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Oversight board to gov’t: Proposed fiscal plan needs further revision

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he Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico informed the island government recently of violations contained in its proposed version of a fiscal plan, which is the blueprint for Puerto Rico’s economic path.

The oversight board asked the government recently for updates to the fiscal plan as it awaits the confirmation of the debt adjustment plan.

The board said the importance of the fiscal plan that it intends to certify in the coming weeks cannot be overstated.

“Pending [federal] Judge [Laura Taylor] Swain’s ruling on the confirmation plan for the central government debt restructuring, it appears likely that the end of the Commonwealth’s bankruptcy is on the horizon,” wrote Natalie Jaresko, the executive director of the oversight board. “The Board has worked with the Government and numerous stakeholders for over five years to bring about this moment.

The Plan of Adjustment, if confirmed, will substantially reduce the cost of the Commonwealth’s debt service and provide the opportunity for a fresh start.”

To take advantage of the moment, she said, the government will need to redouble its efforts to ensure fiscal responsibility and manage its resources carefully for the benefit of the people of Puerto Rico. This includes making prudent spending and investment decisions to meet current needs and reach future goals, while also prioritizing resources needed to fulfill commitments made to provide retirement benefits to public sector workers.

She noted that the proposed plan forecasts significantly increased federal funds as a result of recent guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services making incremental general funds available, along with incremental local resources due to an improved national and global economic outlook since the last fiscal plan was certified.

The proposed plan then outlines a number of new spending priorities, some of which are one-time while others are recurring in nature.

“While some of the new spending priorities have merit, taken as a whole the Proposed Plan does not adequately consider whether those expenditures are affordable, and fails to set aside, on a priority basis, sufficient resources to meet the Commonwealth’s obligation to current and future retirees,” Jaresko said.

In order for the oversight board to fully consider the government’s requests, the board required revisions that follow several critical themes: The first is that the government must prioritize obligations to current and future retirees: the Plan of Adjustment

provides a mechanism to set aside resources to fund the commonwealth’s pension obligations. While most states have set aside resources equivalent to 70+% of pension liabilities, the government of Puerto Rico has nothing set aside at this time. “In order to bring the commonwealth in line only with the bottom decile of states,” Jaresko said, “please revise the Proposed Plan so that the pension trust targets a 50% funding ratio by 2031.”

Second, she said the government must create a fiscally responsible post-bankruptcy roadmap: the government must establish fiscal responsibility by implementing a properly structured and empowered office that pursues financial reporting, resource management, and planning objectives.

She also said the government must invest in operational capacity to improve government service delivery.

“We recognize the need to adjust compensation structures to ensure the Commonwealth has competitive, fair and justified salaries. Although a Uniform Classification and Compensation Plan (URP) establishes a uniform role and pay structure for its employees, a URP alone will not lead to a long-overdue transformation of the civil service in Puerto Rico,” Jaresko said. “The proposed Fiscal Plan should include a comprehensive plan based on the implemented pilot project that will improve the civil service including evaluations, recruitment, and organizational restructuring.

To address the urgency with compensation structures we agree with the Government on implementation of the URP for included employees in FY 2023.”

However, the effective date of the URP implementation should be January 2023, pending compliance with civil service reform milestones, she added.

Financial Oversight and Management Board Executive Director Natalie Jaresko

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UPR to open in remote mode due to COVID-19 rebound

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he University of Puerto Rico (UPR) will begin the semester in the remote mode due to the rebound in COVID-19 cases, as announced by UPR Interim President Dr. Mayra Olavarría Cruz.

“We must be cautious and make decisions based on scientific evidence to protect our students and the entire university community,” Olavarría Cruz said in a written statement. “We will keep evaluating the development of the situation and, in accordance with the recommendations provided by health experts, the executive and administrative orders issued by the government, any change or update in the determinations will be announced.”

The official added that the decision “We must be cautious and make decisions based on scientific evidence to protect our students and the entire university community,” was made with the advice of epidemiolo- UPR Interim President Mayra Olavarría Cruz said. gist Dr. David Capó Ramos.

“Our wish is to have a semester in subject, we will transition to it,” Olavarría she instructed the chancellors to convene the university community. face-to-face mode, so as soon as the Cruz said. the dialogue committees on their respecMeanwhile, the teleworking modality rebound begins to decline, and with the As part of the work plan for the begin- tive campuses to listen to and handle the was extended throughout the university recommendation of the experts on the ning of the semester, Olavarría Cruz said concerns and suggestions of all sectors of system until Jan. 21.

Gov’t bank balance registers close to a percentage point drop

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otal government bank accounts reached $25.2 billion as of Nov. 30, 2021 but that number was a 0.9% decrease from the balance recorded the month before.

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The information is contained in a report from the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority published Dec. 30.

The filing was an unaudited summary of bank account balances.

The report shows accounts decreased by $228 million from $25.43 billion recorded in October.

The difference was the result of, first, a $25 million increase in accounts restricted by theTitle III proceedings, and a $13 million increase in pension-related funds.

However, there was a $151 million decrease in the non-Treasury Single Accounts (TSA), an $84 million decrease in public corporations and a $30 million decrease in central government TSA accounts.

The liquidity of the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority, which is one of the entities in bankruptcy, decreased to $255.4 million as of Nov. 30 from $259 million in October.

The bank account balance of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, which is also in bankruptcy, went up to $1.34 billion in November, from $1.31 billion in October.

The Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation’s (COFINA by its Spanish acronym) account balance decreased to $21.5 million in November, from $21.6

million in October, the report showed.

The Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority increased its balances to $852 million in November from $839 million in October, and the University of Puerto Rico increased its balances to $415.7 million in November from $397.3 million the previous month.

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Lawmaker dismisses explanations for botched year-end broadcast

An island lawmaker called the botched New Year’s Eve broadcast “the laughingstock of modern television history.”

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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he majority leader in the island House of Representatives, Ángel Matos García, described as false excuses the explanations made by the Convention District Authority for what he said was the worldwide fiasco involving the New Year’s broadcast, which was cut off just before midnight on Friday.

“In a document filed with the House of Representatives, the firm that produced the

New Year’s event dissociated itself from the Government’s lies, since clearly the Convention District knowingly [contracted] for the broadcast to end at 11:59 p.m. on December 31, 2021,” Matos García, a Carolina lawmaker, said in a written statement. “This is demonstrated by page 3 of the response document from the producer of the Dick Clark New Year celebration event.”

The contract with the Convention District states “One (1) video package segment featuring or recapping the countdown to midnight in the Spanish language which will take place at or around the Venue at 11:59 p.m. Atlantic Standard Time and which will be incorporated in the Program after 11:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) but before 11:59 p.m. EST.” “It is shameful to see how the country’s press is now being lied to, saying that they are going to investigate what they knowingly signed,” the politician said. “In addition, people present at the event and people linked to the production posted on social networks [about

the situation] and the lack of controls on the broadcast floor, where people accessed the talent for photos and autographs causing a delay in the broadcast where the year-end moment was cut off abruptly. It is a shame that federal funds are put at risk for a mixup by friends and government politicians, for an event that … ends up being the laughingstock of modern television history, as the most important moment in the farewell to the year is not broadcast.”

Meanwhile, Edward Zayas, the chief strategy officer of Discover Puerto Rico, said of the events celebrating the end of 2021: “The investment in the end-of-the-year events paid off before [New Year’s Eve].”

“As of the morning of December 31, Puerto Rico had received, due to advertisements and reviews in the media announcing the event, over $30 million in advertising value,” Zayas said. “This figure far exceeds the investment of $4.4 million to put on the event, which was broadcast on the Telemundo network in

Puerto Rico, and on ABC in the United States.

And that figure doesn’t count the impact the broadcasts themselves had on the night of the event. We anticipate having that information in the next few days.”

Similarly, Discover Puerto Rico held talks with the CNN network to facilitate additional broadcasts from Puerto Rico on the occasion of the end of the year, Zayas said. Discover Puerto Rico staff accompanied CNN correspondents during their stay in Puerto Rico and assisted in their broadcasts. Discover Puerto Rico is working with the Convention District and the various components of the end-of-year effort gathering information on the impact of the event for the benefit of Puerto Rico tourism, he said.

“Once we have that information we will make it public,” Zayas said. “Meanwhile, Discover Puerto Rico vigorously rejects attempts to politicize the event in contempt of the enormous number of people who worked hard to expose Puerto Rico to the world and improve the country’s economy through tourism.”

Governor applies pocket veto, preserving Rosselló’s security detail

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia on Monday applied a “pocket veto” to a bill that would have eliminated bodyguards for former Gov. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman

Orlando Aponte Rosario lamented the lack of action by the governor, according to local press reports.

A pocket veto occurs when a governor simply desists from taking action before the end of a legislative session.

The Legislature is free to reconsider the bill in subsequent legislative sessions.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Orlando Aponte Rosario

‘In the Heights’ in Caguas canceled due to virus surge

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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he staging of “In the Heights” in Caguas was officially canceled Monday following executive orders issued recently by Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia in response to the dramatic increase in COVID-19 cases on the island.

The entertainment industry is once again being impacted by the new changes. The musical was scheduled

“In the Heights,” created by actor-playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda, appeared at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in September 2021 with nine performances attended by some 28,000 people.

to go on stage at the Centro de Bellas Artes de Caguas on Jan. 22 and Jan. 23.

Producer Ender Vega stated that “we have exhausted all efforts looking for options to continue, but unfortunately we find ourselves with our hands tied.”

“With these new restrictions and measures it is impossible for us to move forward,” he said. “It is a pity that we have not been able to close the cycle of presentations of this incredible piece composed by a talented cast and offer them the experience in the theater space, where the piece was born and originally would be presented.”

The new regulations establish the cancellation, and the holding of any mass activity that brings together more than 250 people (OE -2021-086) is prohibited. Prior to this, it was established to reduce the venue capacity to 50 percent (OE-2021-085), plus any person who attended an event would have to present a negative coronavirus

test taken in the past 48 hours, in addition to evidence of complete vaccination (OE-2021-080).

Likewise, the producer emphasized that “although we see how the entertainment industry continues to be affected, at BAS Entertainment we are committed and continue working to offer good entertainment of the highest quality during this 2022.”

Ticketera will soon be sending emails to people who have purchased tickets confirming the return of their money.

“In the Heights,” the acclaimed piece created by actor and playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda, managed to appear at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in September 2021 with nine successful performances, which were enjoyed by some 28,000 people, making history by being the first musical work to be presented in the venue after several changes of dates as a result of the pandemic.

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CODEPOLA president provides eyewitness account of Salinas restaurant shooting

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riel Torres Meléndez, president of the Corporation for the Defense of Gun License Holders of Puerto Rico (CODEPOLA by its Spanish acronym), said the shooting that occurred on Saturday at the Puerta al Sol Restaurant in Salinas “was not a shooting, but a direct attack by the owner of the premises against a customer.”

“We were at the scene to corroborate the events. We maintain that the events did not occur as described by the local press,” Torres Meléndez said. “Among the people involved in the incident there are two members of CODEPOLA, and the third victim is a friend of those who accompanied them to dine at the place.”

Part of an investigation by CODEPOLA was carried out in person at the scene of the events, before witnesses, Torres Meléndez said. The group also conducted interviews at the medical facilities where the victims were taken, he said.

“Our investigation shows that three people were hanging out in the bar of the aforementioned business, when the owner of the restaurant, who in turn is a lieutenant of the Puerto Rico Police attached to the Canine Unit, uttered obscene words in front of employees and diners. Then he approached one of the injured and knocked over his drink,” Torres Meléndez said. “When the gentleman got up and cleaned his shirt, the lieutenant drew his regulation weapon and shot him in the groin without a word. After this, he proceeded to strike another of the companions in the face with his regulation weapon. Then he went back to where the bullet-wounded person was on the floor and continued hitting him.”

During the investigation process, several officers from

Ariel Torres Meléndez, president of the Corporation for the Defense of Gun License Holders of Puerto Rico the Special Investigations Bureau (NIE by its Spanish initials) came to the scene and took control of the investigation. Meanwhile, restaurant employees went to the hospital in a show of solidarity and support for the injured victims and stated that what happened “was not their fault,” Torres Meléndez said They said they were surprised by the behavior of their boss and that “the extreme reaction of the owner cannot be explained,” he said.

However, police colleagues from the Salinas District told the families of the injured that “they had previously had to intervene with the lieutenant due to his character and

aggressiveness,” Torres Meléndez said. “Former Puerto Rico Police officers describe him as ‘trigger happy,’” he added.

Torres Meléndez said the injured parties are requesting that the NIE immediately take possession of the hard disk of the security system recordings from inside and outside the establishment so they can have evidence of everything that happened and prove their innocence, since they fear that because the aggressor is a policeman, witnesses may feel intimidated.

Torres Meléndez said that during the early morning hours, “the investigation mysteriously took another turn and the arrested detainees were released with their respective blows and bruises on their faces and bodies.

“One of the victims is still in the Hospital Menonita de Guayama due to the gunshot wound, and not in the Medical Center in Río Piedras, as originally reported in the news media,” he said.

The CODEPOLA president said he trusts that the investigation will be carried out with integrity and speed by the NIE, and the justice secretary and district attorneys to whom the case was assigned.

“If my clients acted badly, we will assume the consequences, but if everything points to the preliminary reports that we have in the investigation, we will be looking at the process of filing charges,” Torres Meléndez said. “I have given instructions for our colleagues to be assisted by [attorney] Roxanna I. Soto Aguilú … and to see to it that their rights are protected. It was recommended that the third victim go to her primary doctor, have herself examine and document medical evidence regarding the beatings she received in the incident.”

Maximum capacity of public at sporting events capped at 250

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ecreation and Sports Secretary Ray Quiñones Vázquez issued administrative memo 2022-001 on Monday, which limits the maximum capacity of the public at sporting and recreational events to 250 people.

“Once again, we continue to make the necessary efforts to stop the spread of this virus,” Quiñones Vázquez said in a written statement. “I know that our sports community will continue to cooperate in the faithful fulfillment of these guidelines so that we can return to the stands as soon as possible.”

The document — which will be effective from today, Jan. 4 to Tuesday, Jan. 18 — establishes that the capacity of 50 percent occupancy in closed spaces and 75 percent in outdoor facilities remains in force as long as occupancy does not exceed 250 participants.

Likewise, closure is ordered during the hours from 12 midnight to 5 a.m. of all private operations that serve

From today until Jan. 18, the maximum capacity for attendance at sporting and recreational events in Puerto Rico is 250 people. the public. This includes but is not limited to those venues used for recreation or entertainment and sports, among others.

Meanwhile, the provision remains in place that

“attendees must present evidence of completed vaccination, or a negative result from a qualified viral test for COVID-19 carried out within a maximum term of 48 hours prior to the activity.”

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Child tax credit’s extra help ends, just as COVID surges anew

By BEN CASSELMAN

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or millions of American families with children, the 15th of the month took on a special significance in 2021: It was the day they received their monthly child benefit, part of the Biden administration’s response to the pandemic.

The payments, which started in July and amounted to hundreds of dollars a month for most families, have helped millions of American families pay for food, rent and child care; kept millions of children out of poverty; and injected billions of dollars into the U.S. economy, according to government data and independent research.

Now, the benefit — an expansion of the existing child tax credit — is ending, just as the latest wave of coronavirus cases is keeping people home from work and threatening to set off a new round of furloughs.

Economists warn that the one-two punch of expiring aid and rising cases could put a chill on the once red-hot economic recovery and cause severe hardship for millions of families already living close to the poverty line.

“It’s going to be hard next month, and just thinking about it, it really makes me want to bite my nails to the quick,” said Anna Lara, a mother of two young children in Huntington, West Virginia. “Honestly, it’s going to be scary. It’s going to be hard going back to not having it.”

Lara, 32, lost her job in the pandemic, and with the cost of child care rising, she has not been able to return to work. Her partner kept his job, but the child benefit helped the couple make ends meet at a time of reduced income and rising prices.

“Your children watch you, and if you worry, they catch on to that,” she said. “With that extra cushion, we didn’t have to worry all the time.”

Unlike most other programs created in response to the pandemic, the child benefit was never intended to be temporary, at least according to many of its backers.

Congress approved it for a single year as part of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, but many progressives hoped that the payments, once started, would prove too popular to stop.

That didn’t happen. Polls found the public roughly divided over whether the program should be extended, with opinions splitting along partisan and generational lines. And the expanded tax credit failed to win over the individual whose opinion mattered most: Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who cited concerns over the cost and structure of the program in his decision to oppose President Joe Biden’s climate, tax and social policy bill. The bill, known as the Build Back Better Act, cannot proceed in the evenly divided Senate without Manchin’s support.

To supporters of the child benefit, the failure to extend it is especially frustrating because, according to most analyses, the program itself has been a remarkable

People wait in line at a COVID-19 testing site in Atlanta, Dec. 31, 2021. The child tax credit, a coronavirus pandemic benefit that many progressives hoped to make permanent, has lapsed in a congressional standoff. Researchers say it spared many from poverty. success. Researchers at Columbia University estimate that the payments kept 3.8 million children out of poverty in November, a nearly 30% reduction in the child poverty rate. Other studies have found that the benefit reduced hunger, lowered financial stress among recipients and increased overall consumer spending, especially in rural states that received the most money per capita.

“What we’ve seen with the child tax credit is a policy success story that was unfolding, but it’s a success story that we risk stopping in its tracks just as it was getting started,” said Megan Curran, director of policy at Columbia’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy. “The weight of the evidence is clear here in terms of what the policy is doing. It’s reducing child poverty and food insufficiency.”

But the expanded tax credit doesn’t just go to the poor. Couples earning as much as $150,000 a year could receive the full $3,600 benefit — $3,000 for children 6 and older — and even wealthier families qualify for the original $2,000 credit. Critics of the policy, including Manchin, have argued that it makes little sense to provide aid to relatively well-off families. Many supporters of the credit say they’d happily limit its availability to wealthier households in return for maintaining it for poorer ones.

Manchin has also publicly questioned the wisdom of unconditional cash payments and has privately voiced concerns that recipients could spend the money on opioids, comments that were first reported by The Wall Street Journal and confirmed by a person familiar with the discussion. But a survey conducted by the Census Bureau found that most recipients used the money to buy food, clothing or other necessities, and many saved

some of the money or paid down debt. Other surveys have found similar results.

For one of Manchin’s constituents, Lara, the first monthly check last year arrived at an opportune moment.

Her dishwasher had broken days earlier, and the $550 a month that she and her family received from the federal government meant they could replace it.

Lara, who has a 6-year-old daughter and a 3-yearold son and whose partner earns about $40,000 a year, said the family had long lived “right on the edge of need” — not poor but never able to save enough to withstand more than a modest setback.

The monthly child benefit, she said, let them step a bit further back from the edge. It allowed her to get new shoes and a new car seat for her daughter, stock up on laundry detergent when she found it on sale and fix the brakes on her car.

“None of the dash lights are on, which is amazing,” she said.

Some researchers have questioned the policy’s effectiveness, particularly over the long term. Bruce D. Meyer, an economist at the University of Chicago who studies poverty, said that whatever the merits of direct cash payments at the height of the pandemicinduced disruptions, a permanent policy of providing unconditional cash to parents could have unintended consequences. He and several co-authors recently published a working paper finding that the child benefit could discourage people from working, in part because it eliminated the work incentives built into the previous version of the tax credit.

Some Republican critics of the expanded child tax credit, including Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, have argued that it has essentially done too much to increase spending — that by giving people more money to spend when the supply chain is already strained, the government is contributing to faster inflation.

But many economists are skeptical that the tax credit has played much of a role in causing high inflation, in part because it is small compared with both the economy and the earlier rounds of aid distributed during the pandemic.

“That’s a noninflationary program,” said Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at accounting firm RSM. “That’s dedicated toward necessities, not luxuries.”

For those receiving the benefit, inflation is an argument for maintaining it. Lara said she had noticed prices going up for groceries, utilities and especially gas, stretching her budget even thinner.

“Right now, both of my vehicles need gas, and I can’t put gas in the car,” she said. “But it’s OK, because I’ve got groceries in the house, and the kids can play outside.”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

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US judge blocks vaccine mandate for Head Start program

By ANNA P. KAMBHAMPATY

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federal judge in Louisiana has blocked for now the White House’s requirement that all workers in the Head Start early education program be vaccinated.

The preliminary injunction, issued Saturday by U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, also halts a mask requirement for students aged 2 or older who are in close contact with other people or indoors.

The ruling was brought to Doughty by 24 states that sued Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. Head

Start is a federal program for young children from low-income families that offers early educational and child development support services.

In September, President Joe Biden released his “Path out of the Pandemic” six-part COVID action plan, which called for teachers and staff of Head Start and Early Head Start programs to be fully vaccinated against COVID by the end of January. Staff of schools operated by the Department of Defense and Bureau of Indian Education were also required to be vaccinated.

“These schools and programs collec-

tively serve more than 1 million children each year and employ nearly 300,000 staff,” the president’s plan read.

Doughty cited a violation of separation of powers in his ruling.

“The issue in this case is not whether individuals should take the Covid-19 vaccine, but whether federal agencies can mandate individuals to take a vaccine or be fired,” he wrote. “If the executive branch is allowed to usurp the power of the legislative branch to make laws, then this country is no longer a democracy — it is a monarchy.”

It wasn’t clear if the White House

would fight the injunction, but the Supreme Court has recently upheld vaccine mandates for New York health care workers, Indiana University and air travel.

In November, Doughty, who was nominated to the court in 2017 by thenPresident Donald Trump, also blocked Biden’s national vaccine mandate for health care workers. The Biden administration appealed that decision.

White House officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Many Republican lawmakers, including the attorneys general of Arizona and Alabama, praised the injunction.

Fauci: Hospitalization rates will be true test of omicron

By GINA KOLATA

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he nation should focus less on the skyrocketing number of coronavirus infections and more on the number of hospitalizations and deaths, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”

A seven-day daily average of just under 387,000 cases was being reported nationally, a 202% increase over the past two weeks, according to a New York Times database. Hospitalizations were up only 30%, however, to an average of 90,000 a day, while deaths had dropped 4% to an average of 1,240 daily.

Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, noted that many new infections, especially in people who are vaccinated and boosted, result in no symptoms or mild symptoms, making the absolute number of cases less important than they were for previous versions of the virus.

“As you get further on and the infections become less severe, it is much more relevant to focus on the hospitalizations as opposed to the total number of cases,” Fauci said.

That advice is in keeping with what many public health researchers have said all along. Despite the daily drumbeat of case counts, the number of positive tests has never been a perfect indicator of the

course of the epidemic.

The number of tests has exploded because the omicron variant seems to be much more contagious than delta or other earlier variants and more people are getting tested for mild symptoms.

What’s more, the official numbers are almost certainly an undercount, because many people are testing positive on rapid at-home tests or carrying the virus without any symptoms.

Yet, as Fauci told Stephanopoulos, the concern is not so much the mild or asymptomatic cases being picked up with widespread testing as it is the number of people with severe or fatal infections.

“The real bottom line that you want to be concerned about,” he said, “is are we getting protected by the vaccines from severe disease leading to hospitalization?”

So far, vaccines and boosters appear to be providing that protection. But the unvaccinated remain at risk.

“I’m still very concerned about the tens of millions of people who are not vaccinated at all because even though many of them are going to get asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic, a fair number of them are going to get severe disease,” Fauci said.

Also, even if omicron is milder, as most evidence suggests, a higher caseload means more health care work-

ers who can’t work because they test positive as well as more chances that people could get sick enough to require medical care.

“We have got to be careful about that, because, even if you have a less of a percentage of severity, when you have multi-multi-multi-fold more people getting infected, the net amount is you’re still going to get a lot of people that are going to be needing hospitalization,” he said.

Fauci also said that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be reconsidering its guidelines for people who test positive for the coronavirus. The guidelines as of now do not require a negative test before people venture out after five days of isolation. But Fauci suggested that the agency may soon revise these guidelines to include testing.

“I think we’re going to be hearing more about that in the next day or so from the CDC,” he said.

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci last week during a virtual meeting with President Biden and other members of the White House COVID-19 Response Team.

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Colorado wildfires: What we know

By MIKE IVES and ALYSSA LUKPAT

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he Colorado wildfires that swept through suburban areas near Denver on Thursday may have been the most damaging in the state’s history, as they burned roughly 1,000 homes and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents.

Here’s what we knew as of Sunday: How and why did the fires spread?

The fires began Thursday morning and spread with astonishing speed across suburban neighborhoods in Boulder County. Authorities said around 6,200 acres were burned.

Sheriff Joe Pelle of Boulder County said Thursday that he believed the fires had been started by downed power lines.

However, investigators have not found any evidence of that.

The sheriff on Saturday said that authorities had executed a search warrant “on one particular location where we’re investigating,” but added, “I don’t have probable cause to understand what caused it.”

While wildfires usually occur in Colorado’s mountainous region, far from where most of its residents live, the

Marshall fire attacked drought-stricken suburban neighborhoods instead.

The wildfires came unusually late in the year for Colorado, where severe drought conditions in recent months have set the stage for such blazes to spread with ease.

A state of emergency was declared.

The fires Thursday burned around 1,000 homes, a shopping complex and a hotel, authorities said.

No deaths or major injuries had been reported as of Sunday, but Pelle said three people had been reported missing. One had been found alive, but authorities were still searching for the other two: a woman from Superior and a man from an area near Marshall. The search efforts were hampered by debris and snow, the sheriff said.

For many residents whose homes were spared, life has not returned to normal. Around 1,600 households remained without power Sunday, according to Xcel Energy in Colorado, the local provider.

Some have likened the damage from the fires to that of the 2013 Black Forest fire, at the time the most destructive in Colorado’s history. That fire

destroyed roughly half as many homes as the one Thursday, but it killed two people.

Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday declared a state of emergency, a decision that allows the state to tap emergency funds and to deploy the Colorado National Guard and other resources. He called the fires a “force of nature.”

The Boulder area was hit with high winds, then fires, then snow.

First came the powerful winds, including gusts of nearly 110 mph, which fanned the wildfires.

The winds came two weeks after a powerful storm system generated dust

clouds in Colorado and other extreme weather across the Midwest.

Just two days after they fled a firestorm, many residents Saturday slogged back through snow to their damaged homes. Nearly 1 foot of snow and single-digit temperatures added new items to their list of woes: frozen pipes and water damage.

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Authorities have said it will take years to rebuild from the wildfires. Garry Sanfaçon, Boulder County’s disaster recovery manager, said the state was not done rebuilding from a disastrous flood that took place nine years ago.

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What we learned about the economy in 2021

By NEIL IRWIN

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or people who study the vicissitudes of the economy, 2021 was the most interesting year of the 2000s.

It was not the most dramatic (that would be 2008 or 2020), and neither the best (2000 or 2019) nor the worst (2009). Rather, it was a year in which economic dynamics that had seemed entrenched for decades came apart or changed in fundamental ways. Workers attained the upper hand over employers; supply chains broke; inflation surged; and the economy rebuilt itself from its depressed pandemic levels with astounding speed.

In contrast to the last economic cycle, the government tried overheating the economy for once. For better and worse, it succeeded.

The unemployment rate, 6.7% in December 2020, fell to 4.2% 11 months later. That same shift took 3 1/2 years in the last expansion, from March 2014 to September 2017.

But the flip side has been soaring prices and many goods in short supply. Inflation has reached its highest levels in four decades. In surveys, Americans are remarkably unsatisfied with economic conditions. The growth numbers have been good. The vibes have been bad.

These are the most important things to learn from a year in which the economic ground beneath our feet shifted.

Yes, you can overheat the economy.

In the early months of 2021, there was vigorous disagreement between people in the centrist and left-of-center economics worlds. Was the $1.9 trillion pandemic rescue plan the Biden administration enacted, on the heels of a $900 billion bipartisan package passed in the final weeks of the Trump administration, too big relative to the hole the economy was in?

For example, in February, the Congressional Budget Office projected that the 2021 output gap — the economy’s shortfall relative to its full potential — was only $360 billion. Even if you think the CBO numbers are too cautious, estimates like that implied that the pandemic relief that passed a month later would send too much money coursing through the economy and result in inflation.

That, anyway, was the interpretation by traditional models of how fiscal stimulus works. Defenders of President Joe Biden’s approach emphasized, among other things, risk management — doing everything possible to get money into Americans’ hands, aggressively roll out vaccinations and get the economy back to its pre-pandemic path as quickly as possible.

These views were shaped in large part by the experience of the last expansion. Fiscal austerity was a major reason for a painfully long slog out of the global financial crisis. After years or arguably decades in which the central crisis was an underheated economy, the experience of 2021 is a reminder that overheating can cause its own discontents.

For once, the government tried overheating the economy. For better and worse, it succeeded.

With demand for goods exceeding supply, especially for physical items, it is clear that the surging prices and other related problems (shortages and shadow inflation) are now America’s central economic problems. Economists will debate how much they are attributable to excess stimulus for years to come. But regardless of where one comes down on that question, the events of the last few quarters are a reminder that just because the risks of overheating were dormant for a long time does not mean they have gone away.

When supply chains get messed up, it is hard to unmess them.

The disruptions to supplies of all sorts of goods have their roots in the earliest weeks of the pandemic, when manufacturers the world over pulled back on production amid collapsing demand and a public health crisis.

But things did not play out as in past recessions. Demand for physical goods surged in late 2020 and into 2021 — not like a typical recession in which demand for cars and other big-ticket items is depressed.

That happened because consumers shifted their spending toward physical goods and away from services, and government support kept incomes stable, preventing a collapse in overall demand.

The result: an economywide occurrence of the “bullwhip effect,” a phenomenon from the field of operations management in which small shifts in demand ripple through supply chains to cause wild swings.

The complexity of modern global supply chains and the fact that this bullwhip effect has played out across countless industries has made it a fiendishly difficult problem to solve. The issue is not just a shortage of semiconductors, or shipping containers, or any other single item. It is shortages of all these things crashing together in ways that make the feeling of scarcity and shortages more intense.

More power for workers does not necessarily make workers happy.

The tension between soaring demand and pandemiclimited supply showed up in the labor market in 2021 as well. The result was that workers were in command to a degree not seen in at least two decades.

This showed up across multiple dimensions. Wages

have been rising rapidly. Companies have been forced to be more creative, flexible and aggressive in attracting a workforce. The rate of people quitting their jobs soared.

After two decades in which employers were mostly able to have their pick of workers, the tables had turned.

And people hated it.

That is an exaggeration, of course. The Great Resignation is real, and plenty of people have taken advantage of this moment to secure a better, more rewarding employment arrangement. But in the aggregate, people view the state of the economy as horrendous.

In a Gallup poll in early December, 67% of adults said the economy was getting worse. Overall economic confidence matched its lowest levels from the early days of the pandemic and was lower than it was in the very weak economy of 2010 and 2011.

Some of this is surely tied to the fact that prices are rising more quickly than average wages, which means an average worker’s purchasing power is declining. Wage gains have been highest, in percentage terms, in lower-paying industries. In effect, hourly workers have been securing raises, while middle-managers and white-collar workers are, on average, losing significant ground.

People really, really, really do not like inflation.

For Americans younger than 50 or so, inflation is something you read about in history books or in articles about other countries. At least it was this time a year ago.

That changed abruptly in 2021, for reasons involving the economic dynamics discussed above. Even if the rate of inflation comes down in 2022 — if prices rise more slowly — it is readily apparent that inflation is weighing heavily on Americans.

But 2021 has made it clearer why inflation is less of a micro story about how higher prices affect individuals and more one of generalized discontent.

For one thing, this inflation surge has manifested itself in ways beyond those easily measured — in poorer customer service because of labor shortages, less selection on store shelves and more hassle planning Christmas gifts far ahead of time.

For another, during a pandemic and a time of profound polarization, high inflation adds to the sense that the world is a chaotic mess and will only get worse.

And finally, it is natural human psychology to view the negatives of inflation (higher prices for consumer goods) and its positives (higher wages) differently. That pay raise was money I earned fair and square; that higher grocery bill is an affront done to me by powerful forces beyond my control.

All that speaks to the central challenge for economic policymakers in 2022. For all the progress the economy made in 2021, it felt like a period of scarcity and want, whatever the growth numbers say. Achieving better vibes in 2022 depends on making it a year of abundance.

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Wall Street climbs in upbeat start to 2022 U .S. stock indexes on Monday looked to extend a market recovery from the pandemic shock into the new year, led by a surge in heavyweight Tesla after the electric carmaker posted bumper delivery numbers.

Tesla (TSLA.O)rose 10.4% after the company’s quarterly deliveries exceeded Wall Street estimates, riding out global chip shortages as it ramped up production in China.

The stock gave the biggest boost to the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq, followed by Apple (AAPL.O) and Nvidia (NVDA.O).

Apple’s shares, last up $181.61, closed in on the $182.86 mark needed to become the first company to post a market capitalization of $3 trillion.

The banking index (.SPXBK) added 3.1%, as bank stocks tracked a jump in U.S. Treasury yields on expectations of a series of U.S. interest rate hikes this year.

Wells Fargo’s shares were further boosted by a report of its upgrade to “overweight” by Barclays.

Another economically sensitive sector, energy (.SPNY) firmed 2.5%, the most among major S&P sector indexes as crude prices rose on tight supply and hopes of a further demand recovery in 2022.

“Looks like the reopening trade is in full force this morning and it basically says the market is looking through Omicron... it’s something we can live with, like the seasonal flu,” said Thomas Hayes, managing member at Great Hill Capital Llc in New York.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized a third dose of Pfizer (PFE.N) and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for children aged between 12 and 15 years. Pfizer’s shares, however, fell 3%, pulling the healthcare index (.SPXHC) down 1.7%. BioNTech slumped 7%.

At 11:45 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) was up 13.38 points, or 0.04%, at 36,351.68, the S&P 500 (.SPX) was up 5.01 points, or 0.11%, at 4,771.19, and the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) was up 95.75 points, or 0.61%, at 15,740.72.

All of Wall Street’s main indexes ended 2021 with monthly, quarterly and annual gains, recording their biggest three-year advance since 1999.

The benchmark S&P 500 added 27% in 2021 and reported 70 record-high closes, its the second-most ever, in a tumultuous year hit by new COVID-19 variants and supply chain shortages.

The Dow added 18.7% for the year and the tech-heavy Nasdaq gained 21.4%.

“Lots of liquidity and low-interest rates are the supporting factors which will change in couple of months when the Fed hikes rates somewhere in June,” said Randy Frederick, vice president of trading and derivatives for Charles Schwab.

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A Spanish mystery: Is a ‘masked restorer’ to blame for a church’s botched repair?

The Church of Santa María del Castillo, built around 1250, in the village of Castronuño, Spain, Dec. 1, 2021. Botched repairs and amateur restorations like those done on the 13th century Romanesque church have become a problem across the country.

By NICHOLAS CASEY

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he Romanesque church that sits above the river in the village of Castronuño used to look like many others that dot the land: not too decrepit for a 750-year-old, but not particularly well-kept, either.

Then in November, Mayor Enrique Seoane noticed something that gave him a shock and caused a scandal in Spain.

In a photo taken by one of his neighbors, Seoane spied a seam of very modern cement that someone had poured into a decidedly ancient archway. It was an apparent homemade repair job to keep the church’s eastern flank from falling in.

The work was done by an unknown “masked restorer,” the mayor told a local journalist in a story that soon spread across Spain.

While this might conjure visions of a superhero secretly coming to the aid of an aging church, that is not how the mayor’s words played in Spain. Instead, they stirred up bad memories in a country whose small towns and villages had

been scarred before by the eyesores these sort of vigilante repair efforts leave behind.

The figure of do-gooder gone bad was epitomized in Spain by Cecilia Giménez, a grandmother then in her 80s, who made headlines around the world after her botched restoration of a century-old fresco of Jesus crowned with thorns called “Ecce Homo.” The result was so bungled, authorities at first thought the painting had been vandalized.

Spain’s art and architecture conservators vowed to stop these amateur, and unwanted, restorers.

Yet in Castronuño, in Valladolid province northwest of Madrid, a mysterious someone had struck again, this time at the Church of Santa María del Castillo, built around 1250 by the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem.

It could be said that the problem of Castronuño is the problem of Spain: This ancient land just has too many old things in need of fixing. There are Phoenician forts, Celtic castles, Moorish minarets, Roman ramparts, granite Greek graves — all left by bygone civilizations that came here conquering, all bent on leaving something for posterity.

Even the name of the Spanish heartland, Castille, means something like “land of castles,” since so many were built after 800 years of battles between Christian and Muslim rulers.

As she stood outside Castronuño’s damaged church on a recent day, Mar Villarroel, a children’s book writer who doubles as the hamlet’s part-time tourism promoter, observed that if Spain’s blessing was that it had so much history, then its curse was that so much was at risk of being lost for neglect.

Take the old castle, she said, for which the village had been named but that had been razed by Ferdinand II of Aragón in the time of Columbus. Or Castronuño’s first church — built even earlier than the one in use today but demolished in 1919 (decades after its roof had fallen in).

More recently, the villagers had been begging the government and the local Roman Catholic Archdiocese to come fix Santa María del Castillo before it suffered a similar fate.

But with no sign that any help was on the way, someone was moved to take matters into their own grossly misguided hands.

“The cement is a scandal; it is ugly, yes,” Villarroel said.

“But you want to know the real scandal? It’s that those in charge let the church get this way.”

While the mayor’s report this fall of a “masked restorer” had set off angry calls for an investigation to find the culprit, information that surfaced later both complicated the whodunit and emphasized just how long these errant interventions had been plaguing the country.

A local resident, looking through an aging book about the churches of the region, noticed an image that showed the same seam of cement over the archway at least as early as 1999, when the survey had been published. With the crime apparently at least two decades old, it seemed there might be no finding out who did it.

Sitting in his office, Seoane, the mayor, said he regretted if his words had made people think there would be a manhunt for the culprit. But the fact that no one had noticed the cement had been there all those years was telling, too, he said.

And it wasn’t just the mishandled cement repair job that was now causing people to do a double take. Who had installed the alarm system that seemed drilled into the ancient stone? Or the bulky electrical conduit that jutted out of one of the ancient windows? It appeared to have been there for years, mostly unnoticed.

And why was there wire mesh covering over the rosette window, and who had put it there?

The list of impromptu repair jobs now being noticed at the church all of a sudden seemed endless. But at least the botched cement job — and the mayor’s colorful if fictional description of the perpetrator’s appearance — had gotten everyone’s attention, enough that Seoane thought he might finally get the funding to fix the other items that needed repair.

“If we don’t get the job done this time,” he said, “I don’t think we ever will.”

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Online ‘auction’ is latest attack on Muslim women in India

By SAMEER YASIR

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dia’s federal minister for communications, Ashwini Vaishnaw, said that GitHub had blocked the user behind the recent app.

GitHub has not commented publicly on the episode.

Karti Chidambaram, a member of India’s parliament and a leader of the opposition Congress party, wrote on Twitter that he was appalled that those responsible apparently felt emboldened because of the government’s lack of action on the previous auction.

“It is unacceptable that this project of dangerous antiMuslim misogyny is back,” he said.

On Monday, the police in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh said they had opened an investigation and filed a criminal complaint against several Twitter handles and developers of the app, based on the complaint of a Muslim woman.

But many complaints said the lack of progress on the previous investigations had inspired little confidence.

For years, Bég, has been a vocal critic of India’s governing Hindu nationalists and their anti-minority policies under

Modi. She has faced intense internet trolling, including death threats, on Twitter.

Over the years, as the pressure has intensified, she said, she started self-censoring, avoiding critical posts on the policies of the Hindu nationalists.

She said she had been worried about the rising intolerance, but the latest episode showcased how the online machinery was being used to make vocal Muslim women withdraw from public life, essentially eliminating any counternarrative.

Hasiba Amin, a social media coordinator of the opposition Congress party, who was also featured on the auction app, says the fact that the violence and death threats against minorities online have recently gone beyond virtual is what keeps her awake.

“What guarantees do we have from the government that tomorrow the threats and intimation online is not going to turn into the real-time sexual violence on the streets?” she asked.

iba Bég, a graduate student in the United States, was visiting the grave of her grandmother in New Delhi over the weekend when she learned that she was “for sale” to the highest bidder online — for a second time in less than a year.

Her screen filled with dozens of calls and messages from friends, all sharing the same screenshot of the profile created of her on the app, a fake auction site called “Bulli Bai.” Bég, a former journalist with an active online presence, wasn’t alone. More than 100 other prominent Indian Muslim women, including artists, journalists, activists and lawyers, found that online images of themselves were being used without permission on the app, which went up on Saturday and was taken down again within about 24 hours.

In June a similar app, called “Sulli Deals,” appeared.

(Both terms are derogatory slang for Muslim women.) That one remained up for weeks and was taken down only after complaints from victims. Though the police opened an investigation, no one has been charged in that case.

India’s online space is rife with misogyny and harassment of women. But the two “auctions” have amplified concern about the organized nature of the virtual bullying, and how targeted smears and threats of violence, particularly sexual violence, are deployed to try to silence women, especially those critical of some of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s policies.

“The intimidation is aimed at forcing Muslim women who raise their voices against the injustice to withdraw from public life,” said Bég, 26, who is pursuing a graduate degree at Columbia University. “But you don’t back off, even if everything gets overwhelming.”

Muslim women were at the forefront of one of India’s largest protest movements in recent decades. In early 2020, before the coronavirus pandemic, thousands blocked roads and held demonstrations for months in protest of a new citizenship law that was seen as prejudiced against Muslims.

Women featured in the “auction” included Fatima Nafees, the mother of a student activist who disappeared more than five years ago after a fight with members of a rightwing student organization; a film star turned social activist, a researcher, and several other prominent Muslim women.

Both the app that went up in June and the more recent one were hosted by GitHub, a Microsoft-owned open software development site based in San Francisco. On Sunday, In- A Muslim woman walking past an image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Kochi, Kerala State, last year.

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China moves to overhaul protections for women’s rights, sort of

Supporters of Zhou Xiaoxuan in Beijing. Ms. Zhou, a prominent voice in China’s #MeToo movement, doubts the draft laws will change much. “This is probably still a very long, hard road,” she said.

By VIVIAN WANG

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he announcement was presented — in official news reports, on social media — as a major victory for Chinese women. The government was set to overhaul its law governing women’s rights for the first time in decades, to refine the definition of sexual harassment, affirm prohibitions on workplace discrimination and ban forms of emotional abuse.

For many women in China, the response was: Hmm, really?

The proposed revisions are the latest in a series of conflicting messages by the Chinese government about the country’s growing feminist movement. On paper, the changes, which China’s Legislature reviewed for the first time last month, would seem to be a triumph for activists who have long worked to push gender equality into the Chinese mainstream. The Women’s Rights and Interests Protection Law has been substantially revised only once, in 2005, since it was enacted nearly three decades ago.

The government has also recently emphasized its dedication to women’s employment rights, especially as it urges women to have more children amid a looming demographic crisis. The official newspaper of China’s Supreme Court explicitly tied the new three-child policy to the revision, which would codify prohibitions on employers asking women about their marital status or plans to have children.

At the same time, authorities, ever leery of grassroots organizing, have detained outspoken feminist activists and sought to control the country’s fledgling #MeToo movement. Sexual harassment lawsuits — already rare — have been dismissed. Women have been fired or fined for lodging accusations. When Peng

Shuai, a star tennis player, recently said on social media that a top Chinese leader had pressured her into sex, she was censored within minutes, and many worry that she is under surveillance.

Women have also been increasingly pushed out of the workplace and into traditional gender roles since China’s leader, Xi Jinping, assumed power. Some fear that the campaign to encourage childbirth could turn coercive.

The contradictions were clear in a recent article in the Global Times, a Communist Party-owned tabloid, about Chinese feminist advocacy. While the article hailed the proposed legal revisions as a “landmark move,” it also denounced “spooky ‘feminism’” and derided the “so-called MeToo movement” as yet another Western cudgel against China.

Feminist activists have warned against giving the revisions too much weight.

Feng Yuan, founder of Equality, a Beijing-based advocacy group, welcomed the move for its potential to impose “moral responsibility and pressure” on institutions. But she noted that the draft does not specify clear punishments for the violations it outlines. Instead, it uses phrases such as “will be ordered to make corrections” or “may be criticized and educated.”

“This law, to be honest, is more of a gesture than a specific plan of operation,” Feng said.

The gesture, at least, is extensive. As revised, the law would offer the most comprehensive legal definition yet of sexual harassment, to include behaviors such as sending unwanted sexually explicit images or pressuring someone into a relationship in exchange for benefits. It also instructs schools and employers to introduce anti-harassment training and channels for complaints.

The law would also codify women’s right to ask for com-

pensation for housework during divorce proceedings — following the first-of-its-kind decision by a Chinese divorce court last year to award a woman more than $7,700 for her labor during her marriage.

Some provisions would go beyond those in other countries. In particular, the draft bans the use of “superstition” or other “emotional control” against women. While the draft does not offer further details, state media reports have said those bans would cover pickup artistry. Pickup artistry — a practice that arrived in China from the United States — commonly refers to the use of manipulative techniques, including gaslighting, to demean women and lure them into having sex. It became a booming industry in China, with thousands of companies and websites promising to teach techniques, and it has been widely condemned by both the government and social media users.

Elsewhere, bans on emotional coercion are spotty. Britain banned it in 2015, while the United States has no federal law against it.

Yet the truly novel aspects of the Chinese law are limited.

Many of the provisions already exist in other laws or regulations but have been poorly enforced. China’s labor law bans discrimination based on sex. The compensation-for-housework measure was included in a new civil code that went into effect last year.

While the law affirms women’s right to sue, its emphasis is largely on authorizing government officials to take top-down action against offenders, said Darius Longarino, a researcher at Yale Law School who studies China.

“The priority should be on bottom-up enforcement, where you empower individuals who have been harassed to use the law to protect their rights,” he said.

It is rare for victims of harassment to go to court. An analysis by Longarino and others found that 93% of sexual harassment cases decided in China between 2018 and 2020 were brought not by the alleged victim but by the alleged harasser, claiming defamation or wrongful termination. Women who have made public harassment claims have been forced to pay those they accused.

Nonlegal complaints can bring heavy consequences, too.

In December, Alibaba, the e-commerce giant, fired a woman who had accused a superior of raping her. The company said that she had “spread falsehoods,” even though it had earlier fired the man she accused.

Still, some women remain optimistic about the possible power of the proposed changes.

A woman in southern Guangdong province who asked only to use her last name, Han, out of fears for her safety, said that she had endured years of physical and emotional abuse by her ex-husband. Even though she managed to secure a divorce last year, he continues to stalk and threaten her, she said. She obtained a restraining order, viewed by The New York Times, that cited chat logs and recordings.

Yet even with the restraining order, when Han called police, they often told her that threats alone were not enough for them to take action, as he had not physically harmed her, she said. If the law were revised, she continued, police would be forced to recognize that she had a right to seek their help.

“If the law changes, I will be even more convinced that everything I’m doing right now is right,” she said.

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The military’s broken culture around sexual violence and suicide

By CYBÈLE C. GREENBERG

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nne Vassas loved being a Marine.

She was always smiling. Younger members of her unit saw Vassas, 20, as something like a mother. Stationed in Iwakuni, Japan, she was reenlisting for a second tour.

So it came as a shock when Vassas took her own life in August 2019, a month before her 21st birthday.

Six months after her death, her father was surprised to discover among her belongings pages from a sexual assault report she filed in October 2018. A military investigation into Vassas’ death later found that she may have been sexually assaulted on three occasions while serving in uniform.

The death of Vassas, and other deaths like hers, raises questions regarding the military’s ability to care for its service members who experience sexual trauma. In many cases, untreated trauma can have deadly consequences.

There are numerous misconceptions about military suicide.

Despite the stereotypes, there is no significant association between combat deployments and the rate of suicide, according to a study in JAMA Psychiatry.

Some experts say that it would be more accurate to blame the problem on the military’s culture of intensity and violence that extends well beyond the battlefield. That includes toxic relationships between service members and continued stigma surrounding those seeking help. It is perhaps no coincidence that the Army and the Marine Corps — the two branches founded on an infantry culture, in which the perception of strength trumps all else — experience the

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A report by the Defense Department inspector general this month indicates that although the number of sexual assault complaints has doubled in the past decade, the services often cut corners when it comes to investigating and prosecuting them.

Sexual trauma is associated with an increased risk of suicide and is more likely than combat to lead to post-traumatic stress for both men and women. While combat troops get time to recover from their deployments, victims of sexual trauma are often sidelined or forcibly discharged, according to Don Christensen, a retired Air Force officer who is president of Protect Our Defenders, a nonprofit that works to end sexual violence in the military.

Many victims of sexual violence actually experience trauma twice: once, at the hands of the offender, and a second time, at the hands of the institution they serve.

In a July report, the Independent Review Commission on Sexual Assault in the Military found that many of those who reported sexual violence regretted doing so. The backlash often compounds the trauma of the actual assault.

Worse still, some service members attempt suicide after speaking up and seeking help. Studies show that the perception of betrayal by the military bureaucracy in the aftermath of sexual assault is associated with severe depression and self-inflicted violence. Women who served in the military are at 2.5 times the risk for suicide compared to their counterparts who did not.

According to the investigation into her death, Vassas tried reporting her sexual assaults several times. But the reporting process was perilous. During her initial training, she said that she had been forcibly kissed by another Marine. But when investigators reminded her that having a relationship with another trainee was prohibited, she withdrew her complaint.

While stationed in California, Vassas told two of her childhood friends that an officer had interrupted another Marine pushing her up against the wall of his room and taking her pants off without her consent, after both had been drinking. She was disciplined over this incident because she was not supposed to be in the barracks for men.

The inquiry into her death suggests that the officer who reprimanded Vassas ignored the assault and that a military investigator

believed she may have been lying about the incident “to get out of trouble for being in the wrong barracks.”

But her medical record tells a different story. Her heightened depression and anxiety can be traced back to late 2018 and were likely “due to the stress induced by the sexual assault” in the barracks, according to a behavioral health assessment. It was also around this time that Vassas started voicing suicidal ideations to her friends, including one text message that read, “I can’t live with this pain.”

But in February 2019, she was given a clean bill of health and cleared to deploy to Japan. There, Vassas may have been sexually assaulted yet again, according to Marines in her unit.

Six months after her arrival in Iwakuni, Vassas was dead.

The contours of her story are all too similar to those of other servicewomen. In May an Army specialist, Kaylie Harris, 21, who reported she was raped by a man after she came out as gay, died by suicide. In 2018 an Army private, Nicole Burnham, 21, died by suicide after incidents in which male soldiers held her down against her will and photographed and assaulted her. Despite some fellow soldiers calling her a “whore,” “slut” and “deserving of rape” after she reported the attacks, the Army was slow to transfer her out of South Korea, according to an investigation by CBS News. In 2009 a 20-yearold Marine, Carri Leigh Goodwin, died from acute alcohol poisoning after, according to a lawsuit, she was raped twice and bullied by her commander for reporting the second rape.

Many factors have contributed to a recent increase in suicide rates for military personnel, and they’re not entirely well understood.

The accessibility of guns certainly plays a role: The most common method of suicide across the military is death by firearm. The White House recently announced regulations that will increase the availability of secure gun storage and safety devices.

More research is also needed on the possible correlations between military suicide, the protracted length of recent wars and the rise in traumatic brain injuries from increased exposure to improvised explosive devices.

Despite years of effort and tens of millions of dollars invested in prevention research and programs, suicide continues to afflict military communities. Last year there was a statistically significant increase in the rate of suicide deaths by active-duty troops in all services — the highest rate since 2008, when the Pentagon began keeping detailed records, according to the Defense Department’s latest annual suicide report.

An independent Pentagon commission established this year prefaced its findings on sexual trauma with a letter to service members: “We heard you.”

But in at least some important ways, no one listened to Vassas, Harris, Burnham or countless other service members who experienced unbearable trauma while serving their country.

Many military units still do not take sexual trauma or mental health as seriously as they should and often treat suicide awareness training as a perfunctory exercise. Few active duty military leaders speak out about their own struggles coping with trauma. Those who do often face derailed careers — something that discourages junior troops from speaking up and seeking help themselves.

Ultimately, it is only genuine, supportive human connections with other service members, leaders and veterans — those who believe and understand them — that will save young American troops from feeling there is no way out.

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Presidente Cámara de Comercio quiere ver calendario para comenzar el desarrollo económico POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El presidente de la Cámara de Comercio de Puerto Rico (CCPR), Luis Gierbolini, solicitó a principios de esta semana al liderato ejecutivo y legislativo, el calendario de ejecución para comenzar el proceso de la recuperación al crecimiento económico.

“Puerto Rico tiene que moverse a resolver los asuntos que detienen el desarrollo económico: un sistema de permisos deficiente que no permite el atractivo de nueva inversión; un servicio de energía eléctrica débil y caro; un mercado laboral desestabilizado por los cambios improvisados sin análisis económicos viables; un impuesto al inventario que no

permite movilidad en la cadena de suministros ni el transporte; una recuperación estancada que no colabora a la estabilidad de los mercados.”

“Es necesario concentrar los esfuerzos gubernamentales y privados en resolver los aspectos fundamentales para mejorar el clima de hacer negocios en Puerto

Rico. Por ejemplo, los aumentos desmedidos en la energía eléctrica y los cambios constantes a las leyes laborales son detrimentales para sostener un negocio y peor para posicionarse como un destino de inversión privada”, dijo Gierbolini en declaraciones escritas el domingo.

Según Gierbolini, la fase de recuperación tiene que moverse con agilidad

para que los fondos disponibles puedan utilizarse adecuadamente, impacten la economía puertorriqueña y puedan servir de repunte económico.

“Hasta este momento hemos vivido con un freno gubernamental que no permite el crecimiento empresarial sostenido, necesitamos que la rueda se mueva en este primer semestre del 2022”, sostuvo.

“Los incentivos que se presenten tienen que ser medidas productivas a largo plazo y no meras ideas para tratar de cubrir el tema livianamente. El país requiere una política pública empresarial centrada en las empresas que producen y los comerciantes que se dedican a sus negocios. Tienen el deber de promover la utilización de fondos públicos en un clima de absoluta transparencia y rendición de cuentas”, concluyó.

Positividad de COVID a 32.36 por ciento mientras se suman 8,756 casos POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El informe de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud reportó el lunes sobre 8,756 casos positivos confirmados, probables y cuatro muertes.

Las personas fallecidas son dos hombres, uno de 74 años y uno de 85 años de la Región de Caguas. Una mujer de 71 años y un hombre de 78 años de la Región de Mayagüez.

El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 18 de di-

ciembre al 1 de enero de 2021. El reporte incluye 2,600 casos confirmados y 6,156 casos probables con prueba de antígeno.

La tasa de positividad subió a 32.69 por ciento.

Hay 370 adultos hospitalizados y de ellos, 51 están en ventiladores. Mientras, 66 menores están hospitalizados y dos están en ventiladores.

Con una dosis hay al menos dos millones, 770 mil, 070 personas. Con las dosis completadas hay dos millones, 471 mil, 067 personas.

El total de muertes atribuidas es de 3,314.

Adolescente de 15 años resulta herido de arma blanca en incidente de violencia de género en Hato Rey POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – Un adolescente de 15 años resultó con una herida en su brazo izquierdo tras salir en defensa de su madre en medio de un incidente de violencia de género ocurrido a las 9:30 de la mañana del lunes, en un apartamento del residencial Nemesio R. Canales, en Hato Rey. Según la Uniformada, alegó la querellante,

que mientras se encontraba en su apartamento entró su expareja, un hombre de 42 años, y la tomó por el cuello con ambas manos. En medio de la agresión, la víctima alcanzó un cuchillo y le produjo una herida en la frente al agresor.

Durante el incidente, el adolescente de 15 años, hijo de la mujer, también resultó con una herida en el brazo izquierdo, cuando intentó defender a su madre. El supuesto agresor huyó del lugar y

al momento no ha sido arrestado por las autoridades.

La condición del joven herido es estable y no surge de la querella si tuvo que ser transportado a alguna institución hospitalaria.

Este caso lo investigó el agente Adalberto Mercado, del Precinto de Hato Rey Oeste, y lo refirió a personal de la División de Violencia Doméstica para que continúen con la investigación.

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In Mexico, women directors take the lead

By OSCAR LÓPEZ

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s a young girl growing up in 1980s Mexico, the idea of becoming a filmmaker was almost unthinkable for Fernanda Valadez. Other than a movie club at the local university, there were no cinemas in her hometown, Guanajuato, and films made by women were few and far between.

“The dream of making cinema was something far away,” she recalled recently. “We grew up with the feeling that making films was very difficult.”

Some 30 years later, however, that dream has become very real. Valadez’s debut film, “Identifying Features,” won two top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020, and this year it won best picture, director and screenplay, among other prizes, at the Ariel Awards, Mexico’s equivalent of the Oscars.

After decades of fighting for recognition in an industry dominated by men, filmmakers like Valadez are setting Mexican cinema ablaze, not just releasing more work but also gaining the critical success and major awards that were long restricted to their male peers.

In a society in which machismo has often held women back and gender-based violence is commonplace, the rise and recognition of female filmmakers reflects a broader social change brought about by both an emboldened feminist movement in Mexico and an urgent conversation about sexism worldwide.

“It’s been years in the making,” Valadez said. “But I’m very happy to be part of a generation of women telling powerful stories.”

Getting here has not been easy, either for Valadez or her fellow filmmakers.

Tatiana Huezo is a Salvadoran-Mexican director, who in 2017 became the first woman to win the directing prize at the Ariels. Her latest film, “Prayers for the Stolen,” which received a special mention at the Cannes Film Festival this year, is Mexico’s candidate for the best international feature Oscar at the 2022 Academy Awards and last week made it onto the shortlist of finalists for the statuette. If nominated, Huezo would become the first Mexican woman to compete for the award, even as fellow countrymen like Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro have dominated the top prizes of late.

When Huezo was a little girl, her mother would sneak her into the cinema to see art-house movies. The director remembers being enchanted and at times frightened by the films of David Lynch and François Truffaut. But when she began studying at Mexico’s Film Training Center, she found herself confronted by sexism.

Huezo had enrolled to become a cinematographer, but once in school, male directors wouldn’t take her on their projects, so she ended up having to both shoot and direct her own.

“They would say that ‘it’s too heavy with the cameras,’ ” she said.

Valadez encountered similar obstacles at the Film Training Center, where she was one of only four women in a class of 15. She said some female students at film schools were asked inappropriate questions like whether they were going to have children or they would be able to carry equipment.

“We women face more filters,” she said. “Men in these generations are brought up to believe that destiny is in their hands.”

Sexism has long been an issue in Mexican film schools, said Maricarmen de Lara, a feminist filmmaker and professor who was director of the film school at Mexico’s National Autonomous University from 2015 to 2019.

The industry was even worse when she was a young student, with sets ruled by men. “They were men who minimized the work of women, and they did it publicly,” Lara said, adding that a few were violent. “There were some cinematographers who wouldn’t even accept a woman assistant photographer.”

But women have still managed to make films in the country for decades, said Arantxa Luna, the critic and screenwriter, pointing to Adela Sequeyro, who worked as a producer and director in the 1930s, and María Novaro, who along with Lara, was part of feminist collective Cine Mujer in the 1970s and ’80s.

The legacy of the feminist film movement has been particularly lasting for Mexican documentaries: Between 2010 and 2020 women directed a third of documentaries in the country, compared to just 16% of fiction films.

Still, it’s been an uphill battle.

“Fifteen, twenty years ago in Mexico there weren’t that many women directors,” said documentarian Natalia Almada, who won a 2009 Sundance directing award. “Even just being out in the field as a woman with a camera making films meant something.”

Off-camera, women have had an impact beyond direc-

ting. Behind some of Mexico’s most prominent male filmmakers of the last 20 years have also been producers like Bertha Navarro, whose credits include several of del Toro’s most acclaimed films, and Mónica Lozano Serrano, who was an associate producer on Alejandro González Iñarritu’s “Amores Perros.” A former president of the Mexican film academy, Lozano has in recent years defended public funding for cinema in Mexico.

Meanwhile, the Hollywood success of Iñarritu, Cuarón and del Toro, nicknamed “the three amigos,” also helped the industry in Mexico, which has seen a surge in attention and money for film. Almada said they “turned a kind of international gaze on Mexico as a place where interesting work is being made.”

The result has been an avalanche of Mexican cinema and a corresponding rise in the number of films made by women. In 2000, “Amores Perros” was one of just 28 Mexican feature films; in 2019, there were more than 200, according to official figures. In 2008, just five films were directed by women, by 2018, that number had increased to 47.

Meanwhile, the Film Training Center, where both Valadez and Huezo studied, announced that beginning this year, half the places in its main courses would be reserved for women.

Still, there is more work to be done, directors say. Of the more than 100 Mexican feature films produced in 2020, when the industry was affected by the pandemic, 17% were directed by women, down from 20% the year before and 25% in 2018.

“There’s still a long way to go — it’s not yet equal,” Huezo said. “And I hope we get there because it’s going to enrich cinema so much.”

Tatiana Huezo made the Oscar shortlist for best international feature for “Prayers for the Stolen.”

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5 classical music albums to hear right now Liza Lim: ‘Singing in Tongues’ Elision Ensemble (Huddersfield Contemporary Records) Over the past decade, the reputation of Australian composer Liza Lim has grown steadily, with consistently strong chamber and orchestral albums released on top-flight experimental music labels like Wergo and Kairos.

“Singing in Tongues” collects vocal and operatic music written by Lim between 1993 and 2008 — all of it handled persuasively by her longtime collaborators in the Elision Ensemble. The earliest piece here is an abstract take on “The Oresteia.”

Its airy extended techniques, snatches of luminous vocal harmony and gnarly fullensemble blasts of sound give a sense of Lim’s approach to music drama: It’s more about traveling between timbres than it is about moving from one plot point to the next.

That approach has remained remarkably consistent, but that doesn’t mean she hasn’t evolved. The most recent piece on the album — “The Navigator,” which concludes this set — is a magnum opus of slippery, sinuous invention. Fragments of the work have been available on YouTube, in Barrie Kosky’s staging. But this first full audio recording reveals Lim’s command of her style. As the piece progresses from a prologue written for an alto “Ganassi” recorder to the guitar-led opening of the first scene (“The Unwinding”), her skills as an avant-garde dramatist are on full display.

— SETH COLTER WALLS Igor Markevitch: The Deutsche Grammophon Legacy; The Philips Legacy (Eloquence) The recent rash of archival boxed sets dedicated to conductors has tended to be a painful reminder of just how narrow a repertoire some major artists took after World War II — with lasting consequences for the field. But these two enticing collections offer an exception to the rule.

Igor Markevitch, a polyglot, cosmopolitan figure who was born in the Kyiv of the late czarist empire but settled in Paris, was a major composer before he switched to the podium after the war, to the horror of Nadia Boulanger. He trained as a conductor with Pierre Monteux and Hermann Scherchen, sharing vivacity and rhythmic

drive with the former and clarity and incision with the latter.

“My repertory runs from Purcell to Dallapiccola,” Markevitch said in 1957; for him, “versatility” was crucial if a musician were to understand where Stravinsky, a favorite of his, was really coming from.

So along with wonderfully vibrant Haydn, committed Beethoven with not an ounce of heaviness and a Tchaikovsky cycle that has rarely been bettered since it was set down in the 1960s, these boxes find Markevitch leading Victoria, Berwald and Halffter, as well as exploring lesser-known Stravinsky and even the history of zarzuela. All of it is fresh, alive, essential — this was a real conductor. — DAVID ALLEN Walter Piston: Concerto for Orchestra and Other Works Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Gil Rose, conductor (BMOP/sound) Along with championing living composers, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, under its founding director, Gil Rose, has for 25 years been bringing renewed attention to mid-20th century Americans, as in this exceptional recording of works by Walter Piston (1894-1976).

The biggest discovery here is Piston’s 1933 Concerto for Orchestra, receiving its premiere recording. Piston is usually grouped with composers who hewed to American neoclassical styles. Yet elements of spiky modernism often run through his scores, as in this concerto. It opens with a marching, vibrant first movement, fol-

lowed by a scherzo driven by perpetualmotion runs for strings.

The compelling third movement begins ominously, with a seemingly lugubrious passacaglia, the theme played low and haltingly by a tuba. The music becomes darker, more elusive and textured, with each variation as instruments enter, building steadily in intensity until a chorale calms things down, leading to an extended allegro alive with industrious counterpoint. The album includes a Stravinsky-influenced Divertimento for Nine Instruments; a pointillist and perky Clarinet Concerto, with Michael Norsworthy as soloist; and the premiere recording of Variations on a Theme by Edward Burlingame Hill. — ANTHONY TOMMASINI Vivaldi: ‘Cantate per Soprano I’ Arianna Vendittelli, soprano; Abchordis Ensemble; Andrea Buccarella, harpsichord and conductor (Naïve) This is the latest installment in the expansive Vivaldi Edition on Naïve, which is capturing a huge trove of the master’s scores on record and is scheduled to culminate in 2027, the year before his 350th birthday. In a monthly review feature earlier this year, I wrote about an album of early-17th century chamber madrigals by Sigismondo d’India; these Vivaldi “cantate per soprano,” from roughly a century later, are an outgrowth of that form. While the subject matter is still love, in both contemporary and ancient settings, the poetry Vivaldi sets in his multipart alternations of

recitative and arias is more pedestrian; he makes up for it with the increased vocal dazzle of the high baroque.

The virtuosity poses no problem for soprano Arianna Vendittelli — her tone floating, but also agile and forceful. Given intimate accompaniment by Andrea Buccarella and the Abchordis Ensemble, Vendittelli is responsive to the different moods of these six cantatas: the dreamy melancholy of “Aure, voi più non siete”; the tossed-off lightness of “Tra l’erbe i zeffiri” and “La farfalletta s’aggira al lume”; the dash of “Si levi dal pensier”; and the burning grandeur of “Sorge vermiglia in ciel la bella Aurora,” the album’s highlight.

— ZACHARY WOOLFE Pamela Z: ‘Echolocation’ (Freedom to Spend) This year proved rewarding for fans of vocalist, composer and visual artist Pamela Z. Despite widespread performance cancellations because of the pandemic, she brought new works to the Prototype Festival in New York and to German radio.

She also issued her second full-length solo recording, “A Secret Code,” while one of her pieces was included on a compilation album produced by the Resonant Bodies Festival.

And there’s time for one more offering from this veteran experimentalist.

“Echolocation,” her long-out-of-print, cassette-only recording from 1988, has been reissued on the Freedom to Spend imprint.

Its tracks include winning early takes of pieces like the chattering “Badagada” and the list-poem assemblage “Pop Titles ‘You’” — both of which are mainstays of her repertoire. But the rest of the set offers a rare look at this less documented period of her practice.

Given her skill at live looping and solo concertizing, it’s a treat to hear her in bandleader mode. The track “I Know” features synthesizers performed by Donald Swearingen; those keyboard motifs suggest an affinity for both 1980s new wave as well as some 1970s Philip Glass. And during “An In,” skeletal drum programming by Bill Stefanacci connects to the progressive pop of the era. Bridging these diverse reference points, as ever, is Z’s own virtuosic vocal technique, which incorporates her bel canto training as well as her eclectic listening, across genres. — SETH COLTER WALLS

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Coquito, the Puerto Rican holiday drink, available in frozen form

By KORSHA WILSON

flavor’s namesake isn’t there to taste it. Peter Berrios died in June, but the family still hung his stocking behind the counter as they do every year, a testament to his presence which still infuses the business. “We have so many memories,” Pura Berrios said as she looked around the shop. “Even though he’s not here, he’s in everything.”

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hey don’t know how good they have it,” Christine Berrios said of her two children as she walked her son Noah into the small prep kitchen at Torico, her family’s ice cream shop in downtown Jersey City, New Jersey.

Noah, 5, had been making pancakes with his grandmother, Pura Berrios, upstairs and came down to the first floor to ask his mother for chocolate chips. She gave him a small plastic measuring cup, half full with milk chocolate pieces, and sent him back upstairs.

“Most of the time he comes down looking for ice cream,” Christine Berrios said as she watched him bounce up the stairs.

This is a typical Saturday at Torico Ice Cream. It’s a business, but it also feels like a home, with photos in practically every corner documenting the family’s more than 50 years at the location. In fact, Pura Berrios and her family have lived upstairs off and on since 1970, when she and her husband Peter bought the building.

In 1968, Peter and Pura Berrios had been operating a small deli for a few years on the same block as a Woolworth’s department store, when Pura got pregnant with their first child, Denise. Pura Berrios began to miss the flavors of her native Puerto Rico, specifically coquito, a holiday-season drink made with coconut, warming spices like clove and allspice, and often a splash (or two) of Puerto Rican rum.

Peter Berrios, who also grew up in Puerto Rico, concocted for her a sort of coquito sherbet (without the alcohol), cracking fresh coconuts and grinding the meat before placing the mixture in a small hand-cranked ice cream maker. The result was smooth and creamy with a flavor reminiscent of the coquito she craved.

“I started giving people tastes and they would ask to buy it, so we started selling it,” Pura Berrios said.

Lines started forming along Erie Street for scoops at 5, 10 or 15 cents for a small, medium or large. Peter Berrios came up with a few more flavors, and eventually the couple converted their deli into an ice cream shop. They called it Tropical Delight before eventually shortening it to Torico, a play on “todo rico” or “everything is delicious.”

“Once we started selling ice cream, there was no going back,” Pura Berrios said.

Fifty-three years later, Torico is selling about 15,000 gallons of ice cream a year at the same compact, handsome storefront just blocks away from the Hudson River, with flavors inspired by tropical fruits like mango and tamarind, and beloved classics like pound cake and banana-peanut butter.

Next year, Torico will open a second location in the Bergen-Lafayette neighborhood of Jersey City, with a larger production facility to help them expand the business to include shipping and selling to more retail and restaurant clients. “We’ve survived because we’ve always invested when

Coquito ice cream

By Krysten Chambrot Yield: 4 cups Total time: 45 minutes, plus overnight chilling The family has been serving scoops of their signature flavor, coquito — a holiday-season drink made with coconut, warming spices like clove and allspice, and often a splash (or two) of Puerto Rican rum — since 1970. we’re ready,” Pura Berrios said.

Steven Edward Berrios, Pura Berrios’ grandson and Christine’s nephew, who now works as production manager for the company after serving in the Marines, agreed. “The new space is about growing the business and the team,” he said. “To be able to sell more and grow bigger without losing the little details.”

But the family is still committed to the original inspiration of love and care. Each December, Torico’s featured flavor is Pete’s holiday coquito, a nod to the flavor Peter Berrios made for his wife in 1968. (While the Berrioses prefer to keep the recipe within the family, Krysten Chambrot, an editor for New York Times Cooking, developed a version inspired by the one sold at Torico.) After all these years, the current version still features the same creamy texture, round coconut flavor and warming spices as the original.

This will be the first year the patriarch of Torico and the

Ingredients: 1 (15-ounce) can cream of coconut, preferably Coco López 1 (15-ounce) can unsweetened coconut milk 1/2 cup heavy cream 4 teaspoons rum extract, plus more to taste 2 tablespoons sugar 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon Pinch of salt 4 large egg yolks Preparation: 1. Prepare your ice cream machine, freezing the insert bowl if needed.

2. In a medium saucepan over medium heat, combine the cream of coconut, coconut milk, heavy cream, rum extract, sugar, cinnamon and salt. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the cream of coconut melts down and all the ingredients are incorporated, making sure it does not come to a boil, about 5 minutes.

3. As the coconut mixture cooks, place the egg yolks in a small bowl, add 1/4 cup of the coconut mixture to the yolks and whisk quickly and vigorously. (This will temper, or bring up the temperature, of the eggs, so they don’t set.) Pour the yolk mixture into the saucepan with the remaining coconut mixture, and immediately start whisking over medium heat.

Continue whisking until thickens and tastes intense, about 2 minutes. If you dip a spoon in the custard, it should coat the back. Run your finger through that coating; the stripe should hold for 3 seconds. Stir in more rum extract if you’d like.

4. Set a fine-mesh strainer over a food storage container or a bowl with a lid that can hold at least 1 quart. Strain the ice cream base into the container, to catch any pieces of egg that may have solidified, cover and refrigerate overnight.

5. Set up your ice cream maker, add the ice cream base to its bowl and churn according to manufacturers’ instructions. It should increase in volume and look thick and creamy, the consistency of soft ice cream. Serve the ice cream right out of the machine, or for a better, more traditional texture (think store-bought ice cream), transfer the churned ice cream to a food storage container and freeze for 4 to 5 more hours.

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Stress may be your heart’s worst enemy

By JANE E. BRODY

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ou’re probably familiar with these major risk factors for heart disease: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking, diabetes, obesity and physical inactivity. And chances are your doctor has checked you more than once for these risks and, I would hope, offered advice or treatment to help ward off a heart attack or stroke.

But has your doctor also asked about the level of stress in your life?

Chronic psychological stress, recent studies indicate, may be as important — and possibly more important — to the health of your heart than the traditional cardiac risk factors. In fact, in people with less-than-healthy hearts, mental stress trumps physical stress as a potential precipitant of fatal and nonfatal heart attacks and other cardiovascular events, according to the latest report.

The new study, published in November in JAMA, assessed the fates of 918 patients known to have underlying, but stable, heart disease to see how their bodies reacted to physical and mental stress. The participants underwent standardized physical and mental stress tests to see if their hearts developed myocardial ischemia — a significantly reduced blood flow to the muscles of the heart, which can be a trigger for cardiovascular events — during either or both forms of stress. Then the researchers followed them for four to nine years.

Among the study participants who experienced ischemia during one or both tests, this adverse reaction to mental stress took a significantly greater toll on the hearts and lives of the patients than did physical stress. They were more likely to suffer a nonfatal heart attack or die of cardiovascular disease in the years that followed.

I wish I had known that in 1982, when my father had a heart attack that nearly killed him. Upon leaving the hospital, he was warned about overdoing physical stresses, such as not lifting anything heavier than 30 pounds. But

he was never cautioned about undue emotional stress or the risks of overreacting to frustrating circumstances, such as when the driver ahead of him drove too slowly in a no-passing zone.

The new findings underscore the results of an earlier study that evaluated the relationship between risk factors and heart disease in 24,767 patients from 52 countries. It found that patients who experienced a high level of psychological stress during the year before they entered the study were more than twice as likely to suffer a heart attack during an average follow-up of five years, even when traditional risk factors were taken into account.

The study, known as Interheart, showed that psychological stress is an independent risk factor for heart attacks, similar in heart-damaging effects to the more commonly measured cardiovascular risks, explained Dr. Michael Osborne, a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.

But what about the effects of stress on people whose hearts are still healthy? Psychological stress comes in many forms. It can occur acutely, caused by incidents such as the loss of a job, the death of a loved one or the destruction of one’s home in a natural disaster.

A recent study in Scandinavia found that in the week after a child’s death, the parents’ risk of a heart attack was more than three times the expected rate. Emotional stress can also be chronic, resulting, for example, from ongoing economic insecurity, living in a highcrime area or experiencing unrelenting depression or anxiety. Bereaved parents in the Scandinavian study continued to experience an elevated cardiac risk years later.

Osborne participated with a team of experts led by Dr. Ahmed Tawakol, also at Massachusetts General, in an analysis of how the body reacts to psychological stress. He said the accumulated evidence of how the brain and body respond to chronic psychological stress strongly suggested that modern medicine had been neglecting a critically important hazard to heart health.

It all starts in the brain’s fear center, the amygdala, which reacts to stress by activating the so-called fight-orflight response, triggering the release of hormones that over time can increase levels of body fat, blood pressure and insulin resistance.

Furthermore, as the team explained, the cascade of reactions to stress causes inflammation in the arteries, fosters blood clotting and impairs

the function of blood vessels, all of which promote atherosclerosis, the arterial disease that underlies most heart attacks and strokes.

Tawakol’s team explained that advanced neuroimaging made it possible to directly measure the impact of stress on various body tissues, including the brain.

The researchers are now investigating the impact of a stress-reducing program called SMART-3RP (which stands for Stress Management and Resiliency Training-Relaxation Response Resiliency Program) on the brain as well as biological factors that promote atherosclerosis.

The program is designed to help people reduce stress and build resilience through mind-body techniques such as mindfulness-based meditation, yoga and tai chi. Such measures activate the parasympathetic nervous system, which calms the brain and body.

Even without a formal program, Osborne said people could minimize their body’s heart-damaging reactions to stress. One of the best ways is through habitual physical exercise, which can help to tamp down stress and the bodywide inflammation it can cause.

Given that poor sleep increases stress and promotes arterial inflammation, developing good sleep habits can also reduce the risk of cardiovascular damage. Adopt a consistent pattern of bedtime and awakening, and avoid exposure at bedtime to screens that emit blue light, such as smartphones and computers, or use blue-light filters for such devices.

Practice relaxing measures such as mindfulness meditation, calming techniques that slow breathing, yoga and tai chi.

Several common medications can also help, Osborne said. Statins not only reduce cholesterol, they also counter arterial inflammation, resulting in a greater cardiovascular benefit than from their cholesterol-lowering effects alone.

Antidepressants, including the anesthetic ketamine, may also help to minimize excessive amygdalar activity and ease stress in people with depression.

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

EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESION DE EDILBERTO TORRES ADAMES; COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS YADIEL EDILBERTO TORRES MENDEZ, TARA KASSANDRA TORRES MENDEZ Y KEVIN EDILBERTO TORRES RAMOS, FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; MAYRA ENID RAMOS BAEZ, POR SÍ Y EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA.

Yo, LUIS A. NIEVES RIVERA, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL #659, 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 4 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Sebastián, San Sebastián, 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

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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 San Sebastián 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 11 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 18 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar identificado en el plano de inscripción con el número Uno (1), radicado en el BARRIO ENEAS del Municipio de San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de OCHOCIENTOS PUNTO CERO CERO (800.00) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, en VEINTIUNO PUNTO SESENTA MIL TRES (21.60003) METROS, con Carretera Estatal número PR guión Cuatrocientos Cincuenta y Uno (PR-451); por el SUR, en VEINTE PUNTO CINCO MIL SEISCIENTOS SESENTA Y CUATRO (20.5664) METROS, con remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el ESTE, en TREINTA Y CUATRO PUNTO SIETE MIL CIENTO SETENTA Y CUATRO (34.7174) METROS, con Carlos Omar Santiago; y por el OESTE, en ONCE PUNTO NUEVE MIL NOVECIENTOS TREINTA Y CUATRO (11.9934) METROS y en VEINTICINCO PUNTO MIL TRESCIENTOS TREINTA Y NUEVE (25.1339) METROS, con remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 422 de San Sebastián, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián, finca número 22,526, inscripción cuarta.

La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Solar 1, Barrio Eneas, Carretera 451, San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $123,083.22 de principal, intereses al 5.625% anual, desde el día 1ro. de junio de 2015, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $13,900.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que

Tuesday, January 4, 2022 la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $139,000.00.

Si no produjere remate ni adjudicación la primera subasta, en la segunda subasta servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactado, es decir la suma de $92,666.67.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado, o sea la suma de $69,500.00. 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 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 San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, a 7 de diciembre de 2021. LUIS A. NIEVES RIVERA, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL #659, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN. **

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO

ANGELITA MARRERO QUIÑONES Peticionaria

EX PARTE

Civil Núm.: RG2021CV00436.

Sala: 306. Sobre: PETICIÓN DE DOMINIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: CUALQUIER PERSONA CON INTERÉS Y/O PERSONAS IGNORADAS A QUIENES PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA PRESENTE CAUSA DE ACCIÓN Y A LOS QUE TENGAN CUALQUIER DERECHO REAL SOBRE LA FINCA OBJETO DE ESTE PROCEDIMIENTO.

La peticionaria ha radicado en este Tribunal una Solicitud para que se declare a favor de la Sucesión de Joaquín Marrero Rodríguez, el dominio de la siguiente finca: RÚSTICA: Solar localizado en el Barrio Zarzal del término municipal de Río Grande, Puerto Rico. Compuesto de setecientos veintitrés punto seis mil veintisiete metros cuadrados (723.6027 m.c), equivalentes a cero punto mil ochocientos cuarenta y uno Cuerdas (0.1841 cds.). Colindando por el Norte, en una alineación de veintinueve punto novecientos sesenta y tres metros (29.963 m.) y un largo de curva de cinco punto quinientos cuarenta metros (5.540 m.), con la Carretera Estatal número nueve seis siete (967); por el Sur, en una alineación de treinta y tres punto ciento veintinueve metros (33.129 m.), con Nelerin Pérez Matos; por el Este, en una alineación de dieciocho punto quinientos veinticuatro metros (18.524 m.), con Camino Municipal; y por el Oeste, en una alineación de veintiuno punto quinientos treinta y siete metros (21.537 m.) con Migdalia Castro López. Representa a la peticionaria, la abogada cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono es el siguiente: Lcda. lvette Rossana García Cruz PO BOX 373151 Cayey, PR 00737-3151 E-mail: garciacruzlaw@gmail.com Habiéndose dictado Orden por el Honorable Tribunal para que la solicitud de la peticionaria sea publicada por tres (3) veces en el término de veinte (20) días en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de LEGAL NOTICE Puerto Rico, para que cualquier ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO persona con interés y/o las

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21 personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la presente causa de acción de dominio y a todo ciudadano que tenga algún derecho real en dicho bien, para que comparezcan a alegar sus derechos dentro de los veinte (20) días de la última publicación del edicto. Se les apercibe que, si no comparecieren a contestar dicha petición dentro del término establecido, se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 14 de diciembre de 2021. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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LIME HOMES, LTD.

Parte Demandante Vs.

SUCESION DE RAMON LOPEZ VALERA COMPUESTA POR VALERY LOPEZ PEÑA, BRYAN LOPEZ PEÑA, RAMON LOPEZ SONERA, RAFAEL LOPEZ JIMENEZ, SAMUEL LOPEZ, FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; ROSA PEÑA IRIZARRY POR SI Y COMO CONYUGUE SUPERSTITE

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SS2020CV00366.

Salón Núm.: (0604). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: SUCESION DE RAMON LOPEZ VALERA COMPUESTA POR VALERY LOPEZ PEÑA, BRYAN LOPEZ PEÑA, RAMON LOPEZ SONERA, SAMUEL LOPEZ, RAFAEL LOPEZ JIMENEZ; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; ROSA PEÑA IRIZARRY POR SI Y COMO CONYUGUE SUPERSTITE: CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA: Y AL

PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Sebastián, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e 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: Sita en el Barrio Hoyamala en el término municipal de San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1,965.2000 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con Manolo Mejías antes, hoy con la Sucesión Salas; al SUR, con remanente; al ESTE, con remanente; y al OESTE, con Carretera Municipal. Consta inscrita al folio 130 del tomo 407 de San Sebastián, finca número 21,938. Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de San Sebastián. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al filio 100 vuelto del tomo 419 de San Sebastián, finca número 21,938, inscripción 5ta y última. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: 119 Bo. Hoyamala, Sector Daniel Méndez, San Sebastián, Puerto Rico 00685. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $73,139.99, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #211, otorgada en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de noviembre de 2001, ante el notario Félix R. Figueroa Cabán, inscrita al folio 100 del tomo 419 de San Sebastián, finca #21,938, inscripción 5ta y última. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 8 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Sebastián. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará

una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 15 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $48,759.99. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 22 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $36,569.99.

Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal: $68,974.60, con intereses a 5.268% anual, desde el 4 de enero de 2017, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más una suma equivalente a $14,627.99, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, 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. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior

procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Se informa que la propiedad objeto de ejecución se adquiere libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Expedido en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, a 8 de diciembre de 2021. LUIS A. NIEVES RIVERA, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL #659.

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ESTRELLA HOMES III, L.L.C. Demandante Vs.

CARLOS MIGUEL QUIÑONES SANTOS; ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV05239.

Salón Núm.: 604. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Yo, EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha del 3 de marzo de 2020, por la Secretaria del Tribunal Superior de San Juan en relación con la Sentencia dictada el 10 de diciembre de 2019, notificada el 12 de diciembre de 2019, y habiéndose publicado la Notificación de Sentencia por Edictos el 16 de diciembre de 2019, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento número setecientos dos (702). Apartamento residencial de forma irregular, localizado en el séptimo (7mo) nivel del Condominio Milenia Park, radicado en el Barrio Monacillos Urbanos, del término municipal de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. El área aproximada del apartamento es de seiscientos sesenta y siete punto cincuenta y un (667.51) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a sesenta y dos punto cero tres seis dos cuatro cinco (62.036245) metros cuadrados. Son sus linderos, por el NORTE, en una distancia de treinta y dos pies con dos pulgadas (32’2”), con espacio co-

22 mún aéreo; por el SUR, en una distancia de treinta y dos pies con dos pulgadas (32’2”) con elementos comunes generales; por el ESTE, en una distancia de diecinueve pies con cero pulgadas (19’0”) con el apartamento número setecientos uno (701); y por el OESTE, en una distancia de veintiún pies con ocho y media pulgadas (21’8 ½”) con el apartamento número setecientos tres (703). La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está situada en su lindero Sur. Consta de: una sala-comedor, una cocina, un pasillo principal en el cual están localizados un closet, un baño y tres (3) habitaciones con closet.

Le corresponde a este apartamento un espacio de estacionamiento para un (1) vehículo de motor el cual está identificado con el número 97. Este apartamento tiene una participación de cero punto cinco ocho ocho cinco cero cinco cero siete siete por ciento (0.588505077%) en los elementos comunes generales del condominio. Consta inscrita al folio 53 del tomo 975 de Monacillos. Finca Número 27,384, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de San Juan. Dirección de la propiedad: Condominio Millenia Park, Apartamento 702, 1785 Calle José Ferrer y Ferrer, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00928. Se designó esta propiedad como Hogar Seguro, en virtud de la Ley 195 del día 13 de septiembre de 2011, en virtud de la inscripción 1ra. Sujeta a Condiciones de venta a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, a través del Programa Mi Nuevo Hogar, por el término de 10 años concedida la suma de $4,856.03. Por su procedencia está afecta a: a. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico. b. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico. c.

Servidumbre a favor del Gobierno de la Capital. d. Servidumbre de alcantarillado pluvial de la Central San Jose, Inc. e.

Servidumbre a favor del Municipio de San Juan. Se apercibe a los licitadores para que procedan con la inspección física del inmueble objeto de ejecución previo a la celebración de las subastas. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la propiedad anteriormente descrita y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 27 DE ENERO DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $78,000.00. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 3 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $52,000.00.

TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 10 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $39,000.00. Las subastas se

llevarán a cabo para satisfacer al Banco demandante de las siguientes sumas de dinero adeudadas por la parte demandante conforme a la Sentencia dictada, a saber, la suma de $73,500.24 adeudada por concepto de principal e intereses vencidos al 16 de abril de 2019, y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, los cargos por demora vencidos que a igual fecha ascienden a $262.92, y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, las sumas adeudadas por concepto de seguros y/o contribuciones, la suma de $52.00 por concepto de adelantos, la suma de $1,126.80 adeudada por concepto de las mensualidades pospuestas relativas a la moratoria concedida por el paso del Huracán María por Puerto Rico, más la suma de $7,800.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Tribunal de San Juan, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del producto obtenido en dicha venta, el Alguacil pagará en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados hasta la suma convenida, en tercer término los intereses acumulados hasta la fecha de la subasta según pactados hasta su total y completo pago, en cuarto término, las sumas establecidas para el pago de recargos por demora hasta la fecha de la subasta y en quinto término la suma principal adeudada.

Disponiéndose, que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. El inmueble anteriormente descrito se encuentra afecto a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: (i) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de El Municipio de San Juan, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $47,000.00, sin intereses, vencedero en 20 años, constituida mediante la escritura número 142, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de mayo de 2012, ante el notario Rey Javier De León Colón, e inscrita al folio 53 del

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tomo 975 de Monacillos, finca número 27,384, inscripción 3ra. (ii) ANOTACIÓN PREVENTIVA DE DEMANDA radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, Civil Número SJ2019CV05239 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria de fecha 24 de mayo de 2019, seguida por Firstbank Puerto Rico (Demandante) Vs. Carlos Miguel Quiñones Santos, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Departamento de Hacienda (Demandada). Por la misma se reclama el pago de la suma de $73,500.24, más intereses vencidos y otros cargos anotado el día 11 de junio de 2019, al Tomo Karibe de Monacillos, Finca Número 27, 384, Anotación “A”, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Tercera, el cual se refiere al caso del epígrafe en la presente causa de acción. 1. La parte demandante Firstbank Puerto Rico fue sustituida por Estrella Homes III, L.L.C. mediante Orden del 6 de diciembre de 2021. 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. Se le notifica al Municipio de San Juan, al Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico; al Departamento de Hacienda; y a la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, en relación con los gravámenes posteriores inscritos a su favor para que comparezcan a reclamar cualquier derecho que en ley se les reconozca y se les advierte, además, que habrá de solicitarse la cancelación de sus derechos en el Registro de la Propiedad, una vez celebrada la venta en pública subasta. 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 10 de diciembre de 2021. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ

MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXI- cular; Sur, partiendo de la meLIAR, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR. dianera estructural intercalada, en 23.07’ hacia pared interior LEGAL NOTICE esquina oeste; Este, en 51.73’ ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO con la parcela remanente a deDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- nominarse Local Comercial 1-B NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA o C-1-B y Oeste, con la pared SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN estructural, paredes de área pública, escalera #3 y acceso JUAN vehicular, en una distancia total CONDADO 3, LLC de 51.73’ en recta. Este local Demandante V. contiene un cuarto de baño TOMÁS ULISES equipado con lavamanos e POVENTUD LÓPEZ, inodoro. La parte del local está SU ESPOSA CARMEN localizada en su parte Norte, MCDOUGAL MERCADO, dando al paseo común frontal Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL del edificio con puerta hacia la salida. PORCENTAJE: elemenDE GANANCIALES tos Comunes: 0.5926%. Finca COMPUESTA POR número 33290, inscrita al folio AMBOS 55 del tomo 985 de Sabana Demandados Llana (Sección V de San Juan).

Civil Núm.: KCD2014-2855. El siguiente pagaré consta Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO inscrito en la propiedad antes Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA mencionada y es el que se POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVI- pretende ejecutar: HIPOTECA: SO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Por $100,000.00, con intereses A: LOS CODEMANDADOS sobre la tasa de interés preferencial, en garantía de un pagaDE EPIGRAFE Y AL a favor del Portador, o a su PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: ré orden, que vence a la presenEl Alguacil que suscribe por la tación. Según escritura #189, presente anuncia y hace consotorgada en Río Grande, el 13 tar que en cumplimiento de una de mayo de 1998, ante William Sentencia dictada en el caso de M. Vidal Carvajal, inscrita al foepígrafe 20 de marzo de 2015, lio 55 del tomo 985 de Sabana notificada y archivada en autos Llana (ágora), inscripción 2da. el 25 de marzo de 2015; y de La hipoteca anterior ha sido un Mandamiento de Ejecución extendida por un término adiemitido el día 29 de noviembre cional de 15 años. Según esde 2021, que le ha sido dirigido critura #364-A, otorgada en Río por la Secretaria del Tribunal Grande, el 29 de julio de 1999, de Primera Instancia, Sala de ante William M. Vidal Carvajal, San Juan, procederá a vender inscrita en nota marginal, al foen subasta, y al mejor postor, lio 55 del tomo 985 de Sabana por separado, de contado y Llana (ágora), a la inscripción por moneda de curso legal de 2da. La referida hipoteca grava los Estados Unidos de Amériel bien inmueble antes descrito. ca, y/o giro postal, dinero en Que según surge del estudio efectivo, cheque de gerente o de título, la propiedad se encheque certificado a nombre cuentra afecta al siguiente gradel Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra vamen posterior: HIPOTECA: bancaria, con similar garantía Por $48,000.00, con intereses de todo título, derecho o interés sobre el balance insoluto del de los demandados de epígrafe mismo, igual al tipo resultante, sobre el inmueble que adelanal restar el 1/2% anual a la tasa te se describe. Se anuncia por preferencial (“prime rate”), en la presente que la PRIMERA garantía de un pagaré a favor SUBASTA habrá de celebrardel Portador, o a su orden, que se el día 3 DE FEBRERO DEL vence a la presentación. Según AÑO 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA escritura #365, otorgada en Río MAÑANA, en mi oficina localiGrande, el 29 de julio de 1999, zada en el Tribunal de Primera ante William M. Vidal CarvaInstancia, Sala Superior de San jal, inscrita al folio 55 del tomo Juan, sobre el inmueble que 985 de Sabana Llana (ágora), se describe a continuación: inscripción 3ra y última. La suURBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIbasta se llevará a cabo para ZONTAL: LOCAL COMERCIAL con su producto satisfacer al 1-A o C-1-A: Local comercial demandante, total o parciallocalizado en la planta baja del mente según sea el caso, de Condominio The Crystal Houla referida sentencia que fue se, localizado en la Avenida De dictada por las siguientes suDiego final, barrio de Sabana mas: $87,742.27 por concepto Llana, Río Piedras, Municipio de principal, más intereses acude San Juan, Puerto Rico, conmulados al día 3 de noviemsistente de la parte corresponbre de 2021, ascendentes a diente a la esquina Oeste de $32,914.93 y aquellos intereses lo que anteriormente fuera el que se continúen acumulando Local Comercial 1. Comprende desde el día tres de noviembre un área de 982.3371 pies cuade 2021, a razón de $11.58 drados, equivalentes a 91.2643 diarios. La demandada adeuda metros cuadrados. En linderos: además a la parte demandante Norte, con un frente de 23.03’, las costas, gastos y desembolterminando en medianera este sos de litigio, al igual que una de pared estructural intercasuma equivalente al diez (10%) lada, en colindancia con área de los pagarés correspondienpública, paseo y acceso vehi-

te a los gastos de honorarios de abogado según pactados.

Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de San Juan, durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá Libre de Cargas y Gravámenes posteriores. Los tipos mínimos a utilizarse para la subasta son los siguientes: El inmueble antes descrito ha sido tasado en la suma de CIEN MIL DÓLARES ($100,000.00) para que dicha suma sirva de tipo mínimo en la primera subasta a celebrarse. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 10 DE FEBRERO DEL AÑO 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha segunda subasta, una suma equivalente a las dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de SESENTA Y SEIS MIL SEISCIENTOS SESENTA Y SEIS DÓLARES CON SESENTA Y SEIS CENTAVOS ($66,666.66) para la finca antes descrita. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 17 DE FEBRERO DEL AÑO 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha tercera subasta, una suma equivalente a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de CINCUENTA MIL DÓLARES ($50,000.00) para la finca antes descrita. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 17 de diciembre de 2021, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

DESIREE ESTHER FIGUEROA FERRER

Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2019CV04186.

(407). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, al público en general. CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 5 de octubre de 2021 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso arriba indicado, venderé en la fecha o fechas que más adelante se indican, en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal, en mi oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, Puerto Rico, Avenida 65 Infantería, Carretera 3 Kilómetro 11.7, Carolina, Puerto Rico (Entrada de la Urbanización Mansiones de Carolina), todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada, en el inmueble que se describe a continuación, propiedad de la parte demandada Desiree Esther Figueroa Ferrer.

Dirección Física: Balcones de Carolina, Apt. C3-201, Carolina, PR 00987. Finca 60,990, inscrita al folio 190 del tomo 1,421 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda de Carolina.

URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la segunda planta del Edificio A del Condominio Balcones de Carolina, Tercera Fase, del término Municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Apartamento número C3-201. Área superficial del Apartamento: 934.79 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 86.84 metros cuadrados. Colindancias por el NORTE, con el Apartamento número C3-202, distancia de 38’2”; por el SUR, con áreas comunes, distancia de 38’2”; por el ESTE, con áreas comunes, distancia de 32’3”; y por el OESTE, con áreas comunes, distancia de 32’3”. Consta de un nivel y está dividido en los siguientes elementos: sala-comedor y puerta de entrada con acceso al vestíbulo del Edificio, cocina, balcón, tres cuartos de dormitorios con sus guardarropas, un baño.

Contiene un calentador de agua y gabinetes de cocina. Le corresponden a este Apartamento dos espacios de estacionamientos marcados, con el

número del Apartamento que le corresponde según los planos.

Le corresponde a este Apartamento en los elementos comunes generales del Condominio el 0.00692%. Finca 60,990: Por su procedencia está afecta a: a.

Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico. b. Servidumbre a favor del Municipio de Carolina. c. Servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company. Por sí está afecta a: a.

Sujeta a condiciones restrictiva a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico bajo la Ley 124 del día 10 de diciembre de 1993, por la cual se necesita consentimiento. No podrá vender, donar, permutar o de otro modo transferir la descrita propiedad por un término de 15 años. b. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $75,587.00, con intereses al 6% anual, vencedero el día 1 de noviembre de 2037, constituida mediante la escritura número 309, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de octubre de 2007, ante el notario Nelson H. Meléndez López, e inscrita al folio 209 del tomo 1,422 de Carolina, finca número 60,990, inscripción 2da. c.

Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $12,500.00, sin intereses, vencedero el día 31 de octubre de 2015, constituida mediante la escritura número 310, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de octubre de 2007, ante el notario Nelson H. Meléndez López, e inscrita al folio 209 del tomo 1,422 de Carolina, finca número 60,990, inscripción 4ta.

Sujeta a condiciones bajo el Programa “La Llave para tu Hogar”, por un término de 8 años. d. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 21 de febrero de 2012, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, en el Caso Civil número FCD120249, seguido por Doral Bank versus Desireé Esther Figueroa Ferrer, por la suma de $72,147.22, más intereses y otras sumas adicionales o en su defecto la venta en Pública Subasta, anotado el día 11 de mayo de 2012, al folio 209 del tomo 1,422 de Carolina, finca número 60,990, Anotación “A”. e. Modificada la hipoteca relacionada en la inscripción 2da., en cuanto al principal que será por $71,868.50 y el interés que será al 4% anual, vencedero el día 1 de julio de 2043, mediante la escritura número 271, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de junio de 2013, ante la notario Leilany Carrión Del Toro, e inscrita al folio 209 del tomo 1,422 de Carolina, finca número 60,990, inscripción 5ta. f. Acta de ratificación y/o con-

The San Juan Daily Star sentimiento, el Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, a determinado que no existe al presente impedimento para la modificación de la hipoteca de la inscripción 2da. y ratifica el rango de su hipoteca como una subordinada que surge en la inscripción 6ta., mediante la escritura número 452, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de agosto de 2017, ante el notario Roberto L. Varela Ríos, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 60,990, al margen de la inscripción 5.1. g. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $9,747.53, sin intereses, vencedero el día 1 de julio de 2043, constituida mediante la escritura número 272, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de junio de 2013, ante la notario Leilany Carrión Del Toro, e inscrita al folio 154 del tomo 1,510 de Carolina, finca número 60,990, inscripción 6ta. h.

Modificada la hipoteca relacionada en la inscripción 2da., previamente modificada en la inscripción 5ta., en cuanto al principal que será por $73,911.29 y el interés que será al 3.625% anual, vencedero el día 1 de enero de 2047, mediante la escritura número 59, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de enero de 2017, ante el notario Roberto L. Varela Ríos, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 60,990, inscripción 7ma. i.

Acta de ratificación y/o consentimiento, comparece la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, antes Banco de la Vivienda, a consentir la modificación de la inscripción 7ma., mediante la escritura número 610, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 13 de julio de 2017, ante la notario Laura Rivera Sorrentini, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 60,990, al margen de la inscripción 7.1. j.

Acta de ratificación y/o consentimiento, comparece el Secretary of Housing and Urban Development a consentir modificación de la hipoteca de la inscripción 2da., y reconoce el rango de la hipoteca como subordinada que surge en la inscripción 6ta., mediante la escritura número 452, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de agosto de 2017, ante el notario Roberto L. Varela Ríos, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 60,990, inscripción 5.1. k. Hipoteca subordinada a favor del Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, por la suma de $3,603.20, sin intereses, vencedero el día 1 de enero de 2047, mediante la escritura número 170, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de febrero de 2019, ante el notario Roberto L. Varela Ríos, e inscri-

ta al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 60,990, inscripción 9na. l. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 28 de octubre de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el Caso Civil número CA2019CV04186, seguido por el Banco Popular de Puerto Rico versus Desiree Esther Figueroa Ferrer, por la suma de $70,715.04, más intereses y otras sumas adicionales o en su defecto la venta en Pública Subasta, anotado el día 15 de julio de 2020, al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 60,990, Anotación “B”, y última.

El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 60,990 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: FECHA DE SUBASTA: PRIMERA SUBASTA: 14 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $73,911.29. HIPOTECA: Escritura Número 309, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 31 de octubre de 2007, ante el Notario Nelson H. Meléndez López.

SEGUNDA SUBASTA: 21 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $49,274.19. TERCERA SUBASTA: 28 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $36,955.65. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación que se transmite y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si las hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante las acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de las mismas, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Conforme a la Sentencia dictada el día 6 de febrero de 2020 y archivada en los autos el 13 de febrero de 2020, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: La suma principal de $70,715.04, más la suma de $2,892.83, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños,

Tuesday, Jamuary 4, 2022 poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de noviembre de 2021. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, ALGUACIL #830, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

CARMEN LUISA MURIEL SANTOS, ET AL.

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV00990.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Yo, EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, al público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 15 de octubre de 2021, por la Secretaria de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento residencial marcado con el número trescientos uno (301), localizado en el tercer (3er) piso del Edificio “A” del Plano de Inscripción del Condominio Atrium

Plaza, radicado en el Barrio Hato Rey Norte, del término municipal de San Juan, con una cabida superficial de aproximadamente mil doscientos nueve punto setenta y ocho pies cuadrados (209.78 pc), equivalentes a ciento doce punto cuarenta y cinco metros cuadrados (112.45 mc), en lindes por el Norte, con Residencial La Morada, en distancia de siete punto nueve metros (7.9 m); por el Sur, con pared medianera, pasillo y acceso que lo separa del apartamento doscientos dos (202) en distancia de siete punto veinte metros (7.20 m); por el Este, con edificio “B” del condominio y con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento trescientos nueve (309) en distancia de doce punto ochenta metros (12.80 m); y por el Oeste, con la Calle José Oliver, en distancia de trece punto nueve metros (13.9 m). Este apartamento consta de salacomedor, balcón, cocina, tres (3) dormitorios, dos (2) baños, closets y participa en .7674% de los elementos comunes del condominio. El acceso desde el apartamento a la escalera, aceras, calles, patios y paseos del proyecto es a través de la puerta principal, localizada al Sur de dicho apartamento. A este apartamento le corresponde el área de estacionamiento A trescientos uno (A-301), el cual tiene un área de trece punto ochenta metros cuadrados (13.80 mc).” Consta inscrita al folio 1, tomo 1,299 de Río Piedras Norte, finca número 36,036, del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de II de San Juan. Dirección física: Apartament 301 Bldg. A Atrium Plaza Cond. San Juan PR 00918. La finca 36,036 está gravada con la siguiente hipoteca cuya ejecución se solicita en la subasta objeto de este edicto: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Popular Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $179,000.00, con intereses al 7% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 114, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 8 de marzo de 2007, ante la notario Néstor Machado Cortés, e inscrita al folio 169 del tomo 1,523 de Río Puedras Norte, finca número 36,036, inscripción 5ta. La propiedad está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: A. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretary of the Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $179,000.00, con intereses al 7% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 115, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 8 de marzo de 2007, ante el notario Néstor Machado Cortés, e inscrita al folio 169 del tomo 1,523 de Río Piedras Norte, finca número 36,036, ins-

cripción 6ta. B. Aviso de demanda de fecha de 31 de enero de 2019, expedido en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, en el caso Civil Número SJ2019CV0990, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por el Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Carmen Luisa Muriel Santos también conocida como Carmen Laura Muriel Santos; y el Secretario de la Vivienda de Desarrollo Urbano de Estados Unidos de América, por la suma de $293,367.93, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 14 de marzo de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Río Piedras Norte, finca número 36,036, Anotación A. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Banco Popular de Puerto Rico por la hipoteca de $179,000.00 total o parcialmente. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Banco Popular de Puerto Rico total o parcialmente el importe de la Sentencia emitida el 24 de enero de 2020, notificada y archivada en autos el 5 de febrero de 2020. El importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, asciende a las siguientes cantidades: $293,367.93 de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 7% anual a partir del 2 de octubre de 2018, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la deuda, más una suma de $17,900.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más la cantidad de $17,900.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $17,900.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la antes descrita propiedad y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 31 DE ENERO DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $179,000.00. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 7 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $119,333.33.

TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 14 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $89,500.00. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del pro-

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ducto obtenido en dicha venta, el Alguacil pagará en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hasta la suma convenida, en tercer término los intereses devengados hasta la fecha de la subasta, en cuarto término las sumas establecidas en la Sentencia para el pago de recargos por demora, contribuciones, seguros y en quinto término la suma principal adeudada conforme con la sentencia dictada.

Disponiéndose que si quedara algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas o gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se le apercibe a los tenedores de gravámenes posteriores al que se ejecuta que, para proteger cualesquiera derechos que tengan sobre el inmueble, deberán comparecer a la subasta, pues de no hacerlo así y de no igualar el precio de venta del gravamen hipotecario que se ejecuta, el Tribunal ordenará la cancelación de todos los gravámenes posteriores. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si se declara 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 mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de San Juan, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico una vez por semana por un término de dos (2) semanas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre cada publicación. Se fijará además, en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía de dicho Municipio. Se notificará a

la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a su dirección que obra en autos. Una vez efectuada la correspondiente venta judicial, otorgaré la escritura del traspaso al licitador victorioso, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la Sentencia. Colocaré al licitador victorioso en posesión física de la Propiedad mediante el lanzamiento de los ocupantes en el término legal de veinte (20) días desde la fecha de la venta en pública subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el Tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante o ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. El Registrador de la Propiedad cancelará, libre de derechos, todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción, y procederá a la inscripción de la venta a favor del comprador en subasta libre de todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 14 de diciembre de 2021. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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

BAUTISTA REO PR, CORP. Demandante, vs.

E.L. CAR CORPORATION; EDISBERTO LAGARES RUIZ; SU ESPOSA ISABEL MARÍA CRUZ BURGOS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados TPI NÚM: CCD2014-0106 (402). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO; INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. AVISO DE SUBASTA.

A: AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; E.L. CAR CORPORATION; EDISBERTO LAGARES RUIZ; SU ESPOSA ISABEL MARÍA CRUZ BURGOS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL

DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Y A LOS ACREEDORES DE GRAVÁMENES ANTERIORES Y/O POSTERIORES A LOS QUE SE EJECUTAN

Yo, LUENGY VIERA ROMAN, Alguacil del Tribunal de Arecibo, al Público hago saber: En cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 5 de octubre de 2021, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre las siguientes propiedades pertenecientes a los co-demandados Edisberto Lagares Ruiz; su esposa Isabel María Cruz Burgos y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por ambos, las cuales se describen a continuación: A - Finca #2,631: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno marcada con el número 1 del plano de Inscripción de lotificación de una finca propiedad de Fernando Cruz Morales, ubicada en el barrio Florida Afuera del término municipal de Barceloneta, con una cabida superficial de 1,792.08 metros cuadrados. En lindes; por el NORTE; con carretera estatal número 2, en su predio dedicado a uso público; al SUR, con Fernando Cruz Morales; por el ESTE, con el predio número 2 de la finca principal; y por el OESTE, con la Sucesión de Juan Miranda.

Es el remanente de esta finca luego de deducidos las segregaciones que constan al margen de la inscripción 2da, según escritura número 225, otorgada en Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, el día 17 de noviembre de 1978, ante el notario Pedro Pérez Rodríguez, e inscrita al folio 227 del tomo 68 de Barceloneta, finca # 2,631, inscripción 3ra. Inscrita al folio 224 del tomo 68 de Barceloneta, finca número dos mil seiscientos treinta y uno (2,631), del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Manatí. Los propietarios registrales son Edisberto Lagares Ruiz y su esposa Isabel María Cruz Burgos, quienes la adquirieron según la escritura número #18, otorgada en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el día 9 de agosto de 1993 ante el notario Manlio Arraiza Donate, e inscrita al folio 120 del tomo 183 de Barceloneta, inscripción 10ma. La hipoteca, según inscrita, que grava la Finca #2,631 y cuya ejecución se solicita en la subasta objeto de este edicto es la siguiente: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $319,000.00, con intereses al 6.95% anual, vencedero a la

24 presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 305, otorgada el 30 de junio de 2004, ante la notario Elaine Villanueva Martínez, e inscrita al folio 120 vuelto del tomo 183 de Barceloneta, finca #2,631, inscripción 11ma, como Asiento Abreviado extendida las líneas el día 20 de noviembre de 2014, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. Fue presentado el día 26 de agosto de 2004 al Asiento 760 del Diario 285. La Finca #2,631 también se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen posterior de cuyo pagaré hipotecario Bautista REO es también tenedor: : 1) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $25,000.00, con interés fluctuante, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 26, otorgada en (no expresa), Puerto Rico, el día 9 de febrero de 2014, ante el notario Elaine Villanueva Martínez, e inscrita al folio 120 vuelto del tomo 183 de Barceloneta, finca número 2,631, inscripción 11ma, como Asiento Abreviado extendida las líneas el día 20 de noviembre de 2014, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. Fue presentado el día 21 de febrero de 2005 al Asiento 858 del Diario 293. Además, existen tres documentos con relación a la Finca #2,361 los cuales se encuentran pendientes de inscripción: 2) AL ASIENTO 832 DEL DIARIO 322, se presentó el día 21 de enero de 2014, Aviso de Demanda, dictado el dia 26 de diciembre de 2013, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Arecibo, Caso Civil número CCD2013-0862, sobre Cobro de Dinero, Ejecución de Prenda e Hipoteca, por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por Doral Bank, contra Edisberto Lagares Ruíz y su esposa Isabel María Cruz Burgos, donde se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con las hipotecas que afectan las fincas # 324; 2,629; 2,631 y 9,423 de Barceloneta, ascendentes a la suma de $1,290,790.28 o la venta en Pública Subasta. 3) AL ASIENTO 1,073 DEL DIARIO 324, se presentó el día 26 de septiembre de 2014, Instancia de fecha 1 de agosto de 2004, ante la notario Sonia E. Reyes De Jesús, en la cual se solicita la cancelación de hipoteca por la suma de $100,000.00, según inscripción 7ma., relacionada.

4) Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra E.L. CAR Corp., seguro social número xxx-xx-7211, en la suma de $1,666.29, por concepto de Contribuciones Sobre Ingresos, según Certificación de fecha 24 de agosto de 2021, presentado el día 31 de agosto de 2012, caso número NUMARE-12-2287, y anotado al folio 161 (Orden número 657) del

Libro del ELA número 1, (Ley 12). Primera Subasta: Se celebrará el día 11 de enero de 2022, a las 10:00 de la mañana en la Oficina de Alguaciles del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo. Tipo mínimo: $319,000.00. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo 2/3 partes del valor de la transacción. Segunda Subasta: Se celebrará el día 19 de enero de 2022, a las 10:00 de la mañana en la Oficina de Alguaciles del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo. Tipo mínimo: $212,666.67. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo 1/2 del valor de la transacción. Tercera Subasta: Se celebrará el día 26 de enero de 2022, a las 10:00 de la mañana en la Oficina de Alguaciles del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo. Tipo mínimo: $159,500.00. B - Finca #2,629.

URBANA: Casa y solar en el Barrio Florida Afuera del término municipal de Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, sitio conocido por Cruce Dávila, kilómetro 57 hectómetro 3 de la Carretera Estatal número 2, la casa de concreto, dos plantas de 28’ de frente por 43’ de fondo, destinada a vivienda, midiendo el solar un área de 579.40 metros cuadrados, linda por el NORTE, en 28.70 metros, con María Miranda; por el SUR, en 32.30 metros, con Emilia Feliciano Ríos; por el ESTE, en 18.73 metros, con Fernando Cruz Morales; y por el OESTE, en 19.39 metros, con camino que la separa de terreno de la Autoridad de Tierras. Consta inscrita al folio 215 del tomo 68 de Barceloneta, finca #2,629 del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Manatí. Los propietarios registrales son Edisberto Lagares Ruiz y su esposa Isabel Cruz Burgos, quienes la adquirieron según la escritura número #262, otorgada en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de agosto de 1989 ante el notario José H. Luciano Vélez, e inscrita al folio 7 del tomo 98 de Barceloneta, inscripción 12ma. La hipoteca, según inscrita, que grava la Finca #2,629 y cuya ejecución se solicita en la subasta objeto de este edicto es la siguiente: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $143,000.00, con intereses al 6.95% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 303, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de junio de 2004, ante la notario Elaine Villanueva Martínez, e inscrita al folio 147 del tomo 256 de Barceloneta, finca número #2,629, inscripción 13ra. La Finca #2,629 también se encuentra afecta al siguiente

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gravamen posterior de cuyo pagaré hipotecario Bautista REO es también tenedor: 1) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $25,000.00, con interés al 2% sobre el “Prime Rate”, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número #27, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 9 de febrero de 2006, ante la notario Elaine Villanueva Martínez, e inscrita al folio 147 del tomo 256 de Barceloneta, finca 2,629, inscripción 14ta y última. Además, existen dos documentos con relación a la Finca #2,629 los cuales se encuentran pendientes de inscripción: 1) AL ASIENTO 832 DEL DIARIO 322, se presentó el día 21 de enero de 2014, Aviso de Demanda, dictado el dia 26 de diciembre de 2013, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Arecibo, Caso Civil número CCD2013-0862, sobre Cobro de Dinero, Ejecución de Prenda e Hipoteca, por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por Doral Bank, contra Edisberto Lagares Ruíz y su esposa Isabel María Cruz Burgos, donde se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con las hipotecas que afectan las fincas número 324; 2,629; 2,631 y 9,423 de Barceloneta, ascendentes a la suma de $1,290,790.28 o la venta en Pública Subasta. 2) Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra E.L. CAR Corp, seguro social número xxx-xx-7211, en la suma de $1,666.29, por concepto de Contribuciones Sobre Ingresos, según Certificación de fecha 24 de agosto de 2012, presentado el día 31 de agosto de 2012, caso número NUMARE-12-2287, y anotado al folio 161 (Orden número 657) del Libro del ELA número 1, (Ley 12). Primera Subasta: Se celebrará el día 11 de enero de 2022 a las 10:15 de la mañana en la Oficina de Alguaciles del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo. Tipo mínimo: $143,000.00. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo 2/3 partes del valor de la transacción. Segunda Subasta: Se celebrará el día 19 de enero de 2022, a las 10:15 de la mañana en la Oficina de Alguaciles del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo. Tipo mínimo: $95,333.33. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo 1/2 del valor de la transacción. Tercera Subasta: Se celebrará el día 26 de enero de 2022, a las 10:15 de la mañana en la Oficina de Alguaciles del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo.

Tipo mínimo: $71,500.00. C - Finca #324.

URBANA: Solar sito en la Calle

Eduardo Georgetti que conduce a la Estación del Ferrocarril del pueblo de Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, con una superficie de 684.00 metros cuadrados, linda al frente o ESTE, con la prolongación de dicha calle, a la derecha entrando NORTE, con solar y casa de Juan de la Torre Hornedo; a la izquierda por el SUR y al fondo u OESTE, con terrenos de Balseiro y Georgetti, hoy Compañía Georgetti S. en C. Enclava una casa de concreto armado de una planta, techada de zinc, en forma de azotea de extensión de 11.30 metros al Norte, 11.30 metros al Sur, y 11.00 metros al Oeste, igual a 124.30 metros superficiales y además contiene una casa de dos plantas de hormigón, destinados los altos a vivienda y los bajos a comercio que mide 29’ de frente con 47’ y 2” de fondo. Además, tiene una edificación de bloques de hormigón, techado de concreto destinada a garaje y que mide 12’1/2 de frente por 20’ de fondo. Son las colindancias de esta edificación las mismas del solar en que radican. Consta inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 54 de Barceloneta, finca #324, del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Manatí. Los propietarios registrales son Edisberto Lagares Ruiz y su esposa Isabel Cruz Burgos, quienes la adquirieron mediante la escritura número #25, otorgada el día 28 de agosto de 1987, ante el notario Carlos E. Rosario Sánchez, inscrita al folio 5 del tomo 54 de Barceloneta, inscripción 13ra y última como Asiento Abreviado extendida las líneas el día 16 de enero de 2015, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. Fue presentado el día 21 de junio de 2004 al Asiento 651 del Diario 284.

La hipoteca, según inscrita, que grava la Finca #324 y cuya ejecución se solicita en la subasta objeto de este edicto es la siguiente: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $425,000.00, con intereses al 6.95% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 304, otorgada en (no expresa), Puerto Rico, el día 30 de junio de 2004, ante el notario Elaine Villanueva Martínez, e inscrita al folio 5 del tomo 54 de Barceloneta, finca número 324, inscripción 13era, como Asiento Abreviado extendida las líneas el día 16 de enero de 2015, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. Fue presentado el día 26 de agosto de 2004 al Asiento 759 del Diario 285). La Finca #324 antes descrita se encuentra gravada por los siguientes gravámenes preferentes a la hipoteca: 1) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Portador, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $15,000.00, con intereses al 8% anual, ven-

cedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 52, otorgada en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de mayo de 1971, ante el notario José H. Luciano Vélez, e inscrita al folio 1 vuelto del tomo 54 de Barceloneta, finca # 324, inscripción 10ma. 2) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Portador, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $15,000.00, con intereses al 8% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 23, otorgada en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de mayo de 1973, ante el notario José H. Luciano Vélez, e inscrita al folio 2 vuelto del tomo 54 de Barceloneta, finca # 324, inscripción 11ma. 3) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Portador, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $10,000.00, con intereses al 9% anual, vencedero a la presentación,constituida mediante la escritura número 49, otorgada en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el día 11 de mayo de 1976, ante el notario Antonio Pérez Bayón, e inscrita al folio 2 vuelto del tomo 54 de Barceloneta, finca número 324, inscripción 12ma. La Finca #324 también se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen posterior de cuyo pagaré hipotecario Bautista REO es también tenedor: 1) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $25,000.00, con interés fluctuante, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 28, otorgada el día 9 de febrero de 2006, ante el notario Elaine Villanueva Martínez, e inscrita al folio 5 del tomo 54 de Barceloneta, finca número #324, inscripción 13era, como Asiento Abreviado extendida las líneas el día 16 de enero de 2015, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010.

Fue presentado el día 21 de febrero de 2005 al Asiento 860 del Diario 243. Además, existen dos documentos con relación a la Finca #324 los cuales se encuentran pendientes de inscripción: 1) Aviso de Demanda dictado el día 21 de enero de 2014 en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Arecibo, Caso Civil número C CD2013-0862, sobre Cobro de Dinero, Ejecución de Prenda e Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por Doral Bank contra Edisberto Lagarez Ruiz y su esposa Isabel María Cruz Burgos donde se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con las hipotecas que afectan las fincas número #324, #2,269, #2,631 y #9,423 de aBarceloneta, ascendentes a la suma de $1,290,790.28, Presentado y Pendiente de Despacho al Asiento 832 del Diario 322. 2) Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra E.L. CAR Corporation, seguro social número xxx-

xx-7211, en la suma de $1,666.29, por concepto de Contribuciones Sobre Ingresos, según Certificación de fecha 24 de agosto de 2012, presentado el día 31 de agosto de 2012, caso número NUMARE-12-2287, y anotado al folio 161 (Orden número 657) del Libro del ELA número 1, (Ley 12). Primera Subasta: Se celebrará el día 11 de enero de 2022 a las 10:30 de la mañana en la Oficina de Alguaciles del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo. Tipo mínimo: $425,000.00. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo 2/3 partes del valor de la transacción. Segunda Subasta: Se celebrará el día 19 de enero de 2022, a las 10:30 de la mañana en la Oficina de Alguaciles del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo. Tipo mínimo: $283,333.33. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo 1/2 del valor de la transacción. Tercera Subasta: Se celebrará el día 26 de enero de 2022, a las 10:30 de la mañana en la Oficina de Alguaciles del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo. Tipo mínimo: $212,500.00. D - Finca #9,423 URBANA: Parcela de terreno localizada en el Barrio Florida Afuera del término municipal de Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 1,585.20 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en 37.80 metros, con terrenos de Fernando Cruz; por el SUR, en 36.58 metros, con terrenos de la Autoridad de Tierras de Puerto Rico; por el ESTE, en 41.46 metros, con terrenos de Samuel Vázquez; y por el OESTE, en 42.68 metros, con José Dolores López y Juana Colón Concepción.

Consta inscrita al folio 10 del tomo 138 de Barceloneta, finca #9,423, del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Manatí. Los propietarios registrales son Edisberto Lagares Ruiz y su esposa Isabel Cruz Burgos, quienes la adquirieron mediante Resolución de fecha 11 de febrero de 1986, expedida en el Tribunal Superior de Arecibo, en el Caso Civil número CS85-1359, inscrita al folio 10 del tomo 138 de Barceloneta, inscripción 1ra. La hipoteca, según inscrita, que grava la Finca #9,423 y cuya ejecución se solicita en la subasta objeto de este edicto es la siguiente: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $313,000.00, con intereses al 6.95% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 306, otorgada el día 30 de junio de 2004, ante el notario Elaine Villanueva Martínez, e inscrita al folio 524 del tomo 286 de Bar-

celoneta, finca # 9,423, inscripción 2da,como Asiento Abreviado extendida las líneas el día 30 de octubre de 2017, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010.

Fue presentado el día 25 de agosto de 2004 al Asiento 761 del Diario 285. La Finca #9,423 también se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen posterior de cuyo pagaré hipotecario Bautista REO es también tenedor: 1) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $25,000.00, con interés fluctuante, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número #29, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 9 de febrero de 2006, ante el notario Elaine Villanueva Martínez, e inscrita al folio 525 del tomo 286 de Barceloneta, finca número 9,423, inscripción 3ra, y última, como Asiento Abreviado extendida las líneas el día 23 de octubre de 2017, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. Fue presentado el día 21 de febrero de 2005 al Asiento 861 del Diario 293.

Además, existen dos documentos con relación a la Finca #9,423 los cuales se encuentran pendientes de inscripción: 1) Aviso de Demanda dictado el día 21 de enero de 2014 en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Arecibo, Caso Civil número C CD2013-0862, sobre Cobro de Dinero, Ejecución de Prenda e Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por Doral Bank contra Edisberto Lagarez Ruiz y su esposa Isabel María Cruz Burgos donde se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con las hipotecas que afectan las fincas número #324, #2,269, #2,631 y #9,423 de aBarceloneta, ascendentes a la suma de $1,290,790.28, Presentado y Pendiente de Despacho al Asiento 832 del Diario 322. 2) Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra E.L. CAR Corporation, seguro social número xxxxx-7211, en la suma de $1,666.29, por concepto de Contribuciones Sobre Ingresos, según Certificación de fecha 24 de agosto de 2021, presentado el día 31 de agosto de 2012, caso número ARE-12-2287, y anotado al folio 161 (Orden número 657) del Libro del ELA número 1, (Ley 12). Primera Subasta: Se celebrará el día 11 de enero de 2022 a las 10:45 de la mañana en la Oficina de Alguaciles del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo. Tipo mínimo: $313,000.00. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo 2/3 partes del valor de la transacción. Segunda Subasta: Se celebrará el día 19 de enero de 2022, a las 10:45 de la mañana en la Oficina de

Alguaciles del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo. Tipo mínimo: $208,666.67. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo 1/2 del valor de la transacción. Tercera Subasta: Se celebrará el día 26 de enero de 2022, a las 10:45 de la mañana en la Oficina de Alguaciles del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo. Tipo mínimo: $156,500.00. La dirección física de las fincas #2,631, #2,629, #324 y #9,423 lo es: Sur PR-2 Km 56.9 Sector Cruce Dávila, Barceloneta, PR/No. 2 Calle Georgetti, Barceloneta PR. La venta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto, satisfacer en todo o en parte a Bautista REO PR Corp. el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe ascendente, al 28 de diciembre de 2016, a $1,212,865.09 en concepto al principal adeudado; $110,106.12 por concepto de intereses acumulados, que continuarán acumulándose a razón de $163.64 diarios hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $39,062.54 por concepto de cargos adicionales y $130,000 por conceptos de gastos, costas, honorarios de abogado.

Conforme a todo lo anterior, se ordena a Bautista REO PR Corp. a notificar la venta pública a los demandados y a los acreedores con créditos anteriores y/o posteriores inscritos conforme a las disposiciones aplicables de la Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria de Puerto Rico y su Reglamento y la Regla 51.7 de Procedimiento Civil, 32 L.P.R.A. Ap. V. La representación legal de la parte demandante lo es la licenciada Carolina Velaz Rivero, de Marini Pietrantoni Muñiz LLC, con oficinas sitas en el número #250 de la Avenida Ponce de León, Hato Rey, Suite 900, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918. Para propósitos de la venta judicial, el Alguacil que suscribe no aceptará que ningún postor efectúe su pago en otro método que no sea en dólares estadounidenses o cheque certificado, excepto por el acreedor ejecutante, quien tendrá el derecho de ofrecer sus créditos como licitación (incluyendo cualesquier créditos hipotecarios que graven la propiedad aquí descrita en rango inferior al gravamen ejecutado), en la medida que estos sean iguales o mayores que los tipos mínimos requeridos. De conformidad con lo establecido en la Regla 51.7 de Procedimiento Civil, 32 L.P.R.A. Ap. V, según enmendada, previo a la fecha de la subasta se estará publicando este aviso mediante edicto en un periódico de circulación general una vez a la semana por un periodo mínimo de dos semanas consecutivas, y por un periodo de dos semanas en tres lugares públicos como la

The San Juan Daily Star alcaldía, la colecturía, el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de los Municipios de Arecibo, Barceloneta y Manatí. Además, se notificará el aviso por correo certificado con acuse de recibo dentro de los primeros cinco (5) días de publicado el edicto a los deudores por sentencia y/o deudores hipotecarios a sus últimas direcciones conocidas y a los acreedores anteriores y posteriores a las hipotecas, cuya ejecución se solicita. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes a los créditos del ejecutante, si alguno, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Las propiedades subastadas serán adjudicadas al mejor postor en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo. El mejor postor deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto de la adjudicación y remate, excepto por el acreedor ejecutante, quien podrá acreditársele en todo o en parte el monto de su crédito, de conformidad con las disposiciones aplicables de la Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria de Puerto Rico, aunque deberá no obstante satisfacer la diferencia, si alguna, entre la postura ofrecida y el importe de su crédito más los intereses, teniendo que pagar dicho remanente en el acto de subasta, tal como se le exige a los demás postores. Artículos 105 y 106 de la Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria de Puerto Rico. Otorgaré la escritura del traspaso al licitador victorioso, según corresponda, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la Sentencia. El Registrador de la Propiedad cancelará, libre de derechos, todos los gravámenes posteriores a las fechas en que se otorgó la hipoteca sobre la propiedad que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción, y procederá a la inscripción de la venta a favor de los compradores en subasta libre de todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción. Se notifica a todos los interesados que, para más detalles sobre este procedimiento, los autos y récords del presentado caso podrán ser examinados en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, durante horas laborables. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy 22 de DICIEMBRE de 2021. LUENGY VIERA ROMAN, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS-

TANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE lopment Enterprises, Inc.; por el SUR, en una distancia de ARECIBO. 77.00 metros, con la calle B de LEGAL NOTICE la Urbanización Industrial de ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Río Piedras; por el ESTE, en DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- una distancia de 35.00 metros NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA con la Avenida Industrial de la CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN Urbanización; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 35.00 JUAN SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE metros con terrenos propiedad de Edelmiro Martínez Rivera.

PUERTO RICO Enclava un edificio industrial Demandante V. de concreto de una sola planta.

MÁXIMA INVESTMENT, Finca número 8,670, inscrita al INC.; DIRECT SERVICES, folio 222 del tomo 1993 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la ProLLC; TECHNOLOGY piedad, Sección V de San Juan RESEARCH & lo sucesivo, la “Propiedad”).

DEVELOPMENT, CORP. (en Dirección Física: Simón MadeT/C/C TECHNOLOGY ra Avenue, Corner with Albeñiz RESEARCH & Street, Villa Prades Industrial INVESTMENT, CORP.; Park, Sabana Llana Norte BANDA, LLC; DIGITAL Ward, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

La propiedad descrita anteriorCONNECTION, LLC; mente está afecta a los siguienPRIME SIGNAL, LLC tes gravámenes: Afecta por su T/C/C PRIME SIGNAL procedencia: Condiciones Restrictivas. Afecta por sí: HIPOTESERVICE, LLC; DRT INVESTMENT, LLC T/C/C CA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de WESTERNBANK DRT MANAGEMENT, LLC; PUERTO RICO, o a su orden, GREEN INVESTMENT, por la suma de $1,650,000.00, LLC; STEVEN ÁLVAREZ con interés al 7.75%, según FRATICELLI; DENNIS consta de la escritura #257, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto RIVERA TIRADO; SU Rico, el día 5 de mayo de 2006, ESPOSA TERESA ante la Notario Público Esther RADA CARRASQUILLO R. Luzón Colón, inscrita del T/C/C TERESITA RADA tomo Karibe de Sabana Llana, CARRASQUILLO T/C/C finca #8670, inscripción 14ª.

TERESA RADA; Y LA ANOTACIÓN DE DEMANDA: Es objeto de esta anotación la SOCIEDAD LEGAL Hipoteca a favor de WESTERN DE GANANCIALES BANK PUERTO RICO, por la suma de $1,650,000.00 que COMPUESTA ENTRE surge de la inscripción #14. DeELLOS mandante: BANCO POPULAR Demandados Caso Núm.: SJ2020CV06220. DE PUERTO RICO; Demanda(604). Sobre: COBRO DE DI- do: Titulares, Cantidad AdeudaNERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HI- da $1,413,513.65, por concepto POTECA. AVISO DE SUBAS- de principal más intereses, seTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE gún Demanda expedida por el AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE Tribunal de Primera Instancia, DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS Sala de San Juan, en el caso DE AMÉRICA, EL PUEBLO Civil #SJ2020CV06220 el día DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. YO, 19 de noviembre de 2020, insel(la) Alguacil que suscribe, crito al tomo KARIBE de Sabapor la presente anuncia y hace na Llana, finca 8670, ANOTAconstar, que en cumplimiento CIÓN B de fecha del 27 de abril del Mandamiento de Ejecución de 2021. Según pactado en la de Sentencia, expedido el 6 de Escritura número 257, otorgada diciembre de 2021 por la Secre- en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el taría de este Tribunal, procede- día 5 de mayo de 2006, ante la ré a vender en pública subasta Notario Público Esther Rebeca y al mejor postor, quien pagará Luzón Colón, que es objeto de el importe de la venta en dinero este procedimiento, servirá de efectivo o en cheque certificado tipo mínimo para la primera suo de gerente, a la orden del Al- basta de la propiedad descrita guacil suscribiente, en moneda la suma de $1,650,000.00. De del curso legal de los Estados no adjudicarse la propiedad en Unidos de América, el día 2 DE la primera subasta, se celebraFEBRERO DE 2022, A LA(S) rá una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi en las mismas oficinas de este oficina localizada en el Tribunal Alguacil, el día 9 DE FEBRERO de San Juan, todo título, dere- DE 2022, A LA(S) 10:00 DE LA cho o interés que corresponda MAÑANA. El tipo mínimo para a la parte demandada sobre la segunda subasta será dos el inmueble que se describe a terceras partes (2/3) del tipo continuación: URBANA: Solar mínimo de la primera subasta, con área de 2,695.00 metros o sea, $1,100,000.00. De no cuadrados, ubicado en la Ur- adjudicarse la propiedad en la banización Industrial de Río segunda subasta, se celebrará Piedras, Sabana Llana, Río una TERCERA SUBASTA en Piedras, en lindes por el NOR- las mismas oficinas de este TE, en una distancia de 77.00 Alguacil, el día 16 DE FEBREmetros con el solar de Deve- RO DE 2022, A LA(S) 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. El tipo mínimo

Tuesday, Jamuary 4, 2022 para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo que se pactara para la primera subasta, o sea, $825,000.00.

Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde alcance, el importe adeudado a BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, ascendente al 18 de noviembre de 2020, a una suma no menor de $1,413,513.65, la cual se compone de: (i) $1,215,740.23 por concepto de principal; más (ii) $30,149.25 por concepto de intereses acumulados, los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta su total y completo pago a la tasa de interés pactada por las partes la cual al 18 de noviembre de 2020 acumulaba a razón de $177.29 diarios; menos (iii) $2,624.17 por concepto de balance en la “cuenta escrow”; más (iv) la suma de $165,000.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado expresamente pactados entre las partes. 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 San Juan, Puer-

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to Rico, a 14 de diciembre de 2021. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN. ****

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

23 de diciembre de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representado 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 27 de diciembre de 2021. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 27 de diciembre de 2021. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. EREINA AGRONT LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV06142.

(604). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

Parte Demandante

SUCESIÓN DE HÉCTOR OLIVERAS CUMMINGS Y SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN ROSA DELGADO MENA LEGAL NOTICE AMBAS COMPUESTAS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO POR SUS HEREDEROS DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUCONOCIDOS ROSA NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS- MAGDALENA OLIVERAS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE DELGADO, MAYRA PONCE IVONNE OLIVERAS FIRSTBANK DELGADO Y HÉCTOR PUERTO RICO FRANCISCO OLIVERAS Demandante Vs DELGADO; FULANO MAYRA WALESKA DE TAL Y SUTANO DE MAYORAL MEJIAS; TAL COMO MIEMBROS WANDA MEJIAS BAEZ DESCONOCIDOS Y/O Demandado Civil Núm.: PO2021CV01100.

PARTES CON INTERÉS Salón: 406. Sobre: EJECUDE LA SUCESIÓN DE CIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COHÉCTOR OLIVERAS BRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACUMMINGS; JOHN CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR DOE Y RICHARD DOE EDICTO. COMO MIEMBROS A: MAYRA WALESKA DESCONOCIDOS Y/O MAYORAL MEJIAS; PARTES CON INTERÉS WANDA MEJIAS BAEZ, DE LA SUCESIÓN PARA SER NOTIFICADAS DE CARMEN ROSA POR EDICTO. DELGADO MENA; P/C: LIC. MONICA ESTADOS UNIDOS DE TABALES MALDONADO. AMÉRICA; CENTRO PO BOX 9022512 SAN DE RECAUDACIÓN DE JUAN PR 00902-2512.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se les INGRESOS MUNICIPALES notifica la sentencia por edicto) (CRIM); DEPARTAMENTO EL SECRETARIO(A) que susDE HACIENDA cribe le notifica a usted que

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A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE HÉCTOR OLIVERAS CUMMINGS Y DE JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN ROSA DELGADO MENA.

Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda de ejecución de hipoteca en sus contras. Se les notifica para que comparezcan ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso.

Se les notifica que deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede

acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan y enviando copia de su contestación a la parte demandante, Lcdo.

Fernando J. Gierbolini; 101 Ave. San Patricio, Suite 1120, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968; Tel. (787) 620-5300; Fax: (787) 620-5305; Correo electrónico: fgierbolini@msglawpr.com, se les anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la Demanda, sin más citárseles, ni oírseles. Se ORDENA a los herederos de los referidos causantes a saber: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL como miembros desconocidos y/o partes con interés de la SUCESIÓN DE HÉCTOR OLIVERAS CUMMINGS y de JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE como miembros desconocidos y/o partes con interés de la SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN ROSA DELGADO MENA, a que dentro del mismo término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación, ACEPTEN o REPUDIEN la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de los respectivos causantes. Se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por aceptada. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, a 28 de diciembre de 2021. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JESSICA SOTO PAGÁN, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de noviembre de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de diciembre de 2021.

En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 28 de diciembre de 2021. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SUE LAURIE SOTO ACEVEDO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE ANGEL DAVID DAZA PÉREZ Y SUCESIÓN DE LIBRADA DAZA DELGADO T/C/C LIBRADA DAZA DELGADA COMPUESTA FIRSTBANK POR SUS HIJOS: ANGEL PUERTO RICO DAZA Y PEDRO ANGEL Demandante V. DAZA, FULANO Y CHRISTINA CHAVONNE HENDERSON MENGANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS Demandado(a) Civil: RG2021CV00237. Sobre: DESCONOCIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO

EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: CHRISTINA CHAVONNE HENDERSON. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: SR 967 PR KM 0.7 INT. BO. JIMÉNEZ RÍO GRANDE, PR 00745; 101 8 APT., EDIF OLAS COND HILLSIDE VILLAGE RÍO GRANDE, PR 00745;

Demandado(a) Civil: FA2019CV01000. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA.

A: ANGEL DAZA COMO MIEMBRO DE LAS SUCESIONES DE ANGEL DAVID DAZA PÉREZ Y DE LIBRADA DAZA DELGADO T/C/C LIBRADA DAZA DELGADA - 2160 MATHEWS AVE., #7a,

26 BRONX, NY 10462.

PEDRO ANGEL DAZA COMO MIEMBRO DE LAS SUCESIONES DE ANGEL DAVID DAZA PÉREZ Y DE LIBRADA DAZA DELGADO T/C/C LIBRADA DAZA DELGADA - 2017 N SPRINGFIELD AVE., CHICAGO, IL 60647.

FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LAS SUCESIONES DE ANGEL DAVID DAZA PÉREZ Y DE LIBRADA DAZA DELGADO T/C/C LIBRADA DAZA DELGADA - DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de octubre de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de diciembre de 2021. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 28 de diciembre de 2021. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESION DE JUANITO MONTALVO DIAZ, COMPUESTA POR: GLORIBEL MONTALVO GONZALEZ, SANDRO MONTALVO GONZALEZ, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, JULIA MARIA GONZALEZ FELICIANO, POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; SANDRO MONTALVO GONZALEZ POR SI; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO

Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: AR2021CV01338.

Sobre: INTERPELACIÓN, COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE JUANITO MONTALVO DIAZ.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de diciembre de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de diciembre de 2021. En ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, el 28 de diciembre de 2021. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. PILAR H. MERCADO GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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VICTOR MATOS MARTINEZ; CARMEN CRUZ SANTIAGO Peticionarios

EX_PARTE

Civil Núm.: MZ2020CV01007.

(207). Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA-

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DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI- 29 de diciembre de 2021 bajo BIENES GANANCIALES, BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO mi firma y sello oficial. Lic. NorCOMPUESTA POR RICO, SS. ma G. Santana Irizarry, SecreAMBOS taria Regional Ii. Maritza Lebrón A: Personas ignoradas o Demandados Rosado, Secretaria Auxiliar Del desconocidas que crea CIVIL NÚM: KCD2016-2023 Tribunal. ser perjudicada con la (807). SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN LEGAL NOTICE DE GARANTÍAS (IN REM). ESinscripción solicitada, y cualquier otra persona ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO TADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESnatural o jurídica con DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- TADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LINAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA interés que crea tener TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS- BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO algún derecho real sobre TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE RICO. SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo EDWIN E LOPEZ esta propiedad.

BAYAMÓN Por la presente se notifica que SHARILYS RIVERA CRUZ MULERO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala SuDon Víctor Matos Martínez y Demandante V. perior de San Juan, al público Carmen Cruz Santiago han JIOVAR en general. CERTIFICO Y presentado una Petición ante RIVERA GONZALEZ HAGO SABER: Que en cumplieste Honorable Tribunal para Demandado(a) miento de un Mandamiento de que se declare justificado su dominio sobre el inmueble que Civil: BY2021RF01559. 3003. Ejecución de Sentencia fechase describe a continuación y se Sobre: PIRVACIÓN PATRIA do el 26 de octubre de 2021 inscriba el mismo a su favor. POTESTAD. NOTIFICACIÓN que me ha sido dirigido por la El inmueble se describe como DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior A: JIOVAR RIVERA sigue: RÚSTICA: Predio de de San Juan, en el caso arriba terreno localizado en el Barrio GONZALEZ. Parguera del término munici- (Nombre de las partes a las que se le indicado, venderé en la fecha o fechas que más adelante se innotifican la sentencia por edicto) pal de Lajas, con una cabida superficial de MIL SESENTA Y EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- dican, en pública subasta al TRES PUNTO CINCUENTA Y cribe le notifica a usted que el mejor postor, en moneda legal NUEVE METROS CUADRA- 28 de diciembre de 2021, este de los Estados Unidos de AméDOS (1,063.59 mc.), equivalen- Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, rica, en efectivo, cheque certifites a 0.2706 cuerda; en lindes Sentencia Parcial o Resolución cado o giro postal, en mi oficina por el NORTE, con terrenos de en este caso, que ha sido debi- sita en el local que ocupa en el Don Carlos J. Rodríguez Mal- damente registrada y archivada Centro Judicial de San Juan, avé; por el SUR, con la Suce- en autos donde podrá usted Puerto Rico, todo derecho, títusión Héctor Correa Vélez; por enterarse detalladamente de lo e interés que tenga la parte el ESTE, con terrenos de Don los términos de la misma. Esta demandada, en el inmueble Emelindo Avilés Mercado y por notificación se publicará una que se describe a continuación, el OESTE, con carretera mu- sola vez en un periódico de propiedad de la parte demannicipal número 324. Contiene circulación general en la Isla dada Rafael Angel Torres Bordos estructuras dedicadas a de Puerto Rico, dentro de los ges t/c/c Rafael A. Torres Borvivienda. Catastro número 405- 10 días siguientes a su notifica- ges t/c/c Refael Torres Borges 000-009-01-058. La abogada ción. Y, siendo o representando t/c/c Rafael Angel t/c/c Tafael A. de la parte peticionaria es la usted una parte en el procedi- Torres, María López Hernández miento sujeta a los términos y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes siguiente: LCDA. CAREN A. RUIZ PEREZ de la Sentencia, Sentencia Gananciales compuesta por RUA 19,900 Parcial o Resolución, de la cual ambos. Dirección Física: Urb. #160 Ave. Universidad Interamericana puede establecerse recurso de Berwind Estates, P-10 Calle 16, San Germán, P.R. 00683 revisión o apelación dentro del San Juan, Puerto Rico. Finca TEL.(787) 264-4444 término de 30 días contados a 17,602, inscrita al folio 250 del ruizcaren@yahoo.com Y se le notifica a usted, que partir de la publicación por edic- tomo 418 de Sabana Llana, Reeste Tribunal ha ordenado se le to de esta notificación, dirijo a gistro de la Propiedad de Puercite para que de verse perjudi- usted esta notificación que se to Rico, Sección Quinta de San cado por la inscripción que se considerará hecha en la fecha Juan. URBANA: Solar radicado solicita pueda oponerse opor- de la publicación de este edic- en el Barrio Sabana Llana de tunamente a este expediente to. Copia de esta notificación Río Piedras, término municipal de dominio; advirtiéndole que ha sido archivada en los autos de San Juan, Puerto Rico, marde no presentar oposición den- de este caso, con fecha de 28 cado con el #10 del bloque P de tro del término de veinte (20) de diciembre de 2021. En Ba- la Urbanización Berwind Estadías a contar desde la última yamón, Puerto Rico, el 28 de tes, con una cabida superficial publicación de este edicto, los diciembre de 2021. Lcda. Laura de 495.00 metros cuadrados. promoventes podrán obtener I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. En colindancias por el NORTE, que se apruebe esta solicitud Isabel C Souchet Burgos, Se- con el solar #9 del propio bloque, en una longitud de 33.00 de Expediente de Dominio y se cretaria Auxiliar. metros; por el SUR, con el solar mande a inscribir a su nombre, LEGAL NOTICE #11 del propio bloque, en una en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO longitud de 33.00 metros; por el San Germán, el dominio del DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- ESTE, con la calle #16, en una predio de terreno anteriormen- NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA longitud de 15.00 metros; y por te descrito. El Edicto se publi- SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN el OESTE, con el solar #33 del propio bloque, en una longitud cará tres (3) veces dentro de JUAN. de 15.00 metros. Enclava edifiFIRSTBANK un período de veinte (20) días cación de concreto y bloques en un periódico de circulación PUERTO RICO para residencia. Finca 17,602. general diaria, para que los Demandante v. que tengan algún derecho real RAFAEL ANGEL TORRES Por su procedencia está afecta a: a. Servidumbre a favor de la sobre el inmueble descrito, las BORGES T/C/C RAFAEL Puerto Rico Telephone Compersonas ignoradas a quienes A. TORRES BORGES pany. b. Condiciones restrictipueda perjudicar la inscripción, T/C/C RAFAEL TORRES vas sobre edificación y uso. Por y en general, a todos los que desearen oponerse, puedan BORGES T/C/C RAFAEL sí está afecta a: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor efectuarlo dentro del término ANGEL T/C/C RAFAEL de The Mortgage Loan Comde veinte (20) días a partir de A. TORRES, MARIA pany Inc., o a su orden, por la la última publicación del Edicto.

LÓPEZ HERNÁNDEZ Y suma principal de $212,000.00, Por tanto, libro la presente en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico hoy día LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE con intereses al 6.625% anual, vencedero el día 1ro de agosto

de 2035, constituida mediante la escritura número 278, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de julio de 2005, ante el notario Héctor Luis Torres Dávila, e inscrita al folio 143 del tomo 1074 de Sabana Llana, finca número 17,602, inscripción 10ma. b. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 23 de abril de 2010, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número KCD10-1440 (903), sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por Doral Bank, contra Rafael Ángel Torres Borges también conocido como Rafael A. Torres, María López Hernández y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, para responder por la suma de $205,025.57, y otros gastos, anotado el día 17 de junio de 2010, al folio 143 del tomo 1074 de Sabana Llana, finca número 17,602, Anotación B. c. Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 10ma, en cuanto al principal que se amplía en la suma de $72,615.40 para un nuevo principal por la suma de $284,615.40, con intereses al 3.00% anual por 5 años y hasta su saldo con intereses al 6.625%, vencedero el día 1 de diciembre de 2052 con un pago final de $20,365.48, según consta de la escritura número 298, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de noviembre de 2012, ante el notario Carlos J. Mangual Santiago, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Sabana Llana, finca número 17,602, inscripción 11ma. d.

Aviso de Demanda de fecha 17 de octubre de 2016, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número KCD2016-2023 (903), sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por Doral Bank, contra Rafael Ángel Torres Borges también conocido como Rafael A. Torres, María López Hernández y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, se solicita el pago por la suma de $276,854.95, y otros gastos, anotado el día 7 de noviembre de 2018, al tomo Karibe de Sabana Llana, finca número 17,602, Anotación C. e. SENTENCIA de fecha 23 de marzo de 2010, dictada en el Caso Civil #KCM2009-3418 (508), Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan; seguido por Asociación de Residentes de la Urbanización Berwind Estates, Inc. (demandante) versus Rafael A. Torres Borges, Jane Doe, ambos por sí y en representación de la sociedad legal de bienes gananciales compuesta por ambos (demandados). Se condena al pago de $2,081.25, suma que incluye recargos y/o intereses y/o penalidades computadas y otras sumas. Anotado el día 16 de agosto de 2011 al folio 46

orden 697 del tomo 1 de Sentencias. No podemos precisar que la persona sentenciada y el titular en esta finca sean la misma persona. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 17,602 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: Primera Subasta: 19 de enero de 2022, a las 10:00 de la mañana, Precio Mínimo: $284,615.40, Hipoteca: Escritura Número 278, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 29 de julio de 2005, ante el notario Héctor Luis Torres Dávila. Segunda Subasta: 26 de enero de 2022, a las 10:00 de la mañana, Precio Mínimo: $189,743.60. Tercera Subasta: 2 de febrero de 2022, a las 10:00 de la mañana, Precio Mínimo: $142,307.70. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación que se transmite y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si las hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante las acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de las mismas, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Conforme a la Sentencia dictada el día 14 de septiembre de 2021 y archivada en los autos el 16 de septiembre de 2021, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: al 1 de diciembre de 2015, la suma de $276,854.95 de principal. Además, desde dicha fecha los demanados mantienen en atraso la cantidad de $9,698.50, que incluye principal, intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, y una suma equivalente al 10% de la suma principal del pagaré, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subroga-

dos en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en San Juan , Puerto Rico, hoy día 24 de noviembre de 2021. EDWIN E LOPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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CARLOS JAVIER ORTIZ ALVARADO Demandante V.

JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE

Demandado(a) Civil: BY2021CV04273. Sala: 501. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 8 de diciembre de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 15 de diciembre de 2021. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 15 de diciembre de 2021. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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What we learned from Week 17 in the NFL

By TYLER DUNNE

T

he Cincinnati Bengals have a young, unproven offense and a fan base that had pored over All-22 film breakdowns long enough to demand the team draft an offensive lineman last April to shore up its future. Riding high off a Week 16 win over the Baltimore Ravens, the Bengals figured that facing Patrick Mahomes and a savvy Kansas City Chiefs team Sunday would remind them how much growing they would need to reach the AFC’s golden standard.

In a 34-31 upset, the Bengals (106) proved that choosing wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase in the 2021 NFL draft was the gap closer the team needed.

The Bengals locked up their first AFC North title since 2015, and made one fact very clear: Joe Burrow throwing deep to Ja’Marr Chase is the NFL’s most dangerous connection.

Again and again, with ruthless precision, former Louisiana State teammates Burrow and Chase tore up a Kansas City defense that had been shutting down just about every team it had faced in the past two months. Burrow completed 11 passes on 12 targets to Chase for three touchdowns and 266 receiving yards.

Two of those game-swinging shots came on the winning field-goal drive.

With the score tied 31-31 and 4:21 remaining, Burrow first unloaded a 35-yard pass deep right to Chase, who was being suffocated by cornerback Charvarius Ward. After a holding penalty and a sack marred the next two plays, the Bengals faced a third-and-27 from Kansas City’s 41-yard line.

Cincinnati appeared to call the same play, having Burrow simply chuck it deep to Chase, who hauled it in for 30 yards, again over Ward. So anticipated was the target that Burrow said afterward, “Everyone knows that meme,” adding in explanation: “Ja’Marr’s down there somewhere.”

From there, the Bengals were able to melt time off the clock, and an illegal use of the hands penalty on L’Jarius Sneed on fourth-and-goal from the 1-yard line allowed the Bengals to drain even more.

Evan McPherson kicked the game-winning 20-yard field goal with no time left.

The comeback win, in which Kansas

Ja’Marr Chase’s 266 receiving yards helped beat Kansas City in the least surprising way possible.

City had led by as many as 14 points, showed Cincinnati is as powerful a contender as any of the AFC’s more respected franchises.

Mahomes has looked typically dangerous in recent weeks, fitting throws in against defenses that prop two safeties deep and cutting back on the blooperreel interceptions.

Josh Allen has mostly carried the third-rated offense of the Buffalo Bills (10-6) on his back this season. Running back Jonathan Taylor of the Indianapolis Colts (9-7) will wrap up his rushing title next week. The Tennessee Titans (11-5) expect to welcome back Derrick Henry soon.

Yet after Week 17, this Burrow-toChase connection is most responsible for morphing a team that went 2-14 in 2019 into title contenders in 2021. Drafting Chase with the fifth pick over left tackle Penei Sewell, who went seventh, to Detroit, has proved a franchise-altering decision.

Burrow was beat up a ton as a rookie, resulting in a major knee injury that ended his 2020 season. He has been sacked 47 times this season, behind a line that was built through free agency. But Burrow can quickly hit Chase for 30 or more yards, exquisitely placing deep shots where he

knows his former college teammate can grab them.

And Burrow knows Chase can turn his less-perfect throws into gains.

With the Bengals trailing 14-0 late in the first quarter, Chase caught a short pass and should have been blasted by linebacker Nick Bolton. Instead, Chase, a 6-foot, 201-pound receiver, hit the brakes to completely evade Bolton and then outraced the Kansas City defense to the end zone for a 72-yard score. Safety Juan Thornhill, who once ran a 4.42 in the 40yard dash at the NFL combine, appeared to have a perfect angle covering over the top, and Chase still dusted him.

With Kansas City threatening a blowout, Chase boxed out Ward for his second touchdown grab to pull the Bengals within 7 points midway through the second quarter. When Ward threw his hands up in disbelief, he might as well have waved a white flag.

There is likely nothing Ward or Darrelle Revis or Deion Sanders or anyone else could’ve done against Chase oneon-one Sunday. If any AFC teams hope to beat Cincinnati in the postseason, they will probably have to bracket a safety over the top.

Burrow has 971 passing yards, eight touchdowns and no interceptions in his

past two games. One week ago, when Don Martindale, the defensive coordinator of the Baltimore Ravens, said he wouldn’t use his depleted secondary to double- or triple-team Chase because “I don’t think we’re ready to buy a gold jacket for Joe,” Burrow made him eat his words. On Sunday, he did it against a Kansas City defense that hasn’t been lit up since September.

Of course, the scariest part of all this is that Burrow is 25 years old and Chase is 21.

The Buccaneers will need everything Tom Brady can give.

First, the New Orleans Saints beat them in a Week 15 shutout. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers didn’t lose only that game at home: Wide receiver Chris Godwin tore an anterior cruciate ligament and running back Leonard Fournette injured a hamstring.

On Sunday, it sure appeared the lowly New York Jets (4-12) would deliver to Tom Brady one of his most embarrassing losses in his 22 pro seasons.

Not only did the Jets build a 14-point lead, but Antonio Brown, the receiver whom Brady lobbied the team to acquire in free agency in 2020, unexpectedly stormed off the field in the third quarter.

Brady wound up saving a 28-24 win with a nine-play, 93-yard touchdown drive in the game’s final minutes. On the scoring pass, he threw a 33-yard touchdown laser to Cyril Grayson: The pass was so forceful its momentum nearly carried Grayson the two steps into the end zone.

But the Buccaneers’ foundation appears cratered at the worst possible moment. Afterward, coach Bruce Arians indicated Brown would be released from the team. With Godwin’s season-ending tear and major injuries to Shaq Barrett and Jason Pierre-Paul denting the Buccaneers’ vaunted pass rush, the onus of Tampa Bay’s postseason hopes will rest on Brady elevating the likes of Grayson and Tyler Johnson to augment his options beyond Rob Gronkowski and Mike Evans.

At this point a year ago, Tampa Bay, healthy and peaking, blasted the Detroit Lions by 40 points. Now, despite Sunday’s win, Brady and the Buccaneers have a much different road to a title repeat.

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Around the NFL Cardinals 25, Cowboys 22: Arizona stopped its three-game losing streak thanks to the hustle of Isaiah Simmons, the second-year rookie linebacker and edge rusher who tracked Dak Prescott on a fourth-quarter scramble and punched the ball loose for a Cardinals recovery, his fourth forced fumble of the season. Kyler Murray finished with 307 total yards, two touchdowns and — most importantly — no turnovers, and Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott was held to a 1.8 yards per carry average.

Seahawks 51, Lions 29: Underachieving Seattle supplied the 12s with a few cheers in what may have been the final game there for both quarterback Russell Wilson and coach Pete Carroll. Wilson threw for 236 yards and four touchdowns and the Seahawks hounded Tim Boyle, the Lions’ backup quarterback, into three interceptions.

49ers 23, Texans 7: In his second career start, Trey Lance was steady as he threw for 249 yards and two touchdowns to earn a win San Francisco absolutely needed. His 45-yard scoring strike to Deebo Samuel midway through the fourth quarter provided some separation from the Texans and provided evidence that Lance gives the 49ers a chance to beat the Rams next week if Jimmy Garoppolo’s torn thumb ligament keeps him sidelined.

Saints 18, Panthers 10: With disastrous injuries to their starting quarterback and offensive line, plus a rash of positive coronavirus tests among players, it is no small miracle that New Orleans could still make the playoffs with a win next week against Atlanta, and a 49ers loss. Credit the defense, which stymied Tom Brady in Week 15 and gave Sam Darnold and Carolina an abysmal day. The Saints racked up seven sacks with Cameron Jordan (eight tackles, 3.5 sacks) leading the way.

Running back Alvin Kamara busted loose for one 30-yard run but managed all of 2 yards on his other 12 carries.

Chargers 34, Broncos 13: After Broncos coach Vic Fangio inexplicably settled for a field-goal attempt to take 3 points out of a 20-3 deficit in the fourth quarter, the Chargers quickly ended the affair. Andre Roberts returned the ensuing kick 101 yards for a touchdown, and Los Angeles will now face Las Vegas in Week 18 with a playoff berth on the line. The last time the two teams played, a Week 4 Chargers win,

Tom Brady went 34 of 50 for 410 yards and three touchdown passes to beat the Jets Sunday. defensive end Joey Bosa questioned Raiders quarterback Derek Carr’s ability to face pressure.

Eagles 20, Washington Football Team 16: It was easy to mock Eagles coach Nick Sirianni in the spring when

he said he had played rock paper scissors with draft prospects to gauge their competitiveness. Nobody’s mocking him anymore. After a 2-5 start, Sirianni pivoted Philadelphia to rely more on the run and now, at 9-7, Philadelphia

Aaron Rodgers, right, and center Lucas Patrick, celebrated a touchdown pass in Green Bay’s win over Minnesota.

is on the verge of making the playoffs.

Cornerback Rodney McLeod supplied the game-sealing interception of Taylor Heinicke in the end zone.

Rams 20, Ravens 19: This win showed why the Rams traded for Odell Beckham Jr. On fourth-and-5 from the Ravens’ 12-yard line, with 1:08 left, Beckham hauled in an extremely difficult 5-yard reception. Matthew Stafford, who had been intercepted twice, went back to the receiver for a 7-yard touchdown pass on the next play.

Bills 29, Falcons 15: Josh Allen’s three interceptions gave the Bills a scare but the reemergence of running back Devin Singletary helped push Buffalo to the win. Last season, the Bills showed zero desire to run the ball in January, even calling 20 consecutive pass plays to open up the divisional playoff game against Baltimore. With so many opposing defenses focused on stopping Allen, Singletary, who shredded the Falcons for 110 yards and two touchdowns on 23 carries, could provide much-needed balance.

Patriots 50, Jaguars 10: Rookie quarterback Mac Jones got back on track by going 22 of 30 for 227 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions. Of course, in New England, it all starts with the run. Damien Harris and Rhamondre Stevenson, who combined for 142 yards, helped create opportunities for Jones to throw successfully.

Raiders 23, Colts 20: Receiver Hunter Renfrow made the play of the game, selling out for a 24-yard reception on third-and-10 with 54 seconds left to set up a game-winning field goal.

Titans 34, Dolphins 3: So much for the Dolphins’ valiant playoff run.

Their seven-game win streak came to a screeching halt in Nashville, Tennessee, as Mike Vrabel’s team relentlessly leaned on the run for 198 yards on 40 attempts, even without Derrick Henry. The Titans are one win away from locking up the No. 1 seed in the AFC for the playoffs.

Bears 29, Giants 3: John Mara, a Giants co-owner, may indeed want to stick with coach Joe Judge beyond this season, but after yet another uninspiring effort — in which Mike Glennon completed four passes with two interceptions and was sacked four times — Mara was again confronted by a team whose problems run deeper than any one player, coach or general manager.

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

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

Crossword

Answers on page 30

Wordsearch

GAMES

HOROSCOPE Aries

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(Mar 21-April 20)

Mentally, you seem to be on a roll and enjoying the feeling that anything is possible, which often accompanies the New Year. You’ll have many reasons to believe in yourself, and this can make a positive difference to your outlook. On an emotional level, it could be hard to distance yourself from something that happened, and it may stay with you, unless you detach from it, Aries.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

There comes a point when you know something needs to shift, and when hanging on, hoping that things will change by themselves is no longer viable. As the Moon aligns with Venus and later Pluto, you’ll realize that if you don’t do something soon, you could lose out on all kinds of opportunities. The coming ten days or so can see you finally taking charge and feeling better.

Ready to move on a new project, or to fire out your CV so you can get a better job? You’ll want to get 2022 off to the best possible start, so finding closure on a lingering issue is a must, Gemini. The last thing you want is this matter running on in the background, when you’re trying to concentrate on moving forwards. Do what you have to, so you can forge ahead with ease.

Cancer

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(June 22-July 23)

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

New opportunities are on the cards, so don’t let lingering emotional issues take up your time and attention when there is so much on offer. If you’ve done your best to resolve them and got nowhere, then drop them rather than let them take up too much space in your head. With Mars still forging a positive tie to Saturn, something in discussion looks to be very solid and worthwhile.

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Looking to increase your income in novel ways? Dynamic Mars in your money zone, encourages new ways of thinking and acting that might net you specific results. Your confidence seems higher than usual, and this in itself can make it easier to get the outcome you’re after. Avoid getting caught up in matters that don’t really involve you Scorpio. In fact, keep well away.

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

With a dynamic focus ongoing, you may be ready to explore new options and show others how brilliant you are. Plans can take on a new excitement, and you’ll enjoy bringing them to a successful conclusion. Interested to know more about your roots and ancestry? The more you uncover, the more you’ll want to carry on digging. What you find out could inspire you.

You could be easily knocked off your stride if someone says the wrong thing. The Moon in Capricorn and its links to Venus and Pluto, can leave you wondering if they are right. You might take such things too personally though. You need to have more faith in yourself and not be bothered by what others think. It’s time to be yourself, no matter what others may think of you.

A matter may be causing you to fret unnecessarily, and it’s likely making you more tired than usual too.

Today’s lunar links to Venus retro and Pluto, can be a call to forget it and get on with more pressing issues.

With Jupiter bringing opportunities that are too good to miss, you’d be wiser to focus on your goals and dreams, than on matters that aren’t moving your life forward.

Leo

Aquarius

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

If someone tries to make you feel guilty for something you omitted to do in the past, give them short shrift, Leo. You have much more important things to be getting on with. Besides, this may be their way of getting you to do something for them in the present. Start this New Year as you mean to carry on, by firming up boundaries and liaising more with those who are loyal to you.

With Mercury now in your sign, opportunities could show up out of the blue, and one or two may attract your attention. Anything that appeals to your love of the new and different might be a winner. At the same time, structured Saturn in Aquarius can give you the grit and determination to see ongoing plans through to the end. Soon enough, the rewards for your hard work will show.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

The presence of sobering Saturn in your sector of routine for some time, has likely encouraged you to pare back your activities to the minimum so you can focus on what is most important. With Mercury your guide planet back in this sector after its rewind phase, your curiosity may be piqued. New ideas and interests could soon fill up any gaps, and find you busier than ever.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

With a hazy influence on the go, it can be easy for a misunderstanding to take place. You might also find it difficult to take someone seriously, even if they seem very genuine and kindly. Yet you could be missing a chance that may not come around again soon. If you feel drawn to someone, even in a small way, then it may be worthwhile to reach out and get to know them.

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CARTOONS

Herman

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

BC

Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

For Better or for Worse

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