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he independent coordinator (IC) hired by the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) to advance the use of renewable energy sources announced it will request proposals for renewable energy and energy storage resources for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority pursuant to Tranche 2 request-forproposal projects.

Accion Group wants to procure up to 500 megawatts (MW) of renewable resource generating capacity and 250 MW of energy storage capacity.

The IC and the PREB will host a stakeholder webinar tentatively scheduled for Jan. 28. All interested potential market participants and interested persons are urged to register for the webinar through the IC website, according to a notice published Tuesday on the web page of Accion Group, a mainland firm.

“This RFP will be administered and evaluated by the Accion Group LLC (Accion), the program Independent Coordinator,” the notice said. “Accion hosts a website that serves as the required vehicle for all RFP communications. Interested respondents and each interested party must be registered on Accion’s website to view all associated information related to this RFP.” The notice advised against approaching the PREB directly, warning that all bids and communications are to be submitted online through the website. The notice said that attempts to contact PREB concerning

the RFP may result in the bidder being barred from participating in the RFP. Puerto Rico can help mitigate the high costs of fossil fuels by investing in renewables, but PREPA has been moving at a snail’s pace in reducing its dependence on those traditional fuels, according to the PREB. Because of problems and delays in the delivery of renewable energy projects, the PREB in November stripped PREPA of its oversight authority with respect to the requests for proposal (RFPs) for Tranche 2 renewables.

The PREB said “the process conducted by PREPA in connection with the Tranche 1 RFP suffers from numerous shortcomings and failed to comply with important directives and milestones established in the Approved Integrated Resource Plan (IRP),” which is the island’s long-term energy needs plan.

“If the Energy Bureau takes no further action, the implementation of the renewables procurement plan, as well as the integration of renewable energy into the Puerto Rico electrical grid system to meet the applicable Renewable Portfolio Standard, will be at risk,” the regulator said. “There is an urgent need to properly implement the Approved IRP directives regarding the integration of renewables in order to reform the electrical system and meet energy public policy goals.”

Accion Group was hired to take charge of all Tranche 2 projects as an independent coordinator.

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The energy regulator said the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s processes in connection with a Tranche 1 RFP for renewable energy projects suffer “from numerous shortcomings and failed to comply with important directives and milestones” in the island’s long-term energy needs plan.

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Fiscal board exploring options for ensuring pensions, benefits for retired police

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he Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico says it is evaluating alternatives for ensuring that police officers have adequate pensions and benefits when they retire.

Oversight board chairman David Skeel, board member Andrew Biggs, and executive director Natalie Jaresko met with representatives of Puerto Rico’s police force and their unions to discuss retirement benefits for active police officers affected by Act 447-1951 and Act 1-1990, and healthcare benefits for retired police.

“The Oversight Board fully understands the concerns expressed by the officers during the meeting about their future retirement benefits and health care coverage,” the oversight board said in a statement. “Ensuring police officers receive the benefits needed for a financially secure retirement is one of the Oversight Board’s priorities and the meeting on Tuesday afternoon was

Financial Oversight and Management Board Chairman David Skeel an important and productive step toward finding a solution.”

Last month, the oversight board said

it reached an agreement with the administration of Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia to work together over the next 60 days on

enhancing benefits for police officers in a way that is consistent with the certified Fiscal Plan for Puerto Rico.

Further, the oversight board said it has agreed in principle to provide health coverage to certain retired police officers through the commonwealth’s state-runVital Plan and is in the process of working out the details of the coverage in the updated fiscal plan that the oversight board intends to certify soon.

“Public safety is essential for the quality of life of every Puerto Rican and our police officers play a critical role in ensuring our security and well being,” the oversight board said. “The Oversight Board has supported and continues to support Puerto Rico’s police officers and their critical service to protect and serve the island’s residents and businesses.”

The oversight board and the police representatives agreed to meet periodically and discuss progress made toward resolving their concerns about retirement benefits.

Courts ramp up for Saturday’s mayoral election in Guaynabo

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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hrough an administrative order, Puerto Rico Supreme Court Chief Justice Maite Oronoz Rodríguez on Wednesday established in a written statement the measures that the island’s Judicial Power will take in attending to electoral matters related to Saturday’s special election to fill the vacant mayor’s seat in Guaynabo.

On the day of the special election, the judicial centers of the judicial regions of Bayamón and San Juan will remain open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to attend to any electoral matters that are presented. Likewise, the secretarial offices of the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court will be open at the same time to receive any petition related to an electoral case.

The judges who will address electoral matters of a civil and criminal nature related to the special election were previously appointed by administrative order. Complaints in electoral cases of a criminal nature may be submitted through the Unified Case Management and Administration System. Likewise, lawyers must present electoral cases of a civil nature through the electronic platform as usual.

People who appear in their own right may physically present their cases at the Bayamón and San Juan Judicial Centers.

Meanwhile, according to the Electoral Code of Puerto Rico of 2020, cases in which the election is contested, as well as all appeals for review filed with the Special Election Commission, will be filed at the San Juan Judicial Center.

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Couple that failed to turn in traveler’s health statement is arraigned

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couple who on Jan. 2 failed to submit a traveler’s statement related to COVID-19, and who barricaded themselves with their children inside a car in Caguas to avoid arrest, were arraigned by a San Juan court Wednesday.

Zulma Figueroa, 53, and Luis Ángel Colón, 44, failed to show up Tuesday at a scheduled court hearing in Carolina. The judge in the case issued an arrest warrant against them.

When the police officers showed up, the couple and their children locked themselves in their vehicle in Caguas to avoid arrest.

Both are accused of violating article 246 of the Penal Code (resisting or obstructing the exercise of authority), for which they face a six-month prison sentence.

San Juan Court Judge Raiza Cajigas, through videoconference, scheduled the start of the trial for Feb. 8, but in the Carolina Court.

During the ordeal Tuesday night, Figueroa, who has been dubbed the “Puerto Rican Karen” for refusing to obey the executive order on COVID-19 protocols, revealed her version of the events via social media.

“Here in my vehicle, where the Health Department, because now it is not the Police, it is the Health Department that believes it has jurisdiction to restrict freedom for citizens, men and women of this land of Puerto Rico,” she said. “I am not the legal person that was summoned with that lie that [the Secretary of Health, Carlos] Mellado is telling that I was summoned.

I presented myself yesterday to the Legal Division of the Puerto Rico Department of Health and I left some notifications and clear laws and I am waiting for them.

They were given five days to reply.”

Meanwhile, Citizen Victory Movement Rep. Mariana Nogales proposed on Wednesday that all violations to executive orders be considered administrative violations with fines of up to $500.

“We can’t continue to give blank checks to the executive branch, more so in a government that has been shown to be authoritarian and hate democracy,” the lawmaker said. “The system of checks and balances must be respected and we must protect people from abusive laws.”

The courts have already determined that laws establishing limits to stop the spread of COVID-19 are constitutional.

Zulma Figueroa and Luis Ángel Colón were arraigned by a San Juan court Wednesday and have been scheduled for trial on Feb. 8 in Carolina.

Press groups condemn attack on journalists covering intervention

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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he Puerto Rico Journalists Association, the Puerto Rico Photojournalists Association and the Overseas Press Club condemned the physical and verbal attacks against photojournalists and reporters on Tuesday night in Caguas while exercising their duties in the coverage of an intervention in which the Puerto Rico Police Bureau and the Department of Health executed an arrest warrant against citizens who had refused to complete the traveler’s information document at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina.

Several journalists were in the perimeter established by the police as protesters shouted insults, attempted to intimidate and even physically attacked the journalists, the press groups said.

Four photojournalists, three reporters, and a news producer were verbally and physically assaulted and unable to carry out their work when a score of protesters arrived in support of the suspects, who were identified in local press reports as Zulma Figueroa, 53, and Luis Ángel Colón, 44. The journalists were in the perimeter established by the police as the protesters hurled insults while chasing and trying to intimidate the journalists, the groups said. Some even caused damage to property and physically attacked the journalists.

“This type of aggression is unacceptable, no matter who it comes from,” said Josian Bruno, president of the Photojournalists Association. “Freedom of expression is a constitutional right, but it cannot justify the attempt to restrict other rights such as freedom of the press. What happened there was a direct attack on journalists that could be observed live through images on television. The verbal and physical aggression against our colleagues is a reprehensible act.”

In the same way that citizens have the right to demonstrate, journalists are also empowered by the Constitution to exercise their work free of coercion or intimidation, the three organizations said.

“Reporters and photojournalists are like any worker. We understand and accept that our profession exposes us to finding ourselves in the midst of difficult and sometimes violent conflicts in which we can suffer collaterally,” Press Association President Damaris Suárez said. “What is unacceptable are the violent attacks specifically directed at our colleagues when they are only fulfilling their duty to inform the people.”

Luis Guardiola, president of the Overseas Press Club, said “we call on law enforcement authorities to take measures that allow the free exercise of our informative work, while safeguarding the rights of citizens to demonstrate guaranteeing the physical integrity, life and property of all.”

He also called on news directors to raise a similar demand to the authorities and adopt security measures that protect their journalists in such situations.

The three organizations reiterated that no incident will prevent the press from fulfilling its responsibility.

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FAA allocates $8 million to boost capital improvements at airports

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uerto Rico Ports Authority Executive Director Joel A. Pizá Batiz on Wednesday announced the awarding of a grant of over $8 million by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to subsidize capital improvement projects in the island’s airport system.

The award comes as a result of the congressional approval of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law promulgated by the administration of President Joe Biden, which enabled about $2.9 billion for infrastructure projects in more than 3,000 airports around the United States. In keeping with the anticipated purpose of the grant -- whose parameters and final guidelines will be specified by the FAA shortly -- Pizá Batiz noted that Ports will propose to the FAA to use the funds to expand the capital improvement program at its airports.

Specifically, the Ports chief announced his intention to request that the items be used for the expansion project of

The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded a grant of over $8 million to subsidize capital improvement projects at Puerto Rico’s airports. the passenger terminal and installation of jet bridges at Rafael Hernández International Airport in Aguadilla (BQN). Likewise, he envisioned the use of the funds to improve road access outside the operational areas

at Fernando L. Ribas Dominicci airport in Isla Grande, Eugenio María de Hostos in Mayagüez (MAZ) and Mercedita in Ponce (PSE).

Other airports that will also benefit

from the funds are Antonio “Nery” Juarbe in Arecibo (ABO), José Aponte de la Torre in Ceiba (RVR), Hermenegildo Ortiz Quiñones in Humacao (X63), Benjamín Rivera Noriega in Culebra (CPX) and Antonio Rivera Rodríguez in Vieques (VQS). At those airports, the possibility of improving parking lots and drop-off areas is under consideration.

Transportation and Public Works Secretary Eileen Vélez Vega said “this is one more step in the right direction to achieve a Puerto Rico with better infrastructure at our airports.”

“This allocation of funds is consistent with our priority to maximize federal funds and thus continue to generate the trust placed in our government to manage these important funds in a responsible manner and for the benefit of the people,” she said.

“The awarding of this grant will allow us to continue advancing the commitment and public policy promoted by Gov. Pedro Pierluisi to optimize our airport assets in structural and operational terms for the enjoyment of all,” Pizá Batiz added.

FEMA stays focused on earthquake recovery

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wo years after the series of earthquakes that hit Puerto Rico at the end of 2019 and beginning of 2020, recovery work continues with the help of over $523 million allocated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

The funds are being distributed among projects comprising the 14 municipalities of the southern, western and central parts of the island.

Among the structures sustaining the most damage because of the earthquakes were the schools in the regions, many of which had the “short columns” structural problem, which makes them more vulnerable to seismic events.

To repair those and other structural damages on more than 126 schools, FEMA allocated at least an additional $178.3 million in 2021 to the island Department of Education.

“Puerto Rico’s history changed be-

cause of these earthquakes,” said José G. Baquero, FEMA’s federal disaster recovery coordinator in Puerto Rico. “As of today, more than 518 projects have funds from the agency, mostly for schools and municipalities. We seek to take advantage of this unique opportunity to strengthen the structures where public education is provided and additional spaces within the affected area.”

According to FEMA, in addition to repair and reconstruction work for the schools, public buildings and roads, recovery efforts include private property debris removal. More than 86 residences in Guánica and Yauco have already been demolished, which will start the long-term recovery process for the affected families.

In this journey toward recovery is Janet Vega Padró, resident of the Esperanza neighborhood in Guánica, who lost her home because of the earthquakes.

“The first step has already been taken, which is the demolition,” she said, adding

that she expects to begin rebuilding her home with the funds she received from FEMA. Meanwhile, public buildings such as police stations, fire stations and judicial

centers also received federal allocations for repairs. One of those obligations to the Public Buildings Authority was for over $8.4 million to repair facilities in affected municipalities.

Earthquake recovery work continues in southern, western and central Puerto Rico with the help of over $523 million allocated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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Biden’s longtime defense of Senate rules withers under partisan rancor

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR

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resident Joe Biden’s decision to call for changing the Senate’s rules to pass voting rights protections was a long time coming. Perhaps — in the view of his most disaffected supporters — too long.

A self-proclaimed institutionalist who spent more than three decades abiding by those rules as a senator, Biden repeatedly defended the often-arcane procedures of the Senate, even as Republicans used them to block his agenda and he came under increasing pressure from liberal activists in his party to rethink his position.

Those rules, he said with admiration more than a decade ago, were about “compromise and moderation,” a core part of his political identity. To support changing them would be to admit that the principles he so cherished had withered in a city now consumed by partisan rancor.

On Tuesday, he made that admission.

“The threat to our democracy is so great that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills,” he said in an impassioned speech in Atlanta on the grounds of Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University. “Debate them.

Vote. Let the majority prevail. And if that bare minimum is blocked, we have no option but to change the Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster.”

Biden said that he had been “having these quiet conversations with members of Congress for the last two months” in the hopes of reaching the kinds of negotiated agreements that he pursued as a senator.

“I’m tired of being quiet,” he said.

It is far from clear that Biden’s words will succeed in convincing the most prominent opponent of a rule change among Senate Democrats — Joe Manchin of West Virginia — to help break the Republican logjam on voting rights legislation. On Tuesday, Manchin said again that he opposed “getting rid” of the filibuster, which allows the minority party to block legislation that fails to garner 60 votes.

Some of Biden’s closest allies said they remained deeply frustrated by the president’s willingness to lead from behind on the issue of voting rights.

“We had hoped he would have used his bully pulpit a long time ago for voting rights and we wouldn’t be at this critical junction,” said Helen Butler, a Black Democrat who was removed from a local election board in Morgan

President Joe Biden speaks, endorsing changing Senate rules to pass new voting rights protections, in Atlanta on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022. Biden left no doubt here that he has reached a breaking point, lashing out at senators who are blocking voting rights legislation.

County, Georgia, after a state law gave Republicans more power over such appointments.

“This is about retaining America and, as he put it, the soul of America,” she said.

Democrats who are trying to prevent Republicans from blocking voting rights legislation said they were pleased that Biden had finally come around. And they are hopeful — but realistic — that his voice may help to convince a handful of senators to back a change in the filibuster rules in the days ahead.

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who has been leading talks to amend the rules, said Biden came into office with a “particular obligation on his shoulders” — to stand up for voter rights in the wake of the violent assault on the Capitol in January 2021 as his election victory was being certified.

“When somebody who understands the Senate and loves it as much as he does says it’s time to make a change to accomplish a paramount result that the nation needs, it does have an effect,” Kaine said.

For some presidents, choosing to support a change in Senate rules to protect voting rights might also have foreshadowed a broader awakening to the realization that the Senate was no longer a place where partisanship could be put aside for the good of the country.

That is certainly the view of many in his party, who assert that far-reaching legislation

like the president’s Build Back Better package and gun control proposals are doomed to falter without wholesale changes to the Senate’s rules.

In effect, they argue that today’s intense partisanship has led to an ideological stalemate that justifies burning down the house in the name of progress on many fronts.

“He should have made this much more a priority for his administration,” said Fred Wertheimer, the founder and president of Democracy 21, a group pushing for changes to the Senate rules. “But he still can make a critical contribution by speaking out and by actively and forcefully engaging in the battle.”

Biden left no doubt that he has reached a breaking point when it comes to voting rights, lashing out at the holdouts in the Senate and

comparing them to some of the country’s most infamous racists. In doing so, he made no distinction between the Senate’s Republicans and a handful of Democrats who are standing in the way of the legislation.

“Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace?” he declared, prompting some gasps from supporters in the audience.

“Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?”

But for Biden, the slow-moving evolution from protector of the Senate rules to a president open to getting rid of the filibuster to advance voting rights legislation hardly appears to be part of a wholesale transformation in his approach to governing in the modern era.

Even as White House officials previewed Biden’s remarks on Monday night, they went out of their way to insist that he remained “an institutionalist,” an acknowledgment that his willingness to change has its limits.

Kaine said the president viewed the need to protect voting rights as a special responsibility, separate from other parts of his policy agenda.

“He probably wouldn’t be leaning into Senate rules, reform proposals on any other issue, even issues that he thinks are very, very important,” Kaine said. “I can’t imagine him probably, you know, making recommendations to the Senate about what we do with rules on any topic other than this.”

As he left the White House to travel to Georgia on Tuesday, the president was asked what he risked by fighting for voting rights legislation, a reference to the political dangers of promising more than he can deliver.

“I risk not saying what I believe. That’s what I risk,” Biden said. “This is one of those defining moments. It really is. People are going to be judged, where were they before and where were they after the vote. History is going to judge this.”

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What to make of those soaring COVID counts

Comparing the average daily COVID case counts, state by state, since the pandemic’s beginning.

By LAZARO GAMIO, LISA WAANANEN JONES and AMY SCHOENFELD WALKER

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oronavirus case counts have reached record highs in the United States and continue to climb. Hospitalizations have surpassed last winter’s wave. Deaths are also beginning to rise. The overall pattern is familiar, but a fresh perspective on how to interpret these metrics may be necessary as a faster but less severe variant tears through the country.

Here’s how to interpret the data in the coming days and weeks.

Omicron still has room to grow In just a matter of days, coronavirus case counts have shattered previous records in the United States, as the omicron variant spreads rapidly just about everywhere, including in communities with high vaccination rates. All but eight states have seen record cases in January.

While these case counts are staggering, experts say they are not as alarming as they might have been a few months or a year ago. Instead, they should serve as a warning for the country to adjust behaviors and policies to reduce infections and protect the most vulnerable.

“The circumstances have changed, and we must adapt,” said Dr. Shama Cash-Goldwasser, a senior technical adviser at Resolve to Save Lives, a global health organization. “We have a less severe variant, plus many are vaccinated, but evidence suggests the vaccines are not as good at preventing infection with omicron as

they were against delta.”

As high as the case counts are in many places, they are most certainly undercounted right now, as many omicron infections are asymptomatic or mild, and people may not know to test. Testing shortages are also limiting access, and experts say that a majority of results from popular at-home tests are not reported to public health departments.

The sharp rise in cases in many states could be followed by sharp falls, as observed in South Africa, but experts caution that the sheer volume of cases could still lead to significant numbers of extremely sick people, even from a variant that overall gives people less severe disease.

“We are going to have a lot of people sick, and even if a smaller proportion of those individuals have really horrible illnesses and adverse outcomes, it’s still a lot of people,” said Janet Hamilton, executive director of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.

Hospitals are likely to strain further Because the omicron variant appears to cause less severe illness, hospitalization figures may tell us less about the disease and more about the strain on the health care system, which has consequences for everyone.

Hospitalizations have not yet seen the same explosive growth as cases, but this metric tends to lag case counts, and it may be too early to gauge omicron’s full effect. What is clear is that the number of people hospitalized with COVID nationwide has already reached a single-day

record and is still rising steeply.

Hospitals, emergency rooms, urgent care centers and doctors’ offices are overburdened and understaffed across the country. Hospitals in some areas are already shutting down elective surgeries and must treat even critical care patients in emergency rooms.

And in parts of the country like the Midwest, hospitals may be in a more precarious situation — they were already under strain, having yet to recover from the delta surge before omicron-led illnesses began to rise.

Hospitalization figures are not without flaws. “National data don’t allow us to distinguish between people hospitalized because of COVID-19 and those who happened to test positive while admitted for something else,” said Jason L. Salemi, a public health researcher at the University of South Florida, who tracks COVID data.

These “incidental patients” may be more prevalent right now because omicron is so transmissible. Some hospitals are reporting that these patients may make up as much as half of their hospitalizations.

Salemi noted that a coronavirus infection can still exacerbate the primary illness of incidental patients, pose a risk of infection to staff members and other patients, and contribute to the overall strain on medical centers.

National hospitalization data notably does not include up-to-date measures of severe illness, such as the number of people on ventilators or their length of stay. (Federal data tracks some of this, but it is about two months behind.)

“The absence of these details about hospitalizations in the available data just muddy the water as we try to understand omicron’s impact,” Salemi said.

Public health experts suggest monitoring COVID patients in intensive care as well as intensive care unit capacity to better gauge COVID’s effect on serious illness. About 1 in 4 U.S. hospitals with ICUs recently reported that at least 95% of their critical care beds were full.

Deaths may rise, but not skyrocket There is hope that vaccination coverage, improved medical treatment and the milder characteristics of the omicron variant will mean that fewer infections end in death. But the unprecedented number of cases may still lead to high levels of mortality.

“Are we going to see deaths increase? Yes, we are,” said Hamilton of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. “And they are going to go up if cases keep increasing this way.”

Experience throughout the pandemic shows it takes at least three weeks after an

increase in cases to see a resulting increase in deaths, which may explain why death counts have risen only slightly.

Trends in deaths lag behind cases and hospitalizations by weeks because of the time it takes for people to become seriously ill and the time needed to complete and file death records.

This lag varies by state and often becomes longer in times when there are more deaths, or when a case surge is overwhelming the public health system, as it is now.

Already, there are some troubling early signs of death counts rising in some of the Northeastern states first hit with omicron, including New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Massachusetts.

Deaths can generally be predicted by looking at hospitalizations and counting backward by three weeks, suggesting that deaths will almost double in the next three weeks, said Dr. David Dowdy, a public health researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. But it’s still possible that deaths will not rise as sharply as cases and hospitalizations have, he added.

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Desperate search for those missing in Bronx fire: ‘We’re still waiting’

By JAZMINE HUGHES and SEAN PICCOLI

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orshippers at a mosque in the Bronx sat shoeless in small groups along the edge of the carpeted floor. Services were still almost an hour away, but as coffee containers arrived and cups were poured, the imam tried to comfort people caught between anguish and grief.

They were all relatives of people still missing more than 24 hours after a fatal fire in a Bronx apartment building that killed 17, including eight children. As many as 12 members of the MasjidUr-Rahmah mosque were believed to have died in the fire, the imam, Musa Kabba, said.

“We give them the pictures. We give them the names. We give them the phone numbers.

We’re still waiting for them to identify them,” Kabba said.

OnTuesday night, the city released a partial list of the deceased. The chaos of the rescue and the striking number of victims complicated the identification process.

On Sunday, more than 60 fire victims initially went to four different hospitals in the Bronx. Seventeen of them died within hours, all of the deaths attributed to severe smoke inhalation. About a dozen critically ill patients were stabilized at local hospitals and later transferred to facilities with specialized burn units in Manhattan, Westchester County and other parts of the Bronx.

Many survivors were also treated for severe smoke inhalation, which can cause people to become unconscious from lack of oxygen.

Not everyone carried identification, and some residents shared similar names to other family members. Multiple members of a single family were close in age, also adding to confusion.

Features like tattoos, body jewelry, nail art and scars were used to piece together identities of the deceased, the medical examiner’s office said.

The office has used DNA matching to confirm identities by obtaining DNA from relatives and notifying immediate family members after a match has been made, City Hall officials said. The deliberate process has contributed to a lag in releasing the names of the deceased, officials said.

Shivonne Hutson, the city’s executive director of forensic investigations, said forensic examiners were also mindful of language and religious differences. Many of the building’s residents had relocated to the Bronx from Gambia, a small West African country with a largely Muslim population.

“Observances — these things extend not just in life, but they carry on into death,”

Hutson said.

Age, too, was a complicating factor: Without any identification or little previous medical history, the children posed a particular challenge. “Kids don’t have all the records,” like fingerprints or dental records, that adults may have, Hutson said.

After the flames subsided and the fatal smoke dissipated, a new horror crept in: Other residents, family members and friends were left unsure about the status of loved ones. Hours rolled by, and many people across New York and Gambia spent hours in excruciating limbo, unsure who was alive or dead.

Some families called every hospital in the area, searching for missing relatives. Others visited on foot, desperate for answers.

Aid workers at Monroe College, which is serving as a temporary emergency response center, have been relying on an unofficial list of the dead, injured, missing and displaced, compiled by a local community board member.

He has tried to write down the names, contact information and needs of every person who shows up at the college, in an ad hoc intake list.

Gathering information is hard, in part because of language barriers, said Abdoulaye Cisse, a community outreach worker for CAIRNY, a group that advocates for Muslims. Some residents speak English, but others speak only various combinations of French and the many languages of West Africa.

Fears of immigration authorities linger among some undocumented residents. And some families, he said, are deeply private or are in shock and not ready to talk about their situation.

Dustin Jones watched television footage of the Bronx fire from his apartment in the Chelsea area of Manhattan, frantically calling a friend who he thought lived in the building. Luckily, he was mistaken — she lived a few blocks away — but his relief didn’t last long.

He quickly learned he knew two residents of the building: Ramel Thompson, 44, and Dorel Anderson, 38, a couple. The three had met each other through a tight-knit disability community: Thompson and Anderson both have cerebral palsy, and Jones is an advocate for disability rights.

After failing to contact the couple, Jones and about 100 others, many of them relatives of the couple and members of the disabled community, began a 24-hour search for them, much of it online.

He also knew the couple lived on the 13th floor, and was particularly worried about Anderson, who uses a wheelchair.

Jones said he never considered contacting the city for assistance. Instead, he amplified the

Relatives of missing victims of high-rise apartment fire in the Bronx on Sunday, gather at Masjid-Ur-Rahmah mosque looking for information on their loved ones on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. missing couple on social media, reached out to his media contacts and called friends for information, including a firefighter who had been on the scene. “We live in the age of social media, and I’ve seen miracles happen,” Jones said.

A relative eventually found the couple at Westchester Medical Center, in Valhalla, New York, on Monday, where they were transferred to an advanced burn unit. Anderson and Thompson were still being treated; Anderson’s wheelchair was missing.

Mohamed Kamra, too, was working a shift as a taxi driver when he learned that his family was caught in the blaze.

He and a relative frantically tried to locate their entire family. Soon, they found 6-year-old Jabu, 3-year-old Abubakary and baby Ceesay, not yet 1 year old. But it took hours for Kamra to locate his wife, Fatoumatia, or his eldest daughter, 8-year-old Mariam.

Christina Kharem, a teacher and special education coach at Mariam’s school, spent her day on the phone with her principal calling hospitals around the city, trying to locate Miriam and her mother, while Kamra searched in person.

He found Mariam and Fatoumatia by Sunday evening. Each family member was in medically induced comas and on ventilators.

By Monday afternoon, Kamra had visited four of his hospitalized family members and was on his way to see a fifth.

Relieved that he tracked down his family, he remained optimistic Monday night that they would recover. “For me, right now, it’s no bad

memory yet,” he said.

But for some, hope diminished as the hours went by without news.

Yusupha Jawara told CBS New York that he called 311 more than 40 times trying to learn the fate of his younger brother and sister-in-law, who lived in the building, a block from him.

“We tried all they said,” Jawara, 47, said.

“Nothing is working for us now.”

He said he understood there were procedures to be followed. “But we need a closure on this to know whether they are alive or dead,” Jawara said. “That’s all we need. We are not asking for the bodies to be given to us right now. He’s alive or he’s dead. That’s all we need to know.”

At about 4:30 p.m. Monday, Jawara texted a reporter that he had received word: His brother and sister-in-law perished in the fire.

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Airlines say storms and omicron caused flight cancellations that the agency’s recommendation of 10 days would leave the airline without enough workers during a crucial period.

“Similar to health care, police, fire, and public transportation workforces, the omicron surge may exacerbate shortages and create significant disruptions,” the executives, including Delta’s CEO, Ed Bastian, wrote in the Dec. 21 letter.

Cancellations topped 1,000 each day from Dec. 26, when heavy snows and bitter cold wreaked havoc on the Pacific Northwest, through Dec. 31. During that period, JetBlue executives told employees in a memo, the airline received “record-breaking sick calls.”

On Dec. 27, partly as a result of requests like the ones made by Delta Air Lines as well as some public health exSan Francisco International Airport. More than 4 percent of United Airlines’ work perts, the CDC shortened its recommenforce has tested positive for the coronavirus. ded isolation time for people who have been fully vaccinated to five days. the shortage.

By NIRAJ CHOKSHI But the change in health guidance “Our frontline teams continue to would not give airlines much relief, at n a single day over the holidays, put in a tremendous effort during what least not right away. The weather — and nearly one-third of United Airlines I know is an incredibly challenging and the flight cancellations — continued to employees called out sick at Newark stressful time — the omicron surge has get worse, peaking Jan. 3, when airliLiberty International Airport, a major put a strain on our operation, resulting in nes canceled more than 3,100 flights, or hub for the airline, the company’s chief customer disruptions during a busy holi- about 13% of all scheduled trips. It wasn’t executive said earlier this week. day season,” Kirby said. until Monday that the number of daily That disclosure, in a memo to staff, United’s experience is not par- flight cancellations fell below 1,000. In helps to explain the industry’s recent ticularly extraordinary, and two other recent days, airlines have canceled many struggles. Storms disrupted flights by de- companies have canceled many more flights proactively to get a better handle livering whipping winds, rains and hea- flights. All told, the industry has cance- on their operations and avoid surprising vy snowfall at airports nationwide, and led more than 29,000 flights, or about customers with last-minute changes. the fast-spreading omicron virus variant 8% of all scheduled trips, since Dec. 25, Bad weather and staffing problems compounded the havoc by sickening according to FlightAware, a data tracking hit different airlines at different times. thousands of airline workers, leaving service. Many airlines say the virus is at Since Christmas, SkyWest Airlines, many travelers stranded and angry. least partly to blame. which operates shorter flights for maOverall, about 3,000 United emThe problems began to mount in jor carriers, including United, has canployees — more than 4% of the airline’s the days before Christmas. That week, celed more than 5,100 trips, more than workforce — have recently tested posi- several top Delta Air Lines executives any other airline. Southwest Airlines was tive for the coronavirus, the company’s sent a letter to the Centers for Disease close behind with more than 4,800 canCEO, Scott Kirby, said in his memo. The Control and Prevention asking it to shor- celed flights, followed by United, with vast majority are not working and United ten the isolation period for fully vaccina- more than 2,800 cancellations, and Delis cutting its flight schedule to manage ted people infected by the virus, warning ta, with more than 2,000.

Airlines have generally provided brief public explanations, and representatives for several companies, including American Airlines, Delta and Southwest, declined to elaborate Tuesday.

In statements, SkyWest has blamed “a surge in COVID cases,” while Southwest said over the weekend that it was “experiencing an uptick” in sick calls and quarantines. The airline said

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Tuesday that its operations were improving as it overcame the effects of a winter storm that slammed the East Coast, including its hub at Baltimore/Washington International Airport, at the start of the month.

Like United, several airlines have started to prune flights this month to ensure they have the resources available to address the holiday disruptions and prevent further disarray. JetBlue said it would preemptively cut about 1,300 flights in the first half of January. Alaska Airlines said in a statement recently that it would slash about 1 in 10 flights planned for the month to gain “the flexibility and capacity needed to reset.”

Flight cancellations have continued this week, though the number has fallen steadily in recent days. More than 700 flights Tuesday were canceled, about 150 of them operated by United.

The vast majority of employees at major airlines are vaccinated, but while the vaccines generally protect against severe illness, they haven’t completely prevented breakthrough infections. And even those who exhibit few or no symptoms but test positive often have to isolate at least for some time.

Kirby of United told his staff that despite breakthrough infections, United’s decision to require all employees to be vaccinated or secure an exemption was working. The company was one of the first large U.S. employers to implement a vaccine mandate.

No vaccinated employees are hospitalized, and the hospitalization rate among United employees since the mandate went into effect in the fall has been far lower than that of the general population, he said. Before the requirement, more than one United employee died each week from the virus, on average.

The airline has gone eight weeks without a single virus-related death among vaccinated employees, Kirby noted.

“In dealing with COVID, zero is the word that matters — zero deaths and zero hospitalizations for vaccinated employees,” he said. “And while I know that some people still disagree with our policy, United is proving that requiring the vaccine is the right thing to do because it saves lives.”

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Rise in real bond yields may slow but not stop stock market bulls T he sudden surge in inflation-adjusted bond yields this month rocked TINA, the thesis that “there is no alternative” to stocks, but if history guides us, stocks should resist this rise in real interest rates or even prosper.

With 10-year inflation-adjusted U.S. bond yields below minus 1%, many investors view stocks as the only current asset capable of generating high returns.

TINA is believed to have driven the nearly US $ 1 trillion inflows into global equity funds last year, a figure that BofA data shows topped the combined inflows of the previous two decades.

However, with US inflation peaking at around 7% and the Federal Reserve likely to hike interest rates 3-4 times this year, real yields – the nominal interest rate paid by a bond minus the rate d inflation – are on the rise.

Stocks fell after a spike in US yields. The impact has been particularly severe on the technology-intensive Nasdaq 100 index, where stocks trade on the principle of exceptional future earnings growth, making them particularly vulnerable to higher interest rates. .

The Nasdaq is expected to experience its second worst start to the year since the 2008 crisis, coinciding with a 40 basis point jump in ten-year inflation-adjusted yields since December 30.

But banks, including JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, are still advising clients to buy the downside, arguing that real yields remain deeply negative around -0.8%, that higher interest rates are already being factored in and that corporate earnings are strong.

Importantly, stocks have performed well in many previous bouts of rising real returns, provided economic growth holds. Bernstein notes, for example, that during the last five rounds of real rate “normalization” in 1975, 1980, 2012-2013, 2016 and 2020-2021, global stocks have returned between 2.3% and 51, 8%.

“Historically, when real returns have gone back to zero from negative levels, stocks have had positive returns,” Bernstein strategists Sarah McCarthy and Mark Diver told clients.

Separately, data from Truist Advisory Services shows that the S&P 500 has posted positive returns in 11 of 12 cycles of real rate hikes since the 1950s.

Additionally, real yields are expected to rise at a more gradual rate and will not hurt markets or economic activity until they actually turn positive, JPMorgan said, forecasting year-end levels around -0.25%.

In the meantime, the trend should prompt further sector shifts – higher real returns tend to be bad news for tech stocks, but financials, commodities, and cyclical stocks such as travel in China. generally benefit, JPMorgan wrote.

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Putin’s next move on Ukraine is a mystery. Just the way he likes it.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia during the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan on Friday, June 28, 2019. The contradictory, sometimes menacing messages from the Kremlin are indicative of the Russian leader’s desire to keep his rivals on edge.

By ANTON TROIANOVSKI

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resident Vladimir Putin of Russia has spent months massing close to 100,000 troops near the Ukraine border. But Moscow says it has no intention of invading.

What is Russia’s next move? No one knows, except perhaps Putin. And that is by design.

The mystery surrounding the Russian leader’s intentions was thick as fog again this week, after a top Russian diplomat delivered a series of seemingly contradictory messages upon emerging from two days of high-stakes security talks with the United States.

Moments after declaring the talks “deep’’ and “concrete,’’ Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov warned that failure to meet Russia’s demands could put the “security of the whole European continent” at risk.

The gyrating, often ominous positions helped stump even some of those who make a living from decoding Putin’s intentions.

“The expert opinion that I can au-

thoritatively declare is: Who the heck knows?” Fyodor Lukyanov, a prominent Russian foreign policy analyst who heads a council that advises the Kremlin, said in a telephone interview.

Analysts said that not even members of Putin’s inner circle — let alone Ryabkov, who led Russia’s delegation at this week’s Geneva talks — were likely to know how seriously Putin is contemplating full-scale war with Ukraine. Nor would they know what U.S. concessions he is prepared to accept in order to defuse the crisis.

Instead, Putin is likely not even to have made a decision, according to Russian analysts as well as U.S. officials. And he is relishing keeping the West on edge.

“What matters is results,” Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters Tuesday, maintaining the suspense. “For now, there is nothing to say about any results.”

The talks will continue Wednesday, when Russian officials will meet representatives of the United States and its NATO allies in Brussels, and Thursday at a gathering of the Organization for Secu-

rity and Cooperation in Europe, a 57-nation group that includes Ukraine as well as Russia and the United States.

After that, Peskov said, Russia would decide “whether it makes sense” to move forward with diplomacy.

Putin’s brinkmanship of recent months is a case study in his ability to use tension and unpredictability to seek high returns with what may seem like a weak geopolitical hand. Struggling with a stagnant economy and tattered alliances, Russia is also dealing with volatile situations on at least four borders — with Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and the Southern Caucasus.

For years, Putin has fumed over NATO’s expansion eastward and U.S. support for pro-Western sentiment in Ukraine; now, by creating a new security crisis that threatens to complicate President Joe Biden’s agenda, he has succeeded in getting the issue to the forefront in Washington.

“For the first time in 30 years, the United States has agreed to discuss issues that it was impossible to discuss even a year ago,” said Tatiana Stanovaya, founder of the political analysis firm R.Politik.

Now that the Russian president has Americans at the negotiating table, he is pursuing another classic Putin strategy: putting so many potential moves on the playing field — pointing in so many different directions — that he leaves people guessing, allowing him to choose the tactics that best suit him as events evolve.

Ryabkov, for instance, told reporters that he was making no ultimatums and foresaw no “deal breaker.’’ But he added that it was “absolutely mandatory” that the United States guarantee that Ukraine would never join NATO. He said Russia was imposing no specific timeline but that it needed a “fast response” to its demands. And while he said there was “no reason to fear an escalation scenario” in Ukraine, he warned that the West still failed to grasp how dangerous it would be to rebuff Russia’s demands.

The contradictory messaging con-

tinued Tuesday when Peskov countered any positive assessments Ryabkov might have offered the day before. “For now, we do not see any substantive reason for optimism,” he said in his daily conference call with reporters.

The problem with Putin’s approach is that it gives his diplomats next to no flexibility to negotiate on Russia’s behalf and sometimes leaves them struggling to maintain a coherent message. Stanovaya warned that even if diplomats did reach some kind of deal, hawks in Moscow who have more of Putin’s ear could soon help derail it.

Analysts noted that Ryabkov, from the diplomatic side, most likely did not even know what military options the Kremlin was considering. The virusfree cocoon Putin has tried to establish around himself has meant that even confidants are forced to spend days in quarantine before being allowed into the same room with him, further reducing his connections with the outside world.

“No one knows with 100% certainty whether Putin is ready for war, or whether this is a bluff or not,” Stanovaya said.

While Putin may have succeeded in getting the U.S. to agree to talk — even though Moscow’s demands appeared to be nonstarters — Stanovaya and others warned that at this point, talks alone are not enough for him.

As best analysts can tell, it is the demand that NATO offer some kind of formal assurances not to expand eastward and to cease military cooperation with Ukraine that is now most important for Putin. The U.S. offer in Monday’s discussions to negotiate missile placement and military exercises in Europe is also of interest to Russia, but Ryabkov indicated that these issues are a lower priority.

NATO has repeatedly ruled out the idea that it would allow any other country to veto who can and cannot be in the alliance, creating what appears to be an impasse. Still, Lukyanov said the fact that the talks did not immediately collapse means that both sides may see some path — currently invisible to the outside world — to achieve a workable result.

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Kazakhstan says Russian troops can start leaving this week

By VALERIE HOPKINS and IVAN NECHEPURENKO

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Russian-led military alliance will begin withdrawing its troops from Kazakhstan in two days, the country’s president announced Tuesday, saying it had fulfilled its primary goal of helping stabilize the Central Asian nation as it experienced the worst political crisis in its history.

In a speech to senior government officials and members of Parliament, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said the withdrawal would take “no more than 10 days.”

In Moscow, Russia’s defense minister, Sergei K. Shoigu, did not mention specific plans for the troops to withdraw, leaving it unclear when they would actually go home. Speaking at a meeting with the military top brass, he said that the Russian-led soldiers would “continue their mission until the situation fully stabilizes” but that it would be “up to the Kazakh leadership” to decide when that happens.

So far, the military operation is regarded as a geopolitical triumph for President Vladimir Putin of Russia, who can present himself once again as an effective crisis manager for countries that Moscow considers within its sphere of influence.

However, a slow withdrawal of the 2,500 Russianled troops may undermine that, given Russia’s record of sending “peacekeepers” to neighboring countries who do not leave. Troops that it dispatched three decades ago to a breakaway region of Moldova and the Abkhazia region of Georgia, for example, remain there.

Ekaterina Shulman, a Russian political scientist often critical of the government, said troops overstaying their welcome could potentially cause an increase in anti-Russian sentiments in Kazakhstan.

Speaking on independent Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy, she said, “So far, it seems like these days nothing of the kind is visible. But this is another thing to watch for.”

Kazakhstan is part of an economic union with Russia, but because of its oil wealth it had been proud of retaining more autonomy than many other former Soviet states.

A swift exit of the soldiers would most likely bolster Tokayev’s image, even if it exposed the vulnerability of postSoviet strongmen leaders, who have been forced to turn to Moscow when their rule is threatened.

Daniil Kislov, an expert in Central Asia and editor of Fergana, a website that covers the region, said that by inviting the troops, “Tokayev gave a real gift to Putin.”

“Putin is happy to use any opportunity to expand somewhere, be it Ukraine or some other unstable country where a good helping hand of Moscow might be needed,” he said.

For Tokayev, the rapid dispatching of troops buttressed his grip on power at a time when it was most shaky.

In his speech, Tokayev also announced steps to try to assuage anger at rampant economic inequality that was

at least part of the impetus for the protests. He announced a five-year salary freeze for top public officials and promised to destroy corrupt schemes that are widely believed to have benefited the country’s oligarchs.

The crisis in Kazakhstan erupted last week after peaceful protests in the country’s west over a spike in fuel prices suddenly spread to the rest of the country. The unrest turned Almaty, the country’s biggest and most populous city, into a war zone with government buildings ablaze.

More than 2,000 people have been injured so far, according to the government, and the health ministry issued, then withdrew, a statement Sunday saying that at least 164 people had died in the violence. Nearly 10,000 people have been detained, according to the government.

Tokayev said he made the decision to seek help from the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Kremlinled version of NATO for a group of former Soviet countries, at the time when the Kazakh government “could lose control over Almaty completely.”

In another signal of the confusion that convulsed the capital last week, some Kazakh soldiers were seen wearing blue United Nations peacekeeping helmets — creating the erroneous impression that the organization was assisting in crushing the rioters. U.N. officials complained to Tokayev’s government about this misuse of peacekeeping equipment.

Tokayev spent most of his career serving the state created by Nursultan Nazarbayev, the long-ruling former president who stepped down in 2019 and picked him as his successor. But in his speech, Tokayev seemed to lay the blame for his country’s upheaval squarely on his mentor’s shoulders.

Without mentioning Nazarbayev by name, he denounced the country’s endemic cronyism and income inequality, and said that thanks “to the first president” a group of people “wealthy even by international standards” has emerged.

“I think it is time they pay their dues to the people of Kazakhstan and help them on a systemic and regular basis,” he said.

There is little serious political opposition in Kazakhstan, where protesters and activists face constant harassment or are pushed to leave the country. But Tokayev’s rare rebuke of his predecessor was indicative of the political infighting taking place at the highest echelons of power.

Over the past week, Tokayev has reshuffled the leadership of Kazakhstan’s security forces. Karim Masimov, head of the main security agency who was widely seen as Nazarbayev’s close ally, was fired at the height of the crisis and later arrested on suspicion of treason. Several other high-ranking officials have been dismissed, local news media reported, citing government agencies.

Only 162 people control half of Kazakhstan’s wealth, according to a recent report by accounting firm KPMG. “Kazakhstan has the facade of a so-called modern country,” said Elmira Satybaldieva, whose research at the

A building that was torched during recent unrest in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday.

University of Kent focuses on inequality and labor rights in Central Asia, “but if you scratch the surface, there is horrendous economic disparity and discontent that has been brewing for decades.”

Kazakhstan, the most prosperous of the Central Asian nations, is believed to have one-twelfth of the world’s proven oil reserves, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. It also produces about 40% of the world’s uranium.

Yet rampant inequality means that only 3.5% of the adult population has an annual income above $10,000.

The country’s minimum monthly wage is about $100.

About 80% of the economic population is in “deep debt” and cannot afford proper housing, Satybaldieva said.

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Djokovic admits false statement on Australia travel document

In a statement Wednesday, Novak Djokovic laid out what he said was the series of events before he received a positive coronavirus test.

By YAN ZHUANG

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ovak Djokovic, the top-ranked men’s tennis player, acknowledged Wednesday that a travel document he presented to Australian border officials last week contained false information, as the country’s authorities continued to investigate whether he should be deported.

Djokovic also said that he had participated in an interview and a photo shoot last month in his native Serbia even after testing positive for the coronavirus, in an apparent breach of the country’s rules for infected people.

Australian officials have said they are looking into whether Djokovic, who is unvaccinated, poses a risk to public health.

The tennis star’s comments came in a statement he released on social media that he said was intended to “clarify misinformation” about the weeks before he arrived in Melbourne for the Australian Open. He was detained for days by Australian border officials before being ordered released on Monday

by a federal judge.

But Djokovic’s statement did not fully resolve a range of questions that have swirled over his quest to remain in Australia and seek a record 21st Grand Slam title. Among them are exactly when he learned of the positive test result and how his travel documents came to falsely assert that he had not traveled internationally in the 14 days before his arrival in Australia.

The statement posted on Instagram, which Djokovic said would be his last remarks about his ordeal in Australia, was released as the country’s immigration minister said he was still considering whether to exercise his personal powers to cancel the player’s visa again. Immigration officials were also investigating the discrepancies in the paperwork Djokovic presented as he tried to enter Australia last week with an exemption from a requirement for COVID-19 vaccinations.

Australian tennis officials granted that exemption on the basis of what Djokovic had said was a COVID infection he had in mid-December. He had

come under criticism over images on social media showing him at events at the same time he was supposedly infected with the coronavirus.

Djokovic said Wednesday that he had taken a PCR test on Dec. 16 after some people at a basketball game he had attended two days earlier tested positive for the coronavirus. Despite having no symptoms, he also took a rapid antigen test “out of an abundance of caution,” he said, and it came back negative.

On Dec. 17, he said, as he was awaiting his PCR result, he attended a tennis event in Belgrade, the Serbian capital, where he presented awards to children. He said that he took another rapid antigen test before attending that event, which came back negative, and that his PCR test did not come back positive until after it had finished.

On Dec. 18, he went ahead with an interview and a photo shoot with the French sports newspaper L’Equipe “to fulfill a long-standing commitment,” he said.

“I felt obliged to go ahead and conduct the L’Equipe interview as I didn’t want to let the journalist down, but did ensure I socially distanced and wore a mask except when my photograph was taken,” Djokovic said.

“While I went home after the interview to isolate for the required period, on reflection, this was an error of judgment and I accept that I should have rescheduled this commitment,” he added.

It was not the first time Djokovic has had to apologize for dismissive actions he has taken during the pandemic.

In mid-2020, as the virus raged in Europe and elsewhere, he held a tennis tournament after which he and several others tested positive.

While Djokovic said in his statement Wednesday that he “had not received the notification of a positive PCR result” until Dec. 17 — after the event involving children — documents he provided to Australian officials as he tried to enter the country said that the result had been returned the day before.

A copy of his medical certificate for his positive PCR test said that the test was taken at 1:05 p.m. on Dec. 16

and that the positive result was returned at 8:19 on the same day. In an affidavit provided to an Australian court, he said, “On 16 December 2021, I was tested and diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID).” It was unclear when exactly he learned of his purported positive test.

The Serbian prime minister, Ana Brnabic, said this week that had Djokovic known that he was positive for the coronavirus before attending the awards event on Dec. 17, he would have “clearly violated the rules” in Serbia.

But more information was required, she added, saying, “I don’t know when he received the test result, when he read it.”

When asked what would happen if Djokovic was found to have breached quarantine rules, she said the Serbian government would “deal with it.”

In his statement, Djokovic also addressed questions about the declaration he made on his visa paperwork that he had not traveled to any other countries in the 14 days before arriving in Australia. The paperwork warns of serious penalties for false answers to the question.

His declaration had seemed to be contradicted by social media posts showing him traveling between Spain and Serbia. On Wednesday, he said his agent had made an “administrative mistake in ticking the incorrect box.”

“This was a human error and certainly not deliberate,” he said, adding that his team on Wednesday had “provided additional information to the Australian government to clarify the matter.”

This means it is unlikely that the saga will be resolved quickly, with the immigration minister, Alex Hawke, indicating that he needed more time to consider the new information before deciding whether to cancel Djokovic’s visa again.

A spokesman for Hawke said that Djokovic’s lawyers had made “lengthy further submissions and supporting documentation said to be relevant to the possible cancellation of Mr. Djokovic’s visa.”

“Naturally, this will affect the time frame for a decision,” he added.

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What Putin really wants from the Ukraine crisis

By BRET STEPHENS

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rave may have been the mistakes of Donald Rumsfeld, but George W. Bush’s first defense secretary did have a gift for memorable phrases.

One of them — “weakness is provocative” — explains the predicament we again find ourselves in with Russia’s belligerence against Ukraine and NATO. Let’s recap how we got here.

— In August 2008, Russia invaded Georgia and took control of two of its provinces. The Bush administration protested but did almost nothing. After Barack Obama won the White House that fall, he pursued a “reset” with Russia. In 2012, he cut U.S. force levels in Europe to their lowest levels in postwar history and mocked Mitt Romney for calling Russia our principal geopolitical threat.

— In September 2013, Obama famously retreated from his red line against Bashar Assad’s use of nerve gas in Syria, accepting instead a Russian offer of mediation that was supposed to have eliminated Assad’s chemical arsenal. That arsenal was never fully destroyed, but Vladimir Putin took note of Obama’s palpable reluctance to get involved.

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— In February 2014, Russia used “little green men” to seize and then annex Crimea. The Obama administration protested but did almost nothing. Russia then took advantage of unrest in eastern Ukraine to shear off two Ukrainian provinces while sparking a war that has lasted seven years and cost more than 13,000 lives. Obama responded with weak sanctions on Russia and a persistent refusal to arm Ukraine.

— In 2016, Donald Trump ran for office questioning how willing America should be to defend vulnerable NATO members. In 2017 he tried to block new sanctions on Russia but was effectively overruled by Congress. The Trump administration did ultimately take a tougher line on Russia and approved limited arms sales to Ukraine.

But Trump also tried to hold hostage military assistance to Ukraine for political favors before he was exposed, leading to his first impeachment.

Which brings us to Joe Biden, who ran for office promising a tougher line on Russia. It has been anything but. In May, his administration waived sanctions against Russia’s Nord Steam 2 gas pipeline to Germany, which, when operational, will increase Moscow’s energy leverage on Europe. Since coming to office, the administration has done little to increase the relatively paltry flow of military aid to Ukraine. In the face of a Russian invasion, it will be as effective as trying to put out a forest fire by peeing on it.

Then there was the fiasco of our withdrawal from Afghanistan. “In the aftermath of Saigon redux,” I wrote at the time, “every enemy will draw the lesson that the United States is a feckless power.” The current Ukraine crisis is as much the child of Biden’s Afghanistan debacle as the last Ukraine crisis was the child of Obama’s Syria debacle.

Now the administration is doubling down on a message of weakness by threatening “massive consequences for Russia” if it invades Ukraine, nearly all in economic sanctions. That’s bringing a knife to the proverbial gunfight.

Imagine this not-so-far-fetched scenario. Russian forces move on a corner of Ukraine. The U.S. responds by cutting off Russia from the global banking system. But the Kremlin (which has built its gold and foreign-currency reserves to record highs) doesn’t sit still. It responds to sanctions by cutting off gas supplies in midwinter to the European Union — which gets more than 40% of its gas from Russia. It demands a Russia-Europe security treaty as the price of the resumption of supplies. And it freezes the U.S. out of the bargain, at least until Washington shows goodwill by abandoning financial sanctions.

Such a move would force Washington to either escalate or abase itself — and this administration would

almost certainly choose the latter. It would fulfill Putin’s long-held ambition to break the spine of NATO. It would further entice China into a similar mindset of aggression, probably against Taiwan.

It would be to America’s global standing what the Suez Crisis was to Britain’s. At least Pax Britannica could, in its twilight, give way to Pax Americana. But to what does Pax Americana give way?

What can the U.S. do instead? We should break off talks with Russia now: No country ought to expect diplomatic rewards from Washington while it threatens the destruction of our friends. We should begin an emergency airlift of military equipment to Ukraine, on the scale of Richard Nixon’s 1973 airlift to Israel, including small arms useful in a guerrilla war. And we should reinforce U.S. forces in front-line NATO states, particularly Poland and the Baltics.

None of this may be sufficient to stop Russia from invasion, which would be a tragedy for Ukrainians. But Putin is playing for bigger stakes in this crisis — another sliver of Ukrainian territory is merely a secondary prize.

What he really wants to do is end the Western alliance as we have known it since the Atlantic Charter. As for the U.S., two decades of bipartisan American weakness in the face of his aggression has us skating close to a geopolitical debacle. Biden needs to stand tough on Ukraine in order to save NATO.

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Andrea Ojeda: “El sistema me ha maltratado más que Juanma López” POR CYBERNEWS

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AGUAS – Andrea Ojeda Cruz, conocida como “La Peki” acusó el miércoles ante la jueza del Tribunal de Caguas, Ana Cruz Vélez, al Ministerio Público por “maltratarla” más que su expareja, el exboxeador Juan Manuel “Juanma” López.

Durante la vista judicial en la que se discutiría si la declaración de la víctima de violencia doméstica se ofrecería mediante circuito cerrado, Ojeda Cruz pidió hablar ante la magistrada.

“Con todo el respeto, señoría, no estoy confundiendo nada porque tal vez los fiscales están acostumbrados a casos, tal vez no tengan no están sensibilidad, no tengan tacto, pero hay una línea delgada.

Yo sé lo que es respeto. A mí se me ha faltado el respeto, a mí se me ha alzado la voz, a mí se me ha humillado, y yo siento, ahora mismo le puedo decir con todo el respeto, que el sistema me ha maltratado

más que Juanma López”, dijo Ojeda Cruz en sala.

“A mi se me olvidó todo lo que me ha hecho Juanma López por todo lo que me han hecho en esta oficina, y eso no sale en la prensa. Ya le dije a la fiscal que ya no quiero declarar. Y es mi deseo”, añadió.

Ante esto, la juez Cruz Vélez suspendió el proceso de desinsaculación del jurado que se llevaría a cabo en la tarde. Sin embargo, fijó la vista judicial para el 15 de febrero.

López Rivera enfrenta siete cargos por supuesta violación a la Ley para la Prevención e Intervención de Violencia Doméstica, por supuestamente agredir física y emocionalmente a su expareja.

Por su parte, la fiscal de Distrito de Caguas, Aracelys Pérez Correa afirmó que le ha ofrecido todo el apoyo y las ayudas disponibles a Ojeda Cruz desde que ésta denunció las agresiones, supuestamente por parte de su expareja, Juan Manuel López Rivera.

Nogales Molinelli propone eliminar delitos por violar órdenes ejecutivas POR CYBERNEWS

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L CAPITOLIO – La portavoz del Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC) en la Cámara de Representantes, Mariana Nogales Molinelli propuso el miércoles, enmiendas para que las violaciones a órdenes ejecutivas emitidas por el gobernador sean consideradas faltas administrativas con una multa de hasta 500 dólares.

“No podemos seguir dándole cheques en blanco a la Rama Ejecutiva, más aún cuando se trata de gobiernos que ya han demostrado que tienden al autoritarismo y aborrecen la democracia. Tiene que respetarse el sistema de gobierno que provee para pesos y contrapesos, y que se supone que proteja a la gente de leyes caprichosas y abusivas. Eso es lo que busca este proyecto”, señaló Nogales Molinelli en declaraciones escritas.

“Activar unidades especiales de la policía y hacer todo un espectáculo de fuerza para arrestar a estas personas es totalmente descabellado, más aún en un contexto en que hay mucho personal fuera de sus labores.

Es obvio que, como ocurre en otras instancias, la administración de Pedro Pierluisi está tratando de convertir a estas personas en ejemplo de lo que pasa cuando alguien disiente de las decisiones de su gobierno. Ahí es que surge el problema con una disposición tan amplia y vaga como la que se creó en la Ley 20-2020, porque permite el abuso de poder y la aplicación arbitraria y caprichosa de las órdenes ejecutivas con fines políticos.

Por eso es que cuando la legislatura le delega al Ejecutivo la creación de delitos tiene que ser bien específica y limitada en lo que va a permitir”, añadió.

El cambio propuesto por Nogales Molinelli estable-

cería que las violaciones a órdenes ejecutivas así como otras conductas prohibidas en el Artículo 6.14 constituirán faltas administrativas que acarrearán multas de hasta 500 dólares.

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Poitier and Bogdanovich: The defiant ones

Peter Bogdanovich in 1973 and Sidney Poitier circa 1965. Both were directing films in the same post-studio era.

By A.O. SCOTT and MANOHLA DARGIS

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ast week, the movies lost two giants — Sidney Poitier and Peter Bogdanovich — who each made history in his own way. Our chief film critics discussed the men, their careers and their legacies.

Manohla Dargis: When Poitier and Bogdanovich died last week, you and I talked about how each had helped shape the periods in which they emerged. I’ve been thinking about that ever since. We know their careers briefly overlapped: Bogdanovich directed Poitier in the 1996 TV movie “To Sir, With Love 2,” a sequel to the 1967 film. For the most part, though, they had separate trajectories partly shaped by race, personal choices and what was happening both in the country and the industry.

It’s fascinating to trace the arcs of these separate paths. Poitier’s begins first, with his big big-studio break, the 1950 drama “No Way Out.” He was working in Jim Crow Hollywood that he would later help overturn, but it took so long.

In some ways, the pressures and contra-

dictions he faced came to a head at the end of the decade first with the release of “The Defiant Ones” in 1958, in which he has equal billing with Tony Curtis. A year later, though, Poitier is on his knees playing Porgy in “Porgy and Bess,” a role that he’d rejected but was effectively forced into taking.

A.O. Scott: Bogdanovich was fundamentally a historian. Poitier was a history maker. When we started talking about them side by side, it wasn’t to compare their achievements, but to look at how their very different careers illuminated the changes underway in American movies after the studio era.

Poitier came up in that system and had no illusions about its interest in racial progress. “Hollywood never really had much of a conscience,” he told an interviewer. “The social conscience that you’re talking about” — the durable myth of liberal Hollywood — “was always only a handful of men,” among them Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who made “No Way Out” and Stanley Kramer, who directed “The Defiant Ones.” “This town never was infected by that kind of goodness,” Poitier

said. He could never romanticize Old Hollywood the way Bogdanovich did.

Dargis: Absolutely — among other things, I doubt that Poitier would have had access to all those at-times forgotten Old Hollywood veterans like John Ford and Orson Welles. Bogdanovich championed them in his writing and advocacy, and he learned about moviemaking through their conversations and by watching them work. I was looking at Bogdanovich’s anthology “Who the Devil Made It” and he was 20 when he did his first interview, in 1960, with Sidney Lumet. At that point, Bogdanovich had been studying acting with Stella Adler — presumably one reason he was fantastic with actors — and had worked in some 40 professional stage productions, one he directed. What a wunderkind!

That year, Poitier turned 33 and started shooting “Paris Blues,” a film that I love despite its flaws, including his marginalization. Still, the film has Poitier and Diahann Carroll playing lovers and they’re beautiful, and shown as desiring and desirable. Poitier was disappointed with how the film turned out and said the studio had “chickened out on us” — he was always being sold out, it seems by the white powers that be, however ostensibly well-intentioned those powers. In 1960, he also joined a campaign to raise

Poitier with Tony Curtis in “The Defiant Ones.” Poitier never romanticized Old Hollywood.

defense funds for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It takes nothing away from Bogdanovich to say that Poitier lived in an entirely different reality.

Scott: With Bogdanovich, it could seem that reality was defined above all by movies and his love for them. His cinephilia marks him as a charter member, along with guys like George Lucas, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, of what used to be called “the film school generation.” Not that Bogdanovich ever went to film school.

“Generally I find film schools disappointing,” he told an audience at the American Film Institute. “They spend far too much time on production and not enough time showing the right films to students. Students need to see the classics.” Some of his best films — the modern-day screwball “What’s Up, Doc?” (1972); the black-and-white, Depressionset road movie “Paper Moon” (1973) — are full of that reverence for tradition.

Some of the less good ones, too.

In “Nickelodeon” (1976), he tried to bring some of the charm of early cinema into the New Hollywood, casting Ryan O’Neal as an accidental picture-maker and Burt Reynolds as a rough-riding screen idol. They spend the early 1910s scraping together two-reelers and battling industry consolidation, and wind up at the 1915 premiere of D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of A Nation,” showing under its original title, “The Clansman.” In keeping with the dominant Hollywood origin story of the time, that movie is hailed as an artistic and commercial breakthrough — goodbye nickelodeons, hello movie palaces! — while its celebration of the Ku Klux Klan is brushed aside.

The story of the late ’60s, early ’70s renaissance in American movies is conventionally told as a tale of heroic, rebellious white men. But as with the silent era, the truth is more complicated and more interesting. The period was also when Poitier (along with other Black pioneers like Gordon Parks, Ossie Davis and Melvin Van Peebles) turned to directing.

He started out with a western, “Buck and the Preacher” (1972), set in the post-Civil War landscape familiar from so many

The San Juan Daily Star Ford pictures. He also starred in it, with Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee. Do you think the choice of genre — and his treatment of its tropes — says something about his own relationship to the Hollywood past?

Dargis: No doubt, though that relationship to genre was very different from that of those white directors, Bogdanovich included, who revisited (or were swallowed by) classic film forms in the 1960s and ’70s. In Poitier’s memoir “The Measure of a Man,” he talks about seeing his first film as a kid. It was a western and he was so wowed that he told his sister, “I would like to go to Hollywood and become a cowboy.” He didn’t know what Hollywood was; he thought people raised cows there — a child’s misapprehension that’s all the more poignant given how historically unwelcoming the town was to Black talent.

One reason Poitier appeared in the western “Duel at Diablo” (1966), he said, was that it gave him an opportunity to create a heroic image for Black children who love westerns. He was apparently disappointed by this movie, as well, and his love for westerns and the complex iconography of the American cowboy were not yet in sync. Imagine the representational weight that his version of “The Wild Bunch” or a “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” might have carried in the late 1960s! Belafonte and Poitier had been interested in making a western but nothing came of this until they teamed up for “Buck and the Preacher,” which we both adore as much for its behind-thescenes story as the one on-screen.

Scott: That story is a sign of how things were changing. Belafonte and Poitier were the producers. They didn’t see eye to eye with the first director, Joseph Sargent, and asked Columbia Pictures to replace him. Shooting had already started in Mexico, and Poitier offered to take over temporarily so the production could keep going while the studio looked for someone else. “Finally they called and said, ‘Why don’t you just continue shooting?’”

Poitier remembered years later. “That’s how I started directing. I was just thrown into it.”

Poitier went on to become one of the most successful comic directors of the next decade, playing straight man to Bill Cosby in the crime-caper trilogy “Uptown Saturday Night” (1974), “Let’s Do It Again” (1975) and “A Piece of the Action”

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(1977), and steering Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder through the incarceration farce “Stir Crazy” (1980).

Those were also Bogdanovich’s best years. We don’t have room to revisit all the dramatic ups and downs of his career, but I think there’s some perspective on that much-mythologized era to be gained by comparing how he and Poitier navigated the changes in Hollywood. It’s instructive, for example, that both were involved in attempts by groups of artists to take advantage of the waning power of the studios and assert their own independence. Poitier was a founder of First Artists, which brought together movie stars (including Paul Newman and Barbra Streisand) seeking creative control. Inspired by that example, Bogdanovich, with Coppola and William Friedkin, organized the Directors Company. Both experiments ultimately failed, which may say as much about Hollywood as the fact that they were tried in the first place.

Dargis: Part of the pathos of the 1970s is that for all the great films made that decade — including by Poitier and Bogdanovich — the era laid the ground for the conglomeration, blockbuster-fication and Disney-fication of the industry.

The two men traveled different roads, created tremendous work, won the industry’s highest honors and made a lot of money for a lot of people. But by the end of the 1970s, each one’s glory years were over.

They kept working, on and off, with success and not, until they were the kind of faded greats the culture is happy to forget until they’re old enough to nostalgically venerate. I’m glad that at least we can do that, and watch their movies, too. The work is all over the place but it’s also immortal.

Bogdanovich with Barbra Streisand, who starred in his “What’s Up, Doc?”

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Cookies? Chips? Pizza? Here’s how to own your cravings.

By TARA PARKER-POPE

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ood cravings are a normal part of the human experience; studies show that more than 90% of people have them. (In fact, who are those unicorns who’ve never had cravings?)

But how we deal with cravings can vary widely. Some people eat what they want and don’t worry about it, whereas others feel controlled by cravings and end up bingeing on favorite foods.

When people surrender to a food craving, they often blame it on a lack of self control. But cravings are caused by a complex interplay of neurons in the brain’s reward center, appetite hormones, behavioral conditioning and easy access to tasty, pleasurable foods that reinforce the craving cycle.

The power of cravings can be fueled by the senses, like the smell of fresh bread when we walk by a bakery, as well as situations and emotions. After a stressful day at work, for example, we might seek comfort by pulling up to a fast-food window.

Good times can trigger cravings, too, like wanting popcorn or candy at the movies. And studies show that so-called “hyperpalatable” foods that offer a tantalizing combination of fat, sugar, salt and carbohydrates can interfere with brain signals so that we keep craving them even when we’re full.

So what’s the solution for people who struggle with cravings?

It turns out many people are dealing with cravings the wrong way by trying to restrict, avoid and distract themselves from tempting foods. They skip dessert when everyone else is eating it, walk away if a colleague brings doughnuts to the office and try to ignore their craving for the ice cream in the freezer.

But increasingly, studies show that constant restriction and attempts at distraction can actually backfire for people who struggle with cravings and binge eating.

Now scientists are studying surprising new strategies to cope with cravings based on brain science. These include accepting that food cravings are normal and inevitable and using mindfulness techniques to acknowledge and become more aware of your cravings and wait them out, rather than trying to ignore them.

“It’s about understanding that these kinds of cravings are a natural part of being a person; we’re engineered this way,” said Evan Forman, a psychology professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia and the director of the university’s Center for Weight, Eating and Lifestyle Science. “You don’t have to make cravings go away, but you also don’t have to eat because of them.

It’s accepting rather than pushing away or suppressing them.”

How dieting can make cravings worse One of the earliest studies to show a link between food restriction and cravings was conducted in the 1940s by diet researcher Ancel Keys. In what is often referred to as a “starvation study,” Keys asked 36 men, who had been eating about 3,500 daily calories, to cut their food intake to about 1,600 calories a day. (By today’s standards, that calorie count is just another diet.) The restriction triggered a notable psychological change in the men, who became preoccupied with food.

“They stopped doing anything except laying in their beds,

For the Eat Well Challenge, mindfulness techniques like “urge surfing” can help curb overeating without banning favorite foods. talking and thinking about foods,” said Traci Mann, who heads the health and eating laboratory at the University of Minnesota.

She notes that the men even planned food-related careers like opening a grocery store or restaurant, and they stayed preoccupied with food long after the study ended. “These are men in the 1940s who probably never cooked a meal in their entire life,” Mann noted. “And they started cutting recipes out of the newspaper.”

More recently, Mann and her colleagues used a tempting box of chocolates to study the effect of food restriction. The research included 142 chocolate lovers, half of whom were told to eat their regular diet while the other half went on a restricted diet. In a seemingly cruel twist, everyone in the study was given a box of chocolates and instructed not to eat it until after the 10day study. But to make sure every participant was consistently tempted by the chocolate, the participants had to open the box daily to find specific instructions.

After 10 days, everyone was asked to send a photo of their chocolate box. The dieters had pilfered significantly more of the chocolates than those who weren’t counting calories.

Acceptance vs. distraction At Drexel University, Forman conducted a similar study, but this time with transparent boxes of Hershey’s Kisses that subjects were required to carry at all times for two days. The researchers added a twist, advising some participants to ignore their cravings while instructing another group to notice and accept their cravings as something normal. A control group received no advice. At the end of the study, about 30% of participants in the control group had eaten the candy compared with 9% of people in the group instructed to ignore cravings. But among the participants taught to acknowledge and accept cravings, nobody ate the chocolate.

In 2019, Forman published the follow-up results of a larger randomized controlled trial of 190 people, which found that participants who practiced acceptance and mindfulness strategies were twice as likely to have maintained a 10% weight loss after three years compared to those who focused primarily on resisting temptations and suppressing thoughts of food.

“Surprisingly, there was a large benefit in people’s quality

of life that was somewhat unexpected,” Forman said. “It benefited their well-being and emotional state, too.”

HOW TO COPE WITH CRAVINGS For this week’s Eat Well Challenge, try these acceptance and mindfulness techniques to focus on food cravings. (Times subscribers can sign up for the Eat Well Challenge through the Well newsletter and receive extra advice by texting the word “Hi” to 917-810-3302 for a link to join.)

Practice “urge surfing.”

Cravings are ephemeral, and some research suggests they peak around five minutes. “Urge surfing” means “riding the wave” of your thoughts, feelings and cravings rather than acting on them, and it’s a successful strategy often used to treat substance use. Follow these four steps.

— Identify your craving. Use the phrase, “I’m having the urge to eat …” and fill in the blank.

— Observe it. Notice how you feel as you crave the food.

Do you feel it in your stomach? Are you distracted? Anxious? Do you feel the need to move or keep visiting the kitchen?

— Be open. Don’t try to suppress or get rid of your craving. Accept the experience.

— Pay attention to what happens next. Notice the urge as it rises, crests, falls and subsides. Note the intensity of a craving.

“I’m having the urge to eat potato chips. It started as a 5, but now it’s a 7.”

“Our cravings inevitably rise and fall, just like waves in an ocean,” Forman said. “Trying to fight that wave will never work.

It doesn’t work if you are wishing for the craving to go away. You are accepting that it’s there, and even that it’s supposed to be there, and you are coexisting — surfing — with it.”

Ask: How little is enough?

There’s nothing wrong with eating a food you crave unless it becomes a problem for you. Dr. Judson Brewer, an associate professor at the Brown University School of Public Health, who created a mindfulness app called Eat Right Now, told the story of a patient who routinely ate a full bag of potato chips while watching a favorite TV show with her daughter.

Instead of discouraging her from eating the chips, Brewer advised her to pay attention to every single chip she ate and to notice how many chips it took to feel satisfied. Just a few weeks later, the woman reported she had slowly reduced her chip habit, and now her craving was satisfied after the second potato chip.

Find a bigger, better offer.

Another strategy to deal with a craving is to focus on how a food tastes and makes you feel and then replace a problem food with a higher-quality food that satisfies the same urges.

Brewer calls this “finding a bigger, better offer.”

Brewer said he used to be “addicted” to gummy candy. To break the craving, he began to focus on how the candy really tasted and noticed it was sickly sweet. He looked for a better food to feed his craving and chose blueberries, which he discovered gave him even more pleasure than the candy.

“Cutting ourselves off is not the way to go,” Brewer said.

“We don’t want to live this austere life of not enjoying foods that taste good.”

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Plaintiff, Against,

JOSEAN NUNEZ TRIAS, ELIAS RAMON NUNEZ TRIAS, ALBERT NUNEZ TRIAS, NOEL NUNEZ TRIAS, and JOHN DOE and JANE DOE’S NUMBERS 1-5, said names being fictitious but intended to be persons who are the heirs at law of ELIAS NUNEZ, deceased,

entitled “Map of Parkland, Section 6, Holbrook, Town of Islip, Suffolk County, New York” and filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk on April 16, 1974 as Map No. 6083.

Thursday, January 13, 2022 de la siguiente manera: toda esa determinada parcela, pedazo o parcela de tierra, con los edificios y mejoras erigidos, se encuentra en Holbrook, Pueblo de Islip, Condado de Suffolk y Estado de Nueva York, conocido y designado como Número de lote 468 y mostrado en un cierto mapa titulado “Mapa de Parkland, Sección 6, Holbrook, Pueblo de Islip, Condado de Suffolk, Nueva York” y archivado en la Oficina del Secretario del Condado de Suffolk el 16 de abril de 1974 como Mapa No. 6083.

LEGAL NOTICE

JOSEAN NUNEZ ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO TRIAS, ELIAS RAMON DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNUNEZ TRIAS, ALBERT NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA NUNEZ TRIAS, NOEL SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYANUNEZ TRIAS y JOHN MON. REVERSE MORTGAGE DOE y JANE DOE LOS FUNDING LLC. NÚMEROS 1-5, dichos Demandante vs. nombres son ficticios JESUS MANUEL MENDRE pero pretenden ser KUILAN T/C/C JESUS M. personas que son los MENDRA KUILAN T/C/C herederos legales de JESUS M/ MENDRE T/C/C ELIAS NUNEZ, fallecido, JESUS MENDRE KUILAN; Demandados Tenga en cuenta que el seESTADOS UNIDOS DE cretario del tribunal presentó AMERICA una orden de notificación por publicación con fecha del 29 de noviembre de 2021 en el asunto arriba mencionado dirigiendo la notificación a los demandados antes mencionados a través de la publicación.

Respectivamente, POR LA PRESENTE USTED SE CONVOCA A responder a la queja en esta acción y a entregar una copia de su respuesta, o, si la queja no se entrega con esta citación, a entregar una notificación de comparecencia, a los Abogados del Demandante (que se muestran a continuación) dentro de veinte (20) días después de la notificación de esta citación, sin incluir el día de la notificación (o dentro de los treinta (30) días posteriores a la finalización de la notificación si esta citación no se le entrega personalmente dentro del estado de Nueva York), y en caso de que de su falta de comparecencia o respuesta, se tomará un juicio en su contra por defecto por la reparación exigida en la denuncia. GERARD J. McCREIGHT, ESQ., PC, Abogado del demandante, PO Box 577, Babylon, NY 11702, tel. (631) 495-7000, fax (631) 415-1191. Esta acción se inició para determinar un reclamo de propiedad inmueble y título silencioso de esa determinada parcela de propiedad inmueble conocida como 7 Glensummer Road, Holbrook, Nueva York 11741, que lleva el número de parcela fiscal 0500-196.0007.00-011.000, y se describe

(787) 743-3346

Demandados CIVIL NUM. CA2019CV04125.

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 Bayamón, 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 1 de febrero de 2022, a las 9:15 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: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el numero doscientos noventa y dos (292) en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural San Antoni del Barrio Higuillar del término municipal de Dorado, con una cabida superficial de cero

(0) cuerdas con ochocientos cincuenta y nueve (859) diezmilésimas de otra, equivalente a trescientos treinta y siete punto cincuenta (337.50) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE con parcela numero doscientos noventa y uno (291); por el SUR con parcela numero doscientos noventa y tres (293); por el ESTE con parcela numero doscientos noventa (290); y por el OESTE con la calle de la comunidad.

Finca número 4,750, inscrita al folio 285 del tomo 107 de Dorado, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección IV. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita en el Tomo Karibe, Finca número 4,750 de Dorado, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección IV, inscripción 8a.

Propiedad localizada en: #292 CALLE EMAU, SECTOR VILLA SANTA, DORADO, PUERTO RICO 00646. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $202,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 18 de enero 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 $202,500.00, 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 503 de Bayamón, el 8 de febrero de 2022, a las 9:15 de la mañana, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $135,000.00, 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 $101,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subas-

The San Juan Daily Star ta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala 503 de Bayamón, el 15 de febrero de 2022, a las 9:15 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 $86,919.84 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $28,725.83 en intereses acumulados al 28 de febrero de 2021 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.199% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $11,379.23 en seguro hipotecario; $2,375.00 en cargos por servicio; $8,047.65 en seguro; $1,110.00 de tasación; $1,225.00 de inspecciones; $6,963.74 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $20,250.00, 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 Bayamon, Puerto Rico, hoy 23 de noviembre de 2021.

Jorge Campusano, Alguacil Regional.

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

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Demandante vs.

SUCESION ANA SUAREZ ALICEA T/C/C ANA SUAREZ COMPUESTA POR NELSON RODRIGUEZ SUAREZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION FAUSTINO RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ T/C/C FAUSTINO RODRIGUEZ COMPUESTA POR NELSON RODRIGUEZ SUAREZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados CIVIL NUM. BY2020CV03984.

SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

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

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, 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 503 Bayamón, el 1 de febrero de 2022, a las 9:00 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: Solar número quince (15) de la Manzana “S” de la Urbanización Bayamón Gardens, radicado en el Barrio Pájaros de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de TRESCIENTOS DIEZ PUNTO CINCUENTA (310.50) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE con el solar número dieciséis (16) en veintitrés punto cero cero (23.00) metros; por el SUR, con el solar número catorce (14) en veintitrés punto cero cero (23.00) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número

22 ocho (8) en trece punto cincuenta (13.50) metros; y por el OESTE con la Calle número quince (15) en trece punto cincuenta (13.50) metros. Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio 116 del tomo 576 de Bayamón Sur, finca 26,332, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al tomo Karibe, finca 26,332 de Bayamón Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I, Inscripción 3ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. BAYAMON GARDENS, S-15 CALLE 15, BAYAMON, PUERTO RICO 00957. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $178,500.00.

Fecha de Vencimiento: 26 de julio de 2077. 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 $178,500.00, 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 503 de Bayamón, el 8 de febrero de 2022, a las 9:00 de la mañana, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $119,000.00, 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 $89,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala 503 de Bayamón, el 15 de febrero de 2022, a las 9:00 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 la suma de $89,242.44 por concepto de principal, más la

suma de $22,251.10 en intereses acumulados al 31 de mayo de 2021 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.818% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $6,542.89 en seguro hipotecario; $425.00 de tasaciones; $340.00 de inspecciones; $4,650.70 de honorarias de abogados; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $17,850.00, 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 23 de noviembre de 2021.

JOSE F MARRERO ROBLES, Alguacil Auxiliar.

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

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE LA INDUSTRIA BIOFARMACEUTICA Demandante Vs.

JAVIER CUEBAS RUPERTO; OMARELYS QUINTANA LUGO

Demandados Caso Núm.: ISCI201800204.

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

A: JAVIER CUEBAS RUPERTO; OMARELYS QUINTANA LUGO.

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez, hago saber

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a la parte demandada, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 30 de noviembre de 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la siguiente propiedad [352 Rd. Km 4 Hm 1 Leguisamo Ward, Mayagüez, PR 00773]: FINCA: Número 41846, inscrito al folio móvil del tomo 1479 de Mayagüez, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Mayagüez.

DESCRIPCIÓN: Solar identificado en el plano de inscripción del caso número noventa y seis guión veintinueve guión F quinientos setenta y cinco guión MPD/1; radicado en el Barrio Leguisamo del término municipal de Mayagüez, con una cabida superficial de trescientos quince metros cuadrados (315.00), en lindes por el NORTE, con fa finca principal (remanente) del cual éste se segrega; por el SUR, con parcela de uso público marcada en el plano de con el número cuatro guión setenta y uno guión cero cinco (4-71-05); por el ESTE, con terrenos de Domingo Pérez y por el OESTE, con terrenos de Valentín Díaz Segarra. Enclava en dicho solar una casa propiedad de don Amado Cuebas Rivera y su esposa doña Aida Esther Ruperto Torres, que se describe así: casa terrera de concreto. Costa de las siguientes divisiones: sala-comedor-cocina, tres cuartos de dormitorios, un baño y balcón en forma de ELE (L) y tiene una escalera en su frente de seis escalones. Tiene una galería en forma de ELE (L) aliado izquierdo mirándola de frente. Mide veinticuatro pies frente por treinta y cuatro pies de fondo. La galería mide seis pies de ancho por cuarenta pies de fondo y en forma de ELE al lado derecho mirándola de frente. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 11 de marzo de 2019 en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $137,457.86 de principal, más intereses al tipo convenido de 8.00% anual, que al día hoy suman $19,131.12, hasta su total y complete pago, más cargos por mora por la cantidad de $1 155.60, cuenta de reserva por la cantidad de $2,995.38 y la cantidad estipulada de $15,750.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado que la parte demandada se obligará a satisfacer coma suma líquida y sin necesidad de nueva liquidación y aprobación por este Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posteriores 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 ésto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta.

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 de 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 25 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $157,500.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA , la misma se llevará a efecto el día 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $105,000.00, 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 8 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $78,750.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Cuando se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Todas las subastas deberán ser acordadas y celebradas según lo ordenado por el Tribunal. 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 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 remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría de este Tribunal, durante las horas laborables, todo esto en virtud del artículo 102 de la Ley Número 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 mejor conocida como la Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria de Puerto Rico. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy 27 de diciembre de 2021. CALIXTO RIVERA GHIGLIOTTY, ALGUACIL PLACA #283, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

WALBERTO PACHECO COSME

Demandado Civil Núm.: D3CD2016-0095.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, ROSAMARIE MELÉNDEZ PEÑA, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de TOA ALTA a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 30 de agosto de 2019 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $145,323.39 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 14 de junio de 2017, notificada y archivada en autos el 28 de agosto de 2017, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Corozal, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: Solar #1, Km. 16.0 Interior SR #164,

Barrio Palmarejo, Corozal, PR 00783. RUSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Palmarejo del término municipal de Corozal, identificado en el plano de inscripción como solar número Uno (1), con una cabida superficial de novecientos punto cero Cuatro Tres Ocho metros cuadrados (900.0438 m.c.), equivalentes a cero punto dos dos nueve cero cuerda (0.2290 cda.). En lindes; por el Norte, con Felipe Cuestas; por el Sur, con sol número dos (2) del plano de inscripción; por el Este, con franja dedicada a uso público, según el plano de inscripción; y por el Oeste, con remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega. Consta inscrita al folio 175 del tomo 301 de Corozal, finca 15,210, Registro de la propiedad de Barranquitas. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $145,323.39 de principal, 5.50% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $162.08 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $1.32 de reserva “escrow”, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $161,613.00 para la propiedad antes descrita. De declarase la subasta desierta y tener que celebrarse una segunda subasta el tipo mínimo serán dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $107,742.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, regirá como tipo de la tercera subasta la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado; $80,806.50. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el 2 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el 9 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el 16 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Toa Alta.

Del Estudio de Título realizado surgen los siguientes gravámenes: Servidumbres a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico, Autoridad de las Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico y Corozal Canning, Co. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Uni-

dos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida.

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

Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en la Sala de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de diciembre de 2021. ROSAMARIE MELÉNDEZ PEÑA, ALGUACIL.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SOL MILAGROS RIJOS OSORIO T/C/C SOL M. RIJOS

Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2019CV00889.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #737, Alguacil

Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 18 de junio de 2021 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $90,357.37 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 16 de abril de 2021, notificada y archivada en autos el 16 de abril de 2021 y publicada mediante edicto en el periódico “The San Juan Daily Star” el 26 de abril de 2021, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: A-21 1 St., Urbanización Santa Isidra IV Dev., Fajardo, PR 00738. URBANA: Solar marcado con el número veintiuno (21) del bloque “A” la Urbanización Santa Isidra, cuarta extensión localizada en el barrio Sardinera, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, con un área de 688.71 metros cuadrados, colindando al Norte, en 35.35 metros, con Sucesión Rafael Bermúdez; al Sur, en 27.12 metros, con el solar #20 del mismo bloque; al Este, en 14.08 metros con la calle #1 de la urbanización y al Oeste, en 36.22 metros con Escuela Privada Santiago Apóstol. Enclava una casa. Consta inscrita al folio 35 del tomo 221 de Fajardo, finca 8308, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo.

Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $90,357.37 de principal, 6.125% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $882.40 de cargos por demora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; mas costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $116,800.00 para la propiedad antes descrita. De declarase la subasta desierta y tener que celebrarse una segunda subasta el tipo mínimo serán dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $77,866.67.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, regirá como tipo de la tercera subasta la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado; $58,400.00.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA se lle-

The San Juan Daily Star vará a cabo el 3 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 3:30 DE LA TARDE. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el 10 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 3:30 DE LA TARDE. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el 17 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 3:30 DE LA TARDE. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo.

Del Estudio de Título realizado surgen los siguientes gravámenes: Servidumbres a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico, Autoridad de las Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Telephone Company, Municipio de Fajardo, condiciones restrictivas, Pueblo de Puerto Rico, Autoridad de Carreteras.

Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida.

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

Y para conocimiento de los de-

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mandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en la Sala de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 14 de diciembre de 2021. SHIRLEY SÁNCHEZ MARTÍNEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #161.

SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #737.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

ANA MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS

Demandada Civil Núm.: NSCI201700112.

(303). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 4 de septiembre de 2019 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $54,910.57 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 13 de julio de 2018, notificada y archivada en autos el 3 de mayo de 2019, y publicada mediante edicto en el periódico “The San Juan Daily Star” el 9 de mayo de 2019, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: URBANA: Parcela de terreno dedicada a solar número sesenta y tres (#63) de la parcela D, sita en el Barrio Florencio del término municipal de Faj ardo, Puerto Rico, que mide diez punto cero cero (10.00) metros de frente por quince punto cero cero (15.00) metros de fondo, o sea ciento cincuenta punto cero cero (150.00) metros cuadrados, siendo el sitio donde radica conocido por el nombre de Barrio Obrero, finca El Recreo, en lindes por el Norte, con

una calle sin nombre, antes, hoy calle Ramón Quiñones Caballero, por el Sur, con Secundino Torres, antes, hoy Felicita Matta, por el Este, con Antonio Diaz, antes, hoy, Regina Matta de Rohena, y por el Oeste, con una calle sin nombre, antes, hoy Víctor M. Ríos. Sobre este solar enclava una casa de concreto para fines residenciales.

Consta inscrita al folio 295 del tomo 334 de Fajardo, finca número 14,394 del Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $54,910.57 por concepto de principal, más intereses convenidos al 4.00% anual hasta su total pago; $48.00 de cargos por demora, $133.52 de reserva “escrow”, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $58,162.11 para la propiedad antes descrita. De declarase la subasta desierta y tener que celebrarse una segunda subasta el tipo mínimo serán dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $38,774.74.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, regirá como tipo de la tercera subasta la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado; $29,081.06.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el 3 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 3:00 DE LA TARDE. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el 10 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 3:00 DE LA TARDE. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el 17 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 3:00 DE LA TARDE. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo. Del Estudio de Título realizado surgen los siguientes gravámenes posteriores los cuales podrán ser cancelados: Aviso de Demanda dictado el 6 de febrero de 2011 en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala De Fajardo, caso civil #NSCI2012-00103 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria seguido por Doral Bank vs. Ana María Rodríguez Ramos donde se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con la hipoteca de la inscripción 11ma reducida a $75,334.00, o la venta en pública subasta, anotado al folio 79 del tomo 451 de Fajardo, finca #14394 el 15 de marzo de 2013 anotación “A”. Hipoteca constituida por Ana María Rodríguez Ramos, soltera, en garantía de pagaré a favor del Secretario Urbano y Vivienda de Estados Unidos de América, o a su or-

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYA- pleito; $766.86 por concepto de “Escrow Advances” y la suma MÓN SALA SUPERIOR. BANCO POPULAR DE $64,480.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; PUERTO RICO, INC. y demás créditos accesorios Demandante v. garantizados hipotecariamente.

WILLIAM DÍAZ IRIZARRY La adjudicación se hará al meT/C/C WILLIAM R. jor postor, quien deberá consigDÍAZ IRIZARRY T/C/C nar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, WILLIAM ROBERTO en efectivo (moneda del curso DIAZ IRRIZARY; IRIS legal de los Estados Unidos de MOJICA PÉREZ T/C/C América), giro postal o cheque IRIS V. MOJICA PÉREZ certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA T/C/C IRIS VICTORIA MOJICA PÉREZ Y LA subasta se llevará a efecto el SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE día 10 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, BIENES GANANCIALES en el cuarto piso, Oficina de COMPUESTA POR Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Bayamón, AMBOS Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Que Demandados CIVIL NUM.: DCD2013-2423. el precio mínimo fijado para SALA: 0401. SOBRE: EJE- la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de CUCION DE SENTENCIA “IN $644,800.00. Que de ser neREM”. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE cesaria la celebración de una AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS se llevará a efecto el día 17 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, cuarto piso, Oficina de AlguaciAlguacil del Tribunal de Primera les de Subastas de Centro JuInstancia, Sala Superior, Centro dicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Judicial de Bayamón, Baya- Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo món, Puerto Rico, hago saber, para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA a la parte demandada y al PÚ- será de $429,866.66, equivaBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en lentes a dos terceras (2/3) parcumplimiento del Mandamiento tes del tipo mínimo estipulado de Ejecución de Sentencia ex- para la PRIMERA subasta. Que pedido el día 17 de diciembre de ser necesaria la celebración de 2021, por la Secretaría del de una TERCERA SUBASTA Tribunal, procederé a vender y la misma se llevará a efecto el venderé en pública subasta y al día 28 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 mejor postor la propiedad que A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, ubica y se describe a continua- en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alción: URBAN: Lot marked num- guaciles de Subastas de Cenber 36 Alturas de San Patricio tro Judicial de Bayamón, BaDevelopment, Pueblo Viejo yamón, Puerto Rico. El precio Ward, Municipality of Guayna- mínimo para la TERCERA SUbo, Puerto Rico, area 97.676 BASTA será de $322,400.00, square meters. Bounded on the equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) NORTH, with Belen Street, in del tipo mínimo estipulado para 14.310 meters; on the SOUTH, la PRIMERA subasta. Si se with Summit Hills Development, declarase desierta la tercera 6.32 meters, 0.92 meters and subasta, se adjudicará la finca 8.210 meters; on the EAST, a favor del acreedor por la totawith lot number 37 of said De- lidad de la cantidad adeudada velopment, in 36.836 meters si ésta es igual o menor que and on the WEST, with lot num- el monto del tipo de la tercera ber 35 of the said Development, subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima in 28.880 meters. Enclava una conveniente; se abonará dicho casa. Inscrito al folio 290 del monto a la cantidad adeudada tomo 663 de Guaynabo, finca si esta es mayor, todo ello a número 26,465 Registro de tenor con lo dispone el Articulo la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 Sección de Guaynabo. Pro- de diciembre de 2015 conocida piedad ubicada en: 36 Belén como “Ley del Registro de la Altura San Patricio Guaynabo, Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Puerto Rico 00917. El produc- Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. to de la subasta se destinará a La propiedad a ser ejecutada satisfacer al demandante hasta se adquiere libre de toda carga donde alcance, la SENTENCIA y gravamen que afecte la mendictada a su favor, el día 9 de cionada finca según el Artículo diciembre de 2013, notificada el 102, inciso 6. Una vez confir12 de diciembre de 2013 en el mada la venta judicial por el Hopresente caso civil, a saber la norable Tribunal, se procederá suma de $701,359.46; la cual a otorgar la correspondiente se desglosa en: $617,274.98 escritura de venta judicial y se por concepto de principal; pondrá al comprador en pose$16,773.22 por concepto de in- sión física del inmueble de contereses acumulados, 2,064.40 formidad con las disposiciones por concepto de cargos por de Ley. Para conocimiento de LEGAL NOTICE demora los cuales al igual que la parte demandada y de toda ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO los intereses continúan acu- aquella persona o personas DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- mulándose hasta el saldo total que tengan interés inscrito con NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA de la deuda reclamada en este posterioridad a la inscripción den por $22,528.40 sin intereses vencedero el 1 de agosto de 2040, según Esc. #824 en San Juan el 23 de julio de 2013 ante Magda V. Alsina Figueroa, inscrita al folio 79 del tomo 451 de Fajardo, finca #14394 inscripción 12ma. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida.

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

Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en la Sala de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 14 de diciembre de 2021. SHIRLEY SÁNCHEZ MARTÍNEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #161.

DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #266. ***

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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de enero de 2022.

EDUARDO ELIAS VARGAS SANTANA, Alguacil, División de Subastas, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PR Vs

SUCESION DE VIVETTI GONZALEZ FERRARI TCC

Caso: KCD2015-1893. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DEVIVETTI GONZÁLEZ FERRARI T/C/C VIVETTE BELÉN GONZÁLEZ FERRARI.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

JEANNETTE SOTO SANTINI

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: AI2021CV00206.

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 COAMO, 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 17 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, 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 COAMO, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: G-10 URB. HACIENDA DEL RIO COAMO, PR 00769 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar

24 G-10. Predio de terreno sito en el Barrio San Ildefonso del Municipio de Coamo, Puerto Rico, marcado como Solar G-10 en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Hacienda del Río, con una cabida superficial de trescientos dos punto ochenta y dos metros cuadrados (302.82 m.c). En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle B; por el SUR, con el solar G-35; por el ESTE, con el solar G-9; y por el OESTE, con el G-11. En dicho solar enclava una residencia de concreto. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 294 del Tomo 266 de Coamo, finca número 14,717, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $57,924.00.

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 24 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $38,616.00.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el 3 DE MARZO DE 2022, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $28,962.00.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 82 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de abril de 1999, ante el Notario Iván Alonso Costa, y consta inscrita al Folio 294 del Tomo 266 de Coamo, finca número 14,717 en el Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas, inscripción Primera (1ra). 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 $28,633.34 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2020, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $5,792.40.

Que los autos y todos los do-

cumentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE COAMO, 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 Coamo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de enero de 2022. RODOLFO LARA MARTINEZ #321, Por: EDMANUEL CORREA RIVERA #257, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE COAMO, SALA SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

The San Juan Daily Star

Thursday, January 13, 2022

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE VEGA BAJA SALA SUPERIOR.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

FRANK MUÑOZ MENDEZ, KAREN JANICE NIEVES ANDINO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: VB2021CV00395.

SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA “IN REM” (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE VEGA BAJA, 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 2 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE VEGA BAJA, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: A-6 URB. QUINTAS DE TORTUGUERO VEGA BAJA, PR 00693 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número seis (6) del Bloque A (A-6) de la Urbanización Quintas de Tortuguero, radicada en el Barrio Algarrobo del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de cuatrocientos diecisiete punto sesenta (417.60) metros cuadrados, equivalentes aproximadamente cero punto mil sesenta y tres (0.1063) diez milésimas de una cuerda. Colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia de trece punto cero cinco (13.05) metros lineales, con la Calle número uno (1); por el SUR, en una distancia de trece punto cero cinco (13.05) metros lineales, con las Empresas Berdut Teruel; por el ESTE, en una distancia de treinta y dos (32.00) metros lineales, con el solar número cinco (5) del Bloque A (A-5); y por el OESTE, en una distancia de treinta y dos (32.00) metros lineales, con el solar número siete (7) del Bloque A (A-7). Contiene casa residencial. Se encuentra afecta a servidumbre de teléfonos.

La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 198 del Tomo 388 de Vega Baja, finca número 28,059, Registro

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 $69,939.00.

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 9 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, 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 $46,626.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 16 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, 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 $34,969.50.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 309 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de agosto de 2000 ante el Notario Edwin Rivera Pérez y consta inscrita al Folio 198 del Tomo 388 de Vega Baja, finca número 28,059, en el Registro de Bayamón, Sección Cuarta, inscripción Primera (1ra). 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 $44,432.00 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de febrero de 2019, más intereses al tipo pactado de 7.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $6,993.90. Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $6,993.90 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $6,993.90 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRI-

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: JUAN SALA SUPERIOR ESTRELLA HOMES III, $54,800.00. TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 28 DE L.L.C. FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS Demandante Vs. 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECESAR ANTONIO CIO MÍNIMO: $41,100.00. Las CASTILLO HERASME subastas se llevarán a cabo t/c/c CESAR A. CASTILLO para satisfacer al Banco demandante de las siguientes suHERASME mas de dinero adeudadas por Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2018CV08839. la parte demandante conforme Salón Núm.: 604. Sobre: CO- a la Sentencia dictada, a saber, BRO DE DINERO Y EJECU- la suma de $60,860.99 adeuCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA dada por concepto de principal VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE e intereses vencidos al 30 de SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS agosto de 2018, y los que se UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL continúen acumulando al tipo PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. pactado hasta el pago total U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASO- y completo de la obligación, CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, los cargos por demora venciSS. Yo, ERIK F. OSUNA, Al- dos que a igual fecha ascienguacil del Tribunal Superior de den a $1,120.86, y los que se Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, continúen acumulando al tipo al Público HAGO SABER: Que pactado hasta el pago total y en cumplimiento del Manda- completo de la obligación, las miento de Ejecución de Senten- sumas adeudadas por concia que se me libró con fecha cepto de seguros y/o contribudel 26 de octubre de 2021, por ciones, la suma de $30.00 por la Secretaria del Tribunal Su- concepto de cargo por cheque perior de San Juan en relación devuelto por insuficiencia de con la Sentencia dictada en 17 fondos, la suma de $749.00 por de abril de 2019, notificada y ar- concepto de adelantos (“Corp chivada en autos en 23 de abril Advances”), más la suma de de 2019, venderé en pública $8,220.00, por concepto de subasta y al mejor postor la pro- costas, gastos y honorarios de piedad inmueble que se descri- abogado, según pactados. Las be a continuación: URBANA: subastas de dicha propiedad se Solar de forma rectangular llevarán a efecto en mi oficina que mide doce (12) metros de situada en el local que ocupa frente por veintiún (21) metros este Tribunal en el Tribunal de de fondo, marcado con el nú- San Juan, advirtiéndose que el mero quince (15) A de la man- que obtuviere la buena pro de zana “CT” de la Urbanización dicha propiedad consignará en Puerto Nuevo, propiedad de la el acto del remate el importe de Everlasting Development Cor- su oferta en moneda legal de poration, que radica en el Ba- los Estados Unidos de Amérirrio Monacillos de Río Piedras, ca, en adición a los gastos de Puerto Rico, con un área super- la subasta, siendo éste el mejor ficial de doscientos cincuenta y postor. En cualquier momento dos (252) metros cuadrados, luego de haberse comenzado en lindes por el NORTE, SUR, el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil ESTE y OESTE, con terrenos podrá requerir de los licitadores propiedad de la Everlasting que le evidencien la capacidad Development Corporation y de pago de sus posturas. Del dando frente al Norte con la producto obtenido en dicha calle denominada calle número venta, el Alguacil pagará en quince (15) de la urbanización. primer término los gastos del Enclava una casa. Consta ins- Alguacil, en segundo término crita al folio 121 del tomo 169 las costas, gastos y honorarios de Monacillos, finca número de abogados hasta la suma 6,178 (antes 5,087), Registro convenida, en tercer término de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, los intereses acumulados hasSección III de San Juan. Por ta la fecha de la subasta según su procedencia esta afecta a: pactados hasta su total y coma. Condiciones de Tránsito. b. pleto pago, en cuarto término, Condiciones Restrictivas de las sumas establecidas para el edificación y uso. Dirección de pago de recargos por demora la propiedad: 1032 Calle 18 NE, hasta la fecha de la subasta Puerto Nuevo, San Juan, Puer- y en quinto término la suma to Rico 00920. Se apercibe a principal adeudada. Disponiénlos licitadores para que proce- dose, que si quedare algún redan con la inspección física del manente luego de pagarse las inmueble objeto de ejecución sumas mencionadas, el mismo previo a la celebración de las deberá ser depositado en la subastas. El precio mínimo de Secretaría del Tribunal para ser licitación con relación a la pro- entregado a la parte demandapiedad anteriormente descrita da, previa solicitud y orden del y la fecha y hora de cada su- Tribunal. En vista de la Orden basta es como sigue: PRIME- de Descargo emitida por el RA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el Tribunal Federal de Quiebras 10 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A en relación con la parte deLEGAL NOTICE LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. mandada, la parte demandante ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO PRECIO MÍNIMO: $82,200.00. ha renunciado a cualesquiera DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se ce- deficiencia resultante luego de NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA lebrará el 17 DE FEBRERO la venta en pública subasta de MERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE VEGA BAJA, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad está sujeta a 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: Sujeta a condiciones restrictivas de venta a favor del Banco y Agencia para el Financiamiento de la vivienda, por el termino de 6 años, bajo la Ley 124, Programa de Subsidio de Interés Social. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus 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 Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de ENERO de 2022. LUIS F ORTIZ ROSA #888, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE VEGA BAJA SALA SUPERIOR,

la propiedad inmueble objeto de ejecución en este caso. El inmueble anteriormente descrito se encuentra afecto al siguiente gravamen posterior: a) ANOTACIÓN PREVENTIVA DE DEMANDA radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, Civil Número SJ2018CV08839 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria de fecha 16 de octubre de 2018, seguida por Firstbank Puerto Rico (Demandante) Vs. Cesar Antonio Castillo Herasme t/c/c César A. Castillo Herasme (Demandado). Por la misma se reclama el pago de la suma de $60,860.99, y más intereses y otras sumas, anotada el 23 de enero de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Monacillos, finca número 6,178, Anotación “B”, el cual se refiere al caso del epígrafe en la presente causa de acción. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, toda vez que el precio de remate no se destina a su extinción.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, durante horas laborables.

Y PARA LA CONCURRENCIA, de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta por espacio de dos semanas y en un periódico de circulación general del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 3 de enero de 2022.

ERIK F. OSUNA ACEVEDO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE FELICITA MOLINA SANTIAGO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE

The San Juan Daily Star

INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”)

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2019CV04302.

(406). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESIÓN DE FELICITA MOLINA SANTIAGO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”).

Yo, MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 14 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 1:15 DE LA TARDE en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Carolina durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 22 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 1:15 DE LA TARDE y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 1RO. DE MARZO DE 2022, A LAS 1:15 DE LA TARDE en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el No. 7 del Bloque “A” en el plano de inscripción de la URBANIZACIÓN RESIDENCIAL JARDINES DE BUENA VISTA, radicado en el Barrio Hoyo Mulas hoy Buenavista del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, compuesto de 176.93 metros cuadrados; en lindes por el Norte, distancia de 10.50 metros, con la Calle “B” de la Urbanización; por el Sur, distancia de 10.52 metros, con el solar No. 6 del mismo bloque; por el Este, distancia de 16.50 metros, con la Calle “A” de la Urbanización;

por el Oeste, distancia de 17.20 metros, con el solar No. 8 del mismo bloque; y por el Noreste, en un arco. Enclava una casa de concreto de dos niveles, dedicada a vivienda. Según nota marginal se hace constar como adición a la descripción del solar que según plano archivado el solar colinda por el Sur, en 10.50 metros y por el Norte y Este tiene un arco. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio móvil del tomo 1296 de Carolina Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Segunda, finca número 43589, inscripción 7ª. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Jardines de Buena Vista, A-7, Calle B Corner, Carolina, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $35,284.91 de principal, intereses al 7 3/8% anual, desde el día 1ro. de mayo de 2019, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $6,100.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $61,000.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $40,666.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $30,500.00. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta 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. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a

Thursday, January 13, 2022 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 otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 21 de diciembre de 2021. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO #830, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

ÁNGEL LUIS HERNÁNDEZ NÚÑEZ T/C/C ÁNGEL HERNÁNDEZ NÚÑEZ T/C/C ÁNGEL L. HERNÁNDEZ NÚÑEZ, MILAGROS NIEVES BRUNO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2021CV02887.

(702). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA . EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A La Parte Demandada: MILAGROS NIEVES BRUNO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON ÁNGEL LUIS HERNÁNDEZ NÚÑEZ T/C/C ÁNGEL HERNÁNDEZ NÚÑEZ T/C/C ÁNGEL L. HERNÁNDEZ NÚÑEZ A SUS ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES CONOCIDAS: URB VILLA NUEVA, Y20 CALLE 19, CAGUAS, PR 00727-6946, URB VILLA NUEVA, Y20 CALLE 19, CAGUAS PR 00725, URB TURABO GDNS, R7-10 CALLE 34, CAGUAS, PR 00727-5921 Y 4118 S COUNTY ROAD 1226, UNIT 30 MIDLAND,

TX 79706-3612.

Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que se adeuda las siguientes cantidades: $105,689.78 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.5% anual desde el 1 de mayo de 2019 hasta su completo pago, más $634.90 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $14,489.90 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar número 20 de la manzana Y del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Villa Nueva, radicada en el Turabo del término municipal de Caguas, con una cabida superficial de Caguas, con una cabida superficial de 331.20 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE: en 13.80 metros con la calle número 19; por el SUR: en 13.80 metros, con el solar número 15; por el ESTE: en 24.00 metros, con el solar número 21; y por el OESTE: en 24.00 metros con el solar número 19. Contiene una casa de concreto reforzado y bloques de concreto. Inscrita al folio 192 del tomo 564 de Caguas, Finca 18454. Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 1697 de Caguas, Finca 18454. Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. Inscripción decimoquinta. La demandante es la tenedora por endoso en blanco, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la Parte Demandante, Lcda.

Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo Puerto Rico 009703922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, (787) 708-0566 correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su

contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 27 de diciembre de 2021, en Caguas, Puerto Rico. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN L. SOTO PLANAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ABBEY REO PR, CORP. Demandante V.

MARTA IVETTE QUILES ALGARÍN, HÉCTOR JUAN RIVERA ARROYO, SU ESPOSA ANA LUZ GALLARDO FERNÁNDEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2020CV02111.

(403). Sobre: cobro de dinero y EJECUCIÓN DE hipoteca.

AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, s.s. YO, el(la) Alguacil que suscribe, por la presente anuncia y hace constar, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia, expedido el 30 de marzo de 2021 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, quien pagará el importe de la venta en dinero efectivo o en cheque certificado o de gerente, a la orden del Alguacil suscribiente, en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, el día 8 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LA(S) 1:45 DE LA TARDE, en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Carolina, todo título, derecho o interés que corresponda a la parte demandada sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villa Fontana, situada en el Barrio Sábana Abajo de Carolina, marcado con el número 605 de la manzana 2-CR, con un área superficial de 249.41 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número 604, distancia de 21.65 metros; por el SUR, con el área de juego número 3, distancia de 21.65 metros; por el ESTE, con un paseo, distancia de 11.520 metros; y por el OESTE por la calle número 66-A, y un área de siembra, distancia de 11.520 metros. En dicho solar enclava una casa de concreto para una sola familia. Inscrita al folio 71 del tomo 246 de Carolina, finca número 9,426 (antes 18,368), Registro de la Propiedad, Sección I de Carolina. Dirección

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Física: 2CR-605, Vía 3 Street, Urb. Villa Fontana, Carolina, Puerto Rico. La propiedad descrita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Afecta por su procedencia: Autoridad de las Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico; Autoridad de Acueducto y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico; Puerto Rico Telephone Company; Municipio de Carolina; condiciones restrictivas de edificación. Por sí: HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de SANA MORTGAGE CORPORATION, o a su orden, por la suma de $198,750.00, con interés al 7¼%, y vencedero el 1 de mayo de 2010, según consta de la escritura #165, otorgada el día 14 de abril de 2005, ante la Notario Público Chearlene de León Guevara. Inscrita al folio 190 del tomo 977 de Carolina Norte, finca #9426, inscripción 7ma. Sustitución de Pagaré: DEMANDANTE: ABBEY REO PR CORP. vs. DEMANDADO: Marta Ivette Quiles Algarín; Fulano de Tal y Mengano del cual, se ordenó la sustitución del pagaré garantizado con la hipoteca que resulta de la inscripción 7ma, (Hipoteca a favor de Sana Mortgage Corporation, con un valor de $198,750.00, según inscripción 7) por haberse extraviado. Según consta de la escritura 124, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 17 de diciembre de 2019, ante el Notario Público José Alfredo Prats Cruz. Inscrito al tomo Karibe, nota marginal 7.1. Según pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca Número 116, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de abril de 2005, ante la Notario Público Charlene de León Guevara, servirá como tipo mínimo para la primera subasta de la propiedad antes descrita la suma de $198,750.00. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 15 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LA(S) 1:45 DE LA TARDE. El tipo mínimo para la segunda subasta será dos terceras partes (2/3) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, $132,500.00. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 23 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LA(S) 1:45 DE LA TARDE. El tipo mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo que se pactara para la primera subasta, o sea, $99,375.00. Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde alcance, el importe adeudado a Abbey REO pr, Corp., ascendente al 19 de enero de 2021 a las siguientes sumas: (i) $181,581.72 por concepto de principal, más (ii) $113,655.02 por concepto de intereses acumulados y no pagados, los

cuales continúan acumulándose a $36.57 per diem; más (iii) $5,594.81 de cargos por mora; más (iv) $3,730.00 por concepto de otros gastos; más (v) $19,875.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado pactados por las partes, según se desprende del Pagaré Hipotecario e Hipoteca.

La venta en pública subasta de la propiedad descrita anteriormente se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dicha propiedad. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si lo hubiera, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución, continuará subsistente, entendiéndose además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables. El Alguacil 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. POR LA PRESENTE, se les notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas registrales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrará la SUBASTA en la fecha, hora y sitio anteriormente señalados, y se les invita a que concurran a dicha subasta, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecutante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efectuar tal subrogación. Y PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta señalada. Además, en un periódico de circulación general en dos (2) ocasiones y mediante correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada. EXPEDIDO el presente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 30 de noviembre de 2021. Manuel Villafañe Blanco, ALGUACIL #830, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAROLINA.

POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; DEMANDADOS DESCONOCIDOS: “JOHN DOE”, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2021CV02974.

Sobre: 801. CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION; DORAL MORTGAGE LLC; DEMANDADOS DESCONOCIDOS: “JOHN DOE”, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO.

Por medio del presente edicto se les notifica la radicación de una Demanda Enmendada de Cancelación de Pagaré Extraviado en la que se solicita la cancelación del siguiente pagaré hipotecario, desconociéndose su paradero, luego de haber sido paga o en su totalidad: Hipoteca a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de Cuarenta y Dos Mil Cien Dólares ($42,100.00), con interés al Siete y medio por ciento (7-1/2%) anual, vencedero el día primero de junio de dos mil diecinueve (01/06/2019), constituido mediante la escritura número Doscientos Doce (212), otorgada el día (27) de mayo de (1994), ante el Notario Miguel A. Hernández Sanabria.

Inscripción Sexta de la Finca (32,109) de Caguas. La referida hipoteca grava el siguiente inmueble: “URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Veintiuno (21) deI Bloque “H” de la Urbanización Extensión San Antonio, situada en el barrio Bairoa de Caguas, con una cabida superficial de Trescientos Cincuenta y Cuatro (354.00) Metros Cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en catorce metros setenta y cinco centímetros (14.75 m.), con los Solares números Cinco (5) y Seis (6); por el SUR, en catorce metros setenta y cinco centímetros (14.75 m.), con la Calle número Siete (7); por el ESTE, en veinticuatro metros (24.00 m.), con el Solar número Veintidós (22); y por el OESTE, en veinticuatro metros (24.00 m.), con el Solar número Veinte (20). Enclava LEGAL NOTICE una casa residencial para una ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO familia”. lnscrita como inscrito DE PUERTO RICO EN EL TRI- a la Finca (32,109) de Caguas, BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN- Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera; CaCIA SALADE CAGUAS tastro Núm. (225-016-672-21HILDA ESTHER 001). La parte demandante soliLÓPEZ GONZÁLEZ cita del Honorable Tribunal que Demandante Vs. declare con lugar la demanda DORAL MORTGAGE enmendada y en su conseCORPORATION; DORAL cuencia ordene al Secretario MORTGAGE LLC; BANCO del Tribunal que expida Manda-

26 miento al Registrador de la Propiedad de Caguas, para que dicho funcionario proceda a cancelar en los libros a su cargo la referida hipoteca dejando la propiedad aquí descrita libre de dicho gravamen hipotecario.

Por el presente Edicto se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la Demanda enmendada radicando el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas y notificándole con copia de dicha contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante: Lcda. Beatriz Cay Vázquez RUA 18234 P.O. Box 1809 Caguas, Puerto Rico 00726-1809 Tel. (787) 731-0526 Email: beatrizcayvazquez@gmail.com apercibiéndoles que de no haber oposición dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto, podrá dictarse Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda Enmendada. POR ORDEN DEL TRIBUNAL, expido el presente Edicto en Caguas, Puerto Rico hoy día 3 de enero de 2022.

LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ORIENTAL BANK

Parte Demandante Vs.

JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE

Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV07080. Sala: 503.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS QUE SE DESIGNAN CON ESTOS NOMBRES FICTICIOS, QUE PUEDAN SER TENEDOR O TENEDORES, O PUEDAN TENER ALGÚN INTERÉS EN EL PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO A QUE SE HACE REFERENCIA MÁS ADELANTE EN EL PRESENTE EDICTO, QUÉ SE PUBLICARÁ UNA SOLA VEZ.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 de enero de 2022, 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

responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PMB 450, 400 Calle Calaf, San Juan, PR 00918-1314; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr.com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Urb. Paseo del Prado, E15 Calle 5, San Juan, PR 00926. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en Puerto Rico, hoy día LEGAL NOTICE 10 de diciembre de 2021. GriESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO selda rodriguez collado, secreDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- taria. Margarita muñiz méndez, NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA secretaria de servicios a sala.

SALA DE SAN JUAN

notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de enero de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 11 de enero de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ROSIMAR LÓPEZ ROBLES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

JUAN CARLOS CRUZ HERNANDEZ

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV06777.

(602). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JUAN CARLOS CRUZ HERNANDEZ.

POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio.

El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda.

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación

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LEGAL NOTICE

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE LAVINIA MORALES TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO LAVINIA ROBLES MORALES COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS WANDA BAEZ ROBLES, ANGELO BAEZ ROBLES, SHERLEY BAEZ ROBLES Y RAQUEL BAEZ ROBLES

Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2019CV02211.

(406). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESIÓN DE LAVINIA MORALES TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO LAVINIA ROBLES MORALES COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS WANDA BAEZ ROBLES, ANGELO BAEZ ROBLES, SHERLEY BAEZ ROBLES Y RAQUEL BAEZ ROBLES; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION SOBRE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES “CRIM”.

Yo, MANUEL MALDONADO, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al públi-

co en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 24 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 2:45 DE LA TARDE, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Ponce durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 3 DE MARZO DE 2022, A LAS 2:45 DE LA TARDE y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 10 DE MARZO DE 2022, A LAS 2:45 DE LA TARDE en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Uno (1) del Bloque “E” del Plano de Inscripción de la URBANIZACIÓN CANAS VBH guión Ochenta y Seis (VBH-86), radicado en el Barrio Canas del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de CIENTO SETENTA Y OCHO PUNTO OCHOCIENTOS SETENTA Y DOS (178.872) METROS CUADRADOS y con las siguientes colindancias: por el NORTE, en TRECE PUNTO CERO CERO (13.00) METROS, con la Calle número Dos (2) del referido plano; por el SUR, en DIECISÉIS PUNTO CINCUENTA (16.50) METROS, con el solar número Dos (2) del Bloque “E” del referido plano; por el ESTE, en ONCE PUNTO CERO CERO (11.00) METROS, con el solar número Quince (15) del Bloque “E” del referido plano; y por el OESTE, en SIETE PUNTO CINCUENTA (7.50) METROS y un arco con un largo de CINCO PUNTO CINCUENTA (5.50) METROS, con la Calle número Tres (3) del referido plano. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 62 vuelto del tomo 793 de Ponce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección Segunda, finca número 12,881, inscripción Tercera. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Canas, Solar 1, Bloque E (ahora 705) Los Hucares, Ponce, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $6,597.27 de principal, intereses al 7% anual, desde el día 1ro. de

diciembre de 2018, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $1,910.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $19,100.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $12,733.34 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $9,550.00. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta 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. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que 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 otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 27 de diciembre de 2021. MANUEL MALDONADO, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE.

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MIDFIRST BANK Demandante Vs.

LA SUCESION DE ORLANDO RIVERA CUADRADO COMPUESTA POR DIEGO ORLANDO RIVERA FELICIANO Y POR LEONARDO RIVERA FELICIANO Y POR SUS HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DENOMINADOS COMO FULANO Y SUTANA DE TAL; SUCESION DE YASHIRA WALESKA FELICIANO TORRES COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DENOMINADOS COMO FULANO Y SUTANA DE TAL; Y EL CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2019CV00247.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

A: LA SUCESION DE ORLANDO RIVERA CUADRADO COMPUESTA POR DIEGO ORLANDO RIVERA FELICIANO Y POR LEONARDO RIVERA FELICIANO Y POR SUS HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DENOMINADOS COMO FULANO Y SUTANA DE TAL; SUCESION DE YASHIRA WALESKA FELICIANO TORRES COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DENOMINADOS COMO FULANO Y SUTANA DE TAL; Y EL CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM), y aL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, hago constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada con fecha de 26 de agosto de 2021 y por edicto el 1 de septiembre de 2021 , de la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia emitida el 27 de octubre de 2021 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 28 de octubre de 2021, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número diez LEGAL NOTICE (10) del bloque cuatro “L” (4-L) ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO de la Urbanización Alturas de DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- Monte Brisas, localizado en el NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Barrio Quebrada Fajardo, del SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJAR-

municipio de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de trescientos treinta y ocho (338.0) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número once (11), en una longitud de veintiséis (26.0) metros; por el SUR, con el solar número nueve (9), en una longitud de veintiséis (26.0) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número cuarenta (40), en una longitud de trece (13.0) metros; y por el OESTE, con la calle número siete (7) en una longitud de trece (13.0) metros. Enclava edificación. FINCA NÚMERO: 11,525, inscrita al folio 70 tomo 278 de Fajardo, Registro de Fajardo. Esta hipoteca consta inscrita al folio #130 del tomo #460 de Fajardo, finca #11525, inscripción 5ta. La dirección física de la propiedad es: Urbanización Alturas de Monte Brisas, Calle 7 #4-L10, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la suma de $69,464.35 que compone la deuda del principal, más el interés anual de 7.00% sobre el balance del principal calculado desde el 1 de agosto de 2018, hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad. Los intereses continuaran devengándose hasta el pago total y completo de la deuda.

Los demandados adeudan los cargos por mora, equivalentes al 4.0% de todos los pagos atrasados más de 15 días de la fecha de vencimientos y los créditos adelantados hechos de acuerdo con el pagaré hipotecario y la escritura de hipoteca; además de una cantidad equivalente al 10% de la deuda principal expuesta en el pagaré hipotecario y la escritura de hipoteca, o $9,723.10 para cubrir las costas, gastos y horarios de abogados. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen POSTERIOR que afecte la mencionada finca. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 10 DE MARZO DE 2022 A LAS 3:30 DE LA TARDE, en la sala del referido Alguacil, sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA subasta es de $97,231.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 17 DE MARZO DE 2022, A LAS 3:30 DE LA TARDE, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA subasta será de $64,820.66 equivalente a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si no se produce remate ni adjudicación en le PRIMERA ni en la SEGUNDA subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA el día 25 DE MARZO DE 2022, A LAS 3:30 DE LA TARDE, en

la oficina antes mencionada del alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo fijado para esta TERCERA subasta es la mitad de la suma pactada para la PRIMERA subasta a saber $48,615.50. 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 subsistente.

Entendiéndose que el rematante lo acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. No constan inscrito en el Registro de la Propiedad acreedores que tengan derechos o cargas sobre el bien hipotecado con anterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante. Se les advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará el mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en moneda curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, entiéndase en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Tome conocimiento la parte demandada y toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando; y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general, se publicará dos (2) veces en un periódico de circulación diaria en la Isla de Puerto Rico y se fijará, además, en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a poner al licitador victorioso en posesión física de la propiedad dentro del plazo de veinte (20) días contados a partir de la venta en pública Subasta. Además, el Alguacil procederá a darle posesión del material al adjudicatario, en los casos que fuere necesario, proceda el lanzamiento del demandado o terceras personas de la propiedad subastada y forzar puertas o ventanas, romper cerraduras, candados, cortar cadenas y tomar cualquier otra medida propia. De igual forma, el Alguacil sacará cualquier propiedad mueble o personal de los demandados o de terceras personas que se encuentren en la mencionada propiedad. Además, los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables.

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 2 de noviembre de 2021. SHIRLEY SÁNCHEZ MARTÍNEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #161.

SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #737, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO.

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The reason every NFL playoff team will lose

By MIKE TANIER

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here are no nigh-unbeatable 1972 Miami Dolphins or 2007 New England Patriots in this year’s NFL playoff field.

Each team has at least one critical flaw. Opposing coaches have spent countless hours scouring game film and statistical breakdowns searching for those flaws. All you have to do is read the following capsules.

Arizona Cardinals The Cardinals fumbled (“aborted,” in NFL parlance) 17 center-quarterback snaps this season. Per Football Outsiders research, that’s the highest figure in at least the past 12 years.

Football players master the snap early in their Pop Warner careers, so learning that a playoff team botches an average of one per game is almost as stunning as discovering that players also occasionally get lost on the way to the stadium.

Buffalo Bills The Bills finished third in the league in points scored and first in fewest points allowed, in part because they played what several analysts determined was the NFL’s easiest schedule. The Bills went 9-2 this season against opponents that failed to reach the postseason, outscoring them 318-144.

The Bills went 2-4 against playoff-bound opponents, with a much more modest plus-10 score differential. The Bills are expected to face only playoff teams in the playoffs.

Cincinnati Bengals Joe Burrow endured a league-high 51 regular-season sacks. Poor blocking was partially to blame, but coach Zac Taylor’s game plans also appear to consist largely of: a) spreading the formation so the Bengals’ offensive line gets no help from tight ends or running backs; b) sending rookie receiver Ja’Marr Chase as far downfield as possible; c) hoping Burrow survives long enough to throw the ball to him.

Dallas Cowboys The Cowboys were penalized a leaguehigh 127 times in the regular season. They were also the beneficiaries of a league-high 121 penalties. Cowboys games are nearly unwatchable because they are often decided not by great offensive or defensive plays, but by 20-yard gains negated by holding fouls or 35-yard pass interference penalties when a defender nudges a receiver while chasing an off-target throw. That is more a flaw of the NFL’s officiating culture than it is the Cowboys, but it certainly is critical.

Tom Brady will be without a few of the Buccaneers’ top playmakers in the playoffs, with Chris Godwin’s injury and Antonio Brown’s departure leaving gaps in Tampa Bay’s receiving corps.

Green Bay Packers The Packers have the NFL’s worst special teams units. Opponents averaged a leaguehigh 12.8 yards per punt return against the Packers and 25.7 yards per kickoff return (seventh in the NFL), while veteran kicker Mason Crosby missed eight field goals from inside the 50-yard line.

The kicking game is completely outside quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ sphere of influence, of course, a fact he will be sure to remind us of if the Packers lose a playoff game on a punt return touchdown or missed extra point.

Kansas City Chiefs Kansas City committed 25 turnovers, tied with the Tennessee Titans for the highest total among playoff teams. Also, nearly every turnover the team coughs up is a Rube Goldbergian series of improbable coincidences: The intended receiver slips before Patrick Mahomes delivers a side-armed pass, the ball ricochets off the receiver’s helmet and the antlers of a gazelle grazing along the sideline before landing in the hands of a defender, who bobbles the ball directly into the hands of a teammate, who nearly runs

for a touchdown before being chased down by the gazelle or by the slightly faster Tyreek Hill.

Las Vegas Raiders It’s difficult to determine how the Raiders reached the playoffs, let alone which of their many flaws is the most critical.

Los Angeles Rams Matthew Stafford threw 17 interceptions this season, tied with Jacksonville Jaguars rookie Trevor Lawrence for the league lead. He threw five of those interceptions from inside the Rams’ 20-yard line. It’s as if every time Stafford sees that he needs to drive more than 80 yards for a touchdown, he flashes back to his 12 seasons of Detroit Lions purgatory and becomes overwhelmed with despair.

New England Patriots The Patriots’ offense is more of a family SUV than a sports car, and while rookie quarterback Mac Jones keeps his hands at 10 and 2 o’clock and signals before every turn, he’s not quite ready for rush hour on the turnpike. Jones’ efficiency rating on passes of 15-plus yards downfield of 58.4 ranks 27th among starting quarterbacks, per

Sports Info Solutions. Force the Patriots out of their running-and-defense game plan, and Jones looks more like another Zach Wilson than the next Tom Brady.

Philadelphia Eagles The Eagles are the league’s best rushing team, averaging an NFL-high 159.7 yards per game. Unfortunately, coach Nick Sirianni likes to express himself artistically at the goal line with lots of intricate passing concepts instead of just hammering the ball between the tackles. As a result, the Eagles scored touchdowns on only 69% of their regular-season goal-to-go opportunities.

Only the Cardinals had a lower success rate among playoff teams, perhaps because their signature goal-to-go play is a botched snap.

Pittsburgh Steelers Ben Roethlisberger, who is expected to retire at season’s end, now throws and runs like a great-uncle playing a pickup game at a backyard cookout after three IPAs and two helpings of potato salad, and the Steelers’ offense looks like archival footage of a 1928 Pottsville Maroons-Dayton Triangles game played in a vacant lot during a downpour.

San Francisco 49ers Even when Jimmy Garoppolo is healthy, his passes that travel more than 10 yards in the air have the trajectory, accuracy and velocity of a paper clip flung from a rubber band. He is currently dealing with a finger injury on his throwing hand, so coach Kyle Shanahan must either stretch the limits of nano-screen passing technology or give more opportunities to speedy, strong-armed rookie backup Trey Lance. The smart money, unfortunately and inexplicably, is on the nano-screens.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tom Brady will be without top playmakers Chris Godwin (ACL tear) and Antonio Brown (check Instagram) in the playoffs. Injuries and absences did not appear to hamper the Buccaneers in their final games, but Brady could have beaten the New York Jets and Carolina Panthers simply by swaggering onto the field and posing heroically.

Tennessee Titans Running back Derrick Henry’s imminent return from surgery on his broken foot is a mixed blessing, because the Titans may expect him to again rush 30 times per game, scan tickets at the stadium entrance and sing a halftime duet with Walker Hayes. Fortunately for Henry, the Titans earned a firstround playoff bye, giving him another week to soak his feet in Epsom salts, fancy-like.

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Giants fire coach Joe Judge

By KEN BELSON and VICTOR MATHER

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oe Judge of the New York Giants on Tuesday joined the growing list of NFL coaches who find themselves out of a job two days after the end of the regular season.

He joined Brian Flores of the Miami Dolphins, Matt Nagy of the Chicago Bears and Mike Zimmer of the Minnesota Vikings, who all were fired on the Monday after the end of the regular season, a perilous day to be a head coach. Vic Fangio of the Denver Broncos was dismissed Sunday.

Jon Gruden of the Las Vegas Raiders and Urban Meyer of the Jacksonville Jaguars left their posts earlier in the season.

The round of firings this year encompasses several organizational tear-downs, as the Bears and the Vikings also shed their general managers, and the Giants joined them after firing Judge and saying goodbye to general manager Dave Gettleman, who retired.

Joe Judge, New York Giants The Giants waited a day or two longer than other teams, but Tuesday they fired their coach for the third time in the past six years. Judge’s departure came a day after Gettleman stepped down.

While the team’s owners have traditionally valued stability, Judge’s 10-23 record in his two seasons was too much to ignore. The Giants lost their last six games this season, all by double-digit margins.

The Giants haven’t made the playoffs since the 2016 season and haven’t won a playoff game in a decade.

Gettleman deserved some of the blame for the Giants’ slide. He used the second overall draft pick in 2018 to select running back Saquon Barkley, who has battled injuries. He offered major contracts that backfired to offensive tackle Nate Solder and receivers Golden Tate and Kenny Golladay. He signed receiver Odell Beckham Jr. to a huge contract extension, making him the league’s highest-paid receiver, and then traded him to Cleveland for players — Jabrill Peppers, Dexter Lawrence and Oshane Ximines — who haven’t developed into stars.

“It is an understatement to say John and I are disappointed by the lack of success we have had on the field,” Steve Tisch, who co-owns the team with John Mara, said in a statement Tuesday.

Like other clubs, the Giants may focus first on finding a general manager before hiring Judge’s replacement.

Vic Fangio, Denver Broncos The Denver Broncos fired coach Vic Fangio after three losing seasons.

Fangio was dismissed a day after the Broncos lost to the Kansas City Chiefs, 2824, and finished in last place in the AFC West with a 7-10 record. The Broncos were in contention for a playoff spot heading into the last quarter of the season, thanks to one of the league’s top defenses, but then lost their last four games.

Denver has not made the postseason since their Super Bowl victory in the 2015 season. Fangio compiled a 19-30 record over three seasons.

The Broncos’ general manager, George Paton, who took over that job when John Elway moved to director of football operations in January 2021, will start looking for a new coach.

“George will have full authority to select the next head coach of the Broncos,” the team’s president and chief executive, Joe Ellis, said in a statement. “This is his decision and his program.”

There may also be turmoil in the owner’s box, too. The odds that the franchise will be sold this year rose after a judge in Arapahoe County, Colorado, dismissed a lawsuit that contested the will of former owner Pat Bowlen, who died in 2019.

Whoever takes over the team’s front office will inherit several top offensive weapons, including receiver Jerry Jeudy and tight end Noah Fant, and several top defenders, including safety Justin Simmons and linebacker Bradley Chubb. The team also has five picks in the first three rounds of the coming draft.

Brian Flores, Miami Dolphins In a surprising move, the Dolphins dismissed Brian Flores on Monday despite a 9-8 season and a seven-game winning streak that nearly vaulted Miami into the playoffs.

In his three seasons as head coach, Flores held a 4-2 record against the division-rival New England Patriots and Bill Belichick, his mentor over his decade as an assistant there.

The Dolphins’ winning record in the 2021 season, like last year’s 10-6 finish, was not enough to get them in the playoffs, an absence that has stretched to five years.

“I determined the key dynamics of our football operation weren’t functioning at a level I want it to be and felt that this decision was in the best interest of the Miami Dolphins,” team owner Stephen Ross said in a statement. “I believe we have a talented

The Giants lost their last six games this season, all by double-digit margins, under Coach Joe Judge. young roster in place and have the opportunity to be much better in 2022.”

Flores finished with a combined record of 24-25 after three seasons in his first head coach job. The team announced that it would retain general manager Chris Grier.

Matt Nagy, Chicago Bears The Bears dismissed coach Matt Nagy and general manager Ryan Pace on Monday.

Nagy had a spectacular debut in 2018, as the Bears finished 12-4 and made the playoffs for the first time in eight years, earning him the Coach of the Year Award. But two 8-8 seasons and a 6-11 season followed.

His tenure ends with a 34-31 overall record.

Pace was at the club for seven seasons.

He hired John Fox (14-34) and Nagy as head coaches and drafted quarterback Mitchell Trubisky (over Patrick Mahomes) in 2017.

Although Nagy had been the offensive coordinator at Kansas City, the Bears never

developed a strong offense behind Trubisky.

They turned to Andy Dalton and rookie Justin Fields this season with mostly poor results.

Mike Zimmer, Minnesota Vikings The Vikings fired coach Mike Zimmer and general manager Rick Spielman on Monday.

“It is time for new leadership to elevate our team so we can consistently contend for championships,” the team said in a statement. The Vikings have not made a Super Bowl since the 1976 season and have never won an NFL title.

Zimmer was head coach for eight seasons, including three playoff appearances.

The high-water mark was a 13-3 season in 2017 and a trip to the NFC championship.

But the team was 7-9 and 8-9 the past two seasons. Zimmer finishes his tenure with a record of 72-56-1.

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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

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(Mar 21-April 20)

If you’ve been in two minds about an agreement or accepting an offer, then you may be no closer to knowing what you should do. As Venus continues to rewind and Mercury goes into reverse this week, bide your time if you can. Besides, fresh options might come to light that could be even better for you.

If you have no option but to go ahead, then be sure you have a get out clause.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Has someone changed their mind regarding a plan or proposition? Don’t let it worry you Libra, as things might turn out better for you. Go with the flow and listen to your intuition, as you’ll then be in the frame of mind to make use of any opportunities and developments. With Mercury slowing down prior to turning retrograde in a couple of days, be prepared for all eventualities.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

Are old beliefs holding you back? While they may have supported you at one time, it might be time to substitute them for a more life-enhancing mindset.

Think about what you want to accomplish, and the kind of person you would need to be to achieve your goals. How would such a person think and act? The answer to this could lead you to make gradual, but positive changes.

If someone you know is going through a crisis, then a chat could help. And if you can uncover the source of their discomfort, a solution may be possible.

Will they listen? They might if a suggestion hits the right note and leaves them feeling empowered. It’s also possible they need time and space to themselves to tackle this on their own terms, and find answers themselves.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

Even if there is an unsettled feeling to the day ahead, the steady focus of the Taurus Moon and its links, can help you take it all in your stride. Although others may be eager for you to be somewhere, do something or make a decision, just go at your pace.

Life might be all the more enjoyable Cancer, if you ignore their pleas and do things in your own time and your own way.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

If you find yourself running in circles, it may be because your schedule has gone awry, Scorpio. With Venus continuing in her retro phase and Mercury preparing to rewind, accept that there will be delays and frustrations to deal with. Learning to go with the flow rather than trying too hard can be helpful. Yet disruption isn’t all bad. It could lead to new opportunities and developments.

Trust that intuitive nudge Archer, especially if it encourages you to invest in something that might be good for you. This could range from a practical item to a small treat that leaves you upbeat, and gives you the boost you need, especially if you’ve been working hard. At the same time, if you find yourself yearning or fantasizing about something too much, hold back a while.

Although an awkward issue with someone may be far from over, you could be beginning to make headway. It might not seem much, but if you persevere then the distance you cover can lengthen, and before you know it you may be on the verge of reaching an agreement. Stay steady though and stick to your principals, as with Neptune in the mix you could be swayed off course.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

Although you now have an excellent opportunity to showcase your creative abilities, it’s also a good time to improve on them if you wish to. You may be aware of others who are extremely talented, which could push you to try even harder. Is this justified though, Leo? Absolutely! You might find that competition spurs you on to do some of your best work. You won’t look back!

You could either resist a situation or find a way to embrace it. Your initial urge may be to put up a mental barrier and steer clear of it, Aquarius. This won’t change anything though, whereas embracing it just might. If you can be open to whatever feelings it brings up and let them be, you could feel a release of tension immediately. Gently persist, and it may not bother you anymore.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

Have a deadline to deal with? Getting anxious won’t help, whereas taking a moment to map out a plan of action could be the best option. Taking your time Virgo, can allow you to work faster and perhaps do a better job. You might also question certain beliefs that are preventing you from moving forward. You know you have potential, and a shift in mindset may help you do so.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Those in authority may expect more of you than they do of others. Rather than see this as a liability, see it as a compliment. Indeed, with go-getter Mars at the top of your chart boosting your own authority, realize that it’s because you’re very talented and have so much to give. And you’ll be in a good position to advise others, should they want a few tips and tricks, Pisces.

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