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ustice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández said Tuesday that his agency does not compete with federal authorities in the prosecution and filing of corruption charges against public officials.

“I do not have a competition with the federal officials to see who files more cases or who files fewer cases,” Emanuelli Hernández said at a press conference. “What I want is cooperation. In the same way that I cooperate with them, I want them to cooperate with me.”

The agency has been the target of criticisms because it was the U.S. Attorney’s Office and not local officials who conducted investigations against several island mayors engaged in kickback schemes with contractors. The investigation led to the arrests of the then-mayors of Cataño and Guaynabo, as well as a contractor.

Emanuelli Hernández said he has assigned six prosecutors to investigate cases.

“What we want is for corruption to end, be it at the state or federal level,” he said.

Asked whether the local Justice Department would

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have investigated the corruption cases against former Cataño mayor Félix “el Cano” Delgado Montalvo and former Guaynabo mayor Ángel Pérez Otero if the federal government had not acted, the Justice secretary replied: “Justice is not the investigative arm of the government of Puerto Rico.”

“The investigative arms are the Police [Bureau] and the NIE [Special Investigations Bureau],” he said.

Emanuelli Hernández stated that by law the Justice Department only has 90 days to investigate cases involving public officials, unlike federal agencies.

Meanwhile, regarding the case of Andrea Ruiz Costas, the woman who was killed by an abusive ex-boyfriend and is at the center of a case before the U.S. Supreme Court in which the petitioners seek access to the court records in her case, the Justice chief said the people have the right to examine the recordings.

“Both the press and the Puerto Rican people have the right to review those recordings,” Emanuelli Hernández said.

The official’s remarks came after a meeting at La Fortaleza with Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia.

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San Sebastián artisans’ craft fair postponed

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fter eliminating musical performances that have been staged each year at the San Sebastián Street Festival and leaving in place the artisans’ fairs after the number of COVID-19 cases went up, San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo postponed the festivities altogether.

Romero announced Tuesday in a statement “the postponement of the artisans event that was being planned in lieu of the celebration of the traditional festivities of Calle San Sebastián 2022.” He did not provide an alternate date for the artisans event or the broader festivities.

The mayor referred to the provisions of Executive Order 2021-86 as a reason San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo for postponing the events.

“Safety and health protection of our citizenry is our main objective,” Romero plying with Executive Order 2021-086 said. “Taking this into account and com- to prevent the spread of COVID-19 that

is in effect until January 16, 2022, which orders the cancellation and prohibits the

holding of any activity that brings together more than 250 people, we have decided to postpone the traditional San Sebastián Street Festivities, including its artisans’ crafts component that was scheduled to be held from Jan. 13 to 16, 2022.”

Romero indicated that once the current executive order expires, he will evaluate the state of the pandemic on the island to determine whether to resume the activity with the artisans who were slated to sell their goods in the various city squares in order to provide them with the space to exhibit their works.

“Once again I reiterate my commitment to San Juan. We will be analyzing the matters related to the pandemic to announce the new date,” the mayor said. “In addition, we urge all merchants, visitors, and residents of Old San Juan to comply with the provisions of the Executive Order and avoid activities that promote the crowding of people.”

Lawmaker seeks to allay effects of flight cancellations

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ew Progressive Party Sen. Carmelo Ríos Santiago announced on Tuesday the filing of a resolution aimed at investigating the economic impact of the cancellations and delays in flights to and from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport during the past two weeks.

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“For several weeks we have been hearing news and more news about the delays and even cancellations of hundreds of flights to and from our international airport.

This has had a devastating effect on our people, because the impact of each delay is felt, not only in the pockets of those affected, but also in other areas of the economy,” Ríos Santiago said in a written statement. “That is why it is important to know how the cost of these delays and cancellations has been felt, to develop a strategy aimed at mitigating their effects.”

“What we are also looking for is to know if the packages offered by airlines to their passengers, particularly Puerto Ricans, when the itineraries change, are fair, because the dislocation caused by these actions is, in many cases, devastating on our people and that has to be compensated in the same way,” he added. “That is what we are looking for.”

Ríos Santiago said he will communicate with Ports Authority Executive Director Joel Pizá Batiz to outline an action plan for the cancellations and delays that have occurred and those that are expected in the coming days.

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PREPA chief: Gov’t can’t afford to subsidize temporary rate hikes

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uerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) Executive Director Josué Colón Ortíz came out Tuesday against the idea of the government subsidizing the temporary energy rate hikes that went into effect this month.

Colón Ortiz said the government of Puerto Rico should not use funds to mitigate hikes such as the 3.67 cents per kilowatt-hour approved by the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) last week that will be effective through March.

“Secretary of State Omar Marrero and the AAFAF [Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority] component were evaluating it, but the reality is -- and I must be very clear and honest as I have always been with you -- the government of Puerto Rico does not have the $100 million or the amount needed to cover price variations in the oil markets every three months,” he told reporters.

“There is no one who controls the prices of fuel and oil derivatives,” Colón Ortiz said following a meeting with Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia.

Colón Ortiz said it was unfair to think or pretend that the government should pay every time there is an increase in the price of a barrel of fuel and “that the government will have $100 or $200 million available

Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority Executive Director Josué Colón Ortíz to be able to address that situation.”

Last year, he said, the government was able to use federal funds to mitigate the increase, but this time there is not necessarily money available for that.

Puerto Rico can help mitigate the high costs of fossil fuels by investing in renewable energy sources, but PREPA has been moving at a snail’s pace in reducing its dependence on traditional fuel types.

Because of problems and delays in the delivery of renewable energy projects, the PREB in November stripped PREPA of its oversight authority with respect to the requests for proposals (RFPs) for Tranche 2 renewables. The PREB, the island’s energy regulator, said it will oversee the RFPs with the help of its independent coordinator.

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

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

FEMA approves $2.7 million for first phase of Salinas waterworks project

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia and Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) Executive President Doriel Pagán Crespo announced on Tuesday the approval of $2.7 million by the Risk Mitigation Grant Program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the first phase of construction of a new filtration plant in Salinas.

“These funds contribute to adding another source of supply in the drinking water service for the 27,075 clients of the municipality of Salinas and, at the same time, they help to conserve the southern aquifer,” the governor said in a written statement. “We will continue working with speed and a sense of urgency to achieve these projects that are of direct benefit to our people.

We thank the entire work team that has been key in streamlining the repair and construction projects, since we are showing how it has been possible to maximize the use of federal funds that we have received.”

The governor said the allocation of funds will cover the cost of planning, permits and design for the new filtering plant -- which will consist of the construction of a conventional water treatment plant that can process four million gallons per day -- near the irrigation canal in

Patillas and highway PR-52. The raw water will be supplied from the Patillas and Juana Díaz irrigation canals.

The project will include the installation of raw water pipes, the construction of all the infrastructure necessary for the operation of the plant, and the construction of water pumping stations and installation of water pipes for distribution to all the systems that serve the municipality of Salinas, the urban system, Cocos and Aguirre.

Pagán Crespo noted that “both intakes will have the capacity to supply up to four million gallons per day to guarantee the sustainability of water when any of the irrigation channels is not in service or during an emergency.”

“Once this alternative is implemented, the recharge of the aquifer will be guaranteed; meanwhile, the wells will be maintained as an alternative supply method in case of any eventuality,” she said.

Meanwhile, Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience Director Manuel Laboy Rivera reiterated the project’s environmental benefits.

“It is part of the medium and long-term plans leading to the restoration of the southern aquifer, which has been affected by high rates of water extraction and by surface recharges, as well as reported droughts in that region,” he said.

The FEMA grant will fund the first phase of construction of a filtration plant that will serve 27,075 water clients in Salinas.

The project consists of a total investment of $24.1 million. The planning, permitting and design phase will begin in the first quarter of 2022.

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National Guard may assist with virus testing for students

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmpchaul@gmail.com

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ealth Secretary Carlos Mellado López suggested on Tuesday that Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia may activate the National Guard to help conduct random COVID-19 testing in island schools.

“We are trying to optimize resources,” Mellado López said as he left a meeting with the governor at La Fortaleza.

“Right now, the Department of Health has 71 [testing] centers. How we can distribute more people aimed at meeting the need for schools to do these random tests -- that is what we are discussing today.”

“For me, to assign more people to do more tests, it is not simply to put them in place,” he added. “You have to train them and that takes three days. We already train all National Guard personnel so that they can do tests and be certified.”

Insisting that classes will be face-to-face, Mellado

Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López

López recommended that the governor postpone the restart, scheduled for Jan. 11, for a week. Pierluisi was expected to make an announcement today on the resumption of classes.

Schools have been closed since before Christmas.

“If the governor plans to postpone it, then that is a decision that he will make with the Secretary of Education, based on the considerations,” the health chief said.

“My position is that I would like to have time to do the [screening] tests,” Mellado López said. “I think that if he postpones [the restart of classes] for a week, he would have no problem; on the contrary, he gives us more time to make the adjustments that we have to make. But from the health point of view, for us it is extremely important that classes are face-to-face and we are going to do everything possible to provide that safe environment.”

The Health secretary said it is necessary to evaluate the percentage of positivity and how the children who are hospitalized are responding.

DACO sues companies for lack of compliance

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmpchaul@gmail.com

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onsumer Affairs (DACO by its Spanish acronym) Secretary Edan Rivera Rodríguez disclosed on Tuesday “the list of businesses that fail to comply with the [rights of the] consumer” for the month of December.

The secretary said the list includes 22 businesses that have refused to pay despite DACO resolutions that order the payment of certain sums of money to consumers.

“We have remained constant in suing before the Court those businesses that, despite having final decisions against them, refuse to grant the remedies granted to the consumer,” Rivera Rodríguez said in a written statement. “We have seen that the monthly publication of the names of defaulters has served as a deterrent, and the number of businesses that engage in this type of conduct has been reduced.”

Consumer Affairs Secretary Edan Rivera Rodríguez, center He noted that, in the December group, the store that owes the highest amount to a consumer is Empire

Auto Corp., with $12,366. The business appears twice on the list; in the second case it is listed for failing to comply with its obligation to submit to the Department of Transportation and Public Works the documentation required for the transfer of a sold vehicle. For this second reason, HVPH Motor Corp./Popular Auto LLC is also listed.

Another business that stands out on the list is Techos y Más Inc., with a debt of $8,399. The company appears twice in the December group, with one lawsuit in San Juan and another in Arecibo. The firm also appeared on the list of lawsuits filed by DACO during November.

As in previous months, the list highlights breaches by contractors. Among others listed are Emmanuel Vázquez Fonseca, with a debt of $5,000, and Juan C. Alers Soto H/N/C K’leb Décor, with $2,200. EFC Solutions LLC/Efrain Fontanez Cruz is listed with a debt of $525, while Mundo Mattress Inc. is listed twice in the December group.

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A frazzled America staggers into 2022

By BLAKE HOUNSHELL and LEAH ASKARINAM

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he omicron variant of the coronavirus struck at the most inconvenient time: as millions of Americans were traveling for the Christmas and New Year holidays. Suddenly, family gatherings were again shadowed by menace and risk of infection — but also by a new layer of uncertainty and confusion.

All of which served to drive Americans to new heights of exhaustion with the toll the virus has taken on ordinary life.

It remains a serious public health emergency, with daily coronavirus cases soaring into the hundreds of thousands.

But the pandemic also presents difficult political choices for elected officials, from President Joe Biden on down, just as election season begins in earnest.

Democrats could enter the 2022 midterms as the responsible grown-ups who finally tamed a deadly scourge.

Or, if Republicans succeed in branding mask and vaccine mandates as nanny-state overreach, voters could punish them in the fall. Most likely, both narratives will compete for attention as the virus itself casts the determining vote.

“Everyone up and down the chain is frustrated,” said Frank Luntz, a Republican messaging expert who has spent the last year conducting focus groups on the virus. “And it just doesn’t seem to end.”

Worn out and confused There is no mistaking the signals that Americans are sending at this moment: — A Monmouth University poll taken two weeks after omicron was first detected in the United States found that 6 in 10 Americans said they were “worn out” by the pandemic, and nearly half said they were angry.

— Since January 2021, the public’s initial exuberance about the arrival of vaccines has curdled. More than 58% reported feeling “frustrated” about the status of COVID vaccinations in a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll.

One-quarter said they were “confused.”

— According to Gallup’s COVID tracking survey, optimism about the state of the pandemic reached 51% in October only to plummet to 31% in December. The percentage of Americans who said the situation had gotten worse shot up to 35% from 18%.

But polls also show a deep divide between those vaccinated and not, and omicron has barely budged the latter.

“As a nation, we’re not experiencing the pandemic equally,” said Mollyann Brodie, who oversees polling for the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Science vs. impatience While omicron — so far — appears to be less vicious than its predecessors, the explosion of cases has evoked grim memories of early 2020, when the coronavirus ripped through unprotected American cities so quickly that health workers had to place corpses in refrigerated trucks.

This time, public health officials are having to factor

The omicron variant’s spread poses an unwelcome political conundrum just as election season begins. Democrats and the GOP see reasons to hope, but the virus will get the deciding vote. the public’s waning patience into their calculations.

When asked on CNN to explain why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had reduced the recommended quarantine period from 10 to five days, Rochelle Walensky acknowledged, “It really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate.”

Scott Gottlieb, a former FDA commissioner in the Trump administration, credits the Biden administration for its aggressive rollout of the vaccines, and in particular the speed with which it made booster shots available.

Still, he said, its ostentatious displays of deference to “the science” have fed charges of hypocrisy whenever decisions appeared to incorporate other considerations.

“The Biden administration kind of handcuffed itself coming in because of this narrative that all of the problems under Trump were created by interference in the scientific process,” he said. Now, he added, “I think they have buyer’s remorse.”

The Trump factor Omicron’s arrival also has fostered a rare detente between the president and his predecessor.

When Donald Trump recently told an audience in Dallas that he had gotten a booster shot, some in the crowd began to boo. What happened next was fascinating: He didn’t back down.

The booing, Trump said, was coming from “a very

tiny group over there.” Then later, at the same event, he said, “We saved tens of millions worldwide by creating the vaccine.”

“We should take credit for it,” he went on, nodding to politics. “You play right into their hands” — meaning Democrats — by questioning the vaccine, he said.

In his national address a day later, Biden credited “the prior administration” with speeding the development of a vaccine and noted Trump’s comments about the booster.

Asa Hutchinson, the Republican governor of Arkansas, praised the move. “I thought that was a good effort at depoliticizing it,” he said.

Luntz urged the White House to put Biden and Trump together on television to promote vaccination. “The two of them should be speaking together in the Oval Office,” he said.

We asked both camps, and it’s safe to say there are no plans to do so.

The GOP’s ‘sweet spot’ Republican strategists see mandates as increasingly unpopular with suburban women, among other key segments of the electorate. Kristin Davison, who managed Glenn Youngkin’s successful gubernatorial campaign in Virginia, pointed to a “sweet spot”: “strongly encouraging people to get the vaccine, but not going so far as to mandate it.”

“People are saying, ‘What the hell, we’re over it, come on’,” she said. “That’s where Democrats really are in danger.”

And Gottlieb, the former FDA commissioner, said Biden’s vaccine mandate for businesses created a political target that outweighed vaccination gains.

“You’re going to see governors run for president against vaccination mandates now,” he said.

But for many Americans, who just want life to return to normal and are impatient for solutions, politics are part of the problem.

“I’m not really optimistic” about the year ahead, said Ryan Henslee, 43, a father in Hemet, California, pointing to misinformation he said was preventing people from getting vaccinated and worsening the nation’s rifts.

“If we don’t find a way to get on the same team,” he added, “it’s going to hurt our kids for a lifetime.”

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Colorado wildfire probe focuses on Christian sect

The remnants of burned down homes in the aftermath of the Marshall Fire in Louisville, Colo., Jan. 2, 2022.

Just days after what could be the most damaging wildfire in state history, residents are just beginning to make sense of the long road back and how much damage took place.

By SIMON ROMERO and GIULIA HEYWARD

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nvestigators looking into the cause of a colossal wildfire in Colorado that forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people are focusing on a property owned by a Christian fundamentalist sect, after witnesses reported seeing a structure on fire there moments before the blaze spread with astonishing speed across drought-stricken suburbs.

Sheriff Joe Pelle of Boulder County said at a news briefing Monday that the property owned by Twelve Tribes, which was founded in Tennessee in the 1970s, had become a target of the probe after investigators ruled out the possibility that downed power lines may have sparked the fire.

Still, Pelle warned against jumping to conclusions regarding the fire’s origins, emphasizing that the investigation was in its early stages and that it could take weeks or even months to determine the exact cause. He said investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the U.S. Forest Service were assisting his department’s probe.

“We’re going to take our time and be methodical because the stakes are huge,” Pelle said.

The efforts to determine what caused the fire are adding to the challenges that authorities are facing in Colorado, after heavy snowfall over the weekend blanketed the suburban areas that had been torched by the Marshall fire. About

35,000 people were forced to evacuate the area last week, and many families remain in shelters after more than 900 homes were destroyed.

Authorities are still searching for two people missing in the blaze, which figured among the most destructive in Colorado history. A severe multiyear drought nurtured the brittle-dry conditions that allowed the fire to sweep through residential areas.

Discussion of the Twelve Tribes property emerged on social media Thursday, around the time the Marshall fire began spreading, when video of a structure on fire there started circulating. By Sunday, officials confirmed that the fire began on private property at the Boulder County intersection of Marshall Road and Highway 93, which is owned

by Twelve Tribes. Pelle confirmed Monday that investigators were examining the site in addition to adjacent areas.

Several witnesses who live nearby said they had alerted the authorities about the fire at the site before hurricaneforce winds spread flames around Boulder County. Anne Michaels, a kindergarten teacher who lives in the area, said she was driving by the property Thursday while talking to her mother on her cellphone when she noticed something was wrong.

“I said, ‘Mom, I see smoke,’ ” said Michaels, 43, adding that the smoke was clearly coming from the Twelve Tribes property. She said she called 911 shortly afterward

to alert authorities.

Mike Zoltowski, another witness who reported seeing the fire on the property while staying at a friend’s neighboring home, said he saw a fire crew Thursday unsuccessfully try to put out what appeared to be a shed on fire before leaving the site.

“As soon as I turned around and came back, they were gone,” Zoltowski told a local television station. “And that’s when I realized something is seriously wrong here, because the shed was still burning.”

A spokesperson for Twelve Tribes said Monday that an investigation was taking place, but declined to comment further.

Twelve Tribes originated from a youth Bible study group in the 1970s in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Since then, it has grown into an international network of self-governing communities scattered across North and South America, Europe and Australia. The settlement in Boulder is one of two in Colorado.

The group touts itself as an assemblage of up to 3,000 people united by a common belief in God, or Yahshua, and strict adherence to the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, according to its website. Men are expected to wear long beards and tie their hair back, while women dress modestly.

Its members often work at several businesses owned by the group across the country, which include a deli in Boulder.

Pelle said earlier that a search warrant had been executed as part of the fire investigation, but did not say what location had been searched.

He said that the initial assumptions that downed power lines might have sparked the fire were ruled out after fire investigators and work crews from Xcel Energy, which provides power to the area, determined that the lines in question were used to transmit not electricity but telecommunications data.

In the meantime, the sheriff said investigators were trying to piece together what happened by speaking to as many people as possible. “What I’ve seen today coming in and out of this building meeting with these investigators are dozens of people,” Pelle said at the briefing.

He said investigators were “essentially working by hand and with small tools to try to get through those locations” to try to ascertain the origin of the blaze.

“It is very, very difficult work given the debris, the heat,” he said, describing the investigation as “in full force and in full swing.”

Evacuees were waiting for answers. Forrest Smith, 67, who escaped from his home with the clothes on his back, a coffee mug and his smartphone, said he welcomed the investigation into the blaze. But Smith, who was staying at a Red Cross shelter after the fire gutted his home, expressed doubt that the investigation would result in holding anyone accountable.

“First of all, they’ve got to prove who did it,” said Smith, a retired truck driver. In any event, he said: “You can’t take it back. What’s done is done.”

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‘Insurmountable’: Parents grapple with omicron’s upending force in schools

By MAGGIE ASTOR

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mother in rural Wisconsin said she felt “utterly helpless” as she sent her 13-year-old off to school. Another, in suburban New Jersey, expressed frustration that her highly vaccinated district had returned to remote learning. One in Chicago said she hoped the city’s teachers followed through on their threat to walk out so her 12-yearold daughter wouldn’t have to return to a crowded classroom.

This is parenthood nearly two years into the pandemic, as schools reopen after the holidays. Or don’t. Or do halfway, or open and close again, or — they’re not sure. They’ll let you know tomorrow.

The New York Times asked parents to share how they were handling their schools’ approaches. Hundreds responded, almost all of them mothers. Their answers varied widely in specifics but mostly boiled down to: Not well.

“I am screaming inside,” wrote Cathy Nieng, the Chicago mother.

“I cry a lot,” said Juliana Gamble, whose children — ages 2 and 7 — have been in school and day care in Boston for just 11 days in the past eight weeks. “I feel a total loss of control of my life.”

Kate Hurley, of Minneapolis, sent her 7-year-old daughter to school Monday with a KN95 mask but kept her 4-year-old son home because he isn’t eligible for a vaccine yet.

“When we started the pandemic, parenting and teaching while working remotely was hard,” she wrote. “Now we are tired and drained and nearly two years in. Doing it all over again feels insurmountable.”

Some parents whose children are learning remotely are upset that they aren’t in school in person. Some whose children are learning in person are upset that they can’t be remote. Many are torturously ambivalent, trying to claw good solutions out of situations that offer none.

“I don’t want him to miss out on weeks of school, and it looks like omicron is with us for at least that long,” wrote Heather Malin, whose 5-year-old son is in kindergarten in person in New York City this week. “It was an agonizing decision. Will he be safe? Will the school have the resources to test and adequately mask everyone? I’m scheduled to have surgery for breast cancer in a few weeks, and I am terrified that we’ll come down with COVID (which is bad enough) and my surgery will be delayed.”

Erika Behling, whose 13-year-old daughter is attending school in person in Silver Lake, Wisconsin, said that one relative was currently hospitalized and another had a serious health condition.

“My child is vaccinated and diligently masks, but we live in a fairly rural area where the pandemic has become politicized,” Behling wrote. “As the numbers rise, we feel the walls closing in around us. My 13-year-old has more compassion than the vast majority of adults I see in this area. And she’s scared.

As parents, we feel utterly helpless.”

Many parents said they didn’t trust other members of their communities to take precautions.

“I sent my kids to public school in more robust masks than they usually wear, but I don’t have any other way to protect them,” wrote Andrea Rease, a health care worker in San Francisco who said there were some unvaccinated children and parents at the school where her three 5-year-olds attend kindergarten. “They are freshly vaccinated, but I don’t feel the relief I thought I would.”

Others described the toll that a year or more of remote learning had taken on their children, and the pain of suddenly returning to it.

Danielle Kline Haber wrote that about an hour into remote learning Monday, after months in which her son’s school in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, had been open, “our 14-year-old came out from his room and said, ‘I had forgotten how much I hate virtual learning.’” In a follow-up interview, she said she was exhausted from the “constantly shifting guidance.”

Marise, a mother in Philadelphia — who asked to be identified by her middle name because she did not want to cause conflict at her children’s private school before she could transfer them to public school, which is open in person — said that her children, ages 6 and 8, had suffered mentally and academically from remote learning.

“Our school is still operating as though it is March 2020,” she said, adding that she had no idea when the school would reopen; administrators plan to test the entire student body Tuesday before deciding.

She is a nurse and can’t work remotely, and while her husband can do so this week, they will have no access to child care once he has to return to the office.

“Schools should be the absolute last thing to close,” Marise said. “I can eat in a restaurant today, but my kids are home. This

is nonsensical.”

Kate, who asked that her last name be withheld because speaking publicly could jeopardize her job, is also frustrated that schools in her town, Maplewood, New Jersey, are remote this week. She said she feared that even when they reopened for inperson learning, her children — ages 7 and 10 — would have their education disrupted because every student in a class is defined as a close contact if one person in the class tests positive, even if all students were masked.

(Fully vaccinated children like hers would not have to quarantine if asymptomatic. But students who haven’t completed their vaccination series would have to quarantine for 14 days, and that could mean enough absences to affect the whole class.)

“My kids were out of school for 14 months. I can’t do this again. It’s put me over the edge,” Kate wrote, adding that she supported the school’s mask requirement but opposed its quarantine protocol; which has not been loosened in response to new CDC guidelines. “It is incredibly frustrating to see kids in school across the country where families have done nothing to prevent the spread of COVID, and then to live in a community with around 80%-90% vaccination rate and watch my kids struggle to have a normal school experience.”

Susannah Krug, a mother of four schoolage children in North Plains, Oregon, said she had kept her 14-year-old and two 17-year-olds home Monday. But she sent her 10-year-old

— who has had his first vaccine shot — to school “even though I’m scared to death.”

“He just did so poorly when school was closed for 18 months,” she wrote.

Alissa Greene, a New Yorker whose 5-year-old daughter’s school is operating in person, said the family had “chosen to keep her in school even though a part of me wants to keep her home.”

“I think her school is doing everything they can, but I’m still apprehensive,” Greene said, adding that increasing pediatric hospitalizations made her more fearful now than last fall, even though her daughter is vaccinated.

“We lost her grandmother to COVID in April 2020 and very nearly her grandfather too.

That’s the hardest part for me, knowing how badly it can go, how mysteriously this virus can affect people, and feeling like I have to send her out to take her chances with it.”

The latest surge, she and other parents said, has brought an uncertainty that feels overwhelming.

“The omicron calculus is far more wearying than the other COVID math we’ve had to do,” wrote Joe Roland, of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, whose household ranges in age from his 9-year-old son to an 86-year-old relative. “Whether it be from attrition throughout the pandemic, or the multiple variables — definitely more contagious, likely less dangerous, still don’t know what we don’t know — the last few weeks seem as hard as any we’ve had since the beginning of all of this.”

Preparing to test students and staff for COVID-19 in the cafeteria of Robert Vela High School in Edinburg, Texas, ahead of a return to classes this week.

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Silicon Valley can’t escape Elizabeth Holmes

By ERIN GRIFFITH

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n 2016, startup founders sang, “Theranos doesn’t represent, we are better,” in a holiday video created by venture capital firm First Round Capital.

Over the next few years, several columnists wrote that Silicon Valley shouldn’t be blamed for Theranos.

Last month, Keith Rabois, a venture capitalist, said on Twitter that articles connecting Theranos with Silicon Valley culture contained “more fabrication than anything ever uttered by Trump.”

The technorati in Silicon Valley and beyond have long tried to separate themselves from Theranos, the blood testing startup in Palo Alto, California, that was exposed for lying about its abilities. But the fraud trial of the company’s founder, Elizabeth Holmes, has shown that just as Bernard Madoff was a creature of Wall Street and Enron represented the get-rich-quick excesses of the 1990s, Theranos and its leader were very much products of Silicon Valley.

The usual refrain went like this: Theranos was more a health care company than a tech company. It raised money from wealthy families and people outside the tech industry, while insiders saw through the hype.

But testimony and court exhibits in Holmes’ nearly four-month trial, which was capped Monday when a jury found the entrepreneur guilty of four of 11 counts of fraud, starkly underlined her participation in Silicon Valley’s culture.

Holmes, 37, used the mentorship and credibility of tech industry big shots like Larry Ellison, a co-founder of Oracle, and Don Lucas, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, to raise money from others. She lived in Atherton, California, amid Silicon Valley’s elite and was welcomed into their circles.

Immediately after The Wall Street Journal exposed Holmes’ alleged fraud at Theranos in 2015, some prominent tech investors even rushed to defend her in a bit of kneejerk tribalism.

Even the judge who oversaw Holmes’ case, Edward J. Davila of U.S. District Court in San Jose agreed that Silicon Valley culture was an essential piece of her trial. He allowed her lawyers to discuss the tech industry’s overly optimistic puffery as part of her defense.

“It’s common in Silicon Valley for promoters to engage in that type of conduct,” Davila said in a hearing in May before the trial began.

At its best, Silicon Valley is optimistic. At its worst, it is so naïve it believes its own hogwash. Throughout her trial, Holmes’ lawyers argued she was simply a wide-eyed believer. Any statements that weren’t entirely truthful, they said, were about the future. It was what investors wanted to hear, they said.

“They weren’t interested in today or tomorrow or next month,” Holmes testified. “They were interested in what

Elizabeth Holmes, second from left, leaves court with her partner Billy Evans, left, after she was found guilty in her fraud trial in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. kind of change we could make.”

Soon after Theranos got started in 2003, Holmes used her vision of the future to win over investors and advisers like Ellison and Lucas. Lucas, who was chair of Theranos’ board until 2013, was involved with more than 20 investment vehicles that backed Theranos. Those included his son’s venture firm, Lucas Venture Group; another vehicle, PEER Venture Partners; and trusts and foundations associated with members of his family.

Lucas introduced Hall Group, a real estate firm that put $4.9 million into Theranos, to Holmes. His nephew’s firm, Black Diamond Ventures, invested $5.4 million. Other Silicon Valley investors included ATA Ventures and Beta Bayview, a fund operated by Crosslink Capital.

Lucas and his son have since died. The Lucas Venture Group didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Dixon Doll, founder of the Silicon Valley investment firm DCM, also invested, as did Reid Dennis, founder of the venture firm IVP, which has backed tech companies such as Slack, Twitter and Snap. Draper Associates, founded by venture capitalist Tim Draper, also invested in Theranos, as did two funds operated by his other firm, Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

A DCM representative said Doll had left the firm more than eight years ago, and a spokesperson for DFJ declined to comment.

In a statement, Draper said Holmes’ verdict concerned him because it suggested that America’s spirit of entrepreneurship was in jeopardy. “A willingness to bet on these entrepreneurs and their visions has made Silicon Valley the innovation engine of the world,” he said.

Not everyone who heard Holmes’ pitch was wowed.

Bijan Salehizadeh, an investor at Highland Capital Partners, said he did not invest in Theranos in 2006 because Holmes was unwilling or unable to answer most of his questions.

But as Theranos’ fundraising made headlines, Salehizadeh questioned his judgment. Venture capitalists who hung out at the Rosewood Hotel on Sand Hill Road, one of Silicon Valley’s main arteries, in Menlo Park, California, began buzzing about the company, he said.

“They were like: ‘This hot Theranos thing — you as a health care guy saw it and didn’t do it? How could you have possibly passed on a unicorn if it was sitting in your office at the earliest stages?’” he said.

Holmes used that hype to reel in bigger checks from wealthy families, including heirs to the Amway, Walmart and Cox Enterprises fortunes. Industry insiders also offered their endorsement. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch met Holmes at a Silicon Valley gala hosted by Yuri Milner, a tech investor. Milner praised Holmes to Murdoch, according to “Bad Blood,” a book by John Carreyrou, a former Wall Street Journal reporter.

Brian Grossman, an investor at heath care-focused hedge fund PFM Health Sciences, learned about Theranos through Thomas Laffont, a co-founder of Coatue Management, a prominent investment fund with a San Francisco presence. In an email that was part of the court filings, Laffont gushed that Theranos had “one of the most impressive boards I’ve ever seen” and said Grossman’s firm should let him know “ASAP” if it was interested in an introduction.

Coatue did not respond to a request for comment and PFM Health Sciences declined to comment.

The next year, when Carreyrou was investigating Theranos’ claims for the Journal, Holmes embraced Silicon Valley’s favorite form of deflection: Label anyone who asks hard questions a hater. Before Carreyrou published his first exposé about Theranos, Holmes and her partner at the time, Ramesh Balwani, who was the startup’s chief operating officer, poked fun at the reporter’s French heritage.

After the Journal article was published, Holmes used a rebuttal embraced by many in the tech industry. “This is what happens when you work to change things,” she said in a TV interview. “First they think you’re crazy, then they fight you, and then all of a sudden you change the world.”

In the years since Theranos collapsed, more tech startups have followed its strategy of looking outside the small network of Sand Hill Road venture capital firms for funding.

Startups are raising more money at higher valuations, and deal-making has accelerated. Mutual funds, hedge funds, family offices, private equity funds and megafunds like SoftBank’s Vision Fund have rushed to back them.

Salehizadeh said Silicon Valley’s shift to a focus on fundraising over all else was one reason he had left to set up a private equity firm on the East Coast. The big money brought more glitz to tech startups, he said, but it had little basis in business fundamentals.

“You’re always left feeling like either you’re an idiot or you’re brilliant,” he said. “It’s a tough way to be an investor.”

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Banks power Dow to record peak; Tech drags S&P 500, Nasdaq lower The Dow hit a record high on Tuesday, boosted by banks and industrial stocks as worries about the Omicron variant of the coronavirus subsided, while a fall in heavyweight technology stocks dragged the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq indexes lower.

The S&P 500 (.SPX) too scaled an intraday all-time high before falling, as the World Health Organization said more evidence is emerging that the coronavirus variant caused milder symptoms than previous variants.

Seven of the 11 major S&P sectors advanced. Value-oriented and cyclicals such as energy (.SPNY) and financials (.SPSY) led the pack, up 3.5% and 2.7%, respectively. The technology sector (.SPLRCT) underperformed, down 1.6% “We do know that the seasonality of the first several days of a new year brings in new money. You’ve got a couple of stutter steps here and some decisions to be made in rebalancing portfolios,” said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at National Securities in New York.

“While we know (Omicron) is transmitting very rapidly, the symptoms seem to be far less severe. And the combination of those two things gives us some hope that this will likely burn out faster than any of the other variants that we’ve seen.”

Travel stocks rose, with the S&P 1500 airlines index (.SPCOMAIR) rising 1.5% and cruise operators Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH.N), Royal Caribbean (RCL.N) and Carnival Corp (CCL.N) adding between 1.1% and 2%.

The S&P 500 banks sector (.SPXBK) added 3.7%, while the broader value index (.IVX)climbed 1.2% to hit a record high.

Robert Pavlik, senior portfolio manager at Dakota Wealth Management, said the value trade could lead markets in the first half of this year on expectations of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve.

The U.S. central bank said last month it would be ending its pandemic-era bond buying in 2022, signaling at least three rate hikes for the year. Minutes from the meeting is expected to be released on Wednesday.

Ford Motor Co (F.N)jumped 11.1% after the automaker said it will nearly double annual production capacity for its red-hot F-150 Lightning electric pickup to 150,000 vehicles. read more General Electric Co rose 2.9% after Credit Suisse upgraded the conglomerate’s stock to “outperform” from “neutral”.

Foot Locker Inc slipped 3.1% after J.P. Morgan downgraded the sports and footwear retailer’s stock to “underweight” from “neutral”.

At 12:00 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) was up 247.62 points, or 0.68%, at 36,832.68 and the S&P 500 (.SPX) was down 4.02 points, or 0.08%, at 4,792.54.

The Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) was down 258.67 points, or 1.63%, at 15,574.13, dragged down by declines in shares of Amazon.com , Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O), Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) and Tesla Inc (TSLA.O).

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Sudan braces for ‘the worst’ after prime minister resigns

Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok of Sudan was ousted in a military coup in October, but reinstated a month later through a deal with the military. His resignation was the latest upheaval in the nation’s transition from dictatorship to democracy.

By ABDI LATIF DAHIR

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he military in Sudan is in control once again, jeopardizing the country’s already fragile hopes of a successful transition to democracy.

With the resignation of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Sunday night, Sudan has no civilian government to help steer a country that was just emerging from a dictatorship that lasted three decades.

There are now fears of an escalation in the confrontations between protesters and security forces that have gripped the capital, Khartoum, and beyond in recent weeks, resulting in the deaths of at least 57 people, a doctors group said.

A vast country of about 43 million people in the northeast of Africa, Sudan has neither the political structures nor the independent political bodies in place to legitimately appoint a new prime minister, analysts said, dampening further the country’s hopes of exchanging a military dictatorship for democratic rule.

“It is very clear that the military and its alliance won’t hand over power peacefully, so they will try to crush the peaceful resistance,” said Dr. Sara Abdelgalil, a Sudanese doctor and a former president of the doctors union. “We are expecting the worst.”

Hamdok took office in 2019 in part of a power-sharing deal negotiated between civilian and military forces after widespread protests ousted the country’s longtime dictator, Omar al-Bashir.

An economist, Hamdok was a novice politician who

spent much of his career working for international organizations, including the African Development Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.

In the months after the transitional government took power, it signed a peace deal with rebel groups, outlawed female genital mutilation and was taken off a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. The changes, with Hamdok as prime minister, gave hope to many Sudanese that their nation was taking a turn for the better.

“He was an affable, grandfatherly figure who really in his person symbolized a better future,” said Cameron Hudson, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a think tank based in Washington, D.C. “He came to symbolize the hope and change of Sudan.”

But in the end, Hamdok, 66, faced the herculean task of attempting to unite the disparate actors who strove to shape Sudan’s future.

There was the military, the country’s long-dominant force, which removed him from office Oct. 25, kept him sidelined under house arrest and then reinstalled him a month later after he signed a deal with them.

There was the constellation of political parties and trade unions, many of which all along had rejected any powersharing agreement with the military.

And then there were the protesters, who have flooded the streets since late October, despite a violent crackdown.

In chants and on signs, they labeled Hamdok a “traitor” who had undermined their quest for “freedom, peace and justice.”

On Monday, the United Nations and countries inclu-

ding the United States called on Sudanese political leaders to patch up their differences through consensus and dialogue.

U.S. Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Hamdok’s resignation “completes” the military coup of Oct. 25, and urged the military to “hand over power to elected civilian leaders.”

Sudan’s military leader, Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah alBurhan, on Monday promised to form what he called “an independent government.” He also said the military was committed to peace and holding elections, according to the Sudan News Agency. Al-Burhan’s office did not immediately respond to questions.

Experts say that inastalling a legitimate civilian government now will not be easy.

As part of a constitutional declaration signed in 2019, a legislative council would have selected a prime minister.

That appointee would then be approved by the Sovereignty Council, a transitional body composed of civilian and military leaders.

But the transitional legislative council was never formed. Al-Burhan dissolved the Sovereignty Council after the coup and established a new one stacked with military appointees and their allies, said Lauren Blanchard, a specialist in African affairs with the Congressional Research Service, a research institute of the U.S. Congress.

Another option, according to the 2019 agreement, Blanchard said, would call for the Forces of Freedom and Change — which led the civilian side of the transitional government — to select a prime minister. But with the general’s crackdown on protesters, the participation of the Forces of Freedom and Change seems unlikely, she said.

With no prime minister or civilian government, the military, former rebel groups and a powerful paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces are now in control of Sudan.

Magdi el-Gizouli, a Sudanese fellow at the Rift Valley Institute, a research group, said some of the names floated for appointment as prime minister — as the military tries to temper both international criticism and domestic protests — include a former finance minister, Ibrahim Elbadawi, and Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, a human-rights activist. But both men and others are likely to decline the offers, he said, given the pressure coming from the general public.

“So, for now, it is the generals who will make the decisions,” el-Gizouli said. “If you command an army and have guns in Sudan, you now make the decision.”

Hamdok’s resignation does put increased pressure on the military, Hudson said. The generals have used Hamdok as cover, he said, shielding them from international pressure and financial sanctions targeting their extensive business networks.

But even as they paid lip service to democracy and elections, the generals undermined Hamdok’s leadership, and over the past two months, they responded with brutality to the protests of those calling for a fully democratic Sudan.

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President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil is hospitalized

By ERNESTO LONDOÑO and FLÁVIA MILHORANCE

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resident Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil was flown to São Paulo on Monday and hospitalized for treatment of a stomach obstruction after experiencing discomfort while on vacation in the southern state of Santa Catarina, his office and a hospital said.

He was admitted to Vila Nova Star hospital, where he was undergoing exams under the care of Dr. Antônio Luiz Macedo, the surgeon who treated Bolsonaro after he was stabbed in 2018 while campaigning for president. Bolsonaro is in stable condition, the hospital said, adding that five doctors were overseeing his care.

In a post on Twitter, Bolsonaro said he “started feeling poorly after lunch on Sunday.” After arriving at the hospital at 3 a.m., he wrote, he was administered a nasogastric tube, which can be used to drain fluid from the stomach of a patient with an intestinal obstruction. The president, who included a photo from the hospital in the

tweet, said that more exams would be conducted to determine whether surgery was necessary.

He added that the symptoms were the same ones that led to a brief hospitalization in July and cited his stabbing in 2018 as the underlying cause of his health problems.

The injuries he sustained that attack required at least four surgeries. The stabbing severely injured Bolsonaro’s intestines and led to a lengthy hospitalization that effectively knocked him off the campaign trail in the final stretch.

Bolsonaro nonetheless pulled off a decisive victory. The president has suggested — without evidence — that political rivals masterminded the attack.

A judge in 2019 found that the assailant was mentally ill and as such could not be convicted of a crime. The judge ordered that the assailant, Adélio Bispo de Oliveira, be held at a mental health ward in the prison system until public safety officials determined he no longer posed a threat.

The president was last hospitalized in July after experiencing a bout of hiccups

President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil in November. The injuries he sustained in 2018 required at least four surgeries.

that lasted several days and caused stomach pain.

Macedo, who was on vacation in the Bahamas, was to fly to Brazil on Monday to see the president, and Bolsonaro said on Twitter that he would arrive at 3 p.m.

The doctor told the news site UOL that it was too early to tell whether the president’s co dition was serious. He said he could be experiencing an intestinal obstruction for something as common as not chewing his food properly.

On Monday evening, the hospital issued a statement saying that Bolsonaro’s condition was improving and that he had taken a brief walk in a hallway, according to wire reports. The hospital’s statement added that he was not suffering from fever-like symptoms or abdominal pain, but it was not yet clear if he would need surgery.

Critics have assailed Bolsonaro for taking a vacation as calamitous floods swept through the northern state of Bahia, killing at least 20 people and destroying thousands of homes.

Suspect charged with arson in fire at South Africa’s Parliament

By ZANELE MJI and LYNSEY CHUTEL

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rosecutors Tuesday charged a 49-year-old man with arson, theft and housebreaking in connection with the fire that devastated the complex containing South Africa’s Parliament, gutting the National Assembly building and destroying lawmakers’ offices.

The suspect, Zandile Christmas Mafe, is accused of starting the fire, which started early Sunday and was not fully extinguished until Tuesday morning, along with charges of contravening state security laws, because the structure is a site of national strategic importance.

Mafe, who lives in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township according to court documents, did not enter a plea, although his lawyer, Luvuyo Godla, said he plans to plead not guilty. He remains in custody, and prosecutors have opposed bail, citing the severity of the charges.

Security officials arrested Mafe at the Parliament complex Sunday morning,

spotting him shortly after the fire was reported. He was caught with stolen property, police said, although they did not give further details.

Mafe appeared only briefly in a packed magistrate’s court, a short distance from the gutted parliamentary precinct in the city center, wearing a faded longsleeved gray shirt with denim shorts and dirty sneakers as he stood in the dock.

Standing behind a Perspex screen, in line with pandemic regulations, he lowered his mask so reporters could see his face.

Godla said his client had moved to Cape Town about six years ago and did not have a job. He accused the government of using Mafe as a scapegoat for its failure to protect its own infrastructure.

“What interest would that poor man have in Parliament?” he said, speaking to reporters on the steps of the court.

The case was postponed until Jan. 11, to allow investigators to access the site, which remains dangerous.

The fire was only extinguished early Tuesday, according to JP Smith, Cape Town’s mayoral committee member for safety and security. Firefighters will continue to monitor the buildings.

On Monday afternoon, the fire flared up in a roof. Cape Town’s strong southeasterly wind, combined with wooden floorboards, years of dust and recently replaced bitumen — an asphalt used to seal the roof — created conditions for the fire to resume.

By midnight, the fire was brought under control, and teams of firefighters worked their way through what Smith described as a “labyrinth” of rooms to locate and extinguish other potential hot spots, winding lengths of hose through a “maze” of passages.

More than 60 firefighters battled the blaze, supported by crew from South Africa’s air force. At one point, the wind was so strong that firefighters could not risk using aerial platforms.

Instead, Smith said, they pulled

“death-defying Spider-Man moves,” climbing up the side of the building to prevent the fire from sweeping into Tuynhuys, the official office of the president and one of the oldest buildings in the city.

Zandile Christmas Mafe was charged with arson, theft and housebreaking in connection with the fire.

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How the EU allowed Hungary to become an illiberal model

Hundreds of families wait outside a train station in Budapest, Hungary, during the migrant crisis on Sept. 2, 2015.

By STEVEN ERLANGER and BENJAMIN NOVAK

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fter long indulging him, leaders in the European Union now widely consider Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary an existential threat to a bloc that holds itself up as a model of human rights and the rule of law.

Orban has spent the past decade steadily building his “illiberal state,” as he proudly calls Hungary, with the help of lavish EU funding.

Even as his project widened fissures in the bloc, which Hungary joined in 2004, his fellow national leaders mostly looked the other way, committed to staying out of one another’s affairs.

But now Orban’s defiance and intransigence has had an important, if unintended, effect: serving as a catalyst for an often-sluggish EU system to act to safeguard the democratic principles that are the foundation of the bloc.

Early this year, the European Court of Justice will issue a landmark decision on whether the union has the authority to make its funds to member states conditional on meeting the bloc’s core values. Doing so would allow Brussels to deny billions of euros to countries that violate those values.

The bloc has consistently worked on political consensus among national leaders. But Orban has pushed Brussels toward a threshold it had long avoided: making membership subject to financial punishments, not merely political ones.

The new frontier could help solve an old problem — what to do about bad actors in its ranks — while creating new ones. Not least, it could invite the European Commission, the bloc’s executive branch, to exercise a new level of interference in the affairs of member states.

How Orban has forced the EU to such a juncture, and why it seemed helpless to stop him for so long, says much about the bloc’s founding assumptions and why it has stumbled in the face of populist and nationalist challenges.

Interviews with more than a dozen current and former European officials show how sentiments toward Orban and his illiberal project evolved from complacency and incomprehension to a recognition that he had become a serious internal threat — despite Hungary’s having fewer people than the Paris metropolitan area and a language so esoteric that it bears no relationship to those of its neighbors.

The willful neglect was encapsulated neatly in 2015 at a meeting, when Jean-Claude Juncker, then the European Commission’s president, saw Orban arriving and said, “The dictator is coming,” before greeting him with “dictator,” and giving him a friendly pat on the face.

No one in power wanted to confront Orban over issues like rule of law and corruption — especially not his fellow national leaders, who each have a seat on the powerful European Council.

“At the council myself I felt the reluc-

tance of Orban’s peers to deal with these kind of issues,” said Luuk van Middelaar, an aide to Herman Van Rompuy when he was council president. He added that the council was “like a club, where Viktor is just one of them — and they are political animals, and they respect each other for the simple fact of having won an election.”

The leaders “prefer not to deal with hot potatoes or each other’s business when they can avoid it,” van Middelaar said.

Orban faces new elections this spring against a formally united but extremely diverse set of opposition parties. But he has become a model for the politics of identity and religion, not just in Poland but in the United States, as well.

On Monday, former President Donald Trump endorsed Orban for reelection, pledging “complete support.” Orban was an early supporter of Trump, endorsing him in the summer of 2016 and again in 2020. Orban said Trump was “probably, like me, a little bit controversial, but that’s OK.” Some European lawmakers recognized early on that Orban was trampling on democratic norms but were stymied by national leaders, particularly those from the European People’s Party, the powerful center-right political grouping that has dominated the European Parliament for the past decade.

When Orban proposed — and later introduced — a new constitution that violated European principles, Didier Reynders, then Belgium’s minister of foreign and European affairs, said he tried to raise the problem in a meeting with EU leaders in 2011 but was shut down.

“The reaction was that this is not an issue for the member states,” said Reynders, who is now the EU commissioner for justice, adding that “maybe the commission, maybe the court” should deal with it.

“But now it’s a permanent discussion,” he said.

Orban’s party adopted the new constitution and a new media law that curbed press freedom. It overhauled the country’s justice system, removed the head of its Supreme Court and created an office to oversee the courts led by the wife of a prominent member of the governing party, Fidesz. Election laws were changed to favor the party.

External factors strengthened Orban as well, including in 2015 when a record number of migrants made their way to Europe and when the right-wing Law and Justice party of Jaroslaw Kaczynski came to power in Poland.

He suddenly had an ally there, and his tough

stance against migrants won him support elsewhere, too.

“What liberated Orban was 2015 and the migration crisis,” said Mark Leonard, the director of the European Council on Foreign Relations. “He was suddenly standing for more than Hungary but for wider issues of migration, with support in Germany and Austria and the other Central European states, and that gave him power.”

It has helped Orban that the EU has few and ineffective instruments for punishing a backsliding nation. Even the Lisbon Treaty, which gave enhanced powers to the European Parliament, has essentially one unusable tool: Article 7, which can remove a country’s voting rights, but only if passed by unanimity.

In 2017, Frans Timmermans, then the European Commission first vice president responsible for the rule of law, initiated the article against Poland. The European Parliament did the same against Hungary in 2018.

But both measures inevitably stalled because the two countries protect each other.

The treaty also allows the commission to bring infringement procedures — legal charges — against member states for violating EU law.

But the process is slow, involving letters and responses and appeals, and final decisions are up to the European Court of Justice. Most cases are settled before reaching the court.

But according to studies by R. Daniel Kelemen of Rutgers University and Tommaso Pavone of the University of Oslo, the commission sharply reduced infringement cases after the addition of new member states in 2004.

José Manuel Barroso, a former commission president, “bought into this to work more cooperatively with governments and not just sue them,” Kelemen said. Barroso declined to comment.

Attitudes have shifted. With taxpayer money at stake, the next seven-year budget in the balance and the disregard for shared values shown by Orban and Kaczynski on leaders’ minds, Brussels may have finally found a useful tool to affect domestic politics, with a mix of lawsuits charging infringement of European treaties combined with severe financial consequences.

A marker has finally been laid down, Reynders said.

The big moment comes this month, when the European Court of Justice issues its ruling.

If Hungary and Poland lose the case, as expected, it is unclear what will happen if both countries simply refuse to comply. The EU will be thrust deeper into unknown territory.

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The viral lies that keep killing us

By PAUL KRUGMAN

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year ago it seemed reasonable to hope that by early 2022 we’d mainly be talking about COVID — or at least COVID as a major health and quality-of-life issue — in the past tense. Effective vaccines had been developed with miraculous speed; surely a sophisticated nation like the United States would find a way to get those vaccines quickly and widely distributed.

So why didn’t we get past the pandemic? Part of the problem has been the creativity of viral evolution. The delta variant shocked us with its lethality; now omicron is shocking us with its transmissibility. Still, we could and should have done far better.

And the main reason we didn’t was the power of politically motivated lies.

Before I get to the specifics of those lies and the damage they’ve done, let’s be clear: Yes, this is about politics.

I know I’m not the only commentator who has faced a lot of pushback against emphasizing the partisan nature of vaccine resistance. We’re constantly reminded that many unvaccinated Americans aren’t Republican loyalists, that there are multiple reasons people won’t get or at least haven’t gotten their shots. All this is true; but politics has nonetheless played a crucial — and growing — role.

Look, for example, at a KFF survey from October, which found that 60% of the unvaccinated identified as Republicans, compared with only 17% who identified as Democrats. Or look

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at the invaluable Charles Gaba’s analysis of county-level data, which finds that on average a 1 percentage point higher Trump share of the 2020 vote corresponds to about a half-point reduction in a county’s current vaccination rate.

But how did politics do so much to undermine what should have been a medical miracle? I’d identify three important lies that keep being repeated by Republican politicians and rightwing media.

First is the claim that the coronavirus is no big deal. You might think this claim would have been retired, given that more than 800,000 Americans have died from COVID since Rush Limbaugh compared its virus to the common cold.

But it’s still out there. Political figures like Marco Rubio are dismissing the response to omicron as “irrational hysteria” because the variant appears to cause relatively few hospitalizations among the fully vaccinated. He slips quickly past that last qualification, which the KFF survey suggests has eluded millions of unvaccinated Republicans, who declare themselves unworried by a disease that should have them very worried indeed.

And conservative commentators erupted in rage when President Joe Biden pointed out, reasonably, that the coronavirus is still extremely dangerous if you haven’t gotten your shots; Tucker Carlson accused Biden of treating the unvaccinated as “subhumans.”

Next up: the claim that vaccination is ineffective. “If the booster shots work, why don’t they work?” tweeted Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee.

What they were getting at, presumably, is the fact that omicron is producing a number of breakthrough infections, while carefully ignoring the overwhelming evidence that even when vaccinated Americans do get infected they are far less likely than the unvaccinated to be hospitalized — or die.

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Finally, there’s the claim that it’s all about freedom, that remaining unvaccinated should be treated simply as a personal choice. For example, the administration of Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas has used that argument as the basis for a lawsuit seeking to block federal vaccine mandates. The Abbott administration has also appealed for federal aid to help Texas — which has a strikingly low vaccination rate in part because Abbott has prevented private businesses from imposing vaccine requirements — cope with a surge in COVID cases and hospitalizations. Need we say more?

Alert readers will have noticed that these Republican claims, in addition to being false, contradict one another in multiple ways. We can ignore COVID thanks to vaccines, which by the way don’t work. Vaccination is a personal choice, but giving people the information they need to make that choice wisely is a vile attack on their dignity. It’s all about freedom and free markets, but this freedom doesn’t include the right of private businesses to protect their own workers and customers.

So none of this makes any sense — not, that is, unless you realize that Republican vaccine obstructionism isn’t about serving a coherent ideology, it was and is about the pursuit of power. A successful vaccination campaign would have been a win for the Biden administration, so it had to be undermined using any and every argument available.

Sure enough, the anti-vaccine strategy has worked politically. The persistence of COVID has helped keep the nation’s mood dark, which inevitably hurts the party that holds the White House — so Republicans who have done all they can to prevent an effective response to COVID have not hesitated, even for a moment, in blaming Biden for failing to end the pandemic.

And the success of destructive vaccine politics is itself deeply horrifying. It seems that utter cynicism, pursued even at the cost of your supporters’ lives, pays.

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DF busca 194 trabajadores sociales POR CYBERNEWS

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A FORTALEZA – La secretaria de la Familia, Carmen Ana González Magaz dijo el martes que espera incluir a estudiantes universitarios para que tengan su primera experiencia laboral profesional dentro del Departamento de la Familia como trabajadores sociales.

“Si. Ciertamente necesitamos muchos más trabajadores sociales. Entendemos que por la situación también que ha habido y por las situaciones diversas que ha enfrentado la Isla, pues no contamos con el equipo completo que nos gustaría tener”, dijo González Magaz en conferencia de prensa.

“No obstante, sí tenemos la convocatoria abierta,

tenemos diferentes ferias y nos insertamos en otras iniciativas de otras dependencias del gobierno apra promoverlo, a través también del Colegio de Trabajadores Sociales y vamos a dar más énfasis a las universidades a estos estudiantes que ya se están graduando y que estas oportunidades de trabajo, especialmente en la unidad de investigaciones especiales es súmamente enriquecedora y que puedan entonces, integrarse al Departamento de la Familia”, añadió.

Expuso que la falata de trabajdores sociales es el salario, peus apenas los trabajadores sociales reciben hasta 1,800 dólares al mes y las condiciones laborales en las regiones de Puerto Rico.

Mencionó que actualmente hay 194 posiciones aprobadas para reclutamiento.

Positividad de COVID sube a 33.18 por ciento mientras se suman 8,763 casos POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El informe de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud reportó el martes sobre 2,608 casos positivos confirmados, 6,155 casos probables y cuatro muertes.

Las personas fallecidas son una mujer de 80 años y un hombre de 96 años de la región de Arecibo, un hombre de 73 años de la región de Bayamón y una mujer de 72 años de la región de Fajardo.

El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 19 de diciembre al 2 de enero de 2022.

La tasa de positividad subió a 33.18 por ciento.

Hay 420 adultos hospitalizados y de ellos, 53 están en ventiladores. Mientras, 90 menores están hospitalizados y uno está en ventilador.

Con una dosis hay al menos dos millones, 774 mil, 241 personas. Con las dosis completadas hay dos millones, 475 mil, 478 personas.

El total de muertes atribuidas es de 3,318.

Menor imita video y resulta con quemaduras en Moca POR CYBERNEWS

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OCA – Un menor de 11 años edad que supuestamente imitaba lo que vio en un video en redes sociales, resultó con quemaduras en varias partes del cuerpo, en un incidente reportado a eso de las 11:50 de la noche del lunes, en el barrio Pueblo en Moca, informó la Policía.

Según el reporte preliminar, el menor recibió

quemaduras en el rostro y el pecho. Supuestamente, utilizó un encendedor y alcohol líquido para imitar lo que vio en el video. Fue llevado por su madre al hospital Buen Samaritano de Aguadilla, donde recibe atención médica. Su condición es estable.

La agente Carmen Lorenzo, de Aguadilla está a cargo de la investigación. Se le dará conocimiento del incidente al Departamento de la Familia y al Cuerpo de Investigaciones Criminales.

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Film captures Jewish life in a Polish town before the Nazis arrive

By NINA SIEGAL

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lenn Kurtz found the film reel in a corner of his parents’ closet in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, in 2009. It was in a dented aluminum canister.

Florida’s heat and humidity had nearly solidified the celluloid into a mass “like a hockey puck,” Kurtz said. But someone had transferred part of it onto VHS tape in the 1980s, so Kurtz could see what it contained: a home movie titled “Our Trip to Holland, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, France and England, 1938.”

The 16-mm film, made by his grandfather, David Kurtz, on the eve of World War II, showed the Alps, quaint Dutch villages and three minutes of footage of a vibrant Jewish community in a Polish town.

Old men in yarmulkes, skinny boys in caps, girls with long braids. Smiling and joking. People pour through the large doors of a synagogue. There’s some shoving in a cafe, and then that’s it. The footage ends abruptly.

Glenn Kurtz, nevertheless, understood the value of the material as evidence of Jewish life in Poland just before the Holocaust. It would take him nearly a year to figure it out, but he discovered that the footage depicted Nasielsk, his grandfather’s birthplace, a town about 30 miles northwest of Warsaw that some 3,000 Jews called home before the war.

Fewer than 100 would survive it.

Now Dutch filmmaker Bianca Stigter has used the fragmentary, ephemeral footage to create “Three Minutes: A Lengthening,” a 70-minute feature film that helps to further define what and who were lost.

“It’s a short piece of footage, but it’s amazing how much it yields,” Stigter said in an interview in Amsterdam recently. “Every time I see it, I see something I haven’t really seen before. I must have seen it thousands and thousands of times, but still, I can always see a detail that has escaped my attention before.”

Almost as unusual as the footage is the journey it took before gaining wider exposure. All but forgotten within his family, the videotape was transferred to DVD and sent to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington in 2009.

“We knew it was unique,” said Leslie Swift, chief of the film, oral history and recorded sound branch of the museum. “I im-

mediately communicated with him and said, ‘If you have the original film, that’s what we want.’”

The Holocaust museum was able to restore and digitize the film, and it posted the footage on its website. At the time, Kurtz didn’t know where it had been shot, nor did he know the names of any of the people in the town square. His grandfather had emigrated from Poland to the United States as a child and had died before he was born.

Thus began a four-year process of detective work, which led Kurtz to write an acclaimed book, “Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film,” published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2014.

Stigter relied on the book in completing the film, which is coproduced by her husband, Steve McQueen, the British artist and Academy Award-winning director of “12 Years a Slave,” and narrated by Helena Bonham Carter. It has garnered attention in documentary circles and has been screened at Giornate degli Autori, an independent film festival held in parallel with the Venice film fest; the Toronto International Film Festival; Telluride Film Festival; the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam; and DOC NYC. It was recently selected for this month’s Sundance Film Festival.

Nasielsk, which had been home to Jews for centuries, was overtaken Sept. 4, 1939, three days after the German invasion of Poland. Three months later, on Dec. 3, the entire Jewish population was rounded up and expelled. People were forced into cattle cars and traveled for days without food and water to the towns of Lukow and Miedzyrzec, in the Lublin region of Nazi-occupied Poland. From there, they were mostly deported to the Treblinka extermination camp.

“When you see it, you want to scream to these people, ‘Run away, go, go, go,’” Stigter said. “We know what happens, and they obviously don’t know what starts to happen, just a year later. That puts a tremendous pressure on those images. It is inescapable.”

Stigter stumbled across the footage on Facebook in 2014 and found it instantly mesmerizing, especially because much of it was shot in color.

“My first idea was just to prolong the experience of seeing these people,” she said.

“For me, it was very clear, especially with

the children, that they wanted to be seen.

They really look at you; they try to stay in the camera’s frame.”

A historian, author and film critic for a Dutch national newspaper, NRC Handelsblad, Stigter worked on this film, her directorial debut, for five years. She started it after the International Film Festival Rotterdam invited her to produce a short video essay for its Critic’s Choice program. Instead of choosing a feature film, she decided to explore this found footage. After making a 25-minute “filmic essay,” shown at the Rotterdam festival in 2015, she received support to expand it into a feature film.

“Three Minutes: A Lengthening” never steps out of the footage. Viewers never see the town of Nasielsk as it is today or the faces of the interviewees as talking heads. Stigter tracks out, zooms in, stops, rewinds; she homes in on the cobblestones of a square, on the types of caps worn by the boys, and on the buttons of jackets and shirts, which were made in a nearby factory owned by Jews.

She creates still portraits of each of the 150 faces — no matter how vague or blurry — and puts names to some of them.

Maurice Chandler, a Nasielsk survivor in his 90s who is one of the smiling teenage boys in the footage. He was identified after a granddaughter in Detroit recognized him in a digitized clip on the Holocaust museum’s website.

Chandler, who was born Moszek Tuchendler, lost his entire family in the Holo-

caust; he said the footage helped him recall a lost childhood. He joked that he could finally prove to his children and grandchildren “that I’m not from Mars.” He was also able to help identify seven other people in the film.

Glenn Kurtz, an author and journalist, had discovered a tremendous amount through his own research, but Stigter helped solve some additional mysteries. He couldn’t decipher the name on a grocery store sign because it was too blurry to read. Stigter found a Polish researcher who figured out the name, one possible clue to the identity of the woman standing in the doorway.

Leslie Swift said that the David Kurtz footage is one of the “more often requested films” from the Holocaust Museum’s moving picture archives, but most often it is used by documentary filmmakers as stock footage or background imagery to indicate prewar Jewish life in Poland “in a generic way,” she said.

What Glenn Kurtz’s book and Stigter’s documentary do, by contrast, is to explore the material itself to answer the question, “What am I seeing?” over and over again, she said. By identifying people and details of the life of this community, they manage to restore humanity and individuality.

“We had to work as archaeologists to extract as much information out of this movie as possible,” Stigter said. “What’s interesting is that, at a certain moment, you say, ‘We can’t go any further; this is where it stops.’

But then you discover something else.”

A photo provided by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shows an image from a home movie titled “Our Trip to Holland, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, France and England, 1938,” which shows a Jewish community in Poland a year before the Nazi invasion.

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Five international movies to stream now

A scene from “Ste. Anne.”

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te. Anne’ (Criterion Channel) Rhayne Vermette’s experimental feature opens with a series of gauzy, mysterious images. First, we see a woman walk through a deserted, gray landscape enveloped in eerie morning sounds; then, over close-up shots of a fire, the disembodied voice of a girl recites a letter to an absent mother. These scenes plant the seed of the film’s tenuous narrative: a strange, fitful story about a woman who returns to her Métis Nation family in rural Manitoba after an unexplained four-year disappearance.

But the plot is almost a red herring; it appears and recedes in brief, unresolved snippets of conversation, giving way, for the most part, to transfixing scenes of tactility and community. Stories both trivial and ancestral are exchanged over fireside gatherings and dinner parties, which Vermette, shooting on sparkling celluloid, captures obliquely, zeroing in on a person’s gesticulating hands as they speak, or on the ripple of a pond as children toss stones into it. Slowly, an intimate but enigmatic portrait of a place and a people coalesces.

“Ste. Anne” is willfully abstract, resisting linear narrative, but it still manages to engross with its melding of documentary realism and cinematic magic. In one scene, as a family remembers a long-gone relative, he materializes in the background as a translucent figure — and just like that, an everyday conversation becomes a séance.

‘Rosa’s Wedding’ (HBO Max) This sweet, oddball Spanish drama follows a 45-year-old woman, Rosa (Candela Peña), who decides to resolve a midlife crisis by marrying … herself. This might sound like the plot of a corny ’90s Hollywood rom-com, but “Rosa’s Wedding” is a film of surprising nuance and profundity — a beautifully performed movie about the gestures, no matter how nonsensical, that we sometimes need to become who we want to be.

Peña brings a marvelous, lightly worn pathos to a character accustomed to being at the beck and call of everyone in her life: her boss in the wardrobe department of a film shoot, where Rosa works as a seamstress; her businessman brother who is navigating a divorce; her interpreter sister with an alcohol problem; and her

nagging father who, in the wake of his wife’s death, clings to Rosa. Further demands from a daughter living abroad and a needy boyfriend push her, finally, to a breaking point, and Rosa drives off to her seaside hometown, where she decides to reopen her mother’s dressmaking shop and pursue her long-stalled dreams.

And what better way for Rosa to embark on a new life than with a wedding? High jinks and high-strung confrontations ensue as Rosa’s family arrives at the picturesque location expecting a traditional ceremony. The caper ends as you’d expect — with a colorful, feel-good finale — but the film’s vulnerable performances and probing exchanges about grief and growth ensure that it never feels trite.

‘The Trouble With Being Born’ (Mubi) Austrian filmmaker Sandra Wollner’s provocative feature opens with scenes of a girl and her father lounging by a swimming pool somewhere in a wooded suburb. The eerie sound design and surveillancelike cinematography suggest that something’s off, but it’s not until a few minutes into the film, when the girl almost drowns and is rescued by her father, that we notice her stilted movements and silicone-smooth skin. Elli, we soon realize, is an automaton — a cybernetic stand-in for the 10-year-old daughter that her father lost many years ago.

The first half of “The Trouble With Being Born” traces the domestic life of this duo, forcing us to contend with that elusive yet unmistakable line that separates humans and nonhumans — an uncanny chasm made even more unsettling by the fact that Elli is played by an anonymous actress wearing a mask. In the second half, the film turns from contemplative to condemnatory as the twisted nature of the relationship between Elli and her father figure becomes clear. Rather than veer into sensationalism, Wollner’s film maintains a coolly dystopian view throughout, confronting us with a nihilistic (albeit inarguably realistic) world where science, regardless of how sophisticated, can never transcend the depravity of its creators.

‘Rosa’s Wedding’

‘Lift Like a Girl’ (Netflix) If you walked by Captain Ramadan’s weightlifting gym in Alexandria, Egypt, you’d never guess that it has produced 17 Pan-African champions, nine World champions and four Olympians. Situated in an openair yard overrun with weeds and surrounded by traffic, this gym looks more like a dumping ground for rusty equipment. Yet, at this ramshackle, no-budget institution, Ramadan has not only coached world-class athletes but also led a unique movement of female Egyptian weightlifters.

The documentary “Lift Like a Girl” follows Ramadan as he trains yet another champion in the making, bespectacled teenager Asmaa, over four years.

Observing the weightlifters’ routines closely with a handheld camera, the film captures the mix of chaos, privation and grit that drives this scrappy community.

Ramadan makes for an utterly cinematic figure: He’s a grizzled curmudgeon as prone to bursting into songs of paternal affection as he is to exploding with profanities or chucking stones at boys who dare make fun of his girls.

With an intimate, embedded approach, director Mayye Zayed traces the contours of Ramadan’s tough love and its profound, formative impacts on Asmaa. A late-coming twist pushes the film beyond the realm of sport, underscoring the avenues of hope and solidarity that the gym provides to young women of modest means.

‘This Is Cristina’ (Ovid; rent it on Amazon) Gonzalo Maza’s lo-fi black-and-white comedy about the misadventures of two charmingly aimless women is as strikingly original as it is warmly familiar; its portrait of millennial malaise is streaked with surprising and bracing darkness. Unfolding in brief, sardonic episodes, the film follows two best friends, Cristina and Susana, as they navigate a meandering stretch of their 30s. Cristina is dealing with a messy separation from her egotistical graphic-novelist ex and an even messier relationship with her theater-director beau, all while nursing a severe case of artist’s block. In the meantime, Susana faces a crisis of familial faith as her mother runs off on a vacation with a new lover, and her father embroils her in a web of lies and unpaid loans.

It’s as if adulthood and its ramifications have taken the two women by surprise. But this Chilean film never feels twee or cloying; it maintains a mature, realist attitude toward life even as it regales us with set pieces involving pretentious acting workshops and wellnessthemed parties. Time and again, Cristina and Susana return to the memory of another friend who died in an accident a couple of years before. The abrupt end of her life hangs over the pair’s stalled, confusing paths, lending a sense of perspective to even their most pitiful moments.

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A clean slate

By IRIS EDÉN SANTIAGO Special for The STAR

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wo steps forward, one step back.

And things aren’t going as smoothly as we thought they would back in September when fashion designers presented their spring summer 2022 collections.

Back then the industry was finally picking up pace after 18 months immersed in pandemic mood. In September it was all excitement, happiness and new beginnings. These collections are full of neons, wild patterns, bold colors and bright hues.

But the holidays brought back the pandemic and the lockdowns, along with an uneasy feeling of despair and yes, anxiety. Fashion being the reflection of history and global vibes that it is, we decided to take the first days of the year to meditate and dream of better days ahead.

A clean slate if you will, to inhale, exhale and cautiously celebrate a fresh new start.

So what better choice than white for a promising new beginning? The color of simplicity, purity, peace, elegance. The color of fresh snow, and in our case, sandy beaches. The preferred color for resort and summer Erdem wardrobes, which Puerto RiMoralioglu cans are lucky to wear year round.

When talking about white in fashion it is impossible not to bring up Carolina Herrera, the Venezuelan designer who taught the world

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the value and versatility of a crisp white classic shirt.

“They have always been part of my life. They make me feel secure. When I don’t know what to wear, I choose a white shirt,” Herrera is quoted as saying about her style symbol. “You can wear them with or without jewelry, with jeans or with a long or short skirt. It can be worn for special occasions or even for work.”

Among the powerhouses that included white for the first half of 2022 are Michael Kors, Louis Vuitton, Yves Saint Laurent, Givenchy, Altazurra, Alexander McQueen, Simone Rocha and Carolina Herrera. We selected a few great looks from some of our favorite global designers’ SS2022 collections to inspire a chic, timeless and refined new year.

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Diets make you feel bad. Try training your brain instead.

An illustrative photo of a refrigerator, in New York in December 2021. The new Eat Well Challenge will show you how to reshape your eating habits without dieting.

By TARA PARKER-POPE

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ere’s a New Year’s resolution you can keep: Stop dieting and start savoring your food instead.

That may seem like surprising advice, but there’s mounting scientific evidence to suggest that diets don’t work. Research shows that food restriction just makes you want to eat more. And over the long term, dieting can backfire, triggering your body’s survival defenses, slowing your metabolism and making it even harder to lose weight in the future.

A resolution to quit dieting doesn’t mean giving up on having a healthier body.

But to successfully conquer a dieting habit, you’ll need to let go of old ideas about counting calories, banning your favorite foods and measuring success by a number on a scale.

So what’s the alternative? Many weight researchers are encouraging a new approach to healthy eating based on brain science. A variety of techniques that encourage mindful awareness of how we eat, acceptance related to the foods we want to eat and intuitive eating exercises can be used to quell cravings and reshape our eating habits.

“The paradigms around willpower don’t work,” said Dr. Judson Brewer, an associate professor in behavioral and social sciences at the Brown University School of

Public Health who has studied mindful eating practices. “You have to start by knowing how your mind works.”

The case against restrictive diets Kicking dieting habits this time of year is especially hard because of the allure of gimmicky weight-loss plans. Many established diet programs and dieting apps try to attract users with the promise that they’re not promoting a traditional diet, only to impose restrictive eating practices once you sign up.

Traci Mann, who heads the health and eating laboratory at the University of Minnesota, notes that beyond the disappointment of not keeping weight off, dieting also impacts your body in a number of negative ways. Among other things, restrictive eating can impact memory and executive function, lead to obsessive food thoughts, and trigger a surge in cortisol, a stress hormone.

“A diet is an unpleasant and shortlived way to try to lose weight,” said Mann, author of “Secrets From the Eating Lab: The Science of Weight Loss, the Myth of Willpower, and Why You Should Never Diet Again.” “You might take it off in the short term, but it comes back. It happens no matter who you are; it happens to people with great willpower and to people with crappy willpower.”

How eating habits are formed Brewer, an addiction psychiatrist, has

tested a number of mindfulness practices to help people quit smoking, lower anxiety and reduce emotional eating. He has also created an app called Eat Right Now that uses mindfulness exercises to help people change their eating habits.

One Brown University study of 104 overweight women found that mindfulness training reduced craving-related eating by 40%. Another review by scientists at Columbia University found that intuitive and mindful-eating training often resulted in at least one benefit for metabolic or heart health, such as improved glucose levels, lower cholesterol or improved blood pressure Brewer notes that eating behaviors, such as absent-mindedly snacking on potato chips or bingeing on dessert, are often the result of habit loops that get reinforced over time.

Habit loops can be formed from both good and bad experiences, says Brewer. Ice cream, for instance, is something we might eat during celebrations. The brain learns to associate eating ice cream with feeling good. Although there’s nothing wrong with ice cream, it can become a problem when we start eating it unthinkingly after an emotional trigger, such as when we feel stressed or angry. Now our brains have learned that ice cream also makes us feel good in times of stress, reinforcing the habit loop.

Try the eat well challenge For this week’s Eat Well Challenge, start practicing awareness by slowing down and thinking about what you’re eating and why you’re eating it. Try not to focus on weight loss, food restriction or eliminating favorite foods from your diet. Avoid labeling foods as “good” or “bad.” Your goal this week is to focus on the tastes and textures of food, and how you feel before, during and after eating.

It can take time to learn how to bring mindful awareness to what you’re eating, so be patient. In one study, it took participants at least 10 to 15 tries — and for many people it took 38 or more attempts — to begin to reshape eating behaviors. (I will be offering extra tips and coaching via text message during the challenge this month. Text the word “Hi” (or any word) to 917-810-3302 for a link to join. Message and data rates may apply.)

Here are two simple exercises from

Brewer’s Eat Right Now program to get you started.

Begin with a premeal warmup.

Before every meal this week, try this simple awareness exercise. There’s no need to track what you eat or restrict your diet. Just check in with your body every time you eat.

On a scale of zero to 10, with zero being an empty stomach and 10 being uncomfortably full, how hungry are you right now? Next, look at the food, observing the textures and colors. Now smell your food. Finally, pick up your fork and take your first mindful bite. As you chew, put your fork down and pay careful attention to how the food tastes and feels in your mouth. After several bites, check in with your body to see if you’re hungry or full.

Map your eating habits.

Use this exercise to work on an eating behavior you’d like to change, such as excessive snacking or ordering fast food.

Our eating habits have three elements: a trigger, a behavior and a result. By mapping your habits, you can provide your brain with new information about how the habit really makes you feel.

— Start by choosing one eating behavior you’d like to change. Maybe you want to snack less during the day, or cut back on takeout or indulgences such as cookies, potato chips or ice cream. Although there’s nothing wrong with enjoying these foods, you’ve identified this as a problematic eating behavior. Why is that?

— Now think about what triggers this behavior. Is it an emotion, such as anger or stress, or are you rewarding yourself with a treat? Or it could be a situation, such as watching television or grocery shopping when you’re hungry.

— Focus on the result. Before you eat, ask yourself some questions. What am I getting from this? How will eating this food make me feel? Think about how you felt the last time you ate it. Did you enjoy it? Did you end up eating too much? Did you feel uncomfortably full or nauseous? Did you feel guilty later and beat yourself up for eating it? Thinking about how a food makes you feel before, during and after you eat updates the information your brain has about how rewarding (or not) a food really is. And it can help break the hold a particular food has on you.

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ROOSEVELT CAYMAN ASSET COMPANY II Plaintiff V.

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WHEREAS Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $180,521.94, accrued annual interests of 7.95%, and deferred balance of $31,947.85 for a total of $212,469.79 from the September 1, 2014 until full payment, plus mortgage and risk insurance premiums, late fees and any other amount expressly agreed-upon in the mortgage deed, from the date stated above until full payment thereof, plus 10% for attorneys’ fees and legal costs in the amount of $18,622.49. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder. The public sale shall be held at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building Office 150, 1st. floor, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918 and at the office E Street, Lot 3, Section 4, Los Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969 (18,3699028-66.1126971).

The public sale will be of the following property: “URBANA: Solar número cuatrocientos veintiséis, parcela de terreno sita en la manzana N en el plano de la Urbanización del Reparto Baldrich del barrio Hato Rey del término municipal de Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número cuatrocientos veintiséis de la manzana N del citado piano de dicha urbanización, con un área superficial de cuatrocientos cincuenta y nueve punto ochenta metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en treinta y cinco punto diez metros, con la calle Coll y Taste (antes Rafael) de dicha urbanización; por el OESTE, en veinticinco punto

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setenta metros, con el solar número cuatrocientos veinticinco de la urbanización Baldrich; por el SUR, es el apex de un triángulo formado por las líneas Sur y ESTE qua colinda en cuarenta y tres punto ochenta metros, con terrenos del municipio de Rio Piedras.” Recorded at page 222 of volume 506 of Rio Piedras Norte, property number 12,647, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of San Juan. The mortgage foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is recorded at page number 222 of volume number 506 of Rio Piedras Norte, in the Registry of Property of San Juan, Second Section, property number 12,647. The property described above is encumbered by the following junior lien: mortgage in the amount of $34,500.00 in favor of Doral Bank, or to its order, bearing annual interest equal to 9.95% and due on December 1, 2025, pursuant to deed number 552, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico on November 17, 2005, before Victor R. Nuñez Arco, recorded at page 97 of volume 1527 of the Registry. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE will be held on FEBRUARY 28TH, 2022 AT 1:30PM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $186,224.95. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on MARCH 7TH, 2022 AT 1:30PM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $124,149.96. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on MARCH 14TH, 2022 AT 1:30PM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $93,112.47. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens.

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Wednesday, January 5, 2022 rence is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 15th day of December, 2021. Joel Ronda Feliciano, Special Master, Email: rondajoel@me.com, Tel: 787-565-0415.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

ELIZABETH ZARAGOZA DÍAZ; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV05451.

Sala: 506. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM”. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 10 de diciembre de 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Cond.

Santa María, Apartamento 406 San Juan, Puerto Rico. URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial número 406 de un nivel, de forma irregular, localizado en el 4to nivel (piso 4) del Condominio Santa María, que ubica en la Carretera Estatal número 177, en el Barrio Monacillos del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Consta de un área de 2,200.00 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 204.38 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en varias alineaciones que suman 13.94 metros, con área exterior del edificio; por el SUR, en varias alineaciones que suman 13.94 metros, con área común de pasillo y el apartamento número 405; por el ESTE, en varias alineaciones que suman 17.98 metros, con el apartamento 405, área común de pasillo y el apartamento 401; y por el OESTE, en varias alineaciones que suman 17.98 metros, con área exterior del edificio. La puerta principal de entrada al apartamento está situada en su lindero Este, a través del cual se accesa al pasillo del nivel 4 del Condominio.

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Consta de un área de recibidor, sala-comedor, cocina, balcón, área de alacena, área de lavandería, 03 cuartos dormitorios, uno de ellos con 02 walk in closets y un baño, además de otro baño completo y un medio baño. Tiene una participación de 0.0140416270% en los elementos comunes del Edificio. A este apartamento se le asigna el uso exclusivo como anejo de los espacios de estacionamiento identificados con los números 197, 198 y 212, en el Plano del Condominio. También se le asigna el uso exclusivo como anejo del área de almacenaje (covacha) identificado como número 54, en el mismo plano.

Inscrita al folio 88 del tomo 327 de Monacillos Este y el Cinco, finca # 8,339. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección V de San Juan. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: Estados Unidos de América: A cuyo favor aparece un Embargo Federal contra Elizabeth Zaragoza Díaz, seguro social xxxxx-7026, por la suma de $62,466.52, notificación número 170844905, presentado y anotado el día 2 de septiembre de 2015, al folio 11, Asiento 5, del libro de Embargos Federales número 6. Estados Unidos de América: A cuyo favor aparece un Embargo Federal contra Elizabeth Zaragoza Díaz, seguro social xxx-xx-7026, por la suma de $12,958.44, notificación número 262964017, Certificación de fecha 18 de marzo de 2017, presentado y anotado el día 16 de junio de 2017, al Asiento 2017-005522-FED del Sistema Karibe. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 29 de mayo de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el caso civil número SJ2019CV05451, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Elizabeth Zaragoza Díaz y otros, por la suma de $464,736.93, anotado el día 15 de abril de 2020, al

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21 tomo Karibe de Monacillos Este y el Cinco, finca número 8,339, anotación A. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 6 de febrero de 2020, notificada el 14 de febrero de 2020 en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $464,736.93 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 4.80%, anual desde el 1ro de agosto de 2018, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario, recargos por demora y cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de primera hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha del pago total de las mismas, más la suma de $51,100.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 2 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $511,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 9 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $340,666.67, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 16 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe.

El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $255,500.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciem-

bre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes.

Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de diciembre de 2021. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC. Demandante V.

VICENTE JUAN URBISTONDO SOTO

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV02612.

Sala: 604. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA - IN REM.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 10 de diciembre de 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Urb. Montecarlo Calle 11 N-7 San Juan, Puerto Rico.

URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Sabana Llana de Rio Piedras, termino municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número siete (7) del Bloque N, de la Urbanización Montecarlo, con una cabida superficial de trescientos setenta y dos punto sesenta y ocho metros cuadrados (372.68 m.c.), en colindancias por el NORTE, con el solar seis (6) del mismo bloque, en una longitud de veintiséis punto sesenta y dos metros (26.62 m.); por el SUR, con el solar ocho (8) del Bloque N en una longitud de veintiséis punto sesenta y dos metros (26.62 m.); por el ESTE, con la Calle número once (11) en una longitud de catorce metros (14.00 m.); y por el OESTE, con los solares catorce (14) y quince (15) del propio bloque en una longitud de catorce metros (14.00 m.).

Enclava una casa de concreto y bloques para vivienda. Finca número 12,807, inscrita al folio 16 del tomo 304 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Quinta Sección de San Juan. La propiedad ubica en: N-7 (1286) 11 St Montecarlo, San Juan, PR. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 30 de julio de 2019 y notificada el 2 de agosto de 2019, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $160,806.19 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a raíz de 7.375% desde el 1 de junio de 2017, cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito; y la suma $18,050.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los

Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 2 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de San Juan - {243 Pueblo}, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $180,500.00.

Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 9 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $120,333.33, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 16 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $90,250.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico

22 de Sentencia expedido el día 15 de diciembre de 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar setenta y uno del Bloque FR en la Urbanización Levittown en el Barrio Sabana Seca de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con un área de trescientos diez metros cuadrados con cincuenta centímetros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, en veintitrés metros con el solar setenta y dos; por el SUR, en veintitrés metros con el solar setenta; por el ESTE, en trece metros cincuenta centímetros con Luis Palés Matos, (según Plano Calle seiscientos dos); y por el OESTE, en trece metros cincuenta centímetros con el solar treinta. Contiene una casa de cemento diseñada para una familia. Inscrita en la finca 12,993 al folio 95 del tomo 212 de Toa Baja. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Bayamón. Propiedad ubicada en: FR 71 Calle LEGAL NOTICE Luis Pales Matos, Levittown ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Dev. Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. El DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL producto de la subasta se desGENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI- tinará a satisfacer al demanBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN- dante hasta donde alcance, la CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR el día 18 de octubre de 2021, DE TOA BAJA notificada el 18 de octubre de BANCO POPULAR DE 2021, y publicada en el periódico “The San Juan Daily Star” el PUERTO RICO día 21 de octubre de 2021, en Demandante V. el presente caso civil, a saber la SUCESIÓN DE WILFREDO suma de $112,175.25 por conDOMINGO MARINI cepto de principal; generando BONILLA, COMPUESTA intereses a razón de 4% desde el 1ro de enero de 2020; cargos POR, SU ESPOSA, demora los cuales al igual MEDELLÍN DEL CARMEN por que los intereses continúan NIEVES CRUZ, POR SÍ acumulándose hasta el saldo Y POR CONCETO DE total de la deuda reclamada USUFRUCTO VIUDAL en este pleito, y la suma de $12,500.00 para costas, gasDEL CAUSANTE; tos y honorarios de abogado; MEDELLÍN MARINI y demás créditos accesorios NIEVES; MEDELLÍN garantizados hipotecariamente.

MICHELLE MARINI La adjudicación se hará al meNIEVES; Y WILFREDO jor postor, quien deberá consigMELVIN MARINI NIEVES, nar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, COMO HEREDEROS DEL en efectivo (moneda del curso CAUSANTE WILFREDO legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque DOMINGO MARINI BONILLA; CENTRO DE certificado a nombre del alguadel Tribunal. LA PRIMERA RECAUDACIONES DE cil SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el INGRESOS MUNICIPALES día 10 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 (C.R.I.M.) A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, Demandados en el Cuarto Piso de la Oficina Civil Núm.: TB2021CV00404. de Alguaciles de Subastas de Sala: 401. Sobre: COBRO DE Centro Judicial de Bayamón, DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HI- Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Que POTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS el precio mínimo fijado para DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN- la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de TE DE LOS ESTADOS UNI- $125,000.00. Que de ser neDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASO- cesaria la celebración de una CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El se llevará a efecto el día 17 que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribu- DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS nal de Primera Instancia, Sala 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Superior, Centro Judicial de Ba- Cuarto Piso de la Oficina de Alyamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, guaciles de Subastas de Centro hago saber, a la parte deman- Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón dada y al PÚBLICO EN GE- Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo NERAL: Que en cumplimiento para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA del Mandamiento de Ejecución será de $83,333.33, equivaleny se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de diciembre de 2021. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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tes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 28 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Cuarto Piso de la Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $62,500.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de diciembre de 2021.

MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE EDWIN VÁZQUEZ CHÉVERE, COMPUESTA POR DAISY BÁEZ RIVERA, POR SÍ, LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; Y JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; EL HONORABLE SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, EL CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: TB2019CV00257.

Sala: 701. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 14 de diciembre de 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número trece del Bloque AT situado en el Barrio Sabana Seca de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con un área de trescientos cincuenta y tres metros cuadrados con ochocientos setenta y un milímetros. En lindes por el NORTE, en dos metros setecientos cuarenta y nueve milímetros y diecinueve metros cincuenta centímetros con la Calle Lillian Este, según plano, Calle número cuatrocientos veintiséis; por el SUR, en veintitrés metros con el solar número catorce; por el ESTE, en doce metros y dos metros setecientos cuarenta y nueve milímetros, con la Calle Lilian Este, según plano, Calle cuatrocientos veintiséis;

y por el OESTE, en quince metros cincuenta centímetros, con el solar número doce. Inscrita al 46 del tomo 125 de Toa Baja, finca número 7831. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Bayamón. Propiedad ubicada en: AT-13 Lilian Street Levittown Dev. Toa Baja, PR. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 14 de septiembre de 2021, notificada el 17 de septiembre de 2021, y publicada en periódico de circulación general, The San Juan Daily Star, el 22 de septiembre de 2021 en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $83,642.86 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 6 3/8% desde el 1ro de marzo de 2018; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $12,240.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 10 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $122,400.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 17 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $81,600.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 28 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $61,200.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima

conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de diciembre de 2021.

MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

MARICELY PARIS RIVERA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: KCD2015-1075.

Sala: 803. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNI-

DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 31 de marzo de 2016, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 23 de noviembre de 2021 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 29 de noviembre de 2021 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Superior, en la Avenida Muñoz Rivera, Esquina Coll y Toste, Parada 37, San Juan, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar de forma rectangular que mide 12.00 metros de frente por 21.00 metros de fondo, marcado con el Número 19 de la Manzana DM (19-DM) de la Urbanización Puerto Nuevo, propiedad de Everlasting Development Corporation, que radica en el Barrio Monacillos de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.

Con un área superficial de 252.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, SUR, ESTE y OESTE, con terrenos propiedad de Everlasting Development Corporation y dando frente al NORTE, con la Calle denominada Calle Número 23 de la Urbanización. Enclava una casa de bloques de cemento y hormigón reforzado que consta de dos (2) dormitorios, sala-comedor, cocina y cuarto de baño. La propiedad consta inscrita al Folio 157 del Tomo 132 de Monacillos, Finca Número 4749, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Tercera. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al Folio 136 del Tomo 1026 de Monacillos, Finca Número 4749, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Tercera.

Inscripción duodécima (12ma).

DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: URB. PUERTO NUEVO, 1362 CALLE 20 NW (DM-19 CALLE 23 NO), SAN JUAN, PR 009202241. SUBASTAS: FECHAS: PRIMERA: 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $97,465.00. SEGUNDA: 8 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $64,976.66. TERCERA: 15 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $48,732.50.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $97,465.00.

De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el

día 8 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $64,976.66. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 15 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $48,732.50. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $92,102.11 por concepto de principal, intereses sobre dicha suma al 5% anual desde el 1 de noviembre de 2014 los cuales continuaran en aumento hasta el pago total y completo de la deuda; más los cargos por demora equivalentes al 4% de todos aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; más los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; más una cantidad equivalente a $9,746.50 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento

The San Juan Daily Star de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 20 de diciembre de 2021. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR.

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ESTRELLA HOMES III LLC Parte Demandante Vs.

JOHN LUIS ASTOR CASALDUC, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO JOHN L. ASTOR CASALDUC, SU ESPOSA MARIA CABANILLAS TORREGROSA, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO ANA M. CABANILLAS TORREGROSA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: HU2019CV00616. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Humacao, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $403,699.39 de balance principal, el cual se compone de un primer principal por la suma de $397,000.00 más un principal diferido por la suma de $6,699.39; más los intereses adeudados sobre la suma de $397,000.00 computados al 6.75% anual desde el primero de julio de 2018 hasta su total pago y completo pago; más el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad; más cargos por demora devengados, más la suma estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto le-

gal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartment number 51 at Palmas Inn Villas Condominium, Regime I. Irregular Shaped 1 bedroom split level apartment with a total construction area of 1,370 square feet, equivalent to 127 square meters.

The maximum length of this apartment is 43 feet 11 inches and the maximum width is 26 feet. A common wall separates this apartments from apartment number 50. The main entrance is located on the West side of the apartment and provides direct access to the exterior common grounds. It enters directly into the landing of private interior stairs. This staircase contains 2 closets and entry hall that leads into the dining room. To the East of the living room and at a lower level is the living room which opens both to the dining room and to the exterior common grounds. To the West of the dining room is a bedroom which contains a built in closet. SOUTH of the dining room is the bathroom which contains built in closets and the kitchen that contains wall mounted units. The bathroom and kitchen both open to the dining room area. On the second floor is an open terrace with access directly to the exterior common grounds through the exterior private staircase.

Boundaries: On the first floor by the NORTH in a distance of 36 feet 11 inches with apartment number 50 and in 7 feet, with the exterior common areas; by the SOUTH, in a distance of 43 feet 11 inches, with the exterior common areas; by the EAST and WEST in a distance of 25 feet 2 inches, with the exterior common areas. On the second floor by the NORTH in a distance of 29 feet with apartment number 50; by the SOUTH in a distance of 29 feet with exterior common areas; by the EAST and WEST, in a distance of 13 feet 11 inches with the exterior common areas. Le corresponde una participación de 3.66 %. Inscrita al folio cuarenta y cinco (45) del tomo trescientos veintisiete (327) de Humacao, finca número trece mil seiscientos treinta (13630). Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao.

Dirección Física: 51 Inn Villas Condominium, Regime I, Palmas del Mar, Humacao Puerto Rico 00791. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 2 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $397,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 9 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y el precio mínimo

Wednesday, January 5, 2022 para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $264,666.66.

Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 16 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $198,500.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las

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

(Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm.

210-2015). Expedido el presente en Humacao, Puerto Rico a 20 de diciembre de 2021. MARÍA DEL PILAR RIVERA RIVERA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL. JENNISA GARCÍA MORALES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #796.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.

LA SUCESIÓN DE NORMA IRIS DÍAZ VALDEZ T/C/C NORMA I. DÍAZ VALDEZ T/C/C NORMA DÍAZ VALDEZ COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; LA SUCESIÓN DE HIPÓLITO IZQUIERDO DÍAZ COMPUESTA POR SUTANO Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; JENNIFER IZQUIERDO, HEREDERA DE HIPÓLITO IZQUIERDO DÍAZ Y DE NORMA IRIS DÍAZ VALDEZ T/C/C NORMA I. DÍAZ VALDEZ T/C/C NORMA DÍAZ VALDEZ PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. BY2018CV01447.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 3 de abril de 2019, la Orden Enmendada de Ejecución de Sentencia del 22 de noviembre de 2021 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia del 23 de noviembre de 2021 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 8 de febrero de 2022, a las 9:15 de la mañana, en el Cuarto Piso

de la Oficina del Alguacil de Subastas, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior, ubicado en la Carretera Número Dos (#2), Kilómetro 10.4, Esquina Esteban Padilla, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: Descripción de la Propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Lomas Verdes, situada en el Barrio Minillas de Bayamón, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la urbanización, con el número, área y colindancias, que se relacionan a continuación: Número del solar: 18 de la manzana 4-P. Área del solar: 404.57 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número 19, distancia de 17.00 metros; por el SUR, con la Calle Número 58-A, distancia de 17.00 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número 17, distancia de 24.00 metros; y por el OESTE, con la Calle Número 58, distancia de 24.00 metros.

Enclava una casa, con un valor de $40,000.00. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 51 del tomo 330 de Bayamón, Finca Número 14553, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 167 del tomo 1833 de Bayamón, Finca Número 14553, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. Inscripción décimotercera. De conformidad con la Escritura Número 51, otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 2 de septiembre de 2008, ante el Notario Carlos Rodríguez Marín se constituyó un derecho de superficie a favor de Norma Iris Díaz Valdez t/c/c Norma I. Díaz Valdez t/c/c Norma Díaz Valdez. La hipoteca antes descrita se extendió al derecho de superficie, se describe a continuación: Descripción de la Propiedad Superficiaria: URBANA: Estructura en cemento la cual ocupa 58.00 metros de construcción, cuenta con techo en metal, paredes en bloques y cemento, con espacios destinados para sala, comedor, cocina, un (1) baño y tres (3) dormitorios. Se ha construido una servidumbre de paso que serviría de acceso a dicha edificación a saber el acceso a la vía pública se obtiene a través de una escalera que da acceso desde la segunda planta a la primera y desde donde se obtiene acceso a la vía pública. Se ha construido una servidumbre de paso para los servicios de agua, luz, teléfonos, televisión por cable y descargue sanitario a favor de la propiedad superficiaria a perpetuidad. Se valoran las servidumbres en $50.00 cada una y la edificación en $30,000.00.

La propiedad superficiaria con-

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ta inscrita al folio 144 del tomo 1872 de Bayamón, Finca Número 77143, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: LOMAS VERDES, 4P18 CALLE PETUNIA, BAYAMÓN, PR 009562902. Primera Subasta: 8 de febrero de 2022, Hora: 9:15 am, Tipo Mínimo: $32,000.00.

Segunda Subasta: 15 de febrero de 2022, Hora: 9:15 am, Tipo Mínimo: $21,333.33. Tercera Subasta: 23 de febrero de 2022, Hora: 9:15 am, Tipo Mínimo:$16,000.00. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $32,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una segunda subasta, día 15 de febrero de 2022, a las 9:15 de la mañana en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $21,333.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 23 de febrero de 2022, a las 9:15 de la mañana en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $16,000.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente.

Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $9,338.15 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 9.95% anual desde el 1 de julio de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $51.45 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $3,200.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Anotación de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. La Sucesión de Norma Iris Díaz Valdez t/c/c Norma I. Díaz Valdez t/c/c Norma Díaz Valdez compuesta por Fulano y Mengano de Tal, posibles herederos desconocidos; La Sucesión de Hipólito Izquierdo Díaz compuesta por Sutano y Perencejo de Tal, posibles herederos desconocidos, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el Caso Civil Número BY2018CV01447, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $9,338.15 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 23 de julio de 2018, presentado al Asiento 2021-

121483-BY01, ha sido inscrito el 30 de septiembre de 2021 a las 2:07 pm en la Finca Número 14553, Anotación A y en la Finca Número 77143, Anotación A. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm.

210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 9 de diciembre de 2021. Maribel Lanzar Velázquez, Alguacil Placa 735, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR. ****

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

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Demandante Vs.

SUCESION JOSEFINA SAN FELIX SEDA T/C/C JOSEFINA SAN FELIX COMPUESTA POR CARLOS ISRAEL MONTAÑEZ SAN FELIX, CARLOS LUIS MONTAÑEZ SAN FELIX, JOSSIE ANN MONTAÑEZ SAN FELIX, CRISTELA MONTAÑEZ SAN FELIX; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

CA2021CV02621

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2021CV02621.

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

A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION JOSEFINA SAN FELIX SEDA T/C/C JOSEFINA SAN FELIX.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto.

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

Greenspoon Marder, LLP Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622 TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 Telephone: (954) 343 6273 Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 02 de diciembre de 2021. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KEILA G., SUB-SECRETARIA.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

DAVID OUVIÑA IZQUIERDO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO DAVID OUVIÑAS IZQUIERDO Y COMO DAVID OUVINAS IZQUIERDO; YAEL MONIQUE RYAN TONGE

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV07521.

(506). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS

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

dirección: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la A: DAVID OUVIÑA IZQUIERDO, TAMBIÉN secretaría del tribunal y enviar copia a la representación legal CONOCIDO COMO DAVID de la parte demandante cuya OUVIÑAS IZQUIERDO Y dirección más adelante se inCOMO DAVID OUVINAS dica. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva IZQUIERDO; YAEL del referido término, el MONIQUE RYAN TONGE. dentro tribunal podrá dictar sentencia POR EL PRESENTE EDICen rebeldía en su contra y conTO se le notifica que se ha ceder el remedio solicitado en radicado en esta Secretaría la demanda, o cualquier otro, por la parte demandante, Desi el tribunal, en el ejercicio de manda sobre Cobro de Dinero su sana discreción, lo entiende y Ejecución de Hipoteca por procedente. la Vía Ordinaria en la que se Lcda. Adela Surillo Gutiérrez alega adeuda la suma princiRUA #5358 pal de $244,745.96, intereses Bufete Collazo, Connelly & Surillo, LLC P.O. Box 11550 al 6.50% anual, desde el día San Juan, P.R. 00922-1550 1ro de abril de 2018, hasta su Tel. (787) 625-9999 completo pago, más la cantidad Fax (787) 705-7387 de $34,540.00, estipulada para E-mail: asurillo@lawpr.com costas, gastos y honorarios de Se le notifica también por la abogado, más recargos acupresente que la parte demanmulados, todas cuyas sumas dante habrá de presentar para están líquidas y exigibles. La su anotación al Registrador propiedad hipotecada a ser de la Propiedad del Distrito en vendida en pública subasta es: que está situada la propiedad URBANA: Solar marcado con objeto de este pleito, un aviso el número Doce (12) del Blode estar pendiente esta acción. que “D” de la URBANIZACIÓN Para publicarse conforme a la LADERAS DE SAN JUAN, raOrden dictada por el Tribunal dicado en el Barrio Caimito del en un periódico de circulación término municipal de San Juan, general. EN TESTIMONIO DE Puerto Rico, con una cabida LO CUAL, expido el presente de NOVECIENTOS SETENEdicto que firmo y sello en San TA Y DOS PUNTO NOVENTA Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 27 de Y OCHO (972.98) METROS diciembre de 2021. GRISELDA CUADRADOS. En linderos: RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SENORTE, en una sola alineación CRETARIA REGIONAL. JESde 29.294 metros, con Calle núSICA SOTO PAGÁN, SECREmero 4-Este de la Urbanización TARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA. Laderas de San Juan; SUR, en 26.287 metros, con lote número LEGAL NOTICE D-2 de la Urbanización Laderas de San Juan; ESTE, en 35.00 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO metros, con lote número D-13 DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUde la Urbanización Laderas de NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA San Juan; y por el OESTE, en SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJAR35.00 metros, con lote número DO D-11 de la Urbanización Laderas de San Juan. Enclava edificación de un nivel de forma irregular. Entrada principal mirando hacia el Norte que colinda con la Calle No. 4-Oeste de la Urbanización Laderas de San Juan.

Tiene sala, comedor, cocina, “family room”, patio interior, cuatro cuartos, dos baños y medio, “walk-in-closet’, área de “laundry”, marquesina doble y patio. Afecta a servidumbre de teléfono a favor de Centennial de Puerto Rico. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 137 del tomo 705 de Río Piedras Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta, finca número 20,389, inscripción segunda. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

ORIENTAL BANK T/C/C ORIENTAL BANK & TRUST COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE RG PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO; FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION (FDIC) COMO SÍNDICO DE RG MORTGAGE CORPORATION; ALFONSO VÁZQUEZ CASTILLO, MYRIAM CARO DE VÁZQUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ANTONIO FERNANDO MANRIQUE ESTERAS, NEREIDA GONZÁLEZ ALBINO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; MARÍA

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, January 5, 2022 DOLORES ESTERAS DELGADO; FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2021CV00869.

(307). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: ALFONSO VÁZQUEZ CASTILLO, MYRIAM CARO DE VÁZQUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, ANTONIO FERNANDO MANRIQUE ESTERAS, NEREIDA GONZÁLEZ ALBINO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, MARÍA DOLORES ESTERAS DELGADO A SUS ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES CONOCIDAS: COND. ISLETA MARINA II, APT 9F, FAJARDO, PR 00648; COND. ISLETA MARINA II, APT 9F, FAJARDO, PR 00738 Y PO BOX 1398, CAGUAS, PR 00726-1398.

FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ.

Tiene una cabida superficial de 102.18 metros cuadrados aproximadamente y consta de una sala-comedor, una cocina, dos dormitorios, dos baños y dos balcones. La puerta principal está localizada en la parte Sur del inmueble, la cual lo comunica con el pasillo que conduce a los elevadores y la primera planta. Colinda por el NORTE, en 58 pies 4 pulgadas, (17.80 metros) con el Apartamento número 9-E; por el SUR, en 26 pies 11 pulgadas, (en 8.21 metros), con el Apartamento número 9-N, en 4’6” (1.37 metros) con el pasillo que conduce a los elevadores y en 26’11”con elementos exteriores del edificio; por el ESTE, en 11 pies 3 pulgadas, en 11.20 metros, con apartamento # 9-N y en 12’3” elementos exteriores del edificio y por el OESTE, en 24 pies 6 pulgadas, con elementos exteriores del edificio. Le corresponde a este apartamento de los elementos comunes de la Torre una participación de 0.7447% y en la totalidad del Condominio Isleta Marina una participación de 0.3703%. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 35 del tomo 249 de Fajardo, Finca 9913. Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 36 vuelto del tomo 249 de Fajardo, Finca 9913. Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo.

Inscripción tercera. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la Parte Demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo, PR 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 23 de diciembre de 2021 en Fajardo, Puerto Rico. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre cancelación de pagaré extraviado por la vía judicial. El 20 de septiembre de 1977 Alfonso Vázquez Castillo y Miriam Caro de Vázquez constituyeron una hipoteca en San Juan, Puerto Rico, conforme a la Escritura núm.

421 autorizada por el notario Francisco M. Vázquez Santoni en garantía de un pagaré (no expresa número de testimonio) por la suma de $42,800.00, a favor de RG Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, devengando intereses al 5% anual durante el primer año, 6½% durante el segundo año y de ahí en adelante al 8% anual y vencedero el 1ro de octubre de 2007, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Apartamento individualizado de concreto armado, bloques de hormigón y divisiones de yeso, de uso residencial, identificado con el número 9-F y localizado en la parte central del noveno piso de la Torre LEGAL NOTICE II del Condominio Isleta MariESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO na, ubicado en el Islote Cayo DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUObispo, Playa de Fajardo del NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA término municipal de Fajardo.

SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJAR-

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE GUAYNABO Demandante V. (GUAYNACOOP) ANTHONY ROMERO POR CONDUCTO DE MAYSONET; SANDRA SU SUCESOR, LA LEE CARRIÓN OSORIO COOPERATIVA DE Demandados AHORRO Y CRÉDITO Civil Núm.: FA2021CV00998.

LA SAGRADA FAMILIA; (307). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE DORAL FINANCIAL GARANTÍAS. EMPLAZAMIENCORPORATION; TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS FEDERAL DEPOSIT UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL INSURANCE PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTACORPORATION (FDIC) DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO COMO SÍNDICO RICO, SS. DE DORAL BANK; A: ANTHONY ROMERO DORAL MORTGAGE MAYSONET; SANDRA CORPORATION T/C/C LEE CARRIÓN OSORIO. DORAL MORTGAGE, M36 Calle M, Urb. Alamar, LLC; ESTHER V. NIEVES Luquillo, PR 00773-2542.

LÓPEZ T/C/C ESTHER De: BANCO POPULAR DE VICTORIA NIEVES PUERTO RICO. LÓPEZ, ERNESTO Se le emplaza y requiere que ROSA RODRÍGUEZ Y conteste la demanda dentro de LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL los treinta (30) días siguientes DE GANANCIALES a la publicación de este edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su aleCOMPUESTA POR gación responsiva a través del AMBOS; FULANO Y Sistema Unificado de Manejo y MENGANO DE TAL, Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder POSIBLES TENEDORES utilizando la siguiente direcDESCONOCIDOS DEL ción electrónica: https://unired.

PAGARÉ DO

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

ramaiudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Garantías en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene a la parte demandada a pagar: la suma principal de $61,853.14, la suma de $25,923.56 que incluye intereses, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.

Lcdo. Jose Antonio Lamas Burgos Número del Tribunal Supremo 15693 221 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900, San Juan, PR 00917, Teléfono: (787) 296-9500, Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw. com EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 29 de diciembre de 2021. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. JENIFFER CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR I.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV07030.

(505). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ.

Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre cancelación de pagaré extraviado por la vía judicial. El 27 de diciembre de 2000, Esther V. Nieves López t/c/c Esther Victoria Nieves López y su esposo Ernesto Rosa Rodríguez, constituyeron una hipoteca en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, mediante la Escritura núm. 23 autorizada por la notario Gloria M. Sierra Enríquez en garantía de un pagaré suscrito bajo la affidávit núm. 776, a favor de la Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de Guaynabo (GUAYNACOOP) o a su orden, por la suma de $62,800.00, intereses al 8% anual y vencedero 1ro de enero de 2031, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 1322 en el Bloque M-26 del Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Reparto Metropolitano, radicado en el Barrio Monacillos del sitio denominado Rio Piedras, del término Municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 257.90 metros cuadrados y co-

linda: por el NORTE, en 12.69 metros, con el solar número 1320 del Bloque M-26; por el SUR, en 12.13 metros, con la calle denominada “Two West Street” del mencionado plano; por el ESTE, en 21.00 metros, con el solar número 1325 del Bloque M-26; y por el OESTE, en 20.92 metros, con la calle denominada “Six South Street” del mencionado punto. En este solar enclava una case de concreto armado de una sola planta que consta principalmente de tres (3) cuartos dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina, cuarto de baño y balcón. Inscrita al folio 15 del tomo 332 de Monacillos, Finca 12694. Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 232 vuelto del tomo 912 de Monacillos, Finca 12694. Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III. Inscripción novena. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la Parte Demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo, PR 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 22 de diciembre de 2021 en San Juan, Puerto Rico. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LOYDA M. COURVERTIER REYES, SECRETARIA SERVICIOS A SALA.

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REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Demandante Vs.

SUCESION ANDREA VAZQUEZ GARCIA T/C/C ANDREA VAZQUEZ COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS;

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2019CV04402.

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

A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION ANDREA VAZQUEZ GARCIA T/C/C ANDREA VAZQUEZ.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto.

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

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LEGACY MORTGAGE ASSET TRUST 2019-GS2 Demandantes V.

RG MORTGAGE CORPORATION AHORA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLE TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Demandados Civil Número: BY2021CV01991.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EM-

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PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. A: FRIEND & FRIEND ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉATTORNEY AT LAW; RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE JONH DOE; JANE DOE. LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., S.S. Por la presente se le notifica que se ha presentado una A: FEDERAL Demanda de Cancelación de DEPOSIT INSURANCE Pagaré Hipotecario Extraviado CORPORATION (FDIC). en su contra. Por el presente POR LA PRESENTE se le em- Edicto, se les emplaza y requieplaza y notifica que debe con- re que conteste la demanda testar la demanda incoada en dentro de un término de treinta su contra dentro del término (30) días siguientes a la publide treinta 30 días a partir de la cación del mismo y presente el publicación del presente edicto. original de dicha contestación Usted deberá presentar su ale- a través del Sistema Unificado gación responsiva a través del de Manejo y Administración Sistema Unificado de Manejo y de Casos (SUMAC), al cual Administración de Casos (SU- puede acceder utilizando la siMAC), al cual puede acceder guiente dirección electrónica: utilizando la siguiente dirección https://unired.ramajudlcial.pr, electrónica: https://unired.ra- salvo que se represente por majudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que derecho propio, en cuyo caso se represente por derecho pro- deberá presentar su alegación pio, en cuyo caso deberá pre- responsiva en la secretaría del sentar su alegación responsiva tribunal y notificar copia de la en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si misma dentro del mismo térusted deja de presentar y no- mino al Lcdo. Luis Domínguez tificar su alegación responsiva Fuertes a la siguiente dirección: dentro del referido término, el 191 PMB PO BOX 194000, Tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia San Juan, PR 00919-4000, Tel. en rebeldía en su contra y con- 787-296-0000, idominguez@ ceder el remedio solicitado en fuerteslaw.com, abogada de la Demanda, o cualquier otro, la parte demandante. Por la si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de presente se les apercibe que su sana discreción, lo entiende de no comparecer a formular procedente. Representa a la alegaciones dentro de treinta parte demandante, el abogado (30) dás contados a partir de cuyo nombre, dirección y telé- la fecha de la publicación de fono se consigna de inmediato: este Edicto, se le anotará la LCDA. MARJALIISA COLON rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia VILLANUEVA de acuerdo con lo solicitado en RUA: 17341 la demanda, sin más citarle ni WENDELL W. COLON LAW OFFICE oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y P.O. Box 7970 sello de este Tribunal, en FAPonce, Puerto Rico 00732 JARDO, Puerto Rico, a 22 de Tel. (787) 843-4168 Fax: (787) 840-1049 diciembre de 2021. WANDA I. Email: mcolon@wwclaw.com SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA Expido este edicto bajo mi fir- REGIONAL. KATHERINE ROma y el sello de este Tribunal, BLES TORRES, SUB-SECREhoy 23 de diciembre de 2021. TARIA. LAURA ISABEL SANTA SÁNLEGAL NOTICE CHEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. CARMEN MELÉNDEZ ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA DE PUERTO RÍCO TRIBUAUXILIAR TRIBUNAL I. NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO HUMACAO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUFIRST BANK NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA PUERTO RICO SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDemandante V. DO

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JUDITH YURET GARCIA Y HECTOR LOUIS MELENDEZ JR., TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO HECTOR LUIS MELENDEZ RODRIGUEZ Demandantes V.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; FRIEND & FRIEND ATTORNEY AT LAW; JONH DOE; JANE DOE

Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2021CV01019.

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

ESDRAS SANTIAGO MERCED; JUANA ROSA MOCTEZUMA VELÁZQUEZ

Demandado (a) Civil: HU2018CV01286. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JUANA ROSA MOCTEZUMA VELÁZQUEZ: A SU DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA: HC-5 BOX 4965, YABUCOA, PUERTO RICO, 00767-9664; P/C LCDA. MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEVA.

(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 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 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 29 de diciembre de 2021. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 29 de diciembre de 2021. DOMINGA GÓMEZ FUSTER, SECRETARIA. ILEANETTE RIVAS SERRANO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LCDO. PEDRO A. CRESPO CLAUDIO (RUA 17415) EMPHATIA NOTARY & LEGAL ADVISORS, PSC 282 Urb. La Serranía Caguas, Puerto Rico 00725-1810 Tel. 939-337-5550 E-mail: pcrespo@emphatialaw.com POR ORDEN DEL JUEZ DE ESTE TRIBUNAL, hoy día 28 de diciembre de 2021. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 28 de diciembre de 2021. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

RAÚL DOMINGUEZ PINO, MARÍA E. LOZANO RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C MARÍA ELENA LOZANO RODRÍGUEZ (DEUDORES HIPOTECARIOS) Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; RAMÓN LEGAL NOTICE ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBURIVERA, HERME LUZ NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA RUIZ MALDONADO Y LA SALA DE CAGUAS SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE LUIS ESTEBAN COLON III BIENES GANANCIALES Parte Demandante Vs. COMPUESTA POR BANCO POPULAR DE AMBOS (TITULARES PUERTO RICO REGISTRALES) Parte Demandada

Demandados Civil Núm: CG2021CV02738.

(801). Sobre: PAGARÉ EX- Civil Núm.: JCD2016-0957.

(406). Sobre: COBRO DE DITRAVIADO. NERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIA: JOHN DOE POTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). / POSEEDOR EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El AlDESCONOCIDO CON guacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y INTERÉS. POR LA PRESENTE se le em- hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplaza para que presente al tri- plimiento de un Mandamiento bunal su alegación responsiva de Ejecución de Sentencia que a la demanda de epígrafe den- le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil tro de los TREINTA (30) DÍAS a que suscribe por la Secretaría partir de la publicación de este del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA edicto; el cual se publicará en INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDIun periódico de circulación ge- CIAL DE PONCE, SALA SUPEneral diaria durante una (1) sola RIOR, en el caso de epígrafe vez. Usted deberá presentar su procederá a vender en pública alegación responsiva a través subasta al mejor postor en del Sistema Unificado de Ma- efectivo, cheque certificado en nejo y Administración de Casos moneda legal de los Estados (SÚMAC), al cual puede acce- Unidos de América el 3 DE FEder utilizando la siguiente direc- BRERO DE 2022, A LAS 2:15 ción electrónica: https://unired. DE LA TARDE, en su oficina ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se sita en el local que ocupa en el represente por derecho propio, edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIen cuyo caso deberá presentar MERA INSTANCIA CENTRO su alegación responsiva en la JUDICIAL DE PONCE, SALA secretaría del tribunal. Si usted SUPERIOR, todo derecho, títudeja de presentar su alegación lo e interés que tenga la parte responsiva dentro del referido demandada de epígrafe en el término, el tribunal podrá dic- inmueble de su propiedad que tar sentencia en rebeldía en su ubica en: 4323 (D-20) CALLE contra y conceder el remedio GIMNASIA, VILLA DELICIAS, solicitado en la demanda, o PONCE, PR 00731y que se cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en describe a continuación: URel ejercicio de su sana discre- BANA: Solar número 20 de la manzana D de la Urbanización ción, lo entiende procedente.

Villa Delicias, localizada en el Barrio Magueyes del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con un área de 401.71 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia de 17.00 metros, con la calle número 3 de la Urbanización; por el SUR, en una distancia de 17.00 metros, con el solar número 10 de la manzana D; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 23.63 metros, con servidumbre de servicios públicos; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 23.63 metros, con el solar número 19 de la manzana D. Enclava una estructura de hormigón y bloques de hormigón para uso residencial. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 187 del Tomo 1,095 de Ponce, finca número 5,813, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección Segunda.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $82,300.00.

Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 10 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $54,866.67.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 17 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $41,150.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 333 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 4 de septiembre de 2001, ante el Notario Milagros Mejías Pérez, y consta inscrita al folio 90 del tomo 1031 de Ponce, finca número 5,813, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección Segunda, inscripción Décimo Segunda (12da). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido contra la parte co-demandada Raúl Dominguez Pino y María E. Lozano Rodríguez t/c/c María Elena Lozano Rodríguez, ascendente a la suma de $59,267.56 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.00% anual desde el 1ro de julio de 2016. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación.

Además, la parte co-demandada Raúl Dominguez Pino y María E. Lozano Rodríguez t/c/c

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María Elena Lozano Rodríguez, adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $8,230.00. Además, la parte co-demandada Raúl Dominguez Pino y María E. Lozano Rodríguez t/c/c María Elena Lozano Rodríguez, se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $100.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $100.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal

expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de diciembre de 2021. JUAN ROLANDO CRUZ ROMÁN, ALGUACIL #965, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE, SALA SUPERIOR.

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PR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT REO, LLC Demandante V.

BRYAN RESTAURANT CORPORATION, ZAIDYLENE CECILE BRYAN PALAU T/C/C ZAIDYLENE BRYAN PALAU Y ZAIDYLENE BRYAN; ZAIDA PALAU SOLTERO

Demandados Civil Núm.: Civil: KCD20160373. Sala: 603. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, INCUMPLIMEINTO DE CONTRATO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y EJECUCIÓN DE GRAVAMEN MOBILIARIO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. YO, el(la) Alguacil que suscribe, por la presente anuncia y hace constar, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia, expedido el 5 de octubre de 2021 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, quien pagará el importe de la venta en dinero efectivo o en cheque certificado o de gerente, a la orden del Alguacil suscribiente, en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, el día 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LA(S) 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Caguas, todo título, derecho o interés que corresponda a la parte demandada sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el Barrio Sonadora del término municipal de Aguas Buenas,

Puerto Rico, identificada con el número catorce (#14) en el plano de inscripción del caso número ochenta y tres guión cuarenta y cinco guión E guión quinientos cuarenta y cinco guión KPL (#83-45-E545-KPL), de la Administración de Reglamentos y Permisos, con una cabida superficial de uno punto dos mil quinientos noventa y cuatro diezmilésimas (1.2594) cuerda. En lindes por el NORTE, con camino asfaltado; por el SUR y por el OESTE, con el solar identificado con el número trece (#13) del mismo plano de inscripción y por el ESTE, con el solar identificado con el número quince (#15) del mismo plano de inscripción, y por el SURESTE, con franja verde, que a su vez colinda con terrenos de Juan Rosa.

DATOS DE INSCRIPCIÓN: Consta inscrita al folio ciento noventa y siete (197) del tomo número doscientos once (211) de Aguas Buenas, finca número nueve mil novecientos veintinueve (9,929), inscripción segunda (2a), Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda (II) de Caguas.

Dirección Física: Carr. 792, Km. 3.5 Interior, Barrio Sonadora, Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico.

La propiedad descrita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Afecta por su procedencia: Servidumbre a favor del Departamento de Recursos Naturales; y Condiciones restrictivas de edificación y uso y limitaciones en equidad.

HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de EL BANCO DE DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO PARA PUERTO RICO, o a su orden, por la suma de $62,300.00, con interés al 2% sobre prime rate, y vencedero a la presentación, según consta de la escritura #25, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 5 de noviembre de 2014, ante la Notario Público Ruth E. Aquino García, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Aguas Buenas, finca # 9929, inscripción 4ta. ANOTACIÓN DE DEMANDA: Es objeto de esta anotación la Hipoteca a favor de El Banco de Desarrollo Económico para Puerto Rico, por la suma de $62,300.00 que surge de la inscripción #4ta.

DEMANDANTE: EL BANCO DE DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO PARA PUERTO RICO; DEMANDADOS: BRYAN RESTAURANT, ZAIDYLENE CECILE BRYAN PALAU, ZAIDA PALAU; Cantidad adeudada $305,752.32, por concepto de principal más intereses, según Demanda Expedida por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el caso civil #KCD2016-0373, el día 25 de febrero de 2016, inscrita al tomo Karibe, Anotación A de fecha de 13 de septiembre de 2016. Conforme lo estipulado en la Hipoteca, en caso de ejecución, la Propiedad anteriormente descrita responde por la suma $62,300.00,

24 cuyo valor servirá como tipo mínimo en la primera subasta en caso de ejecución. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 8 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LA(S) 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. El tipo mínimo para la segunda subasta será dos terceras partes (2/3) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, $41,533.33. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 15 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LA(S) 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. El tipo mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo que se pactara para la primera subasta, o sea, $31,150.00. Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde alcance, el importe adeudado a PR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT REO, LLC, ascendente la suma de total de $331,753.07, que se divide de la siguiente manera: $275,899.89 de principal, $25,182.83 en intereses devengados que continuarán aumentando mes tras mes a razón de $60.60 per diem, desde el 3 de agosto de 2016, hasta su total y completo pago; mas $670.35 por concepto de cargos por mora; más la suma de $30,000.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado expresamente pactados. 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 Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 9 de diciembre de 2021. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAGUAS.

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HIBISCUSPR 402, LLC Demandante V.

MANUEL ESTRADA QUILES; ALEJANDRO ESTRADA MAISONET SU ESPOSA DIANNE QUILES LUGO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: NSCI2015-00313.

Sala: 302. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA IN REM. AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. YO, el(la) Alguacil que suscribe, por la presente anuncia y hace constar, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia In Rem, expedido el 8 de septiembre de 2021 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, quien pagará el importe de la venta en dinero efectivo o en cheque certificado o de gerente, a la orden del Alguacil suscribiente, en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, el día 3 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LA(S) 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Fajardo, todo título, derecho o interés que corresponda a la parte demandada sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar #20 de la Urbanización Quintas de Carabalí localizado en el Barrio Mameyes, Luquillo Puerto Rico. Dicho solar tiene un área superficial de 2009.97 mc. En lindes por el NORTE en una distancia de 55.13 mc con la calle #6 existente de la Urbanización Quintas de Carabalí;

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por el SUR en una distancia de 59.25 metros con el solar 19 de la referida Urbanización; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 34.06 metros con terrenos de Hacienda Carabalí Inc., y por el OESTE en una distancia de 30.09 con la calle #2 existente de la Urbanización Quintas de Carabalí. Finca número 13828, inscrita al tomo KARIBE de Luquillo, Registro de la Propiedad de Propiedad de Fajardo.

Dirección Física: Solar #20, Quintas de Carabalí, Luquillo, Puerto Rico. La propiedad descrita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Por su procedencia está afecta a la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica. Por sí: CONDICIONES RESTRICTIVAS: Las siguientes condiciones afectarán esta finca a perpetuidad: 1- El predio no podrá ser objeto de ulteriores segregaciones o subdivisiones. 2- Sobre el predio se construirá una sola y principal estructura para fines residenciales exclusivamente.

3- Sobre el predio se podrán construir hasta un máximo de 3 jaulas para caballos y otro tipo de animal doméstico. Las mismas se construirán de cemento y/o bloque para uso exclusivo del propietario del predio. 4Sobre el predio no se desarrollará actividad comercial de clase alguna. 5- La verja que se construya para deslindar el predio será de cemento y madera o de tubo plástico y en ninguna circunstancia de alambre eslabonado tipo “cyclone fence”, según consta de la escritura número 5, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 13 de febrero de 1992, ante el Notario Público José Francois Soto, inscrito al tomo Karibe de Luquillo, finca 13829, inscripción 1ra. HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de FIRST BANK PUERTO RICO, o a su orden, por la suma de $136,000.00, con interés al 9/4% (SIC), y vencedero 1 de agosto de 2016, según consta de la escritura #371, otorgada en San Juan, Puertto Rico, el día 20 de julio de 2006, ante el Notario Público Carlos Omar González Dávila, inscrita al tomo KARIBE de Luquillo, finca #13828, inscripción 4ta. HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor del PORTADOR, o a su orden, por la suma de $100,000.00, con interés al 8%, y vencedero a la presentación, según consta de la escritura #10, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 25 de octubre de 2006, ante el Notario Público George Mottley Flores, inscrita al tomo KARIBE de Luquillo, finca #13828, inscripción 5ta. EMBARGO ESTATAL: Contra ALEJANDRO ESTRADA MAISONET (1944) y DIANNE QUILES LUGO (8503) seguido por el Departamento de Hacienda (Ley 210); Caso # CAR-20-0140; de fecha 21 de agosto de 2019, presentado el 22 de agosto de 2019, al asiento 2019-008091-EST y

anotado el 14 de noviembre de 2019 al Sistema de Embargos Karibe. Servirá como tipo mínimo para la primera subasta de la Propiedad antes descrita la suma de $136,000.00 conforme a lo estipulado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #371, otorgada el 20 de junio de 2006 ante el Notario Público Carlos Omar González Dávila. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 10 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LA(S) 2:00 DE LA TARDE. El tipo mínimo para la segunda subasta será dos terceras partes (2/3) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, $90,666.67. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 17 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LA(S) 2:00 DE LA TARDE. El tipo mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo que se pactara para la primera subasta, o sea, $68,000.00. Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde alcance, el importe adeudado a HIBISCUSPR 402, LLC, ascendente al 8 de abril de 2016, a una cantidad no menor de $164,236.47, la cual se desglosa de la siguiente manera: a) $114,560.86 por concepto de principal; más; b) $31,864.63 por concepto de intereses acumulados, los cuales incrementan diariamente a razón de $31.03 hasta su total y completo pago; más; c) $3,710.98 por concepto de cargos por demora, los cuales se acumulan hasta su total y completo pago; más; d) $157.06 por concepto de desembolso de la cuenta plica; más; e) $500.00 por concepto de otros gastos y cargos; más; f) $13,600.00 por concepto de costas, desembolsos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados en el Pagaré Hipotecario. 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 PRESEN-

TE, 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 Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 27 de septiembre de 2021. SHIRLEY SÁNCHEZ MARTÍNEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #161. SANDRA LIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #737, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE FAJARDO.

LEGAL NOTICE

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 27 de DICIEMBRE de 2021.

En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, el 27 de DICIEMBRE de 2021.

LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. YARITZA ROSARIO PLÁCERES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante Vs

EMMANUELLI DE JESÚS PACHECO, NEREIDA PLAZA ARROYO, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA Demandado SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS Ciil Núm.: PO2020CV02267.

Salón: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE ORIENTAL BANK DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE Demandante V. HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN GONZALO FALCON DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

CARO, CARMEN ROSA FIGUEROA COSME Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a) Civil: CG2019CV04352 (701).

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: GONZALO FALCON CARO, CARMEN ROSA FIGUEROA COSME Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

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

notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 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 30 de diciembre de 2021. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 30 de diciembre de 2021. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. GLORIVEE MORALES SÁEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

IVAN RICARDO ORTIZ FLORES Y OTROS Demandado(a)

A: EMMANUELLI DE Civil: CA2021CV00547. Sala: JESÚS PACHECO, POR SÍ 404. Sobre: COBRO DE DIY EN REPRESENTACIÓN NERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE DE LA SOCIEDAD SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. LEGAL DE BIENES A: IVAN RICARDO ORTIZ GANANCIALES TORRES, POR SI Y EN COMPUESTA CON REPRESENTACION DE NEREIDA PLAZA LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL ARROYO; NEREIDA DE GANANCIALES PLAZA ARROYO, POR SÍ COMPUESTA POR ESTE Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN E HILDA IVONNE RAMOS DE LA SOCIEDAD COLON. LEGAL DE BIENES (Nombre de las partes a las que se le GANANCIALES notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que susCOMPUESTA CON EMMANUELLI DE JESÚS cribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de diciembre de 2021, este PACHECO, 1910 W Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, 21 STREET, LORAIN, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución OHIO 44052; 515 W 20 en este caso, que ha sido debiSTREET, LORAIN, OHIO damente registrada y archivada 44050; PARCELA NUEVA en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de VIDA 3972, MIGUEL los términos de la misma. Esta GONZÁLEZ, PONCE, notificación se publicará una PR 00728-4918, PARA sola vez en un periódico de SER NOTIFICADOS POR circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los EDICTO. P/C: LCDO. 10 días siguientes a su notificaALBERTO DE DIEGO ción. Y, siendo o representando COLLAR. PO BOX 79552 usted una parte en el procediCAROLINA, PR 00984- miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia 9552.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se les

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 30 de diciembre de 2021. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 30 de diciembre de 2021. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria.

Maricruz Aponte Alicea, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SANDRA GONZALEZ COLON, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a) Civil: BY2020CV03722. Sala: 505. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SANDRA GONZALEZ COLON, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 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 60 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 30 de diciembre de 2021. E n BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 30 de diciembre de 2021. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIVIAN J. SANABRIA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Wednesday, January 5, 2022

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Team owner surprises workers with ‘life-changing gesture’ after sale

By MICHAEL LEVENSON

T

hree days after Christmas, Michael Gartner summoned the employees of the Iowa Cubs minor league baseball team to a staff meeting at Principal Park, the team’s stadium in Des Moines, Iowa.

The team’s sale to a global sports and entertainment company had closed that day, and Gartner, 83, said he wanted to give the employees their new business cards.

But there were no business cards in the envelopes that he handed out. Instead, inside were checks worth $2,000 for every year each employee had worked for the team — $600,000 in total for the 23 full-time workers.

Employees who work in maintenance, accounting, marketing and other areas received checks for $4,000 to $70,000, said Gartner, who was the team’s majority owner for 22 years, until the sale closed Tuesday.

“My jaw dropped,” said Alex Cohen, 33, who has been the team’s radio broadcaster since 2018 and has worked in professional baseball since 2009. “It’s an industry where you work really hard, and sometimes you don’t get compensated like that.”

Cohen described the checks as “a life-changing gesture” for some longtime staff members.

“Seeing all the people who had been there for two decades, three decades, tears streaming down their faces, it was a very special, emotional day,” he said.

Gartner said Saturday that sharing proceeds from the sale “was the right thing to do.”

“A lot of those people have worked for us for over 20 years, and they’ve helped us build a successful team,” said Gartner, whose gesture was reported

by Yahoo! Sports. “They’re just fantastic people.”

Gartner, who had owned the team with his son and three other partners, added: “They need the money more than we do. A lot of them still have mortgages and car payments and college payments.”

Scott Sailor, 63, who received $46,000 for his 23 years working for the team in media relations, sales, marketing and other areas, said the checks were “not out of character” for Gartner, a busi-

A member of the ground crew prepares the field for the 2019 home opener of the Iowa Cubs at Principal Park in Des Moines. nessman, lawyer and third-generation Iowa newspaperman.

A former editor of The Des Moines Register and a former president of NBC News, Gartner won a Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for editorial writing at The Daily Tribune of Ames, Iowa. Two years later, he bought the Iowa Cubs, the Triple-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs, and became a fixture in the front office and in his usual seat behind home plate.

In 2020, when the minor league baseball season was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, Gartner kept every full-time employee on the payroll, with benefits, Sailor said.

“The surprise was not that he was generous because that’s the way he’s been,” said Randy Wehofer, the team’s vice president and assistant general manager, who joined the club in 2008.

“We’ve had above-standard health insurance and 401(k) contributions, and we’ve always been the organization

that people looked at and said, ‘Gee, I wish everybody did that,’” Wehofer said.

“That’s always been his way, as long as I’ve been part of the organization.”

Last month, however, the Cubs announced that the team had entered into an agreement to become part of Diamond Baseball Holdings, a subsidiary of Endeavor, a global sports and entertainment company based in Beverly Hills, California. The sale signaled the end of Gartner’s local ownership.

In a list of the 30 most valuable minor league baseball teams in 2016, Forbes placed the Iowa Cubs at No. 22 and estimated the team’s value at $30 million. Gartner declined to disclose the sale price.

He said he had felt less secure owning the team since 2019, when MLB proposed a major restructuring of the lower level of the minor leagues. And at 83, he said, “I just decided it was time.”

Gartner said he hoped that his for-

mer employees would stay with the Iowa Cubs and that the checks would help persuade them not to look for jobs elsewhere.

“You know their spouses, and you know their kids,” Gartner said. “You see them at the ballpark and at the office every day, and you see how hard they work and how much fun they have, and how much they enjoy it. And you want to make sure they’re not tempted to go do something else.”

Sailor said he had used part of his check to give his nephew and two nieces “very nice Christmas gifts” this year: $2,000 checks of their own.

Dustin Halderson, 32, a stadium operations manager who is getting married in two months, said his $16,000 check gave him “some stability.”

“It was nice to feel good about the work I put in and that they recognized it,” Halderson said. “The bonus was unexpected and just so nice.”

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Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Sam Jones, sharpshooting Celtics star of the 1960s, dies at 88

By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN

S

am Jones, a Boston Celtics sharpshooting Hall of Fame guard who played on 10 NBA championship teams, a milestone exceeded only by his teammate Bill Russell, died last Thursday in Florida. He was 88.

His death was announced by a Celtics spokesperson, who did not specify a cause but said that Jones had been in failing health. He also did not say where in Florida he died, but Jones had been living in the Orlando area.

When Jones was selected by the Celtics out of the historically Black North Carolina College at Durham (now North Carolina Central University) in the first round of the 1957 draft — he was the eighth player chosen overall — he was more astonished and apprehensive than thrilled. Since players at Black colleges had gained little national notice at the time, he viewed himself as a potential pioneer, although he questioned his chances of making a Celtics lineup brimming with stars.

“I had a lot of pressure put on me,” Jones told The Boston Globe in 2009.

“We didn’t have scouts coming in to see what the Black colleges were doing. If I make good, they’re going to start looking into the Black colleges.”

Despite his doubts, Jones quickly impressed coach Red Auerbach. He went on to team with K.C. Jones (no relation), a tenacious defender, in a backcourt pairing that eventually replaced that of Bob Cousy and Bill Sharman, two of the NBA’s greatest players of the 1950s. The Joneses became part of a record-setting run alongside Russell, who transformed the center position with his rebounding and defense, forwards Tom Heinsohn, John Havlicek and Satch Sanders, and Cousy and Sharman in their final seasons.

Sam Jones played on Celtics teams that won eight consecutive NBA championships (1959-1966) and an additional two in 1968-1969. A fivetime All-Star, he was called Mr. Clutch for the many baskets he scored in the final seconds of playoff games. His total of 10 championship rings has been exceeded only by Russell’s 11.

A five-time All-Star, Sam Jones was called Mr. Clutch for the many baskets he scored in the final seconds of playoff games.

Jones was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1984 and was named one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history when the league celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1996. He once held the Celtics’ single-game scoring record, with 51 points against the Detroit Pistons in October 1965. When he retired after 12 seasons, he was the team’s career scoring leader, with 15,411 points. Larry Bird is the current single-game record-holder, with 60 points, and Havlicek holds the career scoring record, with 26,395.

Jones was renowned for using the backboard when most players were shooting directly at the hoop.

“Sam showed them how to use the bank shot,” Auerbach once told United Press International. “He made it popular, and he made it an art.”

Jones had supreme confidence in

that shot. As he put it, “I felt it was like making a layup.”

Samuel Jones was born June 24, 1933, in Wilmington, North Carolina.

At North Carolina College, playing for Hall of Fame coach John B. McLendon in a Division II program, he was a fine shooter, scoring a total of 1,170 points, and an outstanding rebounder.

Auerbach had never seen Jones play in college. But he drafted him when Bones McKinney, a North Carolinian and one of Auerbach’s former players, raved about him. Jones had planned to become a teacher but tried his luck at the Celtics’ training camp.

He was a reserve for several seasons before taking over for Sharman.

Although he was 6-foot-4, tall for a guard at the time, he was quicker than many smaller guards.

When he saw Russell about to snare an offensive rebound, Jones

would move away from the man defending him, who was watching the ball, and get ready to receive a pass from Russell and convert it into a bank shot. As he told NBA.com, “You only need a second to get a shot off.”

Jones retired from the Celtics in 1969 and was later head coach at Federal City College in Washington (now the University of the District of Columbia) and at North Carolina Central. He was an assistant coach for the NBA’s New Orleans Jazz.

Jones and his wife, Gladys, had five children. Information on survivors was not immediately available.

Jones averaged 17.7 points a game in the regular season for the Celtics, but he was particularly dangerous in the playoffs. He hit a jump shot over the Philadelphia Warriors’ Wilt Chamberlain in the final seconds of Game 7 in the 1962 Eastern Division playoff final, giving Boston a 109-107 victory.

He had five of the Celtics’ 10 overtime points against the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 7 of the league finals, helping to propel Boston to a fourth consecutive championship.

Jones relished getting the best of the 7-foot-1 Chamberlain.

“I never challenged him by trying to drive right on him — he’d just block your shot,” he told Terry Pluto for the NBA oral history “Tall Tales” (1992).

“I’d stop in front of him and shoot over him. Then I talked to him. I talked to everybody on the court, but it was a lot of fun to say things to Wilt because he’d react to them.”

In a fight-filled fourth quarter of Game 5 in that Celtics-Warriors series, Jones collided with Chamberlain, who outweighed him by nearly 50 pounds, and they exchanged unpleasantries.

When Chamberlain grabbed at Jones’ wrist — perhaps in a peace gesture — Jones ran off the court.

“He saw Wilt still coming after him, so Sam picked up one of the photographers’ chairs and held it out at Wilt as if Sam were a lion tamer,” referee Norm Drucker recalled.

“He was about to go up into the stands — he didn’t want to fight,” recalled Chamberlain, the strongest man in pro basketball. “So I said, ‘Ah, forget it.’”

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The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

(Mar 21-April 20)

A restless lunar link, hints you may be ready for something fresh that can transport you into a much better situation. It’s also possible that a stroke of good fortune could leave you excited by the varied possibilities ahead of you. You’ll be ready to look beyond limits, and find a new way to navigate through any issues. Need guidance? A soulful influence might bring potent dreams.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

As Venus aligns with Neptune in your lifestyle zone, this might be the perfect opportunity to spend the day doing as little as possible, within reason! This dreamy aspect can find you ready to take life at a much slower pace, and to relish a few indulgences.

In addition, channelling your skills into a unique project could be rewarding, while engaging your creative side too, Libra.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

High tech could play an even bigger part in your life than it does already, and this might tie in with a sparkly aspect, that finds you keen to use it in innovative ways for work and play. You may begrudge replacing or upgrading an item though, but if it can make life easier and perhaps allow time for more interesting activities, it’s worth it. A break from it could also be good, Taurus.

It’s now or never, or at least that’s how it can seem to you, Gemini. A proposition could leave you ready to down tools and jump into a situation that seems made for you. The only thing that might hold you back is an attachment to what’s going on in your life already. You’ll need a way to bridge the gap from old to new, so that you don’t jeopardize all you have worked so hard for.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

As prudent Saturn moves further away from Uranus an impasse can begin to shift, and there may be the chance of a compromise. And while an issue might be far from over, there is the suggestion that things are better than before. On a more rebellious note, if you’re keen to ring in the changes on the home front, it’s well worth talking about it with the family before you go ahead, Scorpio.

You may feel moved to do something that could enhance your life and open new doors. It might be something you’ve been researching that greatly excites you. A feeling of optimism could inspire you to make that bold move, even if it demands a lot. If an opportunity shows up that leads you in a new direction, you won’t hold back and could be exhilarated by the challenge.

You’re not normally seen as being extravagant, but under the current restless sky, you may feel an urge to take risks that are best avoided. You could splurge on the spur of the moment, on something that seems just what you’re looking for. It might be a good investment, but perhaps not one that is necessary now.

Before you shell out cash, think about your true needs, Cancer.

With sterling Saturn your ruler still angling towards revolutionary Uranus, and with both zapped by the Moon today, you may be keen to invest in something that has some risk associated with it. If it’s a small sum of money, then you won’t be too bothered if it doesn’t work out. If it’s a bigger amount, then a few calculations and helpful advice could help put your mind at rest.

Leo

Aquarius

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

The idea of freedom may seem important, and more so than it has in some time. The Moon’s angle to maverick Uranus can find you eager to shake off any situation that is oppressive, and aim for better circumstances. And the present zingy line-up suggests your approach to certain relationships might change.

Would more independence be good for you both?

Have a talk about it.

With a Moon/Uranus angle showing today, the desire for a new environment that can expand your horizons may be uppermost in your mind. And if you haven’t taken steps that could lead to a more authentic way of life, then promptings from the cosmos might push you. This doesn’t have to be anything major, but new developments can be on the cards for you sooner than you think.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

This is a great time for creative change, encouraging you to experiment with zesty ideas. New ways of working could appeal, especially if you use technology to make life easier for you. On a romantic note, a tender Venus/Neptune link can find you and your partner ready to enjoy a special evening together. A chance for some alone time might bring you so much closer, Virgo.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

The desire for fairer and more humanitarian conditions can find you ready to connect with others who share your perspective, and who also want to make the world a better place. Current and powerful aspects suggest this is a good time to revamp your own life so that it reflects the principles that are most important to you, Pisces. Your example might then be one to follow.

Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29

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Herman

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

BC

Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

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