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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Monday that he opposes the $10.1 billion budget for fiscal year 2022 passed by the island House of Representatives over the weekend because it severely cuts services and requires the governor to obtain legislative approval for his actions.

The budget approved by the Legislature, however, was increased during the review process.

Pierluisi had a few months ago proposed a $10.3 billion budget, but the Legislature opted to use as its basis a $10.1 billion budget prepared by the federal Financial Oversight and Management Board.

“In the process of preparing the budget before the Financial Oversight and Management Board, we managed to include some important initiatives, such as money to combat gender violence, to start a pilot project of investment in public service, to address climate change, for social assistance and anti-poverty programs, and about $2 million in increases in necessary personnel such as social workers, prosecutors, inspectors in the Department of Consumer Affairs (DACO) and adjustments to comply with pensioners of government retirees,” Pierluisi said at a press conference.

“However, the [oversight] board’s budget fell short, so I brought to the Legislative Assembly the appropriations that they should take into consideration to improve government services and promote economic development, including funds for road maintenance, incentives to promote Puerto Rico as an air cargo base, first job opportunities for young people, and to recruit retired personnel in support of our agencies, among several others,” the governor said. “To the surprise and detriment of our people, the House of Representatives ignored most of the initiatives that benefit the people and instead made greater cuts, imposed more bureaucracy on the government and assigned increases in its own budget.”

Pierluisi stressed that the House’s Popular Democratic Party majority cut $200 million budgeted for the Highway and Transportation Authority and distributed the funds without considering established priorities.

“Worse still, they used that item to justify getting $112 million in UPR [University of Puerto Rico] scholarship money despite the fact that those funds were already assigned for that and the Department of the Treasury has them in a restricted account,” he said.

The House’s budget transferred scholarship funds

to UPR’s endowment fund.

The governor charged that the budget approved by the House over the weekend increased the budget for the House, the Senate and the Capitol Superintendency by $17 million but declined to provide more money for the upkeep of roads or to the Department of Education.

“They cut $1 million from the payroll of the Department of Health, they denied the Department of Justice $3 million for the recruitment of more prosecutors, they denied providing $44 million for the equalization fund for municipalities and they did not allocate $94 million to UPR’s budget,” he said. “In short, they ignored the needs of the people in exchange for funds for themselves.”

The House budget identified $44 million in funds for municipalities but set aside the money to allow towns to make contracts to take over maintenance of roads, schools and recreational areas instead of putting them in the equalization fund.

Pierluisi rejected “the language of the House budget that seeks to obstruct the work of the government, since it forces the governor to seek legislative approval and increases red tape at agencies.”

He urged the Senate to revise the budget when it evaluates it on June 17 so that together with the Legislature he can defend the budget before the oversight board.

“There is still time to correct the errors in the approved budget,” he said.

If the legislative and executive branches do not agree on a single version of the budget, then the oversight board can impose its own budget that contains cuts to municipalities and the UPR.

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi

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Seismic Network chief: Earthquake prep must be a team effort

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

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n light of the recent 5.0-magnitude earthquake that occurred west of Mona Island in the early hours of the morning Monday, Puerto Rico Seismic Network (PRSN) Director Dr. Víctor Huerfano called on islanders to remain calm and to organize themselves to “achieve true resilience.”

In an interview with The STAR, Huérfano said that given the vulnerability caused by Hurricane Maria and the 2020 earthquakes that shook the island’s southwest, islanders and decision-makers alike must focus on developing a plan that addresses the “before, during, and after” of any disaster.

“It is not so much a recommendation; it’s a desire for islanders to really become resilient not only with respect to hurricanes and tremors but also pandemics, fires, droughts, landslides,” he said. “Many issues in our environment, caused by climate change, must be addressed. Scientists can do our part, decision-makers will do theirs; the common people must do theirs, too.”

“We, scientists, could put our two cents into these efforts and recommend, but now, heads of families are responsible for preparing their emergency plans and kits,”

Following Monday morning’s 5.0-magnitude earthquake west of Mona Island, Puerto Rico Seismic Network Director Dr. Víctor Huerfano urged islanders to keep calm, but also to organize themselves to “achieve true resilience.”

Huérfano added.

As for the tremor that occurred at 6:15 a.m. Monday morning southeast of the Dominican Republic, according to the PRSN, Huérfano told The STAR that the events were not unusual as they are associated with movements between the North American and Caribbean tectonic plates, which occurred over 60 kilometers below the ocean floor.

“These earthquakes, at the moment, are not related to the events that have happened to the southeast of Puerto Rico; they’re different episodes,” the geologist said of Monday’s quake. “Because the quake hap-

pened at a deeper level, there were reports of people in the metropolitan area who felt it in a 10th-floor apartment.”

Earlier in the day, the agency said on its Twitter account that it had received reports that the earthquake was felt in several towns on the island.

Among those towns were Mayagüez, Añasco, Cabo Rojo, San Germán, Yauco, Moca, San Sebastián, Orocovis, Barranquitas, Corozal, Utuado, Caguas, Isabela, Guaynabo, San Juan and Vega Baja.

In addition, the earthquake was reported as having been felt in several parts of the Dominican Republic, including Santo

Domingo and La Romana.

The United States Geological Survey located the earthquake at latitude 18.15 degrees north and longitude 68.49 degrees west, at a depth of 76.4 kilometers.

Due to its magnitude, the earthquake did not generate a tsunami watch, warning, or watch for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, the PRSN said.

“In Puerto Rico, there are seismic faults in the four cardinal points and inland, so the PRSN always urges citizens to be prepared for an earthquake of great proportions,” the agency stated. “It is not known when it will occur, but it is known that it will happen.”

The PRSN is attached to the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus.

The STAR asked meanwhile if the recent $94 million budget cut proposed by the federal Financial Oversight and Management Board would affect the PRSN, Huérfano said the network’s operations remain unaffected.

Still, research funds would be at risk, he added.

“We are part of the University of Puerto Rico, and anything that affects the institution will affect us as the academics we are,” Huérfano said. “Routine operations are still covered, but seeking funds for investigations could become a more complicated undertaking.”

UTIER chief not surprised LUMA chose another union

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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ngel Figueroa Jaramillo, president of the Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union (UTIER by its Spanish acronym), said Monday that he was not surprised that the Insular Union of Industrial and Electrical Construction Workers (UITICE by its Spanish initials) was selected by LUMA Energy as the exclusive representative of the consortium’s employees and called the process undemocratic and “a clear conspiracy of Héctor Reyes, the president of the UITICE, for not looking after the best interests of the workers and the people.”

“We are not surprised. This was already known and you could see it coming,” Figueroa Jaramillo said in a written statement. “Before LUMA came into operation, this abuse of the workers was already being ironed out between the employer and UITICE. The track record of Héctor Reyes speaks for itself; betrayal and leaving those represented by him alone is his

calling card. We saw how, in the transition process, he turned his back on his membership, most of whom repudiated the contract, to go after the crumbs that LUMA offered him.

The membership repeatedly asked him for assemblies and Reyes canceled. Furthermore, he did nothing to guarantee workers’ rights through the successor employer bill. If that is how he treated those he represents, what can you expect him to do now? Nothing different.”

The UTIER president went on to point out that the union selection process was undemocratic because it did not allow elections and technically it was the employer who selected the union to represent its employees.

“When the employer is the one who selects the union that is going to represent its employees, one already has the idea of what that relationship will be like,” Figueroa Jaramillo said. “You will see a union that is not going to control the employer, that is not going to ensure the best interests of its enrollment. A union and a president who are sold for any crumb offered by the employer and

with the track record of Héctor Reyes, that is, unfortunately, what they can expect from this union-employer relationship.”

He reiterated that UTIER will continue to fight against the contract with LUMA Energy “that increases the [power] rate and does not guarantee an improvement in the electrical system as it has demonstrated.”

He added that UTIER officials are working on the creation of a structure that will group all the employees of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) who were mobilized to work in other government agencies.

“The UTIER is alive and will continue alive and with more force,” Figueroa Jaramillo said.

LUMA Energy, operator of the electric power transmission and distribution system in Puerto Rico since June 1, confirmed Monday that UITICE formally requested recognition as an exclusive representative of collective bargaining for an employee bargaining unit.

In a written statement, LUMA Energy said “UITICE has achieved majority representation, confirmed by an impartial arbitrator, and

LUMA recognizes UITICE as the bargaining representative of a LUMA employee bargaining unit.”

“LUMA hopes to begin negotiations regarding a collective bargaining agreement and establish a relationship with the union, governed by the National Labor Relations Law,” LUMA Energy said in the statement.

Ángel Figueroa Jaramillo, president of the Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union

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Ruiz Costas’ family hands ethics complaints against judges to Supreme Court chief justice

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

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etermined to seek justice for Andrea Ruiz Costas and other gender violence victims who have unsuccessfully sought help from the judicial branch, family members of the 35-year-old femicide victim on Monday handed copies of ethics complaints filed against Caguas Superior Court judges Ingrid Alvarado and Sonya Nieves to Puerto Rico Supreme Court Chief Justice Maite Oronoz Rodríguez.

The complaints were filed because the judges did not find cause for gender violence proceedings against 40-yearold Miguel Ocasio Santiago, Ruiz Costas’ former boyfriend.

On three occasions, Ruiz Costas requested a protection order and filed gender violence complaints under Rule 6 against the person who later confessed to killing her and burning her body.

After the meeting held at the high court’s headquarters on Constitution Avenue in San Juan, Alexandra Ruiz Costas, Andrea’s sister, said the meeting with Oronoz Rodríguez brought “a little bit of peace amid the pain we are facing.”

Although she and her family preferred not to share the topics discussed during the meeting, Ruiz Costas said she felt “positive with the work being done in the judicial branch during a very negative event.”

When asked if they saw or heard anything encouraging during the meeting, Ruiz Costas replied that the chief justice “seems like an empathetic person.”

“I believe in her empathy during this process,” she added.

“It is much better when we get to discuss issues face-to-face with the leaders of our country and when they tell us what

Family members of femicide victim Andrea Ruiz Costas delivered copies of ethics complaints filed against Caguas Superior Court judges Ingrid Alvarado and Sonya Nieves to Puerto Rico Supreme Court Chief Justice Maite Oronoz Rodríguez on Monday. they are working on instead of leaving problems that still cause pain in the dark.”

On May 1, Oronoz Rodríguez appointed a committee to investigate the management of the Ruiz Costas case at Caguas Superior Court.

Earlier in the day, Andrea Ruiz Costas’ family revealed the ethical complaints during a demonstration held close to Supreme Court headquarters, where protesters demanded that the high court release the audio recordings from the Rule 6 hearings where the woman requested protection from Ocasio Santiago.

“The honorable Supreme Court, they should be honorable and release what belongs to the public,” said Rebecca Noriega Costas, Andrea’s cousin.

Meanwhile, Noriega Costas said Women’s Advocate Lersy Boria Vizcarrondo “should start advocating for women.”

That comment came as Boria Vizcarrondo said in a radio interview that she did not favor the release of the audio from the court hearings because, similar to what the high court majority ruled, it would revictimize Ruiz Costas.

“They should stop making excuses because this will not revictimize my cousin; she got murdered in a cruel and vile situation. There’s no way anything or anyone can revictimize her,” Noriega Costas said. “We are not asking them to release information from every case of sexist violence; we are talking about one event where the victim is already dead at the hands of her former partner.”

“Emphasize this: Who is the women’s advocate and these five Supreme Court judges protecting? They are just watching out for each other,” Noriega Costas added. “There are so many Andreas in Puerto Rico. Andrea could be your mom, your daughter, your cousin, your friend, your aunt; you could have been that victim.”

When about her grief process, Noriega Costas said the event has been difficult to grasp and understand.

“Each time my aunt has to come from Ponce [to San Juan] just to have the Supreme Court postpone the hearing because a member gets sick, we can’t deal with that,” she said.

“We join with every family who has gone through this, which, unfortunately, there are too many,” Noriega Costas added. “This is an epidemic that should be attacked at the roots, starting with education.”

Transferred PREPA workers may now be up for hire by LUMA Energy

By THE STAR STAFF

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hile LUMA Energy had 2,100 workers when it took over management of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) transmission and distribution system, some 900 PREPA workers who are working for other government agencies may be seeking jobs with the private operator in the coming months.

However, Fermín Fontanés, executive director of the Public-Private Partnership Authority, said during a House Economic Development Committee hearing Monday that his agency had not confirmed LUMA Energy’s assertions that it had hired 2,100 workers. The private firm had said earlier this year it needed about 3,800 workers. PREPA had about 4,000 workers in the T&D operation, including more than 800 linemen. LUMA Energy has said it has hired some 350 linemen.

“Some 900 workers who before June 1 did not apply for jobs with LUMA and are working for other government agencies, are now seeking jobs in LUMA and are being interviewed,” Fontanés said.

Not having enough workers to operate is a violation

of the management contract.

House Treasury Committee Chairman Jesús Santa said that while the budget allocated some $90 million for PREPA workers who transferred to other agencies, he truly didn’t know how many workers would stay with the government.

Fontanés acknowledged that the government expected a higher number of PREPA workers to seek jobs with LUMA, but that did not happen. House Economic Development Committee Chairman Luis Raúl Torres said many PREPA workers opted not to seek jobs with LUMA because they would have been forced to resign from their PREPA jobs and lose benefits as new hires.

Fontanés also said he wrote to LUMA Energy last week to inquire about its communications campaign, which is dedicated to highlighting the positive aspects of the private firm instead of informing the public on how to pay their bills or use LUMA’s website.

The private consortium has already billed PREPA some $160 million for its services.

“I don’t have a problem with an advertising campaign, but more important than the jingle is providing information to the public,” Santa said.

Public Safety chief: Monacillos fire caused by ‘technical failure’ Public Safety Secretary Alexis Torres said Monday that a “technical failure” caused the explosion and fire at the Monacillos substation in Río Piedras last Thursday.

“I can anticipate that everything indicates that it was a technical failure of the equipment that was in place,” Torres said in response to questions from the press.

“What we are looking for is to analyze what happened,” he added. “In response, we take care of controlling the fire and examining the scene. In terms of technicalities of the team, that’s not us.”

He refrained from commenting on whether the event was preventable. He said that “in the next few days,” he will produce a complete report where they will establish the causes of the fire.

On Thursday afternoon, a fire broke out in the Monacillos substation, causing a blackout affecting some 700,00 energy customers.

Torres made his statements during the inauguration of Police Bureau barracks in Loíza.

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Nursing course at UPR to focus on healthcare needs of LGBTQ+ community

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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ith the purpose of providing learning experiences that promote holistic care to individuals and families of the LGBTQ+ community, the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) School of Nursing announced on Monday the creation of nursing course 5225 -- health care aimed at individuals and families from the LGBTQ+ community.

The course will also promote interprofessional learning, since it can be taken by students from the six schools that make up the UPR Medical Sciences Campus (RCM by its Spanish acronym), UPR officials said in a written communication.

In this way, the RCM School of Nursing is a pioneer in Puerto Rico in offering this type of course to undergraduate and graduate students.

The course, which marks a historic milestone both in the academy and the training of health professionals on the island, was developed by Dr. Leyra Figueroa, dean of academic affairs of the School of Nursing; Prof. Irma Vázquez, dean of student affairs of the School of Nursing; and Prof. Félix Román, director

The University of Puerto Rico School of Nursing will be offering a new nursing course focusing on the health care needs of individuals and families from the LGBTQ+ community. The course will be open to all students from the six schools that make up the UPR Medical Sciences Campus. of the Division of Continuing Education and Professional Studies and of the School of Nursing. Community activist Alejandro Santiago Calderón also participated in the course’s development.

“Our school is committed to providing a progressive educational experience of excellence in nursing sciences,” said Dr. Suane Sánchez, dean of the School of Nursing. “The nursing faculty is highly qualified with expertise in various areas of specialization. It stands out for its dedica-

tion, leadership and futuristic attitude in facing the new challenges demanded by higher education.”

Román said “people from the LGBTQ+ community are an undeniable part of Puerto Rican society.”

“Despite the fact that this group constitutes a quantitatively and qualitatively relevant social group in our country, sexual orientation and gender identity are not included in the majority of national health statistics and studies,” he noted.

“Therefore, little is known about the health needs, problems and inequalities of the LGBTQ+ population in Puerto Rico. That is why one of the goals of this course is focused on improving the health, safety and well being of LGBTQ+ people.”

For her part, Figueroa stated that “every nursing professional must offer culturally congruent care, defend the rights of LGBTQ+ people, proactively contribute to reducing health inequalities and increase the quality of care for individuals, families and communities.”

“Usually the specific health needs of the LGBTQ+ population are insufficiently known or even ignored by the authorities and health professionals,” she said.

It should be noted that the course also seeks to train professionals who, through interventions, promote social justice in health and provide culturally competent care.

“We are very proud to be able to develop this academic alternative,”Vázquez said. “This course aims to promote that LGBTQ+ people can enjoy a long life and quality of life. This requires a specific approach from information, research, services and training of health professionals, as well as the administrations in charge of public health.”

Sabana Grande mayor demands immediate attention to power outage

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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abana Grande Mayor Marcos Valentín Flores on Monday demanded the prompt attention of LUMA Energy to restore electricity to several communities in the municipality that have been

Sabana Grande Mayor Marcos Valentín Flores said parts of his municipality have been without electric power for seven days. He called on LUMA Energy to dispatch repair crews with haste to the southwestern town.

without power for seven days.

“It is very unfortunate that our communities have to sleep or wake up without electricity,” Valentín Flores said in a written statement. “This situation is very constant and keeps the residents of Sabana Grande outraged.”

The mayor said that on June 1, 2021, he issued a letter to the technical area of San Germán in order to coordinate an emergency meeting with the personnel in charge of LUMA Energy, the private operator of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s transmission and distribution system since June 1.

“It was received by LUMA staff and was made known to the regional office in Mayagüez,” the mayor said.

“Yesterday, by means of a telephone call, I expressed to them that I need them to proceed immediately, since in our town we did not have severe problems like those we have faced in the past few days.”

Valentín Flores stressed that he “will not rest until the people’s claim is addressed.”

“I am hopeful of being able to have the collaboration and good faith of the new company to restore the electricity service to my town and help each of the af-

fected townspeople,” he said. “We will continue to fight for Sabana Grande to restore tranquility and services to our people. With the help of God I will fight and we will reach it.”

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In Congress, Republicans shrug at warnings of democracy in peril

By JONATHAN WEISMAN

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en. Christopher S. Murphy concedes that political rhetoric in the nation’s capital can sometimes stray into hysteria, but when it comes to the precarious state of American democracy, he insisted he was not exaggerating the nation’s tilt toward authoritarianism.

“Democrats are always at risk of being hyperbolic,” said Murphy, D-Conn. “I don’t think there’s a risk when it comes to the current state of democratic norms.”

After the norm-shattering presidency of Donald Trump, the violence-inducing bombast over a stolen election, the pressuring of state vote counters, the Capitol riot and the flood of voter curtailment laws rapidly being enacted in Republican-run states, Washington has found itself in an anguished state.

Almost daily, Democrats warn that Republicans are pursuing racist, Jim Crow-inspired voter suppression efforts to disenfranchise tens of millions of citizens, mainly people of color, in a cynical effort to grab power. Metal detectors sit outside the House chamber to prevent lawmakers — particularly Republicans who have boasted of their intention to carry guns everywhere — from bringing weaponry to the floor. Democrats regard their Republican colleagues with suspicion, believing that some of them collaborated with the rioters on Jan. 6.

Republican lawmakers have systematically downplayed or dismissed the dangers, with some breezing over the attack on the Capitol as a largely peaceful protest, and many saying the state voting law changes are to restore “integrity” to the process, even as they give credence to Trump’s false claims of rampant fraud in the 2020 election.

They shrug off Democrats’ warnings of grave danger as the overheated language of politics as usual.

“I haven’t understood for four or five years why we are so quick to spin into a place where part of the country is sure that we no longer have the strength to move forward, as we always have in the past,” said Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, a member of Republican leadership, noting that the passions of Republican voters today match those of Democratic voters after Trump’s triumph. “Four years ago, there were people in the so-called resistance showing up in all of my offices every week, some of whom were chaining themselves to the door.”

For Democrats, the evidence of looming catastrophe mounts daily. Fourteen states, including politically competitive ones like Florida and Georgia, have enacted 22 laws to curtail early and mail-in ballots, limit polling places and empower partisans to police polling, then oversee the vote tally. Others are likely to follow, including Texas, with its huge share of House seats and electoral votes.

Because Republicans control the legislatures of many states where the 2020 census will force redistricting, the party is already in a strong position to erase the Democrats’ razor-thin majority in the House. Even moderate voting-law changes could bolster Republicans’ chances for the net gain of one vote they need to take back the Senate.

And in the nightmare outcome promulgated by some

Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill on May 11, 2021. Blunt, a member of Republican leadership, says the passions of Republican voters today match those of Democratic voters after Donald Trump’s victory. academics, Republicans have put themselves in a position to dictate the outcome of the 2024 presidential election if the voting is close in swing states.

“Statutory changes in large key electoral battleground states are dangerously politicizing the process of electoral administration, with Republican-controlled legislatures giving themselves the power to override electoral outcomes on unproven allegations,” 188 scholars said in a statement expressing concern about the erosion of democracy.

Sen. Angus King, an independent from Maine who lectured on American politics at Bowdoin College before going to the Senate, put the moment in historical context.

He called American democracy “a 240-year experiment that runs against the tide of human history,” and that tide usually leads from and back to authoritarianism.

He said he feared the empowerment of state legislatures to decide election results more than the troubling curtailments of the franchise.

“This is an incredibly dangerous moment, and I don’t think it’s being sufficiently realized as such,” he said.

Republicans contend that much of this is overblown, though some concede the charges sting. Sen. Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., said Democrats were playing a hateful race card to promote voting-rights legislation that is so extreme it would cement Democratic control of Congress for decades.

“I hope that damage isn’t being done,” he added, “but it is always very dangerous to falsely play the race card and let’s face it, that’s what’s being done here.”

Toomey, who voted to convict Trump at his second impeachment trial, said he understood why, in the middle of a deadly pandemic, states sharply liberalized voting rules in 2020, extending mail-in voting, allowing mailed ballots to be counted days after Election Day and setting up ballot drop boxes, curbside polls and weeks of early voting.

But he added that Democrats should understand why state election officials wanted to course correct now that the coronavirus was ebbing.

“Every state needs to strike a balance between two competing values: making it as easy as possible to cast legi-

timate votes, but also the other, which is equally important: having everybody confident about the authenticity of the votes,” Toomey said.

Trump’s lies about a stolen election, he added, “were more likely to resonate because you had this system that went so far the other way.”

Some other Republicans embrace the notion that they are trying to use their prerogatives as a minority party to safeguard their own power. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said the endeavor was the essence of America’s system of representative democracy, distinguishing it from direct democracy, where the majority rules and is free to trample the rights of the minority unimpeded.

“The idea of democracy and majority rule really is what goes against our history and what the country stands for,” Paul said. “The Jim Crow laws came out of democracy. That’s what you get when a majority ignores the rights of others.”

Democrats and their allies push back hard on those arguments. King said the only reason voters lacked confidence in the voting system was that Republicans — especially Trump — told them for months that it was rigged, despite all evidence to the contrary, and now continued to insist that there were abuses in the process that must be fixed.

“That’s like pleading for mercy as an orphan after you killed both your parents,” he said.

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said in no way could some of the new state voting laws be seen as a necessary course correction. “Not being able to serve somebody water who’s waiting in line? I mean, come on,” he said. “There are elements that are in most of these proposals where you look at it and you say, ‘That violates the common-sense test.’”

Missteps by Democrats have fortified Republicans’ attempts to downplay the dangers. Some of them, including President Joe Biden, have mischaracterized Georgia’s voting law, handing Republicans ammunition to say that Democrats were willfully distorting what was happening at the state level.

The state’s 98-page voting law, passed after the narrow victories for Biden and two Democratic candidates for Senate, would make absentee voting harder and create restrictions and complications for millions of voters, many of them people of color.

But Biden falsely claimed that the law — which he labeled “un-American” and “sick” — had slapped new restrictions on early voting to bar people from voting after 5 p.m.

Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader, said the Georgia law had ended early voting on Sunday. It didn’t.

And the sweep — critics say overreach — of the Democrats’ answer to Republican voter laws, the For the People Act, has undermined Democratic claims that the fate of the republic relies on its passage. Even some Democrats are uncomfortable with the act’s breadth, including an advancement of statehood for the District of Columbia with its assurance of two more senators, almost certainly Democratic; its public financing of elections; its nullification of most voter identification laws; and its mandatory prescriptions for early and mail-in voting.

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Winning bidder paid $28 million for ticket to space with Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin are planning a space flight for July.

By TARA SIEGEL BERNARD

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n auction winner paid more than $28 million for an 11-minute ride into space alongside Jeff Bezos, on a reusable rocket launched by his space company, Blue Origin.

Nearly 7,600 people from 159 countries registered to bid on the flight aboard the New

Shepard — its first with passengers — which is expected to launch July 20 from West Texas. In addition to the winning bidder, who was not identified, and Bezos, passengers will include Bezos’ brother, Mark Bezos, and a fourth stillunnamed astronaut. The auction winner’s name will be released in roughly two weeks, according to a video on Blue Origin’s website.

The auctioned ticket went for $28 million, but the winner must also pay a 6% buyer’s commission, bringing the total cost to nearly $30 million. The monthlong auction took place in three phases — the first, with online bidding where bids weren’t visible, ended on May 19 at $1.4 million. When the online bidding became visible, the ticket reached $4.8 million, the price at which live online bidding began.

The proceeds from the winning ticket will be donated to Blue Origin’s foundation, Club for the Future, a science and education charity that aims to “inspire future generations to pursue careers” in science, technology and math, and stir an interest in space exploration.

Blue Origin’s rocket is named after Alan Shepard, the first American to go to space, in 1961. The vehicle has undergone 15 test flights, none with passengers.

New Shepard is designed to take six people on short suborbital flights — rising above the 62mile altitude generally regarded as the edge of space but then immediately coming back down instead of accelerating to the high velocities needed to enter orbit.

Passengers will arrive in advance of the launch for training. According to the video, the passenger capsule sits atop the booster — they separate at an altitude of about 250,000 feet, but they continue their ascent. At roughly 350,000 feet, or about 10 times higher than normal commercial jet flights, passengers will be allowed to unbuckle for three minutes of weightlessness.

After that, they’ll be asked to buckle up and their descent will be guided by three parachutes, according to the video.

Blue Origin’s biggest competitors in private rocketry, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, have both announced a number of trips.

In February, Jeff Bezos said he would step down as CEO of Amazon on July 5. Andy Jassy, the chief of Amazon’s cloud computing division, will become CEO, while Bezos will become executive chairman. Bezos said he wanted to put more time and energy into his other passions, including Blue Origin.

“I want to go on this flight because it’s a thing I’ve wanted to do my entire life,” Jeff Bezos said in a video on Blue Origin’s website. “It’s an adventure. It’s a big deal for me.”

Judge dismisses Houston workers’ lawsuit over vaccination mandate

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federal judge in Texas has dismissed a lawsuit brought by employees of Houston Methodist Hospital who had challenged the hospital’s COVID vaccination requirement.

U.S. District Judge Lynn N. Hughes, in the Southern District ofTexas, issued a ruling Saturday that upheld the hospital’s new policy, announced in April. The judge said the hospital’s decision to mandate inoculations for its employees was consistent with public policy.

And he rejected the claim by Jennifer Bridges, a nurse and the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, that the vaccines available for use in the United States were experimental and dangerous.

“The hospital’s employees are not participants in a human trial,” Hughes wrote. “Method-

ist is trying to do their business of saving lives without giving them the COVID-19 virus. It is a choice made to keep staff, patients and their families safer.”

The judge’s decision appeared to be among the first to rule in favor of employer-mandated vaccinations for workers. Several major hospital systems have begun to require COVID shots, including in Washington, D.C., and Maryland.

But many private employers and the federal government have not instituted mandatory immunization as they shift operations back to office settings. Earlier this year, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued guidance allowing employers to require vaccines for on-site workers.

In Houston, Bridges was among those who led a walkout June 7, the hospital’s deadline for

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Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, who could conceivably be a partner in Democratic efforts to expand voting rights, called the legislation a “fundamentally unserious” bill.

Republican leaders have sought to take the current argument from the lofty heights of history to the nitty-gritty of legislation. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader, pointed to the success of bipartisan efforts such as passage of a bill to combat hate

getting the vaccine. And Tuesday, the hospital suspended 178 employees who refused to get a coronavirus shot.

Bridges cited the lack of full Food and Drug Administration approval for the shot as justification for refusing to get vaccinated. But the FDA, which has granted emergency use authorizations for three vaccines, says clinical trials and post-market study show they are safe, as does the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The judge also noted that Texas employment law only protects employees from termination for refusing to commit an act that carries criminal penalties.

“Bridges can freely choose to accept or refuse a COVID-19 vaccine, however if she refuses, she will simply need to work somewhere else,” he said, also rejecting the argument that

employees were being coerced.

And the judge called “reprehensible” the lawsuit’s contention that a vaccination requirement was akin to medical experimentation during the Holocaust.

In a statement late Saturday, Dr. Marc Boom, chief executive of Houston Methodist, said: “Our employees and physicians made their decisions for our patients, who are always at the center of everything we do.”

Houston Methodist said it would begin proceedings to terminate employees who were suspended if they did not get vaccinated by June 21.

Jared Woodfill, the employee plaintiffs’ lawyer, also issued a statement Saturday, according to news reports, that indicated the workers would appeal the ruling.

crimes against Asian Americans, approval of a broad China competition measure and current talks to forge compromises on infrastructure and criminal justice as proof that Democratic catastrophizing over the state of American governance was overblown.

But Democrats are not assuaged.

“Not to diminish the importance of the

work we’ve done here, but democracy itself is what we’re talking about,” said Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii. “And to point at other bills that don’t have to do with the fair administration of elections is just an attempt to distract while all these state legislatures move systematically toward disenfranchising voters who have historically leaned Democrat.”

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As battle against virus ends, mayors confront a new villain: Criminals

By JULIE BOSMAN, FRANCES ROBLES and RICK ROJAS

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ayors of American cities have yearned for the moment they could usher in a return to normalcy, casting away coronavirus restrictions on bars, restaurants, parties and public gatherings.

Yet now, even with reopenings underway across the United States as the pandemic recedes, city leaders must contend with another crisis: a crime wave with no signs of ending.

They are cheerleading the return of office workers to downtowns and encouraging tourists to visit, eager to rejuvenate the economy and build public confidence.

But they are also frantically trying to quell a surge of homicides, assaults and carjackings that began during the pandemic and has cast a chill over the recovery.

In Austin, Texas, for example, 14 people were injured early Saturday morning in a mass shooting as revelers jammed a popular downtown nightlife district.

Some city officials have touted progressive strategies focused on community policing in neighborhoods where trust between police officers and residents has frayed. Others have deployed more traditional tactics like increasing surveillance cameras in troubled areas and enforcing curfews in city parks to clear out crowds, as police did in Washington Square Park in New York City last week.

In Chicago, which fully reopened Friday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot made clear that her focus was on reducing violence over the summer, and that her administration would focus resources on 15 high-crime pockets of the city as part of that effort.

“We owe it to all of our residents, in every neighborhood, to bring peace and vibrancy back,” Lightfoot said.

Superintendent David Brown, the head of the Chicago Police Department, announced this month what he called a “transformative moment” for the department, a plan to add more officers in the Civil Rights Unit, which is specially trained to work with marginalized residents, including those who are homeless. The plan would also expand youth initiatives in arts and sports.

Other cities, like Miami, are nearly free of pandemic restrictions and booming with tourists. This month, the top prosecutor in Miami-Dade County and local police leaders turned to the issue of public safety,

City Council President Felicia Moore outside her home in Atlanta on April 1, 2021. Moore says residents are growing weary of increased crime. announcing Operation Summer Heat, an initiative to combat a wave of shootings. Homicides in Miami are 30% higher this year than in the same period in 2020, according to data from the medical examiner’s office.

The efforts include additional streetlights and surveillance cameras, prosecutors assigned to “hot spot” areas and a code enforcement crackdown on illegal party venues.

“This is something we have never seen before,” Alfredo Ramirez III, director of the Miami-Dade Police Department, said of the recent surge in violence. “Now they are going to see something they’ve never seen before: They’re going to see the law enforcement community united, working as one.”

Business owners who are eager to see tourism return have been especially anxious about the persistent violence.

Pete Berghoff, whose family has owned the historic Berghoff restaurant in Chicago’s Loop since 1898, is planning to reopen its doors in July. But he is worried about the unruly gatherings of younger people downtown that have turned violent.

“I’m very concerned that as people return to work, there are going to be confrontations,” he said. “We’re excited to reopen.

But we need to make sure that everybody downtown feels safe.”

Homicide rates in large cities were up more than 30% on average last year, and up another 24% for the beginning of this

year, according to criminologists.

In Milwaukee, where homicides hit a record high in 2020, residents of neighborhoods burdened by gunfire are ready to leave. Asia Flanagan, 40, said that after a year of what has felt like never-ending tragedy on Milwaukee’s North Side, she intended to move out with her infant son.

“By October we’ll be out of here,” she said, sitting outside her apartment this month with her son Josiah, who wore a gray Captain America onesie and fiddled with the key fob to the family minivan. “That’s my birthday present to myself. I have a son to raise.”

Arnitta Holliman directs Milwaukee’s Office of Violence Prevention, a unit within the public health department that was hailed for its role in the steep decline in homicides from 2016-19. She attributed the current upswing in part to growing access to weapons — Wisconsin shattered its previous record for gun sales last year — and the destabilizing effect of the pandemic.

“There are a myriad of issues that play into why we see higher levels of violence — poverty, food insecurity and other related issues,” she said, “and, of course, COVID.” A violence prevention and intervention strategy announced by Holliman’s department includes an effort to connect

young people with more than 80 programs and activities to keep them out of trouble.

Bouchards, a boutique fashion retailer, fully opened its two Milwaukee locations about a month ago, but the owner, Rami Murrar, said the spike in violence seemed to be keeping some people away.

“Definitely it’s affecting my business, in a negative way,” Murrar, 40, said. “In the inner city in general we see more people walking around with guns, whether it’s concealed carry or whatnot. People are going to shop less because they’re scared to go out.”

Small and midsize cities have also seen an alarming spike in shootings.

Last month, the City Council in Jackson, Mississippi, gathered in a church for a special meeting over the gun violence crisis in a city of roughly 160,000 people. There were 130 homicides last year, according to law enforcement statistics, far surpassing the previous record of 92 killings in 1995.

With homicides up by about 70% in the first three months of this year, the outrage and frustration continue to grow.

“If we don’t save these children,” Kenneth I. Stokes, a city councilman, said during the meeting, “we’re going to keep having these meetings, keep going to the funerals — and wondering why.”

Police investigators at the scene of a shooting in New York’s Times Square on May 8, 2021. New York mayoral candidates have addressed how they would combat violent crime after the rare shooting in Times Square.

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A big climate problem with few easy solutions: Planes agreement to buy 9 million gallons of such fuel over several years, and Delta says it plans to replace one-tenth of its jet fuel with sustainable alternatives by 2030.

“There is huge growth potential for sustainable aviation fuel,” said Jeremy Baines, president of Neste U.S. “It’s a niche market today, but it’s growing very rapidly.

Between today and 2023 we are going to increase our production at least 15-fold.”

Neste produces 35 million gallons of renewable aviation fuel and hopes to reach 515 million gallons annually by the end of 2023 by ramping up production at refineries in Singapore and Rotterdam, the Netherlands. That is enough to fuel close to 40,000 flights by wide-body aircraft between New York and London, or well over a year’s worth of pre-pandemic air travel between the two cities.

A plane arrives at the United Airlines cargo facility in Chicago on Dec. 4, 2020. A But it is important to put those numrecently announced United Airlines deal will result in the airline’s buying about bers in perspective. U.S. airlines used more than 18 billion gallons of fuel in 2019, and 3.4 million gallons of sustainable fuel this year. the country as a whole consumes more than

By NIRAJ CHOKSHI and CLIFFORD ncil on Clean Transportation say emissions 100 billion gallons of petroleum products annually.

KRAUSS may grow even faster.

Rystad Energy, a Norwegian consulThe urgency isn’t lost on the industry. he worst of the pandemic may be Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines, speaks ting firm, predicts that renewable fuels will over for airlines, but the industry faces often about the need to address climate become increasingly economical after 2030 another looming crisis: an accounting change, but even he acknowledges that it and supply 30% of all aviation fuel by 2050. will be difficult for the industry to clean up But IHS Markit, a U.S. consulting firm, estiover its contribution to climate change.

The industry is under increasing pres- its act. He wants United and other airlines mates that sustainable jet fuel will make up only 15% of all jet fuel by 2050. sure to do something to reduce and even- to try different things and see what works.

Renewable jet fuel has its limits, too.

“It is the biggest long-term issue that tually eliminate emissions from travel, but it won’t be easy. Some solutions, like hydro- our generation faces. It is the biggest risk to The fuel reduces carbon emissions by only gen fuel cells, are promising, but it’s unclear the globe,” Kirby said in a recent interview. 30% to 50% compared with conventional when they will be available, if ever. That “There are plenty of things we can compete jet fuel, according to Daniel Evans, global leaves companies with few options: They on, but we all ought to be trying to make a head of refining and marketing at IHS Markit. What’s more, production of the fuel can can make tweaks to squeeze out efficien- difference on climate change.” cause deforestation when the raw materials ‘It’s going to be a real stretch.’ cies, wait for technology to improve or inAt a petrochemical plant outside are farmed. vest today to help make viable options for Some companies want to get around Houston, Neste U.S. and Texmark Chemithe future.

“It’s a big crisis, it’s a pressing crisis cals are converting imported undistilled die- those problems by avoiding agricultural — a lot needs to be done soon,” said Ja- sel into renewable jet fuels. The undistilled crops. Fulcrum, in which United is invested, is goda Egeland, an aviation policy expert at diesel is made from used cooking oil and planning to build a plant in Britain to produce the International Transport Forum, a unit of waste from vegetable and animal processing jet fuel out of waste from landfills and other trash. Red Rock Biofuels, a Colorado comthe Organization for Economic Cooperation plants.

Neste, a Finnish company, is the pany, hopes to use waste woody biomass. and Development. “It’s a hard-to-abate secBut development of renewable fuels world’s largest producer of renewable jet tor. It will always emit some carbon.”

Experts say commercial air travel ac- fuel. Its U.S. customers include American from waste or substances like fast-growing algae and switch grass has been frustratingly counts for about 3% to 4% of total U.S. gre- Airlines, JetBlue and Delta Air Lines.

United, which buys renewable jet fuel slow. enhouse gas emissions. And while planes “It’s going to be a real stretch,” Evans become more efficient with each new mo- from Fulcrum BioEnergy and World Energy, said.

“Even if you are burning 100% biofuel, del, growing demand for flights is outpacing recently announced a deal with more than a those advancements. The United Nations dozen major corporate customers, including it’s still not going to be getting you to carbon expects airplane emissions of carbon dio- Deloitte, HP and Nike, that will result in the neutral.”

Biofuels are also about 50% more exxide, a major greenhouse gas, to triple by airline’s buying about 3.4 million gallons of 2050. Researchers at the International Cou- sustainable fuel this year. American has an pensive to make than conventional fuel, ac-

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cording to Michael E. Webber, chief science and technology officer of Engie, a French utility working on advanced jet fuels.

In the United States, federal support is minimal, so far. Renewable jet fuel producers receive a $1 per gallon subsidy under existing federal tax credits for biodiesel, but a bill introduced this month in the House would provide a tax credit starting at $1.50 per gallon. A tax on carbon emissions could help make alternative fuels more competitive against conventional jet fuel in the future.

Should airlines offset or store carbon?

Another option that many airlines have turned to is carbon offsets. By buying an offset, a company or individual effectively pays somebody else to plant or not cut trees or to take other steps to reduce greenhouse gases.

But the benefits of some offsets are difficult to measure — it’s hard to know, for example, whether landowners would have cut down trees had they not been paid to preserve woods, a common type of offset.

Kirby, the United CEO, is skeptical that such offsets are effective.

“Traditional carbon offsets are a marketing initiative; they’re greenwashing,” he said. “Even in the few cases where they are real and are making a difference, they’re just so small that they can’t scale to solve the global problem.”

United helps passengers and corporate customers buy offsets, but Kirby said the company was focusing more on sustainable fuel and removing and storing carbon in perpetuity.

In December, the airline said it was investing in 1PointFive, a joint venture between Occidental Petroleum and a private equity firm that plans to build plants that suck carbon dioxide from the air and store the gas deep underground. This approach would theoretically allow United and other airlines to remove as much carbon from the atmosphere as their planes put into it.

“It’s the only solution I know of that can help get us as a globe to zero, because the others, if you understand the math, they just don’t work,” Kirby said.

Despite the formidable challenges, Kirby is optimistic that investments in alternative fuels and carbon capture technology will yield a breakthrough.

“In the near term, it’s about getting them to work economically,” he said. “Once you cross that threshold, you will have an exponential increase.”

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Starbucks, flush with customers, is running low on ingredients Starbucks said the company was experiencing “temporary supply shortages” of some of its products. She said the shortages varied by location, with some stores experiencing “outages of various items at the same time.”

She added that the company was working with its vendors to restock the items as soon as possible, and that the supply-chain issues had not affected prices.

Although most people are familiar with the problems in the global supply chain to some extent, some Starbucks customers are still shocked — even incensed — by their inability to get their coffee exactly how they want it. Others laugh it off.

“I was told they couldn’t give me an extra shot of caramel because there was a national shortage,” Nicole Brashear, a 24-year-old pharmacy student at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, said of ordering an iced caramel macchiato with extra caramel drizzle in late May. “I just sort of laughed and was like, ‘Isn’t caramel just burA Starbucks drive-thru in Atlanta on June 9, 2021, where a sign explains a supply nt sugar?’” shortage. The shortages at Starbucks have varied by location, a company spokeswoThe problem for Starbucks is that it man said. was never just selling a simple cup of coffee. For many, the experience of visiting the

By JULIE CRESWELL ming in frustration over a list of ingredients chain is a self-indulgent treat. that the shop had run out of — including Customers learn the language regarasha Leverette was in the mood for sweet cream, white mocha, mango dragon ding sizes and special drinks and then share her favorite drink from Starbucks, an fruit and “every food item.” The caption also their customized, 12-ingredient drink orders said they were low on cold brew and the on social media. Many look forward to seaiced peach green-tea lemonade.

When she went through the drive-thru “will to live.” sonal specials, like this summer’s Unicorn Starbucks is hardly the only company Cake Pop and Strawberry Funnel Cake Frapof her usual Starbucks in Atlanta three weeks ago, though, she was told they couldn’t struggling with supply issues. Earlier this puccino, which are available for a limited make the drink because they didn’t have any spring, ketchup packets became hotter than time. peach-flavored juice. Shrugging it off, she GameStop stock. Automakers have slowed Orders are not barked out by numdrove to another store. And another. And production because there are not enough ber as they are at other fast-food chains but computer chips for their vehicles. And ho- rather are announced by name, suggesting another.

Each stop brought disappointment. meowners are waiting weeks, if not months, customers are friends or part of the StarNone of the locations had the integral in- for major kitchen appliances. bucks club, said Bryant Simon, a history gredient.

But Starbucks is running out of in- professor at Temple University and author of “I said to them, ‘This is the Peach Sta- gredients for Very Berry Hibiscus Refres- “Everything but the Coffee: Learning About te, right?’” said Leverette, 33, who owns a hers and almond croissants after being America From Starbucks.” public relations firm. “It’s surprising because one of the clear winners of the pandemic “Starbucks did something remarkaStarbucks always seems like it has anything economy. During lockdowns, the coffee ble: taking a really ordinary product, coffee, and everything you need.” chain quickly shifted from its position as and remaking it as an identifier of class, of Across the country, customers and ba- a “third place,” where people could linger culture, of discernment and of knowledge,” ristas are taking to social media to bemoan to work or meet up for long chats, to a Simon said. “Starbucks is a way to communot only shortages of key ingredients for po- focus on frictionless transactions with cus- nicate something about yourself to other pular Starbucks drinks, like peach and guava tomers ordering through mobile apps and people. While it has become more complijuices, but also a lack of iced and cold-brew drive-thrus. Company executives said this cated over time, that drink still says, ‘I desercoffee, breakfast foods and cake pops, and year that Starbucks had seen a “full reco- ve a break in my life. I can afford to waste even cups, lids and straws. very” in U.S. sales, back to pre-pandemic money on coffee.’”

A video on TikTok featured what ap- levels.

There were earlier hints that supply ispeared to be a group of employees screaIn a statement, a spokeswoman for sues could be bubbling up for Starbucks. In

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a late April call with Wall Street analysts, the chief executive of Starbucks, Kevin Johnson, voiced some concerns about companies in its supply chain that were struggling to hire the staff they needed.

“I do anticipate we’ll do a little more to invest and help our supply chain partners, whether it’s staff that they need in manufacturing or staffing that they need for distribution and transportation,” Johnson said.

By late May, customers and baristas were reporting shortages of key ingredients or foods in stores all over the country.

Fred Rogers knew something was wrong right before Memorial Day weekend when he opened his Starbucks app and an alert flashed that the company was experiencing shortages of certain items. He wasn’t able to order his 3-year-old daughter her favorite sandwich — sausage, Cheddar and egg — from his nearby Starbucks in Burlington, New Jersey. His drink, a Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frappuccino, was also not available.

“I know if you go after a certain hour that they’re going to be out of some items,” said Rogers, a 33-year-old manufacturing specialist. “But this was 6:45 in the morning.”

Customers may be unhappy, but Simon said the paucity of drinks or food items would likely only increase demand. One of Starbucks’ biggest challenges in recent years has been overexpansion, meaning it has shed some of the uniqueness that once made it special.

“I’m sure there are a lot of heated conversations in Seattle right now about the supply-chain issues, but someone on the branding side is going to be chirping in that the scarcity may not be a bad thing,” Simon said.

Perhaps, but the issues could also be a risk if customers become too frustrated over not being able to get what they want, as they always have. When his daughter couldn’t get her favorite breakfast sandwich at Starbucks, Rogers took her to a Chick-fil-A. And after driving to four Starbucks locations and not getting her favorite drink in late May, Leverette is no longer a regular customer.

“It’s disappointing,” she said. “You go, and you’re waiting in the drive-thru, and you’re only going for one thing and they don’t have what they need to make it.

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To fill millions of open jobs, many workers need more than skills

Students during a vocational training class at Per Scholas, a nonprofit in the Bronx, on Feb. 3, 2020. A comprehensive job training approach has been honed by nonprofits like this one from Per Scholas in the Bronx.

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achelle Katchenago of Menasha, Wisconsin, lost her job as a call-center contract worker last year after the pandemic lockdowns took hold. No one was hiring.

Katchenago, 37, eventually heard of career courses, paid for by Microsoft as part of a COVID relief program. She plunged in, learning online customer service and sales skills, hoping to improve her employment prospects.

But it turned out that the technical skills, in the free classes from Microsoft’s LinkedIn job listing and training service, were not the only thing she picked up. The Wisconsin group helping her with the courses also provided career guidance, moral support, tips on resume writing and interviews, and job contacts.

In November, Katchenago was hired as a customer service specialist at a thriving startup based in Madison, Wisconsin. She is making more money than in the past and she has a fulltime job with a career path.

“Without that support,” she said, “I would have been at a loss.”

The nation’s jobs market stands at a somewhat puzzling juncture. There are still 7.6 million fewer people working than before the pandemic. But job openings are at record high levels, too. Some employers are even turning to incentives beyond money, like food and tuition for family members.

The reasons so many jobs remain unfi-

lled are matters of vigorous and often partisan debate. Some people, including those in the Biden administration, say lingering health concerns and child care duties are holding workers back. Some conservatives argue that the extra unemployment benefits approved by Congress have lowered people’s appetite to find a job.

But labor experts and some large employers point to another issue: the so-called lastmile problem. It is one thing to have in-demand skills, they say. But good jobs also require “soft skills” like teamwork, communication and the willingness to learn new things. And then, those freshly skilled people need to be matched to local job opportunities.

Research has shown the effectiveness of programs that are local, personal and focused on addressing the last mile of the labor market.

President Joe Biden has endorsed the model.

The administration’s jobs plan calls for billions in workforce training including funds for “wraparound services” like counseling.

“It’s about seeing connections and building confidence,” said Beth Cobert, chief operating officer of the Markle Foundation, which supports programs to broaden job opportunities. “And you need people to do this, to help close that gap.”

Real progress in closing the last-mile gap could potentially benefit millions of Americans, economists say. Navigating the unfamiliar complexity of the labor market can be particularly difficult for the two-thirds of the

nation’s workers without four-year college degrees, with low incomes and people of color.

The comprehensive training approach has been refined at successful nonprofits that have spent decades dedicated to lifting people into the middle class, including Year Up, Per Scholas and Goodwill. They arrange for assistance with housing, transportation and child care for students, when needed. And they have strong links with local employers, tailoring their programs to hiring needs.

To streamline such work, the Center for Workforce and Economic Opportunity at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is building metro area websites and developing programs to help career coaches across the country pinpoint local job openings and relevant training.

The websites rely on data from Emsi and Burning Glass Technologies, labor market research firms.

The project is part of an initiative coordinated by the Markle Foundation, which includes corporations, nonprofits and civic groups.

Its goal is to improve the livelihoods of unemployed and low-income workers as the economy recovers.

“We need to really scale up what works well to bridge the social capital and networking gap,” said Stuart Andreason, director of the Center for Workforce and Economic Opportunity.

Two tech giants, Microsoft and Google, have learned last-mile lessons in their skillstraining outreach programs.

In its pandemic program, begun a year ago this month, Microsoft included $20 million to support last-mile organizations in the United States and abroad. Of the millions of people who have started the free courses, about 17% were trained through these local organizations.

But they accounted for more than half of those who completed the coursework for certificates in job categories like customer service specialist, project manager and data analyst.

That evidence, according to Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, makes the case for the Biden administration’s plan to invest more in job counseling by nonprofits, community colleges and local governments.

“It’s not enough to open the door to digital courses,” Smith said. “You need funding to provide people with mentoring and coaching.

That’s critical.”

In 2018, Google began offering a certificate course aimed at preparing people for entry-level tech support jobs.

Of the thousands of graduates since then, 59% do not have four-year college degrees and

46% previously had incomes in the bottom third of Americans.

Google has also given out more than 20,000 scholarships to job seekers, made through last-mile nonprofits.

This year, Google started three more certificate programs in project management, user experience design and data analysis. Along with tech support, there are nearly 1.3 million job openings in those four occupations in America. Google announced it will grant 100,000 more scholarships over the next three years.

“If your goal is economic mobility for folks, you have to do a lot more than create certificates,” said Lisa Gevelber, vice president of Grow with Google, which includes the company’s skills training initiative.

One big nonprofit Google supports is Goodwill Industries. The group is best known for its stores that sell donated goods, but it also operates more than 600 career centers across the country. In the past few years, Goodwill locations, with support from Google, have offered courses in basic computer skills, as well as the professional track, tech support certificate course.

The organization that helped Katchenago, gener8tor Upskilling, began in August with 19 students in northeast Wisconsin, and has added others in communities in Indiana, Virginia and Wyoming, with 167 graduates so far.

Further expansion is planned. The program hopes to produce 600 or more graduates this year, said Joe Kirgues, its co-founder.

Learning the skills needed in a field, Kirgues said, has proved to be not so difficult for most people. So the focus has increasingly been on a “whole person approach” to preparing someone for a new job, he said, coaching, encouraging, sometimes arranging transportation or shopping for new clothes for a job interview.

By design, gener8tor Upskilling caters to relatively disadvantaged job seekers. About 40% of its students are minorities or veterans, and 56% are women.

The venture is paid based largely on graduation and job placement rates. The graduation rate is nearly 80%, and placement is more than 50% — and rising, as the job market improves.

For Katchenago, things have certainly improved. With a full-time job, she no longer worries about being out of work after contracts expire every three to six months. Her current salary is about $30,000, which is $5,000 more than she made in past jobs. “It’s a blessing for stability,” she said. “I can breathe.”

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.S. stocks pared gains on Tuesday after manufacturing data showed expansion amid rising commodity prices and shortages of materials, while oil rose and global equities hit a record high as markets rode concerns of rising inflation.

Yields on longer-dated U.S. Treasuries fell for a fourth straight day, with the benchmark 10-year yield hitting a fresh two-week low of 1.564% and helping to ease inflation worries. The yield had climbed to as much as 1.776% at the end of March.

Federal Reserve officials continue to downplay rising price pressures, and Fed Vice Chair Richard Clarida said the central bank can take steps to cool a jump in inflation, if it occurs, without derailing the economic rebound coming out of the coronavirus pandemic.

While most market participants expect prices to increase as the economy recovers, concerns about the speed and trajectory of the rise persist.

“On balance the market is probably due for a sideways trending mode here now with first quarter results largely in the bank,” said Terry Sandven, chief equity strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

“If you look at concerns on the horizon, clearly inflation is one of them but the bond market is not signaling widespread concerns of inflation.”

China’s Baidu Inc gained 1.5% after reporting a 25% rise in quarterly revenue, powered by advertising on its core search and video-streaming platforms.

Macy’s climbed 0.9% after the department store operator raised its forecast for annual sales and earnings.

Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 1.35to-1 ratio on the NYSE and by a 2.11-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.

The S&P index recorded 41 new 52-week highs and no new low, while the Nasdaq recorded 92 new highs and 32 new lows.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 47.07 points, or 0.14%, to 34,346.91, the S&P 500 lost 6.43 points, or 0.15%, to 4,190.62 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.06 points, or 0.01%, to 13,660.11.

Energy, down 1.85%, was the weakest sector on the day Exxon Mobil Corp fell 2.38% as the biggest weight on the S&P 500, after sources said BlackRock Inc has backed several candidates of hedge fund Engine No. 1 to join the energy giant’s board.

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Israel’s frail new coalition gets a quick first test

Israel’s new coalition government at the president’s residence in Jerusalem on Monday. It won office in a parliamentary vote on Sunday.

By PATRICK KINGLSEY and ADAM RASGON

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srael’s fragile new coalition government faced a first test of its unity Monday after the Palestinian militant group Hamas vowed to respond if a far-right march through Palestinian areas of Jerusalem today was allowed to go ahead.

The march is a rescheduled version of a procession originally planned for last month that was among the reasons the group cited for firing rockets toward Jerusalem on May 10, setting off an 11-day air war between Hamas and Israel.

The planned march posed an unwelcome dilemma for the coalition barely 12 hours after it succeeded the administration of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving leader. The government could either cancel or reroute the march, and risk the wrath of its right-wing members, who would consider that a capitulation

to terrorists — or stick to the plan, angering its leftist and Islamist factions, while also raising the specter of either renewed rocket fire or confrontations between Palestinians and Jewish marchers.

The freighted choices underscored the frailties of the new coalition, which replaced Netanyahu’s government Sunday night in a confidence vote in Parliament that passed by just a single vote — 60 votes to 59, with one abstention. The coalition is an unlikely alliance of the hard right, the far left and the center, as well as — for the first time in Israeli history — an independent Arab party, all of whom share little common ground beyond a desire to keep Netanyahu out of office.

To avoid unnecessary rifts, the coalition leaders — Naftali Bennett, the new hard-right prime minister, and Yair Lapid, his centrist deputy — have pledged to focus on rebuilding the

economy and improving infrastructure, and to steer clear of divisive questions like the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. Bennett is a former settler leader who opposes Palestinian sovereignty and supports settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank. Members of his unlikely new government, however, seek an end to the Israeli occupation and support a Palestinian state.

The dilemma faced by the Bennett government Monday morning showed how difficult these irreconcilable differences will be to ignore, even with the best of intentions. Later this month, further tensions are expected over pending decisions about whether to close a new unauthorized settlement in the West Bank, and whether to restore the delivery of Qatari financial aid to Gaza, a process suspended during the recent conflict.

The office of the new public security minister, Omer Bar-Lev, said the minister would decide later Monday about whether to refer the decision about the procession, which is known as a “flags march” and involves far-right Jews walking provocatively through Palestinian areas of East Jerusalem, to a group of senior cabinet ministers.

Those ministers would then be briefed by intelligence officials before making a final call.

Hamas threatened violence if the march went ahead.

“The so-called flags march that is slated to be carried out tomorrow by groups of settlers will be tantamount to setting off an explosion in a new battle to defend Jerusalem,” a Hamas spokesman, Abdel Latif al-Qanou, told reporters in Gaza.

“We call on our people in Jerusalem and the occupied interior to mobilize in order to resist the groups of settlers by way of different means and tools,” al-Qanou added.

Publicly, the new government projected an image of unity Monday morning, as its ministers gathered at the residence of the largely ceremonial president, Reuven Rivlin, for a formal photograph with the head of state. Bennett was

also expected to meet later in the day with Netanyahu for a formal handover in private.

The government also made its first major move: Benny Gantz, the defense minister, issued a formal call for a commission of inquiry into the stampede at a holy Jewish site on Mt. Meron, northern Israel, in early May, which killed 45 worshippers. Gantz said it had not been possible to push for such an inquiry under Netanyahu, whose government depended on the support of ultraOrthodox politicians opposed to an investigation.

The new administration continued to receive congratulatory messages from foreign governments, including Russia, India and the United Arab Emirates. The messages followed similar expressions of support Sunday from Germany, Canada, Austria and the European Union, as well as phone calls from President Joe Biden to Bennett and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Lapid.

Bennett expressed opposition toward U.S.-led efforts to restore a lapsed Obama-era nuclear deal with Iran. But analysts expect the Bennett government will mainly keep its disagreements private and seek greater bipartisan support in the United States for Israel than did Netanyahu, who grew close to former President Donald Trump after developing a fractious relationship with his predecessor, Barack Obama.

The Palestinian Authority reacted with a shrug to news of Bennett’s government, saying that the Israeli approach to Palestinians remained the same from government to government.

“A government was formed in Israel without Netanyahu, yet it is inaccurate to call it a ‘government of change,’” the foreign ministry of the Palestinian Authority, which exerts limited autonomy in parts of the West Bank, said in a statement.

“We don’t consider the new government less worse than its predecessors,” Mohammad Shtayyeh, the authority’s prime minister, said separately.

Netanyahu, ‘King of Israel,’ exits a stage he dominated

By DAVID M. HALBFINGER

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e came to power like some conqueror from a distant land called Philadelphia.

Educated in the United States, speaking flawless East Coast English, warning in pungent sound bites about the threats posed by Islamic terrorism and a nuclear Iran, the Benja-

min Netanyahu who stormed into Israeli politics in the 1990s was like no other politician the country had seen.

Before long, he would capture the prime minister’s office, lose it, then seize it again a decade later, becoming Israel’s longest-serving leader and inspiring such admiration that supporters likened him to the biblical King David.

His political agility got him out of so many tight spots that even his detractors called him a magician.

He presided over an extraordinary economic turnaround, kept the perennially embattled country out of major wars and kept casualty tolls to historic lows. He feuded with Democratic U.S. presidents, then capitalized

on a symbiosis with the Trump administration to cement historic gains, including the opening of a U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.

He compartmentalized the Palestinian conflict, snubbing the endless peace talks that had stymied his predecessors, unilaterally expanding the Jewish presence in the occupied West Bank and treating Palestinians largely as a

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While the chance for a lasting peace with the Palestinians — the singular achievement that could give Israelis long-term stability and worldwide acceptance — receded on his watch, he struck watershed accords with four Arab countries (United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco) that had long shunned Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians. Those agreements overturned decades of conventional wisdom that peace with the Palestinians had to come first, and constitute perhaps his most far-reaching achievement.

Still, Netanyahu — who was ousted as prime minister Sunday — has been a deeply polarizing figure, governing from the right, branding adversaries as traitors, anti-Israel or antiSemitic, obsessed with power and comfortable deploying street-fighter tactics to retain it.

The intuitive media savvy that sped his rise to power curdled in time into an almost narcissistic obsession. His efforts to control his image, including allegations that he bribed media executives for favorable news coverage, led to criminal charges that haunted his final years in office.

Even as he surpassed the tenure of David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding leader, in 2019, he drove Israelis to exhaustion with four elections in two years in which the main issue was him, and the electorate split down the middle each time.

His insistence that only he was capable of leading the tiny but fractious country was called into doubt by his initial mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, in which deaths and infections soared and disparities in the enforcement of lockdowns highlighted his indebtedness to ultra-Orthodox allies.

Still, he managed to turn that embarrassment into triumph by negotiating a deal for a vaccine supply that made Israel a global vaccination leader and brought a traumatized society back to life.

As he relinquishes power for the first time in a dozen years and nearly a quarter-century to the day after he first became prime minister in 1996 — and defiantly vowing to return for a third act — Netanyahu, 71, leaves Israel in many ways far stronger than he found it. The country has a globally envied tech industry, fearsome military, cutting-edge intelligence and counterterrorism capabilities, diplomatic and trade relationships across Asia, Africa and Latin America that seemed unattainable a decade ago, and fast-knitting ties to Arab lands that were unfathomable even a year ago.

Netanyahu’s critics envied his political genius, but felt embittered by his failure to apply those gifts more courageously.

“He’s so capable, he could have done almost anything,” said Ben Caspit, an Israeli columnist and two-time Netanyahu biographer. “If

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back on the ultra-Orthodox; in 2013, he enhe had brought the Israeli public a peace treaty, a narrow upset. tered a coalition with Livni and Yair Lapid’s he’d have gotten it approved by 80%. He could Governing was harder. have been the king of the center. But he’s not The opening of a tunnel under the West- centrist Yesh Atid party. But when Livni and brave enough.” ern Wall, over the objections of Muslim clerics, Lapid backed legislation that threatened Israel That failure, however, was considered a set off deadly gunbattles between Israeli and Hayom, Netanyahu called a new election. His wild success by his admirers on the right, who Palestinian security forces. Chastened, Ne- next government would be the most right-wing credited him with having blocked a Palestinian tanyahu agreed to pull troops back from the and religious in Israel’s history.

There was a time when Netanyahu was state and, as his former education and interior West Bank city of Hebron, prompting the right minister, Gideon Saar, put it, “rescued us” from wing to desert him. When the poisoning of a so popular in the United States that some said the mid-1990s peace process.

Hamas leader was botched in Jordan and the he could be elected president. A 2015 poll Palestinians could only look on in awe would-be assassins caught, a humiliated Israel found Republicans admired him as much as at Netanyahu’s ability to cast Israel as ever the was forced to supply the antidote and release Ronald Reagan and more than the pope.

He put that popularity to the test in his victim, despite its violent and repressive oc- Hamas’s spiritual leader and dozens of other crusade to block the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. cupation, and at what they saw as his cynical Palestinian prisoners. gaming of the peace process to expand West His defeat in 1999 was not the end of Styling himself a latter-day Churchill, NetanBank settlements rather than give up territory. his troubles. The police accused him of using yahu had been sounding the alarm about Netanyahu argued that he had been right state money to fix up his private homes, and Iran’s nuclear program for 20 years. He kept all along: Failure to reach a deal with the Pal- his wife, Sara, was forced to return hundreds the world guessing about whether Israel would estinians or to curb West Bank settlement had of gifts she had taken from the prime minister’s mount a preemptive strike, as it had done in Iraq and Syria. not and would not lead to a devastating “diplo- residence.

It remains unclear whether the tacit threat matic tsunami,” as left-wing critics had warned.

But Netanyahu retained his cachet in Israel could perpetuate the occupation without Washington, where he testified before Con- was serious or an elaborate bluff. But while it paying a price in international legitimacy. gress in the run-up to the Iraq War. “If you take helped pressure the United States and Europe “What tsunami? What isolation?” he out Saddam, Saddam’s regime,” he argued, “I to step up sanctions against Iran, critics said it crowed in 2017. “What foolishness.” guarantee you that it will have enormous posi- also spurred President Barack Obama to seek a deal with Iran before the sanctions brought Iran Netanyahu, known to all as Bibi, was tive reverberations on the region.” practically a newcomer to Israel when he made Netanyahu was on surer ground when to its knees.

To the Likud base, Netanyahu remained his first run for office in 1988. The son of a Prime Minister Ariel Sharon named him finance “Bibi, king of Israel,” as they had long serenadright-wing Zionist scholar, he attended high minister in 2003. school in Philadelphia, college at the MassaWhen Sharon quit Likud to form a centrist ed him.

But devotees were not enough. Four chusetts Institute of Technology and worked as party, Netanyahu reclaimed the Likud leadera consultant in Boston before being recruited as ship. But the working-class and ultra-Orthodox times in the past two years, he fell short of a an Israeli diplomat and sent to Washington. In voters whose benefits he had gutted exacted parliamentary majority, despite aligning with an 1984, he moved to New York as Israel’s ambas- payback. Likud won just 12 seats in parliament extreme-right anti-Arab party and then courting the very Arab voters he had once demonized. sador to the United Nations, where he became in 2006, its worst showing in half a century.

Netanyahu had long been seen as a a regular on shows like “Nightline” and “Larry Netanyahu’s critics say he drew a simple King Live.” lesson. Forced to choose between accomplish- treacherous partner, having repeatedly humiliWith such star power, he blew past vet- ing great things and retaining power, he would ated those who posed potential threats. His final act smacked of comeuppance, as several eran Israeli politicians on his way up the ranks. choose power every time.

He won more acclaim during the 1991 Gulf By the time the next election came, in former protégés, including erstwhile right-wing War, being interviewed live on CNN in a gas 2009, Netanyahu had forged a new compact allies, united to depose him, with an Arab party providing a crucial assist. mask as missile-warning sirens howled, and with ultra-Orthodox leaders.

He was narrowly edged by former foreign What all his adversaries could agree on holding court as Israel’s spokesman at the Madrid peace conference. In 1993, at age 43, he minister Tzipi Livni, but the right-wing and reli- was that Netanyahu’s flailing posed too great a won the leadership of the conservative Likud gious parties denied her a coalition and fell in threat to Israel’s internal cohesion, and thus its behind him, restoring him to the premiership. security — and that what was indispensable to party.

Only once did Netanyahu later turn his both was that he should go.

Though the Oslo peace talks left Israelis breathless as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shook hands before President Bill Clinton’s outstretched arms, Netanyahu railed against territorial giveaways and assailed Arafat as an inveterate terrorist.

Only after a Jewish extremist massacred 29 Palestinians and Palestinians responded with a wave of suicide bombings did public opinion turn his way. But his appearances at rallies where crowds chanted “Death to Rabin” stained him, fairly or not, as having fueled and fed on the incitement that led to Rabin’s assassination in 1995.

Undeterred, he took on Rabin’s succes- The Israeli and American flags are projected on the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, sor, Shimon Peres. After a masterly perfor- Dec. 6, 2017, just before the announcement that the United States would formally recogmance in their only debate, Netanyahu scored nize the city as Israel’s capital.

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G-7 nations take aggressive climate action, but hold back on coal

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR, LISA FRIEDMAN and CATRIN EINHORN

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resident Joe Biden joined with leaders of the world’s wealthiest nations Sunday to take action aimed at holding down global temperatures, but failed to set a firm end date on the burning of coal, which is a primary contributor to global warming.

Biden and six other leaders of the Group of 7 nations promised to cut collective emissions in half by 2030 and to try to stem the rapid extinction of animals and plants, calling it an “equally important existential threat.” They agreed that by next year they would stop international funding for any coal project that lacked technology to capture and store carbon dioxide emissions and vowed to achieve an “overwhelmingly decarbonized” electricity sector by the end of the decade.

It was the first time that the major industrialized economies, which are most responsible for the pollution that is warming the planet, agreed to collectively slash their emissions by 2030, although several nations had individually set those same goals, including the United States and the United Kingdom.

But energy experts said the failure of the G-7 nations, which together produce about one-quarter of the world’s climate pollution, to agree on a specific end date for the use of coal weakened their ability to lean on China to curb its own still-growing coal use. It may also make it more difficult to persuade 200 nations to strike a bold climate agreement at a United Nations summit in Scotland later this year.

The G-7 leaders also declined to pledge significant new funding to help developing countries both manage climate impacts as well as pivot away from burning oil, gas and coal.

“It’s very disappointing,” said Jennifer Morgan, the executive director of Greenpeace International. “This was a moment when the G-7 could have shown historic leadership, and instead they left a massive void.”

Scientists have warned that the world needs to urgently cut emissions if it has any chance to keep average global temperatures from rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared with preindustrial levels. That’s the threshold beyond which experts say the planet will experience catastrophic, irreversible damage. Temperature change is not even around the globe; some regions have already reached an increase of 2 degrees Celsius.

Biden opened his first foreign trip as president last week by declaring that on issues like climate, “the United States is back.” After four years in which President Donald Trump mocked the established science of climate change, discouraged the development of clean energy while favoring fossil fuels and refused to cooperate with allies on environmental issues, Biden was once again part of a unanimous consensus that the world needs to take drastic action to prevent a global disaster.

“President Biden has committed to tackling the climate crisis at home and abroad, rallying the rest of the

President Joe Biden responds to reporters during a news conference at Cornwall Airport Newquay in Newquay, England, Sunday, June 13, 2021. world at the leaders summit, G-7, and beyond to reach for bold targets within the next decade,” said Daleep Singh, deputy national security adviser. “While the previous administration ignored the science and consequences of climate change, our administration has taken unprecedented actions to prioritize this on the global stage.”

In addition to rejoining the 2015 Paris Agreement that Trump abandoned, Biden has promised to cut the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions by 50% to 52% below 2005 levels by 2030, and to eliminate fossil fuel emissions from America’s power sector by 2035.

But it was the United Kingdom, along with some other European countries, that had pushed aggressively during the summit this year to stop burning coal for electricity by a specific date in the 2030s. Burning coal is the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions, and after a pandemicyear retreat, demand for coal is expected to rise by 4.5% this year, according to the International Energy Agency.

Instead, the final language of the leaders’ “communiqué” makes only a vague call to “rapidly scale up technologies and policies that further accelerate the transition away” from coal without carbon capture technology.

Other leading climate change advocates and diplomats called the overall climate package a mixed bag.

Biden and the other leaders said they would deliver $2 billion to help nations pivot away from fossil fuels, in what leaders hope will be a global transition to wind, solar and other energy that does not produce planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions. And they agreed to raise their contributions and meet an overdue pledge of mobilizing $100 billion a year to help poorer countries cut emissions and cope with the consequences of climate change, though firm dollar figures were not on the table.

Laurence Tubiana, CEO of the European Climate Foundation who served as France’s chief climate ambas-

sador during the 2015 Paris negotiations, said she was pleased that nations would stop financing new coal projects without technology to capture and store emissions. It will mean an end to virtually all funding for new coal, since carbon capture technology is nascent and not widely used.

“That leaves China to decide now if they want to still be the backers of coal globally, because they will be the only one,” she said. But she said the financing package was lacking for developing countries, which are particularly vulnerable to floods, drought and other impacts of a climate crisis created by the industrialized nations.

G-7 nations also backed Biden’s sweeping infrastructure plan to counter China’s multitrillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative. As part of that, countries promised to help the developing world rebuild from the COVID-19 pandemic in a way that takes climate change into account.

A recent report from the International Energy Agency concluded that if the world is to stave off the most devastating consequences of global warming, major economies must immediately stop approving new coal plants and oil and gas fields.

At the summit, the seven countries addressed biodiversity loss, calling it a crisis on the same scale as climate change.

They said they would champion a global push to conserve at least 30% of the planet’s land and water by 2030 and would set up such protections within their own countries. These measures are needed, scientists say and the G-7 reiterated, to help curb extinctions, ensure water and food security, store carbon and reduce the risk of future pandemics.

Today, about 17% of the planet’s land and 8% of its oceans are protected, according to the United Nations.

Environmental groups welcomed the inclusion of the 30% commitment but emphasized the need for action, which requires adequate financing. That’s the hard part, to be hammered out at a separate United Nations biodiversity conference that will be held in October in Kunming, China.

Because the world’s remaining intact ecosystems and biodiversity hot spots are unevenly distributed, scientists emphasize that it’s not enough for each country to carve out its own 30%. Rather, countries should work together to maximize the protection of areas that will yield the best returns on reversing the interdependent biodiversity and climate crises. Researchers have mapped suggestions.

The rights of local communities, including Indigenous peoples who have been better stewards of biodiversity, must be valued, advocates said. Protecting nature does not mean kicking people out, but rather ensuring that wild areas are used sustainably.

Robert Watson, a former chairman of two leading intergovernmental panels on climate change and biodiversity, praised the agreement for linking the two crises. But he said it needs to address the factors that are driving species loss, including agriculture, logging and mining.

“I do not see what actions will be taken to stop the causes,” Watson said.

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Demonizing critical race theory

By CHARLES M. BLOW

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ritical race theory is the political right’s new boogeyman.

The theory, born in the 1970s among legal scholars, uses race as a lens through which to examine structures of power. It was, I would argue, a relatively obscure concept — not because it lacked merit, but because it was novel.

That was until Donald Trump elevated it in order to attack it.

In September 2020, during the runup to the presidential election, with Trump trailing in the polls, the Office of Management and Budget issued the following directive: “All agencies are directed to begin to identify all contracts or other agency spending related to any training on ‘critical race theory,’ ‘white privilege,’ or any other training or propaganda effort that teaches or suggests either (1) that the United States is an inherently racist or evil country or (2) that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil.”

Critical race theory was simply an analytical tool, but to some white people, the fact that white supremacy was overtly used to infect America’s systems of power with both racial oppressions and racial privileges is too

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In April, students protested legislation that aims to limit the teaching of “critical race theory” in Idaho outside the State Capitol in Boise. much to handle. It is discomforting. It unravels the American myth.

But critical race theory doesn’t diagnose the country as evil, even though it is beyond dispute that some evil people designed the architecture of racial oppression in this country and that there are still some who help maintain it.

In fact, I don’t even believe that most people have any real concept of what critical race theory is. It’s just a collection of words that hint, to them, at agitation and aggrievement: a theory that mentions race and that is critical, or, in their minds, criticizes.

Critical race theory began to stand for any teachings that challenged the narrative that white America had crafted about the country, and that unveiled any truths that it had tried to hide or erase.

Identifying and challenging racism was seen by some as racist. Pretending racism didn’t exist — that merit and sloth, excellence and pathology, explained away racial imbalance — was viewed as egalitarian and unifying.

So the rush by states across the country to ban the teaching of critical race theory in schools isn’t really about a real threat. Very few schools even teach critical race theory as a core part of their curriculums, if at all.

Republican are using their tried-and-true playbook of fear mongering about the rise of otherness and the displacement of whiteness, the white patriarchy and a dominant white narrative.

Critical race theory has simply become the latest tool.

Right-wing politics in America is exhausted, out of

ideas on how we should proceed and progress as a country, so instead they focus on maintenance: How can power and influence be maintained in its current form — white-controlled, largely by straight white men — or, how can we revert to a time in which they had even more power?

This is done by whipping up hysteria in the base about something, anything, that threatens to bring about fuller inclusion of more people and an expansion of rights.

This attack on critical race theory is no different from the rush during the Obama administration by states to ban Shariah law in state courts, even though there was absolutely no threat that Shariah law would be recognized or used in those courts. This is simply an extension of the Barack Obama-is-a-secret-Muslim conspiracy and the backlash to his presence in the White House.

In fact, in the Republican primaries to pick a challenger to Obama in his reelection bid, Republican candidates were falling all over themselves to condemn Shariah law. However, in the 2016 primaries, the anti-Shariah law crusade died down. In its place, Trump vowed to ban Muslims from entering the country.

The freak-out about critical race theory is also not dissimilar from the ongoing attack on trans people, particularly people who were assigned male at birth. First came the introduction of a wave of “bathroom bills” that made it a crime to use a bathroom designated for a sex different from the sex you were assigned at birth. Most of these bills failed.

Now states are moving to ban trans girls and women from participating in high school and college sports, although this is not really an issue. As Larry Strauss, a USA Today columnist, pointed out in April: “In the more than eight years since the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) began allowing high school athletes to compete as the gender with which they identify — regardless of what they were assigned at birth — there has not been a single case in which a trans female athlete has been dominant enough to stir protest.”

Just like these initiatives that Republicans whipped up to rail against were by and large not a problem, but rather a wandering outrage in search of a problem, critical race theory is not a problem.

Republicans know that there are a few cultural buttons that they can push to easily generate enough fear and outrage to energize their voters and get them to the polls: the ascension of nonwhite people, the immigration of nonwhite people, a threat to white security, a displacement of white power and white culture, an expansion of rights for “the gays” and abortion.

Republicans attack as a form of rallying cry.

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Reclaman incluir a farmacéuticos y técnicos de farmacia entre los profesionales de la salud que recibirán incentivo del gobierno POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El Colegio de Farmacéuticos de Puerto Rico envió este lunes, una comunicación al gobernador Pedro Pierluisi en reclamo a que incluya a los farmacéuticos y técnicos de farmacia entre los profesionales de salud y primeros respondedores que recibirán un incentivo monetario por trabajar durante la pandemia.

“El CFPR reclama que tanto los farmacéuticos como los técnicos de farmacia sean incluidos como parte de los profesionales de salud y primeros respondedores que recibirán un incentivo monetario por trabajar durante la pandemia. El pago especial consiste de un mínimo de $2,000 por empleado y están destinados a profesionales de enfermería, policías, bomberos y tecnólogos médicos. La comunicación no menciona a los farmacéuticos ni a los

técnicos de farmacias; que han sido vitales en cuidar de la salud de los puertorriqueños durante esta pandemia”, expresó la presidenta de esta organización profesional, la doctora Giselle Rivera en comunicación escrita.

“Nuestros farmacéuticos colegiados han estado activos desde que comenzó la pandemia en marzo del año

pasado, comprometidos ampliamente con su responsabilidad de velar por la salud del pueblo puertorriqueño. Tanto las farmacias de la comunidad como los sistemas de salud públicos y privados se mantuvieron abiertos a pesar de los cierres establecidos. Por lo que, su compromiso debe ser premiado como otros profesionales de la salud con este incentivo. La meta del Departamento de Salud es aumentar rápidamente la población que reciba la vacuna contra el Covid-19, los farmacéuticos y técnicos de farmacia son los profesionales claves para impulsar el incremento de personas vacunadas en el país en menor tiempo”, añadió.

“Sobre esta inquietud enviamos una comunicación al honorable Pedro Pierluisi, gobernador de PR, solicitando que incluyan a los farmacéuticos y técnicos de farmacias en este incentivo tan necesario para estos profesio-

nales que han trabajado continuamente desde que el coronavirus afectó a la población dejando a sus familias, arriesgando su salud y poniendo su deber en primer lugar”, enfatizó la presidenta del CFPR. El CFPR es una organización sin fines de lucro, que representa 3,420 colegiados farmacéuticos siendo creada por ley desde el 1938 con el objetivo de velar por el desarrollo profesional y la ética de la práctica de farmacia para que se preste el mejor servicio al paciente. Para mantenerse informado sobre temas de medicamentos, consulta farmacéutica, entre otros relacionados a farmacia y la profesión, acceda al portal electrónico www.cfpr.org o comunicándose al (787) 753-7157. De igual forma, sigue al CFPR en www. facebook.com/cfpr2, donde se provee información actualizada de interés para los pacientes.

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ONCE – La organización sin fines de lucro, Distrito Caribe de Conservación de Suelo y Agua, área sur, se trazó la meta de sembrar 5,000 árboles nativos en los pueblos de Coamo, Juana Díaz, Ponce, Peñuelas, Santa Isabel, Salinas y Villalba y de esta forma hacerle frente al cambio climático, proteger la fauna y la flora y, además, recuperar el balance ecológico de las zonas identificadas.

Para lograr este proyecto, se recaba la colaboración de voluntarios y vecinos de estos pueblos para que sean parte de esta iniciativa. Los interesados pueden enviar un mensaje de texto al 939-592-6928.

“Esta iniciativa ambiental y de reforestación es subsidiada por fondos federales del Servicio Forestal del Departamento de Agricultura de los Estados Unidos de América. Tenemos como

meta sembrar unos 5,000 árboles nativos en espacios públicos que se identificarán en colaboración con los alcaldes o alcaldesas de los municipios. El Distrito Caribe se encargará del traslado y siembra de los árboles. Con estas actividades también buscamos orientar a las comunidades sobre la importancia de la siembra del árbol correcto en el lugar correcto y de hacerlos parte de este proceso. Queremos concienciar a la ciudadanía, que se sientan parte de su ecosistema y estén comprometidos en protegerlo”, informó agrónomo Marcos Saliceti en comunicación escrita.

Asimismo, Saliceti sostuvo que, “en medio de la pandemia del COVID-19 y tras los efectos de los huracanes Irma y María y los terremotos que afectaron la zona sur, iniciativas como estas son la solución ideal para devolver el balance ecológico al ecosistema”.

Según mencionaron este balance ecológico se puede lograr con la restau-

ración de la flora perdida, mejorando los hábitats importantes y con el manejo sostenible de los terrenos circundantes a áreas naturales protegidas para restaurar los bosques y proteger el suelo.

Algunos de los árboles nativos a sembrarse son robles nativos, uvas playeras, mangle botón, entre otros.

Para información adicional pueden visitar la página de Facebook del Distrito Caribe https://www.facebook.com/ distritocaribedeconservaciondesuelosyagua/ El Distrito Caribe de Conservación de Suelo y Agua es una organización sin fines de lucro que trabaja en colaboración con la USDA-NRCS, entre otras agencias, proveyendo servicios a los agricultores y usuarios de terrenos principalmente en los pueblos de Coamo, Juana Díaz, Ponce, Peñuelas, Santa Isabel, Salinas y Villalba.

Entre las iniciativas de la organización está la promoción y educación al

público mediante reuniones, seminarios y actividades relacionadas a la divulgación de programas agrícolas del USDA y el DAPR; la estimulación de establecimiento de prácticas y sistemas relativos al control de erosión y la conservación de los recursos naturales en fincas de agricultores cooperadores y la coordinación con líderes de las comunidades y otros grupos ambientales para lograr un manejo adecuado de los recursos suelos, agua, aire, plantas y animales.

Este proyecto fue posible gracias a una subvención del Servicio Forestal del Departamento de Agricultura de los Estados Unidos de América.

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A film tries to make a difference for domestic violence survivors

By MELENA RYZIK

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n 2013, Tanisha Davis, a 26-year-old woman from Rochester, New York, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for killing her boyfriend, at whose hands she suffered, she said, nearly seven years of abuse, including choking, death threats and a beating on the night he died. The judge agreed that she was a victim of domestic violence but said her response did not merit leniency. “You handled the situation all wrong,” he told her. “You could have left.”

In 2021, because of a new law that allows domestic violence survivors more nuanced consideration in the courts, the same judge released Davis, thanks in part to a documentary that helped frame her case.

It’s not uncommon for documentary projects to influence legal proceedings once they’ve found an audience and built public attention. But the film that helped Davis, “And So I Stayed,” was not yet released — it wasn’t even finished — when the filmmakers, Natalie Pattillo and Daniel A. Nelson, put together a short video for the court, describing her life.

“You could see the strength of the ties she had to her family and the strength of the support she would have” if she were released, said Angela N. Ellis, one of her lawyers. The prosecutor and judge both mentioned watching the footage when they agreed, in March, to set her free.

In her eight years in prison, Davis, 34, spoke to her son, now 15, every day. Now that she’s home, “I can just call him in the next room,” she said. “I can’t even explain that joy.

I cry happy tears all the time.”

For the filmmakers, it was an unexpectedly bright ending to an often heartbreaking and troubling film. “And So I Stayed,” which premiered Saturday at the Brooklyn Film Festival, is personal for Pattillo, who is a survivor herself and whose sister was killed by a boyfriend in 2010. The documentary grew out of her thesis project at Columbia Journalism School, where she met Nelson, her co-director.

“I didn’t realize how common it was, the gravity of women being incarcerated for defending themselves or their children,” Pattillo said.

“Once I found out, I couldn’t stop reporting,” in an effort to show just how misunderstood and punitive these cases are within the justice system.

The film’s first focus was Kim Dadou Brown, who served 17 years in prison for killing her abusive boyfriend. She became an

Kim Dadou Brown in Rochester, N.Y., June 6, 2021. Dadou Brown is a domestic-violence survivor who was convicted of killing her abuser. advocate, traveling to Albany to needle New York lawmakers about the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act, the long-simmering legislation that eventually helped free Davis. Introduced in 2011, it was finally passed in 2019, after Democrats flipped the state Senate.

The act is among the few laws in the country that grant judges more leniency in sentencing domestic violence victims who commit crimes against their abusers. It follows a growing, research-backed understanding of the patterns of abusive relationships and the powerful hold they have on people within them.

“Leaving is the hardest part” and the most dangerous, Dadou Brown said. “I thought that all men hit, and so I stayed with mine so I knew which way the blows would come.”

After Dadou Brown, a Rochester native and former health care worker, was paroled in 2008, she volunteered with survivors and crisscrossed the state for rallies — even when money was tight because her felony status made jobs hard to find, she said. With 17 earrings (one for each year of her incarceration) and her signature false eyelashes, “she’s just a force,” Pattillo said. “It’s pure tenacity. That’s Kim.” When the bill passed, there was elation among its supporters and the filmmakers. And they kept their cameras rolling.

One case that was considered a surefire test of the act was that of Nicole Addimando, a young mother of two in Poughkeepsie, New York, who in 2017 fatally shot Christopher Grover, her live-in boyfriend and the children’s father. The film includes police camera footage of that night, when she was found disoriented and driving around in the wee hours, her 4and 2-year-olds in the back seat.

Her case made national headlines because of the severity of the abuse she said she endured: bites and black eyes; bruises and burns to her body, including while she was pregnant, that were documented by medical professionals; rapes that Grover videotaped and uploaded to a porn site. In the film, a social worker calls it not just assault but “sexual torture.” In 2020, Addimando was sentenced to 19 years to life for second-degree manslaughter; the judge denied that the survivors justice act was applicable.

“I felt like we failed her,” said Dadou Brown, who was at the sentencing.

Although there are no nationwide statistics on the number of women incarcerated after defending themselves against abusers, federal research suggests that about half the women in prison have experienced past physical abuse or sexual violence, a majority from romantic partners. Black women are disproportionately victimized through both intimate partner violence and the justice system; they are the most likely to be killed by a romantic partner and more likely to end up in prison,

according to Bernadine Waller, a scholar at Adelphi University.

In bringing stories like these to the screen, said Nelson, the filmmaker, the aim was not to dispute who pulled a trigger but to contextualize those convicted. “The legal system forces you to create the perfect victim,” he said, “and a prosecutor will do everything in their power to characterize a survivor into not fitting into that box.” (In Addimando’s case, the judge said she “reluctantly consented” to the sexual abuse.)

Garrard Beeney, a lawyer for Addimando, who is awaiting a decision on her appeal, said the documentary’s examination of the way the judicial system treats survivors is “a necessary, but I also think, not sufficient step” in changing the process. The police, prosecutors and judges have to be educated on how to think about domestic violence, he said. “We need that kind of retraining more immediately than a gradual process of understanding.”

For Pattillo, who had two of her three children while making the film, some moments felt overwhelmingly raw. “There’s survivor’s guilt, always, when you’re dealing with trauma,” she said, adding, in reference to Addimando, “Why did I get to be OK and not Nikki? Why do her kids not get to be tucked in by her every night?”

But it was also “very healing,” she added, “to have a hand in making sure the survivors feel seen and heard and believed through this film.”

Tanisha Davis, left, and Kim Dadou Brown in Rochester, N.Y., June 6, 2021. Davis and Dadou Brown are domestic-violence survivors who were convicted of killing their abusers.

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Ned Beatty, actor known for ‘Network’ and ‘Deliverance,’ dies at 83

By NEIL VIGDOR

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ed Beatty, who during a prolific acting career that spanned more than four decades earned an Oscar nomination for his role in “Network” and gave a cringe-inducing performance as a weekend outdoorsman assaulted by backwoods brutes in “Deliverance,” died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles.

He was 83.

His death was confirmed by Deborah Miller, Beatty’s manager, who did not immediately provide details on the cause. Complete information on his survivors was not immediately available.

Beatty appeared in more than 150 movies and television projects over the course of his career, frequently cast in supporting roles. While the beefy actor was not known as a leading man of the screen, he became associated with some of Hollywood’s most enduring films.

His credits include “All the President’s Men” (1976), “Superman” (1978), “Rudy” (1993) and “Back to School” (1986).

On television, Beatty played Stanley Bolander, the detective known as “Big Man,” on “Homicide: Life on the Street,” appearing on the television series from 1993 to 1995. He also played Ed Conner, the father of John Goodman’s character Dan Conner, on “Roseanne.”

In 1976, Beatty was cast by Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky in “Network,” the critically acclaimed satire about a television network’s struggling ratings and a tube-obsessed nation. His character, Arthur Jensen, gave a memorable monologue in the movie, earning Beatty an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor.

In the scene, Beatty, playing the mustachioed network boss, summons the character Howard Beale, the anchorman played by Peter Finch, into the corporate boardroom and draws the curtains. With the camera trained on Beatty, who was standing at the opposite end of a conference table lined with banker lamps, he unleashed a ferocious soliloquy. Beale had a lot to learn about the ways of the corporate world, Beatty’s

The actor Ned Beatty in New York, Nov. 18, 2003. Beatty, who during a prolific acting career that spanned more than four decades earned an Oscar nomination for his role in “Network” and gave a cringe-inducing performance as a weekend outdoorsman assaulted by backwoods brutes in “Deliverance,” died on Sunday at his home in Los Angeles. character sermonized.

“And you have meddled with the primeval forces of nature, Mr. Beale,” Beatty said, his voice roaring. “And you will atone.”

Beatty then modulated his delivery.

“Am I getting through to you?” he said in a normal speaking voice.

In “Mad as Hell: The Making of ‘Network’ and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies,” a 2014 book written by Dave Itzkoff, a culture reporter for The New York Times, Beatty said that he had been intimidated by the length of the speech, but excited by the character and the film.

To get the filmmakers to commit to giving him the role, Beatty said, he told them that he had another movie offer for more money.

“I was lying like a snake,” Beatty said. “I think they liked the fact that I was at least trying to be sly. I was doing something that maybe might be in their lexicon.”

Beatty made his film debut in “Deliverance,” the 1972 big screen adaptation of James Dickey’s novel about four friends whose canoeing trip in ru-

ral Georgia turns calamitous. Stripped down to white underpants, his character, Bobby, is forced to “squeal like a pig” by a hillbilly before he is raped.

The line would go down in movie infamy. “ ‘Squeal like a pig.’ How many times has that been shouted, said or whispered to me, since then?” Beatty wrote in a 1989 opinion piece for The New York Times.

Beatty did not distance himself from the scene.

“I suppose when someone (invariably a man) shouts this at me I am supposed to duck my head and look embarrassed at being recognized as the actor who suffered this ignominy,” he wrote.

“But I feel only pride about being a part of this story, which the director John Boorman turned into a film classic. I think Bill McKinney (who portrayed the attacker) and I played the ‘rape’ scene about as well as it could be played.”

Born on July 6, 1937, in Louisville, Kentucky, Beatty spent much of the early part of his acting career in regional theater, including eight years at the Arena Stage in Washington. In a 2003 inter-

view, he told the Times that he averaged 13 to 15 shows per year onstage at the start of his career and spent as many as 300 days performing.

In 2003, Beatty starred as Big Daddy in the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” appearing with Jason Patric and Ashley Judd. He was reprising his performance in the role of the Southern plantation owner, for which he had been nominated for an Olivier Award as part of the revival’s original London production.

Candidly assessing his co-stars, Beatty said that Broadway had come to rely too heavily on celebrities, thrusting them into challenging roles they did not have the acting chops to handle.

“In theater you want to go from here to there, you want it to be about something,” Beatty said. “Stage actors learn how to do that. Film actors often don’t even think about it. They do what the director wants them to do, and they never inform their performance with — call it what you wish — through-line, objective.”

In “Superman” in 1978, Beatty played Otis, the bumbling toady of the villain Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman), a role that he reprised in “Superman II” in 1980.

In 1986, he was cast in a comedic role as the gushing and unscrupulous Dean Martin of the fictional Grand Lakes University in “Back to School,” offering admission to Thornton Melon, the big and tall clothing tycoon (Rodney Dangerfield), in exchange for donating a building. The head of the business school in the film objected to the quid pro quo.

“But I’d just like to say, in all fairness to Mr. Melon here, it was a really big check,” Beatty’s character retorted.

Beatty delivered another memorable performance in a small role as Daniel Ruettiger, the blue-collar father in “Rudy,” the 1993 movie about a University of Notre Dame walk-on football player who makes the team. As the father enters the stadium for the first time, he is overcome by the moment.

“This is the most beautiful sight these eyes have ever seen,” Beatty said.

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On the COVID front lines, when not getting belly rubs

By HANNAH BEECH

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obby was a good boy. So was Bravo.

Angel was a good girl, and when she sat, furry hindquarters sliding a little on the tile floor, she raised a paw for emphasis, as if to say, it’s this cotton ball that my keen nose has identified, the one that smells like COVID-19.

The three Labradors, operating out of a university clinic in Bangkok, are part of a global corps of dogs being trained to sniff out COVID-19 in people. Preliminary studies, conducted in multiple countries, suggest that their detection rate may surpass that of the rapid antigen testing often used in airports and other public places.

“For dogs, the smell is obvious, just like grilled meat for us,” said Dr. Kaywalee Chatdarong, deputy dean of research and innovation for the faculty of veterinary science at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.

The hope is that dogs can be deployed in crowded public spaces, like stadiums or transportation hubs, to identify people carrying the virus. Their skills are being developed in Thailand, France, Britain, Chile, Australia, Belgium and Germany, among other countries. They have patrolled airports in Finland, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates, and private companies have used them at American sporting events.

Angel, a pale blonde with incipient jowls and a fondness for crunching plastic bottles, is the star of the pack at Chulalongkorn University. But as a group, the dogs being trained in Thailand — Angel, Bobby, Bravo and three others, Apollo, Tiger and Nasa — accurately detected the virus 96.2% of the time in controlled settings, according to university researchers. Studies in Germany and the United Arab Emirates had lower but still impressive results.

Sniffer dogs work faster and far more cheaply than polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, testing, their proponents say. An intake of air through their sensitive snouts is enough to identify within a second the volatile organic compound or mixture of compounds that are produced when a person with COVID-19 sheds damaged cells, researchers say.

“PCR tests are not immediate, and there are false negative results, while we know that dogs can detect COVID in its incubation phase,” said Anne-Lise Chaber, an

Bobby, Bravo and Angel, left to right, with their handlers at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok on May 14, 2021. In Thailand and around the world, dogs are being trained to sniff out the coronavirus in people. So far, the results have been impressive. interdisciplinary health expert at the School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences at the University of Adelaide in Australia who has been working for six months with 15 COVID-sniffing dogs.

Some methods of detection, like temperature screening, cannot identify infected people who have no symptoms. But dogs can, because the infected lungs and trachea produce a trademark scent. And dogs need fewer molecules to nose out COVID than are required for PCR testing, Thai researchers said.

The Thai Labradors are part of a research project run jointly by Chulalongkorn University and Chevron. The oil company had previously used dogs to test its offshore employees for illegal drug use, and a Thai manager wondered whether the animals could do the same with the coronavirus. A dog’s ability to sniff out COVID-19 is, in theory, no different from its prowess in detecting narcotics, explosives or a Scooby snack hidden in a pocket.

The six dogs were assigned six handlers, who exposed them to sweat-stained cotton balls from the socks and armpits of COVID-positive individuals. Researchers say the risks to the dogs are low: The coronavirus is not known to be easily transmissible

through perspiration, a plentiful commodity in tropical Thailand. Instead, the main transmission route appears to be respiratory droplets.

On rare occasions, pet cats and dogs in close contact with infected humans have tested positive for the virus, as have populations of minks and other mammals. (There are no proven cases, however, of household pets passing the virus to humans.)

Within a couple months of training, at about 600 sniffs per day, the Thai dogs were sitting obediently whenever they sensed the cellular byproducts of COVID-19 on cotton balls, which researchers placed at nose height on a carousel-like contraption.

Dogs, whose wet snouts have up to 300 million olfactory receptors compared to roughly 6 million for humans, can be trained to memorize about 10 smell patterns for a specific compound, Kaywalee said. Dogs can also smell through another organ nestled between their noses and mouths.

Some research has suggested that dogs of various breeds may be able to detect diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, malaria and certain cancers — that is, the volatile organic compounds or bodily fluids associated with them.

Labradors are among the smartest

breeds, said Lertchai Chaumrattanakul, who leads Chevron’s part of the dog project. They are affable, too, making them the ideal doggy detector: engaged and eager.

Lertchai noted that Labradors are expensive, about $2,000 each in Thailand. But the cotton swabs and other basic equipment for canine testing work out to about 75 cents per sample. That is much cheaper than what is needed for other types of rapid screening.

Last week, Singapore announced that it was provisionally approving a kind of breathalyzer to test for COVID-19.

Three of the Thai Labradors are stationed in the country’s deep south, near the border with Malaysia, where the Ministry of Public Health says dangerous COVID-19 variants have entered Thailand. The other three were moved in recent weeks to the ninth floor of Chulalongkorn’s veterinary faculty’s building in Bangkok, where they live in former student dormitories.

The Bangkok-based dogs are now screening sweat samples from Thais who cannot easily reach COVID testing sites, such as the elderly or the bedridden. The dogs’ minders are working to set up a program with the city’s prisons, where thousands of inmates have been diagnosed with COVID. Thailand is suffering its worst outbreak of the coronavirus since the pandemic began. Clusters are proliferating in prisons, construction camps and other cramped quarters. Vaccines are in short supply, and less than 2% of the population has been inoculated.

Researchers at Chulalongkorn have designed a mobile unit that they plan to drive to possible COVID hot spots, so that dogs can pinpoint areas that need mass testing.

There are still many questions about using dogs to detect the virus. What do vaccinated people smell like? How easy will it be to train a large pack of COVID-sniffing dogs around the world? What if people being tested by a canine nose are not that sweaty? What if a dog gets COVID-19 and loses its sense of smell?

Still, Lertchai said he thought that virus-detecting dogs would be a boon, particularly in countries that do not have the resources for more expensive testing.

“COVID isn’t going away, and there will be new variants,” he said. “Dogs want to be helpful, so let’s use them.”

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For lemon curd in less than 10 minutes, use your microwave

By MELISSA CLARK

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ecipes for microwave lemon curd have been around since the 1980s. But it took an Instagram post in 2021 to get me to try it.

Actually, it was many posts, most of them from chef David Chang. A committed microwave enthusiast, he didn’t make curd, but he did demonstrate other dishes — like kimchi jjigae, mashed potatoes and chawanmushi — that you wouldn’t expect could be made in a microwave.

“Think of your microwave as an energy efficient steamer,” Chang wrote about cooking rice.

Of the 1.7 million or so times I’ve used a microwave, I’d never thought of it as a steamer. To me, it was a convenient way to reheat leftovers, melt chocolate and cook hot dogs straight from the freezer — my longtime emergency meal for my daughter.

If it could make a glorious chawanmushi, what else was it capable of?

As a lemon lover, I found my answer a few weeks later, in a post by Gail Dosik, cookie-maker extraordinaire: lemon curd, whisked together in 6 1/2 minutes.

This made perfect sense, playing to the microwave’s strength as what New Yorker writer Helen Rosner so astutely described as “a brute-force bain-marie.”

The most fail-safe lemon curd recipes call for cooking the ingredients in a bain-marie (or double boiler) so they can thicken gently, without curdling. The microwave achieves this faster, and you don’t need to stand over the stove, stirring constantly.

There are dozens of similar recipes floating around online (including the one from King Arthur Baking Company that Dosik used), and this one unites elements from the best of them. It’s light and silky, bright and lemony, and just sweet enough.

The method couldn’t be more straightforward: Just whirl the ingredients in a blender, pour into a bowl, and microwave for 5 to 7 minutes, whisking after every minute or so. Using the blender usually eliminates the need for straining at the end, but you can skip it and just whisk everything together in a bowl before cooking.

Be sure to watch the curd carefully. If you notice hot spots (where the curd is simmering rapidly), reduce the microwave’s power so the curd can cook more slowly. Microwaves vary, and some run hotter than others.

Once you nail the technique, you can substitute other citrus, swapping lime or grapefruit for lemon, and flavoring it with makrut lime leaves or Campari.

Curd of all flavors will keep in the fridge for at least five days, if you don’t eat it all first. But even if you do, another batch is just 6 1/2 minutes away.

The easiest lemon curd Yield: 2 cups Total time: 15 minutes, plus cooling and at least 3 hours’ chilling 1/2 cup/113 grams unsalted butter (1 stick) 2 teaspoons finely grated lemon zest 1 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (4 to 6 lemons) 3/4 cup to 1 cup sugar

3 large eggs 1 egg yolk Pinch of salt 1. Put the butter in a large (at least 6 cup) microwave-safe glass bowl or measuring cup. Set your microwave on 50% power and melt the butter, about 1 to 1 1/2 minutes.

2. Pour butter into a blender and add lemon zest, juice, sugar, eggs, egg yolk and salt. Blend until smooth.

Pour mixture into the same glass bowl you melted the butter in. (You don’t need to wash it.)

3. Microwave the curd mixture, on full power, in 1-minute intervals for 5 minutes. Whisk furiously between intervals, especially around the edges of the bowl.

It should start to thicken. (If it looks like it’s starting to thicken before 5 minutes, stop and continue to the next step; microwaves can vary.)

4. Reduce power to 70% and continue to microwave for another 1 to 2 minutes, whisking every 30 seconds, until the curd thickens enough to coat a spoon, and looks slightly puffed and spongy. (It will continue to thicken as it chills.) An instant-read thermometer should register 180 degrees.

5. Whisk well and inspect the curd. If you think there are any coagulated bits of egg, strain curd through a fine-mesh sieve into a clean bowl. Or if it looks smooth, you can leave it in its current bowl. Press a piece of plastic wrap against the surface to create an airtight seal and let the curd cool to room temperature. Refrigerate until cold, at least 3 hours.

Tips: Grapefruit-Campari Curd: Reduce the lemon juice to 2/3 cup, the lemon zest to 1 teaspoon and the sugar to 3/4 cup. Add 3 tablespoons each freshly squeezed grapefruit juice and Campari, and 1 teaspoon finely grated grapefruit zest.

Makrut Lime Curd: Substitute lime juice and zest for lemon juice and zest. Once the ingredients are blended in Step 2, add 1/3 cup finely slivered makrut lime leaves to the glass bowl, along with the blended mixture. (Don’t blend the lime leaves.) Strain the lime leaves out in Step 5.

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Novavax offers US a fourth strong COVID-19 vaccine

By CARL ZIMMER

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ovavax, a small American company buoyed by lavish support from the U.S. government, announced Monday the results of a clinical trial of its COVID-19 vaccine in the United States and Mexico, finding that its two-shot inoculation provides potent protection against the coronavirus.

In the 29,960-person trial, the vaccine demonstrated an overall efficacy of 90.4%, on par with the vaccines made

by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, and higher than the one-shot vaccine from Johnson & Johnson. The Novavax vaccine showed an efficacy of 100% at preventing moderate or severe disease.

Despite these impressive results, the vaccine’s future in the United States is uncertain and it might be needed more in other countries. Novavax says it may not seek emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration until the end of September. And with a plentiful supply of three other authorized vaccines, it’s possible that the agency may tell Novavax to apply instead for a full license — a process that could require several extra months.

The company’s CEO, Stanley Erck, acknowledged that Novavax would probably win its first authorization elsewhere.

The company is also applying in Britain, the European Union, India and South Korea.

“I think the good news is that the data are so compelling that it gives everybody an incentive to pay attention to our filings,” Erck said.

By the time Novavax gets the green light from the U.S. government, it may be too late to contribute to the country’s first wave of vaccinations. But many vaccine experts expect that, with waning immunity and emerging variants, the country will need booster shots at some point. And the protein-based technology used in the Novavax vaccine may do a particularly good job at amplifying protection, even if people have previously been vaccinated with a different formulation.

“They may be really the right ones for boosters,” said Dr. Luciana Borio, who

was the acting chief scientist at the FDA from 2015-17.

Last year, the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed program awarded Novavax a $1.6 billion contract for 100 million future doses. The company won this tremendous support despite never having brought a vaccine to market in more than three decades.

In January, Novavax announced that its 15,000-person trial in Britain found that the vaccine had an efficacy of 96% against the original coronavirus. Against Alpha, a virus variant first identified in Britain, the efficacy fell slightly to 86%. In South Africa, where Novavax ran a smaller trial on 2,900 people and the Beta variant was dominant, the company found an efficacy of just 49%.

But the South Africa trial was complicated by the fact that a number of the volunteers had HIV, which is known to hamper vaccines. In addition, the study was so small that it was difficult to estimate how much protection the vaccine provided HIV-negative volunteers.

With the support of Operation Warp Speed, Novavax drew up plans for an even larger late-stage trial in the United States and Mexico. But difficulties with manufacturing delayed its launch until December.

By then, the United States had authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines. In February, with the Novavax trial still underway, the government authorized Johnson & Johnson’s.

As it waited for trial results, Novavax partnered with other companies to start making massive quantities of its vaccine.

In India, it joined forces with the Serum Institute, and in South Korea, SK Biosciences. Novavax reached an agreement with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to supply 1.1 billion doses to middle- and lowincome countries.

But the company’s difficulties with scaling continued, and it needed more time to develop special tests used to confirm the quality of its product.

The new results were based on 77 trial volunteers who came down with COVID-19. The volunteers who received placebo shots were far more likely than

the vaccinated ones to get sick, a statistical difference that translated to an efficacy of 90.4%.

“It’s a strong result,” said Natalie Dean, a biostatistician at the University of Florida. “It puts them up in that high tier.”

The vaccine showed the same efficacy in a group of high-risk volunteers — people who were over the age of 65, had medical risk factors or had jobs that exposed them to the virus.

Novavax will apply for authorization in the United States after it finishes developing a quality control test, according to its CEO. “You have to test them every way from Sunday to show that under any conditions you get the same answer,” Erck said. “And that takes time.”

Erck said that the company plans on making 100 million doses per month by the end of the third quarter, and 150 million doses per month by the end of the fourth quarter.

With each passing week, the United States is building a bigger supply of authorized vaccines from other companies, raising the question of whether the nation needs to give any more emergency use authorizations, or EUAs. “The law says that once you have sufficient doses, there’s no need for ad-

ditional EUA’s,” Borio said.

One sign that the FDA is changing its approach to COVID-19 vaccines came last week. An American company called Ocugen had been seeking emergency authorization for Covaxin, a COVID-19 vaccine now in use in India. But on Thursday, the company announced that the FDA had recommended they instead take the standard path to a full approval, known as a biologics license application, which takes many additional months.

But because Novavax has been consulting with the FDA since last year about its trials, Erck said the company might be able to continue with its plans for seeking emergency use authorization.

“So far, they’ve indicated that if you’re in the process for an EUA, you can continue for an EUA.,” Erck said. “Anybody could tell you that could change, but I don’t know how to predict that.”

Dr. Paul Offit, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the FDA’s vaccine advisory panel, said that Novavax’s highly effective vaccine would be most welcome. “The more the merrier,” he said. “I think there’s room for many more vaccines, because we’re going to be dealing with this virus for years, if not decades.”

A participant in the Novavax vaccine trial at Howard University in Washington receives a dose on Jan. 22, 2021.

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Tuesday, June 15, 2021

The San Juan Daily Star

Why are we all talking about UFOs right now?

A still image from video released by the Department of Defense shows a 2004 encounter near San Diego between two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets and an unknown object.

By JENNIFER JETT

W

hen spooky things appear in the sky, witnesses have often been reluctant to report them for fear of mockery by others, especially in the halls of government.

These days, fewer people are laughing.

Unidentified flying objects, or unidentified aerial phenomena as the government calls them, have been taken more seriously by U.S. officials in recent years, starting in 2007 with a small, secretly funded program that investigated reports of military encounters.

The program, whose existence was first reported by The New York Times in December 2017, was revived by the Defense Department last summer as the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. The department said the task force’s mission was to “detect, analyze and catalog” sightings of strange objects in the sky “that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security.” Service members were newly encouraged to speak up if they saw something, with the idea being that removing the stigma behind reporting something weird would provide authorities with a better idea of what’s out there.

Then, late last year, President Donald Trump signed a $2.3 trillion appropriations package that included a provision inserted by lawmakers: They asked the secretary of defense and director of national intelligence to submit an unclassified report on what the government knows about UFOs. That report is due this month.

A drumbeat of UFO attention With the public asking more questions about UFOs,

more officials appear willing to answer them.

“There are a lot more sightings than have been made public,” John Ratcliffe, former director of national intelligence, told Fox News in March. Quite a few of them, he said, “are difficult to explain.”

John Brennan, former director of the CIA, said in a podcast last year that some of the unexplained sightings might be “some type of phenomenon that is the result of something that we don’t yet understand and that could involve some type of activity that some might say constitutes a different form of life.”

The lead-up to the report’s expected release has seen quite a bit of mainstream media attention in recent weeks, including a 13,000-word article in The New Yorker in April and a segment on CBS’ “60 Minutes.”

Even former President Barack Obama, in an appearance last month on “The Late Late Show With James Corden,” admitted there were “objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are.” (President Joe Biden deflected a question about UFOs a few days later.)

How it all started in 1947 The first thing to know is that “UFO” doesn’t automatically mean “alien.” As its name indicates, UFO refers to any aerial phenomenon with no immediate explanation. Though reported sightings take place frequently around the world, the vast majority of them turn out to be things like stars, satellites, planes, drones, weather balloons, birds or bats.

The modern history of UFO sightings is generally considered to have started on June 24, 1947, when Kenneth Arnold, a private pilot from Idaho, reported seeing nine circular objects traveling at supersonic speeds near Mount Rainier.

Newspapers described them as “flying saucers,” a term that captured the popular imagination. Though Arnold appeared

A 1966 photo provided by the Department of Defense shows Kenneth Arnold, who reported seeing nine circular objects near Mount Rainier in 1947.

to be a credible witness, government officials were skeptical.

Nonetheless, the government began a classified study, called Project Sign, out of concern that such objects could be advanced Soviet weapons. That was followed by Project Blue Book, which reviewed about 12,000 cases from 1952 to 1969, 701 of which could not be explained. It ended with a report saying UFOs were not worth further study. As far as is publicly known, there were no more official government efforts to study UFOs until the one established in 2007, called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.

Sightings of unidentified objects in the United States have risen during the coronavirus pandemic, as people spending long days at home turned to sky gazing. Reports increased about 15% last year to more than 7,200, according to the National UFO Reporting Center. As in other years, almost all of them had earthly explanations, the center said.

What kinds of things are people reporting?

In November 2004, two Navy fighter jets from the USS Nimitz were off the coast of San Diego when they encountered a whitish, oval-shaped craft of similar size hovering above the sea, which was churning in an unusual way. As one of the jets began a circular descent to get a closer look, the object — which had no wings or obvious means of propulsion — ascended toward it, then zipped away.

“It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen,” Cmdr. David Fravor, one of the pilots, told The Times in 2017.

Fravor told a fellow pilot that night that he had no idea what he had seen: “It had no plumes, wings or rotors and outran our F-18s.”

But, he added, “I want to fly one.”

Other cases include a spinning disk that was seen hovering above O’Hare Airport in Chicago in 2006, and two “sunlight-colored” objects reported by a professional pilot in England in 2007, as The New Yorker reported.

A video of the Nimitz incident, along with two from 2015, was officially released by the Defense Department last year. More recently, the department confirmed that video and images leaked to a documentary filmmaker had been taken

by Navy personnel in 2019 and were being investigated by the task force.

What will the report say?

It may not say much.

According to the provision in the appropriations package, the report should include a detailed analysis of UFO data held by the task force and other government bodies. The report is also supposed to flag any unidentified aerial phenomena that could be considered threats to national security, including whether they “may be attributed to one or more foreign adversaries.” In addition, it must provide “a detailed description of an interagency process” for collecting and analyzing UFO reports in the future, as well as recommendations for improving and funding data collection and research.

Although the report is to be made public, it may also come with a classified annex.

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

ROOSEVELT REO PR IV CORP. Plaintiff, vs.

JUAN CARLOS SEVERINO GARCIA

Defendant CIVIL NO. 16-1779 (GAG). RE: COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: JUAN CARLOS SEVERINO GARCIA, DORAL BANK O A SU ORDEN P/C BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO: AND TO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO. SS. Judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $85,000.00 in principal, accrued interest which continues to accrue until full payment of the debt at the rate of 5.95% per annum, accrued late charges and any other advance, charge, fee or disbursements made by plaintiff, on behalf of defendants, in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs, and ten (10) percent attorney fees; Pursuant to the judgment, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for United States currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder to be held on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or any other place designated by said Special Master, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: RUSTICA: Lote de terreno localizado en el Barrio Mameyes del término municipal de Río Grande, Puerto Rico, antes Luquillo, con una cabida superficial de 0.3060 cuerdas, equivalentes a 1,202.7380 metros cuadrados, marcado como solar 16 del Proyecto Lindomar II en el plano de inscripción levantado por el Ingeniero Licenciado Santos Negrón Vargas, licencia número 9313 del día 15 de julio de 2000, y con las siguientes medidas y colindancias: por el NORTE, en 48.109 metros, con solar 15; por el SUR, en 48.109 metros, con solar numero 17; por el ESTE, en 25.057 metros, con camino a dedicarse a uso público (calle número 3); y por el OESTE, en 25.057 metros, con solar número 9 y 11 del mismo pro-

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yecto. Es segregación de la finca 1,998,inscrita al folio 50 del tomo 57 de Luquillo. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, sección Tercera. Physical address: Urbanización Lindomar II, #16 Río Grande, P.R. 00745.

The property is subject to the following Junior lien: 1. LAWSUIT ANNOTATION: Executed in the First Instance Court of Rio Grande, civil case #N3CI2007573, on July 20, 2007, for reason of Collection of Money and Foreclosure by Doral Bank, plaintiff, versus Juan Carlos Severino Garcia, defendant, by the amount of $85,000.00, plus interests, presented on November 6, 2015 and recorded on April 8, 2019 at Karibe Sistem of Río Grande, property number 29,145, Annotation A. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior or preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal), or homeowner associations dues, to the extent specified under the applicable Condominium Law, shall continue in effect. It being understood that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. THEREFORE, the first public sale shall be held on the 9TH day of July 2021, at 10:15 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $229,447.00. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a second public auction shall be held on the 16th day of July 2021, at 10:15 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $152,964.67, 2/3 parts of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a third auction will be held on the 23rd day of July 2021, at 10:15 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $114,723.50, ½ of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico,

Tuesday, June 15, 2021 on May 18th, 2021. AGUEDO solares número 15-B y 13-B, DE LA TORRE, Special Master. respectivamente. Enclava una casa de cemento reforzado de LEGAL NOTICE una sola planta. Inscrita al foIN THE UNITED STATES DIS- lio 45 del tomo 102 de Fajardo, TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS- Registro de la Propiedad de FaTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. jardo, finca número 3,174, InsCONDADO 3 CFL, LLC cripción 15ta. Physical address: 14B RRB Ext. Santa Isidra, Plaintiff, vs.

Fajardo, P.R. 00738. Potential BYRON SEBASTIAN bidders are advised to verify the JURADO BEQUER, extent of preferential liens with MAYRA ERENID the holders thereof. It shall be CASTRO VELAZQUEZ understood that each bidder acAND THE CONJUGAL cepts as sufficient the title and that prior or preferential liens to PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any Defendants property tax liens (express, CIVIL NO. 20-1086 (PAD). RE: tacit, implied or legal), or hoCOLLECTION OF MONIES, meowner associations dues, to FORECLOSURE MORTGAGE. the extent specified under the NOTICE OF SALE. applicable Condominium Law, TO: BYRON SEBASTIAN shall continue in effect. It being JURADO BEQUER, understood that the successful MAYRA ERENID bidder accepts them and is suCASTRO VELAZQUEZ brogated in the responsibility for AND THE CONJUGAL the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their PARTNERSHIP cancellation. The present proCONSTITUTED THEREIN; perty will be acquired free and AND TO THE PUBLIC IN clear of all junior liens. THEREFORE, the first public sale shall GENERAL: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA be held on the July 9th, 2021 at PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 10:00 a.m., and the minimum STATES COMMONWEALTH bid that will be accepted is the sum of $107,800.00. In the OF PUERTO RICO. SS. Judgment in favor of plaintiff for event said first public auction the sum of $90,843.82 in princi- does not produce a bidder and pal, $4,231.91 in accrued inter- the property is not adjudicated, est, which continues to accrue a second public auction shall be until full payment of the debt at held on the July 16th, 2021 at the rate of 6.50% per annum, 10:00 a.m., and the minimum $183.96 accrued late charges, bid that will be accepted is the and any other advance, charge, sum of $71,866.67, 2/3 parts of fee or disbursements made by the minimum bid for the 1st puplaintiff on behalf of defendant blic sale. If said second auction in accordance with the mort- does not result in the adjudicagage deed, plus costs, and ten tion and sale of the property, (10) percent attorney fees; Pur- a third auction will be held on suant to the judgment, the un- the July 23rd, 2021 at 10:00 dersigned Special Master was a.m., and the minimum bid that ordered to sell at public auction will be accepted is the sum of for United States currency in $53,900.00, ½ of the minimum cash or certified check without bid for the 1st public sale. Upon appraisement or right of re- confirmation of the sale, an ordemption to the highest bidder der shall be issued canceling all to be held on the sidewalk in junior liens. For further particufront of the main gate entran- lars, reference is made to the ce of the United States District judgment entered by the Court Court, Federal Building, 350 in this case, which can be exaChardon Avenue, Hato Rey, mined in the Office of the Clerk Puerto Rico or any other pla- of the United States District ce designated by said Special Court, Federal Building, CharMaster, to cover the sums ad- don Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto judged to be paid to the plaintiff, Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, the following property: URBA- on May 18, 2021. AGUEDO DE NA: Solar número catorce “B” LA TORRE, Special Master.

(14-B) de la Urbanización ExLEGAL NOTICE tensión Santa Isidra en el barrio Sardinera de Fajardo, con una IN THE UNITED STATES DIScabida de trescientos dieciocho TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS(318.00) metros cuadrados. En TRICT OF PUERTO RICO. lindes por el NORTE y SUR, ACM CDGY VI LN con la calle número 3 y el solar CFL LLC número 19-B, respectivamente Plaintiff, vs. y en veinticuatro (24.00) meJOSE LUIS tros por cada uno de sus lados; ESTE y OESTE, con los RODRIGUEZ MELENDEZ Defendant

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25 CIVIL NO. 19-1585 (BJM). RE: COLLECTION OF MONIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ MELENDEZ: AND TO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO. SS. Judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $82,616.85 in principal, $3,627.40 in accrued interest, which continues to accrue until full payment of the debt at the rate of 5.625% per annum, $1,321.87 accrued late charges and any other advance, charge, fee or disbursements made by plaintiff on behalf of defendant in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs, and ten (10%) percent attorney fees; Pursuant to the judgment, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for United States currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder to be held on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or any other place designated by said Special Master, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: URBANA: Solar numero dos (2) del bloque “D” de la Urbanización El Mirador Echevarría de Cayey, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos cuarenta y seis metros cuadrados (346.00), en colindancia por el NORTE, con el solar número D-uno,(D-1) de la misma urbanización, en una longitud de veintitrés metros lineales y diez centésimas de otro (23.10); por el SUR, con el solar número D-tres (D-3) de la misma urbanización, en una longitud de veintitrés metros lineales y diez centésimas de otro (23.10); por el ESTE, con la calle Acasia de la misma urbanización, en una longitud de quince metros lineales (15.00); y por el OESTE, con el solar número D-dieciséis (D-16) de la misma urbanización, en una longitud de quince metros lineales (15.00). Enclava una casa de concreto para vivienda. Inscrita al folio 72 del tomo 203 de Cayey, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera, finca número 6,319.

Physical address: Mirador Universitario 2D Acasia St., Cayey, P.R. 00736. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be

understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior or preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal), or homeowner associations dues, to the extent specified under the applicable Condominium Law, shall continue in effect. It being understood that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. THEREFORE, the first public sale shall be held on the July 9th, 2021 at 10:30, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $88,000.00. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a second public auction shall be held on the July 16th, 2021 at 10:30, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $58,666.67, 2/3 parts of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a third auction will be held on the July 23rd, 2021 at 10:30, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $44,000.00, ½ of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on May 18, 2021. AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, Special Master. *****

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

FRANCISCO JOSÉ SANTIAGO SÁEZ, SU ESPOSA TANAIRY FELICIANO TORRES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: PO2019CV02212.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA.

EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 9 de diciembre de 2019, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 5 de abril de 2021 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Cuatro Mil Cuarenta y Cinco (4045) del bloque “C” en el plano de inscripción parcial para el Proyecto Residencial “Hillcrest”, radicado en el barrio Sabanetas del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de ciento noventa y siete metros cuadrados con setecientas sesenta milésimas de otro (197.760 m/c); en lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de diecinueve punto veinte metros (19.20) con el solar número cuatro mil cuarenta y tres (4043) del proyecto; por el SUR, en diecinueve punto veinte metros (19.20) con el solar número cuatro mil cuarenta y siete (4047) del proyecto; por el ESTE, en diez punto treinta metros (10.30) con “Área Recreativa” del proyecto; y por el OESTE, en diez punto treinta metros (10.30) con “Paseo de la Vega” del proyecto. Enclava en dicho solar una estructura de una sola planta tipo ‘duplex’ para fines residenciales. La pared que ubica en la colindancia Norte de la estructura, constituye pared medianera, compartida con la estructura que enclava en el solar cuatro mil cuarenta y tres (4043) en consecuencia de lo cual dicha pared no podrá ser modificada o alterada en forma o manera alguna. A todo lo largo de su colindancia Oeste discurre una servidumbre soterrada de uno punto cincuenta y dos metros (1.52) de ancho, a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company.

FINCA NÚMERO: 64,708, inscrita al folio 81 del tomo 2110 de Ponce, sección I de Ponce. Dirección física: URB. HILLCREST VILLAGE 4045 C (3-17) PONCE PR 00716. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 6 de julio de 2021, a las 11:30 de la mañana , en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puer-

to Rico, Sala Superior de Ponce. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $93,805.30. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 13 de julio de 2021, a las 11:30 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $62,536.86. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 20 de julio de 2021, a las 11:30 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $46,902.65. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. El Tribunal dictó Sentencia declarando con lugar la demanda y por consiguiente condenó a las partes demandadas, FRANCISCO JOSÉ SANTIAGO SÁEZ, SU ESPOSA TANAIRY FELICIANO TORRES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, a pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $96,395.09, que se desglosa de la siguiente manera: $88,745.31 de principal, $4,437.28 de interés, $1,320.04 de “Escrow/Impound Overdraft”, $177.64 de “Recoverable Corporate Advance”, $175.42 de “Pro Rata MIP”, $218.00 de “Unpaid Late Charges”, $10.00 de “Payoff Statement Fee”, $10.00 de “Legal Docs. Handling”, $1,301.40 de “Legal Fees”. Estas sumas aumentan a razón del 3.750% de intereses al año hasta su completo pago. Además, se le impone a la parte demandada el pago de costas a favor de la parte demandante, mas 10% para honorarios de abogados, hasta el saldo total de la obligación. (La parte demandante ha señalado que según el pagaré suscrito tiene derecho a un 10% del valor del pagaré hipotecario para las costas, gastos y honorarios

26 de abogados. En autos esta cantidad equivale a $10,625.20). Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Por la presente también se notifica e informa al Secretario del Departamento de Desarrollo Urbano y Vivienda de los Estados Unidos de América, por éstos contar con una hipoteca a su favor por la suma de $15,948.00, no expresa intereses y a vencer el 1ro de junio de 2045, según consta de la escritura #151, inscrito al folio 214 del tomo 2139 de Ponce, inscripción 5ta. Además, se notifica e informa a la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico por éstos ser el acreedor de las condiciones restrictivas a consentir y ratificar la modificación de la hipoteca de inscripción 3ra, inscrito al folio 182 del tomo 2142 de Ponce, inscripción 6ta. Además, se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y 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 eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. 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. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 28 de abril de 2021. MIGUEL A TORRES AYALA #560, Alguacil Auxiliar, SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

JUAN GARCÍA VARGAS, SU ESPOSA IVONESSA FELICIANO PAGÁN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: CG2019CV02864.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 21 de noviembre de 2019, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 17 de enero de 2020 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número K-15 del plano de inscripción de la comunidad Rancho Bonito radicado en el Barrio Ceiba Norte del término municipal de Juncos, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 416.50 metros cuadrados equivalentes a 0.10597 cuerdas. En linderos: NORTE, con solar K-16; SUR, con solar K-14; ESTE, con urbanización Rancho Bonito II, según plano con solar vacante;

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OESTE, con prolongación de la calle 10. FINCA NÚMERO: 16,992, inscrita al folio 197 del tomo 437 de Juncos, sección II de Caguas. Nota aclaratoria: En el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II, la descripción registral consta tal y como fue transcrita anteriormente. En la Escritura número 1274, otorgada el 5 de octubre de 2000, se describe lo siguiente; • NORTE, con prolongación de la calle 10; por el Sur, con la Urbanización Rancho Bonito II; por el Este, por el solar K-18; y por el Oeste con el solar número K-14. Dirección Física: Comunidad Rancho Bonito K-15, Calle 10 Juncos, PR 00777.

Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 6 de julio de 2021, a las 9:45 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Caguas. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $54,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 13 de julio de 2021, a las 9:45 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $36,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 20 de julio de 2021, a las 9:45 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $27,000.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. El Honorable Tribunal dictó Sentencia In Rem, declarando Con Lugar la demanda al incumplir la parte demandada con los términos del contrato hipotecario y se ordenó a que el Alguacil del Tribunal luego de haberse efectuado la correspondiente publicación de edictos en un periódico de circulación general, proceda a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor la propiedad descrita en las Determinaciones de Hechos de la Sentencia y

que del producto de dicha venta, proceda a pagar en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas y honorarios de abogados según concedidos en la Sentencia, en tercer término los intereses acumulados por la Sentencia, en cuarto término los recargos acumulados, en quinto cualquier suma indicada como sobregiro en la cuenta de reserva y en sexto término hasta la suma de $38,634.35, para cubrir el principal adeudado, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a los demandados previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen.

El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Por la presente, también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y 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 eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. 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. Los autos y

todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 24 de marzo de 2021.

ALBERTO NEGRON ROMAN #435, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

LUIS ANGEL RODRIGUEZ COLON T/C/C LUIS A. RODRIGUEZ COLON T/C/C LUIS RODRIGUEZ COLON, SU ESPOSA AWILDA MARIA VAZQUEZ SOLER T/C/C AWILDA VAZQUEZ SOLER Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ALBA YASMET AYALA RODRIGUEZ

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: BY2019CV04140.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 10 de diciembre de 2019, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 8 de abril de 2021 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número Seis de la manzana K de la Urbanización Villa Real en el Barrio Cabo Caribe de Vega Baja, compuesto de trescientos veinticinco metros cuadrados.

Colinda por el NORTE, en veinticinco metros con el solar siete

de la manzana K; por el SUR, en veinticinco metros con el solar cinco de la manzana K; por el ESTE, en trece metros con el solar quince de la manzana K; y por el OESTE, en trece metros con la calle Cinco-A. Contiene una casa de una planta de concreto que consta de tres dormitorios, sala-comedor, cocina, baños, terraza y marquesina. FINCA NÚMERO: 3,298, inscrita al folio 33 del tomo 73 de Vega Baja, sección IV de Bayamón. Dirección física: URB. VILLA REAL K6 CALLE 5A VEGA BAJA, PR 00693.

Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 7 de julio de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana , en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Vega Baja. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $76,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 14 de julio de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $50,666.66. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 21 de julio de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $38,000.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor.

Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $40,465.07 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 7.00% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren

los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado.

Por la presente también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y 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 eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. 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. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 29 de abril de 2021. LUIS F ORTIZ ROSA #866, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

ENID LOURDES SEÑERIZ ORTIZ, SU ESPOSO DENEB ARRAY O’NEILL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: CG2019CV03031.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 17 de diciembre de 2019, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 4 de febrero de 2020 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Parcela identificada en el plano de inscripción como el solar ciento cuarenta y siete (147) de la Urbanización Paseos del Río, localizada en el Barrio Tomás de Castro del municipio de Caguas, con una cabida superficial de trescientos ochenta y seis punto cero dos (386.02) metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar ciento cuarenta y ocho (148); por el SUR, con la calle Río Guajataca; por el ESTE, con la calle Río Cagüitas; por el OESTE, con el solar ciento cuarenta y seis (146). Enclava en dicho solar una residencia de concreto de una (1) planta.

Este solar está afectado por una servidumbre de cinco (5) pies de ancho a favor de Puerto Rico Telephone Company, que discurre a todo lo largo de su colindancia Sur. FINCA NÚMERO: 59,333, inscrita al folio 47 del tomo 1722 de Caguas, sección I de Caguas. Dirección Física: BARRIO TOMÁS CASTRO URB. PASEOS DEL RÍO 147 CAGUAS PR 00725.

Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 6 de julio de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Caguas. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el LEGAL NOTICE precio mínimo aceptable como ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO oferta en la Primera Subasta, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUeso es el tipo mínimo pactado NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA en la Escritura de Hipoteca

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Por la presente también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referi-

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da propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y 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 eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. 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. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 24 de marzo de 2021.

ALBERTO NEGRON ROMAN #435, Alguacil, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS. ****

LEGAL NOTICE

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

SUANN MARIE SANTOS TORRES T/C/C SUANN M. SANTOS TORRES T/C/C SUAN M. SANTOS TORRES; EDWIN SANTOS RIVERA Y ANA CECILIA TORRES MALDONADO

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: PO2019CV03183.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 11 de diciembre de 2019, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 9 de abril de 2021 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a

vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Diecinueve (19) del bloque C, con una cabida superficial de trescientos ochenta y cuatro punto cuarenta y ocho metros cuadrados (384.48), de acuerdo al plano de inscripción del proyecto San Thomas en la Playa de Ponce, en lindes por el NORTE, en distancia de treinta y un metros, con los lotes número veintidós, veintiuno y veinte, en una medida de dos punto seiscientos cuarenta y cinco metros; por el SUR, en distancia de veintiséis punto setenta y tres metros, con la calle B; por el ESTE, en distancia de tres punto noventa y ocho, dos punto treinta metros, con la calle A; y por el OESTE, en distancia de veinte metros, con el lote número dieciocho.

Enclava una estructura residencial pared derecha de carga de hormigón armado y pared izquierda de carga de hormigón armado, techo de hormigón armado, sala, comedor, cocina, un baño, tres habitaciones, balcón y marquesina. FINCA NÚMERO: 51,037, inscrita al folio 56 del tomo 2004 de Ponce, sección I de Ponce. Dirección física: SAN THOMAS C-19 CALLE B PONCE, PR 00731.

Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 6 de julio de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Ponce. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $83,300.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 13 de julio de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $55,533.33. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 20 de julio de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $41,650.00. Si se declare

desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. El Tribunal dictó Sentencia declarando con lugar la demanda y por consiguiente condenó a las partes demandadas, SUANN MARIE SANTOS TORRES T/C/C SUANN M. SANTOS TORRES T/C/C SUAN M. SANTOS TORRES; EDWIN SANTOS RIVERA Y ANA CECILIA TORRES MALDONADO, a pagar solidariamente a la parte demandante la suma de $76,906.31, que se desglosa de la siguiente manera: $65,975.23 de principal, $9,087.64 de interés, $582.18 de “Escrow/Impound Overdraft”, $58.30 de “Recoverable Corporate Advance”, $30.36 de “Unpaid Late Charges”, $2.00 de “Unpaid Other Fees”, $30.00 de “Payoff Statement Fee”, $20.00 de “Legal Docs.

Handling”, $1,120.60 de “Legal Fees”. Esta suma no incluye los intereses, los cuales se continuarán acumulando hasta el saldo total de la obligación, más otros cargos conforme al contrato de préstamo suscrito por los causantes. Esta suma continúa acumulando intereses al interés anual convenido de 6.125% hasta su completo pago. La suma adeudada también continúa acumulando recargos. Además, se le impone a la parte demandada el pago de costas a favor de la parte demandante, más 10% para honorarios de abogados, hasta el saldo total de la obligación. La parte demandante ha señalado que según el pagaré suscrito tiene derecho a un 10% del valor del pagaré hipotecario para las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. En autos esta cantidad equivale a $8,330.00. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a

entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado.

Por la presente también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y 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 eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. 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. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 28 de abril de 2021. MIGUEL A TORRES AYALA #560, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE.

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FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C FANNIE MAE Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE JUAN JOSÉ CAMACHO CENTENO T/C/C JUAN J. CAMACHO CENTENO COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDA JOSEFITA DÍAZ CARRASQUILLO, POR SÍ, SU HEREDERO CONOCIDO CARLOS

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CAMACHO DÍAZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2019CV03796.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 13 de marzo de 2020, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 4 de marzo de 2021 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Turabo Gardens, situada en el Barrio Cañabón de Caguas, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número Treinta y Siete de la manzana “R”, con una cabida de cuatrocientos veintidós metros cuadrados con cuarenta y siete centímetros (422.47 sq. mts.).

En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de veintisiete metros cuadrados con novecientos veintitrés milésimas de metro con el solar número Treinta y Seis de la manzana “R”; por el SUR, en una distancia de veintitrés metros novecientos setentiseis milésimas de metros con el solar número Treintiocho de la manzana “R”; por el ESTE, en una distancia de doce metros quinientos treinta y una milésimas de metro con la calle número veintiséis; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de veinte metros setecientos cincuenta y seis milésimas de metros con un paseo público.

Contiene una casa de concreto reforzado, diseñada para una familia. FINCA NÚMERO: 22,972, inscrita al folio 299 del tomo 706 de Caguas, sección I de Caguas. Nota aclaratoria: La descripción registral surge del Registro de la Propiedad tal como se describió anteriormente. Sin embargo, en la Escritura Número 278, otorgada el 20 de mayo de 2005, se indica que el inmueble está sito el Barrio Cañaboncito de Caguas y que la cabida consta de cuatrocientos veintidós punto cuatrocientos setenta y cinco metros cuadrados (422.475m.c). Dirección Física: BARRIO CAÑABONCITO TURABO GARDENS R-37 CALLE 26 CAGUAS, PR 00725. Se anuncia por medio

de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 6 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Caguas. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $103,500.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 13 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $69,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 20 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $51,750.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $75,270.60 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 4.375% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consig-

nado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado.

Por la presente también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y 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 eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. 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. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 24 de marzo de 2021.

ALBERTO NEGRÓN ROMÁN, ALGUACIL PLACA #435, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE LUZ ESTHER TORRES CUADRADO, COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS EFRAIN VEGA TORRES, LUZ MARIE VEGA TORRES, LESLIE VEGA TORRES Y FELIX VEGA TORRES;

28 SUCESIÓN DE FELIX VEGA ROLDÁN COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS, EFRAIN VEGA TORRES, LUZ MARIE VEGA TORRES, LESLIE VEGA TORRES, FELIX VEGA TORRES, RAQUEL VEGA BENITEZ, EDWIN VEGA BENITEZ Y FELIZ VEGA BENITEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O POSIBLES PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2019CV01728.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 13 de diciembre de 2019, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 13 de febrero de 2020 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número ciento ochenta y seis B (186-B) en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural La Barra del barrio Río Cañas del término municipal de Caguas, con una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos cincuenta y cinco punto noventa y cinco metros cuadrados (455.95 m/c). En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela número ciento ochenta y seis (186) de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela número ciento ochenta y seis (186) de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con la parcela número ciento ochenta y seis (186) de la comunidad; por el OESTE, con calle de la comunidad. FINCA NÚMERO: 44,106, inscrita al folio 90 del tomo 1253 de Caguas, sección I de Caguas. Dirección Física: COMUNIDAD RURAL LA BARRA (BO. RIO CANAS) PARCELA 186-B CAGUAS, PR 00725. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 6 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Caguas. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en

este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $90,400.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 13 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $60,266.66. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 20 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $45,200.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $68,779.21 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 6.375% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado.

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Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y 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 eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. 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. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 24 de marzo de 2021.

ALFREDO NEGRÓN ROMÁN, ALGUACIL PLACA #435, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE ISRAEL RIVERA CRUZ COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERA CONOCIDA CRISTINA RIVERA; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2019CV02282.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil

que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 13 de diciembre de 2019, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 21 de febrero de 2020 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número 6 de la manzana K, según plano de inscripción del proyecto de solares de la CRUV, UM-6136, denominado Jardines Del Torito, radicado en el barrio Rincón del término municipal de Cayey, Puerto Rico. Dicho solar tiene un área superficial de 375.55 metros cuadrados y colinda por el NORTE, con el solar K-7, distancia de 24.79 metros; por el SUR, con el solar K-5, distancia de 30.60 metros; por el ESTE, con la calle número 8, distancia de 8.98 metros; y por el OESTE con los solares K-38 y K-39, distancia de 11.50 metros con el 38 y 8.00 metros con el 39. La propiedad segregada queda expresamente restrictas o sujeta en cuanto a uso y disposición a la siguiente condición: Los compradores o adquirientes sólo podrán destinar la propiedad para uso residencial. FINCA NÚMERO: 303, inscrita al folio 21 del tomo 8 de Caguas, sección I de Carolina.

Dirección Física: 6K C/8 JARDINES DE TORITO CAYEY, PR 00736. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 6 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Caguas. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $101,500.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 13 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $67,666.66. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el

día 20 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $50,750.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $85,637.01 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 6.8750% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado.

Por la presente también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y 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 eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. 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 acep-

ta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 24 de marzo de 2021.

ALBERTO NEGRÓN ROMÁN, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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

FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C FANNIE MAE Demandante Vs.

ALEXANDRA VÁZQUEZ CINTRÓN, SU ESPOSO JOSÉ A. RUIZ RIVERA T/C/C JOSÉ ANTONIO RUIZ RIVERA T/C/C JOSÉ RUIZ RIVERA, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV10380.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 11 de enero de 2021, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 11 de mayo de 2021 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número 5-E-4 del Condominio Estancias del Boulevard, localizado en el Munici-

pio de San Juan, con un área superficial de mil doscientos cincuenta y dos (1,252) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ciento dieciséis punto tres mil ciento ocho (116.3108) metros cuadrados. Colinda: por el NORTE, con pared exterior del módulo; por el SUR, con pared exterior del módulo; por el ESTE, con apartamento 6-E-3; por el OESTE, con apartamento 5-E3. Consta de sala-comedor, dos baños, tres dormitorios, cocina y balcón, un “walk-in-closet” y otros tres “closets”. Tiene una puerta principal que da acceso a la escalera por donde se llega a la salida del módulo, una vez allí, por las calles interiores del condominio se obtiene acceso a la vía pública. Le corresponde una participación de cero punto cuarenta y un por ciento (0.41%) en los elementos comunes del condominio.

Le corresponde un espacio de estacionamiento con capacidad para dos (2) vehículos que está marcado con el mismo número que el apartamiento. FINCA NÚMERO: 17,068, inscrita al folio 281 del tomo 536 de Río Piedras Sur, sección IV de San Juan. Dirección Física: COND. ESTANCIAS DE BOULEVARD 5-E APT. 4 SAN JUAN PR 00925. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 6 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de San Juan. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $145,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 13 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $96,666.66. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 20 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $72,500.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima

conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $111,662.47 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 5.75% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Por la presente también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto.

La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y 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 eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. 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. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy

The San Juan Daily Star día 2 de junio de 2021. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.

NORTE, con el solar E-nueve (E-9), distancia de doce metros con catorce centímetros (12.14); por el SUR, con el solar E-Once (E-11), distancia de doce metros con diecinueve (12.19) centímetros; por el ESTE, con la calle número LEGAL NOTICE cuatro (4), distancia de trece ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO metros con diecisiete (13.17) DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- centímetros; y por el OESTE, NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA con el solar E-catorce (E-14), SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN distancia de siete metros con cincuenta y seis (7.56) centíJUAN BANCO POPULAR DE metros. Enclava en dicho solar una casa en concreto con todas PUERTO RICO las facilidades para la residenDemandante Vs. cia de una familia. FINCA NÚSUCESIÓN DE PAULA MERO: 29,115, inscrita al folio SÁNCHEZ TORRES Y 11 del tomo 729 de Sabana SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ Llana, sección V de San Juan.

Dirección Física: PROYECTO ANTONIO MATOS SÁNCHEZ COMPUESTAS DENOMINADO ARF-19 PLEBISCITO III, SOLAR E-10 SAN POR SU HEREDERA JUAN, PR 00917. Se anuncia CONOCIDA CARMEN por medio de este edicto que la MATOS SÁNCHEZ; PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL celebrarse el día 6 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA ARROYO MERCADO T/C/C MANUEL ARROYO MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal FLORES COMPUESTA Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala POR SUS HEREDEROS Superior de San Juan. Siendo CONOCIDOS MANUEL ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el ANTONIO ARROYO RIVERA T/C/C MANUEL precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, A. ARROYO RIVERA, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado POR SÍ, Y MAYBELLINE en la Escritura de Hipoteca ARROYO RIVERA; para la propiedad, la suma de $41,700.00. De no haber FULANO DE TAL remanente o adjudicación en Y SUTANA DE TAL esta primera subasta por dicha COMO HEREDEROS suma mínima, se celebrará una DESCONOCIDOS Y/O SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día PARTES CON INTERÉS 13 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Demandados mismo lugar antes señalado Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV04145. en la cual el precio mínimo seSobre: COBRO DE DINERO rán dos terceras (2/3) partes Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE- del tipo mínimo pactado en la CA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO escritura de hipoteca, la suma PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TER- de $27,800.00. De no haber CERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil remanente o adjudicación en que suscribe, funcionario del esta segunda subasta por el Tribunal de San Juan, Puerto tipo mínimo indicado en el páRico, por la presente anuncia y rrafo anterior, se celebrará una hace saber al público en gene- TERCERA SUBASTA en el misral que en cumplimiento con la mo lugar antes señalado el día Sentencia dictada en este caso 20 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS con fecha 7 de agosto de 2020, 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la y según Orden y Mandamiento cual el tipo mínimo aceptable del 10 de mayo de 2021 libra- como oferta será la mitad (1/2) do por este honorable Tribunal, del precio mínimo pactado en la procederé a vender en pública escritura de hipoteca, la suma subasta al mejor postor, y por de $20,850.00. Si se declare dinero en efectivo, cheque cer- desierta la tercera subasta se tificado o giro postal a nombre adjudicará la finca a favor del del Alguacil del Tribunal con acreedor por la totalidad de la todo título derecho y/o interés cantidad adeudada si ésta es de la parte demandada sobre igual o menor que el monto la propiedad que se describe a del tipo mínimo de la tercera continuación: URBANA: Solar subasta, si el tribunal lo estima marcado con el número E-diez conveniente. Se abonará dicho (E-10) en el plano de inscrip- monto a la cantidad adeudada ción del proyecto denominado si ésta es mayor. Con el imARF-diecinueve (ARF-19), El porte de esta venta se habrá Plebiscito III, radicado en la de satisfacer el balance de la zona urbana del término mu- sentencia dictada en este caso nicipal de San Juan, con una el cual consiste en el pago de cabida superficial de ciento $14,752.46 de principal, más cincuenta y cinco metros cua- intereses convenidos al 7.50% drados con cuarenta y nueve anual más recargos hasta su centésimas de metro cuadrado pago, más el pago de lo pacta(155.49 m.c.). En lindes por el do en la sentencia para costas,

Tuesday, June 15, 2021 gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Por la presente también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto.

La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y 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 eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. 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. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 2 de junio de 2021. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.

SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYA- GÜEZ, PR 00680. Se anuncia GÜEZ por medio de este edicto que la BANCO POPULAR DE PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 6 DE JULIO PUERTO RICO DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA Parte Demandante Vs. en mi oficina sita en SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN MAÑANA, el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal GLORIA RIVERA MATIAS Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala COMPUESTA POR Superior de Mayagüez. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se SU VIUDO WILLIAM celebrará en este caso, será el RIVERA GONZALEZ, POR SÍ, SU HEREDERA precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, CONOCIDA SONIA eso es el tipo mínimo pactado IRIZARRY; FULANO DE en la Escritura de Hipoteca TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL para la propiedad, la suma de $77,512.00. De no haber COMO HEREDEROS remanente o adjudicación en DESCONOCIDOS primera subasta por dicha Y/O PERSONAS CON esta suma mínima, se celebrará una INTERÉS EN DICHA SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día SUCESIÓN; CENTRO 13 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS DE RECAUDACIÓN DE 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el INGRESOS MUNICIPALES mismo lugar antes señalado (CRIM); DEPARTAMENTO en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes DE HACIENDA DEL del tipo mínimo pactado en la GOBIERNO DE PUERTO escritura de hipoteca, la suma RICO de $51,674.66. De no haber Partes Demandadas remanente o adjudicación en Civil Núm.: MZ2019CV01067. esta segunda subasta por el Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO tipo mínimo indicado en el páY EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE- rrafo anterior, se celebrará una CA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO TERCERA SUBASTA en el misPRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TER- mo lugar antes señalado el día CERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil 20 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS que suscribe, funcionario del 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Tribunal de Mayagüez, Puerto cual el tipo mínimo aceptable Rico, por la presente anuncia y como oferta será la mitad (1/2) hace saber al público en gene- del precio mínimo pactado en la ral que en cumplimiento con la escritura de hipoteca, la suma Sentencia dictada en este caso de $38,756.00. Si se declare con fecha 13 de enero de 2020, desierta la tercera subasta se y según Orden y Mandamiento adjudicará la finca a favor del del 5 de abril de 2021 librado acreedor por la totalidad de la por este honorable Tribunal, cantidad adeudada si ésta es procederé a vender en pública igual o menor que el monto subasta al mejor postor, y por del tipo mínimo de la tercera dinero en efectivo, cheque cer- subasta, si el tribunal lo estima tificado o giro postal a nombre conveniente. Se abonará dicho del Alguacil del Tribunal con monto a la cantidad adeudada todo título derecho y/o interés si ésta es mayor. Con el imde la parte demandada sobre porte de esta venta se habrá la propiedad que se describe a de satisfacer el balance de la continuación: URBANA: Solar sentencia dictada en este caso marcado con el número D-once el cual consiste en el pago de (D-11) del plano de inscripción $73,418.85 de principal, más del Proyecto VBC-treinta y sie- intereses convenidos al 3.75% te denominado Villa del Oeste anual más recargos hasta radicado en el Barrio Sábalos su pago, más el pago de lo del término municipal de Ma- pactado en la sentencia para yagüez, Puerto Rico, con una costas, gastos y honorarios cabida superficial de ciento de abogados. Se dispone que sesenta y uno punto veinticin- una vez celebrada la subasta co metros cuadrados (171.25 y vendido el inmueble relaciom.c.), en lindes por el NORTE, nado, el alguacil pondrá en con el solar número once A, posesión judicial a los nuevos distancia de veintiún punto cin- dueños dentro del término de cuenta metros; por el SUR, con veinte (20) días a partir de la el solar número diez A, distan- celebración de la Subasta. Si cia de veintiún punto cincuenta transcurren los referidos veinte metros; por el ESTE, con el (20) días, el tribunal podrá orsolar número diecisiete A, dis- denar, sin necesidad de ulterior tancia de siete punto cincuenta procedimiento, que se lleve a metros; por el OESTE, con la efecto el desalojo o lanzamiencalle número dos (2), distancia to del ocupante u ocupantes de siete punto cincuenta me- de la finca o de todos los que tros. Enclava una casa cons- por orden o tolerancia del detruida para fines residenciales. mandado/deudor la ocupen.

FINCA NÚMERO: 24,731, El Alguacil de este Tribunal inscrita al folio móvil del tomo efectuará el lanzamiento de los LEGAL NOT ICE 1353 de Mayagüez, sección ocupantes de ser necesario. Si ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO de Mayagüez. Dirección física: la subasta es adjudicada a un DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- VILLAS DEL OESTE 329 (D- tercero y luego se deja sin efecNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA 110 CALLE SAGITARIO MAYA-

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to, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Por la presente también se notifica e informa al Departamento de Hacienda de Puerto Rico por éstos contar con dos (2) embargos estatales a su favor. El primero por la suma de $20,959.61, presentado al asiento 2018005943-EST en Karibe, según certificación de fecha de 25 de abril de 2018, bajo el número GUA-18-0404, fecha 30 de agosto de 2018. El segundo por la suma de $21,520.07 presentado al asiento 2019000906-EST en Karibe, según certificación de fecha de 5 de noviembre de 2018, bajo el número GUA-19-0219, fecha 5 de febrero de 2019. También, se notifica e informa al Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM) por éstos ser parte interesada en el caso de epígrafe. Además, se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y 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 eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. 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. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello,

hoy día 28 de abril de 2021.

JOSÉ M. CRESPO NAZARIO, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ.

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

Finance of America Reverse, LLC DEMANDANTE VS.

Sucesión de Miguel Sebastián Pagán Mir, t/c/c Miguel S. Pagán Mir, t/c/c Miguel Pagán Mir, t/c/c Miguel Pagán Jr., t/c/c Miguel Pagán M., t/c/c Miguel Pagán Mir compuesta por Miguel Pagán, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles herederos desconocidos; Sucesión de Felisa Merced David compuesta por Miguel Pagán, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles herederos de nombres desconocidos, Centro de Recaudaciones Municipales; y a los Estados Unidos de América

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.:CG2019CV03697.

SALA: SOBRE: Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General A: SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL SEBASTIÁN PAGÁN MIR, T/C/C MIGUEL S. PAGÁN MIR, T/C/C MIGUEL PAGÁN MIR, T/C/C MIGUEL PAGÁN JR., T/C/C MIGUEL PAGÁN M., T/C/C MIGUEL PAGÁN MIR COMPUESTA POR MIGUEL PAGÁN, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE FELISA MERCED DAVID COMPUESTA POR MIGUEL PAGÁN, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, ANGEL GOMEZ GOMEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con inte-

rés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 28 de junio de 2021 a las 9:00 de la mañana en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 14 de enero de 2021, enmendada el 27 de enero de 2021, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 2 de febrero de 2021. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 6 de julio de 2021, a las 9:00; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el 13 de julio de 2021, a las 9:00 en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 18 de marzo de 2021, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad ubicado en: 6 Juventud St. Estancias de Degetau Dev., Caguas, PR 00727, y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la urbanización Estancias Degetau del Barrio Cañaboncito de Caguas, Puerto Rico, solar número uno del Bloque “C”; área del solar: 317.30 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.0807 cuerdas; en lindes por el NORTE, en 15.00 metros, con Solar C-10; por el SUR, en 14.67 metros con la Calle número tres; por el ESTE, en 20.18 metros con Calle número uno; y por el OESTE, en 21.00 metros con Solar c-2.

Sobre este solar enclava una casa de concreto reforzado destinada a vivienda para una familia. Finca número 49,865, inscrita al folio 240 del tomo 1415 de Caguas. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Caguas. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: $114,492.47, por concepto de balance de principal, más intereses acumulados,

30 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón del 5.060% por ciento anual hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $23,500.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 31, otorgada el día 26 de marzo de 2015, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Juan L. Romero Sánchez y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Caguas, finca número 49,865, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I de Caguas. 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 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. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $232,500.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $155,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $116,250.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, en-

tiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, 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. 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. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá diligenciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerradura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este desalojo. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le

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notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 7 de JUNIO de 2021. ANGEL GOMEZ GOMEZ, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO

APEX BANK

Demandante V.

ESTHER ELIZABETH TORRES ESTRELLA

Demandada Civil Núm.: D2CD2017-0317.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, 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 Guaynabo, hago saber a la parte demandada ESTHER ELIZABETH TORRES ESTRELLA, y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 22 de abril de 2020, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $114,000.00 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, 345 CALLE LOPATEGUI, GUAYNABO, PR 00969: URBANA: Solar 345 bloque P-11, Juan Ponce de León, Barrio Frailes, Guaynabo, compuesto de 347.80 metros cuadrados y colinda al Norte, en 13.00 metros, con solares 307 y 308; por el Sur, igual medida con la Avenida 17; por el Este, en 27.07 metros, con el solar 344; y por el Oeste, en 26.54 metros, con el solar 346. Enclava una casa de concreto que consta de 3 cuartos dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina, cuarto de baño y balcón.

Finca 11889 inscrita al folio 96 del tomo 166 de Guaynabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca constituida en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria P.R., o a su orden, por $105,000.00 al 7 718%, vencedero el 1 de mayo de 2036, según Esc. #93 en San Juan a 25 de abril de 2006 ante Omar Iván Arill Vizcarrondo, inscrita al folio 202

del tomo 1401 de Guaynabo finca #11,889 inscripción 7ma. (ii) Hipoteca constituida en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de Portador, o a su orden, por $12,500.00 al 20%, vencedero a la presentación, según Esc. #69 a 21 de noviembre de 2006 ante Domingo Carrasquillo Diaz, inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 1401 de Guaynabo finca #11,889 inscripción 8va. (iii) Aviso de Demanda radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón en el caso civil #DCD-071250, sobre cobro de Dinero, Ejecución de hipoteca por la vía Ordinaria, seguido por Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria P.R., vs. Esther Elizabeth Torres Estrella, por $104,559.28 más intereses, anotada al folio 202 del tomo 1401 de Guaynabo finca #11889 Anotación A. (iv) Modificación de hipoteca de la inscripción 7ma., por el $105,000.00 la cual se amplía por $9,000.00 para un total de $114,000.00 desde el 1 de agosto de 2009 y vence el 1 de julio de 2049, según Esc. #186 en San Juan el 30 de julio de 2009, ante Jose V. Gorbea Varona, inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 1401 de Guaynabo, inscripción 9na. (v) Hipoteca constituida en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, P.R., o a su orden, por $9,887.21 sin intereses, vencedero el 1 de julio de 2012, según Esc. #187 en San Juan a 30 de julio de 2009 ante Jose V. Gorbea Varona, inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 1401 de Guaynabo finca #11,889 inscripción 10ma. (vi) Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 7ma nuevamente en cuanto al principal que se cancele por $1,913.59 para un nuevo principal de $112,086.41 con intereses al 5% del 1 de febrero de 2014 al 1 de enero de 2019; y al 7.875% del 1 de febrero de 2019, hasta el 1 de febrero de 2014 al 1 de enero de 2019; y al 7.875% del 1 de febrero de 2019, hasta el 1 de julio de 2049 fecha de su vencimiento, según Esc. #82 en San Juan el 31 de diciembre de 2013, ante Jacqueline J. Martínez Romero, inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 1401 de Guaynabo finca #11889 al margen inscripción 7ma. (vii) Hipoteca constituida en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de Oriental Bank, o a su orden, por $17,701.21 sin intereses, vencedero el 1 de julio de 2049, según Esc. #83 en San Juan a 31 de diciembre de 2013, ante Jacqueline J. Martínez Romero, inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 1401 de Guaynabo finca #11,889 inscripción 11ma y última. La hipoteca 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

dicta el 29 de enero de 2020, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $109,577.57 de principal, más interés al 5% anual que continuarán acumulándose hasta el saldo total, $176.74 de escrow balance, $1,339.70 de cargos por atrasos, más $10,500.00 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 12 DE JULIO DE 2021 A LAS 9:20 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $114,000.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 19 DE JULIO DE 2021 A LAS 9:20 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, $76,000.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 26 DE JULIO DE 2021 A LAS 9:20 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, $57,000.00. 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. 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. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. 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 cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuestos al gra-

vamen del actor, y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviene o satisficiera 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, una vez confirmada la venta o adjudicación, 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 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy 26 de mayo de 2021.

FRANCES TORRES CONTRERAS, ALGUACIL PLACA #325, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE GUAYNABO.

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ANGEL LUIS TORRES COLON Y ROSA MARIA GOMEZ IRIZARRY Demandante V.

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO; BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA Demandados Civil Núm. PO2021CV01200.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EM-

PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA.

Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de un (1) pagaré hipotecario a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, por la suma de $57,000.00. El pagaré por fue suscrito el día 29 de septiembre de 2005, ante el notario Ernesto Aponte Rosario, garantizado por hipoteca constituida mediante la Escritura número 118, otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, inscrita al folio 176 del tomo 503 de Juana Diaz, inscripción 3ra, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar C Guión catorce (C-14) de la Urbanización Estancias de Guayabal en el Barrio Guayabal del término municipal de Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización, con el número noventa y ocho guión sesenta y cuatro guión B guión seiscientos setenta y cuatro guión CPC (98-64-B-674-CPC), Caso número cero cero IU dos guión cero cero cero cero cero cero guión cero uno siete dos cuatro (00IU-000000-01724), con una cabida de cuatrocientos treinta y tres punto ochenta y uno metros cuadrados (433.81 m.c.), equivalentes a cero punto uno uno cero tres (0.1103) cuerdas.

Colindando por el NORTE, con terrenos de don Pedro Vadilla, en una distancia de trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros; por el SUR, con la Calle número uno (1), en una distancia de diez punto catorce (10.14) metros; por el ESTE, con terrenos de don Pedro Vadilla, en una distancia de veintinueve punto setenta metros (29.70); y por el OESTE, con el Solar número C guión trece (C-13), en una distancia de treinta y cuatro punto veintitrés (34.23) metros.

Enclava en dicho solar una casa de vivienda para una sola familia construida en bloques y hormigón reforzado. Esta afecta por una servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company a lo largo de su colindancia Sur, en un ancho de cinco pies (5’0”). Finca número

16,269, inscrita al folio 84 del tomo 426 de Juana Díaz. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Ponce. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado 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.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, y notifique con copia de ella a la abogada de la parte demandante la Lcda. Zilmarie Delgado Pieras, 33 Calle Resolución, Suite 302, San Juan, PR 00920-2727; Tel. (787) 7826500, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de junio de 2021. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. HILDA J. ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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LEGACY MORTGAGE ASSET TRUST 2019-GS2 Demandante Vs.

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

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2021CV01991.

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

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS.

The San Juan Daily Star POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.

Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, LCDA. MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEVA a su dirección: PO. Box 7970 Ponce, PR. 00732. Tel: 787-843-4168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cancelación de pagaré extraviado. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que se extravió un pagaré hipotecario a favor de RG Mortgage Corporation, ahora Banco Popular de Puerto Rico o a su orden, por la suma de setenta y un mil doscientos dólares ($71,200.00), con intereses al siete y siete octavos por ciento (7 7/8%) anual, vencedero el primero (1ro) de agosto de dos mil dieciséis (2016), según consta del testimonio número tres mil quinientos once (3,511) de la escritura número trece (13), otorgada en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el día (1ro) de agosto de dos mil uno (2001), ante el notario Julio M. Santiago y cuya obligación está inscrita al folio doscientos seis (206) del tomo cien (100) de Vega Baja, finca número quince mil novecientos ochenta y nueve (15,989), inscripción segunda (2da). La hipoteca fue modifica en la inscripción cuarta (4ta) en cuanto al principal que será por la suma de cuarenta y un mil trescientos ocho dólares con dieciocho centavos ($41,308.18), intereses al siete punto ocho siete cinco por ciento (7.875%) anual, vencedero el primero (1ro) de octubre de dos mil dieciséis (2016), según consta del testimonio número nueve mil cuatrocientos cincuenta y seis (9,456) de la escritura número doscientos cuarenta y ocho (248), otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el veinticuatro (24) de agosto de dos mil doce (2012) ante la notario Alexandra M. Serracante Cadilla, inscrito al sistema Karibe de Vega Baja, finca número quince mil novecientos ochenta y nueve (15,989), Anotación A. Que, la propiedad sobre la cual se constituyó dicha hipoteca es la siguiente: URBANA: Parcela de terreno en la Urbanización Residencial El Rosario Third Stage, situada en el barrio Pugnado Afuera del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con el número tres (3) del bloque Y, con un área de

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quinientos treinta y uno punto cuarenta y nueve (531.49) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en doce punto cincuenta (12.50) metros, con la calle número diez (10); por el SUR, en dos alineaciones una de ocho punto noventa (8.90) metros y otra de nueve punto cincuenta (9.50) metros; por el ESTE, en treinta y ocho punto dieciséis (38.16) metros, con el solar cuatro (4) de bloque Y; y por el OESTE, en cuarenta punto doce (40.12) metros, con el solar número dos (2) del bloque Y. Sujeta a servidumbre de teléfonos a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company de cinco pies (5’) de ancho a todo lo largo de su colindancia Sur. Enclava una casa de cemento.

Inscrita al folio doscientos cinco (205) del tomo cien (100) de Vega Baja, finca número quince mil novecientos ochenta y nueve (15,989), Registro de la Propiedad Sección Cuarta (4ta) de Bayamón. SE LES APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 1 de junio de 2021. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KARLA M. ROBLES CRESPO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL L.

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

SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC Demandante Vs.

NYDIA QUIÑONES DÍAZ, LUIS TORRES DE LEÓN T/C/C LUIS FRANCISCO TORRES DE LEÓN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS (DEUDORES HIPOTECARIOS) JOSÉ SANSONE RODRÍGUEZ, ANA MARTINEZ ANGEL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS (TITULARES REGISTRALES); JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2021CV00132.

Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE

LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL A LA PARTE COGENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA DEMANDADA: JOHN SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

DOE Y RICHARD ROE, DEMANDADOS DESCONOCIDOS CUYA DIRECCIÓN SE DESCONOCE.

Se les notifica por este medio que en el caso del epígrafe se solicita la SUSTITUCIÓN DE UN PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO notarizado bajo el testimonio núm. 690 a favor de GREAT ATLANTIC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, o a su orden, por la suma de $56,490.00, devengando intereses a razón del 8% por ciento anual, vencedero el primero (1ro) de diciembre de 2025, garantizado con hipoteca constituida mediante escritura número 884 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el 24 de noviembre de 1995, ante el Notario Manuel R. Pérez Caballer, la cual consta inscrita al Folio 27 del Tomo 242 de Fajardo, finca número 9,494, inscripción Tercera (3ra). 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 diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN 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. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la 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 oírle(s).

EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 3 de junio de 2021, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. AMARILIS MÁRQUEZ MÁRQUEZ, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL I.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs

SUCESION DE RAFAEL ANTONIO DAVILA LLAMAS T/C/C RAFAEL A. DAVILA LLAMAS COMPUESTA POR RAFAEL DOMINGO DAVILA AGOSTO T/C/C RAFAEL DAVILA AGOSTO, BERT DAVILA AGOSTO, EDGARDO DAVILA MARCANO, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, MARISEL RODRIGUEZ COLON EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA

Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: CG2020CV00276.

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

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 7 de junio de 2021. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 7 de junio de 2021. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, 7 de junio de 2021. CARMEN ANA PEREIRA ORTIZ, SECRETARIA.

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 9 de junio de 2021. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 9 de junio de 2021. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARTHA ALMODÓVAR CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR .

CHELLE GUEVARA DE LEÓN, HERNÁNDEZ, AUXILIAR. SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

SECRETARIA

LEGAL NOTICE

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

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

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC Demandante (a) Vs.

AMERICAS LEADING FINANCE, LLC

Demandante V. FERNANDO DIAZ GIOVANNI ENID AMELY CASELLAS T/C/C FERNANDO DIAZ POR SI RODRÍGUEZ, RICARDO Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL MALDONADO ANDÚJAR Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL USUFRUCTUARIA; DE GANANCIALES SUCESION INA LUISA COMPUESTA POR VARGAS ORTIZ T/C/C AMBOS INA VARGAS ORTIZ Demandados T/C/C INA LUISA Civil Núm.: TA2021CV00248.

LEGAL NOTICE VARGAS COMPUESTA Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO POR FERNANDO DIAZ POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUVARGAS; JOHN DOE EJECUCIÓN DE GRAVAMEN NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA MOBILIARIO. (REPOSESIÓN Y JANE DOE COMO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSDE VEHÍCULO). EMPLAZATANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE POSIBLES HEREDEROS MIENTO POR EDICTO ESTAHUMACAO DESCONOCIDOS; DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, COOPERATIVA DE ESTADOS UNIDOS DE EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS LEGAL NOTICE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO AMERICA; CENTRO EE.UU. DE AMÉRICA, EL ESESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ORIENTAL DE RECAUDACION DE TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDemandante V. INGRESOS MUNICIPALES PUERTO RICO, SS. NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA JORGE L. CRUZ ORTIZ Demandado(a) A: GIOVANNI ENID AMELY TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSDemandado(a) Civil Núm.: SJ2020CV05905. RODRÍGUEZ, RICARDO TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE Civil: HU2020CV00186. Sobre: Sala: 506. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN SAN JUAN MALDONADO ANDÚJAR COBRO DE DINERO (ORDIHIPOTECA - IN REM. NOSUN WEST MORTGAGE NARIO). NOTIFICACIÓN DE DE Y LAS SOCIEDAD LEGAL TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA COMPANY, INC DE GANANCIALES SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. POR EDICTO. Demandante COMPUESTA POR A: JORGE L. CRUZ ORTIZ A: JOHN DOE Y BANCO BILBAO AMBOS. A SU ÚLTIMA DIRECCIÓN JANE DOE COMO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA CONOCIDA: HC 4 BOX POSIBLES MIEMBROS Quedan emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha PR; AHORA ORIENTAL 4855 HUMACAO, PR DESCONOCIDOS DE LA radicado Demanda sobre cobro BANK; ARTURO DELIZ 00791-8945. P/C SUCESION INA LUISA dinero por la vía ordinaria en VELEZ, EVELYN LYMARIE LIC. RICARDO ANDRES VARGAS ORTIZ T/C/C INA de la que se alega que los demanORENGO GONZALEZ ACEVEDO BIANCHI. VARGAS ORTIZ T/C/C INA dados Giovanni Enid Amely T/C/C EVELYN LYMARI (Nombre de las partes a las que se le Rodríguez, Ricardo Maldonado LUISA VARGAS. notifican la sentencia por edicto) ORENGO GONZALEZ Y EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- Andújar y las Sociedad Legal LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- cribe le notifica a usted que el 4 de Gananciales compuesta por cribe le notifica a usted que BIENES GANANCIALES el 10 de junio de 2021, este de junio de 2021, este Tribunal ambos, le adeudan a Americas ha dictado Sentencia, Senten- Leading Finance, LLC, la suma COMPUESTA POR Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, de $9,203.25, más cargos por AMBOS; JOHN DOE Y Sentencia Parcial o Resolución cia Parcial o Resolución en este atrasos, más una suma razonacaso, que ha sido debidamente RICHARD ROE COMO en este caso, que ha sido debi- registrada y archivada en autos ble por concepto de honorarios POSIBLES TENEDEROS damente registrada y archivada donde podrá usted enterarse de abogados, costas y gastos, en autos donde podrá usted DESCONOCIDOS detalladamente de los términos según pactados. Además, se

A: MARISEL RODRIGUEZ COLON EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA A SUS ULTIMAS DIRECCIONES CONOCIDAS. URB. TURABO GARDENS III, R11-10 CALLE F, CAGUAS 00725-5934, URB. VILLAS DEL SOL 502 CALLE GIBRALTAR, CAROLINA, PR 009855110, CONO. ANDALUCIA, APT 4602, CAROLINA, PR 00987, URB. CIUDAD CRISTIANA, 55 CALLE COSTA RICA, HUMACAO, Demandado(a) PR 00791 Y URB. VILLAS Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV01203.

Sala: 803. Sobre: SUSTITUDEL SOL 704 CALLE MERIDA, CAROLINA, PR CIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN00985-5113.

TENCIA POR EDICTO. A: FULANO Y A: JOHN DOE Y MENGANO DE TAL, RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS POSIBLES TENEDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE DESCONOCIDOS. RAFAEL ANTONIO EL SECRETARIO(A) que susDAVILA LLAMAS T/C/C cribe le notifica a usted que el 9 de junio de 2021, este Tribunal RAFAEL A. DAVILA ha dictado Sentencia, SentenLLAMAS, CUYA IDENTIDAD Y DIRECCIÓN cia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente SE DESCONOCE. registrada y archivada en autos

(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 7 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

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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

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 11 de junio de 2021. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 11 de junio de 2021. DOMINGA GÓMEZ FUSTER, SECRETARIA. MI-

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 8 de junio de 2021. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 8 de junio de 2021. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ANGELA M. RIVERA

solicita que se autorice la reposesión y/o embargo del Vehículo. Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que, si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, 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 anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarles ni oírles. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Gerardo M. Ortiz Torres, cuya dirección física y postal

32 es: Cond. El Centro I, Suite 801, 500 Muñoz Rivera Ave., San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918; cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 946-5268, el facsímile (787) 946-0062 y su correo electrónico es: gerardo@bellverlaw.com. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de junio de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. GLORIBELL VÁZQUEZ MAYSONET, SUBSECRETARIA.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

JULIO ARMANDO ROJAS GUILLÉN T/C/C JULIO ROJAS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2019CV02817.

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 2 de diciembre de 2019, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 17 de enero de 2020 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 28 de enero de 2020 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 31 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 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 Carretera Número 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: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento Número B guion Uno (B-1) para fines residenciales localizada en la Segunda Planta del Edificio Número Dos (2) del Condominio Plaza del Este, situado en el Barrio Canóvanas del término municipal de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico. Tiene un área privada de vivienda de aproximadamente 916.73 pies cuadrados equivalentes a 85.211 metros cuadrados.

Colinda por el NORTE, con pared exterior; por el SUR, con pared interior y con las escaleras; por el ESTE, con el Apar-

tamento B guion Dos (B-2) del Edificio Número Dos (2) y con las escaleras; y por el OESTE, con pared exterior. Consta de sala-comedor, cocina, tres (3) dormitorios, dos (2) baños y terrazas. Su puerta de entrada y salida comunica al vestíbulo o pasillo comunal del edificio que a su vez tiene acceso a la Calle Principal. Le corresponde 1.005% en los elementos comunes generales. Se le asigna el estacionamiento Siete (7) y Cuarenta (40) ambos del área C de estacionamiento. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 161 del tomo 314 de Canóvanas, Finca Número 13790.

Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 222 del tomo 392 de Canóvanas, Finca Número 13790, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. Inscripción sexta. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: COND. PLAZA DEL ESTE, B-1 EDIFICIO NÚMERO 2, CANÓVANAS, PR 007292920. SUBASTAS: PRIMERA: 31 DE AGOSTO DE 2021 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $74,304.00.

SEGUNDA: 8 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $49,536.00. TERCERA: 15 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $37,152.00.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $74,304.00.

De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 8 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 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, $49,536.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 15 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $37,152.00. 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 $62,329.63 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4% anual desde el 1 de octubre de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $203.70 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $7,430.40 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier

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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 vs. Julio Armando Rojas Guillen, también conocido como Julio Rojas, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el Caso Civil Número CA2019CV02817, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $62,329.63 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 31 de julio de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Canóvanas. 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 12 de mayo de 2021.

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

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

JORGE TORRES ORTIZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2019CV02511.

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 4 de noviembre de 2019, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 9 de enero de 2020 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 24 de enero de 2020 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 31 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 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 Carretera Número 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: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Balcones de Monte Real, situado en la Carretera Estatal Número 853 en el Barrio Canovanillas del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Apartamento Número 1501. Esta localizado en el edificio D piso primero.

Consta de un área superficial de 1,217.60 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 113.16 metros cuadrados. Colindando por el NORTE, en 35’ 6” equivalentes a 10.82 metros con pared hacia el exterior, área común y puerta de entrada al apartamento; por el SUR, en 35’ 6” equivalentes a 10.82 metros con área común y verja periferal del proyecto (pared hacia el exterior, área común y puerta de entrada al apartamento); por el ESTE, en 54’ 10” equivalentes a 16.71 metros con apartamento número 1401; y por el OESTE, en 54’ 10” equivalentes a 16.71 metros, con escalera y apartamento número 1601. Esta propiedad está formada por sala, comedor, balcón, patio, tres (3) dormitorios con closets cocinas, dos (2) baños y área de lavandería. Le corresponde dos (2) estacionamientos identificados con los mismos números del apartamento y una participación de .0020036% en los elementos comunes. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 98 del tomo 1272 de Carolina, Finca Número 54586, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II. La escritura de hipoteca

consta inscrita al folio 212 del tomo 1507 de Carolina, Finca Número 54586, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II. Inscripción tercera. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: COND. BALCONES DE MONTE REAL, APT. D1501, CAROLINA, PR 00987. SUBASTAS: PRIMERA: 31 DE AGOSTO DE 2021 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $137,464.00.

SEGUNDA: 8 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $91,642.66. TERCERA: 15 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $68,732.00. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $137,464.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 8 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 DE 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, $91,642.66.

De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 15 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $68,732.00. 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 $126,473.66 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma 4% anual desde el 1 de agosto de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $327.60 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $13,746.40 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 pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: A) Embargo Estatal: Anotado sobre esta finca, como perteneciente a Jorge L. Torres, por la suma de $6,515.97, según certificación de fecha de 31 de enero de 2018, expedido por Colector de Rentas Internas. Anotada al asiento 2018-000686-EST (#CAR-18-198) del Libro de Embargos Estatales Karibe, el 8 de febrero de 2018. Nota: No podemos precisar si el embargado y el titular son la misma persona. B) Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popu-

lar de Puerto Rico vs. Jorge Torres Ortiz, (soltero), ante el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, en el Caso Civil Número CA2019CV02511, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $126,473.66 según Demanda de fecha 5 de julio de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Carolina. 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 12 de mayo de 2021.

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

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

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

MADELINE SEQUINOT NEGRON

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: PO2021CV01080.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTOS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO

LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER- facing Muñoz Rivera Avenue, TO RICO, SS. and the West, with exterior wall towards the East interior A: MADELINE SEQUINOT NEGRON. open yard. The entrance door is located on the south side POR LA PRESENTE se les emand communicates with the resplaza y requiere para que contricted common hallway of the teste la demanda dentro de los floor. It consists of the following treinta (30) días siguientes a la rooms and subdivisions: Lobby publicación de este Edicto. Usof twenty three point cero three ted deberá radicar su alegación (23.03) square feet, living diresponsiva a través del Sistema ning room combination of three Unificado de Manejo y Adminishundred two point forty-three tración de Casos (SUMAC), al (302.43) square feet, kitchen cual puede acceder utilizando of sixty-four (64.00) square feet la siguiente dirección electrónia bathroom of forty four point ca: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ eighty two (44.82) square feet, a sumac/, salvo que se presente hallway of forty point twenty two por derecho propio, en cuyo (40.22) square feet, a bathroom caso deberá radicar el original number once (1) of one hunde su contestación ante el Tridred nineteen point ten (119.10) bunal correspondiente y notifisquare feet, bedroom number que con copia a los abogados two (2) of one hundred twenty de la parte demandante, Lcda. point fifty (120.50) square feet.

Marjaliisa Colon Villanueva, The apartment also has five (5) al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. closets, one for each bedroom, 00732-7970; Teléfono: 787a linen closet, one at the entran843-41668. En dicha demanda ce lobby and services closet as se tramita un procedimiento de follows: bedroom one, a closet cobro de dinero y ejecución de of fourteen point cero seven hipoteca bajo el número men(14.07) square feet, bedroom cionado en el epígrafe. Se aletwo, a closet of thirteen point ga en dicho procedimiento que twenty-four (13.24) square feet, la parte Demandada incurrió a linen closet of six point sixty en el incumplimiento del Consix (6.66) square feet, entrantrato de Hipoteca, al no poder ce lobby closet of twelve point pagar las mensualidades vensixteen (12.16) square feet, cidas correspondientes a los a services closet of five point meses de mayo de 2020, hascero five (5.05) square feet. A ta el presente, más los cargos este apartamento le corresponpor demora correspondientes. de en los elementos comunes Además, adeuda a la parte degenerales del condominio del mandante las costas, gastos y cual forma parte una participahonorarios de abogado en que ción de uno punto setenta y tres incurra el tenedor del pagaré porciento (1.73%) y también le en este litigio. De acuerdo con corresponde una participación dicho Contrato de Garantía Hide dos punto veinte porciento potecaria la parte Demandante (2.20%) en los elementos, gasdeclaró vencida la totalidad de tos y utilidades de las áreas y la deuda ascendente a la suma facilidades comunes limitadas de $68,297.07, más intereses de las unidades residenciales a razón del 5.375% anual, así familiares del Regimen. Dicha como todos aquellos créditos y propiedad tiene asignado un sumas que surjan de la faz de espacio de estacionamiento. la obligación hipotecaria y de la Inscrita al folio ciento veintiséis hipoteca que la garantiza, inclu(126) del tomo dos mil treinta y yendo $7,380.00, pactado para siete (2037) Ponce, finca núcostas, gastos y honorarios de mero treinta y nueve mil cuatroabogado. La parte Demandancientos trece (39,413) Registro te presentó para su inscripción de la Prop edad de Ponce. Secen el Registro de la Propiedad ción l. SE LES APERCIBE que correspondiente, un AVISO de no hacer sus alegaciones DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis responsivas a la demanda denPendens”) sobre la propiedad tro del término aquí dispuesto, objeto de esta acción cuya prose les anotará la rebeldía y se piedad es la siguiente: URBAN: dictará Sentencia, concediénFamily Unit number one cero dose el remedio solicitado en cero six (1006) of the building la Demanda, sin más citarle ni knowns as “Condominio Las oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma Americas” located at Las Amey sello del Tribunal en Ponce, ricas Avenue comer of Muñoz Puerto Rico. A día 2 de junio de Rivera Avenue, of the munici2021. LUZ MAYRA CARABApality of Ponce, Puerto Rico, LLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA with a total superficial area of REGIONAL. GLORIVEE MOseven hundred sixty five point RALES SÁEZ, SECRETARIA twenty-eight (765.28) square AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I. feet, located on the Northeast corner of the ten floor of the LEGAL NOTICE building, bounding: On the NorESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO th, with exterior wall towards DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUthe rear yard, on the South, NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA with apartment one cero cero CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUfive (1005) and with access haMACAO SALA SUPERIOR llway connecting the apartment, ORIENTAL BANK on the East, with exterior wall

The San Juan Daily Star Demandante Vs.

HERNAN CORTES MARTINEZ; ELBA LUCILA COLON TORRES

Demandado(s) Civil Núm.: HSCI2014-00990.

(208). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Yo, MARÍA DEL PILAR RIVERA RIVERA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Humacao, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia Sumaria Enmendada Nunc Pro Tunc dictada el 11 de agosto de 2016, no tificada el 17 de agosto de 2016, de la cual surge que la parte demandada adeuda solidariamente a la demandante la suma principal de $211,222.02, intereses vencidos que al 1 de mayo de 2014, ascienden a $5,198.32 y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo, la suma de $233.52 por concepto de cargos por demora, más la suma de $21,412.16 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados y a tenor con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia Sumaria que se me libró con fecha de 12 de diciembre de 2019, por la Secretaría de este Honorable Tribunal de Humacao, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, la siguiente propiedad inmueble, la cual se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Condominio Villas Del Faro de Maunabo, Puerto Rico. Apartamento: PH1807. Cabida: 1,591 metros cuadrados. Linderos: NORTE, en un máximo de treinta y ocho pies cinco pulgadas (38’ 5”) con el Apartamento número PH dieciocho cero ocho (PH-1808), área de pasillo y escalera común; SUR, en un máximo de treinta y ocho pies cinco pulgadas (38’ 5”) con el apartamento número PH diecinueve cero ocho (PH-1908), y espacio aéreo común; ESTE, en un máximo de cuarenta y cinco pies tres pulgadas (45’ 3”), con espacio aéreo común; OESTE, con un máximo de cuarenta y cinco pies tres pulgadas (45’ 3”), con espacio aéreo común y pasillo común. Apartamento de dos niveles localizado en la cuarta planta del edificio número 18. Su área aproximada interior es de 1,209 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 112.31 metros cuadrados, en su primer nivel. Tiene también una terraza cubierta en un segundo nivel de 382 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 35.49 metros cuadrados, para un área total aproxi-

mada de 1,591 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 147.80 metros cuadrados. La puerta de entrada principal de este Apartamento esta situada en su lindero Oeste. Consta de sala-comedor, cocina, laundry, dos (2) balcones o terrazas, pasillo, tres (3) dormitorios con sus respectivos closets, y dos (2) baños y escalera espiral en su primer nivel, y una terraza cubierta, y medio baño en su azotea o Segundo nivel. Le corresponderán los estacionamientos número 352 y número 353.

Este apartamento tiene una participación de cero punto seis dos cero cero por ciento (0.62.00%) en los elementos comunes del Condominio. Este apartamento goza además del uso exclusivo de una terraza descubierta en su azotea que es elemento común limitado con un área aproximada de 811 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 75.34 metros cuadrados. Sujeto a los elementos comunes generales y al Reglamento del Condominio Villas del Faro segunda fase. Consta inscrito al tomo Karibe de Maunabo, Finca 8,943, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guayama. Por su procedencia está afecta a: Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico; Servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company; Servidumbre de paso a favor de las fincas números 2,088, 2,089, 916, y 1,054; Servidumbre de uso y paso perpetuo sobre las fincas números 7,623 y 2,018. Esta propiedad tiene el siguiente número de catastro en el Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM): 74-423-000-005-65165. La dirección física del inmueble anteriormente descrito es: CONDOMINIO VILLAS DEL FARO, APT 1807, MAUNABO PR 00707. Sobre la antes descrita propiedad se encuentran inscritos los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: a. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 8 de septiembre del 2010, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Yabucoa, en el Caso Civil número HSCI201001163, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Puerto Rico, contra Hernán Cortes Martínez y su esposa Elba Lucila Colón Torres, por la suma de $214,121.61, anotado el día 11 de noviembre del 2019, al tomo Karibe de Maunabo, finca número 8,943, Anotación A. c. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 24 de septiembre del 2014, expedido en el Centro Judicial de Humacao, Caso Civil número HSCI2014-00990, por concepto de. Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca,· por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por Oriental Bank, versus Hernán Cortes

Tuesday, June 15, 2021 Martínez y su esposa Elba Lucila Colón Torres, por la suma de $211,222.02 y otras sumas, anotado el día 11 de noviembre del 2019, al tomo Karibe de Maunabo, finca número 8,943, Anotación B. Se apercibe a los licitadores para que procedan con la inspección física del inmueble objeto de ejecución previo a la celebración de la subasta. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la antes descrita propiedad y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 5 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 3:30 DE LA TARDE. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $239,000.00. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 12 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 3:30 DE LA TARDE. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $159,333.33. TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 19 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 3:30 DE LA TARDE. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $119,500,00. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Humacao, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, en cheque certificado, dinero en efectivo o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del producto obtenido en dicha venta, el Alguacil pagará en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término, las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hasta la suma convenida, en tercer término, los intereses devengados hasta la fecha de la sentencia, en cuarto término, las sumas establecidas en la Sentencia para el pago de recargos por demora, contribuciones, seguros y en quinto término la suma principal adeudada conforme con la sentencia dictada. Disponiéndose que, si quedara algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal, pero si dicho producto resultara insuficiente para cubrir el pago de las antes indicadas sumas, entonces la parte demandada satisfacerá a la parte demandante el remanente insoluto de la deuda. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Humacao durante horas laborables.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. 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. Y PARA LA CONCURRENCIA, de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Colecturía de Humacao, Alcaldía y Cuartel de la Policía del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta por espacio de dos semanas y en un periódico de circulación general del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, 19 de mayo de 2021. MARÍA DEL PILAR RIVERA RIVERA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. WILNELIA RIVERA DELGADO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #249.

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

PR RECOVERY & DEVELOPMENT JV, LLC Demandante V.

URAYOAN HEREDIA SANTOS Y LUIS E. ALEJANDRO CALCAÑO

Demandados Civil Núm.: BQ2020CV00053.

Sala: 903. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. YO, CARLOS E. RODRÍGUEZ MELÉNDEZ, el Alguacil que suscribe, por la presente anuncia y hace constar, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, quien pagará el importe de la venta en dinero efectivo, en cheque certificado o en cheque de gerente a la orden del alguacil suscribiente en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 30 DE JUNIO DE 2021 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina localizada en el Centro Judicial de Aibonito, todo título, derecho o interés que corresponda a las partes codemandadas sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: “RUSTICA: Predio de

terreno identificado en el Plano de Inscripción como la Parcela número uno (1) radicada en el Barrio Barracas del término municipal de Barranquitas, Puerto Rico. Con una cabida superficial de mil doscientos sesenta y seis punto cero uno uno cuatro metros cuadrados (1,266.0114 m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, con Carretera Municipal; por el SUR, con el remanente y Francisco Rivera; por el ESTE, con parcela segregada en el caso cero dos L cinco seis guión cero cero cero cero cero guion cero cinco cero nueve tres (02L56-00000-05093); y por el OESTE, con Carretera Municipal.” Consta inscrita al folio 179 del tomo 328 del Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas, finca 14,456. AFECTA POR SU PROCEDENCIA: Libre de cargas y gravámenes. AFECTA POR SÍ: HIPOTECA en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Banco De Desarrollo Económico Para Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $22,000.00, con interés al 6% anual, y vencedero a la presentación, según consta escritura #13, otorgada en San Juan, el día 14 de noviembre de 2016, ante el notario Frank González Acevedo, inscrita al tomo KARIBE de Barranquitas, finca #14,456, inscripción 5ta.

El gravamen objeto de ejecución en este procedimiento es la que surge de la Hipoteca en garantía de Pagaré, inscripción quinta (5ta), según consta de la Escritura número 13 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el día 14 de noviembre de 2016, ante el Notario Público Frank González Acevedo, en la cual se establece como precio mínimo para la primera subasta la suma de $22,000.00. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 7 DE JULIO DE 2021 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. El precio mínimo para la segunda subasta serán dos terceras partes (2/3) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, $14,666.67. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en esa segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 14 DE JULIO DE 2021 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. El precio mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, $11,000.00.

Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer a la Parte Demandante, hasta donde alcance, el importe adeudado bajo la sentencia en este caso, que al 24 de julio de 2020 ascienden a $11,357.66 bajo la Línea de Crédito, más los intereses que en adelante se acumulen hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda a razón de $1.90 diarios y ($1,471.75) de escrow; y a

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$113,958.88 bajo el Préstamo, más los intereses que en adelante se acumulen hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda a razón de $20.25 diarios; más la suma adicional de $13,000.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado según pactados. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titularidad que da base a las mismas. La venta en pública subasta de la propiedad descrita anteriormente se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dicha propiedad. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si lo hubiera, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución, continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas registrales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrarán las SUBASTAS en las fechas, horas y sitio anteriormente señalados, y se les invita a que concurran a dichas subastas, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecutante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efectuar tal subrogación. SE HACE CONSTAR que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables, bajo el epígrafe de este caso. Y PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en dos (2) lugares públicos del Municipio donde se celebrarán las subastas señaladas. Además, en un periódico de circulación general en dos ocasiones y mediante correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada. EXPEDIDO el presente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en Aibonito, Puerto Rico, a 19 de mayo de 2021. CARLOS E. RODRÍGUEZ MELÉNDEZ, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL PLACA #773, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONITO.

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ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

JAMES T. BARNES OF PUERTO RICO INC; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE

FULANO MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ

Demandado(a) Civil: MZ2020CV01162. 306.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PADemandado GARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICivil Núm.: CG2021CV00432.

CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR Sala: 801. Sobre: CANCELAEDICTO. CIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAA: JAMES T. BARNES OF VIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. PUERTO RICO INC; JOHN NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENDOE Y RICHARD ROE. CIA POR EDICTO. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le A: JESUS FLORES notifican la sentencia por edicto) SANTANA, AIXA FLORES EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 7 SANTANA HEREDEROS DE JOSE ANGEL de junio de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, SentenFLORES NAZARIO cia Parcial o Resolución en este T/C/C JOSE ANGEL caso, que ha sido debidamente DE LEON NAZARIO, registrada y archivada en autos MARGARITA SANTANA donde podrá usted enterarse CALDERON POR SI Y detalladamente de los términos EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en USUFRUCTUARIA A SUS un periódico de circulación ge- ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES neral en la Isla de Puerto Rico, CONOCIDAS: dentro de los 10 días siguientes COMUNIDAD VILLA a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte ALEGRE A-10 GURABO PR 00778, URB. VILLA en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, SenALEGRE, A10 CALLE tencia Parcial o Resolución, DON JULIO DIAZ de la cual puede establecerse VIERA, GURABO PR recurso de revisión o apelación 00778-3924. SUTANO Y dentro del término de 30 días PERENCEJO DE TAL, contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notifica- POSIBLES HEREDEROS ción, dirijo a usted esta notificaDESCONOCIDOS. ción que se considerará hecha FULANO Y MENGANO en la fecha de la publicación DE TAL, POSIBLES de este edicto. Copia de esta TENEDORES notificación ha sido archivada DESCONOCIDOS DEL en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 7 de junio de 2021. En PAGARÉ.

Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 9 de EL(LA) SECRETARIO(A) que junio de 2021. LCDA. NORMA suscribe le notifica a usted G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SE- que el 7 de junio de 2021, este CRETARIA. JAZMÍN SANA- Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, BRIA TORRES, SECRETARIA Sentencia Parcial o Resolución AUXILIAR. en este caso, que ha sido debi-

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damente 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 9 de junio de 2021. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 9 de junio de 2021.

CARMEN A. PEREIRA ORTIZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ENEIDA ARROYO VÉLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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It’s a new series as the injury bug returns to bite the Nets

By MARC STEIN

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hen the Brooklyn Nets settled into their hotel in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward last week, their 2-0 series cushion against the hometown Bucks looked especially cushy. A lead that reached as high as 49 points in the Nets’ Game 2 rout — without the injured James Harden — seemingly had the entire NBA discouraged.

By the time the Nets flew back home Sunday night, after a second consecutive road defeat and the loss of another superstar, they were abruptly forced to contemplate the possibility that fielding a full-strength team is a luxury this season might never afford, no matter how lavishly the roster reads.

Kyrie Irving’s right foot bent sharply in Sunday’s second quarter after he converted a layup and came down on Giannis Antetokounmpo’s right foot after Antetokounmpo had positioned himself for a rebound but left little landing space. Irving was soon ruled out for the rest of the game with a sprained right ankle, leaving Kevin Durant and his limited supporting cast to try to stay with the emboldened Bucks, while Harden stood throughout the game to shout instructions from the bench in street clothes.

Milwaukee predictably pulled away for a 107-96 Game 4 victory that evened this best-of-seven, second-round series at two games apiece and that, because of the uncertainty of Irving’s status, erased any notion of comfort that the Nets once felt. Irving left Fiserv Forum on crutches and with his right foot in a walking boot after X-rays were negative, according to a person briefed on Irving’s status but unauthorized to discuss it publicly.

“It was a big adjustment tonight to play without him and James,” Nets coach Steve Nash said, referring to Irving and Harden. “But we’ve had that type of year.”

Even by the standards of this injuryladen Nets season, in which Durant, Irving and Harden have scarcely been able to play together since Harden arrived in a four-team trade in mid-January, Sunday afternoon’s events had the jarring feel of a new low. That was the unavoidable takeaway without even factoring in

Giannis Antetokounmpo had 34 points and 12 rebounds as the Milwaukee Bucks tied their second-round series with the Nets on Sunday. the fire alarm after the final buzzer that forced all arena occupants, including both teams, to be evacuated for what the Bucks termed “precautionary reasons.”

The Nets’ original aim for this Milwaukee trip was to win at least one game and set up Game 5 tonight at Barclays Center in Brooklyn as a closeout opportunity, enabling Harden to essentially take the series off after aggravating a right hamstring injury in the opening minute of Game 1. With the series now tied, in what was billed in many corners as a matchup that could well produce the NBA’s next champion, Nash found himself fielding questions about the urge to restore Harden to the lineup today.

“I think it’s an independent case,” Nash said, swatting down the idea that Irving’s prognosis would influence Harden’s timetable. “I don’t want James to be rushed back.”

The other factor, beyond Irving’s setback, that prompted such questions: Milwaukee had begun to cause problems even before Irving’s exit and looked a lot more like the team that swept the Miami Heat in the first round. Antetokounmpo had the standout box-score line with 34

points and 12 rebounds, but P.J. Tucker was the Bucks’ unquestioned spark, easing the pressure (at least temporarily) on the Bucks’ under-fire coach, Mike Budenholzer. After scoring just 9 points in the first three games of the series, Tucker sank three 3-pointers from the corner, his well-chronicled favorite spot, and finished with 13 points and seven rebounds.

He might have been even more effective at the other end, imposing his physicality on Durant in precisely the manner the Bucks envisioned when they acquired him from Houston in a March trade. Durant led the Nets with 28 points and 13 rebounds but needed 25 shots to reach his scoring total. When Tucker was the primary defender, Durant shot 3 for 12.

“We’re very happy, but we’ve got to keep getting better, keep playing together and hopefully we can go into Brooklyn and take one,” Antetokounmpo said.

During a verbal confrontation between Tucker and Durant in Milwaukee’s narrow Game 3 victory, Antjuan Lambert, a personal security guard for Durant who was hired by the Nets when

they signed him, came onto the court and shoved Tucker. The Nets were notified Saturday that Lambert had been barred by the league office from any further on-court involvement in the series.

Sunday actually brought a positive start for the Nets, with Jeff Green being cleared to make his series debut after missing the first three games with a left plantar fascia strain. Green immediately drew a charge upon entering the game late in the first quarter, putting Antetokounmpo in early foul trouble, but the Nets’ hopeful vibe was soon doused by the sight of Irving hobbling to the locker room after he spent several minutes on the floor recovering from the painful landing.

When the Nets finally surrendered in the fourth quarter, pulling Durant with 4:28 remaining and the hosts leading 9984, Milwaukee’s crowd, which included Wisconsin native J.J. Watt of the Arizona Cardinals, broke into a “Bucks in six” chant.

You’d have struggled to find anyone, with or without local ties, who believed that outcome would be possible after Milwaukee’s humbling 125-86 defeat at Barclays Center last Monday in Game 2.

In these playoffs, though, injuries continue to wield the largest influence. Health woes for star players were unrelenting throughout the second half of a harried regular season conducted in pandemic conditions — and remain so.

Remember the warning we got from Philadelphia 76ers coach Doc Rivers at the start of the second round?

“It’s going to be the battle of the fittest by the end of this thing,” Rivers said, unsure at the time how well his star center, Joel Embiid, could play through a slight meniscus tear in his right knee during a second-round series against Atlanta.

Embiid, for now, is thriving. For the Nets and especially Durant? Suddenly nothing is slight about their predicament.

TODAY’S NBA PLAYOFF GAME (All Times EST) Eastern Conference Semifinals Milwaukee Bucks at Brooklyn Nets, 8:30 p.m., TNT (Series tied 2-2)

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Tsitsipas is the latest to come close, and learn how far he must go

By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY

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he atmosphere seemed as if it was designed to make a Greek feel at home in his first Grand Slam singles final.

Greece’s azure-and-white flags were draped over seats in the French Open’s main Philippe Chatrier Court.

The fans, most of them French, were chanting Stefanos Tsitsipas’ surname and often cheering Novak Djokovic’s errors. And then there was the Paris weather: sun-kissed with a slight breeze and a pale blue sky.

Santorini? Roland Paros?

But no matter how much it might have felt like a title was meant to be for Tsitsipas on Sunday as he jumped out to a two-set lead, it was all a false promise and yet another chance for the world’s clear No. 1 player to demonstrate his resilience and poise under pressure.

“He gave me no space,” Tsitsipas said of the final three sets, looking understandably crestfallen but also a bit befuddled.

Djokovic is the champion who has beaten Roger Federer on three separate occasions in Grand Slam tournaments after saving two match points, including the 2019 Wimbledon final.

Djokovic is the man who prevailed against Rafael Nadal in a grinding 2012 Australian Open final that lasted nearly six hours; the man who stopped Nadal on Friday in a heavyweight bout of a semifinal at the tournament Nadal has won a preposterous 13 times.

The truth is, the opponent does not have Djokovic where he wants him in a major tournament until he has the big trophy in his hands. Tsitsipas, like so many players before him, had to settle for the smaller prize. He was asked what he had learned from the defeat.

“Two sets doesn’t really mean anything,” Tsitsipas concluded.

The best-of-five format, which is only in use for men’s singles at the four Grand Slam tournaments, remains a major roadblock to the younger set in their pursuit of winning titles over the Big Three. Long form gives Djokovic more time to untie tactical knots; more time to impose his groundstrokes and great returns; more time to create doubt

Tsitsipas during his five-set loss to Djokovic. and stress in the minds of his less experienced opponents.

Dominic Thiem broke the long run of the Big Three — Djokovic, 34; Nadal, 35; and Federer, 39 — by winning last year’s U.S. Open, but he did not have to defeat any of them along the way.

Nadal skipped the event over virus concerns, and Federer was recovering from knee surgery. Djokovic eliminated himself in the fourth round by smacking a ball that inadvertently hit a lineswoman in the throat, resulting in his ejection.

But Thiem has faded, struggling mentally with the tour’s pandemic-related restrictions and straining to retain his drive and excellence. He has been touchingly open about his doubts, but his slump also makes you marvel at the drive and sustained focus of a player like Djokovic, who has had plenty of pandemic concerns of his own and actually tested positive for the coronavirus. Djokovic had his own fade from late 2016 to early 2018, but he has come back at full roar and full stretch.

(Nobody can stretch the way Djokovic does.)

The younger generation, however talented, has yet to break through and win the titles that matter most against the players who matter most.

Tsitsipas, a 22-year-old seeded fifth in this tournament, spent several minutes in his chair after match point, his face hidden by a towel. But defeat was not the saddest part of his day. In a social media post after the match, he revealed that his “very beloved” paternal grandmother had died just five minutes before he walked on court. It was unclear whether he was aware of her death at the time. “Lifting trophies and celebrating wins is something, but not everything,” he wrote on Instagram.

That is undeniable, but Tsitsipas does seem to have Grand Slam titles in his future. He possesses the ambition and the tools: a big bang of a forehand, a forceful and varied serve, a one-handed backhand that he can drive effectively from higher contact points or slice to

change the pace of points and defend in the corners. He also has above-average volleys that he could have put to more frequent use Sunday, no matter how daunting it is to face Djokovic’s passing shots.

Tsitsipas, the son of a Russian mother and Greek father, is a great athlete, not just a great tennis player. He is quick on the move with improving core strength and with a hairstyle and rolling walk that recall Bjorn Borg, the great Swedish champion who, now 65, awarded the trophies Sunday looking as cool as ever. (He skipped the socks with the loafers.)

But though Borg faced plenty of greatness in John McEnroe, Ivan Lendl and Jimmy Connors, he never had to deal with the combined firepower and long-running excellence of Djokovic, Federer and Nadal.

Djokovic is on course to be the most statistically successful of the Big Three and already holds the men’s record for total weeks at No. 1. He reached 325 weeks on Monday, and for now, the most gifted youngsters — Tsitsipas, Daniil Medvedev, Alexander Zverev, Andrey Rublev, Jannik Sinner and Lorenzo Musetti — can only look up and wonder if they truly have what it takes.

As a group, they can take some solace in knowing that two of them were up, two sets to none, on Djokovic at Roland Garros. Musetti, a 19-yearold Italian, took his lead in the fourth round before running out of steam and straight into Djokovic’s staying power.

Musetti won just one more game, but Tsitsipas had enough left to make the fifth set interesting.

“Despite my loss today, I have faith in my game,” Tsitsipas said. “I very much believe I can get to that point very soon. I was close today. Every opponent is difficult. There’s a small difference between the player I played today and the ones from before. But I think with the same attitude and if I don’t downgrade myself, I see no reason for me not to be holding that trophy one day.”

For now, such trophies still belong to the elders, no matter how loud the cheers or how reassuring the weather.

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For the Islanders, the good times really are here again

By KEN CAMPBELL

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here are scenes you almost never see at an NHL arena, unless everything is going right.

With the New York Islanders one game away from advancing to the NHL’s final four for the second consecutive season, Nicole Raviv made it halfway through the second line of “The Star-Spangled Banner” before the crowd of 12,000 in Nassau Coliseum on Wednesday took over.

“There’s not many things that really give me the chills anymore, being in the league 12 years,” wing Matt Martin said, “but the national anthem really sends those chills down your spine.”

Four nights earlier, Hall of Fame forward Clark Gillies, a feared force of nature on the teams that won four straight Stanley Cups in the 1980s, had chugged a beer and then crushed the can against his head for all to see on the scoreboard screen.

And on Wednesday, after the Islanders had defeated the favored Boston Bruins in Game 6 of the second round, Jon Ledecky, a co-owner of the team, made his way into a mob in the arena concourse and hugged fans as they chanted his name.

But like the crowd that broke into a spontaneous rendition of “Piano Man” in the parking lot, they are scenes as commonplace on Long Island these days as Billy Joel himself. It turns out that fans of the Islanders just needed a reason to cheer again.

For a second consecutive year, the Islanders have made it to the third round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, and for a second straight year, they face the enormous task of taking down the Tampa Bay Lightning to clear a path to the Cup Final. All of it — the on-ice success, the engagement of the fan base, the optimism that the organization is hoping to ride into the new UBS Arena at Belmont Park next season — seemed distant not that long ago.

The Islanders and their fans thought they had said goodbye to Nassau Coliseum for good in 2015, when the team moved 30 miles west to Barclays Center in Brooklyn, a plan that fit the suburban organization like a tweed suit on a 90-degree day. And three years ago, the team lost its captain and franchise player, John Tavares, when he signed with his hometown Toronto Maple Leafs.

Fans celebrated after Brock Nelson, second from right, scored in Game 6 against Boston.

But the franchise’s follies date back even further.

They extend to 1996, when John Spano, an underfunded businessman turned felon, tried to buy the team and, thanks to a merely cursory background check by the NHL, almost pulled it off. Or to Mike Milbury, the general manager from 1995 to 2006, who earned the nickname Mad Mike for outrageous personnel moves like signing Alexei Yashin, a player for whom he had traded future Hall of Fame defenseman Zdeno Chara and whom he signed to a deal that resulted in the Islanders’ buying out the underperforming Yashin’s contract and effectively paying him $2.2 million a year for eight years not to play for them.

Not to be outdone, Milbury’s successor, Garth Snow, gave goaltender Rick DiPietro a 15-year, $67.5 million contract in 2006. Since 2013, DiPietro has received $1.5 million a year, and he will continue to do so until 2029.

The follies also encompass former owner Charles Wang, who fought valiantly to keep the Islanders from moving to Quebec City or Seattle or Kansas City, Missouri, and in 2012 struck an ill-conceived 25-year deal with Barclays Center to do it.

The team returned last spring for the playoffs to await the new arena.

Now, though, the Islanders are on a steady rise. And much can be credited to other NHL organizations that made two of hockey’s sharpest minds available to them.

In the summer of 2018, the Maple Leafs pushed aside general manager Lou Lamoriello to make room for Kyle Dubas,

a wunderkind who has assembled a startling level of individual talent that has yet to lead the team to a playoff-round victory.

Lamoriello was approaching his 76th birthday at the time, and though he had been free to stay with the Leafs — “at my leisure,” as he put it — Islanders co-owner Scott Malkin pushed hard to bring him on board.

“Out of respect, I talked to Scott,” Lamoriello said. “I was impressed with his vision and his commitment.”

He added, referring to the owners of the New Jersey Devils during his time as general manager there: “The job description is what I had in New Jersey for years under John McMullen and George Steinbrenner. To be able to do things, you have to be able to make some hard decisions, and you have to make them without worrying about going through a lot of red tape.

That was the key factor.”

Paramount among those decisions was the hiring in 2018 of Barry Trotz, who had just coached the Washington Capitals to the Stanley Cup before leaving in a contract dispute. After years of instability, poor management and subpar results, the Islanders suddenly had one of the best front-office tandems in the league.

Mathew Barzal, who won the Calder Trophy as the NHL’s top rookie in the 2017-18 season and was the only Islander to place among the top 100 scorers in the league this past season, has noticed the difference.

“The biggest thing is the detail and the professionalism, that day-in and day-out,”

he said. “Whether that’s having short hair and clean facial hair throughout the regular season or details on the ice like changing hard, coming hard to the bench, practicing hard. Just being a pro, whether you’re going out for dinner on the road or coming to the airplane, you’ve got to be a pro 24/7, and they’ve really implemented that.”

This button-down approach has shown up on the ice. Lamoriello kept a good portion of the team’s core intact and made significant deals at the trade deadlines, getting Jean-Gabriel Pageau from the Ottawa Senators last season and picking up Kyle Palmieri and Travis Zajac from the Devils in 2021. Lamoriello also signed goalie Semyon Varlamov as a free agent in 2019, and Varlamov was joined this season by Ilya Sorokin, a 2014 draft pick who starred in Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League until he was 25 years old.

The season before Lamoriello arrived, the Islanders were the worst defensive team in the league. But in the 2018-19 season, they were the best, and this season, they finished second to the Vegas Golden Knights in goals against. Trotz and Lamoriello credit the players. The Islanders are not without offensive stars, but their strength is in coming at their opponents in waves and grinding down more talented teams.

“I’ve probably said this to every team I’ve had: If you want to go somewhere fast, go by yourself; if you want to go somewhere far, go with the group,” Trotz said after the Islanders had upset the Pittsburgh Penguins in the first round. “This group believes in the group, the strength of the group.”

The Islanders will need to summon all of that esprit de corps and more to beat the Lightning. Tampa Bay knocked them out of the Eastern Conference finals last season and went on to win the Stanley Cup. The Islanders had a strong start, winning Sunday’s series opener 2-1 in Tampa behind goals by Barzal and Ryan Pulock and 30 saves by Varlamov.

TODAY’S STANLEY CUP PLAYOFF GAMES (All Times EST) Semifinals New York Islanders at Tampa Bay Lightning, 8 p.m., NBCSN (New York leads series 1-0)

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(Mar 21-April 20)

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

In a bind Aries? It’s likely not the first time this year.

As an edgy angle between Saturn and Uranus peaks today, you could find yourself responding to a lingering issue that you can’t seem to shift. Change is imminent and possible, if you’re willing to do something that you may be reluctant to even consider.

It might require a leap of faith, but you’ll never know unless you try.

Mired in uncertainty around a financial or investment issue? If so, you could find the coming days push you to get clarity, Libra. If you can find no way to resolve your dilemma, then perhaps what you think is the problem, isn’t. It may be that if you pinpoint the real cause, it has the effect of releasing the logjam. Before you know it, everything will swiftly begin moving again.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

Want to stand out from the crowd? You may get your wish Taurus, especially with a dynamic aspect on the go that could amplify any differences. Is it for the right reasons though? Only you can be the judge. But if doing so helps set you on the path you were meant to travel, then you’ll feel good about it, even if certain others do object. Being clear on your values helps too.

Listen to any intuitive nudges that encourage you to embrace a side of yourself that is itching to be set free. With prudent Saturn angling towards restless Uranus, it may be time to pinpoint and then let go of those beliefs that are keeping you living a much narrower existence than you were made for. You likely sense that your life could be so much more Gemini, and indeed it can be.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

There are old ways and new ways of managing and making money, and over the coming days you may be drawn to an idea or opportunity that could open up other options for you. They might clash with your current situation, but can also provide a refreshing perspective going forward. Change is in the air, and although it could take some months to see it, a breakthrough is coming.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Wondering why someone isn’t more responsible, Scorpio? They too may be thinking that you’d be happier if you loosened up, and weren’t so insistent on things being just so. If you’re at odds with each other, then it really is no wonder, and yet you could both do with a little of what the other has in spades. Willing to see their point of view? They might more easily embrace yours.

Have big ideas? Trying to get others to take them on board may be a major challenge. They could be so heavily invested in their own plans, that they don’t even want to acknowledge yours. If so, you’ll need to find a way to loosen their thinking and be more open to new options and viewpoints. Can you show some proof? If yes, you might have a captive audience, Archer.

Could you make money from something you enjoy doing? It seems you can, but you may need to persuade yourself of this fact. You might have set ideas about what creates wealth, but what you are considering could seem like a stretch too far. Start small, and see how you get on. If it starts to work for you, be prepared to experiment to make it the success you currently hope for.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

With the Moon in your sign making triggering angles to key planets, you may be tempted to get all dramatic about an issue that seems to be coming to a head, Leo. This time though, try a different tack, especially if it involves another person who has been stubbornly hanging out to get their own way. Put yourself in their shoes, and the solution you need might click into place.

As Saturn in your sign clashes with Uranus your ruler, something in you can begin to loosen up. This process may have been ongoing for some time, and it could be down to dealing with an ongoing situation that has transformed you, leaving you open to new ideas, opportunities and possibilities. Things you wouldn’t haven’t considered before might now be happily anticipated.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

Need to make a decision? If so, the coming days can see you swinging from one option to another, but unable or unwilling to commit. Perhaps neither are suitable, Virgo. What you might need is a plan that is so different and original, it meets all of your needs and more besides. Talk this over or reflect on it, as the solution may require a fresh perspective and even a leap of faith.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

A book, movie, event or perhaps a conversation, could shatter certain ideas and beliefs that have served you well for some time, but that might now be too limiting. And while this can leave you uncertain of the future, it may also open the door to embracing more of life and being open to new experiences. These could be the making of you, and propel you into the exciting future you deserve.

Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 37

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Herman

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

BC

Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

For Better or for Worse

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