centro del pueblo al igual que el de la Unidad Montada que se localizado en Combate.

Con la radicación de esta pieza legislativa, el representante del Distrito

20 busca establecer en qué condiciones se encuentran las estructuras gubernamentales y darle la importancia que se merecen los miembros que componen el cuerpo de la Policía.

“La seguridad pública es un derecho que el Estado debe garantizar a todos sus habitantes, ciudadanos y residentes. A través de la investigación confío que se podrá identificar el número real de efectivos en el Departamento de Seguridad Pública (DSP) asignados al Negociado de la Policía, ya que la merma en el reclutamiento, ha provocado que disminuya al mínimo la cantidad de agentes disponibles para mantener la seguridad y el orden en nuestras calles”, explicó.

“Muy pronto” iniciará demanda sobre la guagua blindada de Rosselló Nevares, dice titular designado de Justicia Por THE STAR

E

l secretario designado de Justicia, Domingo Emanuelli, dijo el martes que muy pronto, se realizará un proceso judicial para, por lo menos, recuperar el dinero utilizado para la adquisición de una guagua blindada bajo la administración de Ricardo Rosselló Nevares.

“Yo creo que el pueblo de Puerto Rico va a tener una esperanza de, por lo menos, vamos a hacer las gestiones para recuperar el dinero que se desembolsó para esa guagua”, dijo Emanuelli a preguntas de la prensa.

Sobre el inicio de un proceso judicial a esos efectos, el funcionario designado dijo que “mi determinación es que se va a hacer”.

“Lo que estamos trabajando es la redacción de la demanda y pronto, pero muy pronto, van a tener noticias sobre eso”, advirtió el titular designado de Justicia.

Explicó que se está viendo el caso en el aspecto civil, no el criminal.

“Estamos trabajando para una violación de contrato o una nulidad de contrato”, especificó.

Mencionó que tan pronto se culmine la preparación de la demanda, “muy pronto” citará a una conferencia de prensa sobre el particular.

Bajo la administración de Ricardo Rosselló Nevares se realizó la compra de una guagua blindada a un costo de $224,100, vehículo que nunca llegó a Puerto Rico. El exsecretario de Seguridad Pública, Pedro Janer, había sostenido que dicho vehículo no tenía utilidad.

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

19

Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen: The latest podcast duo

By BEN SISARIO

F

ormer President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen are liberal icons, vacationing friends and rhapsodists about the dreams and travails of everyday Americans.

Now they are also podcast hosts.

On Monday, Spotify released the first two episodes of “Renegades: Born in the USA,” featuring the 44th president and the singer of the anthemic hit name-checked in the show’s title. In “Renegades,” which will release six subsequent episodes weekly, the two men speak intimately and expansively on topics such as race, fatherhood and the painful divisions that persist in American society.

Drawn from a series of one-on-one conversations at Springsteen’s home studio in New Jersey from July to December, the show is a searching, high-minded discussion of life in the United States from two masters of the form.

“In our own ways, Bruce and I have been on parallel journeys,” Obama says in the first episode. “We still share a fundamental belief in the American ideal. Not as an airbrushed, cheap fiction or an act of nostalgia that ignores all the ways that we’ve fallen short of that ideal. But as a compass for the hard work that lies before each of us as citizens.”

“Renegades” also represents a kind of high-water mark for podcasting. The show is produced by Higher Ground Productions, the company founded by Obama and his wife, Michelle, and the two men’s collaboration seemingly would have fit in with the Obamas’ slate of TV and film projects with Netflix.

But podcasting, once seen as a low-stakes sandbox filled with comedians and public-radio regulars, is now a booming, competitive media business that attracts ever-bigger names. This month, former President Bill Clinton began his own show, “Why Am I Telling You This?”

“It illustrates exactly where we are at this moment in time,” Dawn Ostroff, chief content officer of Spotify, the exclusive outlet for “Renegades,” said of the show. “It says this is the next big thing — or it has already arrived.”

For Spotify, which has made a big push into podcasts over the past two years (including buying the studio Gimlet Media and launching “The Michelle Obama Podcast” last summer), the show is partly a bid to attract older listeners. Nearly half of American podcast listeners are under 35, according to a market survey last year by Edison Research and Triton Digital.

The president and the rock star met on the 2008 campaign trail, and over the years they have cultivated a warm friendship. In January 2017, as Obama was preparing to leave office, Springsteen gave an intimate, career-spanning performance at the White House, which he then developed into his solo show on Broadway. In “Renegades,” Obama, 59, and Springsteen, 71, laugh heartily as they recount some of the meals, chats and impromptu singalongs they have shared.

Dan Fierman, head of Higher Ground Audio, said Michelle Obama’s experience making her show last year spurred the former president to create his own podcast, and he selected Springsteen as his interlocutor. Their first recording session took place July 30, just hours after Obama delivered the eulogy for John Lewis, the civil rights hero and congressman from Georgia.

In an undated photo from Rob DeMartin, Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama at Springsteen’s home studio. Their new show, “Renegades: Born in the USA,” features the 44th president and the musician speaking intimately and expansively on topics like race, fatherhood and the country’s painful divisions.

Their conversation mingles the personal and the mythic.

Obama discusses growing up in Hawaii with the confusion and discomfort of being of mixed race — “I wasn’t easily identifiable; I felt like an outsider,” he says — and they each share lessons of masculinity they drew from the failings of their own fathers.

They are a mutual-admiration society. Springsteen, who now and then picks up a guitar, tells the story of his 1984 song “My Hometown,” with its echoes of racial conflict in the 1960s.

He marvels at the universality and patriotism that comes through when concert crowds roar out its line, “This is your hometown.”

“I always get a sense that they know the town they’re talking about isn’t Freehold,” Springsteen says, referring to where he grew up in New Jersey. “It’s not Washington. It’s not Seattle.

It’s the whole thing — it’s all of America.” Brief pause. “It’s a good song.”

“It’s a great song,” Obama quickly adds.

The show reflects a big-tent centrism that has long been part of both men’s approach. Springsteen released a Jeep ad during the latest Super Bowl — his first commercial ever — that called for Americans to meet in “the middle.”

Surveying the nation’s divisions, Obama asks: “How did we get here? How could we find our way back to a more unifying American story?” That push for a middle ground was sometimes a liability for Obama during his presidency, and may be at odds with the hyperpartisanship of the moment.

“Renegades” also arrives while news is still fresh that

Springsteen had been arrested in November on charges of drunken driving, a rare scandal for one of rock’s living saints.

(Springsteen has not commented about the arrest, and he is expected to appear in court as soon as Wednesday.) Fierman said the incident did not change the company’s plans to release “Renegades,” and stray references to alcohol in the show were left intact.

Obama and Springsteen declined to comment for this article.

Although the show is positioned as an attempt to understand the divisions in American society and to search for solutions, Obama and Springsteen largely avoid politics and stick to personal stories.

Yet political tensions inevitably loom over “Renegades.”

For a discussion of national divisions in the eighth and final episode of the first season, Obama added an introductory note about the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol.

Obama also says little about his successor, former President Donald Trump. But his view of the man who took his place, and of the state of the country, is clear from Obama’s very first words in the first episode, setting the scene of 2020 as a moment of anxiety and conflict in America.

“For three years I’d had to watch a presidential successor who was diametrically opposed to everything I believed in,” Obama says. “And witnessed a country that seemed to be getting angrier and more divided with each passing day.”

20

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

The San Juan Daily Star

Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn call HBO docuseries a ‘shoddy hit piece’

“These documentarians had no interest in the truth,” a statement from Mr. Allen’s spokesperson, on behalf of him and Soon-Yi Previn, said. “Instead, they spent years surreptitiously collaborating with the Farrows and their enablers to put together a hatchet job riddled with falsehoods.”

By JULIA JACOBS

S

hortly after the premiere of the first episode of “Allen v. Farrow,” an HBO documentary series that reexamines Dylan Farrow’s decades-old sexual abuse allegations against filmmaker Woody Allen, her adoptive father, a spokesperson for Allen released a statement Sunday night slamming the series, calling it a “shoddy hit piece.”

Letty Aronson, Allen’s sister, sent the statement — attributed to a spokesperson — shortly after the first episode aired, on behalf of Allen and Soon-Yi Previn, the filmmaker’s wife and the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow. In 1992, Farrow, Allen’s longtime girlfriend, learned of the relationship between Allen and Previn when Previn was a first-year college student. That relationship is also the subject of scrutiny in the four-part docuseries.

Neither Allen nor Previn participated in the series, but it does include audio excerpts from Allen’s recent memoir, “Apropos of Nothing.”

“These documentarians had no interest in the truth,” the statement said. “Instead, they spent years surreptitiously collaborating with the Farrows and their enablers to put together a hatchet

job riddled with falsehoods.”

On Monday, the publisher of Allen’s memoir, Skyhorse, raised another objection to the series: that the filmmakers had used snippets from the audiobook without permission. In a statement, the president and publisher of Skyhorse, Tony Lyons, said that the “unauthorized” use of the audio in the first episode was “clear, willful infringement under existing legal precedent.”

Lyons said in the statement that the filmmakers did not request permission to use the excerpts and that the publisher learned late last week that the episodes make “extensive” use of the audiobook. The publisher’s lawyer notified HBO on Friday that “if the use of the audiobook were anywhere near what we were hearing, it would constitute copyright infringement,” he said.

The memoir was originally set to be published last year by Grand Central Publishing, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, until dozens of Hachette employees staged a walkout in protest and the publisher reneged. About two weeks later, his book was published by Arcade Publishing, an imprint of the independent publisher Skyhorse.

In response to the publisher’s objections, an

HBO spokesperson provided a statement from the filmmakers, saying, “The creators of ‘Allen v. Farrow’ legally used limited audio excerpts from Woody Allen’s memoir in the series under the Fair Use doctrine.” The doctrine has been invoked to allow artists and journalists — including documentary filmmakers — to use limited amounts of copyrighted works for certain purposes, including using the material to illustrate an argument or to serve as the subject of a critique.

Episode 1 includes extensive interviews with Mia Farrow and Dylan Farrow, who accused Allen of sexual assault when she was 7 years old. It also included interviews with family and friends who said that even before Aug. 4, 1992 — the day that Dylan Farrow says Allen assaulted her — they witnessed behavior from Allen toward his daughter that they saw as inappropriate.

Allen has long denied the abuse allegations, arguing that Mia Farrow had coached Dylan to make the allegations after learning about his relationship with Previn.

In Sunday’s statement, Allen continued to deny the claims.

“As has been known for decades, these allegations are categorically false,” the statement said.

“Multiple agencies investigated them at the time and found that, whatever Dylan Farrow may have been led to believe, absolutely no abuse had ever taken place.”

In later episodes, the series raises questions about one of those investigations, in particular: a report issued by the Yale Child Sexual Abuse Clinic, at the Yale-New Haven Hospital, which found Dylan uncredible after interviewing the child nine times during a seven-month period. According to the series, all the contemporaneous interview notes from those sessions were destroyed when the final report was issued.

Prosecutors in Connecticut, where Dylan Farrow says that Allen sexually assaulted her, declined to prosecute Allen in 1993. The state’s attorney said that he did so to spare Dylan the trauma of a trial but that he believed she had been molested.

The statement said that Allen and Previn were approached about the documentary less than two months ago and were “given only a matter of days” to respond to it. It also said it was “sadly unsurprising” that HBO was airing the series, considering a production deal it had made with Ronan Farrow, Dylan Farrow’s brother, who has spoken in support of his sister, including in the series. (Ronan Farrow, an investigative journalist who has reported extensively on sexual misconduct, has a deal with HBO to create investigative documentary specials, though he was not on the production team for “Allen v. Farrow.”)

The San Juan Daily Star The San Juan Daily Star

21 Wednesday, February 24, 2021 21

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

20

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

FASHION The San Juan Daily Star

Who needs big brands when you have Ella Emhoff, Bowen Yang and an actual beating heart?

By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

isolated reality that was, and the world that will be.

See, for example, Proenza Schouler’s terrific bar-raiser of a collection, which combined tactile details — macramé and crochet inserts, silk fringe, dip-dyed hems, sheepskin slippers — with deliberately torqued tailoring in

L

ulled by the cadence of four days of New York Fashion Week experienced through the computer, it was easy to miss the curly-haired, bespectacled model in the slouchy black trouser suit strolling by the Parrish Art Museum in the Hamptons, just one of the elegant, arty denizens of Proenza Schouler’s fall 2021 collection video.

But wait. Stifle that yawn. Squint, and squint again. Not just at the jacket closed by a single white button at the breastbone and cleverly structured to suggest, in its line and twisty attitude, the whiff of a cutaway; not just at the butter-soft tough leather coat she wears moments later; but at the woman herself. Is it … maybe … yes …

Ella Emhoff, the 21-year-old stepdaughter of Vice President Kamala Harris, knitwear designer and newly minted model, making her debut appearance in a show less than a month after she first came to the attention of the world at the inauguration of President Joe Biden.

Suddenly the shows, which had been feeling increasingly shrunken in the confines of the small screen, popped back into focus.

Was it a gimmick to capture attention in a discombobulated world?

Maybe, a little. (It worked.) But it also served as a reminder of what fashion week is supposed to be about.

And that is? “This new moment in American history,” Lazaro Hernandez, co-designer and co-founder of Proenza Schouler, said via Zoom the day before the video was revealed. “A return to intelligence and values. And that was also what we wanted to show with this collection. That …”

“That,” his partner Jack McCollough chimed in, “we are on the precipice of a new era.”

The liminal collections Welcome to New York Fashion

emerging from a chrysalis into the open air.

Or see Gabriela Hearst’s equally tactile, equally mindful work, also traveling the fine line between snuggling materiality and finely honed construction. Filmed in a cavernous warehouse in Brooklyn, the collection was inspired by 12th-century nun Saint Hildegard of Bingen and dedicated to the idea of “hope” and a “future free of apathy.”

So said the designer, anyway, during a backstage Zoom tour through cream cable dresses inset with a black leather corset at the waist or a champagne silk version of the same, cut with a splash of black lace, and trenches tied with big knots at the shoulders rather than military epaulets. They weren’t

Continues on page 22 An undated photo provided by Daniel Shea, Ella Emhoff, the stepdaughter of Vice President Kamala Harris, made her runway debut at New York Fashion Week.

Week, the transition. Most of the big names, the household ones that draw foreign editors and retailers to the city, were absent. Even most of the smaller breakout names were gone, all of them showing on unofficial dates so spread out that “New York Fashion Week” got repositioned as merely one part of “the American Collections,” a free-floating concept that exists year-round.

It would have been easy, even tempting, to dismiss the whole digital exercise as a dying allegiance to an old way of doing things. But among those who stuck it out and seized the day(s), there were glimmers of something: defiance, optimism, faith in the future.

As a result, a better name for the event might have been one suggested by Hernandez: “the liminal collections.”

The ones created to bridge the space between the working-from-home

Gabriela Hearst, fall 2021. jersey, wool and leather. There was also easy layering, so that everything was sort of off-center and unexpected. What appeared to be layers of slip dresses and wrap skirts were in fact a single garment; jackets could be cinched or uncinched in the back to pull the sides hither and yon; and the effect was both cocooning and peekaboo, like a body

The singer Adeline in her kitchen, wearing a dress from the Batsheva fall 2021 collection.

FASHION The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

20 22

21

Wednesday, March 4,February 2020 24, 2021 Wednesday,

mood when he asked his models — men and women dancing around in a polka-dot floral explosion of red, pink, black and white, flared pants, flamenco skirts and other sartorial odes to parties past — what they liked about New York.

“I always feel like I’m walking in a movie when I’m in New York,” one said. “New York gives me hope,” said another. Also, “New York gives me energy.” It was, Gurung said, a love letter to the city and the spirit he believed would come back.

Speaking of hearts: Imitation of Christ featured two in its video — gi-

The San Juan Daily Star animorphs: upcycled finery in the form of T-shirt dresses with huge panniers at the hips and various pastel print separates seguing into creatures only sometimes seen in nature. The point being, this is a season of metamorphosis. We might as well embrace it.

Christian Cowan summed up it all up in his short film featuring Bowen Yang and Chloe Fineman of “Saturday Night Live” playing versions of themselves crashing, sweatsuit-clad, into a high-camp party of feathered,

Prabal Gurung, fall 2021.

Proenza Schouler, fall 2021.

From page 21 quite swords into plowshares, but you could get the hint. Especially paired with fluted cashmere skirts and matching sweaters sprinkled with three-dimensional flowers based on drawings by Hearst’s 12-year-old daughter. This time, it’s personal.

Batsheva Hay, whose work has gotten increasingly eclectic, mixing her trademark postmodern prairie dresses with rocker crushed velvet, even photographed friends and models like Amy Fine Collins in their kitchens, with cookware and quiches and washing machines. Not slumming it, but all dressed up and dreaming of somewhere to go.

Everyone loves New York Prabal Gurung captured the

Jason Wu, fall 2021.

ant, virtual, 3D human hearts, pulsing in time around models in designer Tara Subkoff’s funk ’n’ flapper collection of deco beaded streetwear, a reference to COVID-19 and what sustains us. At the end, they burst into bloom, and what was unsettling turned into a moment of grace.

Which may be the happy ending we are all hoping for.

New York — the actual city — was something of a through line in a number of shows. Jason Wu set his easy-to-digest sportswear redux and silk shmattes amid the walls of a fantasy general store filled with real fruits and vegetables. (They were later donated to City Harvest.) Ulla Johnson sent her parade of crafty knits and earth-tone dresses with statement sleeves through the marble-floor vastness of Lincoln Center’s public spaces. Rather than signifying emptiness, the effect was to suggest that some day, those rooms would be full again. And so here was something to wear.

For sheer exuberance, however, it was hard not to smile at Libertine’s neoclassical patchwork of dancing brocades, khaki emblazoned with poetry, and shooting star suits, traced by lines of silver. Or Collina Strada’s

Libertine, fall 2021.

studded and sequined fabulousity in the (otherwise empty) Pierre Hotel. At the end of the skit, as the pair stumble out of the building, now dressed in sequined grape-toned pajamas (Yang) and a lilac crystal top, zip-up miniskirt, and faux fur (Fineman), they run across a confused fan who is startled at their new look. Are they playing a part? she asks.

The answer, they huff, is simple: “This is who we are now.”

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

23

Unhealthy foods aren’t just bad for you — they may also be addictive

By ANAHAD O’CONNOR

F

ive years ago, a group of nutrition scientists studied what Americans eat and reached a striking conclusion: More than half of all the calories that the average American consumes comes from ultraprocessed foods, which they defined as “industrial formulations” that combine large amounts of sugar, salt, oils, fats and other additives.

Highly processed foods continue to dominate the American diet, despite being linked to obesity, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and other health problems. They are cheap and convenient, and engineered to taste good. They are aggressively marketed by the food industry. But a growing number of scientists say another reason these foods are so heavily consumed is that for many people they are not just tempting but addictive, a notion that has sparked controversy among researchers.

Recently, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition explored the science behind food addiction and whether ultraprocessed foods might be contributing to overeating and obesity.

It featured a debate between two of the leading experts on the subject, Ashley Gearhardt, associate professor in the psychology department at the University of Michigan, and Dr. Johannes Hebebrand, head of the department of child and adolescent psychiatry, psychosomatics and psychotherapy at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany.

Gearhardt, a clinical psychologist, helped develop the Yale Food Addiction Scale, a survey used to determine whether a person shows signs of addictive behavior toward food. In one study involving more than 500 people, she and her colleagues found that certain foods were especially likely to elicit “addictive-like” eating behaviors, such as intense cravings, a loss of control and an inability to cut back despite experiencing harmful consequences and a strong desire to stop eating them.

At the top of the list were pizza, chocolate, potato chips, cookies, ice cream, french fries and cheeseburgers. Gearhardt has found in her research that these highly processed foods share much in common with addictive substances. Like cigarettes and cocaine, their ingredients are derived from naturally occurring plants and foods that are stripped of components that slow their absorption, such as fiber, water and protein. Then their most pleasurable ingredients are refined and processed into products that are rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream, enhancing their ability to light up regions of the brain that regulate reward, emotion and motivation.

Salt, thickeners, artificial flavors and other additives in highly processed foods strengthen their pull by enhancing properties such as texture and mouth-feel, similar to the way that cigarettes contain an array of additives designed to increase their addictive potential, said Gearhardt. Menthol helps to mask the bitter flavor of nicotine, for example, while another ingredient used in some cigarettes, cocoa, dilates the airways and increases nicotine’s absorption.

A common denominator among the most irresistible ultraprocessed foods is that they contain large amounts of fat and refined carbohydrates, a potent combination rarely seen in naturally occurring foods that humans evolved to eat, such as fruits,

Food researchers debate whether highly processed foods like potato chips and ice cream are addictive, triggering our brains to overeat. vegetables, meat, nuts, honey, beans and seeds, said Gearhardt.

Many foods found in nature are rich in either fat or carbs, but typically they are not high in both.

“People don’t experience an addictive behavioral response to naturally occurring foods that are good for our health, like strawberries,” said Gearhardt, who is also director of the Food and Addiction Science and Treatment lab at Michigan. “It’s this subset of highly processed foods that are engineered in a way that’s so similar to how we create other addictive substances.

These are the foods that can trigger a loss of control and compulsive, problematic behaviors that parallel what we see with alcohol and cigarettes.”

In one study, Gearhardt found that when people cut back on highly processed foods, they experienced symptoms that were comparable to the withdrawal seen in drug abusers, such as irritability, fatigue, sadness and cravings. Other researchers have found in brain-imaging studies that people who frequently consume junk foods can develop a tolerance to them over time, leading them to require larger and larger amounts to get the same enjoyment.

In her clinical practice, Gearhardt has encountered patients — some obese and some not — who struggle in vain to control their intake of highly processed foods. Some attempt to eat them in moderation, only to find that they lose control and eat to the point of feeling ill and distraught. Many of her patients find that they cannot quit these foods despite struggling with

uncontrolled diabetes, excessive weight gain and other health problems.

But Hebebrand disputes the notion that any food is addictive. While potato chips and pizza can seem irresistible to some, he argues that they do not cause an altered state of mind, a hallmark of addictive substances. Smoking a cigarette, drinking a glass of wine or taking a hit of heroin, for instance, causes an immediate sensation in the brain that foods do not, he said.

“You can take any addictive drug, and it’s always the same story that almost everyone will have an altered state of mind after ingesting it,” said Hebebrand. “That indicates that the substance is having an effect on your central nervous system. But we are all ingesting highly processed foods, and none of us is experiencing this altered state of mind because there’s no direct hit of a substance in the brain.”

For people who struggle with limiting their intake of highly processed foods, Gearhardt recommends keeping a journal of what you eat so you can identify the foods that have the most pull — the ones that cause intense cravings and that you can’t stop eating once you start. Keep those foods out of your home, while stocking your fridge and pantry with healthier alternatives that you enjoy, she said.

“Making sure you are regularly fueling your body with nutritious, minimally processed foods that you enjoy can be important for helping you navigate a very challenging food environment,” said Gearhardt.

24

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

The San Juan Daily Star

Earth to Voyager 2: After a year in the darkness, we can talk to you again

By SHARON STIRONE

I

n the nearly 44 years since NASA launched Voyager 2, the spacecraft has gone beyond the frontiers of human exploration by visiting Uranus, Neptune and, eventually, interstellar space.

Last March, the agency had to shut down its only means of reaching this robotic trailblazer. This month, the silence came to an end as NASA switched that communications channel back on, restoring humanity’s ability to say hello to its distant explorer.

Because of the direction in which it is flying out of the solar system, Voyager 2 can receive commands from Earth only via one antenna in the entire world. It is called DSS 43, and it is in Canberra, Australia. It is part of the Deep Space Network, or DSN, which along with stations in California and Spain, is how NASA and allied space agencies stay in touch with the armada of robotic spacecraft exploring everything from the sun’s corona to the regions of the Kuiper belt beyond the orbit of Pluto. (Voyager 2’s twin, Voyager 1, is able to communicate with the other two stations.)

A round-trip communication with Voyager 2 takes about 35 hours — 17 hours and 35 minutes each way.

DSS 43 is a 70-meter dish that has been operating since 1973. It was long overdue for upgrades, especially with new robotic missions headed to Mars this year and even more preparing to launch to study other worlds in the months and years to come. So last year, the dish was switched off and dismantled, even though the shutdown posed considerable risk to the geriatric Voyager 2 probe.

Like everything in 2020, what would have been a normal antenna upgrade was anything but. Usually, the mission’s managers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California would send about 30 experts to oversee the dish’s makeover.

But restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic reduced the team to four.

At the Canberra station, the crew working on the upgrade had to be separated into three smaller teams, said Glen Nagle, outreach manager at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex.

“So there was always a backup team in case anybody got sick, and you could put that team in isolation, and the other team could come in and cover for them,” he said.

They also split the teams into morning and evening shifts to ensure social distancing.

While Voyager 2 was able to call home on the Canberra site’s smaller dishes during the shutdown, none of them could send commands to the probe. If anything had gone wrong aboard the probe during the last year, NASA would have been powerless to fix it.

Although NASA has been unable to send full commands to Voyager 2, it did send one test message to the spacecraft at the end of October when the antenna was mostly reassembled.

A device on board called the command loss timer, something like a dead man’s switch, is used to help the spacecraft determine whether it has lost contact with Earth and should protect

A photo provided by NASA shows repairs to the Deep Space Station 43 in Canberra, Australia, the only means of communication with the Voyager 2 spacecraft. NASA’s sole means of sending commands to the distant space probe, launched 44 years ago, is being restored on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. itself by going into a form of electronic slumber.

The October test reset the timer and successfully told the spacecraft to continue operating.

“I think there was probably a big sigh of relief there,” Nagle said. “And we were very pleased to be able to confirm that the spacecraft was still talking to us.”

The work got high marks from NASA officials in the United States.

“The DSN folks in Canberra did a remarkable job under the pandemic conditions just to upgrade DSS 43,” said Suzanne Dodd, the Voyager mission project manager and director of the Interplanetary Network Directorate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “I’ve got 100% confidence in that antenna, that it will operate just fine for a few more decades. Long past when the Voyagers are done.”

Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 hold the records for the farthest a spacecraft has ever traveled and for the longest operating mission. Voyager 2 has had a few hiccups over the years, but it is still feeling its way around in the dark, making discoveries about the boundaries that separate our solar system from the rest of the Milky Way galaxy.

“I’ve seen scientists whose backgrounds are in astrophys-

ics now looking at Voyager data and trying to match that up with data they have from ground-based telescopes or other space-based telescopes,” Dodd said. “That’s kind of exciting to go from a planetary mission to the heliophysics mission and now, practically into an astrophysics mission.”

While Voyager 2 keeps chugging along, Dodd and her colleagues are preparing to switch off the heater for one of its scientific sensors, the Low Energy Charged Particle instrument.

Doing so will ensure that the spacecraft’s limited power supply can keep its other systems, particularly its communications antenna, warm enough to function.

While Dodd thinks taking such steps could reduce the spacecraft’s scientific output, the main goal now is longevity.

“The challenge is not in the new technology or the great discoveries,” Dodd said. “The challenge is in keeping it operating as long as possible and returning the science data as long as possible.”

The team estimates that both spacecraft can operate for another four to eight years, and NASA last year granted the team three more years of flying time.

“The spacecraft continues to plug along,” Dodd said. “It always surprises me.”

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

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC. Demandante Vs.

ELPIDIO CASTRO COLON; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2019CV03572.

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

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

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de CAROLINA, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 5 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento dos guion F (2F) Oeste, apartamento de dos (2) dormitorios, localizado en el lado Oeste del ala Norte de la segunda planta residencial del Edificio Oeste del Condominio Los Pinos, cuyo condominio ubica en un solar de tres cuerdas con cuatrocientos cincuenta y seis milésimas (3.456), equivalentes a trece mil quinientos ochenta y cuatro punto cero cinco (13584.05) metros cuadrados, cuyo solar colinda por el Norte, que es su frente, con el kilómetro uno punto dos (1.2) de la carretera estatal numero ciento ochenta y siete (187), estando dicho solar localizado en el barrio Cangrejo Arriba del municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico. El apartamento tiene un área superficial de mil

@

ciento cincuenta y siete (1157) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ciento siete punto cincuenta (107.50) metros cuadrados, colindando el mismo, por el Norte, con el apartamento dos guion E (2-E) Oeste; por el Sur, con el área central de servicio del piso, donde está el cuarto del incinerador y los elevadores; por el Oeste, con el espacio abierto sobre el patio oeste del condominio; y al Este, con el pasillo central del piso por donde tiene su puerta de entrada el apartamento cuyo pasillo le conecta a su vez con los elevadores y las escaleras del edificio a través de los cuales el apartamento tiene acceso al vestíbulo central y a las demás áreas comunes del piso terrero de ambos edificios del condominio y a sus patios circundantes y la calle en colindancia Norte del solar. Le corresponde una participación de cero punto dos ocho tres por ciento (0.283%) en los elementos comunes. Le pertenece a este apartamento un espacio de estacionamiento marcado con el número dos guion F (2-F) al lado oeste del sótano según régimen. Inscrita al folio 237 del tomo 571 de Carolina, finca 29,055, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución se encuentra inscrita al folio 70 del tomo 961, finca 29,055 de Carolina I, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, inscripción 7ª. Propiedad localizada en: COND. LOS PINOS, APT 2-F OESTE, CAROLINA, PR 00979. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: $444,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 14 de octubre de 2083. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la

suma de $296,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 12 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $197,333.33, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $148,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 19 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $287,090.89 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $22,450.84 en intereses acumulados al 31 de octubre de 2019 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 4.28% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $12,910.93 en seguro hipotecario; $4,410.00 en cargos por servicio; $332.00 en seguro; $1,050.00 en tasaciones; $140.00 en inspecciones de la propiedad; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $29,600.00, 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)

staredictos@thesanjuandailystar.com

interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de diciembre de 2020.

SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #713.

LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Demandante Vs.

SUCESION ROBERTO BENITEZ VIERA T/C/C ROBERTO BENITEZ COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION LOURDES BORGES COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2019CV02752.

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

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

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de CAROLINA, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instan-

(787) 743-3346

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 cia, Sala de Carolina, el 5 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 584 del bloque “M” del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Vistamar, situado en el Barrio Sabana Abajo de la municipalidad de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 447.09 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en 16.03 metros con la calle principal de dicha urbanización; por el SUR, en 19.55 metros con la primera sección de la urbanización Vistamar; por el ESTE, en 19.50 metros con la Calle F de dicha urbanización; por el OESTE, en 23.00 metros con el solar número 585 del bloque M de dicha urbanización; por el NORESTE, en 5.50 metros con la intersección de las Calles F y calle principal de dicha urbanización.

Encima de la vivienda existente en el inmueble descrito, que es la primera planta, se construyó una segunda y tercera planta que se describen a continuación: Segunda Planta construida en hormigón y bloques cuyas dimensiones son 45 pies de largo por 43 pies de ancho para un área de construcción de 2021.00 pies cuadrados, consta de un apartamento que tiene dos cuartos dormitorios, baño, sala-comedor y cocina; tres apartamentos, de un cuarto cada uno, con baño y sala-comedor. La Tercera Planta construida de hormigón y bloques tiene dimensiones de 47 pies de largo por 43 pies de ancho para un área de construcción de 2021.00 pies cuadrados.

Consta de dos apartamentos de un dormitorio, baño, salacomedor y cocina y un estudio con un baño y cocina. Que, en la Primera Planta, se construyó un área en cemento y bloques que mide de 500 pies cuadrados. Consta de un cuarto dormitorio, baño, sala-comedor, cocina y un estudio con baño y cocina.” Finca 2,374, inscrita al folio 99, del tomo 62 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución se encuentra inscrita al 141 del tomo 1024, finca 2374 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina. Propiedad localizada en: 584 AVENIDA PONTEZUELA, URB. VISTAMAR, CAROLINA, PR 00983. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución

está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $384,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 5 de julio de 2079. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $384,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 12 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $256,000.00, 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 $192,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 19 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 9:45 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 $234,614.03 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $65,728.38 en intereses acumulados al 31 de diciembre de 2019 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $16,237.31 en MIP; $2,868.00 de seguro; $1,900.00 en tasaciones; $600.00 en inspecciones de la propiedad; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $38,400.00, para gas-

The San Juan Daily Star tos, 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.

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 8 de diciembre de 2020.

SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #713.

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

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC. Demandante Vs.

SUCESION PROVIDENCIA CINTRON MURIEL T/C/C PROVIDENCIA CINTRON COMPUESTA POR HILDA IRIS FONTANEZ DELGADO Y SUS POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: LO2018CV00072.

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

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

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal

de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 5 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar 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 colindancia que se relacionan a continuación y que contiene una casa de concreto reforzado diseñada para una familia. SOLAR #10 del BLOQUE “OB” con un área superficial de 272.68 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE en 26.22 metros con el Solar #11; por el ESTE en 12.50 metros con Calle 17C; por el SUR en 22.72 metros con el Solar #9 y la Calle 17; y por el OESTE en 10.50 metros con el Solar #56. Afecta a Servidumbre de 1.50 metros por su colindancia Norte para mantenimiento. Finca número 7442, inscrita al folio 149 del tomo 147 de Canóvanas, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe, finca 7442 de Canóvanas, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III, inscripción 4ª. Propiedad localizada en: #OB-10 CALLE 17C, URB. VILLAS DE LOIZA, CANOVANAS PR 00729. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $127,500.00.

Fecha de Vencimiento: 30 de julio de 2094. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los

26 preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $127,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 12 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $85,000.00, 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 $63,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 19 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $48,793.01 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $4,154.77 en intereses acumulados al 30 de julio de 2018 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.439% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $1,628.45 en seguro hipotecario; $400.00 en tasaciones; $200.00 en inspecciones de la propiedad; más la cantidad de 10%, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado en la suma de $12,750.00, 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 8 de diciembre de 2020.

SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #713.

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

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE CABO ROJO Parte Demandante Vs

JOSÉ ÀNGEL VALENTÍN PÉREZ Y OTROS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SS2019CV00173-601. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). AVISO DE SUBASTA.

A: JOSÉ ÀNGEL VALENTÍN PÉREZ T/C/C JOSÉ PÉREZ VALENTÍN, SU ESPOSA ANA MIRIAM GUZMÀN GONZÀLEZ YVLA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

El Alguacil que suscribe anuncia y hace constar que, en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia (In Rem) que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la parte demandada sobre el inmueble que a continuación se describe: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno marcado con el número veintidós (22) del plano de subdivisión de la finca Cerro Gordo, sita en el Barrio Cerro Gordo del término municipal de Moca, Puerto Rico; compuesta de DOCE CUERDAS CON CUATRO MIL QUINIENTOS CINCUENTA Y UNO DIEZMILÉSIMAD DE OTRA (12.4551 cdas.), equivalentes a CURENTA Y OCHO MIL NOVECIENTOS CINCUENTA Y TRES METROS CUADRADOS CON CINCO MIL TRESCIENTOS NOVENTA DIEZMILÉSIMAS DE OTRA (48,953.5390 M/C). En lindes por el NORTE, con un camino que la separa de la finca Número Dieciséis (16) y Veintitrés (23) y parcela “A”

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

segregada; por el SUR, con la parcela Número Veinte (20); por el ESTE, con parcela Número Dieciocho (18); y por el OESTE, con el solar Número Uno (1) segregado de la finca principal, en un punto con Ángel Nieves, en otro punto con el solar de uso público y solar Número Veintiuno (21). Esta es una finca Agrícola VI, Ley de Tierra. Dicho predio de terrero antes descrito es un remanente. Finca número once mil cincuenta y nueve (11,059), inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad Sección de San Sebastián, al folio doscientos quince (215) del tomo trescientos tres (303) de Moca.

CARGAS Y GRAVAMEN: HIPOTECA constituida por los titulares registrales en garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de Cabo Rojo, por la suma de $130,500.00 con intereses al 5.75% anual y vencimiento el 1ro de septiembre de 2038. Sujeta a Cláusula de Aceleración.

Constituida por la Escritura #101, otorgada en Cabo Rojo, el 20 de agosto de 2008, ante el Notario Luis R. Rivera Mendoza, e inscrita al folio 215 del tomo 303 de Moca, finca 11,059 e inscripción sexta. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 5 DE MARZO DE 2021; A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribunal de San Sebastián, la cantidad mínima a aceptarse en la primera subasta será de $130,500.00. Dicha venta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el balance que refleja el préstamo hipotecario por la suma la suma de: $128,263.85. Si en la primera subasta no se produjese la venta del inmueble antes descritos, la SEGUNDA SUBASTA se efectuará el día 12 DE MARZO DE 2021; A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribunal de San Sebastián y la cantidad mínima aceptada será de $87,000.00.

Si en esta segunda subasta no se produjese adjudicación, entonces la TERCERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 19 DE MARZO DE 2021; A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribunal de San Sebastián y el tipo mínimo de subasta a aceptarse será de $65,250.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento y se le adjudicará al demandante la finca objeto de este procedimiento, dentro de los diez (10) días subsiguientes a dicha tercera subasta por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Para mejor información las personas interesadas pueden examinar los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado en la Secreta-

ría de este Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Este edicto de subasta se publicará una vez por semana por espacio de dos semanas en un diario de circulación general en Puerto Rico y en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistente.

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

Se expresará que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. El abogado de la parte demandante, Lcdo.

Rafael Fabre Colón, PO Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, teléfono 787-265-0334 / 787-265-0335. DADA en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, hoy 9 de febrero de 2021. LUIS A. NIEVES RIVERA, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL #659.

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

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE CABO ROJO Parte Demandante Vs

JEANNETTE ZAIDA CORTÉS LÓPEZ, SU ESPOSO HÉCTOR MANUEL ACEVEDO CARTAGENA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, AMINTA MARINA MARTÍNEZ Y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AU2019CV00023.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). AVISO DE SUBASTA.

A: JEANNETTE ZAIDA CORTÉS LÓPEZ, SU ESPOSO HÉCTOR MANUEL ACEVEDO CARTAGENA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, AMINTA MARINA MARTÍNEZ Y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

El Alguacil que suscribe anuncia y hace constar que, en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia (In Rem) que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, de contado y en moneda del curso legal de

los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la parte demandada sobre el inmueble que a continuación se describe: RÚSTICA: Solar dos (2) en barrio Guayabo de Aguada, con cabida superficial de cuatrocientos ochenta y seis punto cinco mil ochocientos cincuenta y tres (486.5853) metros cuadrados; en lindes al Norte, Aminta Ramírez; al Sur Aminta Ramírez; al Este, Aminta Ramírez y al Oeste, remanente de la finca propiedad de Héctor M. Acevedo Vargas y área dedicada a uso público. Finca diecisiete mil quinientos seis (17,506) inscrita al folio diez (10) del tomo trescientos trece (313) de Aguadilla, última inscripción, según libro tercero. Es segregación de la finca seis mil sesenta y dos (6,062), inscrita al folio nueve (9) del tomo trescientos trece (313) de Aguada. Sobre la referida finca existen constituidos los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la constitución de la hipoteca cuya ejecución de solicita: CARGAS Y GRAVÁMENES. HIPOTECA Constituida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Aminta-Marina Martínez, por la suma de $1,032.92 con intereses al 8% anual y vencimiento en 2 años. Constituida por la Escritura #18, otorgada en Mayagüez, el 27 de abril de 1977, ante el notario Enrique Alcarez Micheli, e inscrita al folio 135 del tomo 120 de Aguada, finca 6062 e inscripción 1. HIPOTECA constituida por los titulares registrales en garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Sabaneña, o a su orden, por la suma de $72,000.00 con intereses al 8.95% anual y vencimiento el 1 de noviembre de 2037. Constituida por la Escritura #119, otorgada en Sabana Grande, el 13 de septiembre de 2007, ante el Notario Miguel A. Sanabria, e inscrito a l folio 10 vuelto del tomo 313 de Aguada, finca 17,506 e inscripción 3. EMBARGOS: EMBARGO FEDERAL en contra de Jeannette Cortés López, seguro social xxx-xx-6824, por la suma de $11,077.68, anotado bajo número de notificación 635015110. Presentado el 24 de marzo de 2010 e inscrito al folio 143, número de orden 5 del Libro #5 de Embargos Federales de Aguadilla. EMBARGO FEDERAL en contra de Jeannette Cortés López, seguro social xxx-xx-6864, por la suma de $10,716.61. Número de Serie 375351819. Anotado el 26 de agosto de 2019 al Asiento 2019-008279-FED al sistema Karibe. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 10 DE MARZO DE 2021; A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en las oficinas del Alguacil Gene-

ral del Tribunal de Aguadilla, la cantidad mínima a aceptarse en la primera subasta será de $72,000.00. Dicha venta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el balance que refleja el préstamo hipotecario por la suma la suma de: $55,663.15. Si en la primera subasta no se produjese la venta del inmueble antes descritos, la SEGUNDA SUBASTA se efectuará el día 17 DE MARZO DE 2021; A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en las oficinas del Alguacil General del Tribunal de Aguadilla y la cantidad mínima aceptada será de $48,000.00.

Si en esta segunda subasta no se produjese adjudicación, entonces la TERCERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 25 DE MARZO DE 2021; A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en las oficinas del Alguacil General del Tribunal de Aguadilla y el tipo mínimo de subasta a aceptarse será de $36,000.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento y se le adjudicará al demandante la finca objeto de este procedimiento, dentro de los diez (10) días subsiguientes a dicha tercera subasta por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Para mejor información las personas interesadas pueden examinar los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Este edicto de subasta se publicará una vez por semana por espacio de dos semanas en un diario de circulación general en Puerto Rico y en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistente.

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

Se expresará que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. El abogado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Rafael Fabre Colón, PO Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, teléfono 787-265-0334 / 787265-0335. DADA en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy 9 de febrero de 2021. JOSÉ L. CRUZ AYALA, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE AGUADILLA.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

ENEIDA MOLINA CAMACHO, SU ESPOSO, ÁNGEL MANUEL CASTRO BARRIOS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV04572.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

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

El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 20 de noviembre de 2019, notificada el 26 de noviembre de 2019 y publicada el 2 de diciembre de 2019 y de un Mandamiento de Ejecución emitido el día 28 de febrero de 2020, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, 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 16 DE MARZO DEL AÑO 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina localizada en el edificio que ocupa la Sala del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el #14 del bloque EW del plano de inscripción de la Segunda Extensión de la Urbanización Country Club, situado en el barrio Sabana Llana de Río Piedras, con una cabida superficial de 300.15 metros cuadrados, colinda por el NORTE, en 23.00 metros con una franja de terreno de 3.00 metros de ancho propiedad de Puerto Rico Homes, Inc.; por el SUR, en 23.00 metros con el solar 15; por el ESTE, en 13.5 metros con la calle #55 y por el OESTE, en 13.5 metros con el solar 39. Finca número 7040 e inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 159 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección V de San Juan. Dirección física: 1136 (EW-14) Alejo Cruzado St., Country Club Dev. Sabana Llana Ward, San Juan PR 00924. El siguiente pagaré consta inscrito en la propiedad antes mencionada y es el que se pretende ejecutar: HIPOTE-

CA: Por $120,280.00, con intereses al 5% anual, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Popular Mortgage, Inc., que vence el 1ro de abril de 2039. Según escritura #163, otorgada en San Juan, el 28 de marzo de 2009, ante Héctor M. Lugaro Figueroa, inscrita en virtud de la ley 216 del 2010 para agilizar el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, al folio 5 del tomo 159 de Sabana Llana, inscripción 6ta., con fecha de 21 de marzo de 2013. CANCELACION PARCIAL Y MODIFICACION DE HIPOTECA: Cancelada parcialmente la hipoteca por $120,280.00, en la suma de $3,080.00, para un nuevo principal de $117,200.00. Se modifica como sigue: El interés será al 3.75% anual; el nuevo pago mensual será de $542.77, comenzando el 1ro de febrero de 2013 y vencerá el 1ro de enero de 2043. Según escritura #7, otorgada en San Juan, el 18 de enero de 2013, ante Rosanna Rivera Sánchez, inscrita al folio 123 del tomo 1111 de Sabana Llana (ágora), inscripción 8va.

CANCELACION PARCIAL Y MODIFICACION DE HIPOTECA: Cancelada nuevamente la hipoteca de la $120,280.00, para que su nuevo principal sea por la suma de $116,710.72. Se modifica el interés y pago mensual de la siguiente forma: Comenzando el 1ro de octubre de 2015, el deudor pagará mensualmente, durante los próximos 360 meses, pagos de principal e intereses, en la suma de $540.51, calculados a razón de una tasa de interés anual igual al 3.75%. El último pago de principal e intereses será el 1ro de septiembre de 2045. Las partes acuerdan que, de saldarse la totalidad de la deuda hipotecaria antes de su vencimiento, el balance de cancelación reflejará la porción total de los intereses adelantados prorrateados a la fecha de cancelación. Las partes acuerdan que de saldarse la totalidad de la deuda hipotecaria antes de su vencimiento, el balance de cancelación reflejará la porción total de los intereses adelantos prorrateados a la fecha de cancelación. El deudor entiende y acepta que los pagos mensuales de principal e intereses no incluyen los pagos necesarios para contribuciones y seguros, los cuales podrán cambiar periódicamente durante el término de la hipoteca. En caso de ejecución de hipoteca, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será por $116,710.72. Según escritura #104, otorgada en San Juan, el 29 de septiembre de 2015, ante Carla Colón Gómez, inscrita al tomo Karibe de la Sección V de San Juan, finca #7040 de Sabana Llana, inscripción 10ma., con fecha de 25

The San Juan Daily Star de julio de 2019. 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: HIPOTECA: Por $3,868.00, sin intereses, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de “Secretary of Housing and Urban Development of USA, que vencerá el 1ro de abril de 2039. Según escritura #471, otorgada en San Juan, el 20 de junio de 2011, ante Néstor Machado Cortés, inscrita al folio 123 del tomo 1111 de Sabana Llana (ágora), inscripción 7ma.

POSTERGACION O SUBORDINACION DE HIPOTECA: Hipoteca que se posterga, la hipoteca por $3,868.00, según inscripción 7ma.; hipoteca que se favorece, la hipoteca por $120,280.00, a favor de Popular Mortgage, según inscripción 6ta.; cancelada parcialmente por $117,200.00, a favor del Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, según inscripción 8va. y nuevamente modificada a favor por $116,710.72 a favor del Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, según inscripción 10ma. Según escritura #291, otorgada en San Juan, el 11 de agosto de 2016, ante Carla Colón Gómez, inscrita al tomo Karibe de la Sección V de San Juan, finca #7040 de Sabana Llana, en nota marginal a la inscripción 7ma, con fecha de 25 de julio de 2019. HIPOTECA: Por $4,032.91, sin intereses, en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario del Departamento y Vivienda de los Estados Unidos de América, que vence el 1ro de septiembre de 2045. Según escritura #105, otorgada en San Juan, el 29 de septiembre de 2015, ante Carla Colón Gómez inscrita al folio tomo Karibe de la Sección V de San Juan, finca #7040 de Sabana Llana, inscripción 11ra. y última, con fecha de 25 de julio de 2019.

SUBORDINACION DE HIPOTECA: Subordinada la hipoteca a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano que resulta de la inscripción 7ma., en favor de la hipoteca que resulta de la inscripción 6ta. y su correspondiente modificación por $117,200.00 que surge de la inscripción 8va. Según escritura #147, otorgada en San Juan, el 8 de abril de 2013, ante José Antonio Rivera Ayala, inscrita al folio 123vto del tomo 1111 de Sabana Llana, inscripción 9na. 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: $115,108.70 por concepto de principal, más intereses al 3.75% anual hasta su total y completo pago, contribu-

ciones, recargos y primas de seguro adeudados y la suma de $12,028.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. 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 San Juan, 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 DIECISEIS MIL SETECIENTOS DIEZ DOLARES CON SETENTA Y DOS CENTAVOS ($116,710.72) 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 24 DE MARZO DEL AÑO 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha segunda subasta, una suma equivalente a las dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de SETENTA Y SIETE MIL OCHOCIENTOS SIETE DOLARES CON QUINCE CENTAVOS ($77,807.15) 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 31 DE MARZO DEL AÑO 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha tercera subasta, una suma equivalente a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de CINCUENTA Y OCHO MIL TRESCIENTOS CINCUENTA Y CINCO DOLARES CON TREINTA Y SEIS CENTAVOS ($58,355.36) para la finca antes descrita. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 10 de febrero de 2021, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. PE-

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 DRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, AL- relacionado, será el dispuesto GUACIL. en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $122,800.00.

LEGAL NOTICE Si no hubiere remate ni adjuESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO dicación en la primera subasta DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- del inmueble mencionado, se NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA celebrará una segunda subasta CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYA- en las oficinas del Alguacil que MON SALA SUPERIOR. suscribe el día 17 DE MARZO BANCO POPULAR DE DE 2021, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda suPUERTO RICO basta que se celebre servirá DEMANDANTE VS. de tipo mínimo las dos terceras ROBERTO RAMOS partes (2/3) del precio pactado CRUZ, YANIRA en la primera subasta, o sea la PÉREZ TORRES Y LA suma de $81,866.66. Si tampoSOCIEDAD LEGAL DE co hubiere remate ni adjudicaBIENES GANANCIALES ción en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta COMPUESTA POR en las oficinas del Alguacil que AMBOS suscribe el día 25 DE MARZO DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: DCD2016-1052 DE 2021, A LAS 10:45 DE LA (501). SOBRE: COBRO DE MAÑANA. Para la tercera suDINERO Y EJECUCION DE basta servirá de tipo mínimo la HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). mitad (1/2) del precio pactado EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Al- para el caso de ejecución, o guacil que suscribe por la pre- sea, la suma de $61,400.00. sente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el hace CONSTAR: Que en cum- caso de epígrafe fue constiplimiento de un Mandamiento tuida mediante la escritura de de Ejecución de Sentencia que hipoteca número 500 otorgale ha sido dirigido al Alguacil da en San Juan, Puerto Rico, que suscribe por la Secretaría el día 13 de agosto de 2003, del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA ante el Notario Elaine VillanueINSTANCIA CENTRO JUDI- va Martínez, y consta inscrita CIAL DE BAYAMON, SALA al folio 220 del tomo 221 de SUPERIOR, en el caso de epí- Naranjito, finca número 8,883, grafe procederá a vender en inscripción Novena (9na). Mopública subasta al mejor postor difica en cuanto a su principal en efectivo, cheque certificado que será de $139,511.00; en en moneda legal de los Esta- cuanto a su interés que será dos Unidos de América el 10 de 4.00% anual, y en cuanto a DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS su vencimiento que será el día 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en su primero (1ro) de junio de 2043, oficina sita en el local que ocu- según consta de la escritura de pa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL modificación de hipoteca núDE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE mero 174, otorgada el día 29 BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR, de mayo de 2013, en San Juan, QUINTO PISO SALA 503, Puerto Rico ante la notario Leitodo derecho, título e interés lany Carrión del Toro, inscrita que tenga la parte demanda- al folio 220 del tomo 221 de da de epígrafe en el inmueble Naranjito, finca número 8,883, de su propiedad que ubica en: al margen de la inscripción NoVILLAS DEL PLATA, CARR. vena (9na). Dicha subasta se 167 KM 8.3, NARANJITO, PR llevará a cabo para con su pro00719 y que se describe a con- ducto satisfacer al Demandante tinuación: RUSTICA: Parcela total o parcialmente según sea de terreno de forma irregular, el caso el importe de la Senubicada en el Barrio Nuevo de tencia que ha obtenido contra Naranjito, con un área superfi- la parte co-demandada Robercial de 1,794.4115 metros cua- to Ramos Cruz, Yanira Pérez drados, equivalentes a 0.4566 Torres y La Sociedad Legal cuerda, en lindes por el NOR- de Bienes Gananciales ComTE, en una distancia de 43.482 puesta Por Ambos ascendente metros, con solares número a la suma de $130,695.44 por 9-C y 9-B, a segregarse; por el concepto de principal, desde el SUR, ESTE, y OESTE, en 18 1ro de diciembre de 2016, más alineaciones que forman una intereses al tipo pactado de curva de totalizan una distancia 4.00% anual. Dichos intereses de 124.905 metros, con el ca- continúan acumulándose hasta mino que le sirve de acceso a el pago total de la obligación. uso público. Enclava estructura Además, la parte co-demandaterrera construida, en concreto da Roberto Ramos Cruz, Yanireforzado y bloques de concre- ra Pérez Torres y La Sociedad to diseñada para una familia. Legal de Bienes Gananciales La propiedad antes relacionada Compuesta Por Ambos adeuconsta inscrita al Folio 165 del dan a la parte demandante Tomo 126 de Naranjito, finca los cargos por demora equivanúmero 8,883, Registro de la lentes a 4.00% de la suma de Propiedad de Barranquitas. aquellos pagos con atrasos en El tipo mínimo para la primera exceso de 15 días calendarios subasta del inmueble antes 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 $12,280.00.

Además, la parte co-demandada Roberto Ramos Cruz, Yanira Pérez Torres y La Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales Compuesta Por Ambos se comprometieron a pagar una suma equivalente a $12,280.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $12,280.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE 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 las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacionan a continuación.

Aviso de Demanda de fecha 29 de agosto de 2012, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, en el caso civil número DCD20122385, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Doral Bank, contra Roberto Ramos Cruz y Yanira Pérez Torres, por la suma de $112,892.45, anotado el día 9 de mayo de 2013, al folio 220 del tomo 221 de Naranjito, finca número 8,883, anotación A. 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

27

para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial.

Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 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.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

MIREILLE RODRÍGUEZ CINTRÓN, ORLANDO PÉREZ RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: BY2018CV04584.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM” (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE 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 10 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBU-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL 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: 151 (2N) CALLE FINCHE (13) URB. LOS MONTES, DORADO, PR 00646 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar dos guion N (2-N) de la Urbanización Los Montes, radicada en el Barrio Espinosa del término municipal de Dorado, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos setenta punto treinta y un metros cuadrados (370.31 mc), equivalentes a cero punto cero novecientos cuarenta y dos cuerdas (0.0942 cds). En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de veinticinco punto cero cero metros (25.00 m), con el solar N guión tres (N3); por el SUR, en una distancia de veinticinco punto cero cero metros (25.00 m) con el solar N guión uno (N-1); por el ESTE, en una distancia de catorce punto ochenta y un metros (14.81 m) con la calle número trece (13); y por el OESTE, en una distancia de catorce punto ochenta y un metros (14.81 m) con el solar número M guión quince (M-15). La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 201 del Tomo 235 de Dorado, finca número 10,794, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Cuarta (4ta).

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $169,047.00.

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 17 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $112,698.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 25 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $84,523.50.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 236 otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de junio de 2013, ante el Notario David E. Vera Umpierre, y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Dorado, finca número 10,794, inscripción Decimoprimera (11ra). Dicha subasta se

llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido contra la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $160,565.36 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de mayo de 2016, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $16,904.70. Además, la parte demandada adeuda una suma equivalente a $16,904.70 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $16,904.70 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 está sujeta a los siguientes gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Condiciones de venta por un término de 10 años bajo el Programa del Bono de Vivienda para gastos de cierre según consta de la escritura número 45, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de abril de 2010, ante al notario Rene Labarca Iturrondo, finca número 10,794, inscripción novena (9na). Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacionan a continuación.

Aviso de Demanda del día 23 de julio de 2018, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, en el Caso Civil número BY2018CV01457, seguido por el Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, versus Mireille Rodríguez Cintrón, Orlando Pé-

28 rez Rivera y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, se solicita el pago de la deuda o la Venta en Pública Subasta, por la suma de $160,565.36, Anotado el día 25 de septiembre de 2018, al tomo Karibe, finca número 10,794, Anotación A. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante.. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de febrero de 2021. JOSE F. MARRERO ROBLEZ #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 AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR.

AGUSTIN CARRERO RAMOS Peticionario

EX PARTE

CIVIL NÚM: AU2020CV00366.

SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL

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

A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE. POR LA PRESENTE Se les notifica para que comparezcan , si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal, dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto, a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria, para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicialm: , salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia , previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición , o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. “Rústica: Solar identificado como número uno (1) en el plano titulado “Plano para expediente de dominio para la propiedad del Sr. Agustín Carrero Ramos”, sita en la carretera PR-429 km. 1.3 del Barrio Calvache del término municipal de Rincón, Puerto Rico, con cabida superficial de CUATRO MIL TRESCIENTOS SESENTA Y TRES PUNTO CIENTO VEINTISEIS METROS CUADRADOS (4,363 .126 M.C.), equivalente a UNO PUNTO CIENTO DIEZ CUERDAS (1.110 cdas.); en lindes al NORTE, con Sr. Francisco Rodríguez Jiménez; SUR y ESTE, con camino municipal asfaltado; y al OESTE, con la Sra. Wanda l. Colón Pagán y las hermanas Iris Rodríguez Carrero, Lydia Rodríguez Carrero y Josefa Rodríguez Carrero.”

---Catastro: 153-000-002-04-

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

002. EI abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Ledo. Juan J. Nolla Ama.do, 3051 Ave. Juan Hernández Ortiz, Suite 202, Isabela , P.R.00662 ; teléfono: 787-872-3901. Se informa, además , que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 9 de julio de 2021, a las 3:30 pm., en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Aguadilla, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición.

Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan, si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer, los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 4 de febrero de 2021. Sarahi Reyes Pérez, Secretaria Regional. Artene Guzrnan Pabón, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal l, ****

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 17 de febrero de 2021. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 17 de febrero de 2021. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DENISE M. AMARO MACHUCA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

ANA IRIS CABALLERO TOSADO TCC ANA I. CABALLERO TOSADO TCC ANA I. CABALLERO

LEGAL NOTICE

ANTONIO ROQUE RODRÍGUEZ Vs

LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA

ACM CDGY VI LN LLC Demandante V.

Demandado(a) Civil: VB2020CV00441. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA IN REM. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

UNITED MORTGAGE A: ANA IRIS CABALLERO CORPORATION; DORAL TOSADO, TCC ANA I. MORTGAGE LLC COMO CABALLERO TOSADO, SUCESOR EN DERECHO TCC ANA I. CABALLERO. DE DORAL MORTGAGE (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) CORPORATION; JOHN SECRETARIO(A) que susDOE Y RICHARD ROE EL cribe le notifica a usted que el COMO DEMANDADOS 16 de febrero de 2021, este DESCONOCIDOS CON Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, POSIBLES INTERÉS Sentencia Parcial o Resolución

Civil Núm.: SJ2020CV06261.

(908). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉS EXTRAVIADOS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO POR SUMAC.

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 A: UNITED MORTGAGE sola vez en un periódico de CORPORATION; JOHN circulación general en la Isla DOE Y RICHARD ROE de Puerto Rico, dentro de los días siguientes a su notificaCOMO DEMANDADOS 10 ción. Y, siendo o representando DESCONOCIDOS CON usted una parte en el procediPOSIBLES INTERÉS. miento sujeta a los términos EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- de la Sentencia, Sentencia cribe le notifica a usted que el Parcial o Resolución, de la cual 17 de febrero de 2021, este 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 17 de febrero de 2021. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 17 de febrero de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

ZULMARI MUSSENDEN ROSADO

Demandado CIVIL NÚM: SJ2019CV06566 (506). 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 diciembre de 2019 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 Zulmari Mussenden Rosado, Dirección Física: Cond. Concordia Gardens II, G4, San Juan, PR 00936.

Finca 17,931, inscrita al folio 180 del tomo 432 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Quinta de San Juan. URBAN: HORIZONAL PROPERTY: Residential apartment number G- four (G-4) of irregular shape located in Concordia Gardens II Condominium which in turn is located in the Southeast corner of the intersection of sixthy fifth Infantery Highway with State Road

one hundred eighty one in the Ward of Sabana Llana, San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a total private área of one thousand one hundred on five square feet (1,105.00) equivalent one hundred two meters and sixty five centimeters (102.65) including separate storage, being its lineal measurements twenty eight feet six inches in its widest dimensión by forty six feet and eleven inches in its longest dimensions which includes: foyer, living-dining room, balcony, three bedrooms, with closets, kitchen, linen closet, and two bathrooms, bounding by the NORTH, with exterior yard; by the SOUTH, with apartment F-four; by the EAST, with apartment H-four; and by the WEST, with exterior yard. This apartment has one entrance door with access from and exit to the principal corridor of the fourth floor of the building which connects or communicates the apartment with the elevator and the stairs, through which it has access from and exit to the public throughfore. THis apartment has a separate storage area located in the lobby area. Le corresponde en los elementos comunes generales el 0.004876%. Finca 17931.

Por su procedencia está afecta a: a. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico. b. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico. c. Servidumbre a favor del Municipio de San Juan. d. Servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company. Por sí está afecta a: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Preferred Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $119,632.00, con intereses al 4.50% anual, vencedero el día 1 de noviembre de 2040, constituida mediante la escritura número 1205, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 18 de octubre de 2010, ante la notario Lesbia Hernández Miranda, e inscrita al folio 168 del tomo 1018 de Sabana Llana, finca número 17,931, inscripción 8va. Propiedad Cualificada bajo la Ley número 132 del día 2 de septiembre de 2010. b. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Preferred Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $10,000.00, con intereses al 5 ½ % anual, vencedero el día 1 de noviembre de 2040, constituida mediante la escritura número 1206, otorgada en Sabana Llana, Puerto Rico, el día 18 de octubre de 2010, ante la notario Lesbia Hernández Miranda, e inscrita al folio 169 del tomo 1,018 de Sabana Llana, finca número 17,931, inscripción 9na y última. Propiedad

Cualificada bajo la Ley número 132 del día 2 de septiembre de 2010. c. AL ASIENTO 2019078054-SJ05 DEL SISTEMA KARIBE, se presentó el día 24 de julio del 2015, Demanda de fecha 21 de junio del 2019, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número SJ2019CV06566, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, versus Zulmari Mussenden Rosado, sobre Ejecución de Hipoteca, reclamando el pago de la hipoteca por la suma de $119,636.00, con un balance de $103,243.25. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 17,931 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: Primera Subasta: 24 de MARZO de 2021, a las 9:00 de la mañana, Precio Mínimo: $119,632.00, Hipoteca: Escritura Número 1205, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 18 de octubre de 2010, ante la Notario Lesbia Hernández Miranda. Segunda Subasta: 31 de MARZO de 2021, a las 9:00 de la mañana, Precio Mínimo: $79,754.67. Tercera Subasta: 8 de ABRIL de 2021, a las 9:00 de la mañana, Precio Mínimo: $59,816.00. 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 27 de septiembre de 2019 y archivada en los autos el 30 de septiembre de 2019, 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: Al 1 de abril de 2018, las siguientes cantidades: la suma principal de $103,243.25, la suma de $10,475.60, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. 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 17 de febrero de 2021. EDWIN E. LOPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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

HANS HEINRICH ADOLFF; MIRIAM CARBONELL GONZALEZ Y NATASCHA ELIZABETH ADOLFF CARBONELL DEMANDANTES VS

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y/O FULANO DE TAL

DEMANDADOS Civil Núm.: CA2020CV02798, Sala. SOBRE: PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: FULANO DE TAL

Quedan ustedes notificados que la demandante de epígrafe ha radicado en este Tribunal una Demanda contra ustedes como co-demandados, en la que se solicita la cancelación vía judicial de Pagaré Hipotecario extraviado a favor de Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, por la suma de $94,400.00, con intereses al 8 ¼ % anual, y vencedero 1 de marzo de 2027, suscrito el día 11 de febrero de 1997, garantizado por hipoteca constituida en virtud de la Es-

The San Juan Daily Star critura Número 24, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Lizzette M. Ortíz Bonilla, el cual fue saldado con anterioridad a su fecha de vencimiento. El mencionado pagaré hipotecario grava una propiedad inmueble, que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Catorce (14) del Bloque “F” en el plano de inscripción de la URBANIZACION LOMAS DE CAROLINA, radicada en el Barrio Trujillo Bajo del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de: Quinientos Once Punto Novecientos Treinta y Dos Metros Cuadrados (511.932), en lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de veintinueve punto doscientos treintisiete metros (29.237 m.), con los solares doce (12) y trece (13) del bloque F; por el SUR, en una distancia de dieciocho punto ciento cincuentinueve metros (18.159 m.), con la Calle Número Cuarenta y Ocho (48); por el ESTE, en una distancia de veinticuatro punto trescientos treintisiete metros (24.337 m.), con la Calle Número Cuarenta y Ocho (48); y por el OESTE, en una distancia de veinticinco metros (25 m.), con el solar número Quince (15) del bloque F. Contiene una casa de concreto armado para residencia familiar. Inscrita al folio 43, tomo 817, finca número 32,819, de Carolina, Sección Segunda de Carolina. Representa a la parte demandante: INGRID C GONZALEZ GINES RUA NÚM. 11807 Jardines de Caparra Calle 41 CC-3 Bayamón, PR 00959 Tel. 787-639-8160 igonzalez@vilellajaneirolaw.com; NATALIE FIGUEROA RODRIGUEZ RUA NÚM. 19199 PMB 325, PO Box 194000 San Juan, PR 00919-4000 Tel. 787-598-9531 despacholegalfigueroa@gmail.com Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparece en el término de treinta (30) días desde su publicación a contestar la demanda radicando el original de la Contestación ante este Tribunal, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se presene 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

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entienede procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de febrero de 2021. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodriguez, Sec Regional.

Solmarie Montero Castro, Sec Auxiliar.

Comerciales del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y la Sección 24 del Reglamento promulgado bajo la ley citada anteriormente, el siguiente nombre comercial ha sido presentado en el Departamento de Estado de Puerto Rico para su archivo y registro

LEGAL NOTICE

Número de Expediente: 231499-99-1. Propietario: TSILIV GUAYNABO, LLC. Dirección: SAN PATRICIO PARKSIDE BUILDING PARKSIDE 2 STREET, GUAYNABO, PR 00968. Actividad Empresarial: Gimnasio. Renuncia a elementos no registrables: NOTIFICACIÓN: Cualquier oposición a este registro deberá presentarse en el Departamento de Estado de Puerto Rico dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este aviso.

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

CARMEN MELISSA FELICIER-VAZQUEZ t/c/c CARMEN MELISSA FELICIER PLACERES Demandante vs.

FERNANDO VAZQUEZ III MERCED

Demandado CIVIL NUM. HU2020RF00594.

SOBRE: DIVORCIO (SEPARACION). EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. DE AMERICA EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: FERNANDO VAZQUEZ III MERCED

Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte demandante una demanda de divorcio contra Fernando Vázquez III Merced por la causal de separación, en la cual se solicita que se disuelva el vínculo matrimonial entre las partes. La demandante está compareciendo por derecho propio y su dirección física y postal es: 107 bda.

Playa Húcares, Naguabo, PR 00718. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha demanda radicando el original de la misma en el Tribunal, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la Rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle.

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 12 de febrero de 2021. Dominga Gómez Fuster, Secretaria Regional. Arleen G. Cruz Pérez, Sec. Aux. del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE GOBIERNO DE PUERTO RICO. NOMBRE COMERCIAL PARA REGISTRAR. AVISO. A QUIEN PUEDA INTERESAR: De acuerdo con las disposiciones de la Ley Núm. 75 del 23 de septiembre de 1992, según enmendada, mejor conocida como la Ley de Nombres

LIV FITNESS GUAYNABO

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

AMERICAS LEADING FINANCE, LLC. Demandante V.

CARMEN H. NIEVES RIVERA, SU ESPOSO FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a) Civil: CG2020CV01218. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y EJECUCIÓN DE GRAVAMEN MOBILIARIO (REPOSESIÓN DE VEHÍCULO). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: CARMEN H. NIEVES RIVERA, SU ESPOSO FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 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 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 esta-

blecerse 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 17 de FEBRERO de 2021. En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, el 17 de FEBRERO de 2021. CARMEN ANA PEREIRA ORTIZ, SECRETARIA. YARITZA ROSARIO PLÁCERES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de febrero de 2021. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 17 de febrero de 2021.

LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MAIRENI TREINTA MALDONADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Demandante V. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUWANDA ESPERANZA NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TORRES ADORNO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSDemandado(a) TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE Civil: BY2019CV03506. Sobre: GUAYNABO COBRO DE DINERO Y EJEAMERICAS LEADING CUCION DE GARANTIAS. NOFINANCE LLC TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA Demandante V. POR EDICTO.

JOSEFINA RIVERA RAMOS, CANDIDO LOPEZ SANTIAGO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a) Civil: GB2020CV00381. Sala: 201. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA, EJECUCIÓN DE GRAVAMEN MOBILIARIO (REPOSESIÓN DE VEHÍCULO). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOSEFINA RIVERA RAMOS, CANDIDO LOPEZ SANTIAGO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 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 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 publi-

A: WANDA ESPERANZA TORRES ADORNO COM. VEGA BAJA LAKES, 1-4 CALLE 8, VEGA BAJA PR 00693

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 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 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 17 de febrero de 2021 En VEGA BAJA Puerto Rico, el 17 de febrero de 2021. LCDA LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria.

MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

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

ORIENTAL BANK

29

Demandate V.

DAYNA FUENTES CHEVERE

Demandado(a) Civil: VA2019CV00234. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: DAYNA FUENTES CHEVERE.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de 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 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 18 de febrero de 2021. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 18 de febrero de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

DER.

To: The Estate of Raul Santana Martinez a/k/a Raul Rufino Santana Martinez a/k/a Raul R. Santana Martinez composed of Estela Anzardo Casanova a/k/a Estela de la Trinidad Anzardo Casanova a/k/a Estela D. Anzardo Casanova, Jane Doe and John Doe

Pursuant to the Motion Requesting Order to Compel the Estate

by Publication, the Second Motion Requesting Order to Compel the Estate by Publication and the additional supporting documents Docket Nos. 34 and 35) issued to the Estate of Raul Santana Martinez a/k/a Raul Rufino Santana Martinez a/k/a Raul R. Santana Martinez and Article 959 of the Puerto Rico Civil Code (31 LPRA 2787), it is hereby ordered that Estela Anzardo Casanova a/k/a Estela de la Trinidad Anzardo Casanova a/k/a Estela D. Anzardo Casanova, Jane Doe and John Doe are individually required to notify to this Court if he or she accepts or renounces the inheritance of the Estate of Raul Santana Martinez a/k/a Raul Rufino Santana Martinez a/k/a Raul R. Santana Martinez no later than thirty (30) days after the publication of this Order by submitting a statement of your intentions in the United District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving copy to counsel for plaintiff: Attorney: Charline M. Jiménez, GLS Legal Services, LLC at PO Box 367308, San Juan, PR 00936-7308, telephone number 787-758-6550.

This Order shall be published by edict only once in a newspaLEGAL NOTICE per of general circulation in the IN THE UNITED STATES DISIsland of Puerto Rico. Within ten TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS(10) days following publication TRICT OF PUERTO RICO. of this Order, a copy, along with Live Well Financial, Inc., the Complaint, shall be sent to Plaintiff v.

Estela Anzardo Casanova a/k/a The Estate of Raul Estela de la Trinidad Anzardo Santana Martinez a/k/a Casanova a/k/a Estela D. Anzardo Casanova, Jane Doe, by Raul Rufino Santana certified mail/return receipt reMartinez a/k/a Raul quested, addressed to their last R. Santana Martinez known address. Should Estela composed of Estela Anzardo Casanova a/k/a Estela Anzardo Casanova a/k/a de la Trinidad Anzardo CasaEstela de la Trinidad nova a/k/a Estela D. Anzardo Anzardo Casanova Casanova, Jane Doe and John a/k/a Estela D. Anzardo Doe fail to plead or answer to Casanova, Jane Doe and the Order as required by the John Doe; Estela Anzardo Court, the Court will proceed with the case, and deem the Casanova a/k/a Estela Estate of Raul Santana Martide la Trinidad Anzardo nez a/k/a Raul Rufino Santana Casanova a/k/a Estela Martinez a/k/a Raul R. Santana D. Anzardo Casanova; Martinez as accepted for all of Centro de Recaudacion the heirs who do not make their de Ingresos Municipales; statement of intention, and resUnited States of America, ponsible for all the liabilities of said Estate as established in Defendants.

Article 957 of the Puerto Rico CIVIL NO. 19-1039 (RAM). OR-

Civil Code (31 LPRA § 2785).

IT IS SO ORDERED. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 18th day of February 2020. S/ RAÚL M. ARIAS-MARXUACH, United States District Judge.

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

JULISSA ESTRELLA RIVERA Parte Demandante Vs.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, X,Y,Z COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES

Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM: SJ2020CV06327 (503). SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: X,Y,Z COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES

LA SECRETARIA que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 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 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 18 de febrero de 2021.

En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 18 de febrero de 2021. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. F/Rosimar López Robles, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal I.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

SUCESION DE CARMEN GLORIA RIVERA MATIAS COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDO WILLIAM RIVERA

30 GONZALEZ, HEREDERA CONOCIDA SONIA IRIZARRY; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PERSONAS CON INTERES EN DICHA SUCESION; JOSE REINALDO RODRIGUEZ RIVERA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DEL GOBIERNO DE PUERTO RICO

Demandado(a) Civil Núm. MZ2019CV01067.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA .

NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.)

con fecha de 17 de febrero de 2021. En Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, el 17 de febrero de 2021.

LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, Sec Regional. F/ Betsy Santiago Gonzalez, Sec Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIO DE FAJARDO,

MARJNA PDR OPERATIONS, LLC

PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.

RODY M. CRUZ RODRIGUEZ., ET AL

PARTE DEMANDADA CASO NUM.: FA2020CV00611.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERJCA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR. SS.

A: SUCESION DE CARMEN GLORIA RIVERA MATIAS COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDO WILLIAM A: RODY M. RIVER GONZALEZ, CRUZ RODRIGUEZ POR SI, SU HEREDERA Calle 23 Bloque 40 #34 CONOCIDA SONIA Urb. Santa Rosa IRIZARRY; FULANO DE Bayamón, PR 00956 TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL o sea la parte demandada COMO HEREDEROS arriba mencionada.

DESCONOCIDOS POR LA PRESENTE se emY/O PERSONAS CON plaza y requiere para que conINTERES EN DICHA teste la demanda dentro de los TREINTA (30) días siguientes a SUCESION; JOSE REINALDO RODRIGUEZ este edicto usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva RIVERA a través del Sistema Unificado VILLAS DEL OESTE de Administración y Manejo de 329 (D-110 CALLE Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede SAGITARIO) acceder utilizando la siguiente MAYAGUEZ PR 00680; dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo 180 WILDCAT DR RICHMOND KY 40475 que se represente por derecho

(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 13 de enero 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,

NUÑEZ MATIAS

Demandado(a) Civil: BY2020RF01055. Sobre: DIVORCIO, RUPTURIAR REPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: LUZ VERONICA NUÑEZ MATIAS

(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 11 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 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 12 de febrero de 2021. En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 12 de febrero de 2021.

Laura I Santa Sanchez, Secretaria. F/Wilmary Rodriguez Rivera, Sec Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA propio, en cuyo casi deberá SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN presentar su alegación responJUAN. siva en la secretaría del tribunal BANCO POPULAR DE que corresponda y en cuyo PUERTO RICO caso deberá además notificar PARTE DEMANDANTE VS. al Ledo. Ricardo R. Lazada Franco (RUA 19823) al PO Box 10081, San Juan, PR 00908 y/o a riclozfra@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 17 de enero de 2021. Wanda I. Seguí Reyes, Secretaria Regional. Zulma I Rivera Vega, Sec Auxiliar.

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

FELIX FAUTINO DE JESUS POLANCO Demandante v.

LUZ VERONICA

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

PEDRO JOSÉ ROQUE MALDONADO t/c/c PEDRO ROQUE MALDONADO

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. SJ2019CV01149.

SALA: 604. SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 30 de julio de 2019, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 30 de diciembre de 2019 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 15 de enero de 2020 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 23 de

marzo de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Superior, en la Avenida Muñoz Rivera, Esquina Coll y Toste, Parada 37, San Juan, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América cheque de gerente o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento 16-C en el Condominio Sky Towers I, situado en el municipio de Río Piedras Sur. Está situado en el nivel quince en la esquina Sur-Este del edificio, saliendo de los elevadores en dirección Sur. Es de forma irregular y puede ser enmarcado de un rectángulo que mide de 40’ 5½” profundidad, con un área total de 1,577.92 pies cuadrados equivalentes a 146.59 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el: NORTE: con espacio sobre terrenos del propio condominio y de uso común con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento número 16-D y parte del corredor de acceso; por el SUR: con espacio sobre terrenos del propio condominio y de uso común; por el ESTE: con espacio sobre terrenos del propio condominio y de uso común; por el OESTE: con corredor de acceso, pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento número 16-B y espacio sobre patio interior de hormigón que lo separa del apartamento 16-B y espacio sobre patio semi interior del propio condominio de uso común. Este apartamento está formado por un pequeño vestíbulo, sala-comedor, con balcón mirando hacia el Este, pasillo interior en forma “L”, cuatro (4) dormitorios con sus respectivos closets, dos (2) baños, “linen closet” y cocina lavandería con closet despensa y closets útiles de limpieza. Le corresponde el espacio de estacionamiento marcado con el Número 16-C. Porcentaje de los elementos comunes generales de .779%. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 91 del tomo 234 de Río Piedras Sur, Finca Número 7632, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 137 del tomo 664 de Río Piedras Sur, Finca Número 7632, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. Inscripción novena. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: COND. SKY TOWER I, APT. 16-C, SAN JUAN, PR 00926. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $132,779.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una segunda subasta, el día 30 de marzo de

2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $88,519.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 7 de abril de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $66,389.50. 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 $96,104.39 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.75% anual desde el 1 de julio de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $426.14 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $13,277.90 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: A) Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Pedro José Roque Maldonado también conocido como Pedro Roque Maldonado (soltero), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el caso civil número SJ2019-CV-01149, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $96,104.39 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 6 de febrero de 2019.

Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Río Piedras Sur. Anotación A. Nota: No surge nuevas presentaciones. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en

los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 22 de febrero de 2021. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, Alguacil, 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.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.

MIGUEL ORLANDO SÁNCHEZ JIMÉNEZ, HERODITA CLARIBEL RODRÍGUEZ SANTOS T/C/C HERODITA C. RODRÍGUEZ SANTOS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. SJ2019CV03615.

SALA: 506. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 20 de agosto de 2019 , la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 4 de noviembre de 2019 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 6 de diciembre de 2019 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 23 de marzo de 2021, a las 9:00 de la mañana en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Superior, en la Avenida Muñoz Rivera, Esquina Coll y Toste, Parada 37, San Juan,

Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América cheque de gerente o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 7 de la calle Canillas en el Plano de Inscripción del proyecto denominado ARF-19, El Plebiscito II, radicado en la zona urbana del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 177.62 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el: NORTE: con la calle Canillas, en una distancia de 3.16 metros y 6.55 metros; por el SUR: con el solar número 427, en una distancia de 10.58 metros; por el ESTE: con el solar número 5 distancia de 18.10 metros; por el OESTE: con el solar número 9, distancia de 16.83 metros. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 241 del tomo 719 de Sabana Llana, Finca 28882. Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 93 del tomo 994 de Sabana Llana, Finca 28882.

Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. Inscripción octava. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: REPARTO SAN JOSÉ 205 CALLE CANILLAS SAN JUAN PR 00923-1376. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $113,781.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una segunda subasta, el día 30 de marzo de 2021, a las 9:00 de la mañana en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $75,854.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 7 de abril de 2021, a las 9:00 de la mañana en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $56,890.50. 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 $97,234.02 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.5% anual desde el 1 de julio de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $244.96 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $11,378.10 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del

Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs.

Miguel Orlando Sánchez Jiménez y su esposa Herodita Claribel Rodríguez Santos también conocida como Herodita C. Rodríguez Santos, ante el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, en el caso civil número SJ2019CV03615, Sobro Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $97,234.02 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha de 12 de abril de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Sabana Llana. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 22 de febrero de 2021. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, Alguacil, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

NORMA ELBA RIVERA TORRES también conocida por Norma E. Rivera Torres Bo Guayabal Calle 3 Parcela 157 Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico

peticionaria, LCDA. IVONNE M. GONZALEZ SAMOT PO Box 6l3, Isabela, Puerto Rico 00662; Teléfono (787) 8724646. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para PETICIONARIA que comparezcan si quieren EX PARTE CIVIL NUM.: JD2021CV00047. alegar su derecho. Toda primeSOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE ra mención de persona natural DOMINIO, CATASTRO #392- yio jurídica que se mencione 096-298-06-000. EDICTO. ES- en el mismo, se identificará en TADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA letra tamaño 10 puntos y negriEL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E. llas, conforme a los dispuesto E. U. U. EL ESTADO LIBRE en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que ASOCIADO DE PR. SS. de no comparecer los interesaA: LAS PERSONAS dos y/o partes citadas, o en su IGNORADAS Y defecto los organismos públiDESCONOCIDAS A cos afectados en el término imQUIENES PUDIERA prorrogable de veinte (20) días PERJUDICAR LA a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el TribuINSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA nal podrá conceder el remedio PARTE PETICIONARIA solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En EN EL REGISTRO DE LA Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, a 16 PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA de febrero de 2021. Luz Mayra QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE Carabatlo García, Sec RegioDECRIBIRA Y A TODA nal. f/Doris A Rodriguez Colon, PERSONA EN GENERAL Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal.

QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE

POR LA PRESENTE: se les notifica para que comparezcan, silo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convengan en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la siguiente finca: RUSTICA: Predio radicado en el Barrio Paso Seco Sector Obdulia Carretera, PR545, Km. 0.4 (Interior) del término Municipal de Santa Isabel, con una cabida superficial de 9256.9425 metros cuadrados, equivalente a 2.3550 cuerdas.

En lindes: por el NORTE, en una distancia de ciento diecisiete punto trescientos treinta metros (117.330mts) con Javier Santiago Maldonado; por el SUR, en una distancia de ciento diecisiete punto trescientos treinta metros (117.3 30mts) con Finca Las Palmas (Samuel Gómez Merced); por el ESTE, en una distancia de setenta y ocho punto novecientos metros (78.900mts) con carretera municipal llamada Avenida Campo Fresco; y, por el OESTE, en una distancia de setenta y ocho punto novecientos dos metros (78.902mts) con Randin Cautín Rodríguez. No consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad.

Catastro: #392-096-298-06000. Debe presentar el original de su escrito al Tribunal y notificar copia del mismo a la representante legal de la parte

LEGAL NOT ICE M&T 42261 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR.

Lime Residential, Ltd. Demandante v.

Marcelo Torchio Gómez

Demandado CIVIL NÚM: CA2019CV03172.

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 Carolina, 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 29 de abril de 2021, a las 10:15 de la mañana en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en Cond.

New San Juan, 6471 Ave Isla Verde 501, Carolina, Puerto Rico 00979 y que se describe a

continuación: URBAN: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: Residential apartment 501 with an irregular shape at the fifth floor of New San Juan Condominium, located in Hato de Cangrejos Arriba Ward, municipality of Carolina, Puerto Rico, facing Highway number 187, said apartment with an area of approximately 915.22 square feet, equivalent to 85.02 square meters, and its boundaries are as follows: at the North, in 15 feet 6 inches equivalent to 4.72 meters, with bearing wall that separates it from apartment number 502, 12 feet 4 inches equivalent to 3.75 square meters, with same bearing back wall facing pool area of the condominium; at the South, in 30 feet 10 inches, equivalent to 9.40 meters, with bearing wall that separates it from apartment number 503; at the East, in 33 feet, equivalent to 10.06 meters, with bearing wall and entrance door that separates it from central corridor; apartment number 502 and ventilation shaft; at the West, in a broken line with a total length of 33 feet equivalent to 10.06 meters, with wall of building and porch railing facing Aleja Romero’s Property.

This apartment comprises foyer, living-dining, two bedrooms with closets a kitchen, hall, two bathrooms, walk-in-closet and porch. The bathrooms are equipped with bathtub, lavatory and water closet. The kitchen is equipped with kitchen cabinets, stove and refrigerator. Parking area 61: located in the lower level of parking building of the New San Juan Condominium at Cangrejos Arriba Ward of Municipality of Carolina, facing highway number 187. It has an area of approximately 148.50 square feet, equivalent to 13.79 square meters. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el folio 169 del tomo 460 de Carolina, finca número 17,683, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Primera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $190,000.00. 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 6 de mayo de 2021, a las 10:15 de la mañana. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $126,666.67.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 13 de

mayo de 2021, a las 10:15 de la mañana. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $95,000.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 234, otorgada el día 19 de mayo de 2005, ante el Notario Raúl Rivera Burgos y consta inscrita en el folio 196 del tomo 961 (ágora) de Carolina, finca número 17,683, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Primera, inscripción octava. El pagaré y la escritura de hipoteca fueron modificados el 6 de diciembre de 2018 mediante el documento titulado Loan Modification Agreement.

En virtud del mismo, se estableció como nuevo principal adeudado la cantidad de $279,378.74, se extendió la fecha de vencimiento al 1 de noviembre de 2048 y se modificó la tasa de interés de la siguiente manera: la tasa de interés anual será 2.625% desde el 1 de noviembre de 2018 hasta el 31 de octubre de 2021; la tasa de interés anual será 3.625% desde el 1 de noviembre de 2021 hasta el 31 de octubre de 2022; la tasa de interés anual será 4.625% desde el 1 de noviembre de 2022 hasta el 31 de octubre de 2023; la tasa de interés anual será 5.625% desde el 1 de noviembre de 2023 hasta el 31 de octubre de 2024; la tasa de interés anual será 6.625% desde el 1 de noviembre de 2024 hasta el 31 de octubre de 2025 y la tasa de interés anual será 7.500% desde el 1 de noviembre de 2025 hasta el saldo de la obligación. 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 $279,378.74 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 2.625% anual desde el día 1 de noviembre de 2018. 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 $19,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $19,000.00 para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $19,000.00 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 Procedi-

miento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes.

Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad 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. AVISO DE DEMANDA: Pleito seguido por Lime Residential LTD., vs.

Marcelo Torchio Gómez (soltero), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, en el caso civil número CA 2019CV03172, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $279,378.74 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 21 de agosto de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Carolina.

Anotación A. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos sema-

31

nas consecutivas. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según aplique. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de febrero de 2021. FDO. SAMUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL.

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

WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE, FOR THE CSMC 2016-PR1 TRUST, MORTGAGE BACKED NOTES, SERIES 2016-PR1 Demandante V.

ROSA RIVERA PÉREZ

Demandada Civil Núm.: ECD2017-0598.

(802). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA IN REM. CITACIÓN POR EDICTO.

A ADQUIRENTE POSTERIOR: DEYANARA ACOSTA ORTEGA.

to cero trescientos cincuenta y tres cuerdas (0.0353 cds).

En lindes por el NORTE, con solar número (11), distancia de veinticuatro punto setenta y dos (24.72) metros; por el SUR, con solar número nueve (9), distancia de veinticuatro punto setenta y dos (24.72) metros; por el ESTE, con paso público, distancia de cinco punto seiscientos treinta y nueve (5.639) metros; y por el OESTE, con calle número veintitrés guión “A” (23-A), distancia de cinco punto seiscientos treinta y nueve (5.639) metros. Enclava edificación. Inscrita al folio 101 del tomo 465 de Caguas, Finca número 14,324, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Caguas. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Garcia Chamorro Law Group, P.S.C., #1606 Ave. Ponce de León, Edif. Julio Bogoricin Ste 900, San Juan, P.R. 00909. Tel. (787) 977-1932 / Fax (787) 722-1932. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 10 de febrero de 2021. CARMEN ANA PEREIRA ORTIZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA En cumplimiento con el Articulo TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS114 de la Ley de Registro de TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE Propiedad, por la presente se CABO ROJO le cita y notifica que debe mosCONDADO 3 LLC trar causa dentro del término Demandante V. de veinte (20) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto, si tuviese alguna razon por la cual no se deba ejecutar la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 18 de julio de 2018, cual fue notificada por edicto el 1ro. de agosto de 2018 y publicada en el Periódico “The San Juan Daily Star” el 7 de agosto de 2018 y notificada por correo certificado, radicando el original de la contestación ante el Tribunal y sala que se menciona en el epígrafe de este edicto con copia a la parte aquí demandante. Se le apercibe que de no contestar la citación dentro del término aquí estipulado, se continuara con los procedimientos establecidos en ley, incluyendo la Confirmación de la Venta en Pública Subasta celebrada el 3 de diciembre de 2018 de la siguiente propiedad y cancelación de su gravamen: URBANA: Parcela de terreno en la Urbanización Villa del Rey, Sección Cuarta, localizada en el barrio Cañaboncito del Municipio de Caguas, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de dicha Urbanización con el número diez (10) del Bloque “A”, con un área de ciento treinta y nueve punto cero cuarenta metros cuadrados (139.040 mc), equivalentes a cero pun-

FELIX SOLER VEGA H/N/C JUN PORTABLE TOILETS, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: CB2020CV00092.

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

A: FELIX SOLER VEGA H/N/C JUN PORTABLE TOILETS, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de febrero 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 18 de febrero de 2021. En Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, el 18 de febrero de 2021. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARÍA M. AVILÉS BONILLA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE POPULAR MORTGAGE, INC. Demandante V.

THE MORTGAGE HOUSE, INC. Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Civil: CA2020CV02168. Sala: 402. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: THE MORTGAGE HOUSE, INC A SUS ULTIMAS DIRECCIONES CONOCIDAS: COUNTRY CLUB 915 ROBERTO SANCHEZ VILELLA, SAN JUAN PR 00924, 915 AVE. CAMPO RICO, SAN JUAN PR 00924, 954 AVE PONCE DE LEON STE 400, SAN JUAN PR 00917 Y PO BOX 363823 SAN JUAN PR 00936-3823.; SIGFREDO CABRERA BIDOT T/C/C SIGFRIDO CABRERA BIDOT, AIDA LUZ BAEZ GARCIA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS A SU ULTIMA DIRECCION CONOCIDA: COND. PORTALES DE PARQUE ESCORIAL APT 1403, CAROLINA PR 00987. FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES

32 DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE.

(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 16 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 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 17 de febrero de 2021. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 17 de febrero de 2021.

LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

CALLE 42 49-15, URB. VILLA CAROLINA, PR 00985. TELÉFONOS CONOCIDOS (787) 5106784; (787) 792-9000.

Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido notificado este emplazamiento.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la dirección electrónica https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcda.

Raquel Deseda Belaval, Delgado & Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 2741414. DADA en CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, a 05 de febrero de 2021. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MYRIAM LEGAL NOTICE M. FIGUEROA PASTRANA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUTRIBUNAL. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA LEGAL NOTICE

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

RAMIRO AMAURY HURTADO OROZCO, MARICELI SANTOS PEREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CN2021CV00014.

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

A: RAMIRO AMAURY HURTADO POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ESTE Y MARICELI SANTOS PEREZ. URB. LAS HACIENDAS, 15-109 CALLE SENDERO LARGO, CANÓVANAS PUERTO RICO 00729;

URB. LAS HACIENDAS, 15-109 CALLE SENDERO LARGO, CANÓVANAS PUERTO RICO 00729; CALLE 42 49-15, URB. VILLA CAROLINA, PR 00985. TELÉFONOS CONOCIDOS (787) 5106784; (787) 792-9000.

Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido notificado este emplazamiento.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la dirección electrónica https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcda.

Raquel Deseda Belaval, Delgado & Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 2741414. DADA en CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, a 05 de febrero de 2021. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MYRIAM M. FIGUEROA PASTRANA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUTRIBUNAL. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA LEGAL NOTICE

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

RAMIRO AMAURY HURTADO OROZCO, MARICELI SANTOS PEREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CN2021CV00014.

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

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

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

ISODORO RODOLFO ALVAREZ RUSSO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO ISIDORO R. ALVAREZ RUSSO, COMO ISIDORO ALVAREZ RUSSO, COMO ISIDORO RODOLFO ALVAREZ, COMO RODOLFO ALVAREZ RUSSO, COMO ISIDORO R. ALVAREZ, COMO RODOLFO ALVAREZ Y COMO ISIDORO ALVAREZ

A: MARIVELI SANTOS Demandante V. PÉREZ POR SÍ Y EN SISTEMA DE RETIRO REPRESENTACIÓN DE DE LA UNIVERSIDAD LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE PUERTO RICO; DE GANANCIALES JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y COMPUESTA POR ESTE JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y Y RAMIRO AMAURY CUALESQUIER PERSONA HURTADO OROZCO. DESCONOCIDA CON

POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2020CV02137.

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

A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA.

Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de un (1) pagaré hipotecario a favor de el SISTEMA DE RETIRO DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE PUERTO RICO, por la suma de $20,000.00. Dicho pagaré fue suscrito el día 18 de diciembre de 1992, ante la notario Ernesto A. Meléndez Pérez, garantizado por hipoteca constituía mediante la Escritura número 39, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicada en la Urbanización Villa Fontana, situada en el Barrio Sabana Abajo del término municipal de Carolina, marcada con el número cincuenta y nueve (59) de la Manzana dos “YR” (2YR), con un área superficial de doscientos treinta y dos punto setenta y cuatro (232.74) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número cincuenta y cuatro (54), distancia de diez punto setecientos cincuenta (10.750) metros; por el SUR, con la calle número cincuenta y nueve (59), distancia de diez punto setecientos cincuenta (10.750) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número sesenta (60) distancia de veintiuno punto sesenta y cinco (21.65) metros; por el OESTE, con el solar número cincuenta y ocho (58), distancia de veintiuno punto sesenta y cinco (21.65) metros.

Enclava casa. Consta inscrita al folio doscientos noventa y dos (292) del tomo seiscientos veintisiete (627) de Carolina, finca número treinta y dos mil seiscientos cuarenta y uno (32,641), Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera (I) de Carolina. La par-

te demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según mas detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico y se le requiere para que radique en este Tribunal su contestación y notifique con copia de ella al abogado de la parte demandante la Lcda.

Saideth Cristobal Martínez, PO Box 9022173, San Juan, PR 00902-2173; Tel. (787) 3670412, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle.

EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 27 de enero de 2021. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LOURDES DÍAZ MEDIANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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

LIME HOMES, LTD.

Parte Demandante Vs.

SIMEON CRUZ VIZCAINO Y SU ESPOSA LEILA MABEL AVILES RODRIGUEZ, Ambos por sí y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos

Parte Demandada CIVIL NUM. CA2018CV01994.

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 Carolina, 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 $64,468.19, de balance principal, los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal y computados al 6% anual hasta su total pago y completo pago; más el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad; cargos por demora devengados, más la suma de $7,250.00 como cantidad estipulada para 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 número D- Cinco (D-5) en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Jardín de Trujillo Alto, con la siguiente cabida y colindancias: Cabida: CIENTO CINCUENTA Y DOS METROS CUADRADOS CON DOSCIENTOS OCHENTA MILESIMAS DE METROS CUADRADOS (152.280 m/c). En lindes por el NORTE, con el Solar D-Veinte (D-20) de esta misma urbanización Jardín de Trujillo Alto en una distancia de seis punto cuatrocientos ochenta (6.480) metros; por el SUR; con la Calle Número Tres (3) de esta misma urbanización Jardín de Trujillo Alto en una distancia de seis punto cuatrocientos ochenta (6.480) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar D-Cuatro (D-4) de esta misma urbanización Jardín de Trujillo Alto en una distancia de veintitrés punto quinientos (23.500) metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar DSeis (D-6) de esta misma urbanización Jardín de Trujillo Alto en una distancia de veintitrés punto quinientos (23.500) metros. Enclava en este solar una estructura tipo casas de hilera dedicada a vivienda construida en hormigón armado y bloques sobre la cual existe una servidumbre por signo aparente establecida por la corporación vendedora en dos paredes que dividen dicha estructura de las estructuras en clavadas en los solares D-Cuatro (D-4) y D-Seis (D-6) por la colindancia Este y Oeste, respectivamente. Inscrita al folio ciento cuatro (144) del tomo doscientos cuarenta y tres (243) de Trujillo Alto, finca número once mil novecientos sesenta y uno (11,961), Registro de San Juan, Sección Cuarta.

Dirección Física: 5-D 3rd St., Jardines de Trujillo Alto, Trujillo Alto, PR 00976. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 6 de abril de 2021 a la 1:00 de la tarde, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $72,500.00 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 13 de abril de 2021 a la 1:00 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 $48,332.32. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 20 de abril de 2021 a la 1:00 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 $36,250.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posterio-

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

(Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm.

210-2015). Expedido el presente en Carlina, Puerto Rico a 3 de FEBRERO de 2021.

SAMUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA.

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

DLJ MORTGAGE CAPITAL, INC.

Parte Demandante Vs.

LA SUCESION DE EDUARDO CRUZ CLAUDIO COMPUESTA POR AWILDA CRUZ CANCEL, WANDA CRUZ CANCEL, NEREIDA CRUZ CANCEL, John Doe y Richard Roe como posibles miembros Desconocidos de la Sucesión de Eduardo Cruz Cancel; Administración para el sustento de menores, y Centro de Recaudación sobre Ingresos municipales; Awilda Cancel Rivera

Parte Demandada CASO CIVIL NUM. CA2019CV03405.

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 Carolina, 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

The San Juan Daily Star 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 $58,162.42, de balance principal, los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal y computados al 5% anual hasta su total pago y completo pago; más el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad; cargos por demora devengados, más la suma de $6,000.00 como cantidad estipulada para 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: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el numero quinientos uno (501) en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Campo Rico del Barrio Hato Puerco, conocido como Campo Rico del termino municipal de Canovanas, con una cabida superficial de trescientos cincuenta (350.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con la parcela numero quinientos (500) de la comunidad; por el Sur, con la parcela numero quinientos dos (502) de la comunidad; por el Este, con la calle de la comunidad; y por el Oeste, con la parcela numero cuatrocientos noventa y dos (492) dela comunidad.

Dirección Física: Urb. Alturas de Campo Rico, 501 Calle 14, Canóvanas, PR 00729. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 6 de abril de 2021 a las 11:45 de la mañana, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $60,000.00 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 13 de abril de 2021 a las 11:45 de la mañana 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 $40,000.00.

Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 20 de abril de 2021 a las 11:45 de la mañana y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $30,000.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. 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. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables.

(Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm.

210-2015). Expedido el presente en Carolina, Puerto Rico a 3 de FEBRERO de 2021.

SAMUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA MUNICIPAL DE GURABO

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

DAVID WILSON PAGAN COLON

Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: GR2019CV00544.

Sala: 203-B. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (REGLA 60).

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

A: DAVID WILSON PAGAN COLON. DIRECCIÓN: PO BOX 956 GURABO, PUERTO RICO 00778-0956.

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y se le notifica que una Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero ha sido presentada en su contra y se le requiere para que conteste la misma dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación del edicto, radicando el original de su contestación en el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando con copia de la misma a la parte demandante a la siguiente dirección: BUFETE APONTE & CORTES LCDA. ERIKA MORALES MARENGO PO Box 195337 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919 Tel. (787) 302-0014 / (787) 239-5661 / Email: emarengo16@yahoo.com Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio. Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo, el tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle.

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 06 de abril de 2020. CARMEN ANA PEREIRA ORTIZ, SECRETARIA. YAMAIRA M. RÍOS CARRASCO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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

CITIMORTGAGE, INC. Demandante v.

ENRIQUE RAMOS

OTERO, RAFAEL OTERO MARRERO, AUREA ESTHER COLON MARTINEZ, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO AUREA COLON MARTINEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados CIVIL NUM. MV2018CV00056.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

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

Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ciales , en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo , cheque gerente , giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia , en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ciales, el 6 de abril de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno localizada en el Barrio Unibón del término municipal de Morovis , Puerto Rico, con un área de O. 0785 cuerdas, equivalentes a 308.

7273 metros cuadrados . Por el NORESTE, con terrenos de Marcelina Robles Ocasio; por el SURESTE , con terrenos de Marcelina Robles Ocasio; por el NOROESTE, con terrenos de Osear Alberto Vázquez Vázquez; y por el SUROESTE , con fincas de Osear Vázquez.

Consta inscrita al folio 89 del tomo 307 de Morovis, finca número 7861, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto, Seccion de Manatí. Propiedad localizada en: SR #6617, Barrio Unibon Patron, Morovis, PR 00687 Según figuran en la certificación registra!, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular : N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento :

N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registra!, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: a. AVISO DE DEMANDA con fecha 9 de noviembre de 2018 radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo en el caso civil número MV2018CV00056 sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca; Citimortgage Inc., demandante v. Enrique Ramos Otero, Rafael Otero Marrero, su esposa Aurea Esther Colón Martínez t/c/c A urea Colón Martínez y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, demandados . Por la misma se reclama el pago del préstamo Hipotecario garantizado con la Hipoteca por $49,608 .00, de la inscripción 13ª antes relacionada, reducida a $41,856.41 al momento de radicar la demanda. Anotada el 10 de enero de 2019 al tomo Karibe, finca 7861 de Morovis, anotación A. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos , si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores , y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $49,608.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca . De ser necesaria una segunda subasta por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ciales, el 13 de abril de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $33,072.00, dos terceras (2/ 3) partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la tercera subasta, la suma de $24,804.00 , la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ciales, el 20 de abril de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante , el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $41,856.41 de principal, intereses al tipo del 7.00000% anual según ajustado desde el día 1 de diciembre de 2015 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $4,960.80

33

por concepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipotecario , cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta . Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones , así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Ciales, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de febrero de 2021. Jorge L. Ayala Acevedo, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRI UNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CIALES.

Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria 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.

Greenspoon Marder, LLP Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622 TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 Telephone: (954) 343 6273 Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy 4 de febrero de 2021. Lcda. Laura I Santa Sanchez, Sec Regional II. Sara Rosa Villegas, Sec Tribunal Conf I.

LEGAL NOTICE

PARTE DEMANDANTE Vs.

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

ORIENTAL BANK SONIA ILEANA

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO GARCÍA VÁZQUEZ DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUPARTE DEMANDADA NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2021CV00267 SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAY(604). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINABO. NERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIREVERSE MORTGAGE POTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO FUNDING, LLC. POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDemandante vs.

DOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIIVETTE LANDRON DENTE DE LOS EE. UU. CASTRO T/C/C IVETTE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO LANDRÓN T /C/C IVETTE DE P.R. SS.

LANDRÓN CASTRO T/C/C IVETTE LANDRON CAST; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados CIVIL NUM. GB2020CV00699.

SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: IVETTE LANDRON CASTRO T/C/C IVETTE LANDRÓN T/C/C IVETTE LANDRÓN CASTRO T/C/C IVETTE LANDRON CAST

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al

A: SONIA ILEANA GARCÍA V ÁZQUEZ

Queda emplazado y notificado de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca en su contra. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lic.

Baldomero A. Collazo Torres, Bufete Collazo, Connelly & Surillo, LLC, P.O. Box 70212, San Juan, P.R. 00936-8212, Tel. (787) 625-9999, Fax (787) 7057387, E-mail: bcollazo@lawpr. com. Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citárseles, ni oírseles. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, a 12 de febrero de 2021. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Secretaria Regional. BRENDA BAEZ ACABA, Sec Servicios a Sala.

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

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante vs.

EFRAIN LOPEZ SANCHEZ; TRILLION CONSULTING, P.S.C.

Demandados CIVIL NÚM. SJ2020CV06538.

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

EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: EFRAIN LOPEZ SANCHEZ

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria en la que se alega adeuda la suma principal de $109,671.13, intereses al 6.50% anual, desde el día lro de enero de 2020, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $12,963.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta es: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamiento residencial número Doscientos Dos (202), de forma irregular localizado en la segunda planta del EDIFICIO WILSON CARIBE en Santurce, Puerto Rico, con un área total privada de SETECIENTOS SETENTA Y SEIS (776) PIES CUADRADOS, equivalentes a SETENTA Y DOS PUNTO CERO NUEVE (72.09) metros cuadrados, midiendo veinticinco pies siete pulgadas (25’7”) en su mayor

34

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Champions League adapts to a fluid concept: Home and away

By VICTOR MATHER

T

wo European soccer giants, Atlético Madrid and Chelsea, will meet in the Champions League on Tuesday.

The site of this much anticipated game?

Bucharest, Romania.

On Wednesday, Manchester City will play German team Borussia Mönchengladbach. That game will be in Budapest, the Hungarian capital, where English champion Liverpool beat Germany’s RB Leipzig last week.

In the Europa League, the continent’s second-tier club championship, neutral sites are now almost as common as home games. Last week, Spanish and English teams played in Italy, and teams from Norway and Germany met in Spain. On Thursday, a week after London club Arsenal played to a draw against Portugal’s Benfica in Rome, the teams will meet again in the second leg of their not-homeand-home tie near Athens.

The pandemic has wreaked havoc with international sports schedules for a year, and that chaos continues to have an effect on soccer’s biggest club tournaments. The reasons — government edicts, travel restrictions and quarantine rules — vary around Europe. In some countries, teams are still allowed to travel to and from their opponents’ stadiums without issue. In others, countries have blocked entry to visitors from entire nations or drawn up onerous rules that make such travel impractical in a soccer season when teams often play two or three games a week.

Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), the European soccer governing body that runs the competitions, has decided that if restrictions adversely affect any game, it will be played at a neutral site where travel is permitted. But the decision to play knockout games in places seemingly chosen at random has led to confusion and not a little grumbling.

Real Sociedad, for example, played its “home” leg against Manchester United last week in Turin, Italy, but will play the return match at United’s home, Old Trafford, on Thursday.

“It does not seem coherent to me that as the home team, we play on a neutral field, and as a visitor, we do it there,” Roberto Olabe, Real Sociedad’s director of football, told Diario Vasco. “I would like

Two European soccer giants, Atlético Madrid and Chelsea, will meet in the Champions League on Tuesday. The site of this much anticipated game? Bucharest, Romania. the return to also be on neutral ground or for UEFA to appoint a single venue for a one-game tie as it did last year.”

The displeasure has not been universal. Both Hungary and Romania, whose teams almost never go deep in major European competitions, have been eager to bring the games to their countries — even if, in many cases, they must still be played behind closed doors.

“A match played in the framework of the most prestigious European interclub competition is a major sporting event, and we offered our support to the organizers as soon as this possibility was raised,” the Romanian soccer federation president, Razvan Burleanu, told Agence FrancePresse.

The playing of some games at neutral sites has turned the first tiebreaker for the tournament, the away goals rule, into something of a paradox. Normally, if a home-and-away tie ends with neither team ahead in total goals, the team with the most goals away from home advances.

The logic is that scoring away from home

is a little harder in a hostile environment and should get a small bonus.

But home isn’t the same for everyone.

Chelsea, for example, will play its away game not at Atletico’s Wanda Metropolitano stadium but on neutral ground in Bucharest. But any goals scored there still will count as away goals only for the English team.

Atlético will then have to defend, or make up, any difference in the score line on Chelsea’s home field in London next month.

For the Benfica-Arsenal matchup, the away-goals rule seemed even more puzzlingly arbitrary. The first leg in Rome ended in a 1-1 tie, when Arsenal was considered the away team. Benfica will be the away team in Greece, but if that leg ends in a higher-scoring draw — say, 2-2 — Benfica will advance by having scored more away goals.

(Some European soccer traditions appear immune to the coronavirus: Serbian club Red Star Belgrade was forced to apologize last week after some of its fans broke

into a closed stadium for a Europa League tie against Milan and racially abused Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who is of Bosnian descent.)

Soccer’s scheduling problems may not be over, however. The continuing reach of the pandemic has called into question the plans to stage this summer’s European Championship in 12 cities around Europe.

Traditionally, the event has been a lesssprawling affair hosted by one country or a pair of neighboring ones.

Given the travel complications laid bare by the club competitions, the idea of national teams flying around Europe seems foolhardy or downright dangerous. Already there are calls for relocating the entire tournament to a single country, probably England, which is already scheduled to host the two semifinals and the final.

Over the weekend, The Sunday Times of London reported that the British government had told UEFA it was ready and willing to stand in as host of the full schedule of games, although the country’s health minister promptly denied that report.

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

35

Luis Suárez rediscovers his bite

By RORY SMITH

L

uis Suárez had already been made a scapegoat, blamed for all that had gone wrong at Barcelona. He had already been rejected, told bluntly by the club’s new coach, Ronald Koeman, that his services were no longer required.

He had been forced to sit alongside the president who had precipitated it all and say thank you for having me, even as the thought of being forced to go brought him to tears. Worse, though, was still to come, a final indignity in his summer of humiliation.

On Sept. 17, Suárez touched down in the Italian city of Perugia to considerable fanfare. The airport where he landed put out a statement celebrating his arrival.

His progress to the city’s University for Foreigners was accompanied by fans and photographers. Even the university thanked him for gracing its halls.

His stay was to be brief. Suárez was there for an Italian exam. His wife, Sofía Balbi, is of Italian descent, making her husband eligible for citizenship, providing he could demonstrate competency in the language.

It was something he had been planning for at least a year, he would say later, but at the time his motivation seemed much more immediate: Juventus was offering Suárez a swift exit from Barcelona, but could not employ any more players from outside the European Union. Suárez’s getting an Italian passport was the key to the transfer. A few minutes after arriving, he left. He had passed the test.

That, though, was only the beginning. A few days later, the Perugia prosecutor’s office and the Guardia di Finanza, part of Italy’s mosaic of law enforcement agencies, announced that they were investigating “irregularities” in the exam.

Suárez, they suggested, had been informed of the questions beforehand, and been asked to do only the oral portion of the test.

He has, of course, long been used to being cast — often rightly — as a villain. As his summer descended through tragedy and all the way on into farce, though, his image shifted again: unwanted by Barcelona; accused of cheating in an exam; and at 34, while still one of the most talented strikers of his generation,

Luis Suárez has scored 16 goals this season after swapping his colors in the Liga title race. condemned to play out the coda to his career as a figure of ridicule.

That is not quite how things have worked out. Suárez did not end up signing with Juventus. Instead, freed from his Barcelona contract, he joined Atlético Madrid. Barcelona’s hierarchy would have preferred to see him leave for Italy or France — Paris St.-Germain was interested, too — rather than for a league rival. There was some trepidation that the executives might come to regret the move. Even they, though, could not have predicted quite how much.

As he prepares to lead Atlético’s line against Chelsea in the Champions League on Tuesday night, Suárez is in “one of the best moments of his career,” as the Atlético president, Enrique Cerezo, put it.

He has scored 16 goals in 20 La Liga games for Diego Simeone’s team.

Atlético sits atop the Spanish table, with a 3-point lead and a game in hand on second-place Real Madrid. Thanks in no small part to Suárez, Atlético is dreaming of its first league title since 2014, and its

second this century. He has, in his first six months at Atlético, proved one thing beyond doubt.

“Luis Suárez is not old,” Cerezo said.

Simeone, certainly, never believed that he was. He had admired the Uruguayan for some time — he had hoped to sign Suárez while he was still with Liverpool, calling his performances in England “extraordinary” — and, when it became clear Barcelona was prepared to jettison him, Simeone urged Atlético to make its move.

“When a player of his quality is available, you have to try,” Cerezo said.

When coach and player first spoke by phone, Simeone detected “the energy, the hunger, the defiance” that have not only characterized Suárez, but that also were Simeone’s finest attributes as a player. Most of all, though, Simeone thought that Suárez had something to prove. “He had a desire to show that he is still relevant,” the coach said.

It is tempting to ascribe Suárez’s form in Madrid to the reignition of that inner fire. He has always, after all, given the

impression that he is at his best when he has something or someone to rage against, whether it is an opponent, an authority or, in this case, simply the dying of the light. “Some did not believe I was still capable of playing at the top level,” Suárez said this week.

And yet it is possible, too, to believe that the opposite is true: that Suárez has found himself again not in war, but in peace.

His former international teammate Sebastián Abreu told the Spanish newspaper El País this week that he believed Barcelona had, in Suárez’s final year with the club, “mounted a campaign where they identified Luis as the problem with everything, together with Lionel Messi.”

Suárez, judging by his public comments, seems to agree with that assessment.

With Atlético, by contrast, he has not only encountered a coach who — as Abreu put it — “knows perfectly how to treat a player,” he has also found a club that is not “blaming Suárez for every situation, and so that has liberated him to enjoy playing soccer completely.”

36

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

She rowed across the Atlantic, joining a new wave of extreme endurance athletes

By ANDREW S. LEWIS

B

y mid-January, Jasmine Harrison, a swim instructor and bartender, had been alone at sea for nearly 50 days.

She had rowed 1,600 miles through the ill-tempered Atlantic Ocean and was only halfway there.

If she could push forward a day at a time (or some 60 miles), Harrison, 21, of North East England, would become the youngest woman to row an ocean, beating an American, Katie Spotz, who held the title since 2010.

After 70 days, 3 hours, 48 minutes, she rounded the bend into English Harbour, on the southern coast of the Caribbean island of Antigua, around 10 a.m. local time Saturday morning. This year, because of coronavirus restrictions, there were few boats there to welcome her after two months of paddling, 12 hours a day.

Her award for completing the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, ocean rowing’s most prestigious challenge? A vinyl banner that read, “New World Record.” (The winners were given $6,000 Bremont watches.)

The obscure endurance sport has gained traction in recent years, and Harrison joined a growing number of rowers from diverse backgrounds and skill levels who attempted the extreme feat.

Since a pair of Norwegians successfully rowed from Manhattan to France in 1896, there have been about 900 attempts to row an ocean. Only two-thirds have been successful. To put that in perspective, 955 people attempted to summit Mount Everest in 2019 alone.

It’s not a sport for the faint of heart.

Harrison’s 550-pound boat was twice toppled by rogue waves, sending her into the water. The second time, she injured an elbow. She had frightening close calls, including nearly colliding with a drilling ship at four in the morning. She missed her family and her dogs and cold drinking water. She also missed music. Her speaker, which had English rock band the Wombats and Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song” on repeat, had fallen into the water.

Every December, the Atlantic Challenge sends rowers — from solo rowers to teams of twos through fives — across 3,000 miles of ocean, from the Canary Islands, off the northwest coast of Africa, to Antigua and Barbuda.

Paddling some 20,000 strokes a day

Katie Spotz onboard her ocean rowboat, Liv, which will be her new home for the 100-day voyage. demands a particular style of determination.

“It’s not a rational or sensible thing to do,” said Roz Savage, the English rower who in 2006 became the first women’s solo competitor to enter and finish the race. “It’s something that comes from the heart, not from the head.”

Savage sits atop ocean rowing’s most elite subset: female single-handers, or solo rowers. Fewer than 200 women have successfully rowed an ocean, and only 18 have made it across the Atlantic solo. Savage is the only one to have successfully crossed three — the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Indian.

Savage, like Harrison, had little rowing experience when she entered the event.

Harrison just happened to be in Antigua in 2018, after traveling to the Caribbean to teach swimming and volunteer with Hurricane Maria relief efforts. She was at a bar in Nelson’s Dockyard, where the race finished, and struck up a conversation with a relative of an Atlantic Challenge rower who was about to finish. “Hearing about the race just took me,” she said.

Some of the earliest ocean rowers have been women, but the sport remains overwhelmingly male. “When I started, women in exploration was something that was a little frowned on,” said Tori Murden McClure, who in 1999 became the first woman, and American, to row the Atlantic solo.

“I certainly experienced lots of sexist things.”

Before the arrival of Atlantic Cam-

paigns, which took over management of the challenge in 2013, the race’s organizers had cultivated rowers who “tended to be white, British and male,” said the challenge’s head safety officer, Ian Couch, who has rowed both the Atlantic and Indian oceans. “It was a bit of a club, a very much closed shop.”

The paradigm is now shifting. In 2016, four women entered the event; this year, there were 20, almost half of the event’s roster. Next year’s contingent of 24 women will be the largest the race has had.

Atlantic Campaigns has pushed to expand the race beyond its British roots, which has been crucial to the sport’s growing inclusivity. But having women like Savage and McClure shatter the image of the traditional explorer has mattered the most. “There was a time not long ago when doing an Ironman was considered crazy,” McClure said. “It’s what we think of as possible that shifts.”

The Atlantic Challenge is also beginning, albeit slowly, to reflect the racial diversity you would expect from a race organization whose staff of 21 represents 10 nationalities, and an endurance event that straddles an eighth of the globe.

In the 2019 event, the Antiguans Christal Clashing, Kevinia Francis, Elvira Bell and Samara Emmanuel became the first Black team — male or female — to complete the race. To date, the Atlantic Challenge has had seven Black competitors, including the Antiguan women.

“Being able to do a journey like that allowed us to write our own story, to take control of the narrative that Black people don’t swim, they don’t do these kinds of activities,” Clashing said. “In the end, we were able to say, ‘Yes, there was a cultural trauma that occurred for us across the Atlantic Ocean, but we are not allowing that to dictate what we do anymore.’”

This year’s race included athletes from Spain and South Africa, Antigua and Uruguay, the United States and Britain, among others. At a time when many sporting events were drastically changed or put on hold, the race — one of the world’s most socially distant — was able to move forward.

As Harrison approached her final weeks of the journey, the weather remained calm and the surface of the water shook out into “the brightest turquoise you’ve ever seen,” she said over satellite phone on Feb. 12. A pod of Risso’s dolphins followed her for hours. A blue whale rolled beside her, the white, molar-like edge of its flipper nearly high-fiving her oar.

Each day, another 60 miles peeled away. Even a passage through a thick raft of sargassum that stretched to the horizon — a definitive indication she had reached the outer edge of the Caribbean — did not slow her down.

Fifteen minutes after entering English Harbour on Saturday morning, Harrison unclipped from her safety line and took her first steps on land in 10 weeks. She wobbled, stunned momentarily by both the solid ground and the sudden presence of other people. Couch and another safety officer were there to hold her up.

Couch understood the feeling — and those that would soon follow. “Rowing an ocean is a brutally honest experience,” he said. “When you step off the boat, when you lie in bed that first night back, you know with absolute honesty who you are.”

For now, however, Harrison was focused on a cold drink and her first meal — a burger and fries.

It was only after that she began to contemplate the future. “I may row again,” she said Saturday evening. “But, actually, I’d like to give that opportunity to other people, inspire them to do it. Right now, I’m just excited to see what the rest of my life will be.”

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

37

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

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

Crossword

Answers on page 38

Wordsearch

GAMES

HOROSCOPE Aries

38

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

(Mar 21-April 20)

Having doubts about a course of action? The Moon in Cancer, suggests you may be feeling insecure about doing something that requires a bold approach. This won’t last, but you might need to spend some of the day wondering about how well you’ll succeed. The thing is, once you make a start such thoughts will vanish, and you’ll find that your confidence picks up fast, Aries.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Don’t spill the beans too soon, Libra. If you have a plan be careful what you say, as talking about it too freely could hamper your progress. In fact, someone who ought to be supporting you might object. The coming days can find you implementing a big change that may inconvenience others. If so, consider discussing the benefits first, as life could then be so much easier for you.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

Need to tell someone something they might not like? Tap into your natural resourcefulness, and know the right words will show up when you need them. The coming days can find you embarking on something that you are deeply invested in, and this could be an issue for someone. When they see how serious you are Taurus, they may be more willing to give you their support.

Dealing with an issue that brings up awkward emotions? This could be the reason you feel a tad vulnerable. Anything that can distract you from having to hold a key conversation or take action, may seem like a good idea. The urge to shop, eat comfort food or lose yourself in books or films, might be a temporary band-aid. Soon you will need to handle this, so just make a start Gemini.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

The Moon’s link to Mars and Pluto, suggest you may have some strong views on something that means a lot to you. You could be a tad defensive if someone disagrees. Have the strength of your convictions, and don’t worry about what others think. Align yourself with those who understand, and if you have a plan of action in place, know you will get the assistance you need.

There could be more than one way to get what you want. But today, you might put energy into a method that may deplete resources rather than yield results. There is a more efficient way, but the real issue is in knowing if you will be happy with the outcome. It can be difficult to reverse if you are not, Archer. Plus, an inspiring conversation could find you rethinking your schedule.

Choose to embrace your power. If you let someone else make your decisions for you, then you could feel unnecessarily put upon. If you find yourself surrounded by dominant personalities, stand your ground and don’t give way unless you feel drawn to someone’s plans and ideas. If you do Cancer, this is another matter, as pooling resources might be very good for you both.

Learning a new hobby could be enjoyable, and something you take to very quickly, and it can provide a lot of pleasure. If it’s something that requires unusual skills, then so much the better, as with your entrepreneurial outlook you might turn this into a money-making idea. But even if you do just want to have fun, you may make new friends and connections along the way, Capricorn.

Leo

Aquarius

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

Have a big project on? Use today to bask in serenity, and find your point of balance. The Moon in a restorative and spiritual sector opposes Pluto, which suggests that you are very aware of what lies ahead.

Rather than worrying about the task in front of you, choose to relax Leo. Use this time to release any tension and invite creativity and inspiration into the coming days.

Finding the motivation to complete something could be hard, but if you have a good enough reason to do this, it might help. If you are finding it difficult to get into gear, then breaking a task down into chunks can be a start. But most of all, the Moon in your lifestyle zone suggests treating yourself to something special on completion, as doing so may help you get there.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

Ready to give your all to a golden opportunity? Don’t try too hard, as by appearing too eager you could push it away from you. A friend’s light-hearted advice may make you aware of your compulsive stance. What is meant for you will not go by you. There could be something better just around the corner, so don’t feel bad if this doesn’t pan out exactly as you hoped, Virgo.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

You may prefer to do your own thing in your spare time, rather than help a friend or be part of a team effort. But don’t dismiss this opportunity altogether, as it could give you valuable experience. If you have already committed, then consider the pros and cons. Chances are, you will learn new things, gain opportunities or meet someone whose company you enjoy.

Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

39

CARTOONS

Herman

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

BC

Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

For Better or for Worse

The San Juan Daily Star

Ziggy

40

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

The San Juan Daily Star