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annia Rivera Díaz, the executive director of the Independent Office for Consumer Protection (OIPC by its Spanish initials), announced Wednesday that she has submitted an investigation request to the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau to look into the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) practice of customer “bill correction.”

Rivera Díaz said that a few months ago, she noticed a considerable increase in the number of consumers who come to her office in search of a remedy due to the fact that PREPA estimates their electricity consumption for prolonged periods of time, sometimes for years, and then they receive an invoice with an adjustment identified as “invoice correction” or “current charges.”

“In the invoices of some of these consumers, the charges exceed thousands of dollars and it is not until the citizen gets into the formalities with the Authority that he becomes aware that the main reason for the collection is the practice of estimating the invoices,” Rivera Díaz said. “Although it is true that the estimation of invoices in itself is not a practice prohibited by law, the invoice corrections that the Authority makes as a result of that action

are illegal, as they exceed the 120 days allowed by Law 272-2002 to report calculation errors. It should be noted that, in 100% of the cases dealt with at the OIPC, the invoice corrections made exceed the aforementioned term.”

The OIPC executive director added that in the discharge of her functions, she carried out negotiations with PREPA employees and they were unsuccessful. She said PREPA argued that if the consumer does not specifically request that an adjustment be made under Law 272-2002, they are not given the adjustment, even though the consumer has come exclusively to object to the bill.

“These actions affect the provision of a reliable service, violate the public energy policy of the government of Puerto Rico and have the effect of restricting the right of consumers to exhaust administrative remedies and their due process of law,” Rivera Díaz said. “It also obliges them to make inaccurate, unfair, and unreasonable payments through a process plagued by a lack of transparency and correction.

This is why we ask that the necessary corrective measures be investigated and issued … with the objective that the people of Puerto Rico remain with our guarantee of offering a reliable, efficient and transparent electrical system, as dictated by the public energy policy of our country.”

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Thursday, February 25, 2021

Governor does not confirm or deny he’ll sign dignified retirement bill

Says measure must be analyzed

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

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ollowing the unanimous approval in the island House of Representatives of House Bill (HB) 120, which seeks to establish a policy of zero cuts to government employees’ pensions, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Wednesday he would be evaluating the bill once it reaches his desk as he did not commit to signing the legislation.

Pierluisi said the legislation must be put under scrutiny as the federal Financial Oversight and Management Board called the bill “inconsistent.”

On Tuesday, the oversight board said the measure could not go into effect as law because it would be annulled by the Title III Bankruptcy Court, “administrative headaches” would be created by having to reverse its effects and sanctions could be applied.

“I will study the bill once it is dispatched to me,” the governor said. “The bill must be approved by both chambers; the House approved it and now the bill is in the Senate.”

After the New Progressive Party delegation spokesperson in the House, Rep. Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Núñez, called on Pierluisi via letter to sign the legislation into law -- the former House speaker had previously indicated that the delegation could be part of an override of a possible veto -- the governor said the spokesperson is anticipating that he will do so.

“I have not made that decision yet because I have to study this in detail,” he said. “I want to know the fiscal impact that this has, and if I have to make a request to the board, I will do so at the appropriate time.”

HB 120 would include public servants, employees of the judicial system and teachers. The legislation, which had remained on the table in the previous Legislature, was approved with amendments to increase from 15 to 17 the representation of teachers and

pensioners in the trust for the joint administration of the retirement systems, which is created by the law.

Along with the bill, the House also approved HB 523 to reaffirm that the Legislature will not pass any pension cuts. Both measures pass on to the Senate.

Meanwhile, when asked about his stance toward the oversight board claiming that House Joint Resolution 63, which proposes that the Comptroller’s Office audit the public debt going back to 1952, would impose an unnecessary task, Pierluisi defended the resolution.

“You have to realize that the Comptroller’s Office has an important role in our system of government,” Pierluisi said. “It is up to that office to review all the actions of senior government officials, all their determinations.

It is up to that office to make findings when there is any possible irregularity, to make recommendations and referrals.”

“What I want is for that office to do its duty,” he added. “Because, at the end of the

day, we are talking about huge issues that ended up causing a bankruptcy process that is shameful.”

The governor also pointed out that after the audit process “the people are going to have the benefit of their findings, recommendations, and accusations and that will remain so for history.”

Pierluisi, when asked by reporters, said he did not have a role in bond issuances, for example when he served as resident commissioner under the administration of former Gov. Luis Fortuño Burset.

“No, because I have never had a role in the Puerto Rico government’s issuances,” he said. “Now I would have as governor, but in the past, no.”

On Tuesday, David Skeel, the oversight board chairman, insisted that the entity created under the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (commonly known as PROMESA), had already done everything that could have been done in a debt audit.

Pierluisi: ‘I would look for the Public Safety Department to fulfill its mission’ Suggests changes amid performance and bureaucracy complaints

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

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ith both majority and minority legislators evaluating amendments to Act 20 of 2017, which created the Puerto Rico Public Safety Department (DSP by its Spanish initials), Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Wednesday that he is keeping an eye on every bill filed in the Legislative Assembly, as he considers the umbrella agency to be necessary.

When asked if he expects to “reformulate” the DSP, Pierluisi said he expects the agency to be directly affected by public policies that address public safety, to be responsible in coordinating among agencies that are involved in safeguarding the

country, to conduct protocols and set guidelines to be followed and to have a fundamental role in coordinating networks with federal entities.

“That’s why I think that we need a Public Safety Department,” he said. “I would look for the Public Safety Department to fulfill its mission.”

Meanwhile, when it comes to a final decision on the DSP’s future, Pierluisi said it all depends on what happens in either the Senate or the House.

“Both chairmen asked me not to file a bill that aims for the Special Investigations Bureau to come back under the Department of Justice’s umbrella, while I believe it would be positive for it to maintain its criteria independence and remain as the Public Integrity Division’s investigative branch within Justice,” the governor said.

“I was told not to file that legislation because they are evaluating every issue within [the DSP], and that’s what I have done until now,” he added. “I think that there is a reason to have such a department; we had it before, and we have it now again.”

He also pointed out that secretary-designate Alexis Torres Ríos is an “excellent officer” to direct the department.

“Of course, there are complaints when it comes to the department’s performance up to now,” Pierluisi said. “There are complaints that there is so much bureaucracy and that, instead of making purchasing and contracting processes in different bureaus quicker, the processes have been protracted.

We must work with that.”

Meanwhile, despite having obvious differences on Puerto Rico’s political status with Senate President José Luis Dalmau Santiago and House Speaker Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez, both of the pro-commonwealth Popular Democratic Party, the governor said they are capable of “making common

cause” on issues like public safety.

When a member of the press asked if the “honeymoon phase” was over, he denied it.

“I have no doubt that bills will take place, obtaining votes [in favor] from every delegation in due time,” Pierluisi said.

The governor made his statements after an event that commemorated the loss of six police officers in the line of duty in 2020.

Among the fallen, five passed away due to COVID-19 complications, while one was shot to death on Jesús T. Piñeiro Avenue last April 30.

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Fiscal board informs markets it has achieved 70% attainment with latest PSA

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day after the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico announced a new plan support agreement (PSA) to restructure some $18 billion of the total $35 billion in commonwealth debt, the federal entity informed the markets Wednesday that it has obtained a 70% attainment but will continue to accept joinders until March 9.

“In accordance with Section 4.1 of the PSA, the Oversight Board announces that, based upon the joinders received, the PSA Threshold Attainment, 70% of all General Obligation (GO) bond and Public Buildings Authority (PBA) bond claims, has been achieved and, unless parties terminate the PSA as to themselves, further joinders received will not entitle the joinder party to receive the PSA Restriction Fee,” a document posted to the markets said.

Specifically, the oversight said it is possible

that, pursuant to the terms of the PSA, parties may terminate their support for the proposed transaction and, therefore, the current level of support may fall below the PSA threshold attainment. For that reason, it will continue to accept joinders to the PSA up to and including the joinder deadline, March 9, 2021, at 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time).

The oversight board announced that it had reached a new PSA that will replace one agreed upon in February 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Puerto Rico’s finances and forced negotiations for a new debt agreement.

The PSA would reduce $18.8 billion of commonwealth debt held by GO bondholders and PBA bondholders by 61%, to $7.4 billion; would provide GO and PBA bondholders with $7.4 billion in bonds and $7 billion in cash up front; and 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.

The CVI consists of GO bonds that will be paid using a portion of the sales and use tax revenue if tax collections exceed the estimates of the fiscal plan certified in May. Pursuant to the PSA, other holders of GO bonds and PBA bonds were invited to join the PSA and support the terms of a proposed plan of adjustment for such bonds and be entitled to receive a PSA restriction fee in consideration for such support and the agreement to restrict the trading of bonds during the term of the PSA. “The ability to join in support of the PSA is limited to receiving joinders up to the amount of the PSA threshold attainment, 70% of the principal amount of the GO Bonds and PBA Bonds outstanding,” the notice said.

When asked about the threshold level, David Skeel, chairman of the oversight board, said the PSA had 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.”

Annual debt service payments under the new PSA will be $1.15 billion, down from $1.47 billion in the February PSA. The PSA requires legislation to conduct the bond exchange and the CVI. Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said in a statement Tuesday that a new debt adjustment plan should not impact retirees and while he supports it, the government will not sign off on it.

The PSA does not contain language on the pensions, but Natalie Jaresko, the executive director of the oversight board, said language on pensions will be included in the debt adjustment plan to be filed March 8. The board is proposing an 8.5% cut to pensions higher than $1,500 a month, but the deal will also include the creation of a pension reserve.

Cidre: Cargo rate hike doesn’t benefit island’s business environment

By THE STAR STAFF

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conomic Development and Commerce (DDEC) Secretary-designate Manuel Cidre on Wednesday objected to the proposed increase in rates for the handling of cargo at the San Juan Port, the only point of entry for goods in Puerto Rico.

“The public policy of this administration is to promote the competitiveness of our island, reducing the costs of doing business, positioning Puerto Rico as a globally competitive jurisdiction,” Cidre said in a written statement. “This is not the time to increase rates when we are going through a pandemic and the economy is barely showing signs of recovery.”

“Just as this is not the time for rate increases for assembly and unloading charges, neither is it the time for freight rates hikes,” he added. “Both would have adverse consequences for economic development.”

A 2020 study published in Marine Policy investigated the main factors affecting the competitiveness of ports. Among 20 factors, it turned out that the main factor is the costs at the terminals, “precisely the costs that these measures affect,” Cidre said.

“At a time when we are exploring options to correct the inventory tax, which we know how it affected supplies after Hurricane Maria, we cannot continue to increase costs at port terminals,” the DDEC secretary-designate said.

“We have to project ourselves as a competitive hub worldwide and by increasing costs we will not be able to compete with other destinations that do not have the same capacity or strategic location that Puerto Rico has.”

Tote Maritime, one of the island’s largest shipping companies that operates domestic cargo terminals in the Port of San Juan, and the marine support services firm Luis Ayala Colón (LAC) Sucrs.

Inc. are raising their fees.

LAC, the only company in the Port of San Juan in charge of loading and unloading ships, announced it is raising its cargo fees and adding new charges effective March 1. Tote’s fee hikes go into effect a month later, but the company has not made its new fees public.

Manuel Reyes, executive vice president of the Chamber of Food Marketing, Industry and Distribution (MIDA by its Spanish acronym), along with an industry official, confirmed the information on Tote’s proposed fee hikes from members of the business community.

“This makes us less competitive,” Reyes said.

While Puerto Rico has four shipping companies, two of them control 85% of the market, Reyes said. LAC being the only company in the Port of San Juan that handles cargo creates a problem for businesses, importers and exporters that have no alternatives for escaping the fee hikes.

Reyes could not say what the impact of the hikes would be on the local economy. In 2019, MIDA did a study on the cost of transporting goods

between the United States and Puerto Rico as part of a larger study on the Jones Act that found the statute causes losses of $1.5 billion in Puerto Rico.

An industry official noted that since LAC signed an agreement with Puerto Rico Terminals to create the joint venture Puerto NuevoTerminals, they had warned of the negative impact on the economy because those companies have virtual control of the Port of San Juan.

The island Justice Department in an email message said its investigation on the possibility that the companies have created a monopoly is still ongoing. That investigation began in 2019.

Under Puerto Nuevo Terminals, LAC and Puerto Rico Terminals jointly manage 80% of the maritime cargo and Crowley has the rest in the Port of San Juan.

Ports Authority spokesman José Carmona said Ports has a small area in the Port of San Juan but that the so-called joint venture is in the hands of the Federal Maritime Commission.

According to an LAC document, effective March 1, 2021 there will be new terminal fees at the company’s San Juan Terminal facility for all consignees, shippers and owners receiving and delivering equipment for all lines. The company is raising its terminal maintenance fee to $25 per full unit from the current $15 per full unit, a hike of almost 65%.

A container inspection charge of $90 per inspection was increased by $30.

LAC raised a terminal security fee to $17.50

per full unit from $10 per full unit and also added additional charges. For instance, it imposed a gate charge not covered by the stevedoring/ terminal contract of $45 per gate move, a mount & discharge picks per unit of $35, and sold unit handling charges of $160.

To keep the terminal on overtime from 4-6 p.m. Monday to Friday there will be a $400 charge per hour, an increase of $100. On Saturdays and holidays, the charge could be $1,600 per hour for the first four hours, with extra hours at $400 per hour, an increase of $450 per hour.

LAC also imposed new charges that range from $35 to $75 per unit for office hire and sold containers and shipper-owned units. The firm also imposed five stevedoring charges for non-contract clients that include an overtime differential cost of $800 per hour.

In the case of Tote, industry officials noted that the new hikes will start in April and include total accessorial charges that are going up to $310 from $245.

International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1740 President Carlos C. Sánchez Ortiz said the union has warned for years about the concentration of power in a few maritime companies without government supervision.

“This corporate framework involves risks that must be avoided at all costs, since they will increase inescapably the costs of all consumer goods and services, and even border on risk to national security,” he said.

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Health chief ascribes discovery of vaccines in Morovis to ‘bad management’

By THE STAR STAFF

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ome citizens may be in line for the COVID-19 vaccine even without an appointment.

To the surprise of the island Health Department, a small number of vaccines was found inside a reportedly abandoned refrigerator in Morovis in an incident that designated Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López on Wednesday attributed to “mismanagement.”

“When there are many people waiting for the vaccine in Puerto Rico, in the town of Morovis two doses of [the] Moderna [vaccine] appear with two syringes,” Mellado López said at a press conference. “Needless to say, I have already contacted the secretary of Public Safety and our investigative staff is already in Morovis interviewing the person who found the refrigerator, and other people.”

“We have to go the last mile so that it is known what happened,” he added.

The police reported Wednesday afternoon that on a road in La Alianza, at Girasol Street in the Barahona neighborhood of Morovis, a citizen noticed a cardboard box that turned out to contain COVID-19 vaccines.

According to the police, the citizen showed up at the station to report that he had found the box that contained a white refrigerator, which in turn contained syringes and a small box with Moderna vaccines inside.

Meanwhile, Mellado López announced during the press conference that two more cases of the UK variant of COVID-19 B117 that occurred in January were reported in the western region of Puerto Rico. The Ponce Health Sciences University detected the cases, which were sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta for analysis, and offered assurances

that there is no data on the spread of the variant in the rest of the island.

FEMA allocates $2 million for recovery of wildlife habitats

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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he Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has granted over $2 million to the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) and the Puerto Rico Conservation Trust, known as Para la Naturaleza, to help recover trees, endemic birds and other forms of wildlife that lost their habitats, or their populations dwindled in various protected areas in Puerto Rico, due to hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017.

The federal funds will be used to repair various structures in nine areas classified as nature reserves, refuges, protected areas or recreational sites in seven municipalities. They are home to local fauna and flora, some of which are endemic or protected, bodies of water and even particular geological features.

“The island’s recovery encompasses aspects of infrastructure reconstruction and includes works to help renew our natural resources,” said José BaqueroTirado, the federal disaster recovery coordinator for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. “These are part of the heritage for future generations to enjoy.”

One of the places that has been awarded funds, about $285,000, is the Efraín Archilla Diez Nature Reserve in Humacao. There the most affected areas were the floating docks, pavilions, aquatic and terrestrial trails, and the loss of wildlife, flora and fauna, among others.

The reserve, which before Maria received 12,000 visitors a year, is home to endemic species such as the leatherback sea turtle, the hawksbill sea turtle, the brown pelican, the Puerto Rican boa and the “palancú” crab. It also has six lagoons that help control the flow of water during heavy rainfall events, making it an important water retention center, according to data provided by Dr. Carlos Toledo Hernández, a FEMA environmental specialist with a doctorate in biology.

The reserve’s management officer, Luis Encarnación Santiago, said the space is also a main point for local and international tourism and directly benefits various businesses in the town of Punta Santiago.

“The floating docks, located in Laguna Santa Teresa and Lagunas Palma, are used for recreational fishing, aquatic bird watching, recreation and education,” Encarnación said. “They are also used for bird watching and to educate visiting school groups.”

For the DNER, the federal funds represent support for its plans, a priority for DNER Secretary Rafael Machargo Maldonado, who took office in March 2020.

“We hope to soon reestablish each of the reserves, natural areas and forests under the jurisdiction of the DNER, for the enjoyment of all our visitors and thus help promote the economic development of the regions where they are located, through green tourism,” he said.

Likewise, Cayo Ratones will benefit from an obligation of just over $650,000, as well as the Iris Alameda Wildlife Refuge with about $544,000, both located in Cabo Rojo and administered by the DNER. Cayo Ratones, a small one-acre island a quarter mile offshore used for recreational purposes, will use the funds for repairs to the boat dock, covered pavilions and barbecue facilities.

The Iris Alameda Refuge, which includes the Boquerón State Forest and has space for amateur and recreational fishing, will repair its docks, solar-powered

fishing stations and bird-watching station.

Another area that has an allocation of just over $700,000 is the Cabezas de San Juan Nature Reserve, one of the island’s main tourist attractions.

Under the administration of Para la Naturaleza, this reserve is home to the Fajardo Lighthouse, the second oldest in Puerto Rico’s lighthouse system, and one of the three bodies of water on the island -- and one of the few in the world -- where bioluminescent microorganisms live.

Also in Laguna Grande grows turtle grass that serves as a fish hatchery, an important resource for the local economy. The funds will be used to rebuild the lighthouse, visitor’s pavilion and observation platform, among other things.

Similarly, $17,000 was allocated to the Medio Mundo y Daguao Nature Reserve. This protected area between Ceiba and Naguabo contains the second largest mangrove forest on the island and is home to 26 species classified as rare, vulnerable or endangered, including the Puerto Rican yellow-shouldered blackbird and several species of turtles. The funds will be used to replace the facility’s contents and roof components.

Thanking FEMA for the allocation of funds, Manuel A. Laboy Rivera, the executive director of the Central Office of Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience of Puerto Rico, or COR3, emphasized the importance of moving forward with the development of these and other projects that protect the environment.

“Our commitment is to continue joining efforts with the DNER to guarantee the execution of projects for the recovery of nature reserves, refuges and protected areas, among others,” he said.

Anyone seeking more information on Puerto Rico’s recovery from Hurricane Maria can visit fema.gov/disaster/4339 and recuperacion.pr. FEMA and COR3 can be followed on social networks at Facebook.com/FEMAPuertoRico, Facebook.com/ COR3pr and Twitter @COR3pr.

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Thursday, February 25, 2021

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Managers of Texas power grid resign after widespread storm outages

By RICK ROJAS

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ive officials will resign from the board overseeing the Texas power grid after it was pushed to the brink of collapse by the recent winter storm, leaving millions without electricity during some of the coldest temperatures the state has experienced in a generation.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the board that governs the flow of power for more than 26 million people in the state, has been blamed for the widespread outages, prompting the governor, lawmakers and federal officials to begin inquiries into the system’s failures, particularly in preparation for cold weather.

The five board members, who intend to resign at the conclusion of a meeting scheduled for Wednesday morning, were all from outside Texas, a point of contention for critics who questioned the wisdom of outsiders playing such an influential role in the state’s infrastructure.

In a statement Tuesday filed with the Public Utility Commission, four of the board members said they were stepping down “to allow state leaders a free hand with future direction and to eliminate distractions.” In a footnote, the filing added that a fifth member was also resigning.

Those departing are Sally Talberg, the chairwoman and a former state utility regulator who lives in Michigan; Peter Cramton, the vice chairman and an economics professor at the University of Cologne in Germany and the University of Maryland; Terry Bulger, a retired banking executive who lives in Illinois; Raymond Hepper, a former official with the agency overseeing the power grid in New England; and Vanessa Anesetti-Parra, who oversees regulatory affairs for a company headquartered in Canada.

Another person who was supposed to fill a vacant seat, Craig S. Ivey, has withdrawn from the 16-member board.

The board became the target of blame and scrutiny after the winter storm last week brought the state’s electric grid precariously close to a complete blackout that could have taken months to recover from. In a last-minute effort to avert that, the council, known as ERCOT, ordered rolling outages that plunged much of the state into darkness and caused electricity prices to skyrocket. Some customers had bills well over $10,000.

The weather crippled the system as power plants were knocked offline and pumps used to produce the natural gas needed to fuel them froze over.

State officials have said ERCOT had offered

Residents in line at a food distribution center in San Antonio, Texas on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021, as a winter storm in Texas left millions without power or running water. assurances that the power infrastructure was prepared to endure winter conditions.

“But those assurances proved to be devastatingly false,” Gov. Greg Abbott said in a statement, adding, “When Texans were in desperate need of electricity, ERCOT failed to do its job and Texans were left shivering in their homes without power.”

As the state was reeling from the crisis, the realization that some board members lived out of state became a source of outrage, so much so that ERCOT initially took down information about them from its website. Officials said the members had been harassed and threatened.

One state lawmaker said he was weighing proposing legislation that would bar people who were not Texas residents from serving on the board.

“If you’re not living here, if you’re not experiencing what we’re experiencing, and yet you’re charged with making decisions on our behalf, that’s unacceptable,” state Rep. Jeff Leach, whose district covers a swath of the Dallas suburbs, said in a recent interview.

The resignations from the board come as the state Legislature prepares to hold hearings on the power outages on Thursday. The Harris

County attorney, whose jurisdiction includes Houston, said Tuesday that he was initiating a civil investigation examining decisions made

by ERCOT and the Public Utility Commission, among others, and the district attorney in Travis County, which includes Austin, said he was opening a criminal investigation.

In a statement, ERCOT said, “We look forward to working with the Texas Legislature, and we thank the outgoing board members for their service.”

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said late Monday that its enforcement division would review wholesale natural gas and electricity market activity in Texas, presumably to determine whether there was any illegal anticompetitive or price manipulations.

The failures of the power system drove up wholesale electricity prices from $1,200 per megawatt-hour to about $9,000.

Energy analysts said the failure involved not only oversight from ERCOT but electrical providers around the state that did not prepare their systems for harsh weather conditions.

“Heads had to roll, but I don’t think it will change anything,” said Michael E. Webber,

professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. “It’s easy to blame the out-of-state board members of the grid operator rather than in-state gas producers and power plant owners.”

Those operators neglected to spend the money to weatherize their instruments, pipelines and electrical lines to resist frigid weather, he said, because they were not obliged to do so by state regulation.

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New analyses show Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose vaccine works well

The Johnson & Johnson vaccine showed 86 percent efficacy against severe forms of Covid-19 in the United States, and 82 percent against severe disease in South Africa.

By CARL ZIMMER, NOAH WEILAND and SHARON LaFRANIER

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he one-shot coronavirus vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson provides strong protection against severe disease and death from COVID-19, and may reduce the spread of the virus by vaccinated people, according to new analyses posted online by the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday.

The vaccine had a 72% overall efficacy rate in the United States and 64% in South Africa, where a highly contagious variant emerged in the fall and is now driving most cases. The efficacy in South Africa was 7 points higher than earlier data released by the company.

The vaccine also showed 86% efficacy against severe forms of COVID-19 in the United States and 82% against severe disease in South Africa. That means that a vaccinated

person has a far lower risk of being hospitalized or dying from COVID-19.

The analyses confirmed that Americans are likely to benefit soon from a third effective coronavirus vaccine developed in under a year, as demand for inoculations greatly outstrips supply. The FDA could authorize the vaccine as early as Saturday, depending on a vote of its vaccine advisory panel Friday after it discusses the newly released documents.

“With a J&J vaccine, we’ll be able to accelerate the vaccine rollout for our country and for the world,” said Dan Barouch, a virus expert at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston who led much of the early research on the vaccine last year.

Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine can be stored at normal refrigeration temperatures for at least three months, making its distribution considerably easier than the authorized vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, which require two

doses and must be stored at frigid temperatures.

But access to the new vaccine could be severely limited at first. Dr. Richard Nettles, vice president of U.S. medical affairs at Janssen Pharmaceuticals, the drug development arm of Johnson & Johnson, told lawmakers Tuesday that nearly 4 million doses would be ready for shipment after the FDA authorizes the vaccine, far below the 12 million it had originally pledged to give the federal government by the end of February.

White House officials had an even lower estimate Tuesday, telling governors on a weekly call that around 2 million doses would be available next week, according to an administration official.

Nettles said Tuesday that a total of 20 million doses would be ready by the end of March. The company has a contract to deliver 100 million doses by the end of June.

Johnson and Johnson’s vaccine has a lower efficacy rate than the vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, which are both around 95%.

But in South Africa, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is so far the clear winner. Novavax’s shot had an efficacy of 49% in South Africa. And a small trial in South Africa of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine found that it did not offer much protection at all. The negative results led the South African government to abandon its plan of giving 1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to health care workers. Last week, the government started giving Johnson & Johnson’s vaccines instead and has so far administered more than 32,000.

The newly released documents, which include the FDA’s first technical analysis of the company’s 45,000-person clinical trial, presented evidence that the vaccine was safe, with noticeably milder side effects than the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and without any reports of severe allergic reactions like anaphylaxis.

The vaccine’s protection was consistent across Black, Hispanic and white volunteers, and also across different ages. The trial indicated a lower efficacy, of 42.3%, for people over 60 who had risk factors like heart disease or diabetes. But this figure came with a large amount of statistical uncertainty, the FDA noted.

Although several vaccines can protect people from getting sick with COVID-19, it is unclear whether the shots can also prevent people from getting infected and passing the virus to others, leading to a debate about how quickly society can return to normal after inoculations begin.

Moderna’s trial found some hints that vaccinated people were less likely to develop an infection without symptoms.

And AstraZeneca found that its vaccine reduced asymptomatic infections by about half.

Johnson & Johnson looked for asymptomatic infections by checking for coronavirus antibodies 71 days after volunteers got a vaccine or a placebo. The new analyses estimate that the vaccine has an efficacy rate of 74% against asymptomatic infections. But that calculation was based on a relatively small number of volunteers, and the FDA noted “There is uncertainty about the interpretation of these data, and definitive conclusions cannot be drawn at this time.”

“I think it’s going to add to the growing evidence that the vaccines really do prevent infection as well as prevent disease,” Barouch said.

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Behind the Nashville bombing, a conspiracy theorist stewing about the gov’t

By STEVEN CAVENDISH, NEIL MACFARQUHAR, JAMIE MCGEE and ADAM GOLDMAN

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rystal Deck was opening presents on Christmas morning at her brother’s home when she heard the news that an enormous explosion had ripped through the historic heart of Nashville.

She knew instantly that the bomber was her dearest friend, Anthony Q. Warner, and quickly began fitting together clues that he had dropped, including a series of peculiar episodes she had dismissed as inconsequential, but which proved to be central to his suicidal plot.

Deck had, weeks earlier, found him fiddling with a prerecorded female voice on his laptop. And he had played her the 1964 Petula Clark hit “Downtown,” praising the song’s “significant spirit.” Both became eerie elements of the bombing.

Warner had even cautioned her that he was hatching something that would bring the police to her door, yet until that moment

An image released by the Metro Nashville Police Department shows Anthony Warner driving an RV packed with explosives through downtown Nashville early on Christmas morning, Dec. 25, 2020.

she had not understood the magnitude of his plan.

“I had just texted him ‘Merry Christmas!’” she said, crying at the memory.

Warner, the authorities said, drove his booby-trapped white recreational vehicle to Second Avenue North in the predawn hours. The detonation damaged some 50 buildings, collapsing a few and shearing the antique brick facades off others that will require years and tens of millions of dollars to restore. Two months later, the blast area remains a confused, desolate patchwork of boarded-up buildings, Cyclone fencing and uneven reconstruction efforts.

The explosion, in front of an AT&T hub, crippled cellular, internet and cable service across several states for two days and underscored the vulnerability of such common yet unprotected facilities.

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10 From page 9 driving him to spectacular violence. This mindset has become alarmingly familiar to law enforcement officials now reckoning with the destructive force of conspiracy theories that mutate endlessly online and played a role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Warner, who was 63 when he died, was not among the angry QAnon followers who came to believe the unlikely theory that Donald Trump would hold onto power and defeat a satanic cabal. He was a computer specialist with a deep distrust of government, according to his own writings and to those who knew him. A loner, he had made at least one female friend feel manipulated and frightened. And he had cultivated a bizarre obsession with shapeshifting alien lizards and a dense thicket of other peculiar ideas.

As Warner’s best friend in his final months, Deck believes that some combination of a fatal cancer diagnosis salted with a belief in conspiracy theories led Warner to kill himself in such a brutally spectacular manner.

“He was trying to escape,” said Deck, who is not considered a suspect. “He talked about going out on his own terms.”

The FBI and other federal and local law enforcement agencies investigating the bombing have not made any findings public, although officials said they expect a report by early March.

Whatever else might have been on Warner’s mind in the period leading up to his death, he had been fixated for years on the notion that alien reptiles who inhabited underground tunnels controlled the earth, a fantasy spread by a notorious British serial conspiracy theorist.

The giant lizards, Warner said, appeared among

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us as humans.

By the summer of 2019, he was making a friend, Pamela Perry, increasingly anxious, according to Raymond Throckmorton III, a Nashville lawyer who had represented both Perry and Warner on various matters.

“Pam Perry had had numerous contacts with me where she was just emotionally distraught and had been just really whipped into a frenzy of emotion by apparently crazy things or threatening or unusual things that Tony had said to her,” Throckmorton said. “I think he just sensed that she was at a weak point in her life and it was somebody he could dominate, manipulate or control.”

In August 2019, Perry told police that she believed Warner was building bombs in the RV parked outside his house on Bakertown Lane, and Throckmorton told the police that Warner that was capable of building explosives. Officers went to his home but neither the Nashville police nor the FBI pursued an investigation. A police and municipal review committee is now scrutinizing why.

Perry, through lawyers, declined to comment.

Deck, 44, first met Warner several months later, when he came into the South Nashville Waffle House where she worked. “The first time I met him, I just thought his cornbread wasn’t really done in the middle and he was off a little bit,” she said.

She described two distinct sides to him.

There was the man who spent countless hours glued to his computer, steeping himself in eccentric plots.

But there was also the man who fixed the windshield wipers on her Nissan pickup, repaired her computer, paid the tab for dozens of other

A work crew on Dec. 28, 2020 cleans up at a store damaged when Anthony Warner detonated an RV packed with explosives in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning. About 50 buildings in the city’s historic district were damaged.

diners at the Waffle House and took her Yorkie, Bubba, for walks in the park.

But when Deck began frequenting Warner’s two-bedroom duplex in the Antioch area of Nashville, he told her that no one had visited for 20 years. His distrust of the government dated to roughly the same period, as he subscribed to the 9/11 conspiracy theory that it was an inside job rather than an al-Qaida terrorist attack.

It seemed to Deck he started on the path that led him to downtown Nashville at least 20 years ago. “He kept saying, ‘9/11 is what did it for me’,” she said.

Warner grew up in Nashville, attending local Catholic schools. He served two years in the Navy, in the mid-1970s. He never mentioned his family except for a dead brother, Deck said.

His mother and sister declined to be interviewed.

Tom Lundborg, 57, who runs a Nashvillebased electronic security firm, said he first met Warner years ago when Warner was working as a technician for the company, then run by Lundborg’s parents. Warner, in his 20s, owned a beautiful car and was dating his own cousin, Lundborg recalled.

“He was a really nice-looking guy back then,” Lundborg said. “He had long fluffy hair, a ‘Magnum, P.I.’-.type mustache. Girls liked him.”

Warner soon left to set up his own alarm business and took a client with him, Lundborg said, leaving his parents feeling exploited.

He tangled, too, with his own family, becoming embroiled in a court battle with his elderly mother in 2019, for example, after trying to give away his late brother’s house, where she lived.

In recent years he earned money through freelance IT work for local businesses, including answering service calls. “He was real proud of his computer skills,” Deck said. “He loved how smart he was.”

Warner also camped regularly in Montgomery Bell State Park, west of Nashville, a pastime that fed his conspiracy obsessions — he considered the park to be prime ground for hunting alien reptilians.

He described struggling to spot them with an infrared device, believing they could adjust their body temperature to the surrounding environment, and warned that bullets would just bounce off. “If you try to hunt one, you will find that you are the one being hunted,” he wrote.

Warner composed countless essays that he printed out or loaded onto flash drives, distributing them to Deck and other friends and acquaintances.

American conspiracy theories that attract a wide audience tend to be built around historic events like the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, while the notion of shape-shifting lizards remains obscure.

The idea gained adherents in the late 1990s

after an infamous British conspiracy theorist, David Icke, wrote about it, accusing Queen Elizabeth II, the Bush dynasty and the Rothschilds of being reptilians. He organized seminars that ended with participants trying to dance away the “lizard power,” said Joseph Uscinski, a professor at the University of Miami and co-author of a book called “American Conspiracy Theories.”

Now, in retrospect, Deck dredges her memory for clues of what was to come.

By the time she met him, Warner was clearly preparing for a transition. He had largely emptied his house, save for an air mattress and a computer in the living room.

He hinted that he had been diagnosed with cancer, but she did not pry.

In early December, he sent a letter to his IT clients, telling them that he was retiring. He deeded his house to the daughter of a former girlfriend. Deck saw him last on Dec. 17, when he showed up at the Waffle House to give her his car, a white 2007 Pontiac Vibe, along with the jacket and gloves he used to wear when he walked her dog.

He implied that he had little time left.

On Christmas morning, surveillance camera footage released by the Nashville Metro Police showed that Warner drove his RV downtown at 1:22 a.m. He parked on a tree-lined street filled withVictorian-era red brick warehouses and some new buildings housing restaurants, condominiums and souvenir stores. It runs perpendicular to Broadway, known for its brightly lit honky-tonks and live music, the main draw for tourists.

Several residents, awakened around 4:30 a.m. by what sounded like loud, rapid bursts of gunfire, phoned the police. The officers who responded found no indication of shots fired, and Deck said that Warner used gunfire noises as a ring tone on his cellphone.

He apparently used the sound that morning to attract attention, because a computerized, female voice — the voice Deck had heard him manipulating weeks earlier — soon began emanating from the vehicle, saying, “Stay clear of this vehicle, evacuate now. Do not approach this vehicle!” The police evacuated as many residents as they could.

The voice, more insistent, announced that the vehicle would detonate. It began a 15-minute countdown, interspersed with continued warnings to evacuate as well as snippets from the song “Downtown.”

“When you’re alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.”

At 6:30 a.m., surveillance video showed, a giant fireball erupted around the RV and the resulting concussion rocked the neighborhood.

Already largely deserted on a holiday morning amid a pandemic, its scattered residents managed to flee before the explosion.

Warner was the only person killed.

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On the post-pandemic horizon, could that be ... a boom?

By BEN CASSELMAN

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he U.S. economy remains mired in a pandemic winter of shuttered storefronts, high unemployment and sluggish job growth. But on Wall Street and in Washington, attention is shifting to an intriguing if indistinct prospect: a post-COVID boom.

Forecasters have always expected the pandemic to be followed by a period of strong growth as businesses reopen and Americans resume their normal activities.

But in recent weeks, economists have begun to talk of something stronger: a supercharged rebound that brings down unemployment, drives up wages and may foster years of stronger growth.

There are hints that the economy has turned a corner: Retail sales jumped last month as the latest round of government aid began showing up in consumers’ bank accounts. New unemployment claims have declined from early January, though they remain high. Measures of business investment have picked up, a sign of confidence from corporate leaders.

Economists surveyed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia this month predicted that U.S. output will increase 4.5% this year, which would make it the best year since 1999. Some expect an even stronger bounce: Economists at Goldman Sachs forecast that the economy will grow 6.8% this year and that the unemployment rate will drop to 4.1% by December, a level that took eight years to achieve after the last recession.

“We’re extremely likely to get a very high growth rate,” said Jan Hatzius, Goldman’s chief economist. “Whether it’s a boom or not, I do think it’s a V-shaped recovery,” he added, referring to a steep drop followed by a sharp rebound.

The growing optimism stems from the confluence of several factors. Coronavirus cases are falling in the United States. The vaccine rollout, though slower than hoped, is gaining steam. And largely because of trillions of dollars in federal help, the economy appears to have made it through last year with less structural damage — in the form of business failures, home foreclosures and personal bankruptcies — than many people

Signs of economic life are picking up, and mounds of cash are waiting to be spent as the virus loosens its grip. feared last spring.

Lastly, consumers are sitting on a trillion-dollar mountain of cash, a result of months of lockdown-induced saving and successive rounds of stimulus payments.

That mountain could grow if Congress approves the aid to households that President Joe Biden has proposed.

When the pandemic ends, cash could be unleashed like melting snow in the Rockies: Consumers, released from their cabin fever, compete for hotel rooms and restaurant tables. Businesses compete for employees and supplies to meet the demand.

Workers who were sidelined by child care responsibilities or virus fears are drawn back to the labor force by suddenly abundant opportunities.

“There will be this big boom as pentup demand comes through and the economy is opening,” said Ellen Zentner, chief U.S. economist for Morgan Stanley. “There

is an awful lot of buying power that we’ve transferred to households to fuel that pent-up demand.”

That vision is far from a certainty. Delays in the vaccine rollout could stall the recovery. So could new strains of the virus that render vaccines less effective. A political standoff in Washington could hold up aid for unemployed workers and struggling businesses. And even if the economy avoids all of those traps, there is unlikely to be a single moment when public health officials give an “all clear”; it could be years before people pack into bars and sports stadiums the way they did before the pandemic.

A boom also carries risks. In recent weeks, prominent economists including Lawrence H. Summers, a Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, have warned that Biden’s relief proposal is too large and could lead the economy to overheat, pushing up prices and forcing the Federal Re-

serve to bring the party to a premature end.

Fed officials have largely dismissed those concerns, noting that the consistent problem in recent decades has been too little inflation rather than too much.

Other economists fear that the rebound will primarily benefit those at the top, compounding inequities that the pandemic has widened.

“We may see a boom in the future, but that may just leave some people even further behind, or may give them a trickle when they need a waterfall,” said Tara Sinclair, a George Washington University economist.

But for many businesses and households that have struggled to stay afloat during the pandemic, those concerns pale in comparison with the opportunities that a boom could provide.

Workout Anytime, a chain of 24-hour fitness clubs, was hit hard by the early stages of the pandemic, which shut down gyms nationwide. Business has since rebounded, but not to previous levels, as customers remain wary about working out in close quarters.

But Greg Maurer, a company vice president, sees better times ahead. The pandemic hasn’t dampened people’s enthusiasm for working out, he said — if anything, it has made the importance of physical fitness clearer. As soon as people are sure it’s safe, he said, he expects business to be gangbusters.

“This may be the biggest growth period we’ve ever had coming up,” he said. “There is a huge group of people out there saying, ‘I cannot wait to get back to the club.’”

Maurer doesn’t just expect to get all his old customers back, or even to resume the company’s old growth trajectory. He expects business to leap ahead of its path before the virus. That’s partly because the pandemic has wiped out many smaller gym chains, leaving less competition. But it is also because the pandemic led Workout Anytime and other chains to adopt digital tools, like online bookings and video workouts, that could open up new revenue streams.

“We are a way better organization today as a result of these challenges than we were a year ago because we had to get better,” Maurer said.

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From page 11 Stories like his are behind one of the most intriguing possibilities for the post-COVID-19 era: a surge in productivity. Companies and workers have been forced to embrace a wide range of technologies and policies — online meetings, file sharing, flexible work schedules — that could make their operations more efficient. Spread across the whole economy, such changes could allow faster growth that is sustainable over decades, not just a short-term burst.

Constance L. Hunter, chief economist at the accounting firm KPMG, likened the possibility to the period after World War II. The war led to the development of new technologies and spread existing ones to factories across the country. Those advancements helped make the postwar period one of the best on record for productivity growth, and for economic growth in general.

There is no single definition of a boom, nor a committee of elite economists who agree when one has begun, as there is with recessions. But economists generally agree that booms are characterized by a combination of strong growth and a high absolute level of activity. By that standard, the period after World War II certainly qualifies as a boom. So do the late 1960s.

In recent decades, however, booms have become less common. Growth never took off after the mild recession that hit in 2001, and while the unemployment rate hit a half-century low after the last recession, it took a decade to get there.

There are reasons to think this recovery could be different. For one thing, the economy was fundamentally healthy when the recession began. There was no housing bubble; household debt was low; banks weren’t sitting on a tower of dubious loans that could collapse at any moment. That means there is no reason, at least in theory, that the economy can’t pick up more or less where it left off.

Policymakers have also responded much more aggressively to this crisis than to past ones.

The Fed moved quickly to prevent the pandemic from setting off a financial crisis. Congress spent trillions of dollars to make sure unemployed workers could keep their homes and feed their families, and to help small businesses.

Those efforts were far from a total success. The unemployment system buckled under the crush of applicants, and millions had to wait weeks or months to get benefits, if they got them at all. Government aid was inadequate, or came too late, to save thousands of businesses. State and local governments have

slashed jobs. Hunger rates have risen.

But government aid appears to have been largely effective at preventing deep structural damage that could prevent a strong rebound. There has been no wave of foreclosures or corporate bankruptcies. Rates of entrepreneurship have soared, signaling that Americans are optimistic and have access to the capital necessary to act on that optimism.

Even if there is a strong rebound, however, economists warn that not everyone will benefit.

Kara Gray and her husband, Christopher DeSure, spent years building their small Ohio construction company into a successful business. Then the pandemic shut them down, and, having a daughter at home with a compromised immune system, they haven’t felt comfortable returning to in-person work.

With the housing market strong, Gray is confident they will be able to get back to work once the pandemic is over. But she worries they won’t be able to take full advantage of the boom. She and her husband were forced to spend the money they had set aside to buy a house, and have fallen behind on bills and run up credit card debt. That could make it hard for them to qualify for a mortgage or for a business loan to expand their company.

“It’s going to affect me and my husband longer term,” she said. “It’s not just ‘Can I pay my bills this month?’ It’s that once this is over, I’m going to have to start all over.”

Stories like Gray’s point to a challenge for policymakers. Standard economic statistics like the unemployment rate and gross domestic product could mask persistent challenges facing many families, particularly the Black and Hispanic workers who have borne the brunt of the pandemic’s economic pain. That could lead Congress to pull back on aid when it is still needed.

“The risk is that within the aggregate data that look relatively encouraging, the stories of many, many households are going to get lost,” said David Wilcox, a former Fed economist who is now a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Still, for all its shortcomings, a boom may be the best chance many workers have to make up lost ground. The strong labor market that preceded the pandemic was delivering wage gains to low-income workers and giving opportunities to people with disabilities, criminal records and other barriers to employment.

A quick drop in the unemployment rate won’t heal all the wounds caused by the pandemic, but it might at least stanch the bleeding.

“Root for the boom,” Sinclair said. “But don’t count on the boom doing everything for us.”

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U.S. post-trade group proposes shortening stock settlement cycle

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he main processor for U.S. stock trades said on Wednesday it supports an effort to shorten the settlement cycle for securities to help reduce market risk, an area that has been under scrutiny in the wake of the GameStop Corp trading frenzy.

The time it takes to settle a stock trade, or when then buyer must make the payment and the seller must deliver the security, is currently two days after the transaction happens.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 late-December, 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 Democrat-controlled 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.

Bitcoin soared above $50,000 to an all-time high, adding steam to a rally fueled by signs that the world’s biggest cryptocurrency is gaining acceptance among mainstream investors and companies.

That super-easy stance, coupled with the Biden administration’s proposed $1.9 trillion spending bill for pandemic relief, has left some investors fretting over a coming surge in inflation.

The MSCI’s global stock index was down 0.42% at 682.18. The index touched a record intra-day high of 687.26 on Tuesday, before erasing gains to snap an 11day winning streak.

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A digital firewall in Myanmar, built with guns and wire cutters

A protester jumps while speaking to a group gathered to demonstrate against the military coup, in Yangon, Myanmar, on Feb. 23, 2021. Protesters have access to the internet during the day, but each night it is shut down nationwide.

By HANNAH BEECH and PAUL MOZUR

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he Myanmar soldiers descended before dawn Feb. 1, bearing rifles and wire cutters. At gunpoint, they ordered technicians at telecom operators to switch off the internet. For good measure, the soldiers snipped wires without knowing what they were severing, according to an eyewitness and a person briefed on the events.

The data center raids in Yangon and other cities in Myanmar were part of a coordinated strike in which the military seized power, locked up the country’s elected leaders and took most of its internet users offline.

Since the coup, the military has repeatedly shut off the internet and cut access to major social media sites, isolating a country that had only in the past few years linked to the outside world. The military regime has also floated legislation that could criminalize the mildest opinions expressed online.

So far, the Tatmadaw, as the Myanmar military is known, has depended on cruder forms of control to restrict the flow of information. But the army seems serious about setting up a digital fence to more aggressively filter what people see and do online. Developing such a system could take years and would likely require outside help from Beijing or Moscow, according to experts.

Such a comprehensive firewall may also exact a heavy price: The internet outages since the coup have paralyzed a struggling economy.

Longer disruptions will damage local business interests and foreign investor confidence as well as the military’s own vast business interests.

“The military is afraid of the online activities of people so they tried to block and shut down the internet,” said Ko Zaw Thurein Tun, a president of a local chapter of the Myanmar Computer Professionals Association. “But now international bank transactions have stopped, and the country’s economy is declining. It’s like their urine is watering their own face.”

If Myanmar’s digital controls become permanent, they would add to the global walls that are increasingly dividing what was supposed to be an open, borderless internet. The blocks would also offer fresh evidence that more countries are looking to China’s authoritarian model to tame the internet. Two weeks after the coup, Cambodia, which is under China’s economic sway, also unveiled its own sweeping internet controls.

Even policymakers in the United States and Europe are setting their own rules, although these are far less severe. Technologists worry that such moves could ultimately break apart the internet, effectively undermining the online networks that link the world together.

The people of Myanmar may have gotten online later than most others, but their enthusiasm for the internet has the zeal of the converted. Communications on Facebook and Twitter, along with secure messaging apps, have united millions of people in opposition to the coup.

Daily street protests against the military have gathered strength in recent days, despite fears of a bloody crackdown. Demonstrators have rallied at China’s diplomatic missions in Myanmar, accusing Beijing of exporting the tools of authoritarianism to its smaller neighbor.

Huawei and ZTE, two major Chinese companies, built much of Myanmar’s telecommunications network, especially when Western financial sanctions made it difficult for other foreign firms to operate in the country.

Myanmar’s two foreign-owned telecom operators, Telenor and Ooredo, have complied with numerous demands from the military, including instructions to cut off the internet each night for the past week, and block specific websites, such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

All the while, the military has placed officers from its Signal Corps in charge of the Posts and Telecommunications Department, according to two people with knowledge of the department’s staffing.

A 36-page draft cybersecurity law that was distributed to telecoms and internet service providers the week after the coup outlines draconian rules that would give the military sweeping powers to block websites and cut off access to users deemed troublesome. The law would also allow the government broad access to users’ data, which it stipulates the internet providers must store for three years.

“The cybersecurity law is just a law to arrest people who are online,” said Ma Htaike Htaike Aung, the executive director of MIDO, a civil society group that tracks technology in Myanmar. “If it goes through, the digital economy will be gone in our country.”

When the draft of the law was sent for comment to the foreign telecoms, the companies’ representatives were told by the authorities that rejecting the law was not an option, according to two people with knowledge of the conversations.

Those people and others with knowledge of the ongoing attempts to crack down on the internet in Myanmar spoke to The New York Times on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivities of the new regime.

The draft cybersecurity law follows a

yearslong effort within the country to build out surveillance capabilities, often following cues from China. Last year, Telenor, a Norwegianowned company, raised concerns about a government push to register the identities of individuals who purchase cellphone services, which would allow authorities to link names to phone numbers.

The campaign in Myanmar has thus far been unsuccessful, though it bears similarities to China’s real-name registration policies, which have become a keystone of Beijing’s surveillance state. The program reflected Myanmar’s ambitions but also just how far away it is from achieving anything close to what China has done.

In recent years, Huawei surveillance cameras made to track cars and people have also gone up in the country’s biggest cities and in Naypyitaw, the underpopulated capital. A top cybersecurity official in Myanmar recently showed off photos of such road monitoring technology on his personal Facebook page.

A Huawei spokesman declined to comment about the systems.

For now, even as anti-Chinese protests mount over fears of an influx of high-tech equipment, the Tatmadaw has ordered telecom companies to use less sophisticated methods to hamper internet access. The method of choice is to decouple website addresses from the series of numbers a computer needs to look up specific sites, a practice akin to listing a wrong number under a person’s name in a phone book.

Savvier internet users skirt the blocks with virtual private networks or VPNs. But over the past week, access to some popular free VPNs in Myanmar has been hindered. And paid services, which are harder to block, are unaffordable to most people in the country, who also lack the international credit cards needed to purchase them.

Zaw Thurein Tun, of the Myanmar Computer Professionals Association, said that he was sitting at home, browsing the internet shortly after the coup, when a clutch of men arrived to arrest him. Other digital activists had already been detained across the country. He ran.

He is now in hiding but is helping to direct a civil disobedience campaign against the military. Zaw Thurein Tun said he is concerned that the Tatmadaw is assembling, brick by digital brick, its own firewall.

“Then all of us will be in complete darkness again,” he said.

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Israel’s beaches are littered with tar after mysterious oil spill

By ADAM RASGON

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large oil spill from an unknown source has devastated sea life in the Mediterranean and spewed tons of tar across more than 100 miles of coastline from Israel to southern Lebanon in what Israeli officials are calling one of the worst ecological disasters in decades.

Shaul Goldstein, the director of Israel’s nature and parks authority, said the spill would set back three decades of efforts to protect and renew biodiversity along the coastline.

“I feel like I want to cry,” said Goldstein, who has spent the past several days removing tar from the beaches. “It’s everywhere — it’s even four to five inches thick in some places.”

Israeli authorities said they are investigating the cause of the spill, which the environmental protection ministry said it only learned about when thick clumps of tar showed up on beaches last Wednesday, prompting an enormous cleanup effort to try to mitigate the damage.

But much about the incident remains unclear because an Israeli court in Haifa issued a gag order, at the behest of the government, restricting the publication of many details related to the case — including everything connected to the methods of the investigation, the parties involved in the investigation and any detail coming from the investigation.

Yoni Shamir, a lawyer representing the government, said in court on Tuesday that the restrictions were needed to avoid undermining the investigation. In investigations concerning both national security issues and criminal cases, it is not uncommon for the courts to issue such gag orders.

Thousands of volunteers and hundreds of soldiers and police officers have participated in the cleanup, which Goldstein said he expected to last for at least several months, especially in rocky areas where removing the tar can be complicated.

On Tuesday, Israel announced that it would invest millions of dollars in cleaning up the beaches and documenting the scope of the damage.

Last Thursday, a 55-foot-long fin whale washed up on a beach in the port city of Ashdod, south of Tel Aviv.

Veterinarians said they found black liquid in the whale’s lungs during an necropsy, but they did not definitively connect the animal’s death to the spill.

The environmental protection minister, Gila Gamliel, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the beach in Ashdod on Monday, where they walked by scattered patches of tar.

The environmental protection ministry has said it has identified about 10 ships as potential suspects of “the environmental offense” and said it believed it took place outside Israel’s territorial waters, approximately 31 miles from its coast.

Gamliel said the authorities would do everything possible to locate the parties responsible for the spill and could sue the company that insured the ship responsible for it.

On Sunday, several government agencies warned Israelis against swimming in the ocean or relaxing or playing sports at the beach, emphasizing “exposure to the tar could damage the public’s health.”

A small number of employees who worked for the nature and parks authority were given supplemental oxygen because they experienced difficulty breathing after inhaling tar fumes while working to clean up the beach, according to a spokeswoman for the agency.

Experts contended that the spill revealed vulnerabilities in Israel’s maritime security and showed that authorities needed to bolster efforts to monitor waters within its exclusive economic zone.

“In Israel, we have maritime domain blindness,” said Shaul Chorev, a retired rear admiral in the Israeli Navy who is now head of Haifa University’s Maritime Policy and Strategy Research Center. “Our activities are always focused on foiling terrorists activities, but that’s not the whole picture of security in the sea.”

Chorev said preventing future oil spills from reaching the coastline would not only require Israel to invest in satellites and other tracking devices, but also to assign a government body with the clear responsibility of monitoring its coast for ecological disasters as well as

containing them.

Environmental activists warned while the damage caused by the spill was significant, a leak by one of the natural gas rigs off Israel’s coast could be even more destructive. Israel has invested heavily to develop natural gas fields off its coast and began exporting gas in to Egypt in late 2019.

“This should be a wake-up call,” said Maya Jacobs, the director of Zalul, an organization that advocates preserving bodies of water in and around Israel, which relies heavily on desalinized water. “We must step up oversight of the rigs immediately and transition to using renewable energies.”

In Lebanon, the prime minister’s office said the tar reached that country’s southern shores. It also claimed that the oil spill originated from an Israeli ship, but provided no evidence to back up the claim.

Yasser al-Shanti, the head of the Water Authority in Gaza, said no oil had reached Gaza’s beaches, but that officials were tracking the situation.

Moshiko Saadi, an environmental activist who spent Tuesday helping to clean up a beach in northern Israel, said he was “heartbroken” by the ubiquity of the tar.

“So many people are cleaning and quickly filling bag after bag,” said Saadi “But then you look up and you see there are still huge amounts everywhere. It makes you feel helpless.”

Israeli soldiers cleaning tar on Monday from the shoreline at Sharon Beach Nature Reserve, near Tel Aviv.

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Looking for something new in Russia’s ‘New People’ party

By ANDREW E. KRAMER

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resident Vladimir Putin has made it clear that he doesn’t tolerate dissent, but one new opposition party has flourished.

And that party, curiously, has been speaking out on the same themes of fighting corruption and repression that have made opposition leader Alexei Navalny enemy No. 1 of the Kremlin, with the government about to ship him off to a penal colony.

The new party thrives even as Navalny’s own party has been banned. The reasons, Russian analysts say, are to undermine Navalny, distract from his movement and divide the liberal opposition — all while providing a veneer of multiparty politics in a country where there is little meaningful electoral choice.

The new party, called New People, seems designed to appeal to Navalny’s followers.

“For two decades, we lived in a situation of a false choice: either freedom or order,” its platform proclaims.

The government, it says, “should stop seeing enemies and traitors in those who have other points of view.”

The Kremlin has worked on many fronts to destroy Navalny’s movement — arresting his supporters at protests and, according to Navalny and Western governments, trying to assassinate him last year. Government officials have smeared him as a stooge of Western inte-

A congress of the New People party in Moscow in 2020.

lligence agencies, and government-backed flash mobs have sprung up to support Putin.

But Navalny has also faced a steady stream of competing anti-corruption reformers who seem to operate with the government’s blessing — most recently New People, which has been revving up its campaign for parliamentary elections in September, when Navalny will be in a penal colony.

The founder of a cosmetics company, Alexei Nechayev, established the party last year to channel what he described as opposition sentiment in society, much as Navalny has been doing. But Nechayev refrains from direct criticism of Putin and is not calling for his ouster.

Navalny and his allies greeted the arrival of New People with disdain, identifying Nechayev as the latest in a long line of political doubles conjured up by the Kremlin to try to unseat Navalny from his leadership of discontented young professionals.

“They are trying to feed us the line these New People will now be the real competition for United Russia,” Lyubov Sobol, a Navalny ally, said of the governing pro-Putin party in a YouTube analysis after the new party’s appearance last year.

“It’s kind of funny,” she added. “They say the right things, more or less, but obviously won’t ever do anything. They are simply spoilers.”

Russia’s political system is sometimes called “ma-

naged democracy,” for the practice of Kremlin political advisers creating, mentoring or funding supposed opposition figures and parties — and tolerating some others as long as they don’t criticize Putin directly.

This gloss on Russia’s iron-fisted rule emerged in the early 2000s under a former domestic political adviser to Putin, Vladislav Surkov, though Surkov has since been elbowed aside. In the last presidential election in 2018, Ksenia Sobchak, a socialite who is reputed to be a goddaughter of Putin, filled the ersatz opposition role while Navalny was banned from running.

Similarly, New People allows Russians who support Navalny’s modernizing agenda to vote for a legal alternative, without the headache of arrests and repression.

Nechayev denied he consulted with the Kremlin before forming the party, which now has 72 regional offices, having added two just in the last week, and actually won a smattering of seats last fall in regional elections.

Still, political analysts have dismissed the idea that the party emerged without the Kremlin’s blessing. In Russia, “the real opposition is the unregistered parties,” Andrei Kolesnikov, a political scientist at the Moscow Carnegie Center, said in a telephone interview.

In an interview in the party’s spacious headquarters in an upscale office tower in Moscow, Nechayev listed the three conditions for registering a political party: refraining from criticism of Putin or his family, avoiding foreign financing and abstaining from unsanctioned street protests.

“We don’t violate these three red lines,” he said.

“Often, and especially in the West, Russia is presented as just Putin and Navalny,” but many Russians want a moderate opposition, he said. “Most people understand the world is not black and white.”

However useful in blunting movements like Navalny’s, managed democracy hasn’t always gone smoothly. On rare occasions, politicians derided as Kremlin puppets have pivoted to real opposition.

In a macabre twist, one political figure believed to have arisen as a fake, or managed, copy of Navalny has even died in what Bellingcat, the open-source research organization, has documented as a likely assassination with poison.

As an anti-corruption blogger, Nikita Isayev and his group New Russia had mimicked many of Navalny’s tactics, uncovering corruption among low-level officials.

He was called “the New Navalny.” He refrained, though, from criticizing Putin.

Isayev died suddenly at age 41 on an overnight train ride in 2019. Among the potential motives Bellingcat identified was palace intrigue. Isayev was seen as affiliated with Surkov, so when Surkov fell from favor, according to this theory, his Kremlin rivals arranged to eliminate his fake Navalny, too.

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Can you believe this is happening in America?

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

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n the last six months I’ve heard one phrase more often than I had in my previous 66 years: “Can you believe this is happening in America?”

As in: “I spent the whole day hunting online for a drugstore to get a COVID vaccination. Can you believe this is happening in America?”

“Fellow Americans ransacked our Capitol and tried to overturn an election. Can you believe this is happening in America?”

“People in Texas are burning their furniture for heat, boiling water to drink and melting snow to flush their toilets. Can you believe this is happening in America?”

But, hey, all the news is not bad. We just sent a high-tech buggy named Perseverance loaded with cameras and scientific gear 292 million miles into space and landed it on the exact dot we were aiming for on Mars! Only in America!

What’s going on? Well, in the case of Texas and Mars, the basic answers are simple. Texas is the poster child for what happens when you turn everything into politics — including science, Mother Nature and energy — and try to maximize short-term profits over long-term resilience in an era of extreme weather. The Mars landing is the poster child for letting science guide us and inspire audacious goals and the long-term investments to achieve them.

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The Mars mindset used to be more our norm. The Texas mindset has replaced it in way too many cases. Going forward, if we want more Mars landings and fewer Texas collapses — what’s happening to people there is truly heartbreaking — we need to take a cold, hard look at what produced each.

The essence of Texas thinking was expressed by Gov. Greg Abbott in the first big interview he gave to explain why the state’s electricity grid failed during a record freeze. He told Fox News’ Sean Hannity: “This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America. … Our wind and our solar got shut down, and they were collectively more than 10% of our power grid, and that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power on a statewide basis. … It just shows that fossil fuel is necessary.”

The combined dishonesty and boneheadedness of those few sentences was breathtaking. The truth? Texas radically deregulated its energy market in ways that encouraged every producer to generate the most energy at the least cost with the least resilience — and to ignore the long-term trend toward more extreme weather.

“After a heavy snowstorm in February 2011 caused statewide rolling blackouts and left millions of Texans in the dark,” The Times reported Sunday, “federal authorities warned the state that its power infrastructure had inadequate ‘winterization’ protection.

But 10 years later, pipelines remained inadequately insulated” and the heaters and de-icing equipment “that might have kept instruments from freezing were never installed” — because they would have added costs.

As a result, it wasn’t just Texas wind turbines that froze — but also gas plants, oil rigs and coal piles, and even one of Texas’ nuclear reactors had to shut down because the frigid temperatures caused a disruption in a water pump to the reactor.

That was a result of Abbott’s Green Old Deal — prioritize the short-term profits of the oil, gas and coal industries, which provide him political campaign contributions; deny climate change; and dare Mother Nature to prove you wrong, which she did.

And now Texas needs federal emergency funds. That is what we capitalists call “privatizing the gains and socializing the losses.” I don’t know what they call it in Texas.

But to disguise all that, Abbott trashed his state’s trendsetting wind and solar power — power it pulls from the sky free, with zero emissions, making rural Texans prosperous — in order to protect the burning of fossil fuels that enrich his donor base.

Abbott’s move was the latest iteration of a really unhealthy trend in America: We turn everything into politics — masks, vaccines, the weather, your racial identity and even energy electrons.

Last year Donald Trump referred to oil, gas and coal as “our kind of energy.” When energy electrons become politics, the end is near. You can’t think straight about anything.

“For a healthy politics to flourish it needs reference points outside itself — reference points of truth and a conception of the

common good,” explained Hebrew University religious philosopher Moshe Halbertal. “When everything becomes political, that is the end of politics.”

Making everything politics, added Halbertal, “totally distorts your ability to read reality.” And to do that with Mother Nature is particularly reckless, because she is the one major force in our lives “that is totally independent of our will.” And if you think you can spin her, Halbertal said, “the slap in the face that she will give you will be heard all across the world.”

You don’t have to listen too carefully to hear it. Although it is still too early to say for sure, the Texas freeze fits a recent pattern of increasingly destructive “global weirding.” I much prefer that term over “climate change” or “global warming.” Because what happens as average global temperatures rise, ice melts, jet streams shift and the climate changes is that the weather gets weird. The hots get hotter, the colds get colder, the wets get wetter, the dries get drier and the most violent storms get more frequent. Those once-in-100-years floods, droughts, heat waves or deep freezes start to happen every few years. That’s how we will experience climate change.

According to a recent report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: “The U.S. has sustained 285 weather and climate disasters since 1980 where overall damages/ costs reached or exceeded $1 billion (including CPI adjustment to 2020). The total cost of these 285 events exceeds $1.875 trillion. … The years with 10 or more separate billion-dollar disaster events include 1998, 2008, 2011-2012, and 2015-2020.” This year, after this Texas disaster alone, could set a record — and we’re only in February.

If global weirding is our new normal, we need a whole new level of buffers, redundancies and supply inventories to create resilience for our power grids — and many more distributed forms of energy, like solar, that can enable households to survive when the grid goes down. Looking to maximize profits around fossil fuels in an age of global weirding is just begging to get hammered.

As Hal Harvey, CEO of Energy Innovation, remarked to me: “Cave men understood that you have to store things up to be secure. Birds know that. Squirrels know that. So, what are we doing?

And what was Texas doing?”

Every leader needs to be asking those questions. Leadership always matters. But today, it matters more than ever at every level. Because in a slower age, if your city, state or country had a bad leader and got off track, the pain of getting back on track was tolerable. Now, when climate change, globalization and technology are all accelerating at once, small errors in navigation can have huge consequences. They can leave your community or country so far off track that the pain of getting back on track can be excruciating.

Just look at Texas and you’ll know what I mean. And just look up at Mars, and think of the mindset that got us there, and you’ll know what needs to change.

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l representante del Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) por acumulación, Héctor Ferrer Santiago, solicitó este miércoles al Departamento de Educación que presente información sobre el protocolo a seguir en caso de algún resultado positivo en escuelas regulares, escuelas especializadas y escuelas residenciales o “Boarding Schools” luego que inicien las clases presenciales.

En el caso de las escuelas residenciales en el Albergue Olímpico en Salinas, CROEM en Mayagüez y CROEV en Villalba, no van a empezar a dar clases en marzo, según dijo recientemente el secretario del Departamento de Salud, Carlos Mellado López.

“Es imperativo velar por la salud y

seguridad tanto de nuestros estudiantes como de nuestros maestros y personal administrativo en el sistema de enseñanza. Si bien es cierto que es impor-

tante iniciar clases presenciales, no es menos cierto que debe hacerse de manera responsable. Es necesario que el Departamento de Educación establezca

y publique de antemano los protocolos salubristas, no tan solo los del manejo de las instalaciones escolares sino el protocolo a seguir si surge algún caso positivo. Es incontenible que el Departamento no ha podido precisar dicho protocolo a una semana de la proyectada apertura”, enfatizó Ferrer Santiago en una declaración escrita.

Además, solicitó información sobre el plan de reapertura y mantenimiento de las escuelas de cara al semestre escolar de agosto a diciembre de 2021.

“El Departamento de Educación tendrá un plazo de 5 días a partir de la aprobación de esta Resolución para entregar toda la información. Este tema es uno prioritario que requiere nuestra atención inmediata”, precisó el representante.

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l alcalde de San Juan, Miguel Romero Lugo, anunció el miércoles el ofrecimiento de talleres de orientación para pequeños empresarios de la capital que interesen solicitar ayudas por hasta $50 mil mediante fondos del programa CDBG-DR. La asignación de fondos responde a la mitigación de daños que ocasionaron los huracanes Irma y María a estos pequeños comerciantes.

“Hemos trabajado en unión al Banco de Desarrollo Económico (BDE) y el Departamento de la Vivienda para llevar a cabo estos talleres, los cuales permitirán orientar a nuestros comerciantes sanjuaneros sobre las ayudas a las que pueden acceder, a fin de fortalecer el comercio local”, sostuvo Romero Lugo en una declaración escrita.

Romero Lugo añadió que “estas ayudas no conllevan ninguna inversión; sin embargo, en ocasiones y por no contar con la debida orientación, hay comerciantes que pierden fondos indispensables para fomentar el desarrollo económico. Exhortamos a que participen de este evento y aprovechen esta oportunidad”.

Los talleres son gratuitos y se llevarán a cabo en el Colegio Universitario de San Juan los días 3 y 4 de marzo en dos sesiones: 9:00 de la mañana a 11:00 de la mañana y 1:00 de la tarde a 3:00 de la tarde.

Cada participante deberá llevar su computadora para realizar la solicitud en línea.

Deberán tener disponible en formato Adobe Acrobat

(pdf) sus planillas de los años 2016, 2017 y 2018; su Registro de Comerciante; así como una Certificación de No Deuda del CRIM y de Hacienda.

El cupo es limitado a 50 personas por sesión y se ha diseñado un portal para que las personas interesadas se puedan inscribir por Eventbrite y así garantizar el protocolo establecido para prevenir el COVID-19.

Por su parte, el presidente del BDE, Luis Alemañy, informó que “los fondos van dirigidos a la retención y creación de empleos, así como a la compra de equipos y materiales. Es requisito que los comerciantes puedan demostrar haber sufrido pérdidas físicas o económicas debido al paso de los huracanes para solicitar estas ayudas. También pueden solicitar aquellos que tuvieron que cerrar operaciones como consecuencia de los huracanes, pero que han abierto un nuevo negocio”.

Mientras, el secretario de la Vivienda, William Rodríguez Rodríguez, precisó que “los pequeños comerciantes son un sector esencial de nuestra economía y los fondos CDBG-DR están disponibles para asistir en el proceso de levantar y fortalecer sus negocios. Muchos comerciantes aún luchan con los estragos de los huracanes Irma y María, así que estos fondos llegan a apoyar sus esfuerzos. Les invitamos a que compartan esta información con todo comerciante sanjuanero que conozcan, a fin de que se beneficie la mayor cantidad de negocios posible”.

Por último, el primer ejecutivo capitalino exhortó a que accedan a la página del evento para inscribirse, disponible en https://www.eventbrite.com/e/taller-para-

solicitar-ayuda-de-hasta-50-mil-de-fondos-cdbg-dr-parapymes-tickets-142243212277.

“Tenemos una gran oportunidad para impulsar la economía de nuestra ciudad capital con esta importante asignación de fondos federales, por lo que estamos a la disposición de nuestros comerciantes para facilitar y agilizar el proceso. Gracias al Banco de Desarrollo Económico y al Departamento de la Vivienda por su compromiso con nuestra capital”, concluyó Romero Lugo.

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Billie Eilish is in the mood for love (and a weighted blanket)

By SARAH BAHR

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illie Eilish can’t stop making lists.

“I’m just finding ways of enjoying life,” the 19-yearold singer-songwriter said late last month. “I really like cleaning my room and rearranging things.”

She’s also been working on the follow-up to her debut album, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” from 2019, which helped her win all four top Grammys — best new artist, record of the year, song of the year and album of the year — and made her the youngest person ever, and the first woman, to pull off the sweep.

It was the latest milestone in a meteoric rise chronicled in a new documentary, “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry,” out on Apple TV+ on Feb. 26. But that doesn’t mean Eilish’s rapid ascent is easy for her to watch. “I’m watching it like, ‘Shut the [expletive] up,” she said. “It’s brutal. I’m like, ‘Don’t talk about that!’” (“It’s really nice to get to watch myself go through all these amazing things from another point of view,” she added of the “painfully honest” movie.)

The film, directed by R.J. Cutler, traces a fairy tale career that has seen Eilish’s homemade songs streamed more than 1 billion times on digital platforms while she’s collected over 75 million followers on Instagram. It chronicles the creation of that award-winning LP, and was filmed from 2018 through early 2020.

Eilish has spent the past year enjoying recent milestones like voting, driving and accidentally ordering 70 boxes of Froot Loops online. She also wrote a song with Rosalía, “Lo Vas a Olvidar” (“You Will Forget It”), which premiered during a special episode of the HBO series “Euphoria.”

In an interview from Los Angeles in late January — punctuated by occasional barks from her rambunctious pit bull, Pepper — Eilish shared her cultural essentials, including her lockdown listens and her dream first date. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

1. The strokes’ “The New Abnormal” When I first found the album, I was going on a lot of bike rides. I would play the whole album on my speaker backpack and ride around random neighborhoods, and it was always sunny and breezy and pretty and green. Julian Casablancas is just a genius — every time I hear his lyrics I think, “I would never think to say that.” That’s what I love about them — they’re so unexpected, but also relatable. Every single song is good.

2. Anything scented When I was growing up, everybody said I had a “Super Sniffer,” which is a phrase from the show “Psych” and basically means you can smell really well. I don’t know how, though, because my nose is very small! Mine is kind of extreme because I also have synesthesia, which is when your brain pairs two things automatically — every smell has a certain color, number and day of the week. I have probably 100 perfumes, and I label the bottles with little pieces of paper so I can remember what they smell like to me. Some are very specific, like, “This one smells like a ballet class I used to be in,” or “This one smells like that one day we went to this person’s house and this person said this,” and some are more vague, like, “This Hawaiian Punch perfume I got at CVS for $1 smells like 2015,” the whole year. Some are so strong that I

Singer Billie Eilish in Los Angeles, March 14, 2019. The singer-songwriter gets candid about her new documentary, her dream first date and her perfume obsession. can’t smell them at all anymore because I get overwhelmed with the memory.

3. Crossroads kitchen I’ve never been on a date — no one has ever taken me on a [expletive] date before! — but if I were to go on one, Crossroads would be the dream. It’s a vegan restaurant in Los Angeles, and it’s bomb. It’s the most delicious food ever. The meatball sub and chicken waffles are my go-tos. They’re both entrees, so every time I go they’re like, “What do you want?” and I’m like “The meatball sub,” and then they want to move on to the next person, but I’m like, “Also, the chicken waffles.” And I eat them both right up. I don’t have any leftovers afterward.

4. “I’m in the Mood for Love” The first time I heard this song was on “The Little Rascals,” which was my favorite show when I was kid. All I wanted was to be a Little Rascal; I wanted to kiss Alfalfa so bad! There’s a scene where Darla sings “I’m in the Mood for Love,” and I remember thinking it was such a pretty song. Then years and years went by, until one day, I was like, “What was that song that I thought was so pretty when I was little?” And I found a really beautiful, but low-quality, Frank Sinatra version on SoundCloud, which I listened to when I was traveling through Europe on tour. And then recently, I found this Julie London version, and she just murders it.

She has one of the most beautiful voices I’ve ever heard. It’s just such a perfect love song. Every time I hear it, no matter what I’m

feeling, it makes me want love.

5. Cards On tour we have a lot of waiting time — yes, tour, a thing from the past! — and I can’t really go outside because the fans are lined up around the block. But we come up with things to do. Our go-to game is Speed, which is a card game my assistant tour manager, Lauren Millar, taught me how to play on this really long bus ride in Russia — we played it for like two hours straight that day. And from then on we just played it nonstop. It started as kind of a time-taker-upper and ended as a thing we’d do when we were supposed to be doing other things.

6. “We Need to Talk About Kevin” This movie has the most beautiful cinematography I’ve ever seen — everything about it is perfectly done, from the framing to the colors. It’s been one of my biggest inspirations for my own music videos. Every time I watch it I see something new that’s genius about the way it was shot.

7. Driving Once I learned how to drive, it was all I wanted to do. It’s a place where I feel very free and anonymous and in control. I drive a black Dodge Challenger, which was my dream car growing up.

I saved my money for years and years, and I used to be like, “I don’t want anyone to buy it for me because I want to buy it myself with my own money.” But then Justin [Lubliner], my label guy, a couple months before my birthday was like, “What do you want for your birthday, Billie?” and I, just jokingly, was like, “A Dodge Challenger, in matte black.” And I was like, “Just kidding, don’t get me that, obviously.” Then the night before my birthday, we did a photo shoot for the cover of my album, and at the end of the day Justin drove up in my dream car — I cried for probably three hours straight.

8. Weighted blanket My mom got one when I was 9 or 10 because she can’t fall asleep without a lot of weight on her — one time when she was younger, she woke up between her mattress and her bed frame! I had just been using hers, and then eventually I got my own. I get so much better sleep under it, and it’s a good physical affection tool when you don’t have any.

9. “New Girl” I’ve seen this show like six times, and I just started rewatching it again. It’s just very entertaining and stupid and I love it.

I watched it like 10 minutes ago right before I got on this call. I don’t ever get tired of it because the actors are so hilarious. Max Greenfield is just one of my favorite people — he’s so funny and so specifically himself. But Nick Miller is really just top-notch and is the best character. He’s trending on Twitter right now for some reason; I don’t know why. But I don’t blame Twitter. Nick Miller’s the GOAT. 10. Frank Ocean “Blonde” is my go-to album to play any time at all, but especially when I need to relax. When I had a plaster mold made of my head for a photo shoot for the cover of Garage magazine a few years ago, I played Frank Ocean the entire hour so I wouldn’t have a panic attack. I haven’t gotten to meet him, but I don’t expect him to ever even come near me. He can stay being God up in the clouds.

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Douglas Turner Ward: A lens on ‘questions that the country wasn’t asking

By LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES

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ouglas Turner Ward, who died at 90 on Saturday, left a legacy of extraordinary reach.

By the time he founded the Negro Ensemble Company in 1967 with Robert Hooks and Gerald Krone, he had already been on Broadway in the original 1959 cast of “A Raisin in the Sun,” playing a tiny role while understudying Sidney Poitier.

In the mid-’60s, Ward made a splash with his short satire “Day of Absence” — in which Black actors in whiteface makeup played white characters — and with an essay in The New York Times titled “American Theater: For Whites Only?”

He dedicated his career to making sure that the answer was no.

Nurturing the talents of Black artists through his company, he watched a remarkable number go on to fame — not least those from his acclaimed 1981 original production of Charles Fuller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “A Soldier’s Play,” whose cast included Denzel Washington, Samuel L. Jackson and David Alan Grier.

This week, company alumni and other colleagues reminisced about Ward and how he shaped the field. These are edited excerpts from the conversations.

Samuel L. Jackson and LaTanya Richardson Jackson Negro Ensemble Company alumni, in a joint interview Latanya Richardson Jackson: He wanted the work of great African American and Black artists to be as important to the world and to the artists themselves as the dominant culture. And his love of that original Negro Ensemble Company was always first in his conversation about art because he so respected all of those actors and felt that they represented the best of the best inside the business, period.

Samuel L. Jackson: He carried, like, four newspapers around with him. Every day. And when we were in rehearsal, he would sit in the back of the theater reading the paper.

He would be in the back left corner reading the paper, and then, you know, you’d look up, and by the time you’d finished the first act, he’d be in the middle of the theater reading the paper, and then he’d be in another corner reading the paper or in the balcony reading the paper. And at the end of rehearsal, he’d come down and give you notes! And we’d be like, “You’ve been reading the paper!” And then we started to find out that he only looked up from reading the paper when there was a bad line reading or something sounded off.

Latanya Richardson Jackson: We stayed in touch with Doug. When I was doing “Raisin,” he was one of the first persons I saw when we came off the stage.

Samuel L. Jackson: I remember when I was doing “Shaft,” he just walked into my trailer one night.

Latanya Richardson Jackson: Yeah, he kept up with his people now. He would find you.

Samuel L. Jackson: Sometimes when people pass, you can actually feel the hole in the universe. This is one of those.

Robert Hooks A founder of the Negro Ensemble Company We bonded on the road with “A Raisin in the Sun.”

Kenny Leon, with the microphone, thanks Douglas Turner Ward, second from left, and Charles Fuller, third from the left, on opening night of “A Soldier’s Play,” in New York, Jan. 21, 2020.

Douglas got to play the Sidney Poitier role, Walter Lee [Younger], which was a role he had understudied from the very beginning.

He was a highly intellectual man. Read all the time about everything. I was not into politics at all. But by the time we closed “Raisin in the Sun,” I was a politico. We talked politics all the time. We talked about Black art.

His whole sense of humor as it relates to his writing was classic. He proves it, of course, in “Day of Absence,” when all the Black people disappear from this Southern town. It’s just hilarious. But the white folks that were laughing, their heads would roll down the aisle because that’s the kind of humor Douglas wrote: scathing, scathing stuff.

Of all the men that I’ve ever met in my life, he was the greatest influence. My father died when I was 2. But when I met Douglas Turner Ward, I had a father and a brother.

Phylicia Rashad Negro Ensemble Company alumnus, in a written statement Douglas Turner Ward was a “salt of the Earth” person who brought those sensibilities to the art of theater. He was daring. He was bold. He was honest. He was kind. He made room for many theater artists. He even created space.

Woodie King Jr. Producing director and founder of New Federal Theater He was touring in “A Raisin in the Sun,” and they came to the Cass Theater in Detroit, and I went down to see the play and waited around. Then I walked them back to the hotel, and we talked. I showed up the next night and the next night. Finally, they said, “When you get to New York, man, we can talk all the time.” I said, “Well, while you’re in Detroit for these two weeks, can I come back tomorrow?” So that was my first encounter with Douglas Turner Ward.

Two weeks later, I saw Sidney Poitier in “The Defiant Ones.” These two dark-skinned actors sort of like put a stamp on the acting profession. That’s what I wanted to be. It seemed possible. Absolutely possible.

Sade Lythcott Chief executive of National Black Theater, founded by her mother, Barbara Ann Teer Douglas and my mom grew up together, artistically. It was such a seminal moment in our country, the mid-1960s.

It was the birth of Black consciousness. And “Day of Absence” was such a seminal work. My mom was in it. And that was such a metaphor for so much of their relationship: the support onstage and behind the stage to do something that felt revolutionary and felt accurate in the telling of our stories, and that that could be the revolution — Black stories in the way that Douglas wrote that. From our lens, the questions that the country wasn’t asking.

David Alan Grier Negro Ensemble Company alumnus Growing up in Detroit, I read about the Negro Ensemble. My parents took me to see a road company of “The River Niger.” These were artistic heroes to me, and specifically Douglas Turner Ward. When I went into the company of “A Soldier’s Play” [in the original production], I auditioned for him. I was really nervous, and he directed and put me in.

I was in town to do “Race” back in 2009, and I ran into Doug in a restaurant we used to hang out in. He came over, and he said, “I really want to congratulate you on all of your success on television and in film. But please, you guys” — meaning me, Denzel, Sam Jackson, not to put myself on their level, but we were all in the play together; that was our connection — he said, “Don’t forget the theater, man. Always come back. We need you here, and the theater needs you here.”

Sometimes those words, those moments of mentorship, mean and resonate so much and so deeply.

Kenny Leon Director of the Broadway production of “A Soldier’s Play,” in 2020 The greatest experience for me as an American director was when the curtain went down that opening night, for me to call Douglas Turner Ward and Charles Fuller on that stage. To have Doug come up there and have him smile like that.

Hattie Winston A founding member of the Negro Ensemble Company Douglas Turner Ward is responsible for — and I say this without hesitation — the careers of not only Sam and LaTanya and Denzel and myself, but Phylicia Rashad, Debbie Allen, Charles Weldon, Adolph Caesar came through there. Not just actors, but costume designers, set designers, directors.

Michael Schultz directed our very first production at the company, a play called “The Song of the Lusitanian Bogey” that was written by Peter Weiss, who was a German playwright who was a friend of Doug’s. It was all about colonialism in Africa. With that play, NEC was chosen to represent the United States of America in the international theater festival in London. That was monumental.

So Douglas Turner Ward, he’s in my heart, and he will always be in my heart. He’s responsible for me being who I am. It all came from Doug. We’re his children.

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Thursday, February 25, 2021

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‘Nomadland’ review: The unsettled Americans

By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

“P

eople wish to be settled,” Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote. “Only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.” This tension between stability and uprooting, between the illusory consolations of home and the risky lure of the open road, lies at the heart of “Nomadland,” Chloé Zhao’s expansive and intimate third feature.

Based on Jessica Bruder’s lively, thoroughly reported book of the same name, “Nomadland” stars Frances McDormand as Fern, a fictional former resident of a formerly real place. The movie begins with the end of Empire, Nevada, a company town that officially went out of existence in late 2010 after the local gypsum mine and the Sheetrock factory shut down. Fern, a widow, takes to the highway in a white van that she christens with the name Vanguard and customizes with a sleeping alcove, a cooking area and a storage space for the few keepsakes from her previous life. Fern and Vanguard join a rolling, dispersed tribe — a subculture and a literal movement of itinerant Americans and their vehicles, an unsettled nation within the boundaries of the USA. Bruder’s book, unfolding in the wake of the Great Recession, emphasizes the economic upheaval and social dislocation that drive people like Fern — middle-aged and older; middle-class, more or less — out onto the road. Reeling from unemployment, broken marriages, lost pensions and collapsing home values, they work long hours in Amazon warehouses during the winter holidays and poorly paid stints at national parks in the summer months. They are footloose but also desperate, squeezed by rising inequality and a frayed safety net.

Zhao smooths away some of this social criticism, focusing on the practical particulars of vagabond life and the personal qualities — resilience, solidarity, thrift — of its adherents. Except for McDormand and a few others, nearly all the people in “Nomadland” are playing versions of themselves, having made the slightly magical transition from nonfiction page to nondocumentary screen. They include Bob Wells, the magnificently bearded mentor to legions of van dwellers, who summons them to an annual conclave — part cultural festival, part self-help seminar — in Quartzsite, Arizona; Swankie, an intrepid kayaker, problem-solver and nature lover; and Linda May, a central figure in Bruder’s book who nearly steals the movie as Fern’s best friend.

Friendship and solitude are the poles between which Zhao’s film oscillates. It has a loose, episodic structure and a mood of understated toughness that matches the ethos it explores. Zhao, who edited “Nomadland” in addition to writing and directing, sometimes lingers over majestic Western landscapes and sometimes cuts quickly from one detail to the next. As in “The Rider,” her 2018 film about a rodeo cowboy in South Dakota, she’s attentive to the interplay between human emotion and geography — to the way space, light and wind reveal character.

She captures the busyness and the tedium of Fern’s days — long hours behind the wheel or at a job; disruptions caused by weather, interpersonal conflict or vehicle trouble — without rushing or dragging.

“Nomadland” is patient, compassionate and open, motivated by an impulse to wander and observe rather than to judge or explain.

Fern, we eventually discover, has a sister (Melissa Smith), who helps her out of

a jam and praises her as “the bravest and most honest” member of their family. We believe those words because they also apply to McDormand, whose grit, empathy and discipline have never been so powerfully evident. I don’t mean to suggest that this is an awards-soliciting display of acting technique, a movie star’s bravura impersonation of an ordinary person. Quite the opposite. A lot of what McDormand does is listen, giving moral and emotional support to the nonprofessional actors as they tell their stories. Her skill and sensitivity help persuade you that what you are seeing isn’t just realistic but true.

Which brings me, somewhat reluctantly, to David Strathairn, who plays a fellow wanderer named Dave. He’s a soft-spoken, silver-haired fellow who catches Fern’s eye and gently tries to win her affection. His attempts to be helpful are clumsy and not always well judged — he offers her a bag of licorice sticks when what she wants is a pack of cigarettes — and although Fern likes

him pretty well, her feelings are decidedly mixed.

Mine too. Straitharn is a wonderful actor and an intriguing, nontoxic masculine presence, but the fact that you know that as soon as you see him is a bit of a problem. Our first glimpse of Dave, coming into focus behind a box of can openers at an impromptu swap meet, is close to a spoiler.

The vast horizon of Fern’s story suddenly threatens to contract into a plot. He promises — or threatens — that a familiar narrative will overtake both Fern and the movie.

To some degree, “Nomadland” wishes to be settled — wants not necessarily to domesticate its heroine but at least to bend her journey into a more or less predictable arc. At the same time, and in a fine Emersonian spirit, the movie rebels against its own conventional impulses, gravitating toward an idea of experience that is more complicated, more open-ended, more contradictory than what most American movies are willing to permit.

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Thursday, February 25, 2021

How meaningful is prediabetes for older adults?

Carol Jacobi at her home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., on Feb. 20, 2021. Jacobi, a friend of Susan Weinberg, received a similar diagnosis at around the same time, but did nothing much to reduce her blood sugar. A new study indicates that prediabetes might be less of a worry than once believed.

By PAULA SPAN

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few years ago, routine lab tests showed that Susan Glickman Weinberg, then a 65-year-old clinical social worker in Los Angeles, had a hemoglobin A1C reading of 5.8%, barely above normal.

“This is considered prediabetes,” her internist told her. A1C measures how much sugar has been circulating in the bloodstream over time. If her results reached 6% — still below the number that defines diabetes, which is 6.5% — her doctor said he would recommend the widely prescribed drug metformin.

“The thought that maybe I’d get diabetes was very upsetting,” recalled Weinberg, who as a child had heard relatives talking about it as “this mysterious terrible thing.”

She was already taking two blood pressure medications, a statin for cholesterol and an osteoporosis drug. Did she really need another prescription? She worried, too, about reports at the time of tainted imported drugs. She wasn’t even sure what prediabetes meant, or how quickly it might become diabetes.

“I felt like Patient Zero,” she said.

“There were a lot of unknowns.”

Now, there are fewer unknowns. A longitudinal study of older adults, published online this month in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, provides some answers about the very common in-between condition known as prediabetes.

The researchers found that over several years, older people who were supposedly prediabetic were far more likely to have their blood-sugar levels return to normal than to progress to diabetes. And they were no more likely to die during the follow-up period than their peers with normal blood sugar.

“In most older adults, prediabetes probably shouldn’t be a priority,” said Elizabeth Selvin, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore and the senior author on the study.

Prediabetes, a condition rarely discussed as recently as 15 years ago, refers to a blood-sugar level that is higher than normal but that has not crossed the threshold into diabetes. It is commonly defined by a hemoglobin A1C reading of 5.7% to 6.4% or a fasting glucose level of 100 to 125 mg/dL; in midlife, it can portend serious health problems.

A diagnosis of prediabetes means that you are more likely to develop diabetes, and “that leads to downstream illness,” said Dr. Kenneth Lam, a geriatrician at the University of California, San Francisco, and an author of an editorial accompanying the study.

“It damages your kidneys, your eyes and your nerves,” he said. “It causes heart attack and stroke.”

But for an older adult just edging into higher blood sugar levels, it’s a different story. Those fearful consequences take years to develop, and many people in their 70s and 80s will not live long enough to encounter them.

Selvin and her colleagues analyzed the findings of a continuing national study of cardiovascular risk that began in the 1980s. When 3,412 of the participants showed up for their physicals and lab tests between 2011 and 2013, they had reached ages 71 to 90 and did not have diabetes.

Prediabetes, however, was rampant.

Almost three-quarters qualified as prediabetic, based on either their A1C or fasting blood glucose levels.

These findings mirrored a 2016 study pointing out that a popular online risk test created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Diabetes Association — and accessible at doihaveprediabetes.org — would deem nearly everyone over 60 as prediabetic.

In 2010, a CDC review reported that 9% to 25% of those with an A1C of 5.5% to 6% will develop diabetes over five years; so will 25% to 50% of those with A1C readings of 6% to 6.5%. But those estimates were based on a middle-aged population.

When Selvin and her team looked at what had actually happened to their older prediabetic cohort five to six years later, only 8% to 9% had developed diabetes, depending on the definition used.

A much larger group — 13% of those whose A1C level was elevated and 44% of those with prediabetic fasting blood glucose — actually saw their readings revert to normal blood sugar levels. (A Swedish study found similar results.)

Sixteen percent to 19% had died,

about the same proportion as those without prediabetes.

“We’re not seeing much risk in these individuals,” Selvin said. “Older adults can have complex health issues. Those that impair quality of life should be the focus, not mildly elevated blood glucose.”

Dr. Saeid Shahraz, a health researcher at Tufts Medical Center in Boston and lead author of the 2016 study, praised the new research. “The data is really strong,” he said. “The American Diabetes Association should do something about this.”

It may, said Dr. Robert Gabbay, ADA’s chief scientific and medical officer.

The organization currently recommends “at least annual monitoring” for people with prediabetes, a referral to the lifestyle modification programs shown to decrease health risks and perhaps metformin for those who are obese and under 60.

Now, the association’s Professional Practice Committee will review the study, and “it could lead to some adjustments in the way we think about things,” Gabbay said. Among older people considered prediabetic, “their risk may be smaller than we thought,” he said.

Defenders of the emphasis on treating prediabetes, which is said to afflict a third of the U.S. population, point out that first-line treatment involves learning healthy behaviors that more Americans should adopt anyway: weight loss, smoking cessation, exercise and healthy eating.

“I’ve had a number of patients diagnosed with prediabetes, and it’s what motivates them to change,” Gabbay said.

“They know what they should be doing, but they need something to kick them into gear.”

Geriatricians tend to disagree. “It’s unprofessional to mislead people, to motivate them by fear of something that’s not actually true,” Lam said. “We’re all tired of having things to be afraid of.”

Weinberg, now 69, sought help from a nutritionist, changed her diet to emphasize complex carbohydrates and protein, and began walking more and climbing stairs instead of taking elevators. She shed 10 pounds that she didn’t need to lose.

Over 18 months, her barely elevated A1C reading fell to 5.6%.

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Thursday, February 25, 2021

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Million-year-old DNA rewrites the mammoth family tree

By KATHERINE KORNEI

I

magine an elephant, but significantly taller and heavier and with longer tusks. That’s the Columbian mammoth, an imposing animal that roamed much of North America during the most recent ice age.

When it comes to the mammoth family tree, it has long been believed that the Columbian mammoth evolved earlier than the smaller, shaggier woolly mammoth. But now, using DNA that is more than 1 million years old — the oldest ever recovered from a fossil — researchers have turned that assumption on its head: They found that the Columbian mammoth is in fact a hybrid of the woolly mammoth and a previously unrecognized mammoth lineage.

These results were published last week in the journal Nature.

Mammoths are depicted in many cave paintings, a reflection of their importance as a source of food, skin and bone during the Pleistocene epoch. During the last ice age, humans living in what is today the United States would have primarily encountered the Columbian mammoth, said Love Dalen, a paleogeneticist at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm.

“It’s an iconic species of the last ice age,” he said.

Fossilized remains of mammoths, particularly those preserved in exquisite detail,

In an undated image provided by Beth Zaiken and the Centre for Palaeogenetics, an artist’s conceptual image of the steppe mammoths that preceded the woolly mammoth. Genomic data — the oldest ever recovered from a fossil — reveals the origin and evolution of the Columbian mammoth. can shed light on how these animals lived and died. But analyzing an ancient creature’s genetic code — by recovering its DNA and reassembling it into a genome — opens up vast new research possibilities, said David Díez-delMolino, another paleogeneticist at the Centre for Palaeogenetics. “You can track the origin of species.”

A team of researchers, including Dalen and Díez-del-Molino, recently set out to do just

In an undated image provided by Gleb Danilov, Love Dalen, left, a paleogeneticist at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm, and Patricia Penerova, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Copenhagen, with a mammoth tusk on Wrangel Island, near Siberia. Genomic data — the oldest ever recovered from a fossil — reveals the origin and evolution of the Columbian mammoth.

that using three mammoth molars unearthed in northeastern Siberia.

These teeth are old — about 700,000 years, 1.1 million years and 1.2 million years — and they’re also impressive to look at, Dalen said. “They’re the size of a carton of milk.”

The researchers started by extracting a bit of material from the interior of each tooth with a small dentist’s drill. They then used chemicals and enzymes, followed by a washing protocol, to isolate the DNA in the resulting tooth powder.

Most of the DNA they extracted consisted of sequences just a few tens of base pairs long.

That is to be expected because the passage of time is tough on DNA molecules. Bacteria and enzymes chop up DNA after an organism dies, and water and cosmic rays continue the degradation process even after a sample is buried in permafrost.

Strands that start out millions of base pairs long soon degrade, said Patricia Pecnerova, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Copenhagen and a researcher on the team. “The DNA is very fragmented,” she said.

But before everything can be put back together digitally, it’s necessary to decontaminate each sample, said Tom van der Valk, another team member and a bioinformatician at the Science for Life Laboratory in Stockholm.

That’s because DNA from plants, bacteria and humans is wildly adept at sneaking into fossils, he said. “A large fraction of our data doesn’t come from the mammoth.”

To weed out interloping DNA, the team compared the sequences with genetic code from an African elephant, a close relative of mammoths. They discarded anything that didn’t match. Furthermore, they threw out sequences that matched the human genome.

After removing the non-mammoth DNA, the team was left with between 49 million and 3.7 billion base pairs in each of their three samples. (The mammoth genome is roughly 3.2 billion base pairs, which is slightly larger than the human genome.) The researchers compared their data with African elephant DNA a second time, which allowed them to put all their DNA fragments in the correct order.

This mammoth DNA smashes the record for the oldest DNA ever sequenced, which was previously held by a roughly 700,000-year-old horse specimen, said Morten Allentoft, an evolutionary biologist at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, who was not involved in the research.

“It’s the oldest DNA that’s ever been authentically identified,” he said.

When the researchers looked at the three genomes they reconstructed, the oldest stood out. “The genome looked weird,” Dalen said. “I think it’s likely this is a different species.”

That was a shock: Researchers have long believed that there was only a single lineage of mammoths in Siberia that gave rise to woolly and Columbian mammoths. This discovery suggests that a previously undiscovered mammoth lineage existed as well.

“It’s a huge surprise,” Dalen said. “It’s completely unexpected from the paleontology that there would be a second lineage.”

The team next compared the three genomes with the genetics of the Columbian mammoth, which ambled across much of North America as recently as 12,000 years ago.

The goal was to determine how, if at all, these two species were related.

They found persuasive evidence that the woolly mammoth and this new unknown lineage crossbred to form the Columbian mammoth, a hybrid species.

No one knows where and for how long this new mammoth lineage thrived, van der Valk said. “It’d be absolutely amazing if we could get a few more samples of this lineage.”

There’s also the possibility of reconstructing older and older DNA, Dalen said. We won’t re-create Jurassic Park, he said, but theoretical models suggest that DNA might survive for up to a few million years. “I don’t think we’re at the limit yet.”

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Thursday, February 25, 2021

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This Bolognese may be meatless, but it has good bones

By ALEXA WEIBEL

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ome cooks may balk at a vegan version of Bolognese because it bypasses the beef and milk that are usually integral to the Italian classic. But there is a particular thrill to capturing the spirit of a traditional ragù without the traditional ingredients.

This recipe manages to achieve equally rich, robust flavor and comparable complexity and comfort. It is built like a Bolognese, but skips meat and dairy. To mimic the original, other options for body and richness replace the usual components and perform their purposes.

The foundation is the same: It builds flavor from soffritto — the Italian trinity of minced onion, carrot and celery sautéed in olive oil until the vegetables are caramelized and their sweetness exaggerated — and gathers acidity and sugar from tomatoes and vegan wine.

While standard Bolognese formulas rely upon meat — and its natural gelatin — to simmer and collapse to make the sauce silky and unctuous, this vegan version gains substance from minced caramelized mushrooms and toasted walnuts, and bolsters them with balsamic vinegar, tomato paste, soy sauce and Marmite. A thoroughly atypical Bolognese ingredient, Marmite is a popular British sandwich spread made from concentrated yeast extract, and brings salty, bitter notes that taste like those of browned meat. Like mushrooms, walnuts, soy sauce and tomato paste — and, yes, beef — it has a high concentration of glutamic acid, which imparts a strong umami taste best described as meaty.

A swirl of olive oil lends body, flavor and that prized richness that lingers on your tongue the way dairy and animal fats do. The result tastes as lush, but also brighter, with a welcome boost of bitterness.

Serve the sauce over pasta (or in a lasagna Bolognese), and your guests might not guess it’s meatless. But the lasagna? That’s got dairy. It’s OK to draw the line somewhere.

Though the line will move depending on whom you ask, this vegan Bolognese is delicious enough for everybody.

Vegan Bolognese With Mushrooms and Walnuts •Yield: About 6 cups •Total time: 1 3/4 hours •1 cup shelled walnuts (about 100 grams), chopped into pieces no larger than 1/4-inch (see Tip) •Kosher salt and black pepper •1 pound fresh mushrooms (preferably half shiitake and half cremini) •1/2 cup olive oil, plus more for serving •1 teaspoon fennel seeds •2 teaspoons soy sauce •2 teaspoons thick, syrupy balsamic vinegar (optional) •1 medium yellow onion, finely chopped (about 1 1/3 cups) •1 medium carrot, peeled and finely chopped (about 1 cup) •2 celery stalks, peeled and finely chopped (about 3/4 cup) •4 garlic cloves, chopped

Vegan bolognese with mushrooms and walnuts, in New York, Feb. 16, 2021. This vegan take on hearty tomato sauce tastes as rich as the original and satisfies comfort-food cravings.

•1 teaspoons dried oregano •3/4 teaspoon red-pepper flakes •3 tablespoons tomato paste •2 teaspoons Marmite •1/2 cup dry vegan red wine •1 (28-ounce) can crushed tomatoes Linguine, fettuccine or other long pasta (about 4 ounces per serving), cooked until al dente Minced fresh parsley or sliced fresh basil, for serving (optional) 1. Add the chopped nuts to a large Dutch oven or heavy pot and toast over medium, stirring frequently, until they visibly sweat and become fragrant, about 5 minutes.

Season with salt and pepper, transfer to a medium bowl and set aside.

2. Prepare the mushrooms: Stem the shiitake mushrooms (reserve the stems another use), if using, then wipe the mushroom caps clean using damp paper towels. Chop the caps into 1/4-inch pieces. (Resist the urge to use a food processor here, which will chop the mushrooms unevenly.)

3. Wipe out the pot, then heat 2 tablespoons olive oil over medium-high. Add half the mushrooms and 1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds, season generously with salt and pepper, and cook, stirring occasionally, until browned, about 6 minutes. Transfer to the bowl with the toasted walnuts, then repeat with the remaining mushrooms and the remaining 1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds. Stir the soy sauce into the mushroom mixture, then the balsamic (if using). Set aside.

4. Wipe out the pot, then heat 2 tablespoons olive oil over medium. Add the onion, carrot and celery, season generously with salt and pepper, and cook, stirring occa-

sionally, until starting to caramelize and brown at the edges, about 7 minutes. Stir in the mushroom-walnut mixture, garlic, oregano and red-pepper flakes, and stir until fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes. Stir in the tomato paste and Marmite, and cook, stirring frequently, until darkened and caramelized, 4 to 5 minutes.

5. Pour in the wine and cook, stirring occasionally, until the alcohol cooks off and the liquid reduces until thick and sticky, 3 to 4 minutes.

6. Add the crushed tomatoes, along with 1 cup water.

Bring to a simmer over high.

7. Reduce the heat to medium-low, cover and cook, stirring occasionally, until the tomatoes are cooked through and flavors meld, 30 to 40 minutes. Stir in 2 tablespoons olive oil, for richness, then season to taste with salt and pepper. (Makes about 6 cups.)

8. Meanwhile, cook the pasta according to package instructions until al dente. Drain, reserving 1 1/2 cups pasta water.

9. Toss the cooked pasta with the desired amount of sauce (about 3/4 cup to 1 cup per serving), adding pasta water as needed so sauce is glossy.

10. Divide cooked pasta among shallow bowls and top with more sauce. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with parsley or basil, if using, and serve immediately. (Leftover sauce will keep covered in the refrigerator for a few days, or frozen for up to 3 months.)

Tips: You might be tempted to pulse the nuts in a food processor, but beware: It’s easy to accidentally pulverize them this way. Small pieces will burn by the time all the nuts are properly toasted, so chopping by hand is preferred.

The San Juan Daily Star LEGAL NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

ROOSEVELT REO PR II CORP. Plaintiff, vs.

PAUL EXUM, NORMA IRIS DE LEON ACOSTA a/k/a NORMA I. EXUM AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN

Defendants CIVIL NO. 18-1466(CCC). RE: COLLECTION OF MONIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: PAUL EXUM, NORMA IRIS DE LEON ACOSTA a/k/a NORMA I. EXUM AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN; AND TO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO. SS. Judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $167,381.20 in principal, deferred principal balance of $16,194.42, for a total outstanding principal balance of $183,575.62 accrued interest which continues to accrue until full payment of the debt at the rate of 6.75% per annum, accrued late charges and any other advance, charge, fee or disbursements made by plaintiff, on behalf of defendants, in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs, and ten (10) percent attorney fees; Pursuant to the judgment, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for United States currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder to be held on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or any other place designated by said Special Master, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: URBANA: Apartamento 1010, de forma irregular localizado en la décima planta del edificio Playa Azul en Luquillo, Puerto Rico, con un área total privada de 958.00 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 89.00 metros cuadrados, midiendo 25’9” en su mayor ancho por 49’9” en su mayor longitud. Consta de foyer, sala, comedor, terraza, cocina con mesa de trabajo, gabinetes de pared, fregade-

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ro, lavadero, linen closet, dos dormitorios con closets y baño.

Colinda por el NORTE, en una línea quebrada con la pared que lo separa del apartamento 1009 en una longitud de 10’8” y con patio exterior en una longitud de 17’2”; por el SUR, con patio exterior en una longitud de 23’; por el ESTE, en una línea quebrada con patio exterior en una longitud de 21’5”, con corredor común en una longitud de 5’4”y con pared que lo separa del apartamento 1009 en una longitud de 23’; y por el OESTE, con patio exterior en una longitud de 49’9”. Este apartamento tiene su puerta de entrada en su costado Este y lo comunica con el corredor común limitado que da acceso a los ascensores y escaleras de salida al patio exterior del edificio. La participación de este apartamento este apartamento en las áreas comunes generales es de 0.5521%. Consta inscrita al folio 132 del tomo 76 de Luquillo, finca número 4,111.

Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Fajardo. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior or preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal), or homeowner associations dues, to the extent specified under the applicable Condominium Law, shall continue in effect. It being understood that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation.

THEREFORE, the first public sale shall be held on the 16TH day of April 2021, at 10:05 a.m.and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $152,000.00. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a second public auction shall be held on the 23rd day of April 2021, at 10:05 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $101,333.34, 2/3 parts of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a third auction will be held on the 30th day of April 2021, at 10:05 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $76,000.00, ½ of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens.

Thursday, February 25, 2021 For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this January 18, 2021. Aguedo de la Torre, Special Master.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA

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

HENRY PIMENTEL SUAREZ

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2018CV01605.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION 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 BAYAMON, 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 Bayamón, el 10 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 identificado como tres guion A (3-A) en el plano de inscripción del Condominio Mar de Sabana ubicado en la tercera planta de dicho edificio localizado en la Carretera numero seiscientos ochenta y ocho (688) kilometro cinco punto cero (5.0) Barrio Sabana de Vega Alta, Puerto Rico,

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en una cabida superficial de ciento nueve punto cincuenta y tres metros cuadrados (109.53 mc), equivalentes a mil ciento sesenta y ocho punto noventa y siete pies (1,178.97 pc así surge), en lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia aproximada de seis punto setenta metros (6.70 m), con las escaleras que dan al exterior del edificio; por el SUR, en una distancia aproximada de seis punto setenta metros (6.70 m), con el exterior del edificio que colinda con la carretera numero seiscientos ochenta y ocho (688); por el ESTE, en una distancia aproximada de dieciséis punto cincuenta metros (16.50 m), con espacio exterior; y por el OESTE, en una distancia aproximada de dieciséis punto cincuenta metros (16.50 m), con apartamento tres B (3-B) del mismo condominio. Consta dicho apartamento de tres habitaciones, sala. Comedor, cocina, un baño, cuarto de servicios y dos balcones. Le corresponde a dicho apartamento una participación de dieciséis punto sesenta y seis por ciento (16.66%, en los elementos comunes del condominio. Le corresponde a este apartamento dos espacios de estacionamiento. Inscrita al folio 21 del tomo 312 de Vega Alta, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III, Finca número 18,948. La hipoteca antes descrita consta inscrita al folio 21 del tomo 312 de Vega Alta, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III, inscripción 4ª. Propiedad localizada en: COND. MAR DE SABANA, APTO. 3-A, VEGA ALTA, PR 00969. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico. Suma de la Carga: $3,250.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 28 de diciembre de 2012. 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 res-

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25 ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $76,750.00, 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 Bayamón, el 17 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $51,166.66, 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 $38,375.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, el 24 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 $60,961.94 de principal, más intereses a razón de 5.00% desde el 1 de enero de 2018, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de $528,25 por cargos por mora; más la suma de $40.58 en conexión con la cuenta de reserva, más la suma de $7,977.20 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, pactados con en el pagare y en la escritura de Hipoteca de la parte demandante pactados en el pagare y en el contrato 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 15 de enero de 2021. JORGE CAMPUSANO DE LA ROSA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL.

LEGAL NOTICE M&T 42313 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, d/b/a Christiana Trust, as indenture trustee, for the CSMC 2015-PR1 Trust, Mortgage-Backed Notes, Series 2015-PR1, Demandante v.

Manuel Enrique Martínez Ángel, Marlene Martínez Ángel y la sociedad legal de bienes gananciales compuesta por ambos

Demandados CIVIL NÚM: SJ2019CV10965.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Superior, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el día 11 de marzo de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Superior, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en Urb. Paseo Mayor, B11 calle 6, San Juan, PR 00926-5939 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Paseo Mayor en el Barrio Cupey Alto del Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de ins-

cripción de la urbanización con el número B once (11), con un área de 715.96 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con el solar número 12, en 32.00 metros; por el Sur, con el solar número 9, en una distancia de 32.00 metros; por el Este, con la calle número 6, en una distancia de 25.00 metros; y por el Oeste, con los solares números 28 y 29, en una distancia de 19.605 metros. Contiene una casa de vivienda para una familia de bloques y hormigón reforzado. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el folio 10 del tomo 459 de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 14,880, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $440,000.00. 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 18 de marzo de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $293,333.33.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 29 de marzo de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $220,000.00.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 206, otorgada el día 30 de abril de 2003, ante el Notario Raúl J. Vila Sellés y consta inscrita en el folio 105 del tomo 653 de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 14,880, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta, inscripción sexta.

El pagaré y la escritura de hipoteca fueron modificados el 6 de septiembre de 2012 mediante la escritura núm. 172 sobre Cancelación Parcial y Modificación de Hipoteca otorgada ante el Notario Luis Yamil Rodríguez San Miguel. En virtud de la misma, se estableció como nuevo principal adeudado la cantidad de $399,270.18, se extendió la fecha de vencimiento al 1ero de septiembre de 2052 y se modificó la tasa de interés de la siguiente forma: comenzando el 1ero de octubre de 2012 hasta el 1ero de septiembre de 2017,

la tasa de interés sería 4.50%, y comenzando el 1ero de octubre de 2017 hasta el saldo de la obligación, la tasa de interés sería 6.00%. Consta inscrita al folio 105 del tomo 653 de Río Piedras Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta, finca número 14,480, inscripción séptima. 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 $382,502.64 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.000% anual desde el día 1 de febrero de 2019. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Se pagarán también los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento, la suma de $44,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $44,000.00 para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $44,000.00 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 Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Superior durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes.

Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores ni preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacionan más adelante. A los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedo-

26 res, tenedores de, o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso, o al portador, garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor por la presente se notifica, que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. PRESENTACION: Presentada el 29 de octubre de 2019, al asiento 2019-115091-SJ04, Demanda de fecha 17 de octubre de 2019, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Superior, en el caso civil número SJ 2019CV10965, seguido por Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB d/b/a Christiana Trust as Indenture Trustee the CSMC 2015-PR1 Trust, Mortgage Backed Notes, Series 2015-PR1 vs.

Manuel Enrique Martínez Angel y su esposa, Marlene Martínez Angel (así consta), sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $382,502.64 y otras cantidades, o la venta en pública subasta de la propiedad. Pendiente de anotación. PRESENTACION: Presentada el 4 de diciembre de 2020, al asiento 2020-097861-SJ04, Orden y Mandamiento de fecha 19 de octubre de 2020, dictados por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso civil numero SJ 2020CV05526 (603), seguido por Asociación de Residentes de Paseo Mayor Inc. vs. Manuel Enrique Martínez Angel y su esposa, Marlene Martínez Angel (así consta), para que se anote Embargo Preventivo en Aseguramiento de Sentencia por la suma de $1,131.35 y otras cantidades. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a las disposiciones de la ley vigente, según aplique.

Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de FEBRERO de 2021. FDO. PEDRO HIEYE GONZALEZ, AL-

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GUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRI- te pagaré consta inscrito en la MERA INSTANCIA, SALA propiedad antes mencionada y es el que se pretende ejecutar: SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN. HIPOTECA: Por $127,285.00 LEGAL NOTICE con intereses al 4.50% anual, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO en garantía de un pagaré, a DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- favor de Popular Mortgage, NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA vencedero el 1 de noviembre SALA SUPERIOR DE CA- de 2040. Según escritura #120, otorgada en Caguas, el 30 de GUAS. BANCO POPULAR DE octubre de 2010, ante Neftalí García Sánchez, inscrita al folio PUERTO RICO 176 del tomo 1706 de Caguas, Demandante v.

SUCESIÓN DE HELEN inscripción 11ma. La referida hipoteca grava el bien inmueMARTÍNEZ CORTÉS ble antes descrito. Que según compuesta por sus surge del estudio de título, la miembros FULANO DE propiedad se encuentra afecta TAL, FULANA DE TAL, a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: AVISO DE DEMENGANO DE TAL Y MANDA: Dictada en el Caso MENGANA DE TAL Civil #ECD2017-0448 (703), en Demandados el Tribunal de Primera InstanCIVIL NÚM. ECD2017-0448 cia, Sala de Caguas, seguido (703). SOBRE: COBRO DE por Banco Popular de Puerto DINERO Y EJECUCION DE Rico (demandante) vs SuceHIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORsión de Helen Martínez Cortes, DINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA compuesta por sus miembros SUBASTA. de Tal; Fulano de Tal; A: LOS CODEMANDADOS Fulana Mengano de Tal y Mengana de DE EPIGRAFE Y AL Tal (demandados). Se reclama PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: el pago de la deuda garantizaEl Alguacil que suscribe por la da con hipotea de la inscripción presente anuncia y hace cons- 11ma., reducida a $113,240.84, tar que en cumplimiento de una mas intereses y otras sumas, Sentencia dictada en el caso de o la venta de esta finca en púepígrafe el 11 de julio 2018, no- blica subasta. Anotado al tomo tificada el 1 de agosto de 2018 Karibe de la Sección I de Cay publicada el 7 de agosto de guas, finca #16481 de Caguas, 2018, y de un Mandamiento de Anotación A y última, con fecha Ejecución emitido el día 6 de de 22 de abril de 2019. La sumayo de 2019, que le ha sido basta se llevará a cabo para dirigido por la Secretaria del con su producto satisfacer al Tribunal de Primera Instancia, demandante, total o parcialSala de Caguas, procederá a mente según sea el caso, de la vender en subasta, por separa- referida sentencia que fue dicdo, y al mejor postor con dinero tada por las siguientes sumas: en efectivo, cheque de geren- $113,240.84 por concepto de te o letra bancaria con similar principal, más $86.52 por congarantía, todo título, derecho cepto de recargos por atraso, o interés de los demandados más intereses al 4.5% anual a de epígrafe sobre el inmueble partir del 1 de enero de 2017 que adelante se describe. Se hasta su completo pago, más anuncia por la presente que la 4% de todo pago en atraso, primera subasta habrá de cele- más $12,728.50 como cantidad brarse el día 19 de abril del año estipulada para costas, gastos 2021 a las 9:00 de la mañana, y honorarios de abogados, así en mi oficina localizada en el como cualquier otra suma que edificio que ocupa la Sala del contenga el contrato de présTribunal de Primera Instancia, tamo, según pactado. Y PARA Sala Superior de Caguas, so- CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS bre el inmueble que se descri- PARTES INTERESADAS y del be a continuación: URBANA: público en general, se advierte Solar marcado con el #9 del que los autos de este caso y bloque I de la Urbanización demás instancias están dispoMari Olga en el Barrio Turabo nibles para ser inspeccionadas de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con en la Secretaría del Tribunal de un área de 325.00 metros cua- Primera Instancia Sala Superior drados. Colinda por el NORTE, de Caguas, durante las horas en 25.00 metros con el solar #8; laborables. Se entenderá que por el SUR, en 25.00 metros todo licitador acepta como bascon el solar #10; por el ESTE, tante la titularidad del inmueble en 13.00 metros con la calle y que las cargas y gravámenes #9; y por el OESTE, en 13.00 anteriores y los preferentes al metros con los solares #27 y crédito del ejecutante, incluyen#28. FINCA Número dieciséis do el gravamen por las contrimil cuatrocientos ochenta y uno buciones sobre la propiedad (16481) inscrita al folio sesenta inmueble adeudadas, si los (60) del tomo quinientos quince hubiere, continuarán subsis(515) de Caguas (Sección I de tentes, entendiéndose que el Caguas). Dirección física: 9I rematante los acepta y queda San Antonio St. Mariolga Dev. responsable de los mismos Caguas PR 00725. El siguien-

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 VEINTISIETE MIL DOSCIENTOS OCHENTA Y CINCO DÓLARES ($127,285.00) para que dicha suma sirva de tipo mínimo en la primera subasta a celebrarse. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una segunda subasta en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 26 de abril del año 2021 a las 9:00 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 OCHENTA Y CUATRO MIL OCHOCIENTOS CINCUENTA Y SEIS DÓLARES CON SESENTA Y SEIS CENTAVOS ($84,856.66,) 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 3 de mayo del año 2021 a las 9:00 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 SESENTA Y TRES MIL SEISCIENTOS CUARENTA Y DOS DÓLARES CON CINCUENTA CENTAVOS ($63,642.50) 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 Caguas, Puerto Rico. Angel Gomez Gomez, ALGUACIL, Sala de Caguas.

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

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

FREDESVINDA CINTRÓN ORTIZ T/C/C FREDESWINDA CINTRÓN ORTIZ POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE RITA GRISSELLE COGOLLO CINTRÓN; LA SUCESIÓN DE RITA GRISSELLE COGOLLO CINTRÓN COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y

FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: CG2018CV01522.

SALA: 801. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 9 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS. SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en M-10 CALLE LA PAZ URB. CAGUAS NORTE CAGUAS, PR 00725 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el #10 del bloque “M”, de la Urbanización Caguas Norte, localizada en el barrio Bairoa del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, compuesta de 529.84 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 22.711 metros con el solar 9; por el SUR, en dos distancias, una de 22.448 metros y otra de 12.419 metros con una alameda y con el solar #2; por el ESTE, en 7.928 metros con la calle 17 y por el OESTE, en 28.696 metros con los solares 3 y 4. Enclava.

Consta inscrita al Folio 229 del Tomo 980 de Caguas, finca número 33604, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas Sección Primera. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 229 del Tomo 980 de Caguas, finca número 33604, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas 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 $137,464.00.

Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 16 DE MARZO

DE 2021, A LAS 9:45 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 $91,642.67. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 24 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 9:45 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 $68,732.00.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 72 otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de abril de 2017, ante el Notario Carlos Martínez Olmo, la cual consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de la Primera Sección de Caguas, finca número 33604, inscripción décimo sexta (16ta) en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera, 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 desde el 1ro de noviembre de 2017 ascendente a la suma de $136,631.23 por concepto de principal, intereses al tipo pactado de 5.00% anual, 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; créditos accesorios y adelantos honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $13,746.40. 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 CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o de-

rechos 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 Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de febrero de 2021. EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

SUCESIÓN DE JULIO CÉSAR CONDE PRATTS, COMPUESTA POR: CARMEN CONDE, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS

Demandado CIVIL NÚM: BY2019CV05663 (402). 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 EDGARDO E. VARGAS SANTANA, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe-

rior de Bayamón, al público en general. CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 25 de enero de 2021 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, Carretera 2 Kilómetro 10.4, Esquina Calle Esteban Padilla, Bayamón, PR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada, en el inmueble que se describe a continuación, propiedad de la parte demandada Sucesión de Julio César Conde Pratts, compuesta por: Carmen Conde, Fulano y Mengano de Tal, como posibles herederos desconocidos.

Dirección Física: Urb. Lomas Verdes, Z17 Calle Dragón, Bayamón, PR 00956. Finca 9711, inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 217 de Bayamón Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Bayamón.

URBANA: Solar radicada en la Urbanización Lomas Verdes, situado en el Barrio Minillas de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con el número diecisiete de la Manzana “Z”, con un área de trescientos un metros con treinta centímetros cuadrados, en lindes: por el NORTE, con la Calle número dieciséis, distancia de trece metros con diez centímetros; por el SUR, con los solares veintiseis y veinticinco, distancia de trece metros con diez centímetros; por el ESTE, con solar número dieciocho, distancia de veintitrés metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número dieciséis, distancia de veintitrés metros; expresándose en uno de los documentos que contiene una casa de una sola planta de concreto reforzado y bloques de concreto para una familia que consiste principalmente de sala, comedor, tres cuartos dormitorios, cuarto de baño, cocina y balcón. Finca 9,711. 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 Bayamón. d. Servidumbre a favor Puerto Rico Railway Light & Power Co. e. Condiciones restrictivas sobre edificación y uso.

Por sí está afecta a: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $63,945.00,

The San Juan Daily Star con intereses al 5.40% anual, vencedero el día 1 de enero de 2003, constituida mediante la escritura número 637, otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el día 10 de diciembre de 2002, ante el notario Félix Joel Zambrana Ortiz, e inscrita al folio 262 del tomo 1,777 de Bayamón, finca número 9,711, inscripción 5ta. b. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 25 de noviembre de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, en el Caso Civil número BY2019CV05663, seguido por el Banco Popular de Puerto Rico versus Julio César Conde Prats, mediante el cual se solicita el pago de la deuda por la suma de $41,407.73 o la venta en Pública Subasta, anotado el día 26 de noviembre de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Bayamón Sur, finca número 9,711, Anotación “A”. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 9,711 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: Primera Subasta: 11 de marzo de 2021 a las 10:15AM, Precio Mínimo: $63,945.00, Hipoteca: Escritura Número 637, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 10 de diciembre de 2002, ante el Notario Félix Joel Zambrana Ortiz. Segunda Subasta: 18 de marzo de 2021 a las 10:15AM, Precio Mínimo: $42,630.00.

Tercera Subasta: 29 de marzo de 2021 a las 10:15AM, Precio Mínimo: $31,972.50. 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 8 de diciembre de 2020 y archivada en los autos el 8 de diciembre de 2020, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: La suma de $41,407.73, más la suma de $2,743.52, que incluye intereses, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus

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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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de febrero de 2021. EDGARDO E. VARGAS SANTANA 193, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

ALEJANDRO SERRANO AROCHO, MARÍA MAGDALENA ORTEGA ORTIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

Demandado CIVIL NÚM: SS2019CV00008.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS (IN REM). ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo LUIS A. NIEVES RIVERA, , Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Sebastian, al público en general. CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 28 de mayo de 2019 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal

de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Sebastián, 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 Sebastián, Puerto Rico, Calle Severo Arena (al lado del Cuartel de la Policía), todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada, en el inmueble que se describe a continuación, propiedad de la parte demandada Alejandro Serrano Arocho, María Magdalena Ortega Ortiz y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, Compuesta por Ambos. Dirección Física: Saltos Wd., 445 Km 2.5, San Sebastián, PR 00685.

Finca 21,536, inscrita al folio 55 del tomo 401 de San Sebastián, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de San Sebastián. URBANA: Sita en el Barrio Saltos del término Municipal de San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, identificado como solar número uno (1) en el plano de inscripción, con una cabida superficial de mil metros cuadrados (1,000.00mc), en lindes por el NORTE, con solares segregados anteriormente; por el SUR, con remanente de la finca y camino Municipal; por el ESTE, con remanente de la finca principal; y por el OESTE, con camino Municipal. Finca 21,536. Por su procedencia está afecta a: a) Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico. Por sí está afecta a: a) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Westernbank Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $92,592.00, con intereses al 5.50% anual, vencedero el día 1ro de octubre de 2039, constituida mediante la escritura número 118, otorgada en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el día 3 de septiembre de 2009, ante el notario Darik Y. Cruz Martínez, e inscrita al folio 215 del tomo 510 de San Sebastián, finca número 21,536, inscripción 4ta y última. b) Aviso de Demanda de fecha 8 de enero de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Sebastián, en el Caso Civil número SS2019CV00008, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, In Rem, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, versus Alejandro Serrano Arocho y María Magdalena Ortega Ortiz, por la suma de $92,592.00 y otras sumas, anotado el día 23 de enero de 2019, al tomo Karibe de San Sebastián, finca número 21,536, Anotación A. c) Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, con-

tra Alejandro Serrano Arocho y María Ortega Ortiz, por la suma de $55.74, por concepto de Contribuciones Sobre Ingresos, según Certificación de fecha 23 de marzo de 2010, seguro social número xxx-xx-9128 y xxx-xx-7902, presentado el día 16 de marzo de 2010 y anotado al folio 14 Orden 54, del Libro de Embargos del ELA número 1, (Ley 12). (Así Surge) El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 21,536 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: Primera Subasta: 27 de mayo de 2021 a las 10:00 AM, Precio Mínimo: $92,592.00, Hipoteca: Escritura Número 118, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 3 de septiembre de 2009, ante el Notario Darik Y. Cruz Martínez. Segunda Subasta: 3 de junio de 2021 a las 10:00 AM, Precio Mínimo: $61,728.00.

Tercera Subasta: 10 de junio de 2021 a las 10:00 AM, Precio Mínimo:$46,296.00. 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 8 de abril de 2019 y archivada en los autos el 11 de abril 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: La parte Demandada acumuló al 1 de septiembre de 2017 una deuda con Banco Popular ascendiente a las siguientes cantidades: la suma principal de $80,716.84, la suma de $130.75 que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se 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 interesa-

dos 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 Sebastian, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de febrero de 2021.

LUIS A. NIEVES RIVERA #659, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIAN.

LEGAL NOTICE M&T 101985 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR.

Bautista REO PR Corp.

Demandante v.

Raymond Luis Sánchez Maceira t/c/c Raymond L. Sánchez Maceira, Valerie Robles Feliciano y la sociedad legal de bienes gananciales compuesta por ambos

Demandados CIVIL NÚM: DCD2014-0956 (701). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el día 11 DE MARZO DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en la sala 503 ocupa en el

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edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en Urb. Ocean Front, Solar 20, Barrio Yeguada, Vega Baja, PR 00693 y que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar marcado como remanente en el plano de inscripción localizado en la URBANIZACIÓN OCEAN FRONT, Barrio Yeguada del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, antes marcado como el solar No. 20 en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización, con un área superficial de 1,787.4305 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.4548 cuerda. En lindes por el Norte, en 37.300 metros, con la servidumbre de Salvamento del Departamento de Recursos Naturales, que lo separa de la zona marítima terrestre; por el Sur, en 37.008 metros, con el lote marcado como servidumbre de paso y el solar No. 1; por el Este, en 50.272 metros, con el solar No. 21 del Sandra Lartigaut Negrón; y por el Oeste, en 46.249 metros, con el solar No. 19. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Tomo Karibe de Vega Baja, finca número 33110, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Cuarta. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $168,000.00.

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 18 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 $112,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 29 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 $84,000.00.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 495, otorgada el día 28 de diciembre de 2004, ante el Notario Ana M. Leal Gamba y consta inscrita en el Tomo Karibe de Vega Baja, finca número 33110, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Cuarta, inscripción cuarta.

Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el

importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $149,813.04 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 7.500% anual desde el día 1 de septiembre de 2013. 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 $16,800.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $16,800.00 para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $16,800.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más intereses según provisto por la regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil.

Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores ni preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacionan más adelante. A los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de, o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso, o al portador, garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor por la presente se notifica, que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Doral Bank vs. Raymond

Luis Sánchez Maceira t/c/c Raymond L. Sánchez Maceira y su esposa, Valerie Robles Feliciano, ante el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, en el caso civil número DCD 2014-0956, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $149,813.04, según Demanda de fecha de 4 de abril de 2014.

Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Vega Baja. 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 semanas consecutivas.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según aplique. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de FEBRERO de 2021.

FDO. MARIBEL LANZAR VELAZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA 735. ****

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

NICOLAS CRUZ ZAYAS Demandante V.

ANGELA LUA GONZALEZ RAMOS

Demandado(a) CivilNúm.

FA2020RF00207.

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

A: ANGELA LUISA GONZALEZ RAMOSDESCONOCIDA, CHICAGO, IL 99999

(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 1 6 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 Sen-

28 tencia, 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 FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, el 17 de febrero de 2021.

WANDA I. SEGUI REYES, Secretaria. BELINDA ROSARIO TELLADO, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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

COOPERATIVA EDE AHORRO Y CREDITO LOS HERMANOS Demandante v.

ANGEL MANUEL MIRANDA TORRES; SUCESION DE MARTA ORELLANA MARTINEZ; HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS A, B C

Demandado(a) Civil: Núm. TB2019CV00704 (702). Sobre: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: LUIS MIRANDA ORELLANO; VANESSA MIRANDA ORELLANO,ELOY DAVID MIRANDA ORELLANA, ANGEL MANUEL MIRANDA TORRES, DEBORA MIRANDA ORELLANA, HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS A, B, C

(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 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 BAYAMON, Puerto Rico , el 17 de febrero de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria. f/ELIBETH M. TORRES ALICEA, Sec Auxiliar.

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

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

KARLA VILLEGAS FIGUEROA

Demandado(a) Civil: CG2020CV00315. Sala: (703). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: KARLA VILLEGAS FIGUEROA.

(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 18 de febrero de 2021. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 18 de febrero de 2021. CARMEN ANA PEREIRA ORTIZ, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONANTE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

PUERTO RICO TITLE & CLOSING SERVICES PAM, INC. Demandante v.

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Thursday, February 25, 2021

POPULAR MORTGAGE, INC.; JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO…

NIO. Cod: 171-000-008-63000. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. ESTADO LIDemandado(a) BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO Civil: Núm. GB2020CV00406.

RICO. SS. SALA (201). Sobre: CANCEA: CUALQUIER PERSONA LACION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE IGNORADA QUE PUEDA PERJUDICARSE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y POR CUANTO: El peticionario JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y solicita se declare a su favor el dominio de la finca que se CUALESQUIER PERSONA describe según sus títulos del DESCONOCIDA CON siguiente modo: “RÚSTICA: POSIBLE INTERES EN Solar sito en el barrio Jagüeyes LA OBLIGACION CUYA de Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 1038.217 CANCELACION POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.2642 diezmilésimas de SOLICITA (Nombre de las partes a las que se le cuerda. En lindes por el NORTE: con camino municipal; por notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- el SUR: camino municipal “Pacribe le notifica a usted que el jilla”; por el ESTE: con camino 18 de febrero de 2020 , este municipal y por el OESTE: con Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, terrenos de la Sucn. Ramón Sentencia Parcial o Resolución Torres. Enclava una estructura en este caso, que ha sido debi- para fines residenciales.” Esta damente registrada y archivada pretensión se publicará tres en autos donde podrá usted en- veces en veinte días en este terarse detalladamente de los periódico. El que tenga interés términos de la misma. Esta no- o derecho real en el inmueble, tificación se publicará una sola los anteriores dueños y persovez en un periódico de circula- nas ignoradas que puedan perción general en la Isla de Puer- judicarse y deseen oponerse to Rico, dentro de los 10 días tienen 20 días para ello a consiguientes a su notificación. Y, tar desde la última publicación, siendo o representando usted siendo abogado de los peticiouna parte en el procedimiento narios, Lic. Jaime Rodríguez sujeta a los términos de la Sen- Rivera, cuya dirección es #30 tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re- Calle Reparto Piñero, Guaynasolución, de la cual puede esta- bo, PR 00969-5650, Teléfono blecerse recurso de revisión o 787-720-9553. En Caguas, apelación dentro del término de Puerto Rico, a 17 de febrero de 30 días contados a partir de la 2021 CARMEN ANA PEREIRA publicación por edicto de esta ORTIZ, SECRETARIO. GLOnotificación, dirijo a usted esta RISSETTE RIVERA REYEZ, notificación que se considerará SubSecretaria. 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 GUAYNABO, Puerto Rico, el 18 de febrero de 2021.

LCDA. LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria. f/MAIRENI TRINTA MALDONADO, Sec Auxiliar.

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

Reverse Mortgage Funding, LLC. DEMANDANTE Vs.

Beewee Mortgage Bankers Corporation, LEGAL NOTICE James B. Nutter & EN EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCompany, Sucesión de CIADO DE PUERTO RICO Sofía Velázquez Acevedo TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSt/c/c Sofia Velázquez TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE compuesta por Luis CAGUAS. Velázquez, Fulano de Tal GLADYS TORRES y Sutano de Tal como GONZÁLEZ, CARMEN posibles herederos de TORRES GONZÁLEZ, nombres desconocidos LYDIA MARÍA TORRES y FULANO DE TAL Y GONZÁLEZ, Y la Sucesión SUTANA DE TAL COMO de Agustín Torres POSIBLES tenedores del González Compuesta por Pagaré extraviado y cuya ALEX TORRES RIVERA, identidad se desconoce al AXEL TORRES RIVERA presente y AMNERIS TORRES DEMANDADOS RIVERA CIVIL NÚM.: PO2020CV01829.

Peticionaria

SALÓN NÚM: 604. SOBRE: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ CIVIL #: CG2020CV02537. SO- EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO DE BRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMI- EMPLAZAMIENTO. ESTADOS

EX-PARTE

UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: Beewee Mortgage Bankers Corporation, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles herederos de nombres desconocidos de la Sucesión de Sofia Velázquez Acevedo t/c/c Sofia Velázquez y FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES tenedores del Pagaré extraviado y cuya identidad se desconoce al presente

Por la presente se les notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la demanda de epígrafe en la cual se alega que el pagaré que a continuación se describe se ha extraviado y que no existe tenedor del mismo ni acreedor por medio de pignoración, y así han solicitado la sustitución del mismo: Pagaré emitido a favor de Beewee Mortgage Bankers Corporation, o a su orden por la cantidad de $115,155.00 suscrito por Sofia Velázquez Acevedo t/c/c Sofía Velázquez garantizado por la escritura número 36 otorgada el 31 de julio de 2009, ante la Notario Dennise M. Liorens Alicea.

El inmueble hipotecado para garantizar el pago del pagaré antes mencionado se describe corno sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Canas del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, en la Urbanización Punto Oro, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de dicha urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: número del solar: 26 del bloque “AA”; área del solar: 320.11 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 11.38 metros con la calle I de dicha urbanización; por el SUR, en 15.18 metros con la calle marginal; por el ESTE, en 24.70 metros con el solar número 25 del bloque “AA” de dicha urbanización; y por el OESTE, en 23.54 metros con el solar número 27 del bloque “AA” de dicha urbanización.

Finca número 28,346 (antes 38,894) inscrita al folio 95 del tomo 569 de Ponce. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Ponce. Se apercibe y advierte a ustedes como personas desconocidas, que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso

deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. De no contestar la demanda radicando el original de la contestación ante la secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención:: Lcda. Charline Michelle Jiménez Echevarría, Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 00936-7308, Teléfono: 787-758- 6550, dentro de los próximos treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotara la rebeldía y se dictara sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 19 de febrero de 2021. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCIA, Sec Regional. MADELINE RIVERA MERCADO, Sec Aux del Tribunal.

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

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante v.

TAISHA N. MANGUAL HERNANDEZ

Demandado(a) Civil: Núm. RG2020CV00063.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: TAISHA N. MANGUAL HERNANDEZ *CARR 186 KM 12.9, BO. GUZMAN ARRIBA, RIO GRANDE, PR 00745; *PMB 304 PO BOX 20000, CANOVANAS PR 00726; * PO BOX 20000, CANOVANAS PR 00729; * 560 N JAMES ST, HAZLETON PA 182014962

(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 Sen-

tencia, 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 FAJARDO, Puerto Rico , el 12 de febrero de 2021.

WANDA I SEGUI REYES, Secretaria. f/AMARILIS MARQUEZ MARQUEZ, Sec Auxiliar.

solución, 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 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 19 de febrero de 2021.

GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Secretaria. f/MILDRED J. FRANCO REVENTOS, Sec Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

LEGAL NOTICE

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

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

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC Demandante v.

THE MONEY HOUSE, INC., JAMES B. NUTTER & COMPANY, MARGARITA VÁZQUEZ RIVERA T/C/C MARGARITA VÁZQUEZ RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C MARGARITA VÁZQUEZ Y FULANO Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO Y CUYA IDENTIDAD SE DESCONOCE AL PRESENTE Demandado(a) Civil: Núm. SJ2020CV04615 .

SALA 903. Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JAMES B. NUTTER & COMPANY, MARGARITA VAZQUEZ RIVERA T/C/C MARGARITA VAZQUEZ RODRIGUEZ T/C/C MARGARITA VAZQUEZ, FULANO Y SUTANA DE TAL como posibles tenedores del pagare extraviado

PEDRO NEGRON MORALES Demandante v.

FULANO DE TAL Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Civil: Núm. CA2020CV02561.

SALA 403. Sobre: CANCELACION O RESTITUCION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO Y/O. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO

A: FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 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 CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 18 de febrero de 2021. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRIGUEZ, Secretaria. f/ LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, Sec Auxiliar.

(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 19 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 LEGAL NOTICE una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen- Estado Libre Asociado de Puertencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re- to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL

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NEWREZ LLC F/K/A NEW PENN FINANCIAL, LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING Demandante v.

CITIMORTGAGE, INC., DITECH FINANCIAL LLC; FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO

Demandado(a) Civil: BY2019CV03455. SALA 506. Sobre: SUSTITUCION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 20 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 22 de febrero de 2021. En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 22 de febrero de 2021.

F/LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretario(a).

F/MARILYN COLON CARRASQUILLO, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

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

PR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT JV, LLC Demandante v.

JOSE R. BURGOS BIGIO, JUDYBELLE SANTIAGO LOPEZ & LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL

Thursday, February 25, 2021 DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a) Civil: Núm. CG2020CV01584 .

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOSE R. BURGOS BIGIO, JUDYBELLE SANTIAGO LOPEZ & 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 19 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 19 de febrero de 2021. En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico , el 22 de febrero de 2021.

CARMEN A. PEREIRA ORTIZ, Secretaria. f/VILMA OYOLA RIVERA, Sec Auxiliar.

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 COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (MASS MUTUAL) Demandante v.

SUCESIÓN de LUIS ALFREDO LÓPEZ SEDA compuesta por FULANO y MENGANO DE TAL, posibles herederos desconocidos; SUCESIÓN de ROSA MARÍA SEDA CANDELARIO t/c/c ROSA M. SEDA CANDELARIO compuesta por SUTANO y PERENCEJO DE TAL,

posibles herederos desconocidos, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, por sí y representado por el SECRETARIO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO (HUD)

Demandado(a) Civil Núm. MZ2019CV01020 (307). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA . NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SUCESION DE LUIS ALFREDO LOPEZ SEDA COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION DE ROSA MARIA SEDA CANDELARIO T/C/C ROSA M SEDA CANDELARIO COMPUESTA POR SUTANO Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS

(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 10 de diciembre de 2019, 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 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 DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN.

DOMINGO VILLANUEVA GUERRA Demandante vs

MARGARITA FIGUEROA RIVERA

Demandados Civil Número: SJ2021RF00156.

Sobre: DIVORCIO (Ruptura Irreparable).

A: MARGARITA FIGUEROA RIVERA

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda de epígrafe dentro de los TREINTA (30) DIAS a partir de la publicación de este edicto; el cual se publicará en un periódico de circulación general diaria durante una (1) sola vez. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

LCDO. PEDRO A. CRESPO CLAUDIO (RUA 17415) EMPHATIA NOTARY & LEGAL ADVISORS, PSC 282 Urb. La Serranía Caguas, Puerto Rico 00725-1810 Tel. 939-337-5550 E-mail: pcrespo©emphatialaw.com POR ORDEN DEL JUEZ DE ESTE TRIBUNAL, hoy día 22 de febrero de 2021. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 22 de febrero de 2021. f/GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Secretaria.

CARMEN S. CASTRO SERRANO, Sec Conf del Trib.

partir de la publicación de este edicto; el cual se publicará en un periódico de circulación general diaria durante una (1) sola vez. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

LCDO. PEDRO A. CRESPO CLAUDIO (RUA 17415) EMPHATIA NOTARY & LEGAL ADVISORS, PSC 282 Urb La Serranía Caguas, Puerto Rico 00725-1810 Tel. 939-337-5550 E-mail: pcrespo@emphatialaw.com POR ORDEN DEL JUEZ DE ESTE TRIBUNAL, hoy día 17 de febrero de 2021. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 17 de febrero de 2021. CARMEN ANA PEREIRA ORTIZ, Secretaria. Maritza Rosario Placeres, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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

ROOSEVELT CAYMAN ASSET COMPANY Demandante v.

LA SUCESION DE RICARDO JAVIER GARCÍA AYUSO compuesta por ADELYS LEGAL NOTICE RAMOS AGRON POR ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO LA CUOTA VIUDAL DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUUSUFRUCTUARIA Y NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA POR LAIZA MICHELLE SALA DE CAGUAS. GARCIA RAMOS RED DOOR COMO HEREDERA INVESTMENTS LIC CONOCIDA; FULANO Parte Demandante vs.

DE TAL, FULANA DE FIRST CARIBBEAN TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, FINANCIAL CORPORATION Y OTROS ZUTANA DE TAL, Y A, B Parte Demandada Y C, COMO HEREDEROS Civil Número: CG2021CV00050.

DESCONOCIDOS; Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESHONORABLE TITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXSECRETARIO DE TRAVIADO. HACIENDA DEL ESTADO A: FIRST CARIBBEAN LIBRE ASOCIADO FINANCIAL CORP. DE PUERTO RICO; A: GREAT ATLANTIC EL HONORABLE MORTGAGE SECRETARIO DE CORPORATION JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO POR LA PRESENTE se le emLIBRE ASOCIADO DE plaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva PUERO RICO

a la demanda de epígrafe denDemandado(a) tro de los TREINTA (30) DIAS a Civil: Núm. BY2018CV04684.

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SALA 502. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA PORLA VIA ORDINARIA.

A: ADELYS RAMOS AGRON, LAIZA MICHELLE GARCIA RAMOS y FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, Y A, B Y C, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE RICARDO JAVIER GARCIA AYUSO.

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 18 de febrero de 2021. En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 18 de febrero de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria.

VERONICA RIVERA RODRIGUEZ, Sec Auxiliar.

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 longitud por treinta y dos pies cinco pulgadas (32’5”) en su mayor ancho. Consta de salacomedor, terraza, una habitación con closet vestidor, “linen closet”, baño, cocina con closet y mesa de trabajo, gabinetes de pared, estufa, fregadero y los siguientes equipos: la estufa es con horno y tiene lavadorasecadora y nevera. Colinda por el NORTE, en una línea quebrada con pared que lo separa del apartamiento residencial número Doscientos Uno (201 ), en una longitud de nueve pies (9’) del corredor común limitado, en una longitud de quince pies siete pulgadas (15’7”) y del apartamiento residencial número Doscientos Tres (203), en una longitud de siete pies diez pulgadas (7’ 10”); por el SUR, con espacio exterior, en una longitud de treinta y dos pies cinco pulgadas (32’5”); por el ESTE, con pared que lo separa del apartamiento residencial número Doscientos Tres (203), en una longitud de veinticinco pies siete pulgadas (25’7”); y por el OESTE, en una línea quebrada con pared que lo separa del apartamiento residencial número Doscientos Uno (201 ), en una longitud de veintitrés pies siete pulgadas (23’7”). Este apartamiento tiene su puerta de entrada en su costado Norte y lo comunica con el corredor común limitado que da acceso al ascensor y escalera de salida al exterior del edificio.

Este apartamiento no tiene estacionamiento y le corresponde en los elementos comunes generales una participación de cuatro punto noventa y ocho porciento (4.98%). La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 15 84 del tomo 123 5 de Santurce Norte, Re-

gistro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Primera, finca número 25,425, inscripción tercera guión c (3ra-c). POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y enviar copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante cuya dirección más adelante se indica. 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.

Lic. Baldomero A. Collazo Torres RUA 10,189 Bufete Collazo, Connelly & Surillo, LLC P.O. Box 70212 San Juan, P.R. 00936-8212 Tel. (787) 625-9999 Fax (787) 705-7387 E-mail: bcollazo@lawpr.com Se le notifica también por la presente que la parte demandante habrá de presentar para su anotación al Registrador de la Propiedad del Distrito en que está situada la propiedad objeto de este pleito, un aviso de estar pendiente esta acción.

Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 09 de febrero de 2021. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Secretaria. Rosa M. Torrens Color, Sec Serv Sala.

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

CARMEN OCASIO GONZALEZ Comunidad Mantilla Calle Lentejuela 1834 Isabela, P.R. 00662 PETICIONARIA vs.

SUCESION MIGUEL ROSADO LOPEZ (Se desconoce la dirección)

EX- PARTE CIVIL NUMERO: AG2020CV00729.

SOBRE: INFORMATIVO DE DOMINIO

30 CONTRADICTORIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCION DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MAS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRA Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PRA 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 treinta (30) 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 siguiente finca: “RÚSTICA”: Solar ubicado en el Barrio Arenales Altos del término municipal de Isabela, Puerto Rico; compuesto de CUATROCIENTOS SESENTA y NUEVE PUNTO CUATROCIENTOS DIECISIETE METROS CUADRADOS (469.417 M.C.), en lindes al NORTE, con Luz M. Nieves; al SUR, con Camino Municipal, al ESTE, con Camino Municipal; y por el Oeste con Yolanda Ocasio. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo de 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, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva ,en la secretaria del tribunal. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas dentro de los treinta (30) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado en el expediente promovido, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

LCDO. ADALBERTO RAMOS ORTEGA RUA: 7,419 40 RUTA 5 BARRIO ARENALES BAJOS ISABELA, PUERTO RICO 00662 TEL. (939) 258-0733 ramos485@gmail.com 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 diez (10) puntos y negrillas, conforme a los dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico hoy día 26 de enero de 2021.

Sarahi Reyes Perez, Sec Regional. Zuheily Gonzalez Aviles, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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

STEVEN ARTHUR PAULI SIMONPIETRI Y SU ESPOSA KARLA MICHELLE RIVAS RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTAR POR ELLOS Demandantes Vs.

FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DEL CUAL

Demandados CIVIL NUM.: SJ2021CV00869, SALA: 802. SOBRE: CANCELACION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DEL CUAL, personas desconocidas que puedan ser tenedores del pagaré extraviado.

Se le notifica que se ha presentado una Demanda en su contra en este caso. En la Demanda se solicita se decrete judicialmente la cancelación de un (1) pagaré hipotecario a favor de Bank of America N.A., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $2,316,000.00, con intereses al 2.750% anual los primeros 60 meses y luego 7.750% anual, vencedero el 1 de agosto de 2043, autenticado bajo el afidávit nUmero 10,254.

Este pagaré fue suscrito el 24 de mayo de 2013 ante el Notario Público Alejandro J. Cacho, y garantizado por una hipoteca constituida mediante la Escritura Núm. 11 de 24 de mayo de 2013, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, e inscrita al folio 191 del tomo 49 de Puerta de Tierra, fincas números 1,199, 1,200, 1,201, 1,202 del Registro de San Juan, Sección I, sobre las siguientes propiedades: Propiedad A: “URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento numero dos mu doscientos dos (2202). Es un

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apartamento residencial de un nivel, localizado en el piso numero catorce (14) del inmueble sometido al régimen de la propiedad horizontal, denominado Condominio Caribe Plaza, que ubica encima de un estacionamiento comercial privado por virtud de un derecho de superficie, que a su vez está localizado en el Barrio Puerta de Tierra del Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Dicho piso ubica en el vigésimo primer nivel de la estructura total que compone el condominio y el estacionamiento comercial. Este apartamento tiene un área de construcción de siete mu cuatrocientos catorce punto sesenta y cuatro pies cuadrados (7,414.64 p.c.), equivalentes a seiscientos ochenta y ocho punto ochenta y cuatro metros cuadrados (688.84 m. c.). Este apartamento tiene su puerta de entrada por el lindero Noroeste, por ella se sale al vestíbulo (lobby) del apartamento que a su vez conduce al área de ascensores y escaleras y de ahI se sale al exterior. Este apartamento tiene un largo máximo de cuarenta y cuatro punto cero tres (44.03) metros y un ancho máximo de veintidós punto ochenta y cuatro (22.84) metros. Linderos: Por el SUROESTE, en cuarenta y uno punto veintinueve metros, colinda con área exterior; por el NOROESTE, en veintidós punto ochenta y tres (22.83) metros, colinda con área comUn y área exterior; por el NORESTE, en cuarenta y cuatro punto cero tres metros, colinda con área exterior y el apartamento dos mu doscientos uno y por el SURESTE, en veintidós punto ochenta y cuatro (22.84) metros, colinda con área exterior.

Este apartamento consta de un área de vestíbulo (lobby) tres habitaciones, una de ellas designada como “master room” con vestidor y baño, dos habitaciones designadas como “bedroom”, cada una con vestidor y baño, un pasillo con armario, sala con baño, comedor cocina y alacena, dinette sala de estar “ family room” con terraza, cuarto de servicio con baño lavandería, ropero y terraza. El titular de este apartamento está obligado a permitir el paso a través del área de vestíbulo (lobby) del apartamento por otros titulares de apartamentos del Condominio, de acuerdo a lo dispuesto en la cláusula Siete (B) del Párrafo Duodécimo de la escritura matriz del Condominio. Le corresponde a este apartamento el tres punto cero uno seis cero por ciento (3.0160%) en los Elementos Comunes Generales del Condominio. Le corresponde a este apartamento el tres punto uno dos seis cero por ciento (3.1260%) en los Ele-

mentos Comunes Limitados de los Residentes. A este apartamento se le asigna los almacenes catorce (14), quince (15) y dieciséis (16).” Inscrita al folio 187 del tomo 49 de Puerta de Tierra, finca nUmero 1,999, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de San Juan I. Propiedad B: ---”URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Estacionamiento marcado con el nUmero sesenta y seis (66) y sesenta y siete (67), ubicado en una porción del sótano de un estacionamiento comercial privado, cuya porción del sótano le pertenece por virtud de un derecho de superficie al edificio sometido al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal denominado Condominio Caribe Plaza, la cual fue construido encima de dicho estacionamiento comercial privado, que a su vez está localizado en el Barrio Puerta de Tierra del Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Este estacionamiento compuesto de un área abierta, tiene un área de construcción de Trescientos punto Setenta y Cuatro pies cuadrados (300.74 p.c.), equivalentes a Veintisiete punto Noventa y Cuatro Metros Cuadrados (27.94 m.c.). Este estacionamiento puede acomodar hasta dos vehículos de motor. Linderos: Por ci SUROESTE, en dos punto cincuenta y cuatro metros, colinda con área común; por el NOROESTE, en once punto cero cero metros, colinda con área común; por el NORESTE, en dos punto cincuenta y cuatro metros, colinda con área común y por el SURESTE, en once punto cero cero metros, colinda con área común. El acceso directo de este estacionamiento se encuentra en su lindero Sureste.

Le corresponde a este estacionamiento, el cero punto uno dos dos cero por ciento (0.1220%) en los Elementos Comunes Generales del Condominio. Le corresponde a este e s t a c i o n a m i e n t o , SJ2021CV00869 12/02/2021 11:50:43 a.m. Página 2 de 4 el cero punto uno dos siete cero por ciento (0.1270%) en los Elementos Comunes Limitados de los Residentes.” Inscrita al folio 191 del tomo 49 de Puerta de Tierra, finca número 1,200, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de San Juan I. Propiedad C: ---”URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Estacionamiento marcado con el nUmero ciento once (111), ubicado en una porción del sótano de un estacionamiento comercial privado, cuya porción del sótano le pertenece por virtud de un derecho de superficie al edificio sometido al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal denominado Condominio Caribe Plaza, el cual fue construido encima de dicho estacionamiento comercial priva-

do, que a su vez está localizado en ci Barrio Puerta de Tierra del Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Este estacionamiento se compone de un área abierta y tiene un área de construcción de ciento cincuenta punto treinta y siete pies cuadrados (150.37 p.c.), equivalentes a trece punto noventa y siete metros cuadrados (13.97). Linderos: por el SUROESTE, en dos punto cincuenta y cuatro metros, colinda con área comUn; por el NOROESTE, en cinco punto cincuenta metros, colinda con el estacionamiento designado ciento diez (110); por el NORESTE, en dos punto cincuenta y cuatro metros, colinda con el estacionamiento designado ciento cuatro (104) y por el SURESTE, en cinco punto cincuenta metros, colinda con área común. El acceso directo de este estacionamiento se encuentra en su lindero Suroeste.

Le corresponde a este estacionamiento el cero punto cero seis uno cero por ciento (0.06 10%) en los Elementos Comunes Generales del Condominio.

Le corresponde a este estacionamiento el cero punto cero seis tres cero por ciento (0.0630%) en los Elementos Comunes Limitados de los Residentes.” Inscrita al folio 191 del tomo 49 de Puerta de Tierra, finca número 1,202, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de San Juan I. Propiedad D: ---”URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Estacionamiento marcado con el nUmero ciento treinta y ocho (138) / ciento treinta y nueve (139), ubicado en una porción del sótano de un estacionamiento comercial privado, cuya porción del sótano le pertenece por virtud de un derecho de superficie al edificio sometido al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal denominado Condominio Caribe Plaza, el cual fue construido encima de dicho estacionamiento comercial privado, que a su vez esta localizado en el Barrio Puerta de Tierra del Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Este estacionamiento compuesto de un área abierta y tiene un area de construcción de trescientos punto setenta y cuatro pies cuadrados (300.74 p.c.), equivalentes a veintisiete punto noventa y cuatro metros cuadrados (27.94 m.c.). Este estacionamiento puede acomodar hasta dos vehículos de motor. Linderos: por el SUROESTE en dos punto cincuenta y cuatro metros, colinda con área comUn; por el NOROESTE, en once punto cero cero metros, con área común; por el NORESTE, en dos punto cincuenta y cuatro metros, colinda con área de estacionamiento comercial privada; y por el SURESTE en once punto cero cero metros, colinda

con los estacionamientos designados ciento cuarenta (140)! ciento cuarenta y uno (141). El acceso directo de este estacionamiento se encuentra en su lindero Suroeste. Le corresponde a este estacionamiento el cero punto uno dos dos cero por ciento (0.1220%) en los elementos comunes generales del condominio. Le corresponde a este estacionamiento ci 3 SJ2021CV00869 12/02/2021 11:50:43 a.m. Página 3 de 4 cero punto uno dos siete cero por ciento (0.127%) en los Elementos Comunes Limitados de los Residentes.” Inscrita al folio 195 del tomo 49 de Puerta de Tierra, finca nUmero 1,201, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de San Juan I. La parte demandante alega que el original del pagaré se extravió y la deuda evidenciada y garantizada por el mismo fue satisfecha, segUn consta más detalladamente en la Demanda presentada, la cual puede examinarse en la Secretarla de este Tribunal. Por la presente, se le emplaza y se le notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto.

Deberá presentar la contestación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https: //unired.ramajudicial. pr/ sumac, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentarla ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de San Juan con copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante a la siguiente dirección: Lcdo. Luis G. Parrilla Hernández, P0 Box 195168, San Juan, PR 00919-5168 y/o 221 Plaza Building, Avenida Ponce Dc Leon, Piso 5, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico 00917; Tel: 787-766-7000; Fax: 787-766-7001; Correo electrónico: lparrillaferraiuoli. com. Se le apercibe que, de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí establecido, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oIrle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 12 de febrero de 2021. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. Raquel E Figueroa Mater, Secretaria de Servicios a Sala.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

JOSÉ ANTONIO ARROYO ALICEA, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDA LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON MARÍA JULIANA SÁNCHEZ RODRÍGUEZ Y ÉSTA POR SÍ

Demandados CIVIL NUM.: KCD2014-2182.

SALA: 602. SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA IN REM. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 21 de enero de 2020, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número quinientos cincuenta y siete (557) en el Bloque C-veintiuno (C-21) del Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización El Comandante, radicado en el Barrio Sabana Llana del sitio denominado Río Piedras, del término municipal del Gobierno de la Capital de Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de trescientos ochenta y uno punto sesenta y tres metros cuadrados (381.73 m.c.).

Colindante por el NORTE, en quince punto ochenta y uno (15.81) metros, con los Solares número quinientos sesenta (560) y quinientos sesenta y dos (562) del Bloque C-veintiuno (C-21) del mencionado Plano; por el SUR, en trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros, con la Calle denominada “Street number eight (8)” del mencionado Plano; por el ESTE, en veintiséis punto cincuenta (26.50) metros, con el Solar número quinientos cincuenta y cinco (555) del Bloque C-veintiuno (C-21) del mencionado Plano; y por el OESTE, en veintiséis punto cincuenta (26.50) metros, con el Solar número quinientos cincuenta y nueve (559) del Bloque C-veintiuno (C-21) del mencionado Plano. Contiene este solar una casa de concreto armado de una sola planta que consta principalmente de tres dormitorios, sala-comedor, cocina, cuarto de baño y balcón. Finca Número 2,646, inscrita al folio 226 del tomo 66 de Sabana Llana. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección V de San Juan. La propiedad ubica en: #857 C

González St. El Comandante, San Juan, PR. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 13 de septiembre de 2019 y notificada el 16 de septiembre de 2019, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $112,290.29 por concepto de principal; intereses acumulados desde el 1ro de marzo de 2014, y los intereses pactados al 7.00% anual que se continúan generado hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito; y la suma $11,405.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 30 DE MARZO DE 2021 A LAS 9 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

El precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es por la cantidad de $114,050.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 7 DE ABRIL DE 2021 A LAS 9 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $76,033.33, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 14 DE MARZO DE 2021 A LAS 9 DE LA MAÑANAen la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $57,025.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la men-

The San Juan Daily Star cionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a.

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

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

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de febrero de 2021. 22 de febrero de 2021. EDWIN E LOPEZ MULERO, Alguacil Auxiliar, División de Subastas Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de San Juan.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados CIVIL NUM. BY2019CV05460.

SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. 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 BAYAMON, 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 (503) de Bayamón, el 23 de marzo de 2021, a las 10:30 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 diez (10) de la manzana “P” de la Urbanización Flamboyán Gardens, Barrio Juan Sanchez del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, compuesto de trescientos siete punto cincuenta y tres (307.53) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con solar P guion once (P-11), en veintitrés punto cincuenta (23.50) metros; por el SUR, con el solar P guion nueve (P-9) en diecinueve punto ocho (19.08) metros; por el ESTE, con paLEGAL NOTICE seo público, en catorce (14.00) ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO metros y por el OESTE, con la DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUcalle dieciséis (16), en cuatro NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA punto sesenta (4.60) metros SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAy ocho punto catorce (8.14) MON. metros y dos punto veintisiete REVERSE MORTGAGE (2.27) metros. Inscrita al folio FUNDING, LLC. 120 del tomo 642 de Bayamón Demandante vs.

Sur, finca 29668, Registro de la HECTOR IVAN PEREZ Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. La hipoteca objeto de GONZALEZ POR esta ejecución se encuentra SÍ Y EN CUANTO A inscrita al folio 137 del tomo LA CUOTA VIUDAL 1876, finca 29668 de Bayamón USUFRUCTUARIA; Sur, Registro de la Propiedad SUCESION AURORA de Bayamón, Sección I, inscripPEREZ MARTINEZ ción 8a. Propiedad localizada en: URB. FLAMBOYAN GARCOMPUESTA POR CHARLIE PEREZ PEREZ, DENS, P-10 CALLE LIMA (16), BAYAMON, PR 00956. Según ENIOVELL PEREZ figuran en la certificación rePEREZ; JOHN DOE gistral, la propiedad objeto de Y JANE DOE COMO ejecución está gravada por las POSIBLES HEREDEROS siguientes cargas anteriores o DESCONOCIDOS; preferentes: Nombre del Titular:

Thursday, February 25, 2021 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: $220,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 16 de junio 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 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 $220,500.00, 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 Bayamón, el 6 de abril de 2021, a las 2:30 de la tarde, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $147,000.00, 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 $110,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, el 13 de abril de 2021, a las 2:30 de la tarde. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $115,866.83 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $9,113.57 en intereses acumulados al 3 de diciembre de 2019 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.685% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $5,452.27 en seguro hipotecario; $4,480.00 en cargos por servicio; $1,182.00 en seguro; $300.00 en inspecciones de la propiedad; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $22,050.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la

referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta.

Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 19 de febrero de 2021. Jorge Campusano de la Rosa, Alguacil Regional. Almarlis Sanchez Martinez #289, Alguacil.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

JUAN COLÓN CORREA, NANCY HUERTAS MARTÍNEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado CIVIL NÚM: DCD2017-0368 (702). 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 MARIBEL LANZAR VELAZQUEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, al público en general. CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 9 de abril de 2019, que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, 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 la Sala 503, 5to Piso, en el local que ocupa en el Centro Judicial de Bayamón, 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, Juan Colón Correa, Nancy Huertas Martínez y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales Compuesta por Ambos. Dirección Física: Urb. Hacienda El Dorado, 3 E, Calle Almendro, Toa Alta, PR 00953.

Finca 10,172, al folio 240 del tomo 211 de Toa Alta, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Bayamón.

URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Haciendas de Dorado en los Barrios Río Lajas y Contorno del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, con el número 3 del Bloque E, con un área de cuatro mil dieciocho punto noventidós metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 78.73 metros con el solar E-4; por el SUR, en 83.94 metros con el solar E-2; por el ESTE, en 49.39 metros con la calle número 18 de la urbanización; y por el OESTE, en 49.67 metros con remanente de finca principal de la cual se segrega.

Enclava edificación con valor de $70,900.00, según escritura número 78, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 10 de marzo de 1997, ante el notario Virgilio Ramos González, e inscrita al tomo hoja móvil 36 de Toa Alta, finca número 10,172, inscripción 8va. Finca 10,172.

Por su procedencia está: Libre de Cargas. Por sí está afecta a: • Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage LLC, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $271,834.00, con intereses al 3.5% anual, vencedero el día 1 de marzo de 2042, constituida mediante la escritura número 59, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de febrero de 2012, ante el notario Ana Cristina Díaz Velasco, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Toa Alta, finca número 10,172, inscripción 13ra., como Asiento Abreviado extendida las líneas el día 21 de febrero de 2017, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010.

(Fue presentado el día 12 de marzo de 2012 al Asiento 558 del Diario 513). EL SIGUIENTE DOCUMENTO SE ENCUENTRA PRESENTADO Y PENDIENTE DE DESPACHO: • AL ASIENTO 2017-037056-BY03 DEL SISTEMA KARIBE, se presentó el día 4 de abril de 2017, Demanda de fecha 24 de marzo de 2017 expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Toa Alta, en el Caso Civil número DCD20170368 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

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contra Juan Colón Correa y Nancy Huertas Martínez, por la suma de $246,852.92. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 10,172 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: Primera Subasta: 23 de marzo de 2021, Hora: 11:30AM, Precio Mínimo: $271,834.00, Hipoteca: Escritura Número 59 sobre Primera Hipoteca, otorgada el día 29 de febrero de 2012, ante el notario Ana Cristina Díaz Velasco. Segunda Subasta: 6 de abril de 2021, Hora: 3:30PM, Precio Mínimo: $181,222.67.

Tercera Subasta: 13 de abril de 2021, Hora: 3:30PM, Precio Mínimo: $135,917.00.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 15 de agosto de 2017, archivada en los autos el 24 de agosto de 2017 y publicada el 1 de septiembre de 2017, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: La suma principal de $246,852.92, más intereses a razón de 3.5%, desde el 1 de septiembre de 2016, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de $201.92 por cargos por mora, más la suma de $45.56 en conexión con la cuenta de reserva, más la suma de $27,183.40, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedan-

do 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de febrero de 2021. MARIBEL LANZAR VELAZQUEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

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BOSCO CREDIT X, LLC

by FRANKLIN CREDIT MANAGEMENT as servicer DEMANDANTES V.

ELIZABETH PEREZ ORTIZ DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: PO2019CV01910.

SALON CIVIL: 406. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. SS: Yo, el Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de PONCE: CERTIFICO Y HAGO CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento con un MANDAMIENTO DE EJECUCIÓN DE SENTENCIA que me ha sido dirigido por el Secretario de este Tribunal en el caso arriba mencionado, venderé en pública subasta al mejor postor entre la parte demandante y aquellas personas que reúnan los requisitos y calificaciones de Ley, de contado y por moneda del cuño legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de PONCE, el día 23 de MARZO de 2021 a las 2:15 de la TARDE todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la parte demandada en la finca que se describe más adelante. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta lo será la suma de $68,600.00. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en esa Primera Subasta, se celebrarán una Segunda y Tercera Subasta, en las mismas oficinas de

este Alguacil, respectivamente, el día 30 de MARZO de 2021 a las 2:15 de la TARDE y el día 6 de ABRIL de 2021 a las 2:15 de la TARDE. Los tipos mínimos para dichas Segunda y Tercera Subastas lo serán, respectivamente las dos terceras partes y la mitad del tipo mínimo que se pactara para la Primera Subasta, o sea, las sumas de $45,733.33 y $34,300.00, respectivamente. La propiedad objeto de subasta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número cincuenta y siete (57) en el piano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Magas del Barrio Magas del término municipal de Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de dos mil trescientos cuarenta y ocho punto veinticinco (2,348.25) metros cuadrados. En lides por el NORTE, con la calle número tres (3) de la comunidad; por el SUR, con parcela número cincuenta y seis (56) de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con parcela número cincuenta y cinco (55) de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con parcela número cincuenta y nueve (59) de la comunidad. Finca Número 5,185, inscrita al folio 78 del tomo 141 de Guayanilla, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II. La dirección del inmueble es: 57 Calle Principal 110, Magas Arriba, Guayanilla, PR 00656.

Dichos remates se llevarán a efecto para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $36,041.49 por concepto de principal, más los intereses acumulados desde el 1 de enero de 2019, hasta su total y completo saldo, más una cantidad equivalente al 10% del principal del pagaré para el pago de las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados; más cualesquiera. otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de los pagarés y las escrituras de hipoteca. Cualquier título, derecho o interés que tenga la parte demandada en este caso en la propiedad anteriormente descrita se adjudicará al mejor postor entre la parte demandante y aquellas personas que refinan los requisitos y calificaciones de Ley. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria incoados en este caso, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría de este Honorable Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Se entiende que cualquier

32 carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si lo hubiere, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose además, que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. El monto de cada carga anterior que figura de la Certificación Registral sobre la finca objeto de esta ejecución, así como los nombres de sus titulares y fecha de vencimiento se detallan como sigue: NINGUNO. El monto de cada carga posterior que figura de la Certificación Registral sobre la finca objeto de esta ejecución, así como los nombres de sus titulares y fecha de vencimiento se detallan como sigue: ANOTACION DE DEMANDA: De fecha 3 de junio de 2019, en el Centro Judicial de Ponce, Caso Civil #P02019CV01910, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la vía ordinaria, seguido por Scotiabank de Puerto Rico versus Elizabeth Perez Ortiz, por la suma de $36,041.49, más intereses, etc. Anotado al tomo Karibe de Guayanilla, finca #5,185, anotación A, con fecha de 21 de junio de 2019. Por la presente se le notifica a los titulares de crédito y/o cargas registrales posteriores, que se celebrarán las Subastas en las fechas, horas y sitio anteriormente señalados, y se les invitan a que concurran a dichas subastas si les conviniese, o se les invita a 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, siempre y cuando refinan los requisitos y calificaciones de Ley y para que pueda efectuar tal subrogación.

Y para su publicación en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en dos lugares públicos del municipio en el cual se celebrarán las subastas señaladas, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diarias y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por el término de por lo menos dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y una vez por semana. Se hace constar que los abogados de la parte demandante son Igor J. Domínguez Law Offices, 1225 Avenida Ponce de León, Suite 1105, San Juan, PR 009073921, Teléfono (787) 250-0220, Fax. (787) 250-0295. EXPEDIDO el presente en PONCE, Puerto Rico, a 13 de enero de 2021. ARMANDO FIGUEROA COLLAZO #740, ALGUACIL Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de PONCE.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

AWILDA CASIANO RIVERA, ERIC TORRES SUAREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

The San Juan Daily Star

Thursday, February 25, 2021

CITIBANK, N.A; R.F. MORTGAGE & INVESTMENT CORPORATION; BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO MAS CUAL

Demandados CIVIL NUM. CA2021CV00121.

SOBRE: CANCELACION DE HIPOTECAS REPRESENTADAS POR PAGARES HIPOTECARIOS EXTRAVIADOS. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.SS.

Demandados Civil Núm.: HA2020CV00203.

A : FULANO DE TAL Y Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. MENGANO MAS CUAL EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC- Se emplaza y notifica a ustedes TO. que se ha presentado una deA: AWILDA CASIANO manda en este caso, en la cual RIVERA, ERIC en síntesis, la parte demandante alega que se extraviaron TORRES SUAREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL dos (2) pagares hipotecarios que estaban en poder de “R.F. DE GANANCIALES Mortgage & Investment CorCOMPUESTA POR poration” y “Banco Popular de AMBOS. Puerto Rico” respectivamente, Por la presente se le emplaza a y solicita que se ordene la canusted y se le requiere para que celación de las hipotecas que dentro del término de TREINTA los garantizan. Los pagares (30) días desde la fecha de la fueron librados por el Sr. RaPublicación por Edicto de este món Sanchez Queral, y la que Emplazamiento, notifique a la era su esposa, 1a Sra. Teresita LCDA. GINA H. FERRER ME- Fernández Miralles, a favor de: DINA, Condominio Las Nerei- (i) “Citibank N.A.”, o a su orden, das, Local 1-B, Calle Méndez por la suma de $146,700.00, Vigo esquina Amador Ramírez más intereses y créditos, según Silva, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico consta de la escritura #265, 00680; Apartado 2342, Maya- otorgada en San Juan, Puerto güez, Puerto Rico 00681-2342, Rico el dIa 7 de julio de 1989, Teléfonos: (787) 832-9620 y ante el Notario Público Carlos (845) 345-3985, Abogada de la M. Franco. La referida escrituParte Demandante, cuya direc- ra se encuentra inscrita al folio ción es la que queda indicada, 261 del tomo 805 de Carolina copia de su Contestación a la Norte, del Registro de la ProDemanda, radicando el original piedad de Carolina, Sección I, de dicha Contestación en el finca #38,72 1, inscripción ira; y Tribunal de Camuy. Copia de (ii) “R.F. Mortgage & Investment la Demanda, así como de este Corporation”, o a su orden, por Emplazamiento, podrán ser ob- Ia suma de $150,700.00, más tenidas en la Secretaría de este intereses y créditos, según Tribunal, apercibiéndose que consta de la escritura #199, en caso de no hacerlo usted así otorgada en San Juan, Puerto dentro del término indicado, po- Rico el dIa 8 de abril de 1993, drá anotarse la rebeldía en su ante el Notario Público Enrique contra concediendo el remedio N. Vela Colon. La referida essolicitado en la Demanda sin critura se encuentra inscrita al más citarle ni oírle. Expido bajo folio 262 del tomo 805 de Cami firma y el sello del Tribunal, rolina Norte, del Registro de la hoy 29 de enero de 2021. VI- Propiedad de Carolina, Sección VIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, I, finca #38,721, inscripción SECRETARIA REGIONAL. 2da. Pueden ver la demanda YOLANDA RIVERA COLÓN, en su totalidad en este TribuSECRETARIA AUXILIAR. nal. Los Abogados de la Parte Demandante lo son: Sandra De LEGAL NOTICE L. Tous-Chevres yRaül J. Tous ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Bobonis, Edificio La ElectróniDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- ca, 1608 Calle Bori, Suite 205, NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA San Juan, PR 00927-6112, teSALA SUPERIOR DE CARO- léfonos 751-8834\3824, a quien LINA. deberán notificar la contestaRAMON SANCHEZ ción de Ia demanda dentro de los próximos 30 días siguientes QUERAL, también conocido como RAMON a la publicación de este edicto.

FERNANDO SANCHEZ Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su QUERAL alegación responsiva dentro de Demandante vs. los próximos 30 días siguientes

a la publicación de este edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adntinistración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretarIa del tribunal. Se le apercibe que si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Dado bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal y por Orden del mismo boy 09 de febrero de 2021. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodriguez, Sec Regional. Solmarie Montero Castro, Sec Auxiliar.

la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcdo.

Javier Montalvo Cintrón, Delgado & Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 274-1414. DADA en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 9 de febrero de 2021. Dominga Gomez Fuster, Sec Regional. Marisol Dávila Ortíz, Secretaria Auxiliar.

Demandante v.

COMMOLOCO INC, ahora BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, Como posibles tenedores desconocidos

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO LEGAL NOTICE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAGENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI- MÓN. ONEMAIN FINANCIAL BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANSERVICES, INC. CIA SALA DE HUMACAO. Parte Demandante Vs. ORIENTAL BANK

JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN SONIA MEDINA SANTANA;

Parte Demandada CIVIL NUM: BY2021CV00555.

SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉPartes con Interes RICA EL PRESIDENTE DE CIVIL NUM.: HU2020CV01062.

LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LISOBRE: INTERPELACIÓN, BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO COBRO DE DINERO Y EJERICO. SS. CUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESA: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD TADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRIROE COMO posibles CA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE tenedores desconocidos ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS. EDIC- POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que TO. A: John Doe y Richard conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes Roe como miembros a la publicación de este Edicto. desconocidos de la Usted deberá radicar su aleSucesión Sonia Medina gación responsiva a través del Santana Sistema Unificad b de Manejo y 13 Calle A, Vista Alegre, Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder Humacao, PR 00791; Vista Alegre, 13 Calle A, utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramaHumacao, PR 00791. judicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se POR LA PRESENTE se le empresente por derecho propio, plaza para que presente al trien cuyo caso deberá radicar el bunal su alegación responsiva original de su contestación ante dentro de los 60 días de haber el Tribunal correspondiente y sido diligenciado este emplanotifique con copia a los abozamiento, excluyéndose el día gados de la parte demandante, del diligenciamiento. Usted Lcda. Marjaliisa Colón Villanuedeberá presentar su alegación va, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, responsiva a través del Sistema P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787-843Unificado de Manejo y Adminis4168. 1 En dicha demanda tración de Casos (SUMAC), al se tramita un procedimiento cual puede acceder utilizando de cancelación de pagare exDemandada

DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

traviado. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que se extravió un pagaré con el testimonio número trece mil treinta y ocho (13,038) según consta en la escritura quinientos treinta y tres (533), otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el día veinticuatro (24) de¡ septiembre de dos mil cuatro (2004 ), ante el notario Sergio Ortiz Atienza, a favor de Commoloco, lnc., ahora Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de treinta mil dólares ($30,000.00), con intereses al trece por ciento (13. %) anual, vencedero ! el veintinueve 1 (29) de septiembre de dos mil diecinueve (2019) y cuya obligación ¡hipotecaria se encuentra inscrita al folio dieciséis (16) del tomo ciento cuarenta y cinco (145) de Cataño, finca número seis mil novecientos treinta y nueve (6,939). Inscripción sexta (6ta).

Que grava la propiedad que s~ describe a continuación: 1 URBANA: Solar marcado con el número A guion cuatro (A-4) de la Urbanización el Caqui 11, situado en el Barrio Palmas, Sector Juana Matos del término municipal de Cataño, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos veintiuno punto ochenta y seis (221.86) metros cuadrados colindando por el NORTE, con la calle número dos (2) de la urbanización en una distancia de once punto cero cero (11.00) metros: por el SUR, con la Carretera Estatal número ciento sesenta y siete (167) en una.distancia de once punto cero cero (11.00) metros; por el Este, con el solar número A guion cinco (A-5) en una distancia de veinte punto diecisiete (20.17) metros; por el OESTE, con el solar número A guion Tres (A-3) de dicha urbanización y en una distancia de veinte punto catorce (20.14) metros. En dicha parcela se ha construido una casa de concreto para uso residencial. Inscrita al folio noventa (90) del tomo ciento cuarenta y cinco (145) de Cataño, finca número seis mil novecientos treinta y nueve (6,939). Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón Sección Cuarta (IV). SE LES APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mí firma y sello del Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 16 de febrero de 2021. Lcda. Laura I Santa Sanchez, Sec Regional.

Yarilis Cintron, Sec Auxiliar.

MMG I PR CFL, LLC Plaintiff, vs.

LUIS RAMON ALAMO LEON, ANGELA LUISA FLORES RODRIGUEZ AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN

Defendant CIVIL NO. 19-1586 (PAD). RE: COLLECTION OF MONIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: LUIS RAMON ALAMO LEON, ANGELA LUISA FLORES RODRIGUEZ AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN; AND TO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO. SS. Judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $76,490.21, accrued interest which continues to accrue until full payment of the debt at the rate of 6.50% per annum, accrued late charges and any other advance, charge, fee or disbursements made by plaintiff, on behalf of defendants, in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs, and ten (10) percent of modified mortgage note principal balance in attorney’s fees; Pursuant to the judgment, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for United States currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder to be held on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or any other place designated by said Special Master, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: URBANA: Predio de terreno en el Barrio Toita, Sector Buena Vista del término municipal de Cayey, con un área de uno punto dos nueve cuatro seis (1.2946) cuerdas.

En lindes por el NORTE, con Ernesto Zayas; por el SUR, con parcela C; por el ESTE, con parcela segregada anteriormente y servidumbre de paso; por el OESTE, con carretera municipal denominada La Herradura y parcelas segregadas anteriormente.

Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio 173 del tomo 221 de Cayey, Registro de la Propiedad de Cayey, finca número 6,841, Inscripción 4ta y última. Physical address: Sector Herradura 14 KM 6.2, LEGAL NOTICE Cayey, P.R. 00736. Potential IN THE UNITED STATES DISbidders are advised to verify the TRICT COURT FOR THE DISextent of preferential liens with TRICT OF PUERTO RICO. the holders thereof. It shall be

understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior or preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal), or homeowner associations dues, to the extent specified under the applicable Condominium Law, shall continue in effect. It being understood that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. THEREFORE, the first public sale shall be held on the April 9th, 2021 at 10:00 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $96,000.00. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a second public auction shall be held on the April 16th, 2021 at 10:00 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $64,000.00, 2/3 parts of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a third auction will be held on the April 23rd, 2021 at 10:00 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $48,000.00, ½ of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on February 2nd, 2021.

AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, Special Master.

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

MMG 1 PR CR, LLC Plaintiff, vs.

MIGUEL SOTOMAYOR MELENDEZ, WININFRED COLON DEL RIO, AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendant CIVIL NO. 19-1583 (PAD). RE: COLLECTION OF MONIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: MIGUEL SOTOMAYOR MELENDEZ, WININFRED COLON DEL RIO, AND

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THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION; RNPM, LLC; AND TO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL:

address: LG1 Julio Alvarado St., Frontera, Bayamón, P.R. 0000961. The property is subject to the following junior liens: HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagare a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma de $16,800.00, intereses al 9.45% anual y a vencer el 1 de enero del 2035, según consta de la escritura #777, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA otorgada en San Juan, el 30 de PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED diciembre de 2004, ante el NoSTATES COMMONWEALTH tario Jesús A. Ledesma Amador, OF PUERTO RICO. SS. inscrito en Sistema Karibe de Judgment in favor of plaintiff Bayamón Norte, finca #12,226, for the sum of $155,611.32 in inscripción 7ma. DEMANDA: principal, $55,177.18 in acDe fecha 15 de enero de 2016, crued interest, which continues en la Corte de Distrito de los Esto accrue until full payment of tados Unidos de América para the debt at the rate of 7.50% el Distrito de Puerto Rico, caso per annum, $2,965.88 accrued civil #16-1476 (GAG), sobre late charges, and any other Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido advance, charge, fee or disburpor RNPM, LLC versus Miguel sements made by plaintiff on Sotomayor Meléndez y Winifred behalf of defendant in accorColon Del Rio, por la suma de dance with the mortgage deed, $155,611.32, más intereses, plus costs, and ten (10%) peretc., en Sistema Karibe de Bacent attorney fees. Pursuant to yamón Norte, finca #12,226, the judgment, the undersigned anotación A. EMBARGO FEDESpecial Master was ordered to RAL: Anotado en asiento 2018sell at public auction for United 007668-FED, con el número States currency in cash or cerde notificación 322369118, tified check without appraiseembargo contra M. Sotomayor ment or right of redemption to Meléndez & W. Colon Del, Bathe highest bidder to be held on rrio Carmelita, C/Cristo B2N6, the sidewalk in front of the main Vega Baja, PR 00693, seguro gate entrance of the United social XXX-XX-4677, por la States District Court, Federal suma de $9,522.18 del 30 de Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, agosto de 2018, finca número Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or any 12,226. No podemos precisar other place designated by said si el titular y el embargado es Special Master, to cover the la misma persona. Potential sums adjudged to be paid to the bidders are advised to verify the plaintiff, the following property: extent of preferential liens with URBANA: Parcela de terreno the holders thereof. It shall be en la Urbanización Levittown, understood that each bidder acOctava unidad de planificación cepts as sufficient the title and en el Barrio Hato Tejas de Bathat prior or preferential liens to yamón, marcado con el número the one being foreclosed upon, Uno del Bloque LG, con un área including but not limited to any de cuatrocientos seis metros property tax liens (express, cuadrados con cuatrocientos tacit, implied or legal), or hoveintiocho milímetros cuadrameowner associations dues, to dos. En lindes: por el NORTE, the extent specified under the en doce metros sesenta y siete applicable Condominium Law, milímetros y un arco de dos meshall continue in effect. It being tros trescientos cuarentinueve understood that the successful milímetros con Julio Alvarado; bidder accepts them and is supor el SUR, en veinte metros brogated in the responsibility for setecientos doce milímetros the same and that the bid price con el solar número treinta y shall not be applied toward their nueve y el solar número cuacancellation. The present prorenta; por el ESTE, en veintitrés perty will be acquired free and metros con el solar numero dos; clear of all junior liens. THEREpor el OESTE, en dos arcos, FORE, the first public sale shall uno de dos metros trescientos be held on the April 9th, 2021 at cuarentinueve milímetros y otro 10:20 a.m., and the minimum de dos metros ciento cincuenta bid that will be accepted is the y nueve milímetros y dieciocho sum of $134,400.00. In the metros setecientos ochenta event said first public auction y nueve milímetros con Silvia does not produce a bidder and Rexach. Según plano archivado the property is not adjudicated, en este Registro por el NORTE, a second public auction shall be colinda en doce metros sesenta held on the April 16th, 2021 at y siete milímetros y un arco de 10:20 a.m., and the minimum dos metros trescientos cuarenbid that will be accepted is the tinueve milímetros con la calle sum of $89,600.00, 2/3 parts of número ochocientos siete. Insthe minimum bid for the 1st pucrita al folio 176 del tomo 1253 blic sale. If said second auction de Bayamón Norte, Sección does not result in the adjudicaTercera, finca número 12,226, tion and sale of the property, Inscripción Quinta. Physical

Thursday, February 25, 2021 a third auction will be held on the April 23rd, 2021 at 10:20 a.m. and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $67,200.00, ½ of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on February 2, 2021. AGUDO DE LA TORRE, Special Master.

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

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

SUCESION DE CORPUS PADIN CUBERO Y LA SUCESIÓN DE JUANITA TORRES TORRES, compuesta por John Doe y Richard Roe como posibles herederos desconocidos de los causantes; LA ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES, CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Parte Demandada CASO CIVIL NUM: AR2018CV00794.

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 Camuy, 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 $36,361.49 de balance principal, los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal y computados al 7.00% anual desde el día primero de enero de 2018 hasta su total pago y completo pago; más el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad de $312.69 de cargos por demora a razón de $15.63 mensuales

desde el primero de febrero de 2018 hasta su total pago, más la suma de $4,700.00 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: Solar localizado en el Barrio Camuy Arriba de Camuy, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de Doscientos Sesenta y Cuatro punto Cinco Mil Quinientos Treinta y Nueve metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con área a dedicarse a uso publico; al Sur, con remanente de la finca principal; al Este, con carretera estatal numero Ciento Diecinueve, que conduce de Camuy a San Sebastián; y al Oeste, con Luz Antonia López Hernández. Inscrita al folio 122 del tomo 361 de Camuy, finca número 16,088 del Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Segunda de Arecibo. Dirección Física: Barrio Camuy Arriba, Carr. 119, Km 9.7, Camuy PR 00627. La propiedad anteriormente descrita se encuentra afecta a: HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagare a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamientos de la Vivienda, o a su orden, por la suma de $15,000.00, sin intereses y vencedero en 8 años, según consta de la escritura número 186, otorgada el 5 de abril de 2004, ante el notario Carmen I. Colon Maldonado, inscrita al folio 122 del tomo 361 de Camuy, finca 16088, inscripción 4ta. SUJETA A CONDICIONES DE SUBSIDIO POR 8 AÑOS LA LLAVE PARA TU HOGAR. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 6 de abril de 2021 a las 9:15 de la mañana y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $47,000.00 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 9:15 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 $31,333.33.

Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 20 de abril de 2021, a las 9:15 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 $23,500.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Podrán concurrir como postores a to-

das las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales, podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otros créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor.

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

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

(Art. 101 (1) de la Ley núm.

210-2015). Expedido el presente en Camuy, Puerto Rico a 17 de febrero de 2021. Luis E. Roman Carrero, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAMUY.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

LA SUCESIÓN DE ROSA IRIS MERCADO BUTTER COMPUESTA POR SANDRA FIGUEROA MERCADO; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: AR2019CV00839.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO, 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 8 DE ABRIL DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: D-10 CALLE ATUN URB. VISTAS DEL ATLANTICO ARECIBO, PR 00612 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número 10 del Bloque D de la Urbanización Vistas del Atlántico, radicado en el Barrio Hato Abajo del término municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Area del solar: 191.763 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 12.15 metros, con el solar número 11 del Bloque D; por el SUR, en una distancia de 8.65 metros, con la calle número 4 de la Urbanización; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 16.00 metros, con el solar número 9 del Bloque D; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 12.38 metros, con la Calle número 3 de la Urbanización.

Sobre dicho solar enclava una casa diseñada para una familia.

La propiedad antes relacionada

consta inscrita al al Folio 155 del Tomo 1197 de Arecibo, finca número 41,302, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Primera (1ra). El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $72,950.00. 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 15 DE ABRIL DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $48,633.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 22 DE ABRIL DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $36,475.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 145 otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 1 de septiembre de 2000, ante el Notario Carlos L. González Alonso, y consta inscrita al Folio 155 del Tomo 1197 de Arecibo, finca número 41,302, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Primera (1ra), inscripción quinta (5ta). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido condenando a La Sucesión de Rosa Iris Mercado Butter ascendente a la suma de $52,672.92 por concepto de principal, desde el primero (1ro) de noviembre de 2017, más intereses al tipo pactado de 8.1/2% anual. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, La Sucesión de Rosa Iris Mercado Butter adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $7,295.00. Además, La Sucesión de Rosa Iris Mercado Butter se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $7,295.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $7,295.00 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 ARECIBO, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. 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 Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 19 de febrero de 2021. ANGEL DE J. TORRES PERES, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR.

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Thursday, February 25, 2021

With MLB’s help, baseball returns at an HBCU

By JAMES WAGNER

D

illon Cousin is from Slidell, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans, and he grew up playing baseball. Although Cousin, 19, said everybody in his family — “that’s not even an exaggeration” — is a graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana, a historically Black university in New Orleans, he committed to a university in Alabama instead.

He could play baseball there.

But when XULA, as it is also known, announced in 2019 that it was resurrecting a baseball program that had been dormant since 1960, Cousin said he was “really shocked.” And when the newly hired XULA head coach, Adrian Holloway, invited Cousin to an athletic event on campus, gave him a tour, explained his vision and made him a generous scholarship offer, Cousin was sold.

“It’s a good school for putting people in medical school that look like me, and that’s what I want to do, actually,” Cousin, a freshman pitcher and first baseman, said in a phone interview. “I want to become a sports medicine doctor, so Xavier was really a perfect fit.”

While the baseball industry in the United States continues wrestling with persistent problems like inaccessibility and homogeny, and several HBCUs have cut baseball programs over the years, XULA achieved a notable milestone on Tuesday afternoon: It played its first intercollegiate baseball game in six decades.

And with an assist from Major League Baseball, it was a home game. Not only does the XULA Gold Rush baseball team use MLB’s Urban Youth Academy at Wesley Barrow Stadium for practices and games, but so does the softball team, a new sport for the school. No other university in the country can call an MLB facility its home stadium — an arrangement officials hoped would continue their efforts to improve participation and diversity in baseball and softball.

“Kids can now see the whole pipeline,” said Eddie Davis, the director of the youth academy in New Orleans, one of 11 such facilities across the country. “The younger kids can see former academy kids playing high school on the same field and now playing college on the same field. It’s tangible. Before, it was kind of grayish; you really can’t touch it. But now, you can.”

Playing college games at Wesley Barrow

Xavier University of Louisiana had not fielded a baseball team since 1960.

The return of the program attracted players who had previously committed to other schools.

Stadium will complete a circle for 10 of the 43 players on XULA’s baseball roster. The 10, including Cousin and Blair Frederick, 23, a graduate student who is a pitcher and outfielder, are alumni of the academy.

“When I really started to get into baseball seriously, I was at the academy and putting in work,” said Frederick, a New Orleanian who graduated from the University of New Orleans after spending his first years of college playing or recovering from arm injuries at baseball powerhouses like Louisiana State and San Jacinto College. “And now toward the end of my career, I’m back at the academy.”

The academy, open to children ages 6 to 19, provides free on-field instruction. But its work extends off the diamond, too, to a junior broadcasting program and a sports law program hosted with Tulane. Two XULA baseball players — Donovan Gibson and Andreas Palmer — are graduates of the latter.

“You got to raise the sea to raise all the ships,” Davis said, adding that many will not reach the major leagues but some “may be the next Kim Ng or they may be the next GM or the next VP of sales, and then their kids are familiar with the game but then that kid might be the next Derek Jeter.”

Like Cousin, Frederick was surprised to learn XULA had resurrected baseball. His mother used to work at the university, so he spent many hours there after class in elementary school, but he didn’t think he would play baseball there. Now at XULA, he welcomed the chance.

“We have about 40 guys in our roster, so that’s 40 guys that get a chance to prolong their dream for a few more years that probably wouldn’t have had that opportunity anywhere else,” Frederick said, adding later, “It’s very important that we have access to things like this.”

Jason Horn, XULA’s assistant vice president for student affairs and director of athletics and recreation, said university leaders asked him a few years ago to find ways to attract new students through sports. XULA, which discontinued all sports in 1960 but restarted men’s basketball seven years later, is a private Roman Catholic university with an enrollment of about 3,300 and competes in the NAIA. He said people sometimes stereotyped Black athletes, thinking they played only basketball and football.

But while at recruiting events for HBCUs, Horn said several students asked him if XULA had baseball, softball, cheerleading or track and field. It helped solidify XULA’s desire to expand into those sports. (Women’s indoor track and field and varsity coed competitive cheer were added last year.) In his seven years at XULA, Horn said, the number of people connected to athletics has more than tripled, to about 350.

“It’s about giving young men and women opportunity,” he said.

Holloway, 37, lost his previous job coaching baseball at Selma University, a smaller historically Black university in his hometown in Alabama, when it shut down its athletic

department because of funding problems. He said many HBCUs don’t view baseball the way they do football and basketball.

“A lot of HBCUs are either cutting baseball or baseball is terribly underfunded at their university or usually baseball is the stepchild,” he said. “It was definitely a pleasant surprise to see Xavier adding baseball and actually putting money into it. We’re blessed to have a well-funded program to start.”

This year, Holloway said, he has a $350,000 scholarship budget, which helped him attract student-athletes from 12 states.

Nearly half the players are from Louisiana.

Many of them are transfers from NCAA Division I schools or junior colleges. He said he purposefully built a diverse roster: The majority is Black American, but there are also Latino and white players — the latter two groups increasingly larger at other HBCUs. Although only 4% of NCAA baseball players and about 8% of MLB players are Black, Holloway said baseball is popular in that community. But too often, he said, working and middle-class families are priced out of the sport. Travel teams, for example, can cost thousands of dollars a year.

“I’ve seen us still playing baseball and still playing at a high level, but depending on where you’re from and what kind of background you come from, you may not afford to get the exposure to be at the next level,” he said.

Cousin said baseball was the main sport at his suburban high school, but he was often the only person of color on his teams. Davis, a New Orleans native who played for five years in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ farm system after college, said baseball lost an entire generation of Black Americans in the 1990s, falling behind football and basketball.

Hoping to tap into his experience, MLB hired Davis, who worked in the tech industry and mentored youth players after his playing days, to run the academy before its opening in 2012.

While the XULA softball season began earlier this month, the baseball team finally got its chance on Tuesday. (Its original season opener, versus Rust College over the weekend, was postponed by snow and ice.) Cousin called it an honor to be a part of the group that brought baseball back to XULA. “I’ve got a ton of people calling to ask for the schedule, trying to get out to games,” Frederick said. “There’s a lot of buzz around town right now.”

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The pandemic has diminished part of athletes’ jobs: Signing autographs

By GERALD NARCISO

T

ennis player Eugenie Bouchard grew accustomed to drawing a crowd of autograph seekers. At tournaments, she routinely scribbled her signature for almost anybody who asked around stadium concourses or outside her hotel.

Bouchard, a 2014 Wimbledon finalist who ranked fifth in the world at her peak, is one of Canada’s most popular athletes. But lately, she has received significantly less attention. She has competed in just four tournaments on the tour since the start of the coronavirus pandemic — sometimes without fans in the stands. Bouchard, 26, said she could count on one hand how many times she had been approached in public for an autograph on any given day in Las Vegas, where she has been training for nearly a year.

“Very, very few,” she said in an email. “It’s like a special occasion now, and I get super excited to sign.”

The pandemic has disrupted almost every aspect of sports culture, including fan attendance at games. Even where there are reduced-capacity crowds, buffers between spectators and players have largely prevented interactions, including one of professional athletes’ traditional responsibilities: giving autographs.

“Signing and taking pictures is one of the perks of the job,” Bouchard said. “I remember being that kid dying for an autograph from a player.”

In many stadiums and arenas worldwide, massive tarps now cover areas above the tunnels where athletes pass in and out of playing areas and where zealous fans with pens and sports memorabilia typically jostle for position around the railings.

In the NHL, players cannot socialize with teammates on the road, much less interact with fans. Claude Giroux, the Philadelphia Flyers’ captain, said he couldn’t remember the last time he had autographed an item.

“Hopefully, I don’t get put in that situation, but I would have to respectfully decline just ’cause it’s dangerous,” Giroux, 33, said in a telephone interview, estimating that before the pandemic he would give about 20 autographs after games. “You don’t know the person. You want to be safe. I’d love to sign a few, but I don’t think that’s the right play for now.”

In England, the Premier League has set similarly stringent policies in its soccer stadiums. Fans began being allowed back into the stands in December, but contact between

Fans were allowed to attend the Phoenix Open this month in Scottsdale, Ariz., but players were not permitted to sign autographs. them and players is not permitted.

“You could already feel the impact on and off the pitch,” Sadio Mané, a winger for Liverpool, said in an email.

But the break in his previous game-day signing routine, Mané said, has not yielded benefits like improved concentration before matches. Mané, 28, said he missed interacting with fans.

“It’s a beautiful thing to help young fans, being able to connect their passion and education,” he said. “Being around fans is something that will hopefully be possible again this year.

I will always be there and ready to sign autographs for our fans after the pandemic.”

This week, Major League Baseball ramps up its spring training, which includes about a month of tuneup games at small ballparks in Florida and Arizona. It’s a fun time, Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder David Peralta said, because of closeness with fans.

Last year, only games in the later playoff rounds had fans in the stands. Spring training games will have limited attendance, but plans for the regular season haven’t been finalized.

“I was feeling a little down last season, because you play to put on a good show for the fans,” Peralta, 33, said in a telephone interview. “And then when you look around, you have nothing. No one to throw a ball to

between innings. No kids you can make smile with an autograph.”

Max Wheeler is one of those kids. Wheeler, a 13-year-old baseball fan from Madison, Wisconsin, has collected more than 500 signatures in the past seven years, Hank Aaron’s being his most prized. Wheeler was a fixture at the Milwaukee Brewers’ home stadium before the pandemic, strategically acquiring autographs.

“I make neon signs two nights before the game, and we arrive three hours before first pitch to make sure we’re first in line,” Wheeler, who runs a YouTube channel that presents his best signed memorabilia and provides tips for autograph seekers, said in a telephone interview. “I like meeting the guys I see on TV, so it’s pretty cool.”

The Professional Bull Riders league was one of the first sports organizations not only to restart competition last year, but also to bring back fans. Yet the association never allowed crowds to exceed 50% of capacity, a spokesman said.

At events before the pandemic, ticket holders could take tours backstage, viewing the bulls up close and interacting with riders.

Matt Triplett, 29, a rider known as a fan favorite, would sign autographs even after intense rides, with his cowboy hat scuffed up and his

arm wrapped in a bag of ice. Autographs are currently not permitted on the bull riders’ circuit, but that has not always stopped Triplett from accommodating fan requests.

“You see them walking down the hall, you sign a quick one and still make it work,” Triplett, who is currently out of competition with a hip injury, said by telephone. “You still want them to come, but you want to practice social distancing.”

Normalcy in sporting events is slowly returning. Some NBA teams, including the Atlanta Hawks, have even brought back courtside seats. At the end of a game in Atlanta last month, Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving of the Brooklyn Nets removed their jerseys and autographed them before handing them to the rapper 2 Chainz.

Wheeler hopes he, too, will soon be able to see his sports heroes in person again.

Since the start of the pandemic, he has continued to receive autographs through the mail.

But being a true autograph connoisseur, Wheeler said nothing beats seeing a baseball player up close and witnessing the signing in real time.

“I miss them a lot,” he said. “Even though attending baseball games is not going on right now, I know that they’ll resume someday.”

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What to know about Tiger Woods’ car crash

By KEVIN DRAPER and ALAN BLINDER

T

iger Woods was rushed to a hospital with serious leg injuries on Tuesday morning in Los Angeles County after he was involved in a single-car crash in a hilly area known for car crashes.

Here’s what we know so far: What happened?

At about 7 a.m. Pacific time Tuesday, the police received a 911 call about a crash on Hawthorne Boulevard near Rancho Palos Verdes, a coastal city of about 42,000 people in Los Angeles County.

Officers arrived at the scene six minutes later and found Tiger Woods trapped in an SUV that had rolled over, said Alex Villanueva, the Los Angeles County sheriff.

Deputy Carlos González, the first officer on the scene, said he had determined that firefighters should extract Woods from the vehicle and that he had spoken to Woods while they waited.

Emergency workers used an ax and a Halligan tool, a type of pry bar, to remove the windshield of the vehicle and extricate Woods, said Daryl L. Osby, chief of the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Woods was put on a backboard and taken by ambulance to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, the nearest trauma center, González said.

Woods underwent emergency surgery, according to his longtime agent, Mark Steinberg.

What was Woods’ condition?

Woods was “awake, responsive, and recovering in his hospital room” on Tuesday night after doctors performed surgery to treat several serious injuries to his right leg, according to a statement posted to Woods’ Twitter profile.

Dr. Anish Mahajan, the acting chief executive of the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, said in the statement that both bones in Woods’ lower right leg, the tibia and fibula, had been broken in multiple places and were “open fractures,” meaning they pierced through his skin. Bones in Woods’ ankle and foot were also injured, he said.

The statement did not describe any injuries to Woods’ left leg, though Osby, the county fire chief, had said earlier Tuesday that Woods had serious injuries to both legs.

Woods was conscious when the police first arrived on the scene of the crash Tuesday morning, and he answered several questions from González, who asked Wo-

Mr. Woods’s S.U.V. being towed after the crash. ods for his name and to tell him where he was and what time of day it was. González said Woods had seemed “lucid and calm.”

Osby said that Woods was in stable condition but that he had “serious injuries” to both of his legs. The chief did not explain further. He said that he was not sure what other injuries Woods might have sustained but that any additional injuries would not be “life endangering.”

According to Villanueva, Woods’ manager did not want any more information released on his condition or any update on his surgery.

What caused the crash? Was Woods speeding?

It will take traffic investigators days or weeks to complete their investigation into the cause of the crash.

Woods was driving downhill on a curved road. The speed limit is 45 mph, but González said he had sometimes seen vehicles going more than 80 mph. Villanueva said it appeared that Woods had been driving at a “greater speed than normal.”

The vehicle Woods was driving hit the median strip, Villanueva said, went over it and then traveled several hundred feet, rolled several times and came to rest in

the brush on the opposite side of the road.

There were no skid marks, indicating that Woods had made no attempt to brake, the sheriff said, and that his first contact had been with the center median before he crossed into the opposing lane of traffic.

According to Villanueva, there was no evidence of impairment, such as alcohol or pill bottles, an odor of alcohol or unusual behavior from Woods. Because Woods did not seem impaired, the sheriff said, “there was no effort to draw blood, for example, at the hospital.”

There was no evidence that Woods was being followed by any other vehicles, and it was unknown whether he might have been looking at his phone or otherwise distracted at the time of the crash, the sheriff said.

Weather, such as a wet road or fog, was not a factor in the crash, according to the sheriff. Woods was wearing his seat belt, and air bags in the car deployed, González said. The bumper and the front end of the car were “destroyed,” but the interior cabin of the vehicle was “more or less intact,” Villanueva said.

Investigators will probably be able to obtain some information about what Woods was doing through the vehicle’s event

data recorder, or “black box.” Also, González was wearing a body camera when he arrived at the scene. It is unclear if there were any witnesses to the crash; the first person who called 911 lives close to where the vehicle settled and heard the crash, González said.

Why was Woods in the Los Angeles area?

Woods, who lives in Florida, was in Southern California to host, but not to compete in, the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades last weekend. Genesis Motor is a luxury vehicle division of Hyundai. Woods was in a 2021 Genesis GV80 SUV, which was provided to him during the tournament; he is known for always driving himself in a courtesy car at tournaments.

Woods stayed after the weekend to do a promotional photo shoot for Golf Digest, and when the crash happened, according to ESPN, he was on his way to a photo shoot with NFL quarterbacks Drew Brees and Justin Herbert.

Where did Woods’ career stand before the crash?

Even before Tuesday’s wreck, it was not clear when Woods, 45, might play again or whether he would be able to pursue a record-tying sixth Masters victory this spring.

Woods was trying to recover from his fifth back operation, a microdiscectomy he underwent last month.

When he appeared on CBS on Sunday during the final round of the Genesis tournament, Woods was asked whether he would compete at the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club in April. “God, I hope so,” he said. “I’ve got to get there first.”

Although Woods said last month that he expected to miss at least two tournaments, he did not publicly rule out playing in the Masters, which he last won in 2019.

On Sunday, he said he was “feeling fine, a little bit stiff” and was awaiting another MRI scan to evaluate his progress.

In the meantime, he said, he was “still doing the mundane stuff that you have to do for rehab, the little things before you can start gravitating toward something a little more.”

Woods tied for 38th place in the 2020 Masters, which was played in November because of the coronavirus pandemic. Although he shot a 10 on the 12th hole during the final round, he birdied five of the final six holes.

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

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

Crossword

Answers on page 38

Wordsearch

GAMES

HOROSCOPE Aries

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(Mar 21-April 20)

Ready to improve your financial picture? If so, the chance of a lucrative opportunity could leave you feeling much more upbeat. There is a determined attitude about you that nothing can shake, especially if you have made up your mind. But check for any intuitive nudges Aries, as the Sun’s link with Uranus suggests that fresh ideas might bubble up, and these may be helpful too.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

This could be a time for a deep clean that covers more than just your day-to-day clutter. The coming days might find you ready to release things that have been part of your life and your psyche for some time.

There comes a point where the old has to go, so that something new can begin to take root. Clearing out may pave the way for something wonderful to blossom, Libra.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

You know you’re ready for something different, but what exactly does this entail. With a potent aspect linking to your adventure zone, the idea of expansion may be very much on your mind. This is a good time to ask yourself some searching questions, and to discover what you really do want. Already laid the foundations? If you have a made a start, keep your goal firmly in mind.

You may be excited to explore new ideas, some of which you could take very seriously. Yet a powerful Mars/Pluto aspect, might draw your attention to other more important issues. A business or financial matter can require some work, and this is where you may uncover a flaw. You could need to let go of something unworkable so you can make the most of a fresh opportunity.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Although your preference may be to take life at an easier pace, you might have too much going on to indulge for too long. The days ahead could bring a wonderful opportunity to connect with someone who has influence, and knowing them may be helpful to you. If you can work alongside them, others might be truly impressed, and this could really boost your credibility.

It pays to be curious, as this may open the door to resolving a creative issue. As the Moon aligns with healer Chiron, insights can be revealed that leave you eager to showcase a talent. If you have faltered due to doubts and uncertainty, a fresh perspective could leave you confident enough to make a start and see where it takes you. It might be a challenge, but one you can succeed at.

You may be very drawn to someone, and find it impossible to stop thinking about them. But if you haven’t had a chance to get to know them, then you could be wasting your time. While this person can play a part in your life, don’t overlook another on the side lines, who might suit you much better. They may be quieter Cancer, but much more on your wavelength than the first.

A decision could have a profound effect, bringing dynamic change into your life. But before you go ahead Capricorn, think about the consequences. As Mars aligns with Pluto in your sign, you may be ready to engage your creative side in a big way. Still, getting some input from others might give more food for thought and other options, that can be equally good to consider.

Leo

Aquarius

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

You could feel annoyed if things don’t happen as fast as you would like, or if disruptions and distractions play havoc with your plans. Don’t let such matters affect an important issue that might have a bearing on your goals and ambitions. Want to make a bigger splash? A potent aspect suggests you can. Commitment and work may be needed to take it to the limit, Leo.

You may have outgrown an aspect of your life that has been a big part of it for some time. The potent alignment between Mars and Pluto in private sectors, suggests that you can now be ready to let it go, even if grudgingly. You don’t have to do it all at once, but having the intention is a good place to start. This alone could leave you feeling freer and ready for new developments.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

A dynamic Mars/Pluto aspect, encourages you to put your focus on an idea that could be a game-changer. Don’t shy away from anything that puts you in the spotlight, even though you might prefer to work behind the scenes. If you know you are good at something, this is not the time to waste your talents Virgo, but to get yourself noticed as much as you can and reap the rewards.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

The idea of pushing the boundaries of what is possible may be a feature of the current planetary landscape, and it could apply at a deeper level as a desire to enhance your inner game. Equally strong might be the feeling of wanting to retreat from the world and spend time doing your own thing. This is a chance to pull back the bow and aim, so that you can hit the target full on.

Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29

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CARTOONS

Herman

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

BC

Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

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