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ormer University of Puerto Rico (UPR) President José M. Saldaña described as a catalog of errors the process of selecting a new interim president following the dismissal of UPR President Jorge Haddock, who is leaving July 31, that shows the ineptitude of the current university board.

In a column, Saldaña also said Haddock’s removal by the UPR board was a “catalog of errors and hazing on the part of the [UPR board] chairman, Emilio Colón, who is obviously unaware of the institution, its processes and its ideological leanings.”

He criticized the UPR board for praising Haddock in his letter of dismissal. Faced with a situation like the one that occurred, what followed was a letter consisting of three sentences thanking him for his work and wishing him luck in his future endeavors.

The second big mistake, Saldaña said, was allowing Haddock to remain in the position for three weeks until July 31 when he should have been removed immediately.

“When a person is removed from his position, that person usually becomes an enemy of those who remove him and it may be the case that in the time that he is allowed to continue in the position he sabotages, creates problems and leaves a minefield to his successor,” Saldaña wrote. “I’m not saying this is the case with Haddock, but regardless of the person in question, taking preventive measures is the right thing to do. This has happened before on different occasions at the UPR.” The third mistake, he said, was to create a consultation process that delegates to a five-member committee the selection of an interim president. This type of process is not part of UPR regulations and until now, the interim president of the UPR has been selected by the UPR board chairman and quickly endorsed by the members of the board, given the need to act quickly to avoid interrupting administrative processes, Saldaña said.

He said the process created by Colón has resulted in forces from different university sectors with particular personal and ideological interests submitting the names to be considered by the UPR board’s five-member committee, including sectors of the university administration that supported the presidency of Jorge Haddock that want to continue controlling the institution in the same way, to satisfy his particular personal interests, some economic and

others ideological.

“But this process also gave rise to a slew of candidates from ideological sectors of the extreme left and Popular Democratic Party [PDP], retired enemies of the current university administration,” Saldaña said.

The UPR board committee submitted to the Board the names of Ingrid Montes, who he said is “of a communist leftist ideology who does not have any administrative experience and is a recognized member of the PDP.” The committee also submitted the name of César Cordero Montalvo, a former UPR Utuado Campus chancellor, Saldaña noted. Neither candidate obtained the needed votes to become president.

Before the end of the meeting, Herman Cestero, a board member, proposed that the board consider Arturo Avilés as a candidate for president. The committee, he said, had eliminated Avilés from consideration due to “gossip without substance regarding a building under construction in the Bayamón Campus, of which Avilés had been a chancellor.”

Cestero’s request had the intention that, in an act of justice, Avilés would reveal all the documentation in his possession on the alleged unsubstantiated irregularities regarding the building in question, Saldaña said.

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Face-to-face classes for nearly all students when school resumes

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cting Education Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés announced on Thursday the plan to reopen island schools ahead of the start of classes in August, when nearly all of the student population will have faceto-face classes.

Ramos Parés said the plan was designed by analyzing the particularities of each educational region and prioritizing both school performance and the safety of the entire educational community.

The announcement was made at a press conference in the company of Eduardo Rivera, director of the Infrastructure Financing Authority, and Andrés Rivera, executive director of the Public Buildings Authority, “We have implemented strategies so that 99.9% of our enrollment have this face-to-face contact, which they so badly need for their student development,” Ramos Parés said. “I thank the regional directors who, together with the mayors, have worked diligently in the development of this plan that will benefit the entire school community.”

In the new school year that begins in mid-August, 231,991 students will receive face-to-face education five days a week. This represents 88 percent of students from 744 schools. One hundred percent of the students in the educational regions of Bayamón and Caguas will receive face-to-face education from Monday to Friday. Meanwhile, 30,403 students from the rest of the educational regions will receive face-to-face education between one to three days a week; the other days will be in virtual mode.

Acting Education Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés “Total projected enrollment for August is 262,424 students. We will be using 702 capable schools in our seven educational regions,” the acting secretary said. “In addition, 14 rental facilities were identified that will be used for educational purposes.”

“As part of the strategies, ‘interlocking’ will be implemented in schools that share student enrollment and in cases where they cannot be face-to-face five days a week, students will receive hybrid classes, understood to be combined with virtual courses,” Ramos Parés said, adding that disused schools will be reactivated as part of the reopening plan.

Parents or guardians can access the Education Department page (https://de.pr.gov/) to find out the details of the schools available through an interactive map. The schools or facilities will be kept under constant review and are subject to change, due to unforeseen situations or needs of the educational communities, the acting secretary said.

As part of his remarks on the new public health guidance to be enforced at all reopened schools (see story on page 5), Ramos Parés said school cafeteria services will be active for use by all students in the public system from the beginning of the school year. To comply with the protocols to avoid infection with the coronavirus, the authorities established that students will be able to use both school dining rooms and common and ventilated areas for their meals.

With regard to school transportation, routes are being devised to meet the needs of all regions and offer the service for all students who require it.

The government plan includes the repair of school buildings, which includes buildings with short columns.

For that reason, the acting secretary said, a program has been designed, in phases, to impact all educational regions.

Shipping company may go to court over work stoppage

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hipping firm Luis A. Ayala Colón Sucrs. Inc. confirmed Thursday through its executive vice president, Hernán Ayala, that it may go to court because since July 17, the leaders of the International Longshoremen’s Association 1740 have ordered members to stop stowage operations for the ship Northern Diplomat.

The company has activated its legal team that works in the search for alternatives to achieve a prompt solution to the conflict, which for the moment keeps important supplies of pharmaceutical products and fresh and perishable foods stranded at the docks.

Island truckers and transporters have suspended deliveries since Wednesday because the Financial Oversight and Management Board refuses to allow new Bureau of Transportation and Other Services (NTSP by its Spanish initials) regulations that would increase fees for truckers to go into effect. The NTSP wants to extend the new fees to truckers in the private sector, which the oversight board and business sector organizations oppose.

Likewise, the executive vice president of Luis A. Ayala Colón Sucrs. Inc. said his company had been forced to file charges against the union before the National Labor Relations Board as a result of the arbitrary stoppage of its operations.

At press time, groups were meeting in La Fortaleza to find a solution that will end the strike, which the truckers, as independent contractors, refer to as a “permanent assembly.”

“The determination of the Union to bring its members to a strike that we consider illegal comes in disregard of the proactive efforts that the company has carried out and the proactive disposition to search for solutions that we have supported,” Ayala said in a written communication.

“It has been our intention to find alternatives to deal with and resolve their concerns. However, they have decided to stop the work despite the disaster that this may imply in the supply transport chain.”

Through its representatives, the company talked to the union leadership to understand the reasons for their action. In spite of those efforts, on July 20 the union gave the order that the stowage work at the MV FOUMA not be given way either.

“We are convinced that the determination of the Union’s leadership has led its members to act not only illegally but unreasonably, and we are concerned about the consequences this has for consumers,” the executive said.

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COVID-19 vaccination will be mandatory for eligible returning students Health Dept.: Face masks will be required on school premises

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

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he Puerto Rico Department of Health announced Thursday that it will be issuing an administrative order to establish a new COVID-19 protocol that requires students over 12 to inoculate against the coronavirus disease to go back to in-person instruction at schools and institutions of higher education.

During a press conference held in Guillermo Arbona Hall, Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López, along with Miguel Valencia Prado, deputy director of the COVID-19 Incident Command System Office, presented a guide with a nine-step procedure to prevent infections within educational premises, including the requirement to vaccinate against the disease that as of Thursday had cost the lives of 2,566 people in Puerto Rico.

“I think it is time for students to have the chance to receive education in a safe and adequate way,” said Mellado López,

Students over 12 must be vaccinated against the coronavirus and the wearing of face masks will be mandatory on all school campuses when in-person instruction resumes in August, the island Health Department announced Thursday. who later noted that people with immunocompromised conditions, who are allergic to vaccines or have other medical predispositions could be exempt from the administrative order.

The Health chief said the agency considered the recommendations established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the recent uptick in cases and

hospitalizations in developing the guidelines that seek to prevent any situation that could lead schools to shut their doors again.

“We have data available that proves that most of the people who are diagnosed with COVID-19 or hospitalized are mostly unvaccinated residents,” he said. “We have enough information to prove how effective and how safe vaccines are.”

“We presume and know that most cases happening in Puerto Rico and the U.S. are due to the Delta variant,” Mellado López added. “We know too that vaccines are effective against the variant, that people who have been positive [for COVID-19] and got infected 14 days after achieving full vaccination had moderate symptoms; severe in regard to patients with comorbid conditions.”

Mellado López also announced that face masks will be mandatory within school premises to protect students from future infections.

“We must carry on creating an environment as if no one has ever been vaccinated against the coronavirus,” he said.

Valencia Prado said meanwhile that physical distancing for students inside

classrooms will be less than 3 feet apart to guarantee adequate onsite teaching in both regular and special education classes.

However, he said, obligatory random COVID-19 testing, stricter physical distancing requirements, and the mandatory use of face masks outdoors for every school member, independent of their vaccination status, will be implemented to guarantee that “every student returns to school.”

Valencia Prado also said that “despite careful planning and consistent implementation of prevention strategies, there will be situations in which the temporary closure of a school or part of a school, such as a class or a grade level, may be recommended.”

“These decisions will be made in conjunction with the Department of Education, after careful consideration of various factors and with an emphasis on ensuring the health and well being of students, their families, teachers, and school personnel,” he said.

Therefore, the deputy chief urged both public and private schools to make every effort to continue classes through remote learning in case of a confirmed coronavirus case and to register every member of the school community in the BioPortal.

Truckers-fiscal board deadlock could cause shortages up gas tanks at filling stations. Waits of up to two hours were reported.

Nazario said that, anticipating the situation, the osé Nazario, vice president of operations of the Crowley company increased the entry hours to the docks so that shipping company, said Thursday that if the deadlock owners could take their cargo before the “permanent between truckers, private companies, the island gov- assembly,” which has halted over-the-road deliveries, beernment and the Financial Oversight and Management gan at midnight Wednesday. Another barge was received Board due to haulage rates is extended for additional during the day Wednesday, but as of midday Thursday no time, a crisis in supplies will materialize. trucks had arrived at the terminal. The barge contained “If this [extends into] the weekend, it can affect [sup- supplies for pharmaceutical companies, megastores and ply lines],” Nazario said in a radio interview (WKAQ). “I automobiles, among others.

On Tuesday night, the general adviser of the oversight hope that this [issue] will be resolved on its merits by the board, Jaime El Koury, sent a letter to the chairman of the government and the board promptly.”

The prospect of supply shortages alarmed the public Bureau of Transportation and Other Public Services, Jaime to the point that long lines formed on Thursday to fill Lafuente, in which he informed Lafuente of the federal entity’s refusal to regulate haulage rates.

“The Board understands that as the regulations do not comply with the Fiscal Plan, they cannot be approved at this time, particularly with respect to private contracts,” El Koury in his letter. “The Board is willing to work with the Transportation Bureau to achieve a regulation that A Crowley shipping company official said Thursday that complies with the Fiscal Plan, that achieves the objeca supply crisis will ensue if the deadlock between tive of the regulation, including an adequate increase in truckers, private companies, the island government haulage rates, but that does not include private contracts.”

Truckers Coalition spokesman Carlos Rodríguez said and the Financial Oversight and Management Board that if the deadlock is over private contractors, the group over haulage rates drags on.

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is willing to take that issue out of the discussion.

“They bring up the ‘issue’ of contract porters. If that is their concern, and the people of MIDA [Chamber of Food Marketing, Industry and Distribution) have not presented evidence of a single private contract before the bureau, then we are going to resolve that separately at the table, in a satisfactory way,” Rodríguez said in a radio interview (NotiUno). “For the parties, the regulation is passed and this impasse is resolved.”

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Tensions rise between demonstrators, police at beachside construction site

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

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lashes between residents and Puerto Rico Police officers reached a new high on Thursday as some 20 Motorized Unit agents arrived at a demonstration taking place at Almendros Beach in Rincón, where islanders continued demanding that Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) Secretary Rafael Machargo Maldonado enforce a cease and desist order filed last week.

“The beaches belong to the people, the beaches belong to the people!” chanted protesters early in the morning as police agents began surrounding the site under dispute since late May as some allege that construction work on a swimming pool violates the federal Endangered Species Act and invades a sea turtle nesting area.

Late in the morning, 40-year-old Waldemar Alcobas Santiago, a resident of Hatillo, was arrested by the Rincón district officers for allegedly obstructing the construction work, vandalizing the concrete fence and using a shovel to throw sand where contractors were going to pour cement.

During a Facebook Live broadcast by community group Legal Solidarity Brigade, Alcobas Santiago swam off the beach for many hours to prevent the arrest he said was “illegitimate.”

He would become the fifth demonstrator to be arrested at the site. Alcobas Santiago was issued summons for Aug. 19 to the Aguadilla Superior Court by prosecutor Héctor Crespo.

“I am ashamed of what they are doing.

They don’t arrest one corrupt person here, but they arrest five Puerto Ricans,” said activist Eliezer Molina, who also pointed out how

Tensions between residents and Puerto Rico Police officers rose and a man was arrested Thursday at a demonstration at Almendros Beach in Rincón, where islanders kept up demands that a Natural and Environmental Resources cease and desist order against construction at a beachfront condo be enforced. (Photo Courtesy of Brigada Legal Solidaria) authorities did not take action when a resident was injured when he was pushed from the same concrete fence by a security guard from the Sol y Playa condo.

That incident occurred on Wednesday night, when the injured demonstrator was taken to a hospital immediately after slamming his jaw into the concrete barrier.

“The complaint about an assault perpetrated by a Sol y Playa Condominium security guard and a resident, who is allegedly [attorney for the New Progressive Party] Rita Vélez, is stalled,” Citizens Victory Movement Rep. Mariana Nogales Molinelli said on her Facebook page. “The police have contacted the victim to indicate that they have not been

able to locate the aggressor security guard to take his information, although the guard has been on the condominium premises today [Thursday].”

The lawmaker also urged Police Commissioner Antonio López to order his officers to take action immediately.

“Not acting intentionally is negligence on the part of the police and shows that they work for some and not for others,” she said.

“Enough of impunity!”

During the afternoon, Alcobas Santiago returned to the protest, where he said that even though authorities treated him with deference, he would come back as “this was the place to be.”

Buoys installed to protect manatees

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fter the deaths in recent days of two manatees at Punta Santiago in Humacao, the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources has installed buoys in the area to protect the marine mammals.

“After reporting the unfortunate incidents with several manatees on our shores, we took immediate action for the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources to place buoys to protect this important marine species,” said Humacao Mayor Reinaldo “Rey” Vargas.

The buoys will serve to make people aware of which areas

they should not use for water activities, be they involving boats or jet skis.

The installation of the buoys came as a result of events last weekend, when the appearance of about four manatees was reported off the beach in Punta Santiago, where two of them unfortunately died, apparently as a result of their injuries after being struck by watercraft.

“We reiterate our call to protect our endangered marine species, so we urge people who practice water sports to take the necessary measures so that our fauna that lives on the coasts, such as manatees, are not affected,” the mayor said. “It is important to raise awareness about the protection of marine life.”

Meanwhile, demonstrators carried on their activities, including live music and picnics, and urged the government to take action on the matter.

“Puerto Rico Police, a tool for the rich!

Puerto Rico Police, a tool for the rich!” sang protesters while officers stood by in a line facing them.

A hearing is scheduled for next Wednesday at the Aguadilla Superior Court to address both a permit dispute with the construction project and the cease and desist order filed by the DNER. The construction work adjacent to the beach comes to within 20 feet of the water’s edge.

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Biden predicts FDA will give final vaccine approval by the fall

By JIM TANKERSLEY

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resident Joe Biden said earlier this week that he expected the Food and Drug Administration would give final approval quickly for coronavirus vaccines, as he pressed for skeptical Americans to get vaccinated and stop another surge of the pandemic.

Speaking to a town hall audience in Ohio on Wednesday, Biden said he was not intervening in the decisions of government scientists, but pointed toward a potential decision soon from the FDA to give final approval for the vaccines, which are currently authorized for emergency use. Many medical professionals have pushed for the final approval, saying it could help increase uptake of the vaccines.

“My expectation talking to the group of scientists we put together, over 20 of them plus others in the field, is that sometime maybe in the beginning of the school year, at the end of August, beginning of September, October, they’ll get a final approval” for the vaccines at the FDA, Biden said.

The president also said he expected children younger than 12, who are not eligible to receive the vaccine, to be cleared to get it on an emergency basis “soon, I believe.”

In an hourlong discussion with a largely friendly crowd and moderator, CNN’s Don Lemon, at Mount St. Joseph University, Biden fielded questions about the economy, gun violence, the opioid crisis, immigration, the virtues of bipartisan compromise, the pandemic and online misinformation about vaccines. In typical Biden fashion, he frequently veered into personal stories and punctuated answers with “I’m serious,” and he sometimes did not give direct answers in the process.

Biden defended his opposition to eliminating the Senate filibuster — which requires 60 votes to move most major legislation — to pass a voting rights bill that he has called crucial for democracy, even when Lemon pushed him to explain why he would keep in place a weapon that senators have used over decades to block civil rights legislation.

President Joe Biden, center, is greeted by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, his wife Britainy Beshear and their children, Will Beshear, 12, right, and Lila Beshear, 11, left, at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in Hebron, Ky. on Wednesday, July 21, 2021.

“There’s no reason to protect it,” Biden said, “other than, you’re going to throw the entire Congress into chaos and nothing will get done.”

Biden expressed optimism that Republican and Democratic senators would reach a final agreement on a bipartisan infrastructure package next week, which he also promised would “absolutely” make it possible to replace the beleaguered Brent Spence Bridge between Kentucky and Ohio.

He acknowledged concerns about rising inflation across the economy but predicted price spikes would prove temporary, and he cited analysis from economists at Moody’s who said this week that Biden’s ongoing spending plans — including trillions for child care, education, anti-poverty efforts and more — would dampen inflation in the years to come.

“We’re going to be providing good opportunities and jobs for people who, in fact, are going to be reinvesting that money back in all the things we’re talking about,” Biden said. “Driving down prices, not raising prices.”

The president did not give a direct answer to the owner of a restaurant chain who said he was having trouble hiring

workers as the economy recovered.

Biden said that it was good that workers had the ability to search for new and better jobs, and that companies had to compete to hire them. He said he saw “no evidence” that expanded unemployment benefits, which were included in the $1.9 trillion stimulus package he signed into law in March, were deterring workers — but even if they were, he said, the benefits are set to end soon.

“I think it really is a matter of people deciding now that they have opportunities to do other things and there’s a shortage of employees, people are looking to make more money and to bargain,” Biden told the restaurant owner. “So I think your business and the tourist business is really

going to be in a bind for a little while.”

While Biden was flying to the Kentucky airport that serves Cincinnati, senators voted Wednesday on a motion to advance the bipartisan infrastructure framework, which is not yet finalized nearly a month after Biden and centrist lawmakers unveiled it at the White House.

The vote failed, but Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. and the Senate majority leader, reserved the right to schedule another vote next week in hopes of moving the agreement forward.

Administration officials have engaged in negotiations with Republicans and Democrats in recent days to finalize the deal, including how to fully pay for its spending. Lawmakers indicated Wednesday that they expect to reach final agreement in days.

Asked how long it will take to get the bipartisan deal done, Biden replied, “Till Monday.”

“I come from a tradition in the Senate, you shake your hand, that’s it.

You keep your word,” Biden said. He predicted Republicans would do so. “I think it’s going to get done.”

But Biden was less solicitous of his Republican counterparts when it came to the issues of gun violence and policing.

He told a questioner that the country needed more police officers, not fewer.

Asked how he responds to Republicans who paint his party as anti-police, he replied, “They’re lying.”

Asked to clarify his administration’s stance on immigrants attempting to cross into the country at the border, Biden said he was pushing for asylum-seekers to do so in embassies in their own countries.

“They should not come,” he said.

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GOP blocks infrastructure debate in Senate, raising doubts about a deal

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), addresses a news conference at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, July 21, 2021.

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epublicans blocked the Senate earlier this week from taking up an emerging bipartisan infrastructure plan, raising doubts about the fate of a major piece of President Joe Biden’s agenda even as negotiators continued to seek a compromise.

The failed vote underscored the intense mistrust between the two parties, which has complicated the effort to complete a deal.

Both Republicans and Democrats in the group seeking a deal say they are still making progress toward agreement on a package with nearly $600 billion in new funds for roads, bridges, rail, transit and other infrastructure, which could be the first major infusion of federal public works spending since the 2009 stimulus law.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. and the Senate majority leader, forced the vote in a bid to intensify pressure for a swift resolution to the talks, acting over the pleas of centrist Republicans who said they needed more time to solidify their deal with Democrats.

With many Democrats harboring concerns that Republicans will drag out the process only to withhold support from a final bill, he argued that there was still time to iron out final details.

“This vote is not a deadline to have every final detail worked out; it is not an attempt to jam anyone,” Schumer said before the vote, adding that negotiators would have “many opportunities” to add their plan to the

bill “even if they need a few more days to finalize the language.”

But Republicans said they were not ready to commit to considering an infrastructure measure and warned that putting the matter to a vote risked scuttling a potential bipartisan breakthrough. On Wednesday, as they shuttled between meetings and votes, Republican negotiators said a final deal could emerge in the coming days, about a month after they first triumphantly announced agreement on a framework.

“We’re optimistic that once we get past this vote today that we’re going to continue our work and that we will be ready in the coming days,” said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine and a key negotiator. She said members of the group “think that we will be largely ready on Monday.”

With all 50 Republicans in the Senate opposed, Democrats fell short of the 60 votes that would have been needed to move forward with an infrastructure debate. All 50 members of the Democratic caucus initially voted to proceed, but Schumer switched his vote to enable him under Senate rules to bring up the measure again.

It was an inauspicious beginning to what Democrats had hoped would be a period of intense activity on Capitol Hill, with action on a bipartisan infrastructure measure and a far more ambitious, $3.5 trillion partisan budget blueprint that would include money to address climate change, expand health care and education and broaden child care

and paid leave.

Instead, senators spent Wednesday voicing frustration over their failure to begin debating the infrastructure plan and privately meeting to work through the details of how to structure and finance the package. In a joint statement after the vote, 22 senators involved in and briefed on the bipartisan efforts professed optimism that they could finish the deal and vowed to keep working over the coming days.

At a town-hall discussion in Cincinnati on Wednesday, Biden predicted that Republicans would need “till Monday” to get the deal done, but that it would come together.

“I come from a tradition in the Senate, you shake your hand, that’s it. You keep your word. And I’ve found Rob Portman does that,” Biden said, referring to an Ohio senator who is one of the Republicans leading the negotiations. He added, “I think it’s going to get done.”

Republicans, including the five negotiators who have been involved in discussions on a compromise, argued that Democrats had threatened their progress by rushing a vote on the package before the deal was ready.

Democrats questioned why Republicans, many of whom have said they want a bipartisan infrastructure compromise, would be unwilling to simply allow a debate to move forward while the negotiations proceed.

Underlying the finger-pointing were long-standing worries by both parties about the political ramifications of a deal. Democrats, particularly progressives, have long been concerned that Republicans would drag out negotiations to force concessions and then ultimately withhold their support.

Republicans are wary of getting prematurely locked into an agreement with Biden that members of their own party — many of whom deeply oppose costly federal spending packages — might reject.

Still, even as they voted unanimously against the maneuver, several Senate Republicans said they would support a rescheduled vote as early as Monday if a deal could be reached by then. At least 11 Republicans — enough to overcome a filibuster if every Democrat and independent agreed — readied a letter to Schumer making that commitment, though it was unclear Wednesday whether he had received it.

For Republicans who have been negotiating the infrastructure deal with Democrats, voting no Wednesday was a calculated gamble that they could swiftly finish the text

and it could be brought up for another vote.

Should they complete the deal in the coming days, they would still have to persuade enough of their colleagues to support the measure for it clear the 60-vote filibuster threshold.

Since announcing their agreement on an initial framework, a bipartisan group of 10 senators and top White House officials have haggled over the details of an overall package set to provide $1.2 trillion over eight years, with $579 billion in new funding for roads, bridges, broadband and highways on top of the continuation of existing transportation programs, which committee leaders have largely agreed to outside the talks.

But the failed vote still frustrated some liberal Democrats, who have repeatedly warned against what they view as the mistakes of 2010, when they delayed votes on the Affordable Care Act in hopes of Republican votes that never emerged. They have argued that Democrats can easily slip the new spending for roads, bridges, broadband and highways into the broader spending package set to take shape in the coming weeks.

Lawmakers remain at odds over how to maintain funding levels for existing transit programs. The group of key negotiators also has to finalize how to finance the overall measure, with Republicans in particular reluctant to support legislation that is not completely paid for.

In discussions over the weekend, negotiators jettisoned a provision that would boost IRS enforcement to collect unpaid taxes as a result of conservative backlash. Instead, they are now debating the terms of undoing a Trump-era rule that changes the way drug companies can offer discounts to health plans for Medicare patients as an option.

Democrats are also working to hammer out the contours of the $3.5 trillion budget blueprint, which will unlock the fast-track reconciliation process and allow party leaders to advance the remainder of their economic priorities on a simple majority vote, bypassing Republicans. That outline will most likely not emerge until Budget Committee staff members know whether to accommodate elements of the bipartisan framework, which would push the cost of the package higher.

“Our job right now is to move this thing as rapidly as we can,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who is in charge of the Senate Budget Committee. “My hope is that by early August, we will have a budget proposal to bring to the floor for a vote and do what the American people want.”

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US life expectancy plunged in 2020, widening a racial gap

By JULIE BOSMAN, SOPHIE KASAKOVE and DANIEL VICTOR

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ew federal data draws one of the starkest illustrations to date of how the coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately affected Hispanic and Black Americans, showing that they suffered a far steeper drop in life expectancy in 2020 than white Americans.

Overall, life expectancy in the United States fell by a year and a half, a federal report said Wednesday, a decline largely attributed to the pandemic that has killed more than 600,000 Americans.

It was the steepest decline in the United States since World War II. From 2019 to 2020, Hispanic people experienced the greatest drop in life expectancy — three years — and Black Americans saw a decrease of 2.9 years. White people experienced the smallest decline, of 1.2 years.

The coronavirus “uncovered the deep racial and ethnic inequities in access to health, and I don’t think that we’ve ever overcome them,” said Dr. Mary T. Bassett, a former New York City health commissioner and professor of health and human rights at Harvard University, who characterized the findings as devastating but unsurprising. “To think that we’ll just bounce back from them seems a bit wishful thinking.”

Life expectancy numbers provide only a snapshot in time of the general health of a

population: If American children born today spent their entire lives under the conditions of 2020, they would live an average of 77.3 years, down from 78.8 in 2019.

The last time life expectancy was so low was in 2003, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, the agency that released the figures and a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Racial and ethnic disparities have persisted throughout the pandemic — a reflection of many factors, including the differences in overall health and available health care between white, Hispanic and Black people in the United States. Black and Hispanic Americans were more likely to be employed in risky, public-facing jobs during the pandemic — bus drivers, restaurant cooks, sanitation workers — rather than working on laptops from the relative safety of their homes.

They also more commonly depend on public transportation, risking coronavirus exposure, or live in multigenerational homes and in tighter conditions that are more conducive to spreading the virus.

The precipitous drop in 2020, caused largely by COVID-19, is not likely to be permanent. In 1918, the flu pandemic wiped 11.8 years from Americans’ life expectancy, and the number fully rebounded the following year. But Elizabeth Arias, one of the researchers who produced the report, Continues on page 10

A coronavirus testing site in San Bernardino, Calif., on Dec. 19, 2020. The difficult year deepened racial and ethnic disparities in life expectancy, with Black and Hispanic Americans losing nearly two more years than white Americans.

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Returning the life expectancy numbers to those of 2019 would require having “no more excess death because of COVID, and that’s already not possible in 2021,” Arias said.

Beyond that, she said, the effects of the pandemic on life expectancy, especially for Black and Latino people, could linger for years. (The report noted changes in life expectancy only for white, Hispanic and Black Americans.)

“If it was just the pandemic and we were able to take control of that and reduce the numbers of excess deaths, they may be able to gain some of the loss,” Arias said.

But additional deaths may emerge as a result of people missing regular doctor visits for other health conditions during the pandemic.

“We may be seeing the indirect effects of the pandemic for some time to come,” she said.

Americans whose relatives and friends died in the pandemic saw their own painful losses reflected in the report.

Denise Chandler, a mother of eight who lives in Detroit and lost both her husband and father to the coronavirus last year, is now the head of one of the many Black families who have suffered greatly from the pandemic.

“I see a lot of fatherless children now, and a lot of wives without their husbands,” she said Wednesday.

Chandler quit work for most of a year to help her children recover from their loss and, even now, has many

days when they barely let her out the door — because they are fearful she will get sick and die, too.

The predominantly Latino, working-class city of Chelsea, just north of Boston, was among the areas of Massachusetts hardest hit by the coronavirus.

Gladys Vega, executive director of a community organization called La Colaborativa, said the death rate from COVID-19 had been exacerbated by lack of access to health

Overall, life expectancy in the United States fell by a year and a half, a federal report said on Wednesday, a decline largely attributed to the pandemic that has killed more than 600,000 Americans.

care: Many people in Chelsea are in the country without legal permission, and they feared that going to a hospital or applying for health insurance could result in deportation.

“That creates all these other dilemmas in their health conditions that make everything worse,” Vega said. The community lost “elders, young people, people that we never thought would be gone,” she said.

The statistics in the report released Wednesday laid bare the staggering toll of the pandemic, which has, at times, pushed the health system to its limits.

Measuring life expectancy is not intended to precisely predict actual life spans; rather, it is a measure of a population’s health, revealing either society-wide distress or advancement. The sheer magnitude of the drop in 2020 wiped away decades of progress.

Even if deaths from COVID-19 markedly decline in 2021, the economic and social effects will linger, especially among racial groups that were disproportionately affected, researchers have noted.

Although there have long been racial and ethnic disparities in life expectancy, the gaps had been narrowing for decades. In 1993, white Americans were expected to live 7.1 years longer than Black Americans, but the gap had been winnowed to 4.1 years in 2019.

COVID-19 did away with much of that progress: White Americans are now expected to live 5.8 years longer.

Hispanic Americans had a life expectancy that was three years longer than that of white Americans in 2019, but that gap decreased to 1.2 years in 2020.

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Skipping the Olympics is ‘not an option’ for many advertisers

By TIFFANY HSU

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he Olympics have long been an almost ideal forum for companies looking to promote themselves, with plenty of opportunities for brands to nestle ads among the pageantry and feel-good stories about athletes overcoming adversity — all for less than the price of a Super Bowl commercial.

But now, as roughly 11,000 competitors from more than 200 countries convene in Tokyo as the coronavirus pandemic lingers, Olympic advertisers are feeling anxious about the more than $1 billion they have spent to run ads on NBC and its Peacock streaming platform.

Calls to cancel the more than $15.4 billion extravaganza have intensified as more athletes test positive for COVID-19. The event is also deeply unpopular with Japanese citizens and many public health experts, who fear a superspreader event. And there will be no spectators in the stands.

“The Olympics are already damaged goods,” said Jules Boykoff, a former Olympic soccer player and an expert in sports politics at Pacific University. “If this situation in Japan goes south fast, then we could see some whipsaw changes in the way that deals are cut and the willingness of multinational companies to get involved.”

Panasonic, a top sponsor, will not send its chief executive to the opening ceremony, which is scheduled for Friday. Neither will Toyota, one of Japan’s most influential companies, which also delivered a blow to the Games on Monday when it said it had abandoned its plans to run Olympics-themed television commercials in Japan.

In the United States, marketing plans are mostly moving ahead.

For NBCUniversal, which has paid billions of dollars for the exclusive rights to broadcast the Olympics in the United States through 2032, the event is a crucial source of revenue. There are more than 140 sponsors for NBC’s coverage on television, on its yearold streaming platform Peacock and online, an increase over the 100 that signed on for the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.

“Not being there with an audience of this size and scale for some of our blue-chip advertisers is not an option,” said Jeremy Carey, the managing director of the sports marketing agency Optimum Sports.

In a Michelob Ultra commercial, the sprinting star Usain Bolt points joggers toward

a bar. Procter & Gamble’s campaign highlights good deeds by athletes and their parents. Sue Bird, a basketball star, promotes the fitness equipment maker Tonal in a spot debuting Friday.

NBCUniversal said it had exceeded the $1.2 billion in U.S. ad revenue it garnered for the 2016 Games in Rio and had sold all of its advertising slots for Friday’s opening ceremony, adding that it was still offering space during the rest of the Games. Buyers estimate that the price for a 30-second prime-time commercial exceeds $1 million.

Television has attracted the bulk of the ad spending, but the amount brought in by digital and streaming ads is on the rise, according to Kantar. Several forecasts predict that TV ratings for the Olympics will lag the Games in Rio and London, while the streaming audience will grow sharply.

NBCUniversal said that during the socalled upfront negotiation sessions this year, when ad buyers reserve spots with media companies, Peacock had received $500 million in commitments for the coming year.

“You won’t find a single legacy media company out there that is not pushing their streaming capabilities for their biggest events,” Carey, the Optimum Sports executive, said.

“That’s the future of where this business is going.”

United Airlines, a sponsor of Team USA, scrapped its original ad campaign, one that promoted flights from the United States to Tokyo. Its new effort, featuring the gymnast Simon Biles and the surfer Kolohe Andino, encourages a broader return to air travel.

“It didn’t make much sense to focus on a specific destination that Americans might not be able to travel to,” said Maggie Schmerin, the airline’s managing director of advertising and social media.

United’s campaign will appear in airports, on social media and on streaming platforms, including Peacock, but not on TV. Schmerin said the airline wanted to be “matching customers where they are, based on their viewing habits.”

Ad agency executives said companies were regularly checking in for updates on the COVID outbreak in Japan and might fine-tune their marketing messages accordingly.

“Everyone is a little bit cautious,” said David Droga, the founder of the Droga5 ad agency, which worked on an Olympics campaign for Facebook showcasing skateboarders. “People are quite fragile at the moment.

The Japan National Stadium, home to the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games, in Tokyo, July 17, 2021. Companies have spent more than $1 billion on ads timed to the Tokyo Games, which will take place in empty arenas as the pandemic lingers.

Advertisers don’t want to be too saccharine or too clever but are trying to find that right tone.”

NBCUniversal’s sports calendar also includes the Super Bowl in February, for which 85% of ad slots are already sold or are in discussions, the company said. Also on the lineup: the FIFA World Cup in Qatar in late 2022 and the Beijing Winter Olympics in February, both of which have put the adverti-

sing industry in a difficult position because of China’s and Qatar’s poor records on human rights.

First, though, ad executives just want the Tokyo Games to proceed without incident.

“We’ve been dealing with these COVID updates every day since last March,” said Kevin Collins, an executive at the ad-buying and media intelligence firm Magna. “I’m looking forward to them starting.”

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Organizing a union in the disorganized world of small restaurants

By PRIYA KRISHNA

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orried about returning to work during a pandemic and galvanized by the racial-justice protests throughout their city, 17 cocktail-room employees at Tattersall Distilling in Minneapolis told the owners during a staff meeting in June 2020 that they intended to form a union. They wanted personal protective equipment, overtime pay and anti-racism training.

“We all felt a sense of urgency and, I mean, legitimate fear,” said Krystle D’Alencar, a bartender and server. “Many of us, including me, live paycheck to paycheck.”

The owners, Jon Kreidler and Dan Oskey, pushed back on Tattersall’s social media accounts: “We don’t believe a union is necessary, nor is it in the best interest of our employees or our company.”

But two months later, after much organizing and the threat of a boycott by customers who supported the effort, the employees voted for a union, 19-3. They receive regular requests from restaurant workers around the country asking how to start their own. And Tattersall’s owners say they are working to reach a contract deal as quickly as possible.

“This is our first time going through” a union drive, Kreidler said last week. “We realize this is the employees’ decision.

We support their decision.”

The past year and a half has been a watershed for labor organizing, as the pandemic and a national discourse on racial equity have turned a harsh spotlight on low pay and poor working conditions across the American economy. One of the most surprising places those campaigns have surfaced is independent restaurants, bars and bakeries, where unions are rare.

In March, employees of Colectivo Coffee, which has 18 locations in Chicago and Wisconsin, held an election to form their own union; it ended in a 99-99 tie, and the union that is working to represent them, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 494, is now fighting to have challenged ballots included in the count. At JuiceLand, a small Texas chain, about 40 employees went on strike in May after several workers called in sick, forcing some of the remaining production staff to work long shifts on Mother’s Day. While they try to drum up support for a union among the other 500 or so workers, the company has raised wages for hourly workers.

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“Honestly, in my 20 years of organizing, I have never seen such a willingness” to organize among restaurant workers, said Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage, a national advocacy group for service workers and the director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley.

How successful and long-lasting these efforts will be, however, remains unclear. The nascent unions are testing grounds where workers will learn over time whether, or how, they can change a decentralized industry.

Substandard wages, long hours and little to no benefits have become norms in the restaurant business. And in 2020, food service had one of the lowest unionization rates of any American economic sector — 1.2%, versus an average of 10.8% for all wage and salary workers, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

At the pandemic’s onset, as diners rushed to support local restaurants with delivery orders and gift card purchases, many workers felt that no one was looking out for their well-being, or even safety.

“This pandemic gave us all time to sit and reflect on how the hell we were able to get cut down to this place of life or death so quickly and easily,” said D’Alencar, 34, the Tattersall Distillery server.

Establishing a union is a complicated process that can take years: It typically involves creating an organizing committee, getting workers to sign union cards, winning an election and successfully negotiating a contract. Unionizing restaurants is even harder, said Natalia Tylim, a server at a West Village restaurant and a founder of the Restaurant Organizing Project run by the Democratic Socialists of America.

High turnover makes it hard to build an employee base.

Divisions frequently arise between workers in the dining room and those in the kitchen, who are often compensated differently.

Because operations vary from restaurant to restaurant, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all contract.

Independent restaurants pose their own special barriers: Their staffs can be too small to attract interest from existing unions, and because employees often have personal relationships with managers and owners, they may be unwilling to rock the boat.

“People feel an allegiance to a small business because it is the underdog,” Tylim said. “There is a dynamic in the workplace where people feel genuinely, or performatively, like a family.”

Yet it’s these small businesses that often don’t have mechanisms that help employees report harassment or ask for raises. “The worst conditions I have worked in have always been the smaller restaurants, personally,” said Diego, a line cook in Queens who declined to give his surname for fear of losing his job.

The pandemic, and the difficulty many restaurants now face in hiring, present a distinct opportunity for unions, Tylim said. Workers “are starting to think about what they contribute, what they are worth.”

In February 2020, before the lockdowns began, the renowned Tartine Bakery in California made headlines after its workers — dissatisfied with their pay and what they called the management’s lack of transparency — announced their intent to unionize. They narrowly won an election, but challenges to several ballots held up the process until last March, when the results were certified and the union prevailed. The unit expects to

begin negotiations soon on a contract, said Matthew Torres, 24, a former Tartine barista who still belongs to the union.

Because Tartine is well-known nationally, he said, its union has served as a powerful propellant for organizing elsewhere.

Employees at some restaurants opt to join a larger union to tap into its many resources, as Tartine’s did with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. For both the longshore union and UNITE HERE Local 17, unionizing restaurants and other food businesses is relatively new territory.

During the pandemic, restaurant workers “were interested in organizing in a way they weren’t before,” said Sheigh Freeberg, secretary and treasurer of UNITE HERE Local 17.

What’s distinct about many of these fledgling drives, Freeberg added, is that they are not taking on corporations worth millions of dollars. Most independent restaurants operate on slim profit margins. For those workers, “it is about respect on the job, or being able to have your schedule ahead of when it comes out,” he said. “Stuff that doesn’t cost any money.”

Still, many recent organizing efforts stalled or failed.

After working at N7, a French bistro in New Orleans, for more than three years, Luna Vicini was fired in October from her job as floor manager, with a note saying that the business needed a manager who prioritized profitability. She believes it was because she had organized workers around concerns about pay, transparency and safety protocols. (The company did not respond to requests for comment.)

At American Beauty, a steakhouse in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Venice, six servers and two former employees picketed the restaurant last March after the owners reduced the percentage of the tip pool allocated to servers and other front-ofthe-house workers. The restaurant said the move was intended to give the kitchen staff a bigger share of that pool; the picketers said the business should simply raise wages for kitchen workers.

Sam Sachs, a former server who joined in the strike, said he couldn’t rally enough interest in a union. Not everyone, he said, has the financial security to take the risk of speaking out.

But Jayaraman, of One Fair Wage, believes that unionizing can be an inefficient means for creating industrywide change.

“We don’t think you can organize shop by shop by shop,” she said. She would prefer that workers and owners push for federal policies like raising the minimum wage.

At Augie’s Coffee, a small chain in Southern California, employees chose the union path, with different results for different workers.

About 45 of them began organizing in May 2020, saying that the owners, Austin and Andy Amento, had repeatedly denied wage increases and abruptly tried to fire several workers during the pandemic. That July, the Amentos shut all five locations, eventually making the closings permanent. (They did not respond to requests for comment.)

A few months later, 16 former employees started their own coffee shop, Slow Bloom, which will open this fall in Redlands, California. Workers share in the ownership and profits, and have formed a union that bargains with an elected executive board.

“It is all good and well to say you want everyone’s voice to be heard,” said Matthew Soliz, a Slow Bloom worker who helped lead the union drive at Augie’s. But then you have to translate a union’s demands into a sustainable business.

“I have only ever made lattes,” said Soliz, 29. “I am learning all of this live.”

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Wall Street edges lower as jobless claims unexpectedly rise

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all Street’s main indexes edged lower on Thursday after an unexpected rise in weekly jobless claims cooled a rally in economy-linked cyclical stocks, while gains in megacap growth firms kept declines at bay.Ten of the 11 major S&P sectors rose, with energy, financials, industrials and materials leading the charge.

Data showed the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits increased by 51,000 to a seasonally adjusted 419,000 in the week ended July 17, hitting a two-month high. The report also showed more people returning to work, a positive trend for July’s employment data.

“One data point isn’t a trend, and a one-off can probably be chalked up to Delta variant concerns. If jobs data doesn’t inflect soon, the markets and the Fed will be put on notice,” said Cliff Hodge, chief investment officer at Cornerstone Wealth.

Investors have been closely following the health of the jobs market on which the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy hinges, especially after a series of higher inflation reading recently sparked fears about a soonerthan expected paring of policy support as the economy reopens.

A shift in attention to corporate earnings and the so-called value stocks have helped Wall Street recoup most of its declines from earlier in the week that were triggered by concerns about the fast-spreading Delta variant of the coronavirus.

The S&P 500 energy sector fell 1.5% after rising in the last two sessions, while technology was the biggest gainer among the 11 major sector indexes.

Apple Inc, Amazon.com, Facebook Inc, Googleowner Alphabet Inc and Microsoft Corp rose ahead of their quarterly results next week.

“The market is trying to understand how economic growth will decelerate going forward ... we’re going to still see energy, financials, industrials doing very well in the medium term, but the more secular growth winners will continue to drive the market for the future,” said Omar Aguilar, chief investment officer of passive equity and multi-asset strategies for Charles Schwab Investment Management.

Second-quarter earnings are expected to grow 76.5%% for S&P 500 companies, according to Refinitiv IBES estimates. So far, 88.5% of the 104 companies in the benchmark index that reported results for the quarter beat profit expectations, the highest since 1994.

Drugmaker Biogen Inc gained 1.3% on raising its full-year revenue expectations, while Domino’s Pizza Inc jumped 13.0% to a record high on upbeat quarterly results.

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Health officials call for vaccine donations in Central America

By DANIEL POLITI

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OVID-19 cases are increasing in many Central American and Caribbean countries, officials from the World Health Organization warned Wednesday as they called on richer nations to step up vaccine donations to a region where immunization rates remain perilously low.

The Americas have become “a region divided by vaccine access,” said Dr. Carissa Etienne, the director of the Pan American Health Organization, which is part of the WHO. Countries with higher rates of vaccination, including Costa Rica, Uruguay and Chile, are seeing sharp drops in cases, while others are experiencing vastly different realities.

Only 15% of people across Central America and the Caribbean have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and in some countries,

including Honduras and Haiti, the figure is less than 1%.

Several Caribbean nations are seeing a rise in cases, including Cuba, where infections and deaths have been soaring and which saw a recent outbreak of street protests against the government, the largest in decades.

“Cuba is currently seeing the highest number of confirmed cases of COVID-19” in the region, said Ciro Ugarte, the director of health emergencies at the Pan American Health Organization. In a population of less than 12 million, more than 43,000 new cases were reported for the current week, up 21% from the week before, and the authorities have confirmed that the highly contagious delta variant is circulating in several provinces.

Other Caribbean nations are also reporting surges. Cases in Martinique, for example, have tripled over the past week, many involving

“young people in their 20s,” Etienne said.

Most Central American countries are also seeing a sharp rise in coronavirus cases, with Guatemala reporting high rates of hospitalizations and neighboring Honduras seeing a spike in cases along its border. There are also hot spots in Amazonian states in Colombia and Peru.

“COVID-19 remains entrenched within our region, particularly in countries with low vaccination coverage, and the spread of variants only makes matters worse,” Etienne said.

There was a rare bit of good news out of Haiti, which has been engulfed in political unrest since the assassination of its president two weeks ago. Vaccinations against COVID-19 finally began there Friday, two days after the country received 500,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine donated by the United States through the Covax vaccine-sharing mechanism.

“We clearly need more vaccines and we need them now,” Etienne said, adding that donations “are really the only way for many countries in our region to secure the doses that they need quickly.”

The U.S. government has vowed to donate around 12 million doses to Latin America and the Caribbean, and has already delivered some 4.5 million doses to Honduras, El Salvador, Bolivia and Haiti.

Officials also expect to receive doses from Spain and Canada, and are optimistic that others, including France, will join the donation effort.

“We want to commend all countries for sharing vaccines with our region, but the truth is, we need more,” Etienne said. “Please don’t wait until you have surplus doses. Vaccines are not a privilege for the few, they are the right of everybody.”

Mourning Haitians console Martine Moïse, widow of the slain president

By CATHERINE PORTER

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our days after surprising Haitians by returning to her home country in a sling and a bulletproof vest, the widow of Haiti’s assassinated president appeared before her fellow citizens this week at the site of a memorial to her husband.

Martine Moïse, who was wounded in the July 7 attack at her home that took the life

of her husband, was medevaced to a hospital in Miami, where she underwent surgery as her country was reeling at the loss of its president, Jovenel Moïse.

Since then, other than making a few statements on social media, Martine Moïse had stayed out of the spotlight. But on Wednesday that changed.

The former first lady arrived in late afternoon at the memorial for her husband at the

Martine Moïse, the widow of Haiti’s assassinated president at the site of a memorial to her husband in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Wednesday July 21, 2021.

Museum of the Haitian National Pantheon, still wearing a splint on one arm and accompanied by her three children and three bodyguards, their assault weapons on full display. She was dressed in black and wore pearls, and Pachelbel’s Canon could be heard in the background.

As she stood with her children, Moïse received condolences from prominent Haitians, among them the newly installed prime minister, Ariel Henry; Helen La Lime, the United Nations’ top official in Haiti; and Michel Martelly, the former president of Haiti who selected the littleknown Jovenel Moïse to be his successor.

The first part of the event was closed to the public and the press, but it took place on the day of final exams for high school students, and the sound of their cheers of celebration made its way over the walls of the Pantheon property from the nearby Champ de Mars, the city’s main square, mixing with the music.

After spending an hour or so inside the Pantheon, Martine Moïse emerged to attend a small service in the gardens. There, addressing the crowd, Frantz Exantus, Haiti’s secretary of state for communications, recalled past glories, when Haitians once rose up and upended a notoriously brutal slave system.

“How did Haiti get to this today?” Exantus lamented.

Amid prayer, poetry and song, Martine Moïse faced the crowd from an antique gold painted chair, holding her injured arm. When the

service required her to stand, she did so with visible pain.

As evening fell, the ceremony drew to a close and she left, her face wet with tears.

She left it to others Wednesday to make public statements. But as low a profile as she has kept since the assassination, she has on occasion shared some of her feelings with her fellow Haitians. One message, both mournful and politically pointed, came while she was still in a Miami hospital.

“Twenty-five years of living together,” she said in an audio recording posted on her verified Twitter account. “In just one night, the mercenaries ripped him away from me. Tears will never dry up in my eyes. My heart will always bleed.”

As Haitian politicians back home skirmished for power, Moïse accused her husband’s killers of wanting “to assassinate the president’s dream, vision and ideas for the country.”

“I’m crying, it’s true,” she said, “but we can’t let the country go astray.”

On Tuesday, Henry, a neurosurgeon, was installed as the country’s interim prime minister, ending — temporarily at least — an open battle over who would replace Jovenel Moïse to lead the fragile country.

The funeral for Moïse is set for Friday in the northern city of Cap-Haïtien. In a post on her Twitter account, Martine Moïse said the family wished to pay for the ceremony and did not want to take funds from Haiti’s public treasury.

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‘He never came back’: Frantic searches for loved ones after flood

By KEITH BRADSHER and STEVEN LEE MYERS

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hen Shuying was sitting at home with her husband and their 3-year-old grandson on Tuesday when water began to surge through the door. Within minutes, it was well above her waist. “The water came so fast,” she said.

They made it to the roof, where they waited for hours for the water to recede. Two days later, she still cannot return home, she said. They were lucky. Three neighbors — a grocery shopkeeper and two of the grocer’s customers — were swept away by the floodwaters and have not been seen since.

The formidable destructive power of the floods that engulfed Henan province in central China became clearer Thursday, even as new areas were inundated. Still more rain is in the forecast, following days of torrential downpours, including the strongest on record in the area Tuesday.

The death toll from the flooding continued to rise, with provincial officials saying 33 people were now confirmed killed. At least eight remained missing, the officials said, but those figures appeared to be preliminary at best given that rescuers were continuing to try to reach flooded areas in outlying districts.

The disaster that has unfolded since heavy rain began Sunday has affected more than 3 million people in the province, emergency officials there said, including more than 250,000 who were displaced from their homes. Even as the rains eased somewhat — and officials lowered the alert levels — desperate searches continued for loved ones unaccounted for more than 48 hours after the worst of the flooding.

The Paper, a newspaper belonging to a state-owned media group, on Thursday posted a list of people searching for missing relatives. The missing included Yan Yichen, a 12-year-old boy from Gongyi, who told his family that he was curious to see the floodwaters and went out for a look.

“He never came back,” the boy’s grandmother, Cui Yuncai, said, sobbing, when reached by telephone Thursday.

In towns and villages on the outskirts of Zhengzhou, the provincial capital at the center of the disaster, residents described still more who remained unaccounted for, like the grocer and his customers. Some residents who fled their homes in Mihe, on the

Sishui River and 22 miles west of downtown Zhengzhou, waited Thursday by the side of a nearby highway for news.

A man who would only give his last name, Zhang, said he was still searching for his father and four other relatives.

“Once the flood was noticed, it was too late,” Zhang said, describing a surge of water 5 feet deep. “This is the first time I saw such a big flood.”

He, like others, held out hope that those missing were stranded in flooded areas without electricity to charge their phones.

In Xinxiang, a city north of Zhengzhou, about 100 people were stranded on the second floor of an elementary school, according to a post on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform.

Many of them were children.

They had apparently sought refuge from the rising water, which by Thursday had reached the second floor.

“Urgently need rescue,” a woman wrote in the post. “More than half of the trapped people are elders and children, the rain is still going on and the water level is rising strongly! It is reaching the second floor very soon.”

The situation could not immediately be verified by The New York Times. Calls to mobile numbers listed on the post were unanswered.

Power was knocked out in dozens of villages, and water still swamped broad areas across the province. People turned to social media to spread news and direct emergency rescuers to those in need. A post from Xinxiang showed a video of flooded streets, with a man pleading for help, saying most of the people trapped in buildings without power near him were older.

On an arduous drive through Henan province on Thursday, many roads and bridges were flooded or blocked by mudflows.

Zhengzhou remained largely cut off: Railroads and highways were still closed, and airline traffic suspended.

A large private and public relief effort has already begun.

In Mihe, a dozen large rubber rafts, usually used for white-water rafting, sat on towing racks behind pickup trucks.

Police cars, ambulances, emergency rescue vans and other vehicles sat parked on high ground overlooking the flooded river. Two men in military camouflage uniforms used a drone to scan the area.

Many homes in Mihe, which is in a flat-bottomed valley

with steep slopes of red soil, had been destroyed or badly damaged. Chen, who survived with her husband and grandchild, had fled to a nearby village.

“Now we have nothing to eat, no water to drink, no home to return to,” she said. “I don’t know what to do.”

Across the countryside, downed power cables snaked across roads, village streets and alleys, the poles supporting them having been washed out.

In one village near Gongyi, where at least four people were reported to have been killed Tuesday, Chen Shuailin, 21, said the power had been out since he woke up on Tuesday morning. He worried about charging his phone and preparing food without electricity. “Now it’s cooking by gas,” he said, “and we burn coal.”

In Zhengzhou, subway service remained suspended after flooding that trapped trains in tunnels that filled with water. At least 12 people died in the subway, and hundreds had to be evacuated in harrowing rescues. Near the city’s third ring road, dozens of cars remained piled up at the entrance to a long highway underpass, still submerged. It was not clear whether those inside the vehicles had time to escape — and some appeared to have gone missing.

In Mihe, China, the downpour has dumped piles of fresh mud on the town, in a flat-bottomed valley with steep slopes of red dirt.

US scrambles to move translators from Afghanistan

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n additional 4,000 Afghans who worked with U.S. forces, many of them interpreters, had been approved to relocate to the United States with their families in light of the withdrawal of U.S. troops, State Department officials said Wednesday.

But officials added that evacuations were only taking place out of Kabul, the capitol, and any eligible Afghans in remote areas were on their own in figuring out how to make the difficult, and likely dangerous, journey if they wanted to take advantage of the offer.

“In order to come on an evacuation flight, they would have to get themselves to Kabul,” a senior official, who requested

anonymity in order to discuss the plan in detail, said on a call with reporters. “Obviously, we don’t have extensive U.S. military presence. We don’t have the ability to provide transportation for them.”

“If they’re staying in the north of the country and they don’t feel safe staying in Afghanistan, they could go to a neighboring country” and finish their application process there, the official added.

The United States also will not provide security to applicants outside Kabul, many of whom are under direct threat from the Taliban for cooperating with coalition forces during the war.

With the U.S. military in the final phases of withdrawing from Afghanistan, the White House has come under pressure to protect Afghan allies and speed up the process of providing them

with special immigrant visas, and President Joe Biden has vowed to do so. There have been about 20,000 applicants for the special visa program.

This month, 2,500 Afghans will be sent in stages to an Army base in Fort Lee, Virginia, south of Richmond, where they will wait roughly 10 days for final processing. The next 4,000 applicants, who need further approvals, will go with their families to other countries to complete the visa process before coming to the United States, the senior official said.

The official did not indicate which countries those applicants would be sent to complete the visa process.

The House is expected to pass legislation this week increasing the number of State Department special immigrant visas and streamlining the application process.

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China denounces WHO’s call for lab inquiry

By CHRIS BUCKLEY

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hinese officials said on Thursday that they were shocked and offended by a World Health Organization proposal to further investigate whether the coronavirus emerged from a lab in Wuhan, exposing a widening rift over the in-

The United States and other governments have pressed China to share more information, especially from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, above.

quiry into the origins of the pandemic.

Senior Chinese health and science officials pushed back vigorously against the idea of opening the Wuhan Institute of Virology to renewed investigation after the WHO director-general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, laid out plans to examine laboratories in the central city of Wuhan, where the first cases of COVID-19 appeared in late 2019.

Zeng Yixin, the vice minister of the Chinese National Health Commission, said at a news conference in Beijing that he was “extremely shocked” at the WHO’s plan to renew attention on the possibility that the virus had leaked from a Wuhan lab.

“I could feel that this plan revealed a lack of respect for common sense and an arrogant attitude toward science,” Zeng said. “We can’t possibly accept such a plan for investigating the origins.”

A joint investigation by the WHO and China found that said it was “extremely unlikely” that the coronavirus escaped from a Wuhan lab, according to a report released in March. Many scientists say that the virus most likely jumped from animals to people through natural spillover in a market or a

similar setting.

But some scientists have said that the initial inquiry was premature in dismissing the lab leak idea.

The United States and other governments have pressed China to share more information, especially from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

At the news conference on Thursday, several Chinese officials asserted that the WHO inquiry got it right the first time, and that there was no evidence to justify renewed checks of the labs. The WHO investigators should instead focus their search on signs of natural transmission, they said, and the possibility that the virus may have first spread outside China.

In recent days, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry and Global Times, a news outlet overseen by the Chinese Communist Party, have gone even further in pushing back against the demands on Beijing. They have reiterated claims — widely dismissed by scientists — that the coronavirus may have escaped from a U.S. military laboratory. A petition organized

by Global Times calling for an inquiry into the American facility claims to have collected nearly 6 million signatures.

Freed Guantánamo Bay detainee is reunited with his family in Morocco

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ormer Guantánamo detainee Abdul Latif Nasser was reunited with his family in Casablanca after U.S. troops turned him over to Moroccan state custody, his lawyers said earlier this week.

U.S. troops airlifted Nasser, 56, from Guantánamo Bay on Sunday in the first release of a detainee from the prison by the Biden administration. American and Moroccan officials had agreed to security arrangements for his return in the last days of the Obama administration, but the deal was put on hold when President Donald Trump halted all transfers upon taking office.

“He is ecstatic,” said Bernard E. Harcourt, a New York-based lawyer and law professor, who represented Nasser in federal court. He and his co-counsel, Thomas Anthony Durkin, spoke to Nasser by phone at his family home in Casablanca, and declared the former prisoner of more than 19 years in good spirits.

He was particularly buoyed by being reunited with extended family members who had gathered for Eid al-Adha, the Muslim holy day known as the Feast of Sacrifice, Harcourt added.

“He did say it was amazing for him to go home when all his family was there,” Harcourt said.

Nasser’s legal status in his home country was unclear. He was held for a time Monday in a jail near

Casablanca, and Moroccan justice officials said in a statement that the police were investigating him for alleged involvement in terrorism.

The investigation was not unusual. Previous Moroccan citizens who were repatriated from Guantánamo were held for days, if not months, and some were charged with terror-related offenses.

The London-based legal and human rights advocacy firm Reprieve said in a statement that Nasser would not be doing interviews with news organizations “for the foreseeable future.” It quoted him in the statement as declaring that, although he was born on March 4, he considered himself “born again on July 19,” the day of his release from U.S. military detention.

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Slip sliding away from history

By MAUREEN DOWD

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t is a hoary tradition: Outfox history, if you can.

You might call this maneuver: I really wasn’t the horrible person I was. I want to be remembered as the person I want you to think I was.

Distancing from failure or embarrassment is part of every politico’s skill set. I knew a top Democrat in the Clinton era who distanced himself from his own son during a touch-football game after the kid played badly.

James Baker and Dina Powell, advisers to Republican presidents, may have been the all-time masters of this dark art, simply gliding away from their administrations’ catastrophes like black silk.

In a raft of new books about Donald Trump and one about Facebook, there are a panoply of famous people trying to deny and exfoliate their past culpability. Unfortunately for them, it’s in a half-baked, rather than a fullBaker, way. As those who enabled Trump and Mark Zuckerberg to build their reality-distortion fields thrash about trying to flip the script, history is being set in amber.

In “An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination,” New York Times writers Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang describe a deleterious pattern at Facebook: Don’t bring the boss bad news or push back. Exercise wi-

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llful blindness about the disaster around the corner, and then, once it arrives, manage it badly. Put the syndicate over democracy. Blame others for your mistakes, especially the unfair media. Present yourself as doing good for the world when you’re doing bad.

That perfectly captures the routine inside the Trump White House as well.

Frenkel and Kang write about how Zuckerberg has distanced himself from his consigliere Sheryl Sandberg and diminished her role, even though he needs her and even though she helped him make money hand over fist.

He wanted to stay in his hermetically sealed box playing tech visionary, Kang told me, and blame Sandberg for the fallout over Cambridge Analytica, foreign interference in the 2016 election, disinformation in the 2020 election, misinformation about COVID-19 and the vaccines. This is despite the fact that when it comes to critical issues for Facebook, such as how to handle disinformation complaints and whether to ban Trump, Zuckerberg makes all the decisions.

“He is blaming her basically for bad PR, for allowing the public to have this negative impression of Facebook,” Kang said.

Sandberg was hired to be the adult in the room, but she was too afraid to push back on Zuckerberg in any major way. And she, too, had the bad habits of hearing only what she wanted to hear and surrounding herself with Facebook employees who practiced groupthink.

“Even as they have grown distant and are trying to distance themselves from controversy, they are inextricably entwined to each other and Facebook,” Kang said.

“They built a business that is unabated and shows no signs of slowing down.”

But the Biden administration doesn’t operate within a reality-distortion field. This past week, with President Joe Biden at his wit’s end over the continued spread of vaccine misinformation and Facebook’s unwillingness to turn over data on how much information is spreading on its site, tension between the White House and Facebook exploded.

“They’re killing people,’’ Biden told reporters outside the White House on Friday.

His surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, declared for the first time that the bile on social media was a menace to the health of Americans.

It is also going to be an Augean task for those who encircled Trump to distance themselves and rehab their reputations.

“I Alone Can Fix It,” the buzzy new book by Washington Post writers Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, reports that Ivanka Trump “had become increasingly un-

comfortable with efforts to overturn the election results” and that, when her father was badgering his vice president to help in the nefarious scheme, she fretted to a national security official, “Mike Pence is a good man.”

Her lived experience is that she only went to her father’s Jan. 6 “Save America Rally” to keep him on an even keel. Never mind the fact that once Daddy’s mob began doing its worst, she addressed the scofflaws on Twitter as “American patriots.”

After breaking creative new ground in the area of sycophancy, Pence said last month in a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library that he was “proud” that he certified the election.

And there’s former Attorney General William Barr, who backed up so much of Trump’s insanity, only to see the light after he left the job, telling ABC News journalist Jonathan Karl for his new book, “Betrayal,” that Trump’s claims of election fraud were “all bullshit.”

Michael Bender of The Wall Street Journal reports in his book, “‘Frankly, We Did Win This Election,’” that Mike Pompeo, the top diplomat who was so often a toady for Trump, started acting all concerned after the election that Trump might start an international conflict to stay in office.

“The crazies have taken over,” Pompeo told a colleague, according to Bender.

The crazies hadn’t taken over. They were there all along, enabling the other crazies.

A screen shows Ivanka Trump addressing the Republican National Convention, outside the White House in Washington Aug. 27 2020. In a raft of new books about Donald Trump, there are a panoply of famous people trying to deny and exfoliate their past culpability, Maureen Dowd writes.

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Comisionada residente anuncia millonarias asignaciones federales para municipios POR CYBERNEWS

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ASHINGTON – Varios municipios recibirán partidas millonarias de fondos federales para reparaciones de acueductos comunitarios, así como para el desarrollo de sus Head Start y Early Head Start.

La comisionada residente en Washington, dijo, en comunicación escrita, que el Municipio de Aguas Buenas recibirá $100,000 para el acueducto de la Comunidad Coruja Inc. y el Municipio de Humacao recibirá $203,000 para Acueducto Madriguera Inc., a través de la asistencia económica del USDA Rural Development.

Por otra parte, anunció que la Administración de Niños y Familias asignó varios fondos dentro de la categoría de servicios sociales para Head Start y Early Head Start. Como parte de esta asignación, el Municipio de Barceloneta recibirá $2,078,476 y el Municipio de San Sebastián recibirá $817,605 . Además, el Boys & Girls Club recibirá $3,033,127 y la Fundación para el Desarrollo del Hogar Propio, Inc. recibirá alrededor de $15,376,141.

De igual forma, la Administración de Niños y Familias asignó fondos de asistencia por desastre para cen-

tros Head Start en donde el Municipio de Dorado recibirá $4,225,291 y $1,100,000; el Municipio de Guaynabo recibirá $1.916,561 y el Municipio de San Sebastián recibirá $177,370.

“Estos fondos asignados para Head Start son finales y solo queda en espera la fecha de desembolso de estos por parte de la agencia la cual varía dependiendo del programa”, sostuvo en un parte de prensa.

La comisionada residente, Jenni-

ffer González Colón, indicó que la aprobación de $46,964,178 para estos fines, provienen del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos (HHS), de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC), de la Administración de Recursos y Servicios de Salud (HRSA), USDA Rural Development y la Administración de Seguro Social.

Departamento de Salud también recibirá millones

En tanto, el Departamento de Salud de Puerto Rico recibirá $3,996,478 para servicios de salud a madres e infantes, a través del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de Estados Unidos y de la Administración de Recursos y Servicios de Salud (HRSA).

Como parte de los fondos asignados por HHS por parte de Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades/CDC-NCIRD National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (IP), el Departamento de Salud recibirá, además, $3,864,962 bajo el programa de vacunación e inmunización para niños en la categoría de servicios sociales.

Otros $1.917,681 de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades/CDC-NCHHSTP National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STDS & TB Prevention (PS) serán destinados al programa “Strengthening STD Prevention and Control for Health Departments”.

De igual forma, el Departamento de Salud de Puerto Rico recibirá $2,590,019 de la oficina del “Assistant Secretary for Public Response / Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response” para el programa de preparación de hospitales en la categoría de salud.

Puerto Rico hace un llamado a la población de Puerto Rico para que todos se vacunen POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – A tenor con la incidencia (aumentos) de casos positivos de COVID-19, por ende, un incremento en el número de hospitalizaciones en los últimos días, la Asociación de Hospitales de Puerto Rico informó este jueves que habrá de tomar nuevas medidas (y aumentar las mismas) para proteger al personal médico y a los pacientes.

“La aparición y el impacto causado por la variante Delta está causando mucha preocupación, por tal razón, estamos recomendando a los hospitales tomar las siguientes acciones:

1Requerir a todo visitante de pacientes evidencia de su vacunación.

2Fomentar la disponibilidad de sus centros de vacunación para ese grupo que se identifique como no vacunado.

3Continuar con el uso riguroso de la mascarilla por todo el personal, tanto administrativo como clínico, visitantes y contratistas. Ya son muchos los hospitales en los Estados Unidos que están requiriendo las vacunas y la Asociación Americana de Hospitales (AHA) está solicitando que la vacuna se haga mandataria.

Estamos en una etapa de poder pre-

venir contagios y muertes si tomamos las medidas recomendadas ante la situación de una complicación con el virus COVID 19 o en su modalidad nueva: DELTA”, señaló el licenciado Jaime Plá Cortés, presidente ejecutivo de la Asociación de Hospitales de Puerto Rico en comunicación escrita.

El portavoz de la Asociación de Hospitales de Puerto Rico dijo que hay un movimiento bastante amplio de organizaciones y hospitales que han tomado mucho interés en que todo el mundo se vacune, por lo que recomendó a la población que no se ha vacunado, que a la mayor brevedad posible lo hagan.

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Kennedy Center taps Joni Mitchell, Justino Díaz, others for awards

By JULIA JACOBS

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he last Kennedy Center Honors aired on television less than two months ago, but on Wednesday, the institution announced a new batch of honorees, taking a step toward getting the program back on schedule after the upheaval of the pandemic.

The recipients include folk singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell; stage and screen performer Bette Midler; Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown; Lorne Michaels, the creator of “Saturday Night Live”; and Puerto Rico opera singer Justino Díaz.

Because of the pandemic, the 2020 honors were delayed until this year and the celebration did not at all resemble the event from prior years, when artists, politicians and other prominent figures packed into the opera house. Instead, the ceremony was split over several days, and television producers stitched together a combination of recorded at-home tributes and in-person performances that aired in June.

This time, the ceremony, scheduled for Dec. 5, promises to look more like the Kennedy Center Honors of old, with the house at capacity and, if all goes well, President Joe Biden in attendance. (President Donald Trump was a no-show at the three ceremonies held during his time in office.)

“It’s going to be the party to end all parties because we haven’t had one in so long,” said Deborah Rutter, president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

The ceremony will air on CBS, but the date has not been set.

The honorees, selected on the recommendation of an advisory committee that includes Kennedy Center officials and past award recipients, include two singer-songwriters, Mitchell and Midler, whose careers started to soar in the early 1970s, when they were in their 20s.

Fifty years ago, Mitchell, 77, released “Blue,” her fourth album, which went on to have an enduring influence on singer-songwriters for decades to come. Mitchell, who helped shape an era of protest music with songs like “Big Yellow Taxi” and “Woodstock,” said of the honor, “I wish my mother and father were alive to see this.”

Midler’s debut album, “The Divine Miss M,” came out a year after “Blue,” and helped propel her into a career that spread to Broadway, television and film. Midler, 75, put out

Bette Midler as Dolly Gallagher in “Hello Dolly,” at New York’s Shubert Theater, April 15, 2017. more than a dozen studio albums, and her run as Dolly Levi in the Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!” earned her a Tony Award for best lead actress in a musical in 2017.

In Gordy, the founder of Motown Records, the Kennedy Center is honoring the figure behind an entire generation of musical talent. Gordy, now 91, once borrowed $800 from his family to start the record company and then went on to discover and help ignite the careers of Diana Ross and the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye and more.

After announcing his retirement two years ago, Gordy said in an interview, he spends much of his time playing golf, tennis and chess.

“Here we are 60 years later and Diana Ross and the Temptations are both coming out with new albums,” he said. “Motown’s legacy continues without me having to do anything.”

This year is the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Center’s opening in 1971, more than a decade after President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation creating a National Cultural Center. Shortly after the grand opening of the center, Díaz, then a 31-year-old opera singer, performed there as the male lead in Ginastera’s “Beatrix Cenci.” He played a villainous count and recalled handling two huge Mastiffs onstage during his first entrance.

Now, at 81, Díaz, a bass-baritone who

has performed for opera companies across the globe, will return to the opera house to see artists pay tribute to his career.

“Little old me?” he said in an interview.

He noted that despite his fame in the opera world, he is not a household name.

“I say I’m an opera singer,” he said, “and immediately I have to follow with, ‘No, I’m not Plácido Domingo and I’m not Luciano Pavarotti.’”

Michaels, 76, who created “SNL” in 1975, was also forced by the pandemic to drastically rethink his show. In the spring of 2020, “SNL” filmed sketches at its actors’ homes, allowing the audience to connect with the cast members in a new way. Now that they have returned to a live audience, they are thinking of ways to apply what they learned in quarantine.

“Those shows had a strong homemade quality, which was part of their charm,” he said. “Once we went back to the audience, we kept pushing the limit of what we could do.”

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‘Night of the Kings,’ ‘Lucky’ and more streaming gems

Koné Bakary, center, in “Night of the Kings.”

By JASON BAILEY

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t’s not just summer blockbuster season at the reopened multiplexes; the streamers are going big as well, with megaproductions like “The Tomorrow War” and “Fear Street” dominating ad space and home pages. But if those aren’t your cup of tea, no worries. We’ve got a handful of American indies, foreign flicks and thoughtful documentaries to fill your summer nights.

‘Big Bad Wolves’ (2014) Stream it on Amazon.

The Netflix movie “Gunpowder Milkshake” isn’t solely of interest because of its all-star cast; it’s also the first feature film in seven years from director Navot Papushado, whose previous picture was this gruesomely effective thriller, co-written and co-directed with Aharon Keshales. When a child is kidnapped and murdered in horrifying fashion, the victim’s father and a renegade cop separately conspire to kidnap the lead suspect and torture him for information; all three men end up in an isolated cabin, where Papushado and Keshales ingeniously use, and twist, our preconceived notions of good, bad and evil. Wildly unpredictable and darkly funny, though not for the weak of stomach.

‘Life of Crime’ (2014) Stream it on Netflix.

With every passing year, it seems more certain that “Jackie Brown” is the finest film of Quentin Tarantino’s career — yet with all of that residual and mounting goodwill, audiences still haven’t discovered this breezy crime comedy, which amounts to a “Jackie” prequel. Adapted from Elmore Leonard’s 1978 novel, “The Switch,” “Life of Crime” introduces the characters of Ordell Robbie, Louis Gara and Melanie Ralston (here

played by Yasiin Bey, John Hawkes and Isla Fisher) as they get themselves mixed up in a plot to kidnap a rich socialite (Jennifer Aniston). Daniel Schechter directs with a deft, light touch, and his screenplay nicely captures the offhand humor and sprung storytelling rhythms of Leonard’s novels.

‘Night of the Kings’ (2020) Stream it on Hulu.

“This is your first time here?” Blackbeard asks the new inmate Roman, who nods; “here” is the notorious La Maca prison of the Ivory Coast, and the early scenes of Philippe Lacôte’s electrifying drama offer up plenty of disturbing details of life inside. But realism soon gives way to ritual, as Blackbeard — the Dangôro, or inmate king — anoints young Roman to tell stories to the prison’s population during that night’s red moon. Roman (played with an appropriate mixture of fear and intensity by Koné Bakary) is terrified by this makeshift state and its tough crowd, but he works through that fear, and as he gains his confidence, his voice becomes more forceful, and his stories come to vivid, often majestic life.

‘Sword of Trust’ (2019) Stream it on Netflix.

Director Lynn Shelton’s final feature film was this shambling, loose-limbed, slightly melancholy and thoroughly enjoyable ensemble comedy, which is about as charming as any film about a Confederate sword can be. That sword has just been left to Cynthia (Jillian Bell) by her grandfather, who insisted it was proof that the Confederacy won the war; Marc Maron co-stars as a pawnshop owner who discovers that, nonsensical backstory or not, the sword is worth quite a bit of money, and a rather nervous road trip to a potential seller ensues. As was

her custom, Shelton fills the film with telling and poignant character moments, and Maron does his finest acting to date.

‘Frances Ferguson’ (2019) Stream it on Amazon.

Austin, Texas-based filmmaker Bob Byington has, over the past decade, honed a specific and unmistakable style: His films are short, funny, self-aware, unapologetically peculiar and unfailingly wry. His latest is the story of a small-town schoolteacher (Kaley Wheless) who becomes embroiled in a sex scandal, less motivated by lust than boredom and marital unhappiness (the loathing with which she and her husband regard each other is one of the film’s best running jokes). Wheless, who also co-wrote the story, is a real find, her arid-dry line readings a good match for Byington’s sardonic wit.

And the narrator, Nick Offerman, just about steals the picture with searching voice-overs like, “Every story has a miscreant. A rapscallion. A … scallywag? I may need a thesaurus to go on.”

‘They Came Together’ (2014) Stream it on Hulu and Amazon.

It’s been 21 years since the runaway success of “Scary Movie” both brought back the spoof film — which had floundered since the glory days of Mel Brooks and the “Airplane” team Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker — and hastened its conclusion, as the film’s various sequels, spinoffs and alumni projects all but buried the form in witless, laughless exercises in pop culture shoutouts. The sole oasis in the desert of dumb is David Wain’s uproariously funny sendup of twinkly romantic comedies, featuring Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd in a “You’ve Got Mail” riff as competing candy merchants in New York City, which feels (all together now) “like another character” in their story.

‘Lucky’ (2017) Stream it on HBO Max. Few film actors have enjoyed a sendoff as affectionate as Harry Dean Stanton, the inimitable and prolific character actor (with more than 200 credits to his name) whose penultimate film role was also one of his few leads. He plays the title character, a 90-year-old firecracker and curmudgeon who knows his end is near, but isn’t going out quietly. Director John Carroll Lynch is a distinguished character actor himself — he played Frances McDormand’s husband in “Fargo” and the lead suspect in “Zodiac” — and he handles his leading man with affection and respect, surrounding him with

a handful of friends and previous collaborators, including David Lynch, Tom Skerritt and Ed Begley Jr. ‘Let the Sunshine In’ (2018) Stream it on Hulu.

Though director Claire Denis and actor Juliette Binoche are two of the most fascinating forces in French cinema, they had never worked together before this character-driven drama. It’s an ideal collaboration, however, spotlighting their unique gifts and take-noprisoners attitudes in their work. Binoche is in top form as a Parisian artist seeking happiness, but not via the usual cinematic solution of a male partner — though there are partners, many of them, and the various ways in which they fail her provide both rich comic situations and wise emotional resonance.

‘Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest’ (2011) Stream it on Amazon.

Actor Michael Rapaport — best known for his fast-talking turns in films like “True Romance” and “Bamboozled” — proved himself an accomplished documentarian with this loving yet candid tribute to the groundbreaking ’90s rap group A Tribe Called Quest. Much of the picture is an evocative history of the trends and sounds of their original era, which the filmmaker affectionately captures. But it gets into trickier waters in documenting their reunion for the “Rock the Bells” tours, capturing longsimmering resentments and ugly conflicts, becoming something of a “Let It Be” for hiphop heads.

‘Becoming Mike Nichols’ (2016) Stream it on HBO Max. According to Mark Harris’ recent (and excellent) biography “Mike Nichols: A Life,” the venerated stage and screen director would, in his later years, spend a fair amount of rehearsal time telling stories of the good old days. One gets a taste of that in this documentary, which features his final interviews (conducted in the summer of 2014) on the stage of the John Golden Theatre, where he and Elaine May performed their Broadway show. Focusing on his early years — it ends with his Oscar win for “The Graduate” — the film offers a brief yet informative snapshot of his directorial approach and philosophies. But it’s most valuable as a personality portrait; he’s sharp as a tack and endlessly funny, his comic timing and personal anecdotes honed and refined over years of storytelling.

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July 23-25, 2021

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A wine worth waiting for

By ERIC ASIMOV

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t’s only 2021, and we’ve already had possibly seven red Bordeaux vintages of the 21st century.

Depending on which critics you pay attention to, they are 2000, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016 and 2018.

That’s an awful lot of choices, particularly for a region that earlier in its history would typically have endured a decade or two between vintages that might widely be considered great.

I’m generally not all that interested in the great-vintage method of buying wine.

For one thing, the prevailing standard of greatness, for Bordeaux in particular, is powerful wines that can endure for decades, long enough to develop the complex secondary and tertiary aromas and flavors that transcend mere pleasure and achieve profundity.

I have nothing against drinking those wines, naturally. Once they have reached a certain level of aging, wines of this caliber have provided memorable thrills that have helped to shape the way I think about wine and its possibilities.

But buying and aging these sorts of wines for the decades necessary to reach that breathtaking threshold is difficult, both because they are generally beyond my means and, with the most recent vintages, will mature beyond my life span.

I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling this sort of apathy about the great vintages. The audience for these wines is diminishing, narrowing to those with the bankroll to af-

Mark Taylor sets up bottles of 1982 Bordeaux for tasting in Atlanta, March 4, 2012. The 2005 Bordeaux vintage will require decades to evolve and develop. ford them and the resources to age them. It makes me wonder whether we should either think about expanding our criteria for determining great vintages or dispense altogether with a single scale for measuring greatness.

Wines with the ability to evolve slowly for decades are rare and precious, no doubt.

But shouldn’t we cherish wines that are more immediately charming and that still can give immense pleasure after 25 years, but maybe not after 50?

Too often, these sorts of wines are dismissed with faint praise. The trade calls

them “restaurant wines” because they are accessible enough to be enjoyed young in the vast majority of restaurants that don’t have the resources or inclination to age wines properly.

But so long as these wines are not insipid, shouldn’t we value them more highly?

Because wines from these sorts of vintages are typically more widely consumed, and for many people they are more important than the so-called great vintages.

I’ve been thinking about these questions since attending a 16-year weekend retrospective of the 2005 Bordeaux vintage in

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Atlanta in late June. It was intended to be a 15-year retrospective, scheduled for March 2020, but we had to wait 15 more months before regularly scheduled programming could be resumed.

The 36 selections from 2005 were almost entirely provided by Mark Taylor, a longtime collector of both Bordeaux and modern art. The wines ranged across the leading Bordeaux appellations and included many of the most famous names, a few littleknown producers and many in between.

Among the tasters were sommeliers, enthusiasts, writers and two authorities, Charles Curtis and Mary Margaret McCamic, who had gone through the rigorous process of earning Master of Wine accreditations.

The weekend confirmed my opinion that, by the conventional standards, the 2005 Bordeaux vintage was indisputably great. The wines continue after 16 years to be formidably structured, though beginning to turn the corner toward drinkability. The best of these wines have decades of evolution before them.

Yet after 16 years, our top wines were remarkably fresh and alive, with impeccable balance. This is a departure from some of the other years carrying that vintage-ofthe-century mantle.

I have never cared much for the 2000 vintage, for example. The wines always seemed big and amorphous, landing with a thud rather than offering the linear journey of aromas and flavors that I believe will be found in the 2005s.

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July 23-25, 2021

From page 21 The powerful, rounded wines of the 2009 vintage are not to my taste, not as much as the fresher, more classically lined 2010s, although alcohol levels are pretty high in both, as they are in 2015 and 2016.

For my money, which as I’ve said doesn’t go far with these rarefied wines, 2005 is by far the best and most interesting.

The wines came in flights of six bottles, three flights Saturday and another three Sunday. They were served blind, although we knew the six wines making up each flight. After tasting, the group ranked the bottles.

Ranking is never an easy proposition.

Good wines change in the glass as they are exposed to air. Over the course of the 20 to 30 minutes allotted to each flight, my opinion often wobbled. But as in a game of musical chairs, when the tune stops you must pick a place to land decisively.

The biggest surprise on the first day came in a flight that included the Bordeaux heavyweights Lafite Rothschild, Margaux, Cos d’Estournel and Angelus. In this company, my favorite was Pontet-Canet, a Pauillac estate that has been a leader in Bordeaux’s late-blooming interest in organic and biodynamic viticulture.

Led by the proprietor, Alfred Tesseron, and the longtime technical director, JeanMichel Comme, the estate began converting to biodynamics in 2004, though was not entirely there in 2005. The wine had a sheer, lovely elegance, purity and finesse, with silky tannins. As with many of these wines, I would love to taste it in another 10 years.

Interestingly, the group consensus preferred the Margaux, followed by the Angelus, and ranked the Pontet-Canet fourth. The Margaux was fifth in my personal ranking.

The first flight on Saturday included

bottles from estates not quite so legendary.

My favorite was Château Lagrange, a St.Julien, which I found savory, pure and balanced. The group preferred a St.-Émilion, Château Grand-Pontet, which I found to be fruity, rich and opulent in the modern style.

The 2005 vintage came at the height of the wine culture wars, a time of sometimes-sharp disagreements over styles and direction, with one side championing wines of power, impact and lavish fruitiness, and the other defending more classical wines of restraint and subtlety.

I’ve always been on the classical side, and I found in our tasting that the divide still exists, although on far-friendlier terms.

It occurred again in the second flight Saturday in which the group liked best Château Gazin, a historic Pomerol estate, which I found dense, dark and highly concentrated.

I preferred a Margaux, Château Malescot St.-Exupéry, which was medium-bodied and savory, with tannins that will need years to soften.

This divide continued Sunday, although the group’s taste and mine aligned on our favorite in the first flight, a Margaux, Château Prieuré-Lichine, which was elegant, and balanced with gentle flavors of cedar and tobacco.

My favorite in the second flight Sunday was a lovely, firm, cedary Château Brane-Cantenac, a Margaux, while the group chose Château Kirwan, yet another Margaux, which I found dense, rich and sweet.

The tasting closed with another exalted flight that included Mouton Rothschild, Latour and Haut-Brion. Our consensus favorite in this superb group was the Mouton;

In Bordeaux, winemakers like Pontet-Canet make powerful wines that can endure for decades, long enough to develop complex secondary and tertiary aromas and flavors.

it was inky, ripe and complex, yet graceful and harmonious, with the potential to develop for decades, as with many of these wines.

A tasting of this type is singular. While we all had our favorites, chances are that a similar tasting on another weekend would yield different results. The individual bottle evaluations are less important than the overall impression of the wines.

On that, the results were clear: Regardless of what style you prefer, 2005 was an exceptional vintage, with wines that will reward long-term aging. The best will develop the sort of complexity that Bordeaux lovers crave.

Was it a great vintage? It depends on your definition.

The wines that will realize their potential for achieving greatness will only be available to the wealthy and those with the opportunity to drink the wines 15 or 20 years from now. That is fine. It used to be said in English manors that you drank wines purchased by your father and bought wines to be consumed by your children.

But wine-drinking is far more democratized and fluid now, with few people having the wherewithal to age wines for years.

Bordeaux producers are already conscious of this and for years have tried to make wines that are more accessible in their youth without compromising long-term prospects. Regardless, the 2005s demand patience.

The 2005 vintage is historic, perhaps a vintage of the century as has been said. But maybe “great” isn’t the right word. Maybe it needs a more in-depth description of the sort of wines it produced without the value judgment, just as more accessible vintages such as 2001, 2004, 2006 and 2008 should not be denigrated for not having 2005’s historic potential.

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July 23-25, 2021

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Cats are better than dogs (at catching the coronavirus)

By SABRINA IMBLER

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n the spring of 2020, as the novel coronavirus infiltrated the Twin Cities, Hinh Ly could not stop thinking about cats and dogs.

Ly, a veterinary and biomedical researcher at the University of Minnesota, knew that humans were the primary driver of the pandemic.

But he also knew that many people loved to kiss and cuddle their pets, in sickness and in health.

He wondered: How transmissible was SARSCoV-2 to humankind’s best friends?

In March 2020, Ly learned that two dogs in Hong Kong had received positive polymerase chain reaction tests for the virus. But these tests require the virus to be actively replicating and thus only reveal active infections. Swabbing the snouts of many pets struck Ly as an overly timeconsuming way to figure out how easily the animals could be infected.

So he pitched an idea to his wife, Yuying Liang, a researcher in the same department who leads the lab with him, to test cats and dogs for antibodies, which would reveal past infection to the virus. “I had the idea, but she is the boss,” Ly said.

The result of those antibody tests, published recently in the journal Virulence, suggest that household cats are more susceptible than dogs to a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Fortunately, infected cats appear to show mild symptoms at most. “I am still a bit surprised that cats are so readily infected and yet rarely exhibit any signs of illness,” said Dr. Angela Bosco-Lauth, a biomedical researcher at Colorado State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences who was not involved with the research.

And there is still no evidence to suggest infected cats or dogs are a risk to people, said Dr. Jonathan Runstadler, a virus expert at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University who has studied how the coronavirus affects animals but was not involved in the new work.

The new study supports recent research that it may be “fairly common” in households where people test positive for SARS-CoV-2 for cats and dogs to become infected, too, Runstadler said.

To test for pet antibodies, the Minnesota researchers needed the animals’ serum, the component of blood that contains antibodies.

Ly reached out to Dr. Daniel Heinrich, director

People who test positive for the coronavirus should distance themselves from pet cats and dogs as well as from other humans. “You cannot cuddle them,” one scientist said. of the clinical pathology lab at the university’s veterinary center. (Henrich is also an author on the new study.) Pets passed through the center daily and had their blood tested for myriad reasons, including “annual checkups, unrelated disease, peeing inappropriately on the wall,” Ly said.

Those samples are usually discarded. But Heinrich asked pet owners to allow the serum to be used anonymously in the study, and the researchers got their first handful of samples in April.

The researchers initially screened roughly 100 samples, and found that about 5% of the cat serum contained coronavirus antibodies, whereas almost none of the dog serum did.

To be safe, Ly tested hundreds more samples, drawing from blood collected in April, May and June, as COVID cases were rising in the region.

In the end, the scientists found that 8% of cats carried antibodies to the coronavirus, whereas less than 1% of dogs did, suggesting that cats were more susceptible to infection.

Because the pet owners granted consent anonymously, the researchers were unable to

trace which humans might have transmitted the virus to the various cats and dogs. It was also unclear whether the infected pet cats lived indoors or outdoors, or how transmissible the virus was from cat to cat, Ly said.

The researchers do not know why cats seem to be more susceptible than dogs. One possibility relates to ACE2, a protein on the surface of cells that is a receptor for the coronavirus. The genetic sequence of the human ACE2 protein is much more similar to the equivalent sequence in cats than in dogs.

But animal behavior could be a factor as well. A recent study that presented similar findings — that cats become infected by the coronavirus more readily than dogs — noted that cats are often more welcome to sleep on beds than dogs are. “Maybe it is because we cuddle the cats more,” Ly speculated. “Maybe we kiss the cats more.”

Bosco-Lauth said she believes that pets are “unlikely to contribute to the epidemiology of SARS-COV-2 in the long run.” But there’s still no way to know for sure.

For those people who test positive for

COVID-19, Ly recommended distancing from not only humans, but cats and dogs. “You cannot cuddle them,” he said.

Ly and Liang do not have cats or dogs in their own home. They do have a tank of guppies, which appear, for the moment, to be quite safe from the coronavirus.

24 LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

Finance of America Reverse, LLC. Plaintiff v.

The Estates of Juan Rafael Figueroa Mendez a/k/a Juan R. Figueroa Mendez and Carmen Delia Cosme Negron a/k/a Carmen Delia Cosme composed of John Doe and Jane Doe; Departamento de Hacienda; Centro de Recaudaciones de Ingresos Municipales; United States of America

Defendants CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:16-cv1438. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: The Estates of Juan Rafael Figueroa Mendez a/k/a Juan R. Figueroa Mendez and Carmen Delia Cosme Negron a/k/a Carmen Delia Cosme composed of John Doe and Jane Doe; Departamento de Hacienda; Centro de Recuadaciones de Ingresos Municipales; United States of America, GENERAL PUBLIC

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $109,538.50, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full.

The defendant, the Estates of Juan Rafael Figueroa Mendez a/k/a Juan R. Figueroa Mendez and Carmen Delia Cosme Negron a/k/a Carmen Delia Cosme composed of John Doe and Jane Doe was also ordered to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($19,800.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation.

The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment,

@

Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property URBANA: Solar marcado con el número siete (7) en el Plano de Inscripción de la finca principal, radicada en el Barrio Cañaboncito del término Municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de ochocientos veintiocho punto cero cero (828.00) metros cuadrados.

En lides por el NORTE, en cincuenta punto cero cero (50.00) metros, con el Solar número ocho (8) del Plano de Inscripción; por el SUR, en veintidós punto cero cero (22.00) metros, con el Solar número seis (6) y en treinta y uno punto cincuenta y cinco (31.55) metros, con el Solar número cinco (5) del Plano de Inscripción; por el ESTE, en dieciséis punto cero cero (16.00) metros, con camino dedicado a uso público; y por el OESTE, en dieciséis punto cero cero (16.00) metros, con terrenos Carretera Estatal Desvio Caguas a Cayey. Enclava una casa.” Property Number 20,065 filed at page 154 of volume 614 of Caguas, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Caguas. The mortgage is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Caguas at page 172, volume 1,768 of Caguas. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $198,000.00, due on July 4, 2087 pursuant to deed number 78, issued in Caguas, Puerto Rico, on March 25, 2013, before notary Fernando Rabell Echegaray, and recorded, at page 172 of volume 1,768 of Caguas, property number 20,065, 14th inscription. Other Liens: None.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior 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 them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on the _6th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $198,000.00. 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 the 13th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $132,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the 20th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $99,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied.

WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico.

In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 14th of June of 2021. Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master. specialmasterpr@gmail.com 787-672-8269.

Romanacce de Rodriguez composed of Maribel Rodriguez Romanacce, José Gabriel Rodriguez Romanacce, Graciela Margarita Rodriguez Romanacce and Carlos Sergio Rodriguez Romanacce, Jane Doe and John Doe; Centro de Recaudaciones de Ingresos Municipales; United States of America

Defendants CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:16-cv3004-ADC. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: The Estate of Altagracia Romanacce Porratadoria a/k/a Altagracia Romanacce de Rodriguez composed of Maribel Rodriguez Romanacce, José Gabriel Rodriguez Romanacce, Graciela Margarita Rodriguez Romanacce and Carlos Sergio Rodriguez Romanacce, Jane Doe and John Doe; Centro de Recaudaciones de Ingresos Municipales; United States of America GENERAL PUBLIC

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $91,149.92, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendants, the Estate of Altagracia Romanacce Porratadoria a/k/a Altagracia Romanacce de Rodriguez composed of Maribel Rodriguez Romanacce, José Gabriel Rodriguez Romanacce, Graciela Margarita Rodriguez Romanacce and Carlos Sergio Rodriguez Romanacce, Jane Doe and John Doe to pay Live Well Financial, Inc., all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% (18,750.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested LEGAL NOTICE parties at the Office of the Clerk UNITED STATES DISTRICT of the United States District COURT DISTRICT OF PUERCourt, Room 400 or 150 FedeTO RICO. ral Office Building, 150 Chardon Live Well Financial, Inc. Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

Plaintiff v.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the The Estate of Altagracia terms of the aforementioned Romanacce Porratadoria Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thea/k/a Altagracia

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Friday, July 23, 2021 reof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 400 or 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property.

“URBANA: Parcela de terreno localizada en la Urbanización San Demetrio del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico e identificada en el Plano de Inscripción final de la Urbanización San Demetrio, con el número cuarenta (40) del Bloque “X” con un área superficial de trescientos cincuenta punto cero cero metros cuadrados (350.00 m/c). Colinda por el NORTE, en veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00m), con el solar número cuarenta y uno (41); por el SUR, en veinticinco punto cero cero metros (25.00m), con el solar número treinta y nueve (39); por el ESTE, en catorce punto cero cero (14.00), con la Calle “C”; y por el OESTE, en catorce punto cero cero metros (14.00m), con el solar número catorce (14). Enclava una casa de concreto reforzado y bloques de concreto para fines residenciales.” Property Number 6,007 recorded at page 136 of volume 125 of Vega Baja, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section IV of Bayamón. The mortgage is recorded at Karibe Volumen, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section IV of Bayamón, inscription 9th. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $187,500.00, due on January 31, 2087 pursuant to deed number 160, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on April 23, 2014, before notary María I. García Mantilla, and recorded, at Karibe volume, property number 6007, 10th inscription. Other Liens: None.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior 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

them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on the _6th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $187,500.00. 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 the 13th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $125,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the 20th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am. and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $93,750.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 24th day of May of 2021. Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master. specialmasterpr@gmail.com 787-672-8269.

María Luisa Colón a/k/a María L. Colón a/k/a María Colón a/k/a Luisa Colón Rivera a/k/a Luisa Colón composed of Roberto Ramos; John Doe and Jane Doe; Departamento de Hacienda; Centro de Recuadaciones de Ingresos Municipales; United States of America

Defendants CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:16-cv01985. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: The Estate of María Luisa Colón Rivera a/k/a María L. Colón Rivera a/k/a María Colón Rivera a/k/a María Luisa Colón a/k/a María L. Colón a/k/a María Colón a/k/a Luisa Colón Rivera a/k/a Luisa Colón composed of Roberto Ramos; John Doe and Jane Doe; Departamento de Hacienda; Centro de Recuadaciones de Ingresos Municipales; United States of America, GENERAL PUBLIC

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $254,753.73, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant, the Estate of María Luisa Colón Rivera a/k/a María L. Colón Rivera a/k/a María Colón Rivera a/k/a María Luisa Colón a/k/a María L. Colón a/k/a María Colón a/k/a Luisa Colón Rivera a/k/a Luisa Colón composed of Roberto Ramos; John Doe and Jane Doe was also ordered to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC., all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($19,950.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested LEGAL NOTICE parties at the Office of the Clerk UNITED STATES DISTRICT of the United States District COURT DISTRICT OF PUER- Court, Room 150 Federal Office TO RICO. Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEFinance of America REAS: Pursuant to the terms of Reverse, LLC. the aforementioned Judgment, Plaintiff v.

The Estate of María Luisa Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the Colón Rivera a/k/a María undersigned Special Master L. Colón Rivera a/k/a was ordered to sell at public María Colón Rivera a/k/a auction for U.S. currency in

cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villa Del Carmen, situada en el Barrio Sud del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización, con el número tres (3) del bloque “D”, cabida de trescientos ochenta punto ochenta y cinco (380.85 m.c.) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en veintisiete punto cuatrocientos sesenta y nueve (27.469 m.) metros, con el solar número dos (2); por el SUR, con la calle número cinco (5), en veinte punto noventa (20.90 m.) metros, y en cinco punto cero siete (5.07 m.) metros; por el ESTE, con el Solar número cuatro (4), en catorce punto cincuenta y cuatro (14.54 m.) metros; y por el OESTE, con la calle número uno (1), en once punto sesenta y dos (11.62 m.) metros. Enclava una casa.” Property Number 7,772 filed at page 161 of volume 194 of Cidra, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Caguas. The mortgage is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Caguas at page 141, volume 384 of Cidra. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $199,500.00, due on December 6, 2073 pursuant to deed number 25, issued in Cayey, Puerto Rico, on March 15, 2013, before notary Roberto Soto Tapia, and recorded, at page 141 of volume 384 of Cidra, property number 7,772, 10th inscription. Other Liens: None.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior 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 them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST

The San Juan Daily Star public sale shall be held on the _6th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $199,500.00. 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 the 13th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $133,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the 20th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $99,750.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 14th day of June of 2021. Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master. specialmasterpr@gmail.com 787-672-8269.

LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

Finance of America Reverse, LLC Plaintiff v.

The Estate of Evelyn Casillas Tolentino a/k/a Evelyn Casillas composed of John Doe and Jane Doe; Centro de Recaudaciones de Ingresos Municipales; United States of America

Defendants CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:16-cv1091. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE

OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF (previously 1,828) recorded at page 126 of volume 1 of CaSALE. TO: The Estate of Evelyn novanas, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section Casillas Tolentino III of Carolina. The mortgage a/k/a Evelyn Casillas is recorded at Karibe Volumen, composed of John Doe Property Number 26 (previously and Jane Doe; Centro 1,828) of Canovanas, Registry de Recaudaciones de of the Property of Puerto Rico, Ingresos Municipales; Section III of Carolina, inscripUnited States of America tion 8th. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following GENERAL PUBLIC liens: Senior Liens: Mortgage WHEREAS: Judgment was Deed in favor of Scotiabank of entered in favor of plaintiff to Puerto Rico, or its order, for the recover from defendants the principal amount of $67,000.00, principal sum of $100,665.34, with interest at 5.5% annual, plus the annual interest rate due in April 1, 2041, constituted convened of 5.060% per anwith deed 78, signed in Canum until the debt is paid in full. rolina, Puerto Rico, on March The defendants, the Estate of 4, 2011, before notary Rafael Evelyn Casillas Tolentino a/k/a Maldonado Nicolai, and recorEvelyn Casillas composed of ded on page 148 of book 408 John Doe and Jane Doe are of Canóvanas, property number ORDERED to pay Finance of 26, seventh inscription. Junior America Reverse, LLC., all adLiens: Reverse mortgage vances made under the mortgasecuring a note in favor of The ge note including but not limited Secretary of Housing and Urto insurance premiums, taxes ban Development, or its order, and inspections as well as 10% in the original principal amount (19,050.00) of the original prinof $190,500.00, with interest at cipal amount to cover costs, 5.06% annual, due in October expenses, and attorney’s fees 2, 2096, constituted with deed guaranteed under the mortgage 120, signed in San Juan, Puerobligation. The records of the to Rico, on July 19, 2012, befocase and of these proceedings re notary David García Medina, may be examined by interesand recorded on Karibe book of ted parties at the Office of the Canóvanas, property number Clerk of the United States Dis26, 9th inscription. Other Liens: trict Court, Room 150, Federal Notice of Complaint dated JaOffice Building, 150 Chardon nuary 19, 2016, issued by the Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

United States District Court for WHEREAS: Pursuant to the the District of Puerto Rico, on terms of the aforementioned the civil case 3:16-CV-01091Judgment, Order of Execution, FAB, Finance of America Reand the Writ of Execution theverse, LLC, against Evelyn Careof, the undersigned Special sillas Tolentino, John Doe, Jane Master was ordered to sell at Doe, Departamento de Hacienpublic auction for U.S. currenda, Centro de Recaudación de cy in cash or certified check Impuestos Municipales (CRIM) without appraisement or right and United Sates of America, of redemption to the highest for the sum of $78,993.91, plus bidder and at the office of the other amounts, recorded on Clerk of the United States March 15, 2017, to the Karibe District Court for the District book of Canóvanas, property of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – number 26, Anotation “A”. PoFederal Office Building, 150 tential bidders are advised to Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato verify the extent of preferential Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the liens with the holders thereof. It sums adjudged to be paid to the shall be understood that each plaintiff, the following property. bidder accepts as sufficient URBANA: Solar marcado con the title and that prior and preel número veintiocho (28) en el ferential liens to the one being Plano de Solares de la Urbaniforeclosed upon, including but zación Nuestra Señora del Pinot limited to any property tax, lar, radicado en el Barrio Canóliens, (express, tacit, implied or vanas, del término municipal de legal) shall continue in effect it Loíza, Puerto Rico, con una cabeing understood further that bida superficial de 305.50 methe successful bidder accepts tros cuadrados, y colinda por them and is subrogated in the el NORTE, en veintitrés punto responsibility for the same and cincuenta metros (23.50 m), that the bid price shall not be con el solar número veintinueapplied toward their cancellave (29) del mencionado Plano; tion. THEREFORE, the FIRST por el SUR, en veintitrés punto public sale shall be held on the cincuenta metros (23.50 m), 6th day of August of 2021, at: con el solar número veintisietes 11:00 am. The minimum bid (27) del mencionado Plano; por that will be accepted is the sum el ESTE, en trece metros (13 of $190,500.00. In the event m), con terrenos propiedad de said first auction does not prolos Hermanos López Ramírez; duce a bidder and the property y por el OESTE, en trece meis not adjudicated, a SECOND tros (13 m), con la Calle “A” public auction shall be held on del mencionado Plano. Enclathe 13th day of August of 2021, va casa.” Property Number 26 at: 11:00 am., and the minimum

Friday, July 23, 2021 bid that will be accepted is the sum $127,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the 20th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am. and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $95,250.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this June 7, 2021. Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master. specialmasterpr@gmail.com 787-672-8269.

LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

Finance of America Reverse Structured Securities Acquisition Trust 2017-HB1, Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not individually, but solely as trustee.

Plaintiff v.

Carmen Iris Alicea Suarez a/k/a Carmen I Alicea a/k/a Carmen I Alicea Saurez a/k/a Carmen Alicea Suarez; United States of America

Defendants CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:16-cv2773-PAD. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: Carmen Iris Alicea Suarez a/k/a Carmen I Alicea a/k/a Carmen I. Alicea Suarez a/k/a Carmen Alicea Suarez;

United States of America GENERAL PUBLIC:

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $140,077.35, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full.

The defendants, Carmen Iris Alicea Suarez a/k/a Carmen I Alicea a/k/a Carmen I. Alicea Suarez a/k/a Carmen Alicea Suarez; United States of America also owes and is ORDERED to pay Finance of America Reverse Structured Securities Acquisition Trust 2017-HB1, Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not individually, but solely as trustee, all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% (20,250.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 400 or 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el numero veintitrés radicada en el Plano de Parcelación de la Comunidad Rural El Cañon del Barrio Guerrero del término municipal de Isabela, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 365.13 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el Norte, con la Parcela número 24 de la comunidad; por el SUR, con Camino Vecinal; por el ESTE, con la Parcela número 28 de la Comunidad y al OESTE, con la Calle de la Comunidad. Contiene una casa para fines residenciales.”

The property is identified with the number 14,567 and is recorded at page number 145 of volume number 281 of Isabela, in the Registry of Property, First Section of Aguadilla. The mortgage is recorded at page 128 volume 496 of Isabela, Property number 14,567, 8 inscription, Registry of Property, First Section of Aguadilla. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the

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following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $202,500.00, due on April 3, 2079 pursuant to deed number 82, issued in Isabela, Puerto Rico, on May 31, 2012, before notary Samuel Soto Alonso, and recorded, at page 128 of volume 496 of Isabela, property number 14,567, 9h inscription. Other Liens: None.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior 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 them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on the _6th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $202,500.00. 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 the 13th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $135,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the 20th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am. and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $101,250.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars,

reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this June 3, 2021. Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master. specialmasterpr@gmail.com 787-672-8269.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.

RIGEL PÉREZ PÉREZ t/c/c RIGEL MARIANO PÉREZ PÉREZ t/c/c RIGUEL MARIANO PÉREZ PÉREZ, LEIDI MONEGRO ALCALÁ y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por ambos

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. CA2019CV01117.

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 en Rebeldía dictada el 17 de octubre de 2019, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia Enmendada del 15 de abril de 2021 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución Enmendado del 16 de abril de 2021 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 2 de septiembre de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, Carretera Número Tres (3) Kilómetro 11.7, Avenida 65 de Infantería, Intersección Carr.

Núm. 853, Entrada Urb. Lomas de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar Número Catorce (14) del bloque “C” del Proyecto VBC-57 denominado Lomas de Trujillo Alto, situado en el Barrio Las Cuevas de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, con un área de 126.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 21.00 metros, con el Solar Número Quince (15); por el SUR, en una distancia de 21.00 metros, con el Solar Número Trece (13); por el ESTE, en una distancia de 6.00 metros, con los Solares Número Treinta (30) y Treinta

y Uno (31); y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 6.00 metros, con la Calle Número Dos (2). Enclava una vivienda. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 261 del tomo 183 de Trujillo Alto, Finca Número 9250, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 165 vuelto del tomo 732 de Trujillo Alto, Finca Número 9250, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. Inscripción décima. La escritura de modificación consta inscrita al folio 166 del tomo 732 de Trujillo Alto, Finca Número 9250, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. Inscripción undécima. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: LOMAS DE TRUJILLO ALTO, C14 CALLE 2, TRUJILLO ALTO, PUERTO RICO 00976-4905.

Primera Subasta: 2 de septiembre de 2021 a las 9:30 am, Tipo Mínimo: $116,752.66. Segunda Subasta: 10 de septiembre de 2021 a las 9:30 am, Tipo Mínimo: $77,835.10. Tercera Subasta: 17 de septiembre de 2021 a las 9:30 am, Tipo Mínimo: $58,376.33. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $116,752.66. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una segunda subasta, el día 10 de septiembre de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $77,835.10. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 17 de septiembre de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $58,376.33. 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 $103,866.33 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.25% anual desde el 1 de febrero de 2018 hasta su completo pago, más $121.36 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $11,571.00 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: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

26 DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Salinas, hago saber a la parte demandada XAVIER MARTÍNEZ RODRÍGUEZ, y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 14 de junio de 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $78,400.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación, 37N GARDENIA ST, PARQUE GABRIELA DEV, SALINAS PR 00751: URBANA: Predio de terreno denominado como solar 37 del bloque N de la Urbanización Parque Gabriela, radicada en el barrio Aguirre del término municipal de Salinas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 307.284 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.078 cuerdas. En lindes por el Norte, en 13.10 metros lineales con la calle 1 (Gardenia Street) de la urbanización; por el Sur, en 13.10 metros lineales, con la Sucesión Godreau; por el Este, en 23.41 metros lineales, con el solar 36 del bloque N de la urbanización y por el Oeste, en 23.51 metros lineales, con el solar 38 del bloque N de la urbanización. Enclava en dicha propiedad una casa propia para vivienda, de una planta construida totalmente de hormigón.

Finca 12141 inscrita al folio 156 del tomo 282 de Salinas, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA constituida por Xavier Martinez Rodriguez, soltero en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de Oriental Bank, o a su orden, par $78,400.00 al 5.50%, vencedero el 1 de marzo del 2040, según Escritura #51-A en Caguas a 23 de febrero del 2010 ante Mireya Segura Márquez, inscrita al folio 183 del tomo 282 de Salinas finca #12141 inscripción 5ta, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita LEGAL NOTICE en el inciso (i). Será celebrada ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO la subasta para con el importe DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL de la misma satisfacer la senGENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI- tencia dicta el 26 de marzo BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN- de 2020, mediante la cual se CIA SALA DE SALINAS. condenó a la parte demandada ESTRELLA HOMES, LLC pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $67,135.87 de Demandante v. principal, $347.10 de interés XAVIER que continuarán acumulándoMARTÍNEZ RODRÍGUEZ se desde el día 1 de octubre Demandada de 2018 hasta el saldo total al CIVIL NÚM.: SA2019CV00361.

5.5% anual, $257.10 de escrow SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIbalance, $347.10 otros cargos, POTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS $438.99 de cargos por atraso, vs. Rigel Pérez Pérez t/c/c Rigel Mariano Pérez Pérez t/c/c Riguel Mariano Pérez Pérez, Leidi Monegro Alcalá y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por ambos, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, en el Caso Civil Número CA2019CV01117, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $103,866.33 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 3 de abril de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Trujillo Alto. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley.

Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 1 de junio de 2021.

SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

The San Juan Daily Star

Friday, July 23, 2021

$7,840.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 25 de agosto de 2021 a las 10:00 de la mañana, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Salinas, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $78,400.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 1 de septiembre de 2021 a las 10:00 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $52,266.67. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 8 de septiembre de 2021 a las 10:00 de la mañana en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $39,200.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere 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 cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de 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 ejecuta-

do, 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 subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante.

Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Salinas, Puerto Rico, hoy 24 de junio de 2021.

Richard Torres Placa #067, Alguacil Auxiliar.

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FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs

MISAEL RIVERA VIVES TCC MISSAEL RIVERA VIVES Y SU ESPOSA ANA IVETTE RIOS MORALES, ambos por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos

Parte Demandada CIVIL NUM. PO2018CV01340.

SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Ponce, Piso 1, Oficina de Subasta; 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 efec-

tivo, 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 $50,343.61, de balance principal, los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal y computados al 3.50% anual hasta su total pago y completo pago; más el 4% computado sobre cada mensualidad de principal e interes por la suma de $354.07, por concepto de cargos por demora devengados hasta el dia primero de junio de 2017 a razón de $14.16, más la suma de $6,105.00 como cantidad estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: Dirección Física: La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 18 de agosto de 2021, a las 2:15 de la tarde, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $61,050.00 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 25 de agosto de 2021, a las 2:15 de la tarde y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $40,700.00.

Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 1 de septiembre de 2021, a las 2:15 de la tarde y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $30,525.00. 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 Ponce, Puerto Rico a 07 de julio de 2021. MIGUEL A. TORRES AYALA, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE PONCE.

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ORIENTAL BANK

Parte Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE WILFREDO MORALES ROSADO COMPUESTA POR MARIELA MORALES Y FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2018CV06629.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, hago saber a la parte demandada, SUCESIÓN DE WILFREDO MORALES ROSADO compuesta por MARIELA MORALES y FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL como miembros desconocidos y PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 13 de mayo de 2021, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal la siguiente propiedad: [Condominio Villa Magna, 103 Apt, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00921.

Dirección Postal: 1783 Carr.

21, Apt. 103, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00921-3321] y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Apartamento 103. Apartamento individualizado de hormigón armado, bloques de hormigón y paredes “Dry Wall” de uso residencial localizado en el lado SUR del primer piso del edificio conocido como Condominio Villa Magna, localizado en la carretera #21 en Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. Este apartamento tiene una cabida superficial de 622.97 pies cuadrados, aproximadamente y consta de salacomedor, balcón, un dormitorio, un baño, pasillo interior, una cocina y closet. La puerta principal está localizada en la sala, comedor, la cual lo comunica con el pasillo de uso común que conduce a los ascensores, escaleras y la calle. Colinda por el NORTE, con corredor interior del edificio; por el SUR, colinda con elementos, exteriores del edificio; Por el ESTE, colinda con el Apartamento #104 y por el OESTE, colinda con el Apartamento #102. Le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes generales equivalentes a .625% y un espacio de estacionamiento para su uso exclusivo marcado con el #172. Finca 23936 inscrita al folio 267 del tomo 781 de Monacillos, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen: (i) HIPOTECA constituida por Wilfredo Morales Rosario, soltero, en garantía de un pagaré, aff. #117, a favor de Oriental Bank, o a su orden, por $87,250.00, al 6% vencedero el 1 de mayo de 2043, según Esc. #53, en San Juan, el 29 de abril de 2013, ante Frank M. Norris Agosto, inscrita al folio 158 del tomo 974 de Monacillos, finca #23936 inscripción 9na. La hi-

poteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 28 de junio de 2019, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad de $81,993.72 de principal, interés por $2,871.48 que continuarán acumulándose al 6.00% anual desde el día 1 de enero de 2018 hasta el saldo total, $469.51 de balance cuenta escrow, $94.14 de cargos por atraso, $1,269.81 otros cargos, $8,725.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 11 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $87,250.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 18 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $58,166.66 Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 25 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $43,625.00.

El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere 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 cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por

The San Juan Daily Star la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de 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, 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 subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura.

El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de julio de 2021. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.

ANTONIA LÓPEZ BERNARDO

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. BY2019CV02105.

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 ENMENDADO. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 11 de marzo de 2020, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 2 de marzo de 2021 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 3 de marzo de 2021 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 25 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, a las 10:45 de la mañana en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, en la Sala 503 del Quinto Piso, ubicado en la Carretera Número Dos (#2), Kilómetro 11.03, 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: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Royal Town, situada en el Barrio Cerro Gordo de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Solar Cinco (5) de la manzana X, con un área de 175.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle Número 17, en distancia de 7.00 metros; por el SUR, con la Avenida Principal, distancia de 7.00 metros; por el ESTE, con el Solar Número Seis (6), en distancia de 25.00 metros; y por el OESTE, con el Solar Número Cuatro (4), en distancia de 25.00 metros. Contiene una casa de cemento para una familia. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 141 del tomo 781 de Bayamón, Finca Número 35553, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Bayamón, Finca Número 35553, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. Inscripción décimo octava. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: URB. ROYAL TOWN, X5 CALLE 17, BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO 00956-4534. Primera Subasta: 25 de agosto de 2021 a las 10:45 am, Tipo Mínimo: $120,150.00. Segunda Subasta: 1 de septiembre de 2021 a las 10:45 am, Tipo Mínimo: $80,100.00. Tercera Subasta: 9 de septiembre de 2021 a las 10:45 am, Tipo Mínimo: $60,075.00. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $120,150.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una segunda subasta, el día 1 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, a las 10:45 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, $80,100.00. De

Friday, July 23, 2021 no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 9 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, a las 10:45 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $60,075.00. 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 $101,922.31 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.25% anual desde el 1 de junio de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $2,918.85 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $12,015.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Antonia López Bernardo (soltera), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el Caso Civil Número BY2019CV02105, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $101,922.31 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 21 de abril de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Bayamón. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley.

Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mis-

mos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de julio de 2021.

Maribel Lanzar Velázquez, Alguacil Placa 735, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

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WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2018-HB1 Demandante Vs.

SUCESION ANA JOSEFINA CARPENA ROSADO T/C/C ANA J. CARPENA ROSADO T/C/C ANA CARPENA ROSADO T/C/C ANA JOSEFINA CARPENA T/C/C ANA J. CARPENA T/C/C ANA CARPENA T/C/C ANA JOSEPHINA CARPENA ROSADO COMPUESTA POR CARLOS ROSADO CARPENA, ANA ROSADO CARPENA Y SUS POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: AI2018CV00121.

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

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

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por

el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Aibonito, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de AIBONITO, el 12 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar # 21, radicado en el Municipio de Aibonito, El Coquí, con una cabida de 340.95 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, derecha entrando, en 25.09 metros, con el solar # 20; por el SUR, izquierda entrando, con el solar # 22 de la misma Urbanización, en 24.95 metros; su frente que es el ESTE, en 13.52 metros, con la calle Baldorioty; y por el OESTE, que es su fondo, en 11.64 metros, colindante con la zona de parque y en 2.08 metros, con la Sucesión de don Ulpiano Colón. Enclava una casa. Finca número 3,360, inscrita al folio 190 del tomo 67 de Aibonito, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 91 del tomo 277 de Aibonito, finca 3,360, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas, inscripción 5ª. Propiedad localizada en: CARR. 122 CALLE BALDORIOTY, AIBONITO PR 00705. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $150,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 16 de marzo de 2083. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $150,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por

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declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de AIBONITO, el 19 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $100,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $75,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Aibonito, el 26 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $69,400.00 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $30,922.62 en intereses acumulados al 31 de marzo de 2019 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $9,639.01 en seguro hipotecario; $440.00 en tasaciones; $260.00 en inspecciones de la propiedad; más la cantidad de 10% en la suma total de $15,000.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta.

Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Aibonito, Puerto Rico, hoy 7 de julio de 2021. JOSÉ O. MELÉNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. PEDRO A. MERCADO RIVERA, ALGUACIL PLACA #786.

SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN cantidad equivalente al 10% de la deuda principal expuesta en JUAN. el pagaré hipotecario y la escriMIDFIRST BANK tura de hipoteca, o $7,230.00 Demandante vs.

EMILY TORRES RIVERA para cubrir las costas, gastos y horarios de abogados. La Demandada venta en pública subasta de la CIVIL NÚM: SJ2019CV12000. referida propiedad se verificará SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO libre de toda carga o gravamen Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. POSTERIOR que afecte la EDICTO DE SUBASTA. mencionada finca. La PRIMEA: EMILY TORRES RA subasta se llevará a efecto RIVERA y aL PUBLICO EN el día 11 de agosto de 2021 a GENERAL: las 10:30 de la mañana, en la El que suscribe, Alguacil del sala del referido Alguacil, sita en Tribunal de Primera Instancia, el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Sala Superior de San Juan, de Primera Instancia, Sala de hago constar que en cumpli- San Juan. Que el precio mímiento de la Sentencia dictada nimo fijado para la PRIMERA con fecha de 31 de marzo de subasta es de $72,300.00. Que 2020, reducido a escrito el 13 de ser necesaria la celebración de abril de 2020, debidamente de una SEGUNDA subasta la notificada, de la Orden de Eje- misma se llevará a efecto el cución de Sentencia emitida el día 18 de agosto de 2021 a las 18 de junio de 2021 y el Man- 10:30 de la mañana, en la sala damiento de Ejecución de Sen- en la oficina antes mencionada tencia expedido el 28 de junio del Alguacil que suscribe. El de 2021, procederé a vender precio mínimo para la SEGUNy venderé en pública subasta DA subasta será de $48,200.00 y al mejor postor la propiedad equivalente a dos terceras (2/3) que se describe a continuación: partes del tipo mínimo estipuPROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: lado para la PRIMERA subasCondominio Torre de Anda- ta. Si no se produce remate ni lucía - Edificio 1 de Sabana adjudicación en le PRIMERA Llana. Apartamento: 1203. Ca- ni en la SEGUNDA subasta, bida: 808.87 Pies Cuadrados. se celebrará una TERCERA Equivalentes a 75.15 metros el día 25 de agosto de 2021 cuadrados. Consta de sala, co- a las 10:30 de la mañana, en medor, tres dormitorios, cocina, la oficina antes mencionada lavandería, baño y closet. Co- del alguacil que suscribe. El linda por el NORTE, por donde precio mínimo fijado para esta tiene un acceso de entrada y TERCERA subasta es la misalida con un pasillo que lo co- tad de la suma pactada para munica con el resto del edificio, la PRIMERA subasta a saber escaleras y patio posterior; por $36,150.00. Se entenderá que el SUR, con el patio delantero, todo licitador acepta como baspor el ESTE, con el patio lateral tante la titulación del inmueble y por el OESTE, con la pared y que las cargas y gravámenes que lo separa del apartamento anteriores y los preferentes, si #1202. Le corresponde un por- los hubiere, al crédito del ejecucentaje en los elementos comu- tante continuarán subsistente. nes de 0.2390% y un espacio Entendiéndose que el rematande estacionamiento identifica- te lo acepta y queda subrogado do con el mismo número del en la responsabilidad de estos, apartamento. Esta propiedad sin destinarse a su extinción el consta inscrita al tomo móvil precio del remate. No constan #941de Sabana Llana finca inscrito en el Registro de la Pro#25885, Registro de la Propie- piedad acreedores que tengan dad de San Juan, sección V, derechos o cargas sobre el bien inscripción 11ma. La dirección hipotecado con anterioridad física de la propiedad es: Con- a la inscripción del crédito del dominio Torre de Andalucía Edi- ejecutante. Se les advierte a los ficio I, apartamento 1203, calle licitadores que la adjudicación Almonte, Rio Piedras, Puerto se hará el mejor postor, quien Rico. El producto de la subasta deberá consignar el importe de se destinará a satisfacer al de- su oferta en el acto mismo de la mandante hasta donde alcan- adjudicación, en moneda curso ce, la suma de $51,665.77 que legal de los Estados Unidos de compone la deuda del principal, América, entiéndase en efecmás el interés anual de 6.5% tivo, cheque certificado o giro sobre el balance del principal postal a nombre del Alguacil calculado desde el 1 de julio de del Tribunal. Tome conocimien2018, hasta el pago de la deu- to la parte demandada y toda da en su totalidad. Los intere- aquella persona o personas ses continuaran devengándose que tengan interés inscrito con hasta el pago total y completo posterioridad a la inscripción de la deuda. Los demandados del gravamen que se está ejeadeudan los cargos por mora, cutando; y para conocimiento equivalentes al 4.0% de todos de los licitadores y el público los pagos atrasados más de 15 en general, se publicará dos días de la fecha de vencimien- (2) veces en un periódico de LEGAL NOTICE tos y los créditos adelantados circulación diaria en la Isla de ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO hechos de acuerdo con el pa- Puerto Rico y se fijará, además, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- garé hipotecario y la escritura en los lugares públicos corresNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA de hipoteca; además de una pondientes. Una vez efectuada

28 la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a poner al licitador victorioso en posesión física de la propiedad dentro del plazo de veinte (20) días contados a partir de la venta en pública Subasta. Además, el Alguacil procederá a darle posesión del material al adjudicatario, en los casos que fuere necesario, proceda el lanzamiento del demandado o terceras personas de la propiedad subastada y forzar puertas o ventanas, romper cerraduras, candados, cortar cadenas y tomar cualquier otra medida propia. De igual forma, el Alguacil sacará cualquier propiedad mueble o personal de los demandados o de terceras personas que se encuentren en la mencionada propiedad. Además, los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables.

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 9 de julio de 2021. EDWIN E LOPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

RIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, el 11 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: HI2 CALLE 21 URB. COLINAS DEL YUNQUE RIO GRANDE, PR 00745 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Parcela de terreno radicada en la Urbanización Colinas del Yunque, Primera Extensión (Sección II) siLEGAL NOTICE tuada en los Barrios Mameyes ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO y Zarzal, del término municipal DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- de Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA que se describe en el Plano de CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FA- Inscripción de la Urbanización, JARDO SALA SUPERIOR. con el número, área y colindanBANCO POPULAR DE cias que se relacionan a continuación: número del solar: dos PUERTO RICO de la Manzana H-1. Área del DEMANDANTE VS. Solar: mil trescientos treinta y LAS SUCESIONES DE nueve metros cuadrados con TEODORO SANTOS sesenta centímetros. En lindes CHAMORRO Y PETRA por el NORTE, con el solar número uno, distancia de cuaM. BENÍTEZ COLÓN T/C/C PETRA MERCEDES renta y ocho metros con noveBENÍTEZ COLÓN T/C/C cientos ochenta y siete milésimas de metro; por el SUR, con MERCEDES BENÍTEZ el solar número tres, distancia COLÓN COMPUESTAS de cuarenta y seis metros con doscientos cuarenta y un miléPOR JOSE ANGEL SANTOS MORA; DENNIES simas de metro; por el ESTE, con la Carretera Estatal número SARAHAI SANTOS ciento noventa y una distancia MORA, TEDDY SANTOS de veintiocho metros con ciento MORA, BETSY SAHARAI cuarenta y seis milésimas de SANTOS BENITEZ, JOSE metro; y por el OESTE, con la LUIS SANTOS BENITEZ, con la calle veintiuno, distancia de veintiocho metros. Enclava EILEEN SANTOS casa en concreto de una planBENITEZ Y LESSIE ta, con un valor de $60,000.00, MARIE SANTOS ROSSO; según escritura número 61, FULANO Y FULANA otorgada en Rio Grande, PuerDE TAL; MENGANO Y to Rico, el día 1 de octubre de MENGANA DE TAL COMO 1990, ante el notario Víctor M. POSIBLES MIEMBROS Riefkohl, inscrita al folio 52 del tomo 245 de Rio Grande, finca DESCONOCIDOS DE número 11,564, inscripción 3ra.

AMBAS SUCESIONES, La propiedad antes relacionada DEPARTAMENTO DE consta inscrita al Folio 50 del HACIENDA Y CENTRO Tomo 245 de Río Grande, finDE RECAUDACIÓN DE ca número 11,564, Registro de Propiedad de Puerto Rico, INGRESOS MUNICIPALES la Sección de Carolina, Sección (CRIM) Tercera (3ra). El tipo mínimo DEMANDADOS para la primera subasta del inCIVIL NUM.: FA2018CV00482. mueble antes relacionado, será SALA: 303. SOBRE: COBRO el dispuesto en la Escritura DE DINERO Y EJECUCION de Hipoteca, es decir la suma DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINA- de $75,100.00. Si no hubiere

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remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 18 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $50,066.67. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 25 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $37,550.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 645 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de abril de 1994, ante el Notario Rafael F. Morales Cabranes, inscrita al Folio 50 del Tomo 245 de Río Grande, finca número 11,564, inscripción Quinta (5ta). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $9,587.51 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de octubre de 2017, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.1/2% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además Las Sucesiones de Teodoro Santos Chamorro y Petra M. Benítez Colón t/c/c Petra Mercedes Benítez Colón t/c/c Mercedes Benítez Colónadeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $7,510.00.

Además Las Sucesiones de Teodoro Santos Chamorro y Petra M. Benítez Colón t/c/c Petra Mercedes Benítez Colón t/c/c Mercedes Benítez Colón se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $7,510.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $7,510.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bas-

tante 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. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesa el gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relaciona a continuación: Hipoteca en garantía de pagaré a favor de Portador, por la suma principal de $75,000.00, con intereses al 5% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 20, otorgada en Río Grande, Puerto Rico, el día 8 de abril de 1998, ante el notario Víctor M. Riefkohl Rivera, e inscrita al folio 53 del tomo 53 del tomo 245 de Río Grande, finca número 11,564, inscripción Sexta (6ta). 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 Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de julio de 2021. SHIRLEY SANCHEZ MARTINEZ, Alguacil Regional #161. DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, Alguacil Auxiliar, ALGUACIL

DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR.

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

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

CARLOS JAVIER RIVERA CABRERA; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, United States Attorney’s Office, District of Puerto Rico

Parte Demandada CASO CIVIL NUM: ECD20170687 (703). SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas, 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 $71,087.94, de balance principal, los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal y computados al 4.00% anual hasta su total pago y completo pago; más el 4% computado sobre cada mensualidad; cargos por demora devengados, más la suma de $7,497.00 como cantidad estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Parcela radicada en el Barrio Juan Asencio de Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de cero punto quinientos ochenta y siete (0.587) milésimas de una cuerda, iguales en el Sistema métrico decimal de veintitrés (23) ares, siete (7) centiáreas y trece (13) miliares. Colinda por el NORTE, en ciento cinco punto veintiuno (105.21) metres, con la carretera nacional ochocientos dieciséis (816); por el SUR, en dos alineaciones distintas que suman setenta y seis punto treinta y nueve (76.39) metres, con terrenos con terrenos de

Francisco Torres y veintiséis punto cuarenta y ocho (26.48) metres, con terrenos del señor Domingo Falcon; por el ESTE, en dieciocho punto noventa y tres (18.93) metres, con terrenos de Domingo Falcon; y por el OESTE, en dos alineaciones descontinuadas, una de once punto sesenta y siete (11.67) metres, con terrenos de Francisco Torres y la otra de veinticuatro punto sesenta y nueve (24.69) metres, con la finca principal de la cual se segrega, propiedad de Santiago Martínez Andino. Enclava casa. Inscrita al folio ciento setenta y cinco (175) del tomo ciento cinco (105), finca número cuatro mil quinientos noventa y uno (4591). Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. Dirección Física: PR 790 Ramal 7790 Juan Asencio, Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico 00703.

Dicha propiedad se encuentra afecta a: Embargo: Estados Unidos de America contra Carlos Rivera & Sonia Saavedra, por la suma de $61,208.75, del 21 de abril del 2016, seguro social numero xxx-xx-0609, serial number 209885416, anotado el 5 de mayo del 2016 al sistema Karibe bajo asiento número 2016-004589-FED. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 10 de agosto de 2021 a las 9:30 am y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $74,970.00 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 17 de agosto de 2021 a las 9:30 am y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $49,980.00. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 24 de agosto de 2021 a las 9:30 am y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $37,485.00. 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 Caguas, Puerto Rico a 9 de julio de 2021. ANGEL GOMEZ GOMEZ #593, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL.

Roberto De Jesus Diaz a/k/a Jorge R. De Jesus Diaz; constituted by Jorge Roberto de Jesus Figueroa and Angelica Paola de Jesus Díaz as known members of said Estate

Defendants CIVIL NO: 18-01365 FAB. RE: Collection of Money and Mortgage Foreclosure. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: Jorge Roberto De Jesus Diaz a/k/a Jorge R. De Jesus Diaz then, now The Estate of Jorge Roberto De Jesus Diaz a/k/a Jorge R. De Jesus Diaz; constituted by Jorge Roberto de Jesus Figueroa and Angelica Paola de Jesus Díaz as known members of said Estate, General Public, the United States of America and all parties that may have an interest in the property

WHEREAS, Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $188,014.51 plus interest at a rate of 3.750% per annum since April 1, 2017 until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff late charges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due until the debt is paid in full. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($19,830.13) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation.

The records of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the LEGAL NOTICE undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda Feliciano, M&T was ordered to sell at public 72123 IN THE UNITED STATES DIS- auction for US currency in cash TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS- or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to TRICT OF PUERTO RICO. the highest bidder and at 441 Roosevelt Cayman Asset Company Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico Plaintiff v.

(18.3698579, -66.1124836) the Jorge Roberto De Jesus following property: the following Diaz a/k/a Jorge R. De property: URBANA: PROPIEJesus Diaz then, now DAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento No. 22-D del CONDOThe Estate of Jorge

The San Juan Daily Star MINIO CÓRDOBA PARQUE, localizado en los Barrios Caimito y Tortugo del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, compuesto de un área de construcción de 1,671.28 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 155.27 metros cuadrados, incluyendo un balcón. Contiene vestíbulo, sala, sala familiar, comedor, cocina, lavandería, tres dormitorios, dos baños equipados y guardarropas. Se encuentra localizado en la segunda planta del Edificio. Su puerta de entrada está localizada al Noreste del apartamento desde la cual se tiene acceso a la calle a través de áreas comunes. Sus linderos son los siguientes: por el Norte, en una distancia de 38’3”, equivalentes a 11.66 metros, con espacio aéreo y escaleras; por el Sur, en una distancia de 38’3”, equivalentes a 11.66 metros, con espacio aéreo; por el Este, en una distancia de 48’4”, equivalentes a 14.73 metros, con el apartamento No. 22-C, escaleras y espacio aéreo; y por el Oeste, en una distancia de 48’4”, equivalentes a 14.73 metros, con espacio aéreo. A este unidad se le ha asignado el uso exclusivo de dos espacio (s) de estacionamiento (s) marcados con el No. 130. Le corresponde a este apartamento 0.6493% en los elementos comunes generales del inmueble. The property is identified with the number 21886 and is recorded at page number 9 of volume number 796 of Río Piedras Sur, in the Registry of Property of San Juan, Fourth Section. WHEREAS, the mortgage foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is recorded at page number 9vto of volume number 796 of Río Piedras Sur, fourth inscription in the Registry of Property of San Juan, Fourth Section. WHEREAS, t h e mortgage was modified by Jorge Roberto de Jesus-Diaz and Roosevelt Cayman Asset Company, as holder of the Note, regarding its new principal balance amount of $198,301.38 with an interest rate of 3.750% per annum until March 1st, 2045, with the last payment of $24,291.08, as per deed number 170, executed on February 27, 2015, before Notary Public Magda V. Alsina Figueroa, recorded at page number 197 of volume 861 of Rio Piedras Sur, fifth inscription in the Registry of Property of San Juan, Fourth Section. WHEREAS the property is subject to the following junior lien: LIS PENDENS: At the US District Court in Civil Case No. CV-01365 (CCC) on collection of money and foreclosure of mortgage, followed by Roosevelt Cayman Asset Company vs Jorge Roberto De Jesús Díaz, then, now the Estate of Jorge Roberto De Jesús Díaz, constituted by: John Doe and Jane Doe as unknown members of said

Estate, demanding payment of mortgage note recorded on the fourth inscription of this property, having an unpaid balance of $188,014.51, plus interests and costs, Lis Pendens dated June 13th., 2018, recorded on October 22nd., 2019, at Karibe System, property No. 21886 of Rio Piedras Sur, notation “A”. WHEREAS the property is subject to the following Federal Liens: FEDERAL LIEN: In favor of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in the principal amount of $18,112.53 owed by JORGE R. DE JESÚS DÍAZ, Social Security No. XXX-XX-9637, Serial Number 361-731-907, recorded at page 115 order 2 of Book 7 of Federal Liens, Rio Piedras Norte, dated May 10th., 2007. FEDERAL LIEN: In favor of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in the principal amount of $14,929.61, owed by JORGE R. DE JESÚS DÍAZ, Social Security No. XXX-XX-9637, Serial Number 495-781-908, recorded at page 111 order 3 of Book 8 of Federal Liens, Rio Piedras Norte, dated December 3rd., 2008.

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 SEPTEMBER 3, 2021 AT 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $198,301.38. 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 SEPTEMBER 10, 2021 AT 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $132,200.92. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC auction shall be held on SEPTEMBER 17, 2021 AT 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $99,150.69. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, this day of July

Friday, July 23, 2021 7, 2021. (SING.) Joel Ronda Feliciano, Special Master (787) 565-0515. Email: rondajoel@ me.com. *****

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBONITO SALA SUPERIOR

JOSÉ MANUEL MOLINA RUIZ, SU CÓNYUGE YVETTE IRIZARRY RODRÍGUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandantes V.

JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES CON INTERÉS

Demandados Civil Número: AI2021CV00238.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. 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 RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES CON INTERÉS.

En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de un Pagaré a favor del Portador, o a su orden, por la suma de $57,000.00, con intereses al 8.25% anual y a vencer en el término de 10 años desde su constitución, suscrito el 19 de enero de 1993. Para garantizar el pago de la obligación de dicho pagaré se constituyó hipoteca mediante la Escritura número 2 otorgada el 19 de enero de 1993 el Notario Pablo Cruz Mercado, la cual consta inscrita al folio 93 vuelto del tomo 192 de Aibonito, finca número 9,721, inscripción 3era., Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas, sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno marcada como solar #3 en el plano de inscripción radicada en el barrio Llanos del término municipal de Aibonito, con una cabida superficial de 3.4234 cuerdas, equivalentes a 13,455.7248 metros cuadrados y en lindes por el NORTE, con el solar #2 y el camino municipal dedicada a uso público, por el SUR, con Jorge Bonilla, por el ESTE, con Agudo Colón, por el OESTE, con el doctor Jorge Bonilla y Solar #2. Consta inscrita al Folio 93 del Tomo 192 de Aibonito, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas, finca número 9,721. La parte demandante

alega que dicho pagaré ha sido satisfecho en su totalidad y se encuentra extraviado según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico y se le requiere para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de su publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto por Orden del Tribunal, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en bonito, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de julio de 2021. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARA REGIONAL. VIRGEN J. HERNÁNDEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE Estado Libre Asocíado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de TOA ALTA.

CHRISTIAN FABIAN GARCIA Y OTROS Demandante VS.

THE LINCOLN FINANCIAL MORTGAGE Y OTROS

Demandados Caso Civil Núm.

TA2021CV00082. Sobre: CANCELACION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACION DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: THE LINCOLN FINANCIAL MORTGAGE NC, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 8 de JULIO de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente

de los términos de la misma.

Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los (10) días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de (30) días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 15 de JULIO de 2021. En TOA ALTA, Puerto Rico, el 15 de JULIO de 2021.

CC: LCDA. ENEL M. PÉREZ MONTESGARDEN HILLS, GA-24 AVE RAMIREZ DE ARRELLANO, GUAYNABO, PUERTO RICO, 00966 LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ LIRIAM M. HERNANDEZ, Secretaria Regional.

LIRIAM M HERNANDEZ OTERO, Sec Auxiliar.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

CARMEN CINTRÓN DÍAZ Y KATHIABEL RODRÍGUEZ FIGUEROA

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2019CV01852.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR, , en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 7 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: #820 (H-20) CALLE ICARO, URB. ALTURAS ECUESTRE, CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO 00987 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar

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radicada en la Urbanización Alturas de Parque Ecuestre del Barrio Canovanillas de Carolina, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización, con el número, área y colindancia que se relacionan a continuación número del Solar 20 del Bloque H (H-20). Área del Solar 345.43 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en cuatro punto quince metros (4.15 m) y con un arco que mide seis punto once metros (6.11 m) con la Calle número cinco A de la Urbanización; por el SUR, en veinte punto cincuenta metros (20.50) con la Futura Ruta sesenta y seis (66); por el ESTE, en veinticinco punto cuarenta y nueve metros (25.49 m), con el Solar número veintiuno (21) del Bloque H de la Urbanización; y por el OESTE, en veintidós metros (22.00 m), con el Solar número diez y nueve (19 del Bloque H) de la Urbanización.

Sobre este solar enclava una casa de concreto reforzado, destinada a vivienda para una familia. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 154 del Tomo 1,146 de Carolina, finca número 49,652 Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, 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 $69,010.00. 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 14 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $46,006.66.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 21 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $34,505.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 392 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 25 de junio de 1996, ante la Notario Alberto C. Rafols Méndez y consta inscrita al Folio 155 del Tomo 1146 de Carolina, finca número 49,652, inscripción Segunda (2da). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $ 39,637.53 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de abril

de 2017, más intereses al tipo pactado de 8.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación.

Además, la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $6,901.00.

Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $6,901.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $6,901.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, 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 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 es-

pacio 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 en el Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de julio de 2021. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

LOUIS MERCED TORRES, MAYRA NAVARRO GONZÁLEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2019CV00699.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 14 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 2:30 DE LA TARDE, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: L-53 CALLE 3 URB. VILLA HUMACAO, HUMACAO, PR 00791 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar cincuenta y tres guión L (53-L) de la Urbanización Villa Humacao de Humacao, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos doce metros cuadrados (312.00 m.c). En lindes por el NORTE, en veinticuatro metros (24.00 m.), con el Lote cincuenta y cuatro de la Manzana L; por el SUR, en veinticuatro metros (24.00 m.),

30 con el Lote cincuenta y dos de la Manzana; por el ESTE, en trece metros (13.00 m.), con la Calle tres; y por el OESTE, en trece metros (13.00 m.), con el Lote ochenta y siete L. Enclava una casa de vivienda.

La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 1 del Tomo 324 de Humacao, Finca número 13,440 en el Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $107,855.00. 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 21 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 2:30 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 $71,903.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 28 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 2:30 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 $ 53,927.50. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 87 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de mayo de 2012, ante el Notario Luis Felipe Negrón Rodríguez y consta inscrita al tomo de Karibe, finca número 13,440, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao, inscripción séptima (7ma). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido contra la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $75,371.58 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de noviembre de 2017, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $10,785.50.

Además la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $10,785.50 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $10,785.50

para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, 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 ni preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesa el gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relaciona a continuación: Aviso de Demanda de fecha 23 de junio de 2017, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, en el caso civil número HSCI2017-00549, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Garantías, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Louis Merced Torres y Mayra Navarro González, por la suma de $80,209.55 más otras sumas, anotado el día 31 de agosto de 2017, al tomo Karibe de Humacao, finca número 13,440, anotación A y última.

Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial.

Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se

The San Juan Daily Star

Friday, July 23, 2021

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 Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de julio de 2021. MARÍA DEL PILAR RIVERA RIVERA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR. WILNELIA RIVERA DELGADO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #249.

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

PUERTO RICO PROPERTIES SOLUTIONS LLC. Demandante Vs.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, ACTUANDO POR CONDUCTO DE LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES; JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE

Demandados Civil No.: FA2021CV00517.

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

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, como posibles tenedores del pagaré.

Por la PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Por medio del presente edicto

se les notifica de la radicación de una Demanda de Cancelación de Pagaré Extraviado en la que se solicita la cancelación del siguiente pagaré hipotecario, que posiblemente se extravió luego de haber sido saldado por el deudor hipotecario: Pagaré a favor de los ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, actuando por conducto de LA ADMINISTRACIÓN DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES, por la suma de $27,000.00, con intereses al 8% anual y vencedero en 33 años, según consta de la escritura número 171 del 29 de julio 1977, otorgada en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Julio De Santiago Díaz, e inscrita al folio 100 del tomo 250, de Fajardo, finca número 9,972, inscripción primera. La parte demandante solicita del Honorable Tribunal que declare Con Lugar la demanda y en su consecuencia ordene al Secretario del Tribunal que expida Mandamiento al Registrador de la Propiedad correspondiente, para que dicho funcionario proceda a cancelar en los libros a su cargo la referida hipoteca dejando la propiedad aquí descrita libre de dicho gravamen hipotecario. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la Demanda radicando el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, y notificándole con copia de dicha contestación al abogado del demandante, Lcdo. Ricardo J. Cacho Rodríguez, 54 Calle Resolución, Suite 303 San Juan, PR 00920 Tel: (787) 722-2242; Fax: (787) 722-2243, cachor@microjuris.com dentro del término de treinta (30) días siguientes a la fecha de publicación de este Edicto; si dejaren de así hacerlo, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia contra ustedes concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 15 de julio de 2021. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARLA AUXLAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

LEGAL NOT ICE

CFIARITIN CLAUDIO LEBRON COMPUESTA ROMAN, CARLOS POR SANTOS RIVERA CLAUDIO VÉLEZ Y GARCIA, FULANA DE TAL Y FULANO DE TAL COMO BRENDA LIZ CLAUDIO VÉLEZ; FULANO Y POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS SUCESIÓN, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO DESCONOCIDOS DE LA POSIBLES TENEDORES SUCESIÓN Y EL CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE DESCONOCIDOS DEMANDADOS INGRESOS MUNICIPALES CASO NUM. CG2021CV00712.

(CRIM)

SOBRE: CANCELACION DE DEMANDADOS PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. NO- CIVIL NUM.: PO2021CV01280.

TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA COBRO DE DINERO Y EJEPOR EDICTO. CUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA A: FULANO DE TAL Y ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENFULANA DE TAL COMO TO POR EDICTO Y MANDAPOSIBLES MIEMBROS MIENTO DE INTERPELACION ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉDESCONOCIDOS DE RICA, El Presidente de los EsLA SUCESIÓN DE tados Unidos, El Estado Libre ADALJISA GARCIA Asociado de Puerto Rico.

LEBRON, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

(Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 de julio 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 16 de julio de 2021. En Caquas, Puerto Rico, 16 de julio de 2021. LISILDA MARTINEZ AGOSTO, INTERINA. FDO./JESSENIA PEDRAZA, Secretario (a) Auxiliar.

Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL LEGAL NOTICE DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de PriESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO mera Instancia Sala Superior DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUde Caguas.

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SUN WEST MORTGAGE CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCOMPANY, INC CE SALA SUPERIOR. DEMANDANTE VS E.M.I. EQUITY

SANTOS RIVERA GARCIA, MARISOL TIRADO AYALA Y LA SOC. LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS: LA SUCESION DE ADALJISA GARCIA

MORTGAGE, INC. DEMANDANTE VS.

LA SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS EDDIE CLAUDIO QUIÑONES POR DIANILIBETH CLAUDIO ROMAN, CARLOS CLAUDIO ROMAN,

A la parte co-demandada: FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS EDDIE CLAUDIO QUIÑONES, a la siguiente dirección FISICA: C-17 CALLE RIVER URB. HILL RIVER YAUCO, PR 00698 Y POSTAL: PO BOX 1551 YAUCO, PR 00698-1551.

Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda Enmendada en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en contra de La Sucesión de Carlos Eddie Claudio Quiñones, en la cual se alega que adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $115,342.26 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de enero de 2021, más intereses al tipo pactado de 3.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación.

Además La Sucesión de Carlos Eddie Claudio Quiñones adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $12,600.00.

Además La Sucesión de Carlos Eddie Claudio Quiñones se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $12,600.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $12,600.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 176, otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el

día 30 de septiembre de 2016, ante el notario Marjalisa Colón Villanueva, de la finca número 16,554, inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Yauco, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección Segunda. 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. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general.

Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda enmendada en su contra. Se les ordena a que dentro del término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de Carlos Eddie Claudio Quiénes.

Los co-demandados miembros de la Sucesión de Carlos Eddie Claudio Quiñones se incluyen en la demanda enmendada ya que como herederos responden por las cargas de la herencia según lo dispuesto en Nuestro Ordenamiento Jurídico. Se les apercibe y notifica que, de no expresarse dentro de ese término de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se les apercibe que luego del transcurso del termino de 30 días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme el Articulo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. 2785.

Se ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que la sucesión de Carlos Eddie Claudio Quiñones, se incluye a los herederos y herederos desconocidos de Carlos Eddie Claudio Quiñónes denominados Fulano y Fulana De Tal, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. Se le(s) emplaza y requiere que dentro de los sesenta (60) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publicación de este edicto conteste(n) la demanda radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCION al Lcdo.

Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Usted deberá pre-

sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le(s) advierte que si dejare(n) de contestar la Demanda en el período de tiempo antes mencionado, podrá dictarse contra usted(es) Sentencia en Rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oirle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy16 de julio de 2021, en Ponce, Puerto Rico. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCIA, Secretaria Regional. Glorivee Morales Saez, Sec Aux Trib I.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

DIMARY ARLEEN VIRELLA RIVERA, SAMUEL VIRELLA PAGÁN Y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: SJ2019CV03721.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 18 de agosto de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: A-69 CALLE MARACAIBO URB. PARK GARDENS SAN JUAN, PR 00926-2203 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con número sesenta y nueve (69) del Bloque “A” de la Urbanización “Park Gardens” (Maracaray Townhouses), radicada en el Barrio Sabana Llana de Río Piedras,

The San Juan Daily Star término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de cuatrocientos cincuenta y siete punto setenta y tres (457.73) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de cuarenta y cinco punto cuarenta (45.40) metros, con el solar número sesenta y ocho (68); por el SUR, en una distancia de cuarenta y seis punto cero cinco (46.05) metros, con el solar número setenta (70); por el ESTE, en una distancia de diez punto cero uno (10.01) metros, con la Calle Maracaibo; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de diez punto cero tres (10.03) metros, con Juan Méndez Creek. Enclavada una estructura tipo individual dedicada a vivienda, construida en hormigón armado. Consta inscrita al Folio 168 del Tomo 557 de Sabana Llana, finca número 22,821, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan Sección Quinta. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 168 del Tomo 557 de Sabana Llana, finca número 22,821, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $140,633.30. 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 25 de agosto de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $93,755.53.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 1 de septiembre de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $70,316.65. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca 217 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de abril de 2012, ante el Notario Laura Mia González Bonilla, inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Sabana Llana, finca número 22,821, inscripción Sexta (6ta), Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta. Modificada en cuanto a su principal que será de $140,633.30; en cuanto a su interés que será de 3.625% anual; en cuanto a su pago mensual de principal e interés será por la cantidad de $641.36, en cuanto a su vencimiento que será el primero (1ro) de febrero de 2047, y en cuanto al tipo mínimo pactado en caso de ejecución que será

de $140,633.30, según consta de la escritura de modificación de hipoteca número 169, otorgada el día 27 de febrero de 2017, en San Juan, Puerto Rico ante el Notario Público Néstor Machado Cortés, inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Sabana Llana, finca número 22,821, inscripción Séptima (7ma), Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $139,763.25 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de julio de 2017, más intereses al tipo pactado de 3.625% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además estos adeudan a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $16,569.00. Los codemandados Dimary Arleen Virella Rivera y Samuel Virella Pagán se comprometieron también a pagar una suma equivalente a $16,569.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $16,569.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables.

Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad está sujeta a los siguientes gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Sujeta a Condiciones para viabilizar la adquisición del bien inmueble, la Autoridad para el financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, a través del Programa de Mi Nuevo Hogar, concedió a la compradora la suma de $8,500.00 para sufragar gastos de cierre e impone condiciones de venta por el término de 10 años. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesa el gravamen pos-

Friday, July 23, 2021 terior a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relaciona a continuación: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $32,025.74, sin intereses, vencedero el día 1 de febrero de 2047, constituida mediante la escritura número 170, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de febrero de 2017, ante el notario Néstor Machado Cortés, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Sabana Llana, finca número 22,821, inscripción 8va. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de julio de 2021. EDWIN E LOPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

COMPANY, INC. Demandante v.

DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION AHORA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y/O FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO, RICARDO RIVERA RODRIGUEZ, MARIA DEL CARMEN TORES RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Demandado(a) Civil Núm. CG2021CV00472 .

Sobre: SUSTITUCION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, demandados desconocidos cuya dirección se desconoce; MARIA DEL CARMEN TORRES RIVERA, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de junio de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 19 de julio de 2021. En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, el 19 de julio de 2021. CARMEN ANA PEREIRA ORTIZ, Secretario(a). F/YARITZA ROSARIO PLACERES, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE vs.

CLARA ELISA TORRES TEJADA

DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2021CV03140.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS.

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Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS.

A: ANGEL DAVID MORALES CHAVEZ Y SHIRLEY MARIE REYES RUÍZ BARRIO QUEBRADA HONDA LOTE 3 & 3-A KM 4.0 PR 913 A: CLARA ELISA SAN LORENZO PR 00754 TORRES TEJADA DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: -BARRIO SABANA, HC-70 BOX 30817 , SAN SOLAR 60, CALLE A, LORENZO PR 00754 , HCSAN JUAN, PR 00923; 30 BOX 36708, -222 Brunswick Ave., SAN LORENZO PR 00754 Trenton, New Jersey 08618. , HC-30 BOX 30804, SAN POR LA PRESENTE se le emLORENZO PR 00754 y plaza para que presente al triHC-30 BOX 6708 bunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días SAN LORENZO PR 00754. de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento.

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

Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato : BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NUM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 29 de junio de 2021. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Sec Regional. Haydee Morales, SubSecretaria.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento , excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento.

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

Representa a la parte demandante , la representación legal cuyo nombre , dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NUM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908 , GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787- 751-5290 , FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 15 de julio de LEGAL NOTICE 2021. Lisilda Martinez Agosto, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Interina, Secretario(a). JesDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- senia Pedraza Andino, SubNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Secretario(a).

SALA SUPERIOR DE CALEGAL NOTICE GUAS.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

DEMANDANTE vs.

Estado Libre Asociado de PuerANGEL DA VID MORALES LEGAL NOTICE to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL CHAVEZ Y SHIRLEY DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Pri- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO MARIE REYES RUÍZ mera Instancia Sala Superior DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDEMANDADOS de CAGUAS. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CIVIL NÚM.: CG2021CV01237.

SUN WEST MORTGAGE SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SOBRE:COBRO DE DINERO JUAN.

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

FRANKLIN CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION, AS SERVICER OF WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS

CERTIFICATE TRUSTEE ON BEHALF OF BOSCO CREDIT II TRUST SERIES 2017-1, Plaintiff, v.

MANUEL ANTONIO MENDEZ MATOS; ZULEYKA MARIE DIAZ ORTIZ,

Defendants CIVIL NO. 18-1824 (DRD).

FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE; COLLECTION OF MONIES. DEFAULT JUDGMENT. Upon plaintiff’s application for judgment, and it appearing from the records of the above entitled cause that default was entered by the Clerk of this Court against the defendant(s) for their failure to plead or file an answer to the complaint, or otherwise appear in the above cause, against which defendant(s) plaintiff is entitled to a judgment by default, and the Court being fully advised of the facts, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that: 1. On March 6, 2006, the Defendants received a mortgage loan from RG Premier Bank of Puerto Rico which repayment obligation is evidenced with a mortgage note in the amount of $108,000.00, repayable with an annual interest rate of 6.625%, due on March 1st, 2036, pursuant to mortgage deed number 149 executed on the same date, and before notary public Brenda Lee Fernández Rodríguez recorded at page 53 of volume 514 of Toa Alta, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section III of Bayamón. 2. As guarantee of the repayment obligation, Defendants also executed a mortgage deed encumbering the property described herein below in Spanish language, in the amount of $108,000.00: URBANA: Solar marcado con el #20 del bloque E en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Toa Linda, radicada en el barrio Piñas del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 367.20 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar #21 del propio bloque, en una distancia de 25.50 metros; por el SUR, con el solar #19 del propio bloque, en una distancia de 25.50 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar #3 del propio bloque, en una distancia de 14.40 metros; y por el OESTE, con la calle #3, en una distancia de 14.40 metros. Holding: A reinforced concrete and concrete blocks home for residential purposes.

The property is recorded at page 136 of volume 250 of Toa Alta, property number 12170, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section III of Bayamón. 3. Bosco Credit II Trust Series 2017-1 is the holder, by endorsement, of the Promissory Note subscribed by the

defendants. 4. The Defendants are the owners of the Property given as collateral, according to the Registry of Property and Plaintiff’s best knowledge and belief. 5. The Defendants has breached her obligations under the Mortgage Deed towards Plaintiff by, among other things, failing to make the agreed upon payments. 6. Plaintiff’s cause of action as to co-defendant, Zuleyka Diaz Ortiz is only in rem in nature as the Order of Discharge issued by the Bankruptcy Court in Civil No. 19-03599, precludes recovery against Zuleyka Diaz Ortiz in personam. 7. As of January 28th, 2020, co-defendant, Manuel Antonio Mendez Matos owes Plaintiff the principal balance of $100,163.11, accrued interests in the amount of $54,682.91 which will continue to accrue interest at the contractual rates, and expressly agreed-upon attorneys’ fees and legal costs in the amount of $10,800.00. 8.

In default of the payment of the sums hereinbefore specified or of any part thereof, within ten (10) days from the date of entry of this judgment, the mortgaged property described in paragraph one (l) hereof, shall be sold at public auction to the highest bidder therefor, without an appraisal or right of redemption for the payment and satisfaction of plaintiff’s mortgage within the limits secured thereby. 9. Victor M. Encarnación Pichardo, is hereby designated and appointed as Special Master to make the sale hereinbefore mentioned but said Special Master shall not proceed to carry out the said sale, nor do anything in connection therewith, until further order of this Court and under the form and conditions to be directed by this Court. 10. The sale to be made by the Special Master appointed herein shall be subject to the confirmation of this Court, and the purchaser or purchasers thereof shall be entitled to receive possession of the property sold. The minimum bid to be accepted at the first public sale in accordance with the mortgage deed referred to in this auction is the amount equal to the original principal amount of the note, $108,000.00. 11.

Any funds derived from the sale to be made in accordance with the terms of this judgment and such further orders of this Court shall be applied as follows: a) To the payment of all proper expenses attendant upon said sale, including the expenses, outlays and compensation of the Special Master appointed herein, after the said compensation and expenses shall have been fixed and approved by the Court, all said expenses to be deducted from the sum provided in the deed of mortgage for costs, charges and disbursements, expenses and attorneys’ fees. b) To the

32 ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 19 de julio de 2021.

En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 19 de julio de 2021. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRIGUEZ, Secretario(a).

F/DAMARIS LEGAL NOTICE TORRES RUIZ, Secretario(a) Estado Libre Asociado de Puer- Auxiliar. to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL LEGAL NOTICE DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENEde CAROLINA. BANCO POPULAR DE RAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior PUERTO RICO de CAGUAS. Demandante v.

payment of that part of the indebtedness owed to plaintiff up to the amount of $100,163.11 and accrued interests in the amount of $54682.91, which continue to accrue, plus fees, costs and any other amount expressly agreed-upon in the mortgage deed plus 10% for agreed attorneys’ fees in the amount preceding subparagraph (a). c) If after making all the above payments there shall be a surplus, said surplus shall be delivered to the Clerk of this Court, subject to further orders of the Court. 12. Plaintiff in these proceedings may apply to this Court for such further orders as it may deem advisable to its interests, in accordance with the terms of this judgment.

THIS CASE IS NOW CLOSED FOR ALL ADMINISTRATIVE AND STATISTICAL PURPOSES. IT IS SO ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 14th day of July, 2021. S/Daniel R. Domínguez, United States District Judge.

The San Juan Daily Star

Friday, July 23, 2021

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 20 de JULIO de 2021. En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, el 20 de JULIO de 2021.

LISILDA MARTINEZ AGOSTO, Secretario (a) Regional. F/YARITZA ROSARIO PLACERES, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

SUCESIÓN DE ALICIA CASTILLO LÓPEZ T/C/P ALICIA CASTILLO COMPUESTA POR RADAMES TORRES CASTILLO Y WALDEMAR TORRES CASTILLO, RADAMES TORRES SANTIAGO, POR SÍ Y EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA Y FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS LEGACY MORTGAGE DESCONOCIDOS ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1

maiudicial.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 $64,739.30, la suma de $9,851.24, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados.

Se 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. Se ordena a los herederos a que dentro del mismo término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de notificación, ACEPTEN O REPUDIEN la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante Alicia Castillo López t/c/p Alicia Castillo. Se les apercibe que de no expresarse dentro del término de (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por aceptada.

Lcdo. Javier Rivera Longchamps, Número del Tribunal Supremo 11907 221 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900, San Juan, PR 00917, Teléfono: (787) 296-9500, Correo Electrónico: jrivera@lvprlaw.com EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 14 de julio de 2021. Lcda.

NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, Secretario(a). f/ WANDA RENTAS BURGOS, SubSecretario(a).

to 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 5 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 21 de julio de 2021. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 21 de julio de 2021. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Secretario(a). VIRGEN Y. DEL VALLE DIAZ, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

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

SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC DEMANDANTE VS.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO COMO POSIBLE SUCESOR DE DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION H/N/C H. F. MORTGAGE BANKERS; LA SUCESION DE JORGE ARTEMIO BERRIOS MARTfNEZ COMPUESTA POR IVETTE PEREZ DiAZ, POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA, SHEILA BERRIOS PEREZ, JORGE L. BERRIOS PEREZ, SYLVETTE BERRIOS PEREZ, LIZBETH BERRIOS PEREZ; FULANA Y FULANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE Demandados Demandante VS. CORPORATION (FDIC) CITIMORTGAGE, INC., CIVIL NÚM: MZ2021CV00804 (306). SOBRE: INTERPELACOMO SÍNDICO JOHN DOE Y RICHARD CIÓN, COBRO DE DINERO Y DE DORAL BANK, ROE como posibles EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. DORAL MORTGAGE tenedores desconocidos EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICCORPORATION T/C/C Demandados TO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADORAL MORTGAGE, Caso Civil Núm. DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA LLC, DORAL FINANCIAL CG2021CV01062.

Sobre: EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESCORPORATION, MIRIAM CANCELACION O RESTITU- TADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LEGAL NOTICE CÓRDOVA VIDAL T/C/C CION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIA- LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUEREstado Libre Asociado de PuerDO. NOTIFICACION DE SEN- TO RICO. SS. MIRIAM CÓRDOVA DE TENCIA POR EDICTO. to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL GARCÍA T/C/C MIRIAM A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD A: FULANO Y MENGANO DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de PriDE TAL, como posibles mera Instancia Sala Superior GARCÍA FULANO Y ROE como posibles herederos desconocidos de SAN JUAN. MENGANO DE TAL, tenedores desconocidos MR. LOIZA LLC POSIBLES TENEDORES (Nombre d las partes a las que se le de la Sucesión de Alicia Castillo López t/c/p Alicia Demandante v. notifican la sentencia por edicto) DESCONOCIDOS DEL Castillo compuesta por FATMEN GROUP, LLC EL SECRETARIO (A) que susPAGARÉ Demandado(a) cribe le notifica a usted que Radames Torres Castillo, Demandado(a) Civil Núm. CA2021CV00758 el 1 de JULIO de 2021, este Waldemar Torres Castillo Civil Núm. SJ2020CV04206 (901). Sobre: DESAHUCIO SU(407). Sobre: CANCELACION Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, y Radames Torres MARIO, COBRO DE DINERO. DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO Sentencia Parcial o ResoluSantiago, por sí y en DEMANDADOS NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENción en este caso, que ha POR LA VIA JUDICIAL. NOcuanto a la cuota viudal CIA POR EDICTO. CIVIL NUM.: CA2021CV00378 TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA sido debidamente registrada usufructuaria y archivada en autos donde A: FATMEN GROUP, LLC (407). SOBRE: SUSTITUCION POR EDICTO. podrá usted enterarse deta(Nombre de las partes a las que se le DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. DIRECCIÓN A: MIRIAM CORDOVA lladamente de los términos de notifican la sentencia por edicto) EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICDESCONOCIDA VIDAL T/C/C MIRIAM EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE la misma. Esta notificación se DE: BANCO POPULAR cribe le notifica a usted que el AMERICA, El Presidente de CORDOVA DE publicará una sola vez en un¯ DE PUERTO RICO 21 de julio de 2021, este Tri- Los Estados Unidos, El Estado GARCIA T/C/C MIRIAM periódico de circulación general Se le emplaza y requiere que bunal ha dictado Sentencia, Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. en la Isla de Puerto Rico, denGARCIA Y FULANO Y tro de los (10) días siguientes conteste la demanda dentro de Sentencia Parcial o Resolución A Ia parte co-demandada: MENGANO DE TAL, a su notificación. Y, siendo o los treinta (30) días siguientes en este caso, que ha sido debiJORGE L. BERRIOS POSIBLES TENEDORES representando usted una parte a la publicación de este edicto. damente registrada y archivada DESCONOCIDOS DEL en el procedimiento sujeta a Usted deberá presentar su ale- en autos donde podrá usted en- PEREZ COMO MIEMBRO CONOCIDO DE LA PAGARE los términos de la Sentencia, gación responsiva a través del terarse detalladamente de los (Nombre de las partes a las que se le Sentencia Parcial o Resolu- Sistema Unificado de Manejo y términos de la misma. Esta noSUCESION DE JORGE notifican la sentencia por edicto) ción, de la cual puede esta- Administración de Casos (SU- tificación se publicará una sola ARTEMIO BERRIOS EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- blecerse recurso de revisión o MAC), al cual puede acceder vez en un periódico de circulaMARTINEZ, a su ultima cribe le notifica a usted que el apelación dentro del término utilizando la siguiente dirección ción general en la Isla de Puerdirección conocida: 6 de julio de 2021, este Tribunal electrónica: https://unired.ra-

FISICA: (a) 128 SEVENTH AVE. WOONSOCKET, RI 02895 y POSTAL: (b) 128 SEVENTH AVE. WOONSOCKET, RI 02895.

A Ia parte co-demandada: SHEILA BERRIOS PEREZ, a su última dirección conocida: FISICA: (a) 10224 DYLAND ST., APT 135, WENWORTH, ORLANDO, FL 328254845 y POSTAL: (b) 10224 DYLAND ST., APT 135, WENWORTH, ORLANDO, FL 32825-4845.

Se les notifica por este medio que en el caso del epígrafe se solicita La SUSTITUCION DE UN PAGARE EXTRAVIADO notarizado bajo el testimonio núm. 762 Vol. XXXV a favor de Doral Financial Corporation, haciendo negocios como HF Mortgage Bankers, o a su orden, por Ia suma de $151,000.00, devengando intereses a razón del 5.50% por ciento anuaL, vencedero el primero (1ro) de febrero de 2034, garantizado con hipoteca constituida mediante escritura nUmero 14 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 30 de enero de 2014, ante el Notario José M. Gonzalez Romanace, Ia cual consta inscrita al folio 190 del tomo 1394 de Carolina, finca número 57,787, inscripción Segunda (2da) y última. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diana general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), a! cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en !a secretarla del tribunal y notifique copia de !a Contestación de Ia Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCION a! Lcdo.

Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de Ia Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a Ia publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado

sin más citarle(s) ni oirle(s).

EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 16 de julio de 2021, en Carolina, Puerto Rico. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodriguez, Sec Regional. Rosa M Viera Velazquez, Sec Auxiliar Trib I.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC. Demandante v.

JAIME LUIS TORRES ROBLES; SU ESPOSA LYDIA ZOE NEGRÓN LUNA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; FERNANDO FEBLES GUZMÁN, SU ESPOSA DIXIE TORRES NEGRÓN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados CIVIL NUM.: JCD2016-0956.

SALA: 406. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Ponce, Ponce, 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 24 de junio 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: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Montemar Apartments, situado en la Carretera número 2, kilómetro 2255.2 en el Barrio Canas del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, Apartamento número 116, localizado en el Edificio 1515, piso primero. Consta de un área superficial de 734.70 pies cuadrados equivalentes a 68.25 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, con pared hacia el exterior, puerta de acceso a apartamento y escalera; por el SUR, con pared del exterior; por el ESTE, con Apartamento número 115 y escalera y por el OESTE, con pared exterior.

Esta propiedad está formada por sala, comedor, cocina, tres dormitorios con “closets”, baño y área de lavandería. Le

corresponde un estacionamiento doble identificados con los números 117 y 118 una participación de 1.4413%, en los elementos comunes. Inscrito al folio 169 del tomo 1,170 de Ponce, finca número #27,215 Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda de Ponce. La propiedad ubica en: 1515 Apartamento 116, Montemar Apartments, Ponce, Puerto Rico. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 12 de agosto de 2019 y notificada el 19 de agosto de 2019, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $72,211.82 generando intereses a razón del 6.5%, desde el 1 de julio de 2016, 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 $8,433.30 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 13 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Ponce, Ponce Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $84,333.00.

Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 20 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $56,222.00, 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 27 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $42,166.50, 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

The San Juan Daily Star 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 Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de JULIO de 2021. Miguel A. Torres Ayala, Alguacil, División de Subastas, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce.

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, INC. Demandante v.

JESSICA RAMOS MARTÍNEZ; SU ESPOSO EDWIN E. GARCÍA MAISONET, T/C/C EDWIN GARCÍA MAISONET Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

Friday, July 23, 2021 AMBOS

Demandados CIVIL NUM.: DCD2015-1818 (401). SALA: 0401. SOBRE: IN REM - EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA, El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; y personas con algún interés, que cumpliré con un Mandamiento librado por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe, el 3 de junio de 2021, para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada el 21 de septiembre de 2015, notificada el 4 de noviembre de 2015. La cantidad adeudada según la Sentencia, asciende a $79,615.69 por concepto de principal; $373.84 por concepto de intereses acumulados; $495.64 por concepto de 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 $8,072.36 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. Conforme a lo anterior, venderé en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto al bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela número 457 de la Comunidad Rural Hoyo, Barrio Sabana, Vega Alta, con una cabida de 1,330.65 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con Mogote número 490-A; por el SUR, con Calle número 33 de la Comunidad; por el ESTE, con parcela número 448 de la Comunidad y por el OESTE, con parcela número 448 de la Comunidad. Inscrito al folio 61 del tomo 222 de Vega Alta, finca número #11,803 Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Tercera de Bayamón.

La propiedad ubica en: 457 Calle 6 Comunidad Sabana Hoyos Vega Alta, Puerto Rico. La finca antes relacionada se encuentra afectada a uno gravamen posterior al que se pretende ejecutar, el cual se describe de la siguiente manera: a. Hipoteca en garantia de un pagaré a favor de Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $4,500.00, sin intereses, vencedero en 6 años, constituida mediante la escritura número 1278, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el dia 30 de noviembre de 2007, ante la notario Lesbia Hernández

Miranda, e inscrita al folio 2588 del tomo 332 de Vega Alta, finca número 11,803, inscripción 4ta, como Asiento Abreviado extendidas las lineas el dia 27 de noviembre de 2017, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del dia 27 de diciembre de 2010.

(Fue presentado el dia 10 de enero de 2008 al Asiento 1195 del Diario 490). Sujeta a Condiciones a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, a través del programa La Llave Para Tu Hogar, por el término de 6 años. b. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 27 de julio de 2015, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, en el caso civil número DCD20151818 (401), sobre In REM, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Jessica Ramos Martinez y su esposo Edwin Garcia Maisonet, por la suma de $88,557.53, anotado el día 6 de julio de 2020, al tomo Karibe de Vega Alta, finca número 11,803, anotación A. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 23 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 11:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el quinto piso, Sala 503 del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es por la cantidad de $73,080.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 30 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 3:15 DE LA TARDE, en el quinto piso, Sala 503 del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $48,720.00, 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 7 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021 A LAS 3:15 DE LA TARDE, en el quinto piso, Sala 503 del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $36,540.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el quinto piso, Sala 503 del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Se le advierte a los postores o licitadores que la adjudicación del bien inmueble a subastarse se hará al mejor postor o licitador victorioso, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los

preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Con el producto que se obtenga de la subasta se le pagará a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia hasta donde alcance, y se pondrá al adjudicatario o licitador victorioso en posesión de la propiedad subastada, libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de celebrada la subasta. Para cumplir con lo anterior, el Alguacil queda facultado, de ser necesario, para romper candados y cerraduras que impidan el acceso a la propiedad subastada. Todos los interesados quedan notificados de que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, así como en la Colecturía más cercana al lugar de residencia de la parte demandada, cuando ésta fuera conocida, y se le notificara además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes.

Librado en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 13 de julio de 2021.

JOSE F MARRERO ROBLES, Alguacil, División de Subastas, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón.

LEGAL NOTICE

OTROS

Demandante v.

Diana por sí, Mildred

Demandado(a) Veguilla Flores por sí y la Civil Núm. CA2018CV02891. Sociedad Legal de Bienes SALA 409. Sobre: COBRO DE Gananciales Compuesta DINERO Y EJECUCION DE por Ambos HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDemandado(a) DINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE Civil Núm. HU2021CV00240.

SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO A: LA SUCESION Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA DE NITZA RAMOS POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOSANABRIA COMPUESTA TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR FULANO DE TAL POR EDICTO.

Y SUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION; LA SUCESION DE IVETTE RAMOS SANABRIA COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION; ZAIDA RAMOS SANABRIA E HILDA IRIS RAMOS SANABRIA, COMO MIEMBROS DE AMBAS SUCESIONES.

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

LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRIGUEZ, Secretario(a).

MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

Estado Libre Asociado de PuerLEGAL NOTICE to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Pri- Estado Libre Asociado de Puermera Instancia Sala Superior to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL de CAROLINA .

DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior FIRSTBANK de HUMACAO. PUERTO RICO

SUCESION DE NITZA RAMOS SANABRIA Y

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MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P. Demandante Vs

José Antonio Carattini

A: José Antonio Carattini Diana por sí, Mildred Veguilla Flores por sí y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales Compuesta por Ambos; DIRECCION; 347 CAOBA ST. D 19 LOS SAUCES DEV. HUMACAO PR 00791, 1914 BERYL WAY WATERVLIET NY EU 12189; P/C LCDA. MARICELI PEREZ GONZALEZ

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de JULIO 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 21 de JULIO de 2021. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 21 de julio de 2021.

Dominga Gomez Fuster, Sec Auxiliar. Keyla Perez Figueroa, Sec Auxiliar.

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

ORIENTAL BANK, Demandante v.,

WILLIAM RAMOS SANTOS, GLORIVEE CLAUDIO GALARZA y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por ambos

Demandados CIVIL NUM.: CG2021CV00135.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTOP OR EDICTO.

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

A: WILLIAM RAMOS SANTOS, GLORIVEE CLAUDIO GALARZA y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por ambos

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

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

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Olympics virus cases raise tricky questions about testing

By EMILY ANTHES and ALEXANDRA E. PETRI

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n Sunday, officials announced that two players on South Africa’s soccer team had become the first athletes to test positive for the coronavirus inside Tokyo’s Olympic Village. The next day, news broke that an alternate on the American women’s gymnastics team, training outside of Tokyo, tested positive.

Another cluster of cases has reportedly popped up on the Czech men’s beach volleyball team. There will be more.

“The Olympic Village isn’t the type of lockdown bubble that you saw in the NBA,” said Zachary Binney, a sports epidemiologist at Oxford College of Emory University. “So I think you are going to continue to see cases pop up, including among vaccinated people.”

It is too early to judge what effect, if any, the Olympics will have on the COVID-19 pandemic writ large — or if the Games may ultimately fuel larger outbreaks.

But the discovery of isolated cases, even in vaccinated athletes, is entirely expected, scientists say, and not necessarily a cause for alarm. “This isn’t really that much of a surprise,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virus expert at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan.

Still, these cases do raise thorny questions about how to design testing programs — and respond to test results — at this phase of the pandemic, in which the patchy rollout of vaccines means that some people and communities are well protected from the virus while others remain at risk.

As Rasmussen put it: “When does a positive test really indicate that there’s a problem?”

— Counting cases COVID-19 tests, which were once profoundly limited, are now widely available in most of the developed world, making it possible for organizations — including private employers, schools, professional sports leagues and the Olympics organizers — to routinely screen people for the virus.

Vaccination is not required for Olympic participants, and officials are relying

Australian athletes waited to take Covid-19 tests upon arriving at Narita International Airport in Tokyo last week. heavily on testing to keep the virus at bay in Tokyo. Those headed to the Games must submit two negative tests taken on separate days within 96 hours of leaving for Japan regardless of vaccination status, according to the Olympic playbooks, or manuals.

At least one of the two tests must be taken within 72 hours of departure. Participants are again tested upon arrival at the airport.

Athletes, coaches and officials are also required to take daily antigen tests, which are less sensitive than the more invasive PCR tests but are generally quicker and cheaper. (Olympic staff and volunteers may be tested less frequently, depending on their level of interaction with athletes and officials.) If a test comes back unclear or positive, a PCR test is administered.

“Each layer of filtering is a reduction in the risk for everybody else,” Brian McCloskey, the chair of the Independent Expert Panel of the International Olympic Committee, told reporters this week, adding that the number of confirmed infections is “lower than we expected.”

But when you look that hard for infections — especially in a group of people who have recently flown in from all over the globe and have had varying levels of access to vaccines — you’re all but des-

tined to find some.

“The bottom line is there’s still just a lot of SARS-CoV-2 around the world that’s spreading,” Rasmussen said, referring to the virus that causes COVID-19.

So far, 75 people with Olympic credentials have tested positive for the coronavirus, including six athletes, according to Tokyo 2020’s public database. That number does not include those who tested positive before their departure to Japan. Little information has been released about the severity of most of these cases, though public reports suggest that the athletes are generally experiencing mild or no symptoms.

“You’re going to pick up on these low-grade infections, and the players are going to be quarantined and out of competition,” said John Moore, a virus expert at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York.

“And they’re probably not going to be ill, because they’re young, healthy athletes.”

According to the Olympic playbooks, athletes with positive PCR tests are to be isolated at designated facilities, though the location and length of isolation vary depending on the severity of the case. Japan’s health authorities require a 10-day quarantine at facilities outside the Olympic Village, and multiple negative PCR tests before discharge, an IOC official

said in an email.

— Changing course Given these kinds of disruptions, some experts say that the benefits of routine testing of asymptomatic vaccinated individuals may not be worth the costs.

“Many places are still continuing to asymptomatically screen fully vaccinated individuals, which isn’t something that the CDC guidance recommends,” said Dr. Amesh A. Adalja, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “It lends itself to all of these kind of pseudo outbreaks that you might see with a bunch of asymptomatic infections.”

Testing remains vital for people who have symptoms of COVID-19, he noted.

But it no longer makes sense for those who feel fine and have been fully vaccinated, particularly with one of “the big four” vaccines — Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson or AstraZeneca — for which there is the most data, he added.

But officials may not always know who has been vaccinated and what vaccine they have received, Rasmussen noted. In those instances, they “really have no choice” but to use testing and contact tracing to minimize risks.

Moreover, questions about transmission remain unsettled. Vaccinated people with asymptomatic or breakthrough infections may still be able to pass the virus on to others, but it is not yet clear how often that happens.

Until that science is more definitive, or until vaccination rates rise, it is best to err on the side of safety and regular testing, many experts said. At the Olympics, for instance, frequent testing could help protect the broader Japanese population, which has relatively low vaccination rates, as well as the support staff, who may be older and at higher risk.

“It’s those folks I’m most worried about, really,” said Dr. Lisa Brosseau, a research consultant at University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy.

Not only can they contract the virus, adding strain on the Japanese health care system, but they can also become sources of transmission: “Everybody’s at risk, and everybody could potentially be infected,” she said.

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I tried three new Olympic sports. Here’s what I learned.

By EMILY SOHN

I

was standing atop one of the steepest skateboard ramps at the 3rd Lair, a graffiti-walled skate park near my home in Minneapolis. Flanked by my two sons, I peered over the edge and tried to wrap my mind around what I was supposed to do: jump onto my padded knees and slide down the near-vertical slope.

I was just 10 minutes into our first skateboarding lesson and my heart was thumping. I’ve been a lifelong athlete, but I’m also in my 40s and was wary of breaking a bone, or worse. Without hesitation, my 13-year-old took the plunge, and my 8-year-old followed soon after.

“Go on the exhale,” said our instructor, James Kaul, who goes by the nickname Trog and issues a never-ending stream of skateboarding advice that doubles as life philosophy. Things like, “You have to learn to fall before you can learn to skateboard.”

So I took a breath, fell onto my knees and slid. Then I did it twice more before we worked on getting on and off the board, turning, and rolling down (and up) small ramps.

Skateboarding is just one of several new sports making their Olympic debut in the Summer Games in Tokyo this month, in addition to karate, sport climbing (indoor rock climbing) and surfing.

While I have tended to pursue fairly mainstream workouts for most of my life, like swimming, running and mountain biking, I was curious about what it would take to be the best in sports I had never attempted. I was also intrigued by the potential physical and mental benefits I could reap from trying them. Participating in new sports can help strengthen long-neglected muscles, said Jack Raglin, an exercise and sports scientist at Indiana University Bloomington. And some evidence suggests that engaging in new activities and diversifying workouts can increase motivation to exercise, strengthen the brain and even boost feelings of passion in romantic relationships.

So I strapped on a skateboarding helmet, slipped into a climbing harness and tied on a karate belt to see if I had what it takes to master some of these new Olympic sports.

Three days after my skateboarding lesson, I picked up a friend and headed to Vertical Endeavors, a rockclimbing gym in a suburb south of Minneapolis. The gym has a dedicated wall for speed climbing, which, along with lead climbing (climbing with a rope) and bouldering (climbing with no rope), is one of three styles of rock climbing that will comprise the sport climbing event in Tokyo. A regulation speed climbing wall is 49 feet high with an overhang of 5 degrees. The goal: Scramble to the top, Spiderman-style, as quickly as possible and while racing an opponent.

My friend and I had experience rock climbing, but speed climbing was a first for us, so we asked Tony Mansourian, a coach for the gym’s youth climbing team, for

In speed climbing, the goal is to scramble to the top of the climbing wall, Spiderman-style, as quickly as possible, while racing an opponent. tips. He said that while more conventional types of sport and outdoor climbing focus on deliberate hand movements and foot placements, succeeding on the speed wall requires more dynamic jumping and minimal thinking.

Speed climbing is its own discipline,” Mansourian said. “Climbing it like you would climb a traditional climb almost makes it harder.”

After clipping into an auto-belay device, I tried to turn off my brain and levitate from hold to hold (as I’ve seen professionals do). But each move required more bursts of muscle power and leaps of faith than I could sustain. Several times, I barely caught the edge of the next hold and had to grunt my way through it.

My forehead grew sweaty. My heart rate soared. Every few moves, I had to stop to catch my breath. It took me about 2 minutes to get near the top, a far cry from the women’s world record of about 7 seconds. But I was exhilarated by the challenge and determined to get better.

A big benefit of weaving new activities into your exercise repertoire, said Martin Hagger, a health psychologist at the University of California, Merced, is that it can increase your motivation to workout. Novel experiences can spark the release of dopamine in the brain, he said,

which in turn can lead to feelings of pleasure, satisfaction and the urge to do them again.

Bonding with a community of people that you exercise with, like those at the climbing gym, can also make you more committed to a particular workout, Raglin said.

A sense of belonging can increase your self-esteem and cement your identity within that group of people, which in turn can help you develop and maintain a healthy habit. “Your reason for exercise broadens,” he continued, “from just sort of fitness or skill-based things to, ‘These are my friends and I want to share this with my friends.’”

With my forearms and triceps still aching the day after my speed-climbing attempt, I stood barefoot on a wooden floor, staring my husband in the eye before kicking at his stomach, then blocking his return punch and punching back. We were practicing kumite, one of two karate disciplines appearing for the first time in the Olympic program. In kumite, two people spar with punches and kicks, and earn points when they land a strike on specific places of their opponent’s body. The other discipline, kata, is a choreographed set of moves performed solo.

On a Tuesday morning, we learned the basics of both disciplines from the owners of a local studio called Kitsune Karate. Amy Sperling, who has won multiple national and international karate competitions, and her husband, Scott Parkin, moved with fluidity and grace as they demonstrated what to do. The moves looked doable, but I struggled to coordinate my arms and legs in the right order when it was our turn. We laughed at our mistakes as much as we kicked and punched. But there was also hidden value to the lesson.

Exercising with a spouse or partner may make people more likely to stick with a given workout — and the relationship, according to research from Raglin’s team and others. In one of Raglin’s early studies from 1995, married couples who exercised together were far more likely to continue an exercise program than married people who participated alone — a finding that has been replicated in other, mostly small studies since. Doing new and exciting things together, like skiing, dancing or going to a concert, can also lead to greater relationship satisfaction and make the activity more enjoyable, some research suggests.

After my week of Olympic adventure, I came away feeling sore, of course, but also emboldened to keep testing the bounds of my exercise comfort zone. I also felt closer to my kids, husband and friends. I wondered what else I could learn to do in my middle age.

Gaining the confidence to take risks is a fringe benefit of trying new activities, Raglin said. “If you get into that sort of groove, it’s like, ‘Well, what next?’” he said.

I have some courage yet to muster: Freestyle BMX is also a new cycling event this year, and break dancing is set to debut at the Olympics in 2024. But for now, I’m going to soak in a hot bath and revel in my Olympic accomplishments.

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Brilliance, and heartbreak: The story of Chris Paul’s career

By JONATHAN ABRAMS

I

n defeat, Devin Booker said that the youthful Phoenix Suns had hoped to skip many of the brutal roadblocks that can quickly vanquish a team with championship aspirations.

Like a broken hand. Or a finicky hamstring. Or running into a juggernaut of a team led by perhaps the greatest shooter ever.

Booker’s veteran teammate Chris Paul has experienced them all. This season’s NBA Finals loss provided the latest and most piercing disappointment of his brilliant career.

“I do a pretty good job of staying in the moment,” a prescient Paul said after the Suns had taken what many thought to be a commanding 2-0 series lead over the Milwaukee Bucks in the finals. “Maybe a lot of the guys on our team, it’s their first playoff series, they don’t know the heartache or the heartbreak. They’re just out there playing.

So, for me I know how quick things can change. I know how a possession or a play can change the dynamics of an entire series.”

More than any play or possession, Giannis Antetokounmpo’s generational performance for Milwaukee dashed Phoenix’s hopes for its first championship. Paul, playing in his first NBA Finals, performed superbly throughout most of the series and in the playoffs, coming agonizingly short of securing his career résumé’s lone omission.

In Game 6 of the finals, facing elimination, Paul displayed a channeled desperation, his shot-making ability at the end nearly single-handedly keeping Phoenix within striking distance.

“For me, it just means back to work,” Paul said following Tuesday’s 105-98 loss that sealed the championship for the Bucks.

“Back to work. Nothing more, nothing less.

Ain’t no moral victories or whatnot. We sort of saw what it takes to get there, and hopefully we see what it takes to get past that.”

This is a pivotal moment for Paul, 36, in a career that has had so many of them. He has experienced enough adversity to outlast his 16 NBA years, with New Orleans, the Los Angeles Clippers and Houston, knowing firsthand that an injury from nowhere can derail a franchise. It was his broken hand and hamstring with the Clippers; the hamstring, again, (and the shooting of Golden State’s Stephen Curry) in Houston.

The finals loss was the fourth time one of Paul’s teams allowed an opponent to recover from a 2-0 deficit.

“It’s tough,” Paul said. “Great group of guys, hell of a season, but this one is going to hurt for a while.”

Paul has a player option to remain in Phoenix for $44.2 million. He can also explore free agency, where his play has likely earned him another long-term, lucrative contract, an improbable scenario just a couple of years ago.

Still fresh off the latest loss, Paul declined to disclose any plans with reporters before making one declaration.

“I ain’t retiring, if that’s what you’re asking,” he said. “That’s out. So, back to work.”

It took a lot for the stars to finally simultaneously align and idle for Paul.

On the path to the championship series, the Suns ousted a Los Angeles Lakers team with a limited Anthony Davis, a Denver Nuggets squad without Jamal Murray and the Kawhi Leonard-less Clippers.

Through each series, Paul stacked upon a resurgent regular season worthy of candidacy for the Most Valuable Player Award by table-setting the offense and supplementing Booker’s scoring.

He darted past primary defenders, exploiting mismatches, in routinely hunting for his bread-and-butter midrange jumper.

“He brought us all the way up here,” said Deandre Ayton, the third-year Suns center. “We know the type of detail we have to really emphasize to have consistency, to play at the level like this, and the type of competitor he is, it was contagious.

Knowing your opponent, knowing what the team likes, knowing what teams throw at you, things like that, C.P. added to everybody’s arsenal.”

Paul recovered from a shoulder injury to help dispatch the defending-champion Lakers. He scored 37 points in the game that ended Denver’s season. He sent the Clippers home by scoring 31 of his 41 points in the second half of Game 6 in the Western Conference finals after missing the start of the series because of coronavirus health and safety protocols.

None of those opponents featured a perimeter defender like Milwaukee’s Jrue Holiday, brought to the Bucks with the specific purpose of trying to bottle players like Paul and Booker.

At times, Milwaukee’s full-court pressure on Paul appeared wearisome, particu-

Chris Paul and the Phoenix Suns were two wins away from an N.B.A. championship, but their season ended with a six-game series loss to the Milwaukee Bucks. larly in Game 4 when Paul committed five costly turnovers during a key loss. In the series, Paul averaged 21.8 points and 8.2 assists.

Suns coach Monty Williams made the case that a career like Paul’s should be appreciated for what it is, rather than dissected for what it is not. Today’s players are cognizant of the importance of cementing their legacies with a championship. Barbershop debates are started and ended over the topic.

“It’s laughable when you talk about guys like Chris who have had these unreal careers and yet they get penalized because they haven’t won a title,” Williams said, adding: “It’s hard enough to make it to the NBA, let alone be an all-time great, which is what he is.”

Booker, listening to Williams’ comments, added: “That’s complete nonsense to the real hoopers out there. But our group, we supported Chris all the way, he led us this whole entire season and this is our first year together.”

The momentum that fueled the Phoenix Suns’ run to the NBA Finals began inside last season’s bubble at Walt Disney World in Florida. The team’s record — 26-39 when the regular season paused in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic — barely qualified the Suns for the NBA’s restart that summer.

An 8-0 effort at Disney World im-

pressed, yet still Phoenix fell short of making the playoffs, for the 10th straight season.

The abbreviated appearance both convinced the organization that it was a veteran star short of legitimate playoff contention, and convinced Paul — under contract with the Oklahoma City Thunder — that Phoenix could be a destination worthy of consideration.

In November, the Suns landed Paul in a blockbuster deal with the Thunder, relinquishing a substantial package.

In Phoenix, Paul reunited with Williams, who had coached him a decade earlier in New Orleans. The pair aimed their reunion aspirations high, a vision few others shared. Phoenix made few additions to its young, untested core outside of Paul and Jae Crowder.

Phoenix then progressed from drafting in the lottery to playing in the finals in a few short months.

“He’s a generational player,” Williams said. “I said that 11 years ago when I coached him in New Orleans. And everywhere he’s gone, the team has won. They have improved. He’s been close. He was an injury away from getting here before, but he along with Book, to lead a team that’s never been there to this point says a lot about their talent, their dedication, the will to win.”

It is in Paul’s hands whether he returns to Phoenix to rebuild from his newest heartbreak.

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

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

Crossword

Answers on page 38

Wordsearch

GAMES

HOROSCOPE Aries

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(Mar 21-April 20)

You may be especially appreciated in any environment where there is a job to be done. This is a great time for getting along with co-workers and for teamwork, as your efforts to fit in and help out will be noticed. There is also potential for a romance at work. With lovely Venus moving into Virgo, you’ll show your affection for another by being efficient and practical.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Luscious Venus your personal planet sashays into Virgo and your romance zone, adding a zesty sparkle to new and developing bonds. You may be in a playful mood and keen to enjoy time out with your family, and to unwind in good company.

Creative self-expression can be rewarding Taurus, and your natural ability to fashion things of beauty could come into its own at this time.

Keen to make your home a wonderful place to be?

The coming weeks are great for smoothing over any family issues and considering a makeover. With arty and crafty Venus moving in from today, it’s time to unleash your creative talents and get clever with paint, fabrics and woodwork. Your diplomatic skills will also be to the fore, which could be helpful if someone has a tiff.

Cancer

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(June 22-July 23)

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Venus your personal planet moves into Virgo and a quiet zone from today, which can coincide with a need to keep certain things under wraps. If you’ve just started a relationship, you might not want everyone to know about it just yet. If so, this is a chance to take your time to and see how you get along before you make any introductions. Remember to relax and recharge too.

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Finding others who are passionate about the same things as you, may be important to you over coming weeks. You’ll enjoy mixing with those of like mind, but you’ll also be excited to join groups and meet new people. If a romance does get off the ground at this time, it is likely that you will be good friends firstly, and that things will progress naturally over coming weeks, Scorpio.

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

Lucky you, Archer! As Venus moves into a highflying zone, you’ll find it easier to make positive connections with those in high places. And this light-filled planet also aligns with beneficial Jupiter, meaning that whatever opportunities show up can have a positive impact on other areas of life.

In addition, a little charm may go a long way, and could tip the scales in your direction.

You’ll enjoy getting to know others and discovering what makes them tick. And as Venus moves into your sector of talk and thought, you’ll have an opportunity to make new friends and connect with others on your wavelength. Plus, this influence can help you draw closer to certain people. If someone has been difficult to get to know, your bond could quickly change for the better.

You’ll have a taste for the exotic, as a delightful influence moves into your travel and adventure zone.

This can show up as a desire to try new cuisine, travel with a friend or partner, and to experience more of life in general. Be open to new opportunities, as something good could come from saying yes to them.

Plus, a promising encounter may lead to a new and exciting phase.

Leo

Aquarius

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

Financial security may take on greater importance for a few weeks, as Venus enters your money zone.

Looking for ways to make savings could be uppermost in your mind. If there is something you want, then you will likely get it, as under this influence you’ll relish a touch of luxury. You might be drawn to stylish clothes or items that are well designed and very functional.

As Venus moves into Virgo and an intense emotional zone, you may be ready to unpick something that’s bothered you for some time. It could be a relationship matter, or an issue linked to money or business that needs attention, but reaching out to others with expertise can help you. Mind, there is also potential for a small windfall that might come out of the blue.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

Sweet Venus enters your sign today, and her presence here can encourage you to indulge, whether for romance or pure pleasure. You’ll enjoy the opportunity to interact by moving in new circles and making promising connections. But right off the bat Venus, makes a lovely alignment with jovial Jupiter, so anything you do begin at this time could take off and prove very lucrative, Virgo.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

A more harmonious phase begins, as Venus the peacemaker moves into your sector of relating. Had any difficulties recently? If so, this soothing planet can help you resolve them and pave the way for better times going forward. And it seems that you might hit it off with someone you encounter. With a buoyant and uplifting aspect on the cards, a new friendship could develop.

Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 37

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Mod. MA01 No incluye fregadero, mezcladora ni fittings.

Mod. 1C No incluye fregadero, mezcladora ni fittings.

32 gl

69.99 48 gl

color blanco

69.99

Zafacón con tapa 32gl Abanico Garbage truck compatible $ .99 pedestal 26 Reliable $

79.99

36.99

por quintal recogido

TEX-GOLD

Pega para empañetado texturizada

$

61.99

$

74.99

47lb

$ $

64.99

Paila

$

Crossco

104.99

Cemento

4

$ .29

94.99

Recogido

$

BLOQUE DE CONCRETO 4”x8”x16” • 6”x8”x16” y Petril

.85¢

Rollo de Cobre

1/2” rollo de 60’

16 Paila 4 gl .99

124.99

$

$

129.99

Tipo L extrangero

109.99

$

Paila

94.99

PODADORAS

Briggs & Stratton 22” 3 in 1 (mod YF22-3in1 con 140 cc) $

Recogido

$

5500

Paila

369

.99

Trupper 18”

(mod P418 con 139 cc) $

Podadora Husqvarna

21” 3 in 1 (mod LC221FHE con 163 cc ) $

459.99

$

114.99

$

49.99

$

119.99

GENERADORES

Generador Inverter Eléctrico

Inverter Briggs and Stratton Inv. de 3,000wts $ .99 Modelo 030545

999

Generador Inverter Eléctrico Inverter Firman Inv. 2,100wts Modelo W01781 (Rev03) $ .99

799

289.99

Humacao 787-691-5595 • Las Piedras 787-716-9005

Lunes a sábado de 7:00 am a 5:00 pm / domingos 8:00 am 1:00 pm • Especiales válidos hasta el 31 de julio de 2021 • Todos los precios son recogido