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Stand Up for ‘Our Sons and Daughters’ Mothers of Special Ed Students Press Gov’t to Resist Fiscal Board’s $95 Million Budget Cut Photo by Pedro Correa Henry

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Special Ed students’ mothers to gov’t: Oppose fiscal board on $95M cut

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others of students with functional diversity demanded on Wednesday that Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia and the Legislature stand up to the federal Financial Oversight and Management Board on the $95 million cut to the Special Education program’s budget.

During a demonstration at the World Plaza Building in Hato Rey, island community organizations urged decision-makers to restore the funds as the reduction could compromise 111,024 Special Education students’ access to an adequate education.

“Not only will this affect the lives of 111,024 children, but this will take a toll on 111,024 families as we are in a precarious public health situation,” said Special Education Steering Committee spokesperson Carmen Warren.

Warren also said the budget cut implies the non-compliance of the Department of Education with the appointment of Special Education teachers, service assistants, sign language interpreters, psychologists and social workers to address the needs of the students who require those services.

She also said therapy sessions, the purchase of assistive equipment and compliance with COVID-19 protocols could be in jeopardy.

Puerto Rico Autism Alliance spokesperson Aida Ortiz said meanwhile that the $95 million budget cut could leave the Special Education staff jobless as Acting Education Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés acknowledged that “it was possible that there was money left until March to pay the teachers and service assistants’ payroll.”

“We are shocked to receive such an attack on our sons and daughters, who have suffered so much from the educational process during the pandemic, to the point that a large number of students in our community were unable to receive appropriate educational and related services,” Ortiz said.

She added that the budget cut includes a $20 million reduction to the Interim Remedial Office, which could limit low-income families’ access to essential services for Special Education students.

“We had enough to battle when parents faced great challenges to provide their children with adequate services and education,” she said. “Having this budget cut on our shoulders makes things worse than they were.”

Ortiz also called out the oversight board for transferring $6 million that was not used for Special Education transportation to cover a contract from a third party agent requested by the federal Department of Education to manage the agency’s budget.

“This trustee, a private company, will cost the country an exorbitant $40 million this year, and it is anticipated that its contract will be renewed for several years,” she said. “That money should be for our children, and not go to a company that has to watch over those responsible for funds mismanagement in the Department of Education.”

“If today we have so much funding through the COVID-19 emergency and then they choose to cut our budget, we wonder what is going to happen when this funding ends,” Ortiz added. “Will the Special Education Program disappear?”

Meanwhile, Jinnette Morales, spokesperson for the Children and Public Education Movement, said she considers it “incredible” how Pierluisi and his administration “celebrate an historic $4 billion budget assignment when they reduce the funds for the most vulnerable students of our education system.”

“The last administration closed 500 schools because they wanted to save money, and now they tell us that instead of having more money, there is more money missing than before?” Morales said.

She later urged members of the press to investigate if the oversight can transfer funds from the program when the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act “clearly establishes as a requirement for the granting of federal funds that the Department of Education determine how many resources it needs and then establishes a matching formula.”

Later in the day, the spokesperson for Senate Treasury Committee Chairman Juan Zaragoza, Betsy Nazario, told the STAR that the Popular Democratic Party legislator on Monday “requested from [the oversight board’s executive director] Natalie Jaresko information on the Special Education budget and to continue the conversation.”

Aida Ortiz, spokesperson for the Puerto Rico Autism Alliance (Photo by Pedro Correa Henry)

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US House hearing centers on ending PR’s colonial status

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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he hearing of the Natural Resources Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives held Wednesday on two bills before the lower chamber dealing with the future of Puerto Rico’s status centered around constitutional and social issues, as well as which bill more effectively puts an end to Puerto Rico’s colonial status.

One bill, the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act (H.R. 2070) sponsored by Reps.

Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), would “recognize the right of the People of Puerto Rico to call a status convention through which the people would exercise their natural right to self-determination, and to establish a mechanism for congressional consideration of such decision.”

The other, the Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act (H.R. 1522), sponsored by Rep. Darren Soto (D-Fla.) and Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón (R-P.R.), would “provide for the admission of the State of Puerto Rico into the Union.”

The constitutional experts marshalled by statehood supporters argued that the U.S. Constitution does not provide for a status

Dr. Rafael Cox Alomar convention of the kind envisioned by the Velázquez/Ocasio-Cortez bill.

The Constitution leaves the status issue up to Congress and cannot be decided by another body, said constitutional scholar Dr. Christine Ponsa-Kraus.

“The issue of status is not exempt from congressional authority,” she said.

But a constitutional scholar for the other side, Dr. Rafael Cox Alomar, argued that this argument would mean that the founding fathers would not change the Articles of Confederation through a constitutional convention.

Under questioning from González Colón, Ponsa-Krauz said the Constitution

does not provide for a third option of Free Association.

“Statehood and independence are the only options under the Constitution,” she said. “Free association is a form of independence.”

But Cox Alomar insisted that such an issue can be decided by a status convention.

“This is not a constitutional matter, it is a matter of political will,” he said.

Guam’s representative to Congress, Michael San Nicholas, said he was going to vote for both bills, noting that the Marshall Islands is an example of a “free associated state.”

Cox Alomar also noted that many examples of free associated states exist in the world today.

While some of the proponents of the Velázquez/Ocasio-Cortez bill noted that Puerto Rico has a distinct nationality and culture, González Colón argued that Puerto Rico is already a part of the United States by virtue of the hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans who have served in the military.

But California Republican Tom McClintock didn’t sound convinced, noting the cultural difference to be overcome.

“The United States has one language and that’s English,” he said.

Scientific Coalition member: COVID-19 vaccines we have can neutralize Delta variant

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

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ith the island Health Department announcing the discovery earlier this week of a 4-year-old girl from the mainland U.S. who tested positive in Puerto Rico for the Delta variant of the coronavirus, Dr. Marcos López, a member of the Puerto Rico Scientific Coalition, urged islanders on Wednesday to get fully vaccinated against the virus to help neutralize the lineage that mutated from the B.1.617 variant.

In an interview with the Star, the research manager with the Puerto Rico Public Health Trust said a recent study developed in England has proven that only people who have both COVID-19 shots, in the case of those who received either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, have been less vulnerable to the lineage.

“In England, something interesting was established, and that is that a hospital did a cohort of people who visited the emergency room in relation to COVID-19 symptoms.

He said that, according to a graph released byThe Guardian, there were 1,234 people who arrived at the emergency room.”

“Of those 1,234, about 67% were not vaccinated,” he said.

“However, there was a third of this population, 393 people had at least one dose.”

“With the first dose you are not going to have very good

efficacy, you must have the two doses,” López added.

He said that of those 393, only 83 who went to the emergency room were fully vaccinated.

“This is perfectly normal, there can be cases where people who have both vaccines can still get infected and can still generate symptoms,” he said. “Of 83 people who were fully vaccinated going to an emergency room, out of 1,234, indicates to me that, undoubtedly, we will have the best protection if we are fully vaccinated.”

López said meanwhile that although England has a similar vaccination rate to both the United States and Puerto Rico, the island nation is facing an uptick where 90% of new COVID cases involve the Delta variant.

López said England had reached a rate of 45% of fully vaccinated residents, while the United States is at 44% and Puerto Rico is at 46%.

“The variant was found on March 18 in England, and in two and a half months, this lineage replaced the B.1.1.7 variant, now known as the Alpha variant, as this new one is more transmissible,” he said.

“The CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] established the Delta variant as a ‘variant of concern,’ so that means that we must keep oversight because, similarly to what is happening in England, if we lower our guard and do not carry on with vaccinations, we could see an outbreak like that

country,” he added. “Practically, most of the people who are infected at the moment in England are people who have not wanted to be vaccinated, so the message is to please get vaccinated and to continue to live prudently to avoid cases and other situations that may arise.”

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LUMA conducting exhaustive re-creation of conditions that preceded explosion and fire at substation

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hile law enforcement authorities and Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority Executive Director Efran Paredes have said a technical malfunction was the cause of last week’s explosion and fire at the Monacillos power substation in Río Piedras, LUMA Energy engineers are working on the recreation of accident that left 700,000 customers in the dark to determine its exact cause as the private operator’s security director, Michelle Hernández de Fraley, declined to rule out criminal involvement.

“All these notifications and alarms associated with connectivity in Monacillos are being downloaded to try to recreate the activities that happened that caused the explosion,” Hernández de Fraley said in a virtual press conference, after describing the investigation of the incident as one of multiple phases.

Hernández de Fraley said the stages include videos and logs from Monacillos as well as activities at other power stations because engineers need to ascertain that situations in other power plants did not contribute to the explosion.

“The investigation has a physical part, which is the part of the videos and the logs that are kept not only in Monacillos, but also in other substations,” she said. “And I mention other substations because, in the analysis that the engineers do, it may be revealed that there were other conditions, in other places, that caused the explosion in Monacillos. There are

LUMA Energy Security Director Michelle Hernández de Fraley videos and logs because the process of entering a substation is very rigorous.”

Hernández de Fraley noted that state and federal agencies are collaborating in the investigation, among which she mentioned the Puerto Rico Police, the Fire Department and the FBI. All of the agencies are awaiting the analysis from LUMA engineers, which she described as “the most critical and delicate part.” It would be up to the government to decide if the report will be made public.

“All the telemetry information will be shared with the agencies so, based on that data and what was seen in the videos and the logs,

to recreate the facts as best as possible to make a determination of what happened,” she said. “… It could be something related to equipment that is not working, lack of maintenance or someone who stopped doing something. But it can’t be determined until the conditions are recreated, and that telemetry is immense based on the number of components in the system. It is not something that happens in the morning.”

The report may take four to six weeks to be completed. “Until we have the report from the engineers, we are not taking a position as to the cause,” she said, declining to rule out criminal involvement.

Public Safety Secretary Alexis Torres preliminarily attributed the explosion and fire in Monacillos to “a technical failure of the equipment that was in the place.”

Regarding the destruction of property in Utuado, Hernández de Fraley said it occurred after a judge issued a temporary restraining order on June 7 to access the site. Police officers have gathered data and are in the process of deciding what charges will be filed. She said cars were vandalized and cables were destroyed.

Regarding the cyber attack suffered by LUMA Energy earlier this week, Hernández de Fraley said personal information from subscribers was not compromised.

She said the company, which took over PREPA’s transmission and distribution (T&D) system on June 1, reported that the cyber attack was a “denial of services,” which implies that an external entity recharges the system until it

gives the impression that there is no space to serve the real clients who come to the internet page to look for the service.

“Based on the type of attack, which is the ‘denial of services,’ there is no indication that data has been compromised by the nature of what has been seen. That is out of the question,” Hernández de Fraley said. “It’s a situation where you have outsiders creating a huge flow in usage demand, and real people can’t get in, but they’re not necessarily looking for any data.”

She also advised mayors or individuals against trying to fix power lines themselves.

Since LUMA Energy took over PREPA’sT&D system, customers have complained about the lack of access to the firm’s website, that no one picks up the phone and that clients seeking to have their power restored have been left in the dark. Hernández de Fraley said LUMA is trying to follow up on cases left over from PREPA. In the customer service area, workers are contacting mayors exclusively to deal with problems.

She urged people to go to the service offices in person if they can not get help over the phone.

Hernández de Fraley also dismissed allegations that LUMA officials do not trust the former PREPA workers that they have hired for fear they may be working for UTIER, the Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union.

Meanwhile, a Puerto Rico judge on Wednesday took under advisement whether to grant a permanent injunction against UTIER to stop its members from blocking access to LUMA Energy facilities.

NGOs say LUMA not prepared to assume service responsibilities

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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rganizations that support the Queremos Sol proposal on Wednesday presented an urgent request to the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau to address the service problems of LUMA Energy, saying the electrical power consortium “is not prepared to assume the critical responsibility for which it was hired.”

“In two weeks, LUMA has shown that it does not have the capacity, the interest, or the will to offer the people a quality service,” said Ingrid Vila Biaggi, president of CAMBIO, a signatory organization of the petition along with nine others.

“This contract is a setback to the transformation of the energy sector that Puerto Rico needs,” Vila Biaggi declared.

“It is time for the indignation of different sectors of the country that have suffered all kinds of problems with the service in recent weeks to be heard. Here the government, including

the Energy Bureau to whom we are writing, cannot sit idly by in the face of a poor and non-transparent operation, which costs us hundreds of millions of dollars. This contract must be canceled.”

The engineer said LUMA Energy in a year will invoice more than $130 million for the transition period.

In the document, the organizations requested “to reverse the erroneous interpretation of Law 120-2018 that has caused the displacement of thousands of experienced employees of the Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and that today leaves us with an unreliable service that puts the life and property of everyone in Puerto Rico at greater risk.”

“LUMA has made clear what we have denounced for months: LUMA does not have enough specialized human resources to manage the electrical system,” said Myrna Conty, coordinator of the Coalition of Anti-Incineration Organizations.

“Not only have we had to endure interruptions as clients, but also other serious problems that threaten the safety of people

and property. This includes putting the lives of people in need of medical equipment or medicine refrigeration at risk. LUMA has not been able to operate the system under normal conditions; we do not even want to imagine how it will respond if an atmospheric event occurs.”

The petition highlights that during a PREPA governing board meeting on May 28, LUMA revealed that it had only recruited about 2,100 employees, half of whom up to that moment had worked in transmission, distribution and administration functions of PREPA. In recent days, LUMA spokespersons have not been able to specify how many guards they have or how many of these were PREPA employees.

Due to the interruptions, delays and lack of workers that have characterized the start of LUMA’s contract, the groups also requested that the Energy Compliance Certificate issued under Law 120-2018 be revoked, since the implementation of the LUMA contract does not comply with the public energy policy of providing reliable service.

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Creditors, gov’t file objections to disclosure statement

By THE STAR STAFF

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uerto Rico’s creditors and the island government itself have filed objections against the disclosure statement to the third amended plan of adjustment, which would restructure some $35 billion in commonwealth debt, for reasons that go from lack of clarity in the information provided to a lack of legislative approvals to problems with the plan’s own sustainability.

The disclosure statement has to be ruled adequate by the federal bankruptcy court so the plan of adjustment can move forward.

The government’s fiscal agent, the Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF by its Spanish initials), said the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) conditions confirmation of a plan of adjustment on obtaining all legislative approvals required under applicable law.

“No such legislation has been enacted — which under Puerto Rico law is necessary to issue debt instruments backed by the full faith and credit of the Commonwealth and to implement several other provisions contemplated by the proposed Plan,” the agency said.

While Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia’s administration is committed to ending the Title III proceedings in order to allow Puerto Rico’s economy to grow and prosper, the AAFAF said the governor has also been clear that his administration opposes any pension cuts and freezes. If deep cuts are imposed on any segment of retirees, they may be forced to choose among food, medicine and shelter when their monthly checks decrease.

“Mandating forced poverty on any seg-

ment of Puerto Rico’s retirees will only further stress the Government’s already strained social services programs and increase the future cost of Puerto Rico’s welfare programs as retirees struggle to pay for basic necessities,” the agency said.

While the federal Financial Oversight and Management Board discusses various risk factors in the disclosure statement, it fails to disclose the potential effects of impairing pensions, the AAFAF has pointed out.

Ambac Assurance Corp., a bond insurer, noted defects with the oversight board’s arguments that PROMESA would preempt any commonwealth law that appropriates funds to commonwealth instrumentalities because there is no explanation as to why these statutes are inconsistent with PROMESA, nor can the board demonstrate that Congress intended such a sweeping preemptive effect.

“If the Court accepts the Board’s positions on preemption, this would render the Plan’s classification of claims impermissible as a matter of law under Granada Wines, Inc. v.

New England Teamsters & Trucking Industry Pension Fund, which requires that all creditors of equal rank be placed in the same class,” Ambac said. “If, as the Board contends, preemption has wiped away obligation-creating statutes and eliminated any Commonwealth law conferred priorities.”

General obligation bondholder Peter Hein said the disclosure statement does not provide information to back up its claims because since 2018 there have not been audited financial statements issued by the government.

Salud Integral de la Montaña, a health facility represented by attorney John Mudd,

said the fact that the oversight board cannot provide assurance of the reliability of the information is contrary to the spirit of PROMESA. The facility noted a lack of information as to cash accounts or any information that the debt deal is in the best interest of creditors.

“In addition, the Disclosure Statement does not enumerate the previous Board recommendations that the Commonwealth has declined to adopt, for example, amendments to law 80 and to donate WIPR TV station to a local non-profit institution in Puerto Rico,” the lawyer said. “This information is important for an investor to be able to judge the Commonwealth’s willingness to put into effect the enumerated recommendations.”

Moreover, the disclosure statement has no information on the possible impact of the G-7 agreement of a minimum 15% tax for all their jurisdictions. This effort was spearheaded by the Biden administration and could mean the end of federal tax exemption in Puerto Rico.

Vaqueria Tres Monjitas, as well as Suiza Dairy, the island’s two main milk producers, said the plan fails to disclose that their multimillion-dollar claims are non-dischargeable under bankruptcy law.

Financial Guaranty Insurance Co., a bond insurer, said the proposed disclosure statement also fails to disclose many key assumptions underlying the proposed plan of adjustment and omits key risk factors associated with such assumptions that may impact the feasibility of the proposed plan.

“The plan is unconfirmable because it provides disparate treatment to the FGIC Insured Bonds in violation of section 1123(a) (4) of the Bankruptcy Code,” the firm said. “At minimum, creditors are entitled to understand

whether or not they are entitled to vote on the Proposed Plan, what the Proposed Plan offers to them for recoveries, how they will receive those recoveries, and what risks may exist that would impact such recoveries should the assumptions underlying the Proposed Plan fail to be realized. At present, the Proposed Disclosure Statement fails to provide this necessary information.”

The Unsecured Creditors Committee said the disclosure statement contains no estimate of the recovery percentage that general unsecured creditors in Class 55 could expect under the proposed plan and leaves out important information.

“The Disclosure Statement does not discuss the value and availability of the Debtors’ assets, let alone explain to creditors how the Oversight Board intends to demonstrate that its decisions about the use, allocation, and monetization of its assets represent a reasonable effort to satisfy the Debtors’ obligations to their creditors,” the committee said. “The Committee believes that there are billions of dollars in available assets which could significantly improve recoveries to commonwealth General Unsecured Claimants. Moreover, while the Oversight Board recommends a minimum liquidity balance of no less than $2.5 billion, there is no disclosure regarding the estimated cash on hand as of an assumed Commonwealth Effective Date.”

The proposed plan, the committee added, “appears to seek to impose broad non-consensual third party releases without establishing the existence of the unique circumstances under which such releases may be approved. Separately, and contrary to the case law.”

Survey: PR eclipses US states in small businesses requiring employees to vaccinate

By THE STAR STAFF

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uerto Rico leads U.S. states in small businesses requiring proof that their employees are vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning to work, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s newest Phase 5 results of the Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS).

The survey shows that 19% of employers on the island required the vaccine compared with a national average of 4.4% based on responses collected May 31 to June 6 and released last week.

The national average has slowly ticked up during the spring of 2021, going from 2.5% at

the end of April to the current 4.4%. During the same period, the average in Puerto Rico trended up from 14.8% to the current 19%.

It should be noted that there was a gap between the end of Phase 4 and the beginning of Phase 5. The last Phase 4 results were for April 12 to April 18; the first Phase 5 results were for May 17 to May 23.

The states with the most small-business employers requiring COVID-19 vaccines: California and New York (both 7.7%), New Jersey (6.6%), Maryland (5.7%), and Oregon (5.6%).

States with the fewest employers requiring the vaccine: Georgia (2.5%), Ohio (2.8%),

Florida (2.9%), Texas (3.1%) and Michigan (3.7%).

Requirements varied across business sectors, too. Health care had the highest percentage (6.6%) of employer-mandated COVID vaccinations, followed by the accommodation & food services (6.4%) and education (also 6.4%) sectors.

Sectors with lowest rates of required vaccinations: Administrative, support, waste management, and remediation services (2.1%); real estate, rental, and leasing (2.6%); transportation and warehousing (2.7%); manufacturing (2.9%); and construction (3.1%).

The newest phase of the Small Business

Pulse Survey, known as 5.0, began May 17 and initial results were released May 27. The Census Bureau plans to continue to release data every Thursday through July 22.

The SBPS measures the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on U.S. small businesses, complementing existing Census Bureau data collections by providing high-frequency, detailed information on the challenges small businesses are facing.

The survey includes information about small business operations and finances, requests and receipt of assistance, COVID-19 vaccinations and testing and measures of overall well being and expectations for recovery.

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US nears 600,000 virus deaths despite progress from vaccines

By DAN LEVIN and JULIE BOSMAN

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t is a number that once seemed unimaginable.

In the next few days, the United States will surpass 600,000 deaths from COVID-19, the highest death toll in the world. The milestone approaches even though virus cases and deaths in this country have sharply fallen, vaccinations have been distributed widely, and many people have shed their masks and resumed pre-pandemic lives, including in New York and California, which both fully reopened Tuesday.

Yet the coronavirus remains agonizingly present for those who knew the hundreds across the country still dying of it each day.

In April, one of the victims was Toni Gallo, 67, of Valparaiso, Indiana, who had been sick with the virus for five months. “The world has lost a loving shining star,” her obituary read. On May 26, the coronavirus claimed the life of Frank Sanchez Jr., a 61-year-old Army veteran from Nekimi, Wisconsin; he was a union leader and lover of music who had built a successful DJ business with his wife. Last week, Officer Ryan Barham, 43, of the Susanville, California, police died from the virus, the department announced.

Although the sheer number of deaths in the United States is higher than anywhere else, the country’s toll is lower, on a per capita basis, than in many European and Latin American countries, including Peru, Brazil, Belgium and Italy. It is 10 times the toll that former President Donald Trump once predicted.

“It’s a tragedy,” said Stephen Morse, a professor of epidemiology at the Columbia University Medical Center.

“A lot of that tragedy was avoidable, and it’s still happening.”

In the early days of the pandemic, federal officials had shocked the country by announcing at a White House briefing that even with strict stay-at-home orders, the virus might kill as many as 240,000 Americans.

“As sobering a number as that is, we should be prepared for it,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said at the time.

The first known death from the coronavirus in the United States occurred in February 2020. By the end of that May, 100,000 people had been confirmed dead, an average of more than 1,100 deaths each day.

Over the next four months, the nation recorded another 100,000 deaths. Then the pace of casualties accelerated: The next 100,000 deaths came in about three months; the next, just five weeks. By late February 2021, just more than a month later, half a million Americans had died of the virus.

The last 100,000 deaths took far longer, about four months. Public health experts say that the widely available vaccines have played the central role in slowing the death rate.

Hospitalizations and deaths from the virus have been

Reflecting on a memorial at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn on Sunday, June 13, 2021, as deaths from the coronavirus in the United States approach a milestone. plummeting across the United States. Many schools, restaurants, houses of worship and public parks are reopened.

And about 44% of the U.S. population — 145 million people — is fully vaccinated.

Yet since mid-April, the pace of inoculations has dropped sharply, even as President Joe Biden set a July 4 deadline to have 70% of adults at least partially vaccinated.

This week, Biden urged Americans to be vaccinated as soon as possible, citing the continuing death toll from the virus.

“We’re approaching a sad milestone — almost 600,000 lost lives because of COVID-19 in America,” Biden said. “My heart goes out to all those who’ve lost a loved one. I know that black hole that seems to consume you, that fills up your chest, when you lose someone that’s close to you that you adored.”

“Now is not the time to let our guard down,” he added.

It is the remaining unvaccinated population — some people who are refusing vaccines, others who have not gotten around to vaccination yet — that is driving the lingering deaths, experts say. And the virus is still raging in other countries, including India and parts of South America.

“Until we have this under control across the world, it could come back and thwart all the progress we’ve made so far,” said Dr. Marcus Plescia, chief medical officer for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, which represents state health agencies. “I’m worried about the people who are not taking advantage of these vaccines.

They’re the ones who are going to bear the brunt of the consequences.”

Daily deaths from COVID-19 have dropped about 90% in the United States since their peak in January, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About half of coronavirus deaths at the end of May were made up of people ages 50 to 74, compared with a third in December, according to a recent New York Times analysis.

Older white people are driving the shifts in death patterns, and across most age groups, Black people saw the smallest decrease in deaths compared with other large racial groups. Cumulative vaccination rates among Black and Hispanic people continue to lag behind those of Asian and white people.

In Wayne County, Michigan, vaccine hesitancy is a lingering problem, said Dr. Teena Chopra, director of infection prevention and hospital epidemiology at the Detroit Medical Center. In May, none of her coronavirus patients were fully vaccinated. Several have died, she said, and patients with the virus are still being admitted.

“It makes me feel very frustrated and angry because getting people vaccinated is the only way to end the pandemic,” Chopra said.

According to data compiled by The New York Times, about 362 people across the United States are dying from the coronavirus each day. Fewer than 15,000 new cases of the virus are being reported daily, the lowest point since testing became widely available last year.

Many families who have recently lost relatives to the virus are struggling with the dissonance of mourning loved ones at a time when the pandemic appears to be fading for the rest of the country.

“It’s important to recognize that 600,000 people lost their lives in the last 16 months, and all of their families and communities are grappling with that grief,” said Dr. Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “I don’t want it to be the case that we move on from this terrible period and kind of put it all behind us without reflecting on what’s been lost.”

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Texas power grid, strained last winter, now faces an early heat wave

By JOHN SCHWARTZ and IVAN PENN

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n Monday, when soaring temperatures drove electricity demand in Texas to a June record, state regulators asked citizens to use less power or face a repeat of the deadly failures in February that left 69% of Texans without electricity and half without water.

Experts say that Texas, which prides itself on its light regulatory touch, is paying a price. As climate change contributes to weather extremes in both summer and winter, the vulnerability of the state’s power system is becoming increasingly apparent.

The result is “a system that’s been cutting corners and trying to just have enough power to get by — which is fine until a couple of things go wrong, and we’re left at the edge of blackouts again,” said Daniel Cohan, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Rice University in Houston. He compared the situation in Texas with someone trying to save a little money by going without insurance. “It’s really cheap, until it’s not,” Cohan said.

State lawmakers passed legislation last month to address some of the issues that led to the February disaster, but it may not be enough. The requirements laid out in the legislation have already been criticized as inadequate, and the next weather predicament has already arrived.

The new legislation requires better weatherization at plants to avoid a repeat of the February debacle. But the timeline is less than urgent, critics say, and many of the same regulators who presided over the grid’s decline are being asked to oversee the improvements. Even the lawmaker most

Workers Miguel Ángel Moreno, left, and Javier Quezada, take a break from work and and try to cool off in the shade from the extreme heat in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday, June 15, 2021. responsible for passing the legislation, state Rep. Chris Paddie, said at the bill-signing ceremony: “There’s more to be done.”

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the state’s electric grid and is known as ERCOT, put out the call Monday for people to conserve electricity, asking them to set thermostats to 78 degrees or higher, turn off lights and avoid using large appliances.

The state’s power demand Monday, 70 gigawatts, came uncomfortably close to what the companies could provide at the time — in large part because some 12 gigawatts of generating capacity was offline, including part of the state’s Comanche Peak nuclear power plant.

On Monday, the difference between how much energy was being used and how much could be generated was approaching the level that triggers mandatory emergency measures.

Things had not looked so troubled earlier in the year. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation, which helps ensure reliability of the power grids, expected aboveaverage reserves in Texas this summer, at 15.3% for the year, up from 12.9% in 2020.

But the agency warned in a report last month that “extreme weather can affect both generation and demand and cause energy shortages that lead to energy emergencies” for ERCOT. The problem is urgent, but not new.

“Every summer, everyone holds their breath to see if there’s going to be enough generation in Texas to keep the lights on,” said Bernard L. McNamee, a former member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and a partner in the law firm McGuire Woods.

At times, some power producers simply choose not to offer electricity into the market because it might not prove economically beneficial, leaving customers short on energy and paying high prices for the power they do get.

Arnie Gundersen, chief engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education, a nonprofit focused on nuclear power, said the Comanche plant suffered a transformer fire. But why other units were offline in the middle of June is a mystery. Any seasonal repair or upkeep on power plants is usually performed in April and May, Gundersen said. “They should be out of maintenance now.” Texas has not done enough to reform its grid regulators, even

after a measure of housecleaning after the winter crisis, said Robert McCullough, of McCullough Research, an energy research and consulting firm based in Portland, Oregon. “We’re talking about a fragile system” McCullough said, adding “We’re basically seeing the exact same system we were seeing four months ago.”

Worse, McCullough said, the system invites abuse. During emergency declarations, the power producers can get 300 times the price they get when there is no emergency.

The Biden administration has made upgrading the nation’s energy infrastructure one of its priorities. Julie McNamara, a senior energy analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said, “If we talk about infrastructure without considering how that infrastructure needs to match the climate conditions from today on into the future, then we’re building something that won’t stand a chance.”

The situation is putting lives at risk.

A recent study suggested that in hundreds of places around the world, an average of 37% of heat-related deaths in warm seasons could now be tied to climate change. And increasingly common power failures are making heat waves deadlier.

Emily Grubert, an assistant professor in environmental engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said that poor housing conditions — particularly in disadvantaged neighborhoods — were increasingly making extreme weather events life-or-death affairs.

“Blackouts tend to be more dangerous in lower income neighborhoods and often in minority neighborhoods, because of really unequal access to adequate housing,” she said. Houses in poor condition tend to be inefficient and expensive to cool.

Power outages were already a problem in Pueblo de Palmas, a colonia outside the border city of McAllen, Texas. Abel Garcia, 40, who works in construction, cleared the sweat on his forehead outside a trailer he shares with his wife and 16-year-old daughter Tuesday afternoon and said that he dreaded the coming summer. On Monday his trailer lost power at around 11 a.m., just as the sunlight began penetrating the windows, shutting off the already struggling air-conditioner.

Without power, “All we can do is take a cold shower to lower your body temperature,” he said. “And wait.”

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Southern Baptists narrowly head off conservative takeover

By RUTH GRAHAM

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n a dramatic showdown earlier this week, Southern Baptists elected a moderate pastor from Alabama as their next president, narrowly heading off an attempted takeover by the denomination’s insurgent right wing.

The election of the pastor, Ed Litton, was the result of what was effectively a three-way standoff for the leadership of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. In the first round of voting Tuesday afternoon, Southern Baptists rejected a prominent mainstream candidate and one-time favorite for the presidency, Al Mohler Jr., who received 26% of some 14,000 votes.

The race then headed for an immediate runoff vote that pitted an ultraconservative pastor from Georgia, Mike Stone, against Litton, who has largely avoided the culture wars. When officials announced the results from the stage — Litton bested Stone by just 556 votes, or 4 percentage points — the floor erupted in a mixture of cheers and boos.

At a news conference after his victory, the soft-spoken Litton emphasized the need for healing. “We are a family,” Litton said. “At time it seems we’re incredibly dysfunctional, but we love each other.”

Going forward, he said, “My goal is to build bridges and not walls.”

Some had warned that the stakes for the denomination, which often serves as a bellwether for white American evangelicalism, have never been higher.

A newly empowered ultraconservative faction in the already conservative denomination is pushing back against a national leadership they describe as outof-touch elitists who have drifted too far to the left on social issues. Mainstream Baptist churches and those on the far right agree that the convention’s results will serve as a referendum about the denomination’s priorities and could accelerate the fracturing of an already shrinking institution.

Delegates called “messengers” were voting in Nashville on a new president as well as a series of hot-button cultural issues.

Some on both sides have threatened to leave depending on the final results.

Pastors and activists had spent months drumming up attendance for the convention from churches large and small across the country.

Conservatives, especially, had made

an unusual effort to boost turnout. The Conservative Baptist Network, an increasingly influential group founded last year, released a video last week featuring images of an empty motorboat slipping loose from a pier and floating into the middle of a lake under cloudy skies. “On June 15, Southern Baptists can stop the drift,” the network’s spokesman, Brad Jurkovich, intoned.

In Nashville, tempers were running high. Irate messengers confronted at least two high-profile leaders in the halls of the convention center, accusing them of fomenting liberalism. Some leaders were provided with extra security.

“We are at a defining moment for our convention,” J.D. Greear, the departing president, told the assembly in a fiery speech hours before they would elect his successor. He excoriated the “Pharisees” within the denomination who placed ideological purity over its evangelistic mission, alienating Black and Latino pastors, sexual abuse survivors and others in their zeal.

“Are we primarily a cultural and political affinity group, or do we see our primary calling as being a gospel witness?”

Greear asked. “What’s the more important part of our name: Southern or Baptist?”

Greear praised an earlier generation of conservatives who had kept the denomination true to its theological principles.

But he warned of a new threat to Southern Baptists in the 21st century. “The danger of liberalism is real but the danger of Phariseeism is also,” he said.

Tuesday’s vote capped months of angry debate over race, gender and other cultural divides as the denomination’s leaders and insurgents wrestled over whether their future hinged on wrenching the church even further to the right or broadening its reach.

Last summer’s annual meeting was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, and attendance — and tension — has not been this high since the mid1990s, when conservatives completed a sweeping takeover that some now say did not go far enough.

The day’s most anticipated moment was the election of a new president.

But messengers also tackled a slate of resolutions on racial issues, abortion and the Equality Act, a sweeping piece of legislation in Congress that would extend civil rights protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity while eroding some religious liberty protections.

A resolution on “Christian citizenship” included a denunciation of “the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021.”

The most contentious topic heading into the meeting was critical race theory, an academic lens for analyzing racism in society and institutions that has swept the imagination of American conservatives.

Republican-controlled state legislatures have passed measures against the perceived influence of CRT in public schools.

On Tuesday afternoon, messengers passed a resolution that the denomination, which was founded before the Civil War in defense of slavery, reaffirm its 1995 apology for systemic racism but also reject “any theory or worldview” that denies that racial discrimination is rooted in sin. At its 2019 annual meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, messengers affirmed that critical race theory could be used by faithful Baptists, a moment that many conservatives in Nashville characterized as galvanizing.

The convention was riveted Monday by conflicting accounts of an impromptu encounter between Stone and Hannah-Kate Williams, a victim of sexual abuse who has advocated reform in the denomination. Williams was in an atrium of the convention center handing out copies of a statement signed by several victims who are calling for an outside audit of patterns of abuse.

Stone approached her and introduced

himself, seemingly without knowing about her advocacy.

The encounter soon turned ugly, in Williams’ account.

“He said I’m causing more harm to the Southern Baptist Convention than good, and I’m not doing right by survivors,” she recalled tearfully Monday evening. “And he said the Southern Baptist Convention is bigger than my problems.”

Stone characterized the conversation as “polite” in a statement posted to Twitter: “At no time was I unkind.”

At the news conference after his victory, Litton called for an independent investigation into the convention’s handling of abuse, and said the denomination needed to be “pastoral” in its approach to victims.

The divide in the convention was apparent in the run-up to Tuesday’s voting.

At a standing-room-only breakfast hosted by the Conservative Baptist Network on Tuesday morning, Rod Martin, a member of the denomination’s powerful executive committee, exhorted attendees to not grow discouraged if the day did not go as they hoped.

“If we do not prevail today, we will come back next year and the next year and the next year,” he told the enthusiastic crowd. Most of Jesus’ apostles, he pointed out, were eventually martyred. “We are here to the death!” he added. “We will not stop.”

Ed Litton, an Alabama pastor, spoke after being elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday.

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Scholarly groups condemn laws limiting teaching on race

By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER

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coalition of more than six dozen scholarly and educational groups have signed onto a statement decrying the spread of proposed legislation limiting classroom discussion of race, racism and other so-called “divisive concepts,” calling such laws an infringement on “the right of faculty to teach and of students to learn” and a broader threat to civic life.

“The clear goal of these efforts is to suppress teaching and learning about the role of racism in the history of the United States,” says the statement, whose signatories include the American Historical Association, the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers.

“The ideal of informed citizenship necessitates an educated public,” the statement continues. “Educators must provide an accurate view of the past in order to better prepare students for community participation and robust civic engagement.”

The statement, which was spearheaded by the free expression group PEN America, comes as more than 20 states including New Hampshire, Michigan, Texas and South Carolina have introduced legislation restricting teaching about race.

Some of these laws have taken aim at “critical race theory,” a framework used to look at how racism is woven into seemingly neutral laws and institutions. Originally developed by legal scholars, it has recently been repurposed

by Republican politicians and activists as a catchall term for discussions of race.

Other laws have sought to prohibit classroom use of the 1619 Project, an initiative of The New York Times Magazine that explores the history of slavery, positing the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia that year as the nation’s “very origin.”

Proponents of the bans present them as efforts to teach facts rather than ideology, and to counter efforts to turn Americans against one another.

“The woke class wants to teach kids to hate each other, rather than teaching them how to read,” Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida said to the state’s board of education earlier this month, shortly before it moved to ban critical race theory.

Jonathan Friedman, the director of free expression and education at PEN, which is tracking the laws, said the wording of the proposed

bans varies widely, but the most commonly shared language refers to “divisive concepts.”

He said the prohibitions were troubling not just for their broadness and vagueness, but for what he called the “fly-by-night nature” of the campaign promoting them.

“These laws are being introduced and passed with little deliberation about what they even say, and what they do,” he said. “That’s highly alarming. The way this is being pursued against scholars and educators of all kinds is an attack on democracy.”

The public controversy around critical race theory dates to last September, when President Donald Trump issued an executive order banning federal contractors from conducting diversity training that drew on critical race theory or other “race-based ideologies” that held, for example, that “the United States is an inherently racist or evil country or that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil.”

That order was rescinded by the Biden administration. But since January, state legislatures have increasingly sought to implement bans, while private groups have also formed to support the effort.

James Grossman, the executive director of the American Historical Association, which represents more than 12,000 historians, cited the formation in May of the 1776 Project PAC, which describes itself as the first national political action committee to target local school board elections. Scholars were already concerned, Grossman said, but that “lit a fire.”

“You have a combination of state legislatures that are interfering with the work of professional educators in a politically tendentious way, combined with a national organization that wants to water down the education of American children,” he said.

The current furor recalls the intense debate in the 1990s over proposed national history standards, which conservatives assailed as painting an overly negative view of the past.

But what is happening now, Grossman said, goes further, and amounts to an effort to “eliminate essential aspects of American history from the curriculum.”

“There is a general consensus among historians of the United States that racism has been central to the evolution of American institutions and American culture,” he said. “But teaching that doesn’t mean that you are teaching students to hate them. It means you are teaching students to understand them.”

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Retail sales fell in May, in latest sign of a bumpy recovery

By MICHAEL CORKERY

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etail sales fell more than expected last month, the Commerce Department reported earlier this week, a sign of the uneven recovery of the American consumer and a shift in spending patterns as the country reopens after the coronavirus pandemic.

The 1.3% decline in May followed months of ups and downs in retail spending.

After falling to record lows about a year ago, sales bounced back sharply this spring, only to swing from month to month, driven by the ebb and flow of government stimulus and the persistence of the virus. The data from April was revised Tuesday to show an increase of 0.9%.

Still, economists said that the broader recovery remained on track. Rather than signaling a fundamental weakness, last month’s spending data shows that consumers have most likely spent all they need to furnish their homes or upgrade their phones during the homebound months of the pandemic.

Now, they are shifting their purchases to restaurants, lodging and travel, as vaccination rates rise and people feel safer venturing out.

“The decline was a bit of a shock,” said Beth Ann Bovino, U.S. chief economist at S&P Global. “But there are reasons I am not worried.”

For one, buying has climbed to record levels over the past several months and well above what consumers were spending before the pandemic, Bovino said. Another factor weighing on spending last month was limited supply, particularly of automobiles. Auto sales fell 4% in May. Vehicle production has been slowed by a lack of semiconductors, part of a global supply chain issue that is affecting a variety of products like Starbucks coffee flavorings and lumber. But government data this week also showed that auto production picked up in May as supply chain issues eased, which should lead to more sales this summer.

Tuesday’s retail sales report also does not capture spending on travel and hotels, although credit and debit card data shows that those sectors rebounded significantly in May. Consumers spent 16% more on lodging during the Memorial Day weekend than they did during the holiday in 2019, according to an analysis by Bank of America.

Economists say consumers are undergoing a “rotation” of their unusual pandemic spending patterns. It began in the lockdown months of the pandemic with huge jumps in grocery purchases and plummeting restaurant revenue. As the time at home dragged on, many people took on renovation projects, upgraded their furniture and entertained themselves with new electronics and sporting goods.

Last month showed another shift. Spending on furniture declined 2.1%, while electronics and appliance purchasing fell 3.4%. Purchases at restaurants and bars rose 1.8%. Consumers spent more on clothing and accessories last month, partly reflecting the need to dress up to go back into gradually reopening offices after months of remote work. Department stores sales rose 1.6%.

Passersby are reflected in a shop window as they stroll along the Lincoln Road Mall in Miami Beach on April 29, 2021. Americans are venturing out and spending more on lodging and entertainment, but less on goods.

With so many caveats in the retail sales report, Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at the Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the data was not that helpful in assessing the true health of consumers.

“The headline declines in today’s numbers tell us nothing about the future,” Shepherdson wrote in a research note.

Still, a lot is riding on the American consumer, who has been the driver of the nation’s broader economic recovery.

Any deviation from the policymakers’ hopes that retail sales will continue to increase steadily now that the country is opening back up and more people are vaccinated is surprising to economists.

The federal government has spent more than $1 trillion during the pandemic trying to ensure that Americans keep spending and to prevent stores and restaurants from closing during the lockdowns.

The stimulus payments, by many measures, have paid off. Spending last month was about 18% higher than pre-pandemic levels. Economists are now watching whether the end of the stimulus money — the last checks were sent out in mid March — will lead to decreased spending.

The Federal Reserve will release its June policy statement and economic projections on Wednesday, followed by a news conference with Jerome Powell, the central bank’s chair.

He is likely to give an updated assessment of inflation, the labor market and the overall economic recovery after a string of

surprising data points like last month’s retail sales.

The meeting and remarks will be closely watched by investors, who are looking for any hint that the Fed is preparing to slow its $120 billion in monthly government-backed bond purchases — a policy meant to stoke the economy by keeping many kinds of borrowing cheap.

Bovino of S&P Global says one of the biggest tests for the recovery will come this fall, when the additional unemployment benefits expire and schools reopen, setting the stage for parents to return to work. That is when it will become clearer whether stimulus-fueled retail spending translated into sustainable job growth and business creation.

Another risk is that these early signs of inflation, caused largely by supply issues, will become more acute and prompt consumers to pull back.

But most economists are optimistic that spending will stay on an upward trajectory. Gus Faucher, chief economist at PNC Financial Services Group, predicted Tuesday that retail sales would grow at a “moderate pace” in the near future because many American consumers, on balance, were in a good financial condition.

“The positives — lots of household savings, normalizing supply chains, rising wealth due to higher stock prices and home values, an improving labor market, and low interest rates — outweigh the negatives of higher prices and spent-up demand,” he said.

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Biden names Lina Khan, a big-tech critic, as FTC chair

Lina Khan appeared during a hearing with a Senate committee in April.

By DAVID McCABE and CECILIA KANG

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resident Joe Biden named Lina Khan, a prominent critic of Big Tech, as the chair of the Federal Trade Commission, the White House said Tuesday, a signal that the agency is likely to crack down further on the industry’s giants.

Earlier in the day, the Senate voted across party lines, 69-28, to confirm Khan as a commissioner. The president may name any commissioner to lead the agency, which investigates antitrust violations, deceptive trade practices and data privacy lapses in Silicon Valley and throughout corporate America.

Khan, 32, was sworn in Tuesday, making her the youngest chair in the FTC’s history. “I look forward to working with my colleagues to protect the public from corporate abuse,” she said in a statement.

In her new role, Khan will lead efforts to regulate the kind of behavior highlighted for years by critics of Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple. She told a Senate committee in April that she was worried about the way tech companies could use their power to dominate new markets. The agency is investigating Amazon, of which Khan has been highly critical, and filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook last year.

Her appointment was a victory for progressive activists who want Biden to take a hard line against big companies.

He also gave a White House job to Tim Wu, a law professor

who has criticized the power of the tech giants. The president has yet to appoint someone to lead the Justice Department’s antitrust division, another top regulator of the industry.

The decision to make Khan the agency’s chair gives her control over its agenda, staff and proceedings. The four other commissioners — two Democrats and two Republicans — vote on major matters and produce statements, but the chair is essentially the agency’s CEO. All five commission members are appointed by the president for seats with seven-year terms, although agency leaders often leave along with the president who appointed them. (The term for Khan’s seat expires in September 2024.)

Khan signaled at her April confirmation hearing that she intends to carry her concerns about the tech giants into her role at the agency. She told lawmakers she saw a “whole range of potential risks” around the tech companies.

“One that comes up across the board is that the ability to dominate one market gives companies, in some instances, the ability to expand into adjacent markets,” she said. She also said regulators should apply more scrutiny to mergers involving the companies.

Amazon, Google and Facebook declined to comment on Biden’s unexpected decision. Apple did not respond to a request for comment.

Biden’s decision caps an unusually rapid ascent for Khan. She was born in London to Pakistani parents who emi-

grated to the United States when she was 11. She first rose to prominence while a law student at Yale, where she wrote a paper laying out how modern antitrust laws had failed to check the power of Amazon. The paper attracted notice from policymakers, other lawyers and the press.

Quiet and generally averse to the spotlight, she has played a critical role behind the scenes in recent years as a senior aide to the House judiciary committee on its 16-month investigation of competition among digital platforms. She also served as a counselor to FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra. She joined the faculty at Columbia Law School this past year.

Khan succeeds Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, a former Democratic Senate staff member who was named the agency’s acting chair in January. Slaughter’s office said she would remain at the agency as a commissioner.

“If she chose to be a doctor, she would have been a star doctor. If she’d chosen to go to Wall Street, she’d be running a very powerful fund,” said Barry Lynn, the director of the Open Markets Institute, a think tank, and Khan’s former boss.

“I am thrilled that she chose this path because she has the ability to transform America’s political economy.”

Her appointment was also hailed by many Democratic lawmakers.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., chair of a Senate subcommittee overseeing antitrust and a regular critic of the tech industry, said Khan’s “deep understanding of competition policy will be vital as we strengthen antitrust enforcement.”

Klobuchar noted Khan’s new role in an afternoon hearing on competition, before any announcement from the White House.

“We need all hands on deck as we take on some of the biggest monopolies in the world,” she said.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said, “With Chair Khan at the helm, we have a huge opportunity to make big, structural change by reviving antitrust enforcement and fighting monopolies that threaten our economy, our society and our democracy.”

Republican lawmakers were largely silent about Khan’s becoming chair. Several of them who work on antitrust, like Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, declined to comment.

Carl Szabo, vice president and general counsel at NetChoice, a tech industry lobbying group, said after the Senate vote that Khan would make the independent agency more political.

“Khan has a strong career in persuading the American left of her proposed reforms to antitrust law,” Szabo said in a statement, “but the job of an FTC commissioner is to enforce antitrust laws as they are, not as the commissioner wishes they would be.”

Adam Kovacevich, CEO of Chamber of Progress, another tech industry group, said: “The key question ahead is whether the FTC focuses on helping consumers or on redesigning tech products and services that most people are pretty happy with.”

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Pre-Fed jitters to keep S&P 500, Nasdaq below record highs at open

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nflation concerns have dominated markets in recent weeks even as strong corporate earnings and the gradual reopening of the U.S. economy have helped the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq reach all-time highs.

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq drifted just below record highs on Wednesday, with investors on edge before potential hints from the Federal Reserve on when it would taper its massive monetary stimulus.

The Fed has previously tried to assuage concerns that rising inflation would prompt it to tighten its ultraloose monetary policy, but data on Tuesday showing a jump in producer prices has again raised expectations the central bank could begin debating closing the taps at its meeting this week.

Inflation concerns have dominated markets in recent weeks even as strong corporate earnings and the gradual reopening of the U.S. economy have helped the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq reach all-time highs.

“You could see a knee-jerk reaction where the market sells off (if the Fed talks about tapering) and once the uncertainty clears, the market will start to rally again,” said Shawn Snyder, head of investment strategy at Citi Personal Wealth Management.

“There is a lot of discussion about tapering as if it’s going to cause a market calamity but to me, anytime you get clarity on policy, that’s a good thing and people might be underestimating that.”

The central bank’s latest policy statement is expected to be released with fresh economic projections at 2 p.m. ET (1800 GMT).

Interest rate-sensitive bank stocks shed about 1.9%, tracking a dip in the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield .

Citigroup Inc fell nearly 4% as its finance chief, Mark Mason, cautioned that the economic recovery may not translate into better profits for the bank because of a slowdown in institutional businesses and higher expenses.

At 11:28 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 13.02 points, or 0.04%, at 34,286.31 and the S&P 500 was up 1.15 points, or 0.03%, at 4,247.74. The Nasdaq Composite was up 29.55 points, or 0.21%, at 14,102.40.

Oracle Corp dropped 5.3% trading as the business software maker forecast current-quarter profit below Wall Street estimates.

New York-listed shares of Chinese private tutoring companies New Oriental Education & Technology Group, TAL Education Group and Gaotu Techedu Inc fell between 8.4% and 13% after a Reuters report that China was poised to unveil a much tougher-than-anticipated crackdown on the industry.

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Mediators push to restore cease-fire in Gaza after overnight strikes

Israeli forces detain a Palestinian man in Jerusalem during a provocative Jewish procession known as the flags march on Tuesday, June 15, 2021.

By PATRICK KINGSLEY and ADAM RASGON

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nternational mediators stepped up efforts Wednesday to broker a longer-term truce between Israel and Hamas, the militant group that dominates the Gaza Strip, after the first armed exchange between the two sides since the end of an 11-day air war in May. Egyptian and United Nations diplomats were mediating between both sides, two diplomats involved in the talks said. The effort fol-

lowed a day of escalating tensions on Tuesday after the new Israeli government permitted farright Jews to march through Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem. In response, militants in Gaza sent several incendiary balloons into Israel, causing 26 fires, and Israeli aircraft fired missiles at several military posts in Gaza in the early hours of Wednesday morning. No casualties were reported.

The escalation was the first major test for the fragile new Israeli government that on Sun-

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day replaced Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s longest-serving leader, after winning a confidence measure in Parliament by just one vote.

Its first major decision was to allow the provocative far-right parade, a decision that angered Arab and left-wing members of the coalition.

Mediators received indications from both Israel and Hamas that neither was seeking to increase conflict further, one diplomat said Wednesday. An Egyptian task force was on the ground in Gaza on Wednesday morning, clearing rubble from the war in May and trying to prepare the ground for a longer-term reconstruction effort.

But the Hamas leadership publicly did not rule out further attacks on Israel. Moussa Abu Marzouk, a senior member of Hamas’ political wing, based in Qatar, said by phone that the decision would be made by the group’s military leadership.

“The issue of responding to the bombardment is on the table, but this decision is with the resistance,” Abu Marzouk said, referring to the

group’s armed wing.

A deeper truce remained even more elusive, with Israel, Hamas, the Palestinian leadership in the occupied West Bank and international donors yet to agree on a mechanism to deliver aid, money and reconstruction materials to rebuild Gaza following the war in May. “The U.N. is in contact with all relevant parties on matters related to the cessation of hostilities,” said Tor Wennesland, the United Nations special coordinator for the Middle East peace process. “This has been going on for a while and will continue with the view of having some arrangements put in place that could stabilize the situation. This is still a work in progress with more to be done.”

The war in May killed more than 250 Palestinians and 13 Israeli residents, according to the United Nations. In Israel, Palestinian rockets wrecked several apartments, cars and buses, damaged a gas pipeline and briefly shut down two major airports. In Gaza, Israeli strikes damaged homes, clinics, hospitals and schools, as well as power lines, sewage works and three major desalination plants, the United Nations said.

But while diplomats say some reconstruction material has begun to enter Gaza through Egypt, Israel has limited what can arrive through its crossing points to core humanitarian materials, such as medicine, fuel and food, pending a longer-term agreement. It has also blocked the supply of financial aid from Qatar; before the war, the Gulf country sent about $30 million every month to help stabilize Gaza’s economy.

Israel and Hamas disagree on whether to include a prisoner swap as part of any stronger cease-fire deal. Israel wants Hamas to return two missing Israelis who are believed to be captive in Gaza and the remains of two Israeli soldiers also thought to be there. Hamas seeks the release of Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails.

The process is also complicated by a desire for the Palestinian Authority — which exerts limited autonomy in parts of the occupied West Bank, and which Hamas forced from Gaza in 2007 — to play a role in coordinating any future aid.

Israel and Egypt control what comes in and out of Gaza as well as most of its electricity and fuel. Israel has the biggest say, since the main supply routes to Gaza are routed through Israeli ports. It also controls Gaza’s birth registry, airspace and access to the sea and cellular data, and it restricts Palestinian access to farmland at the strip’s perimeter.

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Once, superpower summits were about nukes. Now, it’s cyberweapons.

By DAVID E. SANGER

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or 70 years, meetings between American presidents and Soviet or Russian leaders were dominated by one looming threat: the vast nuclear arsenals that the two nations started amassing in the 1940s, as instruments of intimidation and, if deterrence failed, mutual annihilation.

But as President Joe Biden prepared to meet with President Vladimir Putin in Geneva on Wednesday, for the first time cyberweapons were being elevated to the top of the agenda.

The shift has been brewing for a decade, as Russia and the United States, the two most skilled adversaries in the cyber arena, have each turned to a growing arsenal of techniques in what has become a daily, low-level conflict.

But at summit meetings, that sort of jousting was usually treated as a sideshow to the main superpower competition.

No more. The rising tempo and sophistication of recent attacks on American infrastructure — from gasoline pipelines running up the East Coast, to plants providing one-quarter of America’s beef, to the operations of hospitals and the internet itself — has revealed a set of vulnerabilities no president can ignore.

For Biden, nuclear weapons still matter, and his aides say the two men will spend a good amount of time debating “strategic stability,” shorthand for containing nuclear escalation. But the more immediate task, Biden told his allies at a Group of 7 summit meeting in Cornwall, England, last week and a NATO meeting in Brussels, is to convince Putin he will pay a high price for playing the master of digital disruption.

It will not be easy. If a decade of intensifying cyberconflict has taught anything, it is that the traditional tools of deterrence have largely failed.

And while Putin loves to boast about his huge investments in new, nuclear torpedoes and hypersonic weapons, he also knows he cannot use them. His arsenal of cyberweapons, in contrast, is put to work every day.

Biden has made clear that he intends to give Putin a choice: Cease the attacks, and crack down on the cybercriminals operating from Russian territory, or face a rising set of economic costs and what Biden calls a set of moves by the United States to “respond in kind.” But Sunday, while still at the Group of 7 summit in Cornwall, he acknowledged that Putin may well ignore him.

“There’s no guarantee you can change a person’s behavior or the behavior of his country,” Biden said. “Autocrats have enormous power,

and they don’t have to answer to a public.”

Deterrence is a problem that many of Biden’s top national security aides have been thinking about for years, drawing on their experience on the front lines of cyberconflict at the National Security Agency, the Justice Department and the financial sector. They are the first to say that arms control treaties, the main tool employed in the nuclear age, are not well adapted to the cyberrealm. There are just too many players — nations, criminal groups, terrorist organizations — and no way to do the equivalent of counting warheads and missiles.

But their hope is to get Putin to begin discussing targets that should be off the table in peacetime. The list includes electric grids, election systems, water and energy pipelines, nuclear power plants and — most delicate of all — nuclear weapons command-and-control systems.

On paper, that would seem to be relatively easy. After all, an expert group of the United Nations, with representatives of all the major powers, has repeatedly agreed to some basic limits.

In reality, it is proving agonizingly difficult — far more so than the first attempt at nuclear arms control that President Dwight Eisenhower broached with Nikita Khrushchev in Geneva 66 years ago, just before the Cold War spun into a terrifying arms race and, seven years later, nuclear confrontation in Cuba.

President Ronald Reagan said “we need to ‘trust, but verify,’” noted Eric Rosenbach, the former head of cyber policy at the Pentagon, who helped navigate the early days of cyberconflict with Russia, China and Iran when Biden was vice president. “When it comes to the Russians and cyber, you definitely cannot trust or verify,” he said.

“The Russians have repeatedly violated the terms of any agreements on cyber at the United Nations, and are now systematically trying to tie up the United States” in a morass of international legal issues “while hitting our critical infrastructure,” Rosenbach said.

Putin refuses to acknowledge that Russia uses these weapons at all, suggesting that the accusations are part of a giant, American-led disinformation campaign.

“We have been accused of all kinds of things,’’ Putin told NBC News over the weekend.

“Election interference, cyberattacks and so on and so forth. And not once, not once, not one time, did they bother to produce any kind of evidence or proof. Just unfounded accusations.”

In fact, evidence has been produced, though it is far harder to show, much less explain, than the photographs of Soviet missiles in Cuba that President John F. Kennedy displayed on te-

levision at a critical moment in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.

But Putin is right about one thing. The ease with which he can deny any knowledge of cyberoperations — something the United States has done as well, even after mounting major attacks on Iran and North Korea — demonstrates why the deterrents that kept an uneasy nuclear peace in the Cold War won’t work with digital threats.

During the Obama administration, a successful Russian effort to break into the unclassified email systems of the White House, the State Department and the Joint Chiefs of Staff was never publicly attributed to Moscow — even though everyone, including then-Vice President Biden, knew what the intelligence indicated.

The muted response to the Russian effort to influence the 2016 election came only after the results were in. Obama’s reaction was comparatively mild: the expulsion of Russian diplomats and the closing of some diplomatic compounds. It was, in the words of one senior official at the time, “the perfect 19th century response to a 21st century problem.’’

Then came Trump’s time in office, in which he repeated, approvingly, Putin’s improbable denials of election interference. America lost four years in which it could have been trying to set some global standards, what Brad Smith, the president of Microsoft, calls a “cyber Geneva Convention.”

While the U.S. Cyber Command stepped up its fight, sending the digital equivalent of a

brushback pitch to a Russian intelligence agency and knocking a major ransomware group offline during the 2018 midterm elections, the Russian assaults have continued. What worries the Biden national security team is not the volume of the attacks, but their sophistication.

Rosenbach, the former Pentagon cyber policy chief, said that ransomware gives Biden an opening. “Rather than focus on naively abstract ‘rules of the road,’ Biden should press Putin hard on concrete actions, such as halting the scourge of ransomware attacks against U.S. critical infrastructure,’’ he said.

“Putin has plausible deniability,” he said, “and the threat of additional sanctions is likely enough to convince Putin to take quiet action against” the groups responsible for the attacks.

That would be a start, if a small one.

If the history of nuclear arms control applies again — and it may not — expectations should be low. It is far too late to hope for the elimination of cyberweapons, any more than one could hope to eliminate guns. Analysts say the best one can hope for might be a first attempt at a digital “Geneva Convention” limiting the use of cyberweapons against civilians. And the perfect place to try may be in Geneva itself.

But that is almost certainly further than Putin is willing to go. With his economy overly dependent on fossil fuels, and his population showing signs of restiveness, his sole remaining superpower is the disruption of his democratic rivals.

President Joe Biden walks with European Council President Charles Michel, right, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, during the European Union Summit at the European Council in Brussels on Tuesday, June 15, 2021.

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North Korea is facing a ‘tense’ food shortage

In this undated photo provided by North Korea’s state news media, the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, right, visited a flood-hit village.

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orth Korea is bracing itself for a possible food crisis in the coming months.

Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader, issued a rare warning about a “tense” food situation brought about by extensive flooding, the coronavirus pandemic and international sanctions, the state news media reported Wednesday.

Kim convened the Central Committee of his ruling Workers’ Party on Tuesday to assess the state of affairs in his isolated country, and said resolving the food shortage was “a top priority,” according to the official Korean Central News Agency.

“In particular, the people’s food situation is now getting tense as the agricultural sector failed to fulfill its grain production” after flood damage, Kim was quoted as saying in the meeting. “It is essential for the whole Party and state to concentrate on farming.”

Although it is no secret that North Korea’s economy is in trouble, it is highly unusual for Kim to acknowledge a national food shortage as publicly and clearly as he did this week.

In its latest assessment of the country’s food insecurity, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization warned that if the country’s food shortage is not covered

by imports or foreign aid, “households could experience a harsh lean period between August and October.”

Kim’s warning came two months after he ordered his party to wage an “arduous march” to relieve the economic pain of his people. The April remarks caught the attention of some outside analysts because the term “arduous march” is usually invoked by the North to refer to a crisis that must be overcome, such as the famine in the 1990s that caused millions of people to die.

So far, no sign has emerged from North Korea that the country is in danger of another devastating famine, but South Korean reporters monitoring market prices in North Korea said that the price of rice has been rising sharply in recent weeks.

Many essential goods, including medicine, are also becoming more scarce, as the pandemic forced North Korea to close its border with China, its only major trading partner, said Jiro Ishimaru, chief editor of Asia Press International, a website in Japan that monitors North Korea with the help of clandestine correspondents inside the country.

Some families have begun selling furniture to raise cash for food, Ishimaru said. The number of homeless children scavenging for food is also on the rise in some parts of the country, though it is difficult to reliably assess the situation, given North Korea’s isolation, he said.

Kim’s acknowledgment of North Korea’s food shor-

tage was another sign that his economic policies were not working.

When he took power a decade ago, one of his first promises was to ensure that his long-suffering people would “no longer have to tighten their belt.” But those economic plans suffered a setback when the country’s growing weapons arsenal led to punishing international sanctions. Kim’s efforts to lift the sanctions went nowhere when his diplomacy with former President Donald Trump collapsed in 2019.

When the pandemic and floods hit the country last year, Kim ordered his country to reject any international aid for fear that outside help would lead to a possible COVID-19 outbreak. (North Korea claims to have no cases of COVID-19, but outside health experts remain skeptical, given the country’s poor public health system.)

Last October, when he addressed a large crowd during a military parade celebrating his party’s anniversary, Kim appeared to hold back tears as he apologized for failing to improve the lives of his people. In January, he once again admitted to his economic failures, announcing a new fiveyear plan and vowing to strengthen the country’s nuclear and missile capabilities.

He has since promised to lead his country through the sanctions by building a “self-reliant economy” that produces more goods at home and depends less on trade with the outside world. On Wednesday, North Korea claimed that its industrial output had grown by 25% this year.

North Korea’s grain production was estimated to have dropped from 4.64 million tons in 2019 to 4.4 million last year, the Korea Development Institute of the South said in a report published this month. That creates an overall grain shortage of 1.35 million tons this year. North Korea has always suffered annual grain shortages, though the country has tried to fill the gap with trade and international aid, especially from China.

“This year, the North’s food shortage is of a scale that it cannot handle on its own,” said Kwon Tae-jin, the author of the Korea Development Institute report. North Korea must relax its control on market activities and ask for “largescale food aid” from Beijing to help relieve the food shortage, Kwon said.

The North also indicated on Wednesday that the party meeting would include a discussion on how to respond to the Biden administration’s recent North Korea policy statements, saying the agenda included “analyzing the current international situation and our Party’s corresponding direction.”

During a summit in Washington last month, President Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart, Moon Jae-in, agreed to seek “diplomacy and dialogue” with the North, and to build on the 2018 Singapore agreement, which Trump signed with Kim. Washington also said it would take a “calibrated” and “practical” approach toward the country and appointed a new special envoy on North Korea.

Kim’s government has yet to respond to the overtures.

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The tax pirates are us

By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM

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lame for the decline of corporate taxation in recent decades is generally put on pirate states such as Bermuda, Ireland and Luxembourg, which offer an alluring combination of very low tax rates and an unembarrassed enthusiasm for allowing companies to play make-believe.

But the pirates have a silent partner: the United States. Generations of American policymakers haven’t shown much interest in collecting money from corporations.

Regarding corporate taxation as politically necessary but economically suspect, they have responded to tax evasion by making disapproving noises. They have allowed companies to pretend profits are earned in lowtax countries and then cited the loss of tax revenue as the justification for tax cuts. Little wonder that the United States collects a smaller share of tax revenue from corporations than any other major economy does.

The Biden administration has put forward a plausible plan to break with this pattern and make companies pay more taxes by raising domestic rates and penalizing firms that shift profits to tax havens. It has won the support of other leading economies for an international mi-

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nimum corporate tax rate. But a familiar obstacle, Congress, stands in the way.

The anti-tax radicals in the Republican Party oppose any plan to collect more money from corporations — even money otherwise paid to foreign governments — and an international agreement could require the support of two-thirds of the Senate. The Biden administration could achieve many of its goals without a deal by legislating changes to U.S. tax law. But there’s a lack of enthusiasm among some Senate Democrats, too. Rumblings of discontent already have prompted the White House to pare its plans.

The basic case for more corporate taxation is that the government needs the money. The Biden administration plans to use it to rebuild bridges, replace water pipes and increase renewable-energy production. Some economists argue that higher taxes will slow economic growth, but decades of cutting corporate taxes haven’t exactly produced the promised economic miracles.

Even if there is a price, taking money from the rich for the benefit of the many can still be sound policy. The distribution of prosperity matters, as well.

The work has to begin at home. The focus on foreign tax havens has obscured the extent to which the United States has become a tax haven for U.S. companies. The statutory tax rate is 21%. But American multinationals paid just 7.8% of domestic profits in taxes in 2018, according to the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation. While those companies made liberal use of foreign tax havens, too, the total tax rate on their foreign profits was actually higher than the rate on their domestic profits.

The Biden administration wants to raise the domestic rate to 28% and impose a 21% rate on profits reported in foreign countries. It also proposes a global agreement on a 15% minimum corporate rate. Firms would pay at least that much, irrespective of where they operated or claimed to operate. They would get credit for taxes paid in foreign countries, but if they paid less than 15% of profits, the home country would collect the difference.

Such a deal would limit the competitive disadvantage of American companies. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who is leading the negotiations, argues that it would also benefit the global economy by ending taxrate wars and encouraging countries to compete instead by educating workers and investing in infrastructure.

Some pirate states, notably Ireland, have protested, arguing that they use low tax rates to promote legitimate economic development. For Ireland, this is a half-truth.

For even smaller tax havens, it’s pure nonsense. Compa-

nies that book profits on the Isle of Jersey are playing the same game as freighters that fly the flag of Liberia.

Multinationals book about 25% of profits in tax havens where, on average, they have 11% of assets and 5% of their employees, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Ireland’s position is understandable but unacceptable and ultimately not much of an obstacle. If the major economies adopt the American plan, Ireland can keep on pretending that it’s a major center of corporate activity, but corporations will still have to pay their bills back home. Ireland would lose most of its utility as a tax haven.

The United States wants a deal for another reason, too. Countries have generally sought to limit tax conflicts by agreeing that corporations should pay taxes in the countries where they create value. But that principle has been strained by the rise of American technology firms such as Facebook and Google that make money in countries where they have little or no physical footprint.

European countries are moving to tax those firms, arguing that, for example, Google is not just delivering a service to its users in France but also acquiring valuable information from French users. As part of the broader deal, the United States is offering to let those countries tax a portion of the tech companies’ profits in exchange for dropping the new taxes.

Excitement about the prospect of an international agreement should be taken with a grain of history. Just a few decades ago, the average corporate tax rate in the developed world was almost 50%. Corporations and anti-tax ideologues have taken advantage of globalization to achieve a shift that is likely to endure for a while.

A 15% minimum tax rate would simply arrest their progress.

But that’s how change begins: You stop, you turn around and then you start walking in the other direction.

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Ombudsman dice insostenible fallas LUMA y pide soluciones POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El Ombudsman de Puerto Rico, Edwin García Feliciano, dijo el miércoles, que resulta insostenible que haya ciudadanos sin el servicio de energía eléctrica por varios días consecutivos, sin que hayamos atravesado por una emergencia real.

“Llama a una preocupación general y colectiva este desempeño inicial, sobre su capacidad en términos de capital humano, planes, directrices y acciones afirmativas para manejar uno o más eventos extraordinarios. Hay que atajar esta situación antes que la naturaleza o algún imprevisto de la fatalidad nos sorprenda sin articulación real para lidiar con problemas mayores”, sentenció García Feliciano en declaraciones escritas.

El Procurador del Ciudadano dijo que prefiere ser una voz de alerta y conciliadora para allanar las soluciones a las situaciones que han ocurrido, antes que sucedan situaciones de

emergencia que lamentar.

Sostuvo que era previsible lo que ha ocurrido, ya que se sabía que al primero de junio cuando comenzó oficialmente operaciones, LUMA no contaba con el personal necesario para atender la operación ordinaria, que antes manejaba la AEE. García Feliciano llamó a la urgente necesidad de que LUMA, el gobierno y la Agencia que supervisa las Alianzas

Público Privadas, atiendan de manera concertada y con carácter de urgencia, las situaciones limitantes que enfrenta el suministro de energía a la ciudadanía, antes que el peso de la temporada de huracanes provoque un colapso en el sistema.

El Procurador del Ciudadano, quien se desempeñó como alcalde de la Ciudad de Camuy antes de ser confirmado en el cargo, dijo que son ra-

zonables las acciones de emergencia tomadas por los Ejecutivos Municipales, que demuestran su frustración ante la escasa o nula coordinación que les provee LUMA Energy a sus reclamos.

Más aún, García Feliciano pronosticó que de continuar este grave desfase tras la corporación asumir la distribución de energía, puede ser fatal para la economía y para el sistema de salud en el país.

“Máxime, para las finanzas del ciudadano, quien puede verse obligado a adquirir un generador eléctrico u otro sistema alterno, para satisfacer esa necesidad y asumir el costo del combustible para proveerse su propio suministro de energía. Ninguna familia cuenta con ese presupuesto para hacerlo de manera constante, diaria y recurrente”, afirmó.

Como Ombudsman y utilizando su pasada experiencia como alcalde, García Feliciano dio su receta de cómo atender las situaciones que se han presentado.

CIAPR advierte sobre el peligro de intervenir en red de distribución del sistema eléctrico sin la debida coordinación POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El presidente del Colegio de Ingenieros y Agrimensores de Puerto Rico, (CIAPR), ingeniero Juan Alicea Flores advirtió el miércoles, sobre la peligrosidad al intervenir en operaciones del sistema de distribución de energía eléctrica sin la debida coordinación y autorización.

“En los últimos días, hemos escuchado a varios oficiales electos de informar que estarán realizando actividades para restaurar en servicio de energía a sus constituyentes utilizando personal voluntario o contratado por sus respectivos municipios u organismos. Esta acción, aunque busca justicia social ante el aumento significativo de interrupciones del servicio de energía eléctrica, resulta peligrosa tanto para el personal que realiza las mismas como para la integridad del propio sistema eléctrico”, dijo Alicea Flores en comunicación escrita.

Mencionó que la red eléctrica está diseñada y construida con más de una opción para energizar las líneas y componentes, por lo cual podría ser energizada mientras alguien la está interviniendo sin la debida coordinación.

“Aún cuando estas operaciones sean realizadas por personal cualificado, el solo hecho de no estar coordinado con el centro de control o de despacho representa un alto riesgo tanto para el personal y la comunidad. La red eléctrica opera bajo condiciones que pueden variar minuto a minuto por lo cual intervenir en la misma, aún cuando sea con personal entrenado, requiere comunicación y autorización bajo estrictos protocolos de seguridad”, dijo Alicea.

El no seguir estos protocolos tiene un alto potencial de afectar adversamente la integridad de la red eléctrica, crear una interrupción de alta intensidad incluyendo hasta un apagón general, concluyó.

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Joan Armatrading is still searching for the perfect song

By JON PARELES

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he pandemic arrived while Joan Armatrading was making her new album, “Consequences.” Yet unlike countless musicians whose work was completely upended by quarantines and separations, Armatrading barely had to adjust. Since 2003, she has been recording her albums on her own: writing, arranging, playing and engineering entire songs by herself.

“I actually don’t physically need one other person in the room with me,” she said via video interview from her home in London, sitting in front of a blank, white wall. “I just did what I do.”

What Armatrading has been doing, beginning with her 1972 debut album, “Whatever’s for Us,” has been writing and singing, with insight and empathy, about a broad panorama of human relationships. She sings about romance, friendship, family and community; she sings about longing, infatuation, discord, heartache and healing. The songs on “Consequences” celebrate love at first sight (“Already There”) and delirious obsession (“Glorious Madness”); they also recognize romantic turmoil (“Consequences”) and aching loneliness (“To Anyone Who Will Listen”).

Through decades of performing, Armatrading has determinedly kept the focus on her songs rather than herself. “I’m really introverted. I don’t need people to know about me,” she said.

“But I’m desperate for people to know about my songs. And I’m an extrovert about my songs. I’m actually quite bigheaded about my songs.”

Armatrading, 70, was born in St. Kitts and settled in England with her family when she was 7. She liked writing jokes and limericks; then, when she was 14, her mother bought a piano “as a piece of furniture,” Armatrading recalled.

“Literally, as soon as it arrived, I started writing songs,” she said. “I think I was born to do what I’m doing. I always say I can’t take credit for it because I did nothing for it. All I did was be born, then was given this gift.”

She began her recording career in an era of singer-songwriters alongside Joni Mitchell, Elton John and Carole King, three musicians she was compared to early on. But Armatrading quickly forged her own style, juxtaposing layers of crisp riffs and rhythms while wielding a voice that can dive into a hearty contralto or leap upward to radiate fragility and tenderness.

Armatrading is insistently modest about her singing. “I don’t know that I’ve got a voice. I sing because I write songs,” she said.

“I know that some people love my voice, but that’s the last thing I’m thinking of. I’m just thinking about the structure of it, the arrangement of it. Does it sound good? Is it working? Is the emotional part of it working?”

On her first albums, Armatrading worked with leading producers: Gus Dudgeon (Elton John), Glyn Johns (the Rolling Stones, the Who), Steve Lillywhite (XTC, U2), Richard Gottehrer (Blondie, the Go-Go’s). But by the mid-1980s, she was ready to produce herself. And in the 21st century, she dispensed with studio musicians; she now plays all the keyboards, electronics and guitars, and she programs the drumming.

Even as a teenager, Armatrading said, she heard her songs as full-blown arrangements. “I’ve always gone in with a complete

Joan Armatrading at Regents Park in London, June 1, 2021. Armatrading made her new album, “Consequences,” the way she has for nearly two decades: writing, arranging, playing and engineering entire songs by herself. song,” she said. “I’m the writer, so I need to know how every aspect of the song goes. I can hear the bass and the drums and the keyboards. That’s how I go into the studio. It has a verse, a chorus, a middle eight, a solo, an end. If it’s going to fade, if it’s going to end, whatever — I need to know exactly what that is.”

Armatrading had American and British hits in the 1970s and ’80s and a trove of FM-radio staples, including “Love and Affection” and “Drop the Pilot,” and she has never stopped making albums and performing. She has earned loyal, long-haul fans, and is still being discovered by younger generations of songwriters, among them the widely acclaimed Laura Mvula — whose mother, like Armatrading, came from St. Kitts.

“I remember being transfixed,” Mvula said in an interview.

“It was similar to the first time I heard Nina Simone and really listened.” She recalled watching a performance on YouTube: “I do remember being like, ‘This is a Black woman from St. Kitts. She’s wearing no makeup. That seems to be her thing. She is as she appears.’ And that’s how the music is. It speaks very deeply to who I am. And it fills me with this unknowable pride that without even being able to give myself props, this is my heritage.”

For decades, Armatrading’s songs have moved listeners.

“People have said to me, ‘I couldn’t find the words to express what I was thinking or feeling at that moment to this person. And your song has helped me to do that,’” said Armatrading. “And these 3-minute songs that we’re doing — because it’s in this really short, squashed-in, compressed form — have to be quite precise.

It has to be succinct. It’s got to say exactly what you’re trying to say. And that’s what’s helpful to people.”

For all the seeming intimacy of her lyrics, Armatrading has

steadfastly insisted that the vast majority of her songs are not confessional. “If you hear a song like ‘Blessed,” or ‘I’m Lucky,’ or anything that’s got this feeling of, ‘I’m so thankful for where I am,’ that’s me,” she said. “But, in general, I’m just working from observation. If you’re going to write all those songs and all of those songs are going to be about you, that’s not healthy. I try and be as private as I can and as quiet as I can.”

But she has offered a few glimpses of autobiography.

“Mama and Papa,” from her album “Into the Blues” (2007), offers memories of her childhood after moving to Birmingham, England, mixing fondness and struggle: “Seven people in one room / No heat, one wage and bills to pay.” In 1979, Armatrading released an angular new-wave song, “How Cruel,” which noted, “I had somebody say once I was way too Black / And someone answers she’s not Black enough for me.”

Armatrading says now that she didn’t intend “How Cruel” as a broad indictment. “It was just thinking about some of the things that people say,” she said. “I absolutely have not been plagued with racism at all, and I feel quite lucky in that respect. It’s not that I don’t know that I’m Black. Of course I do. But I didn’t grow up with a lot of that, and I think it was probably because I was a songwriter and people are interested in the songs.”

Armatrading’s recent albums have started with concepts and strategies. She made a trilogy concentrating on genre: blues (“Into the Blues”), guitar-driven rock (“This Charming Life,” 2010) and jazz (“Starlight,” 2012). For “Not Far Away,” she decided to write all the lyrics first, then add music, a method she repeated on “Consequences.” That choice apparently encouraged Armatrading to make her music splash and change around the words.

The title song on “Consequences,” a lovers’ quarrel, begins with burbling, aquatic synthesizers, introduces a funky beat and bass line, tosses in jazzy piano clusters and, at one point, deploys Queen-like multitracked guitar. Meanwhile, Armatrading layers on vocals that wrangle and interweave with warnings, accusations, apologies and overtures: “Let’s try hard to work things out.”

Pandemic isolation didn’t curtail Armatrading’s songwriting by observation. “We have television,” she said. “And when I watch films, I watch very closely. I like looking to see what the extras are doing. I’m concentrating on the film, but I’m looking to see what’s different back there, what I’m not supposed to see.”

The album ends with “To Anyone Who Will Listen,” a plea for sympathetic attention. It could be a songwriter’s cri de coeur, but it was one of Armatrading’s observations: She read about a man in deep depression who was desperate for someone to talk to. “He wasn’t asking them to cure him or make his life necessarily better. He just wanted them to let him tell what he had to say,” she said. “I don’t know him. He was just a person in an article. But I really felt for what he was saying.”

“Consequences” is Armatrading’s 20th studio album, but she insists she’s in no danger of running out of ideas. “I’ve never suffered with writer’s block. I can always write a song,” she said.

“I’m just trying to get really good at what I do. I’m trying to write the song where I say, that’s it. I’ve done it. I found the secret of life, and that’s it. I want to get to where that song is.”

“I’m doing this till I die,” she added, smiling, “My last act will be writing a song.”

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New report paints bleak picture of diversity in the music industry

By BEN SISARIO

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year ago, as protests spread across the country following the murder of George Floyd, the music industry promised to change.

Major record labels, streaming platforms and broadcasters pledged hundreds of millions of dollars in charitable donations. The diversity of the music industry itself — a business that relies heavily on the creative labor of Black artists — came under scrutiny, with calls to hire more people of color and to elevate women and minorities into management and decision-making positions.

But how diverse is the music business? The answer, according to a new study: not very.

A report by the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative at the University of Southern California, released Tuesday, examined the makeup of 4,060 executives, at the vice president level and above, at 119 companies of six types: corporate music groups, record labels, music publishers, radio broadcasters, streaming services and live music companies.

Among those executives, 19.8% were from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, including 7.5% who were Black. Women made up 35.3% of the total.

Delving deeper into the numbers, the authors of the 25-page report, led by Stacy L. Smith and Carmen Lee, found that the representation of women and minorities seemed to shrink as they looked higher up music companies’ organization charts.

After filtering out subsidiaries, the researchers looked at the uppermost leadership positions — CEOs, chairmen and presidents — in a subset of 70 major and independent companies, and found that 86.1% of those people were both white and male. The 10 people of color who held those positions were all at independents, and just two were women: Desiree Perez, a longtime associate of Jay-Z who leads his company Roc Nation, and Golnar Khosrowshahi, the founder of Reservoir, which owns music rights.

The report includes some stark findings. For example, among the 4,060 people in the study’s sample, the researchers found 17.7 white male executives for every Black female one.

“Underrepresented and Black artists are dominating the charts, but the C-suite is a ‘diversity desert,’” Smith said in a statement. “The profile of top artists may give some in the industry the illusion that music is an inclusive business, but the numbers at the top tell a different story.”

Each year since 2018, the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative has tracked the artists, songwriters and producers behind the biggest hits. Again and again, it has found that women are far outnumbered by men, yet revealed some encouraging numbers for underrepresented

groups: People of color have made up about 47% of the credited artists behind 900 top pop songs since 2012.

Yet the group’s new report, called “Inclusion in the Music Business: Gender & Race/Ethnicity Across Executives, Artists & Talent Teams,” and sponsored by Universal Music Group, shows that women and people of color are poorly represented in the power structure of the industry itself.

The variation across different job levels and industry sectors is notable. Black executives fared best within record labels, making up 14.4% of all positions and 21.2% of artist-and-repertoire, or A&R, roles, which tend to work most closely with artists. Black people hold just 4% of executive jobs in radio and 3.3% percent in live music.

According to U.S. census data, 13.4% of Americans identify as Black.

Women posted their highest executive numbers in the live music business, holding 39.1% of positions. But drilling down, the study found, most of those women were white. Even at record labels, where Black executives were best represented, Black women held only 5.3% of executive jobs.

The USC report is one of a number of efforts underway to examine the music industry and evaluate its prog-

ress in reaching stated goals of diversity and inclusion.

This week, the Black Music Action Coalition, a group of artist managers, lawyers and other insiders, is expected to release a “report card” on how well the industry has met its own commitments to change.

Much of the data used in the USC report, the researchers said, came from publicly available sources, like company websites. The report suggests that a lack of participation in the study by music companies was a reason.

“Companies were given the opportunity to participate and confirm information, especially of senior management teams,” the report says. “Roughly a dozen companies did so. The vast majority did not.”

The authors of the report, who also include Marc Choueiti, Katherine Pieper, Zoe Moore, Dana Dinh and Artur Tofan, said they want to spur the industry toward change.

The report recommends a number of steps that companies can take to make their executive ranks more diverse, including making career pathways more flexible and “fast tracking” leaders with support and mentoring.

“Our hope,” Lee said, “is that the industry will come together to tackle this problem in a way that creates meaningful progress.”

A meeting at the Roc Nation offices in New York, Jan. 13, 2020. The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative examined 4,060 executives at six types of music companies, and found 19.8% were from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.

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3 ways to a better chicken breast

By ERIC KIM

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n the 1723 cookery book “The Cooks and Confectioners Dictionary,” author John Nott shares a recipe for chicken breasts, in which the skins get lifted and stuffed with grated bacon, anchovies and herbs. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it’s one of the first written accounts of the noun cluster “chicken breasts” in the English language. It’s also a great way to cook white meat so that it doesn’t dry out.

One major design flaw of the chicken breast is that its thickness varies significantly from end to end. This makes for vexingly uneven cooking — especially when the meat comes boneless and skinless. By the time the wide, bulbous side has cooked through, the lither, tapered side (not to mention the outer edges of the entire breast) has gone stringy, practically desiccated.

But here’s the thing: You don’t have to accept that ugly lopsidedness. Take control of your life — and your chicken.

The trick to keeping breast meat tender and juicy is to alter its anatomy completely. There are a few key ways to do this.

The easiest is to carve the breast in half crosswise where the thicker end meets the thinner end. This way you can pull the thinner pieces off the heat earlier, allowing the thicker ones to finish cooking for another minute or two.

Another method is to ensure the meat retains its natural moisture. What makes a chicken breast juicy is water, not fat (after all, white meat is very lean). A simple dry brine — a mixture of salt, sugar and spices — provides that bit of insurance. It’s the salt that’s most crucial, as it draws out the meat’s water. That water then dissolves the salt on the surface of the meat and, through diffusion, the two reenter the meat, seasoning the chicken thoroughly.

As evidenced by Volume 3 of “Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking,” dissolved salt modifies the protein structure of meat, allowing it to hold onto water by slowing the contraction of muscle fibers during the cooking process.

This contraction ordinarily “squeezes juices out during cooking,” but a dry brine rewards you with retained juiciness.

A marinade can yield similarly juicy results through different means. In the following stir-fry recipe, a group of enzymes in fresh pineapple, bromelain, breaks down the connective tissues of fibrous chicken, turning the otherwise taut meat into slackened nuggets. Watch and be amazed as this powerful potion transforms tough, plain white meat into a supple darkmeat doppelgänger.

But proceed with caution: Marinate the chicken too long and you’ll end up with gluey shreds of meat. Fifteen minutes is the Goldilocks time, which is to say, just right.

Other acidic ingredients have similar benefits. The lactic acid in sour cream tenderizes chicken beautifully and also helps crunchy, savory coatings stick to the meat.

Smear it all over chicken breasts and encase them in a thick coating of buttery Ritz cracker crumbs and grated sharp Cheddar for a result equal parts moist and crisp.

This comforting chicken bake tastes best with cutlets, which are always a great weeknight option. Although you could pound a thick breast out into a thin paillard (which also breaks down the fibers of the meat), another less violent approach is to slice through the middle of the breast horizontally so you’re left with two cutlets of equal size. As with most things in life, two is better than one.

And to Drink …

The tangy, umami flavors of Ritzy Cheddar chicken breasts would go awfully well with a rich, balanced chardonnay, whether from Oregon, California, Australia or Burgundy. I often warn against oak flavors in wine, and I never want overt oakiness. But with this dish, a chardonnay with the textural and subtle flavor additions of well-integrated oak would be delightful. Sparkling wines like Champagne or Vouvray Brut would also be delicious.

You could drink a still Vouvray as well or a Savennières, both Loire Valley whites made with the chenin blanc grape. As for the pineapple-marinated chicken breast, the sweetness of the fruit offers an opportunity for a sweet wine. Try a spätlese riesling, or even a sweeter auslese. A demi-sec Vouvray, a Tokaji Aszu or even a Sauternes would be great fun with this dish. — ERIC ASIMOV

Dry-brined chicken breasts in New York on May 20, 2021. Unlock juicier, more flavorful white meat with these smart techniques.

Dry-brined chicken breasts Yield: 4 servings Total time: 55 minutes 5 dried bay leaves, crushed into small pieces 1 teaspoon whole black peppercorns 2 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt (Diamond Crystal) 1 packed tablespoon dark brown sugar 2 teaspoons garlic powder 2 large boneless, skinless chicken breasts (about 1 1/2 pounds total) Vegetable oil Lime wedges, for serving (optional) 1. In a spice grinder, blitz the bay leaf pieces and peppercorns until finely ground. Transfer to a small bowl and add the salt, brown sugar and garlic powder, and rub it all together with your fingers.

2. Cut each chicken breast in half crosswise into two pieces of equal weight, creating one shorter, thicker piece and one longer, thinner piece. Place the four chicken pieces on a large plate or sheet pan and

sprinkle generously on all sides with the spice mixture, moving the chicken around to catch any fallen spices. Refrigerate, uncovered, to dry-brine for at least 30 minutes and up to 1 hour (any shorter and the osmotic brining process won’t complete; any longer and you’ll end up with deli meat).

3. When ready to cook, take the chicken out of the fridge and heat a large skillet with a lid over high heat. Add enough oil to lightly coat the bottom of the skillet. Carefully add the chicken pieces, smooth sides down, and immediately reduce the heat to medium-low. Cook until the bottoms are browned but not burned, 5 to 7 minutes. Flip the chicken, cover the pan and cook until the other sides are browned and the internal temperature at the thickest part of the meat reaches 155 degrees, another 5 to 7 minutes. You may want to pull the longer, thinner pieces off the heat a minute or two sooner, as they may cook faster.

4. Transfer the chicken to a cutting board to rest for at least 10 minutes so the juices can redistribute. The meat will continue to cook as it sits and should reach

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From page 21 an internal temperature of 165 degrees. You can also check for doneness by cutting into the chicken; it should look white and juicy and no longer pink. Slice the chicken against the grain (that is, perpendicular to the parallel fibers that run within the breast) and serve with lime wedges if you’d like. You can also keep the meat whole and refrigerate it, covered, for up to 4 days.

Pineapple marinated chicken breasts Yield: 4 servings Total time: 30 minutes 3 packed tablespoons dark brown sugar 2 tablespoons rice vinegar 1 tablespoon soy sauce 1 tablespoon fish sauce 2 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for cooking 1 teaspoon kosher salt (Diamond Crystal) 1 teaspoon garlic powder

1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon ground cayenne 1/2 teaspoon black pepper 1 cup diced fresh pineapple (1/2-inch chunks) 1/4 cup finely diced red onion 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh cilantro 2 tablespoons finely grated fresh pineapple, including accumulated juices 1 1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1 1/2-inch chunks Cooked white rice, for serving 1. In a large bowl, stir together the brown sugar, rice vinegar, soy sauce, fish sauce, 2 tablespoons olive oil, salt, garlic powder, ground cayenne and black pepper. Transfer 1 tablespoon of this marinade mixture to a separate medium bowl and add the diced pineapple, red onion and cilantro. This is your salsa; toss until well mixed and set aside.

2. Add the grated pineapple and its juices to the marinade mixture in the large bowl, then add the chicken and toss to coat. Set aside to marinate at room temperature for 15 minutes (and no longer).

3. Once the chicken is done marinating, heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high and add enough olive oil to lightly coat the bottom of the pan. Add the chicken pieces, leaving any marinade behind, in a single layer so that they don’t touch and let cook until the bottoms are browned, 2 to 3 minutes. Continue cooking, stirring occasionally, until browned on all sides and no longer pink on the inside, 4 to 5 minutes more.

4. Serve the chicken over rice and top with the reserved pineapple salsa.

Ritzy cheddar chicken breasts

Pineapple-marinated chicken breasts in New York on May 20, 2021. Unlock juicier, more flavorful white meat with these smart techniques.

Yield: 4 servings Total time: 30 minutes 1 tablespoon olive oil, plus more for greasing wire rack 1/4 cup sour cream 1 large egg white 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard Kosher salt (Diamond Crystal) 2 large boneless, skinless chicken breasts (about 1 1/2 pounds total) 1 sleeve Ritz crackers (about 100 grams) 2 ounces extra-sharp Cheddar cheese, coarsely grated

Ritzy cheddar chicken breasts in New York on May 20, 2021. Unlock juicier, more flavorful white meat with these smart techniques. (about 1 cup) 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder 1/2 teaspoon onion powder 1. Position rack in the bottom third of the oven and heat oven to 450 degrees. Place an ovenproof wire rack over a sheet pan. Dab a folded-up paper towel with olive oil and rub it over the wire rack to grease it.

2. In a medium bowl, whisk together the sour cream, egg white and Dijon mustard until smooth. Season with salt. Lay the chicken flat on a cutting board and carve each breast in half laterally so you end up with four thin cutlets. Add the chicken to the sour cream mixture, and using your hands, smear the sour cream all over the chicken.

3. In a large bowl, crush the Ritz crackers into coarse pieces with your fingers. Some crackers will turn to rubble while others turn to dust. Add the cheese, garlic powder, onion powder and olive oil. Season with 1/2 teaspoon salt and toss until evenly distributed. Holding one of the chicken cutlets by its thinner end, add to the bowl with the crumbs, and using your hands, pack the crumbs onto the chicken, pressing them in to create a thick coating. Transfer the breaded chicken to the rack in the sheet pan. Repeat with the remaining three cutlets.

4. Bake the cutlets until the outsides are crispy and the insides are no longer pink, 10 to 15 minutes. Let the chicken cool slightly so the coating can set, about 5 minutes, before transferring to plates and serving.

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Many post-COVID patients are experiencing new medical problems, study finds

By PAM BELLUCK

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undreds of thousands of Americans have sought medical care for post-COVID health problems that they had not been diagnosed with before becoming infected with the coronavirus, according to the largest study to date of long-term symptoms in COVID-19 patients.

The study, tracking the health insurance records of nearly 2 million people in the United States who contracted the coronavirus last year, found that one month or more after their infection, almost one-quarter — 23% — of them sought medical treatment for new conditions.

Those affected were all ages, including children.

Their most common new health problems were pain, including in nerves and muscles; breathing difficulties; high cholesterol; malaise and fatigue; and high blood pressure.

Other issues included intestinal symptoms; migraines; skin problems; heart abnormalities; sleep disorders; and mental health conditions like anxiety and depression.

Post-COVID health problems were common even among people who had not gotten sick from the virus at all, the study found. While nearly half of patients who were hospitalized for COVID-19 experienced subsequent medical issues, so did 27% of people who had mild or moderate symptoms and 19% of people who said they were asymptomatic.

“One thing that was surprising to us was the large percentage of asymptomatic patients that are in that category of long COVID,” said Robin Gelburd, president of FAIR Health, a nonprofit organization that conducted the study based on what it says is the nation’s largest database of private health insurance claims.

More than half of the 1,959,982 patients whose records were evaluated reported no symptoms from their COVID infection. Forty percent had symptoms but didn’t require hospitalization, including 1% whose only symptom was loss of taste or smell; only 5% were hospitalized.

Gelburd said the fact that asymptomatic people can have post-COVID symptoms is important to emphasize, so that patients and doctors can know to consider the possibility that some health issues may actually be aftereffects of the coronavirus. “There are some people who may not have even known they had COVID,” she said, “but if they continue to present with some of these conditions that are unusual for their health history, it may be worth some further investigation by the medical professional that they’re working with.”

The report analyzed records of people diagnosed with COVID-19 between February and December 2020, tracking them until February 2021. It found that 454,477 people consulted health providers for symptoms 30 days or more after their infection. FAIR Health said the analysis was evaluated by an independent academic reviewer but

Karla Jefferies, 64, tested positive for Covid-19 in March 2020 and has been bothered by puzzling symptoms ever since. First it was fatigue, fever, and no taste or smell. Then came brain fog, insomnia, a nagging smell of something burning and intermittent ringing in her ears. was not formally peer-reviewed.

“The strength of this study is really its size and its ability to look across the range of disease severity in a diversity of age groups,” said Dr. Helen Chu, an associate professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the University of Washington School of Medicine, who was not involved in the report. “This is a hard study to do with that much data.”

The report “drives home the point that long COVID can affect nearly every organ system,” said Dr. Ziyad AlAly, chief of the research and development service at the VA St. Louis Health Care System, who was not involved in the new study.

“Some of these manifestations are chronic conditions that will last a lifetime and will forever scar some individuals and families,” added Al-Aly, who was an author of a large study published in April of lingering symptoms in COVID patients in the Department of Veterans Affairs health system.

In the new study, the most common issue for which patients sought medical care was pain — including nerve inflammation and aches and pains associated with nerves and muscles — which was reported by more than 5% of patients or nearly 100,000 people, more than a fifth of those who reported post-COVID problems. Breathing difficulties, including shortness of breath, were experienced by 3.5% of post-COVID patients.

Nearly 3% of patients sought treatment for symptoms that were labeled with diagnostic codes for malaise and fa-

tigue, a far-reaching category that could include issues like brain fog and exhaustion that gets worse after physical or mental activity — effects that have been reported by many people with long COVID. Other new issues for patients, especially adults in their 40s and 50s, included high cholesterol, diagnosed in 3% of all post-COVID patients, and high blood pressure, diagnosed in 2.4%, the report said. Al-Aly said such health conditions, which have not been commonly considered aftereffects of the virus, make it “increasingly clear that postCOVID or long COVID has a metabolic signature marked by derangements in the metabolic machinery.”

Relatively few deaths — 594 — occurred 30 days or more post-COVID, and most were among people who had been hospitalized for their coronavirus infection, the report found.

The study, like many involving electronic records, only addressed some aspects of the post-COVID landscape. It did not say when patients’ symptoms arose or how long the problems persisted, and it did not evaluate exactly when after infection patients sought help from doctors, only that it was 30 days or more.

The database included only people with private health insurance or Medicare Advantage, not those uninsured or covered by Medicare Parts A, B and D, Medicaid or other government health programs. Chu said people without insurance or with incomes low enough to qualify for Medicaid are often “more likely to have worse outcomes,” so the findings may understate the prevalence of some post-COVID health problems or may not represent the full picture.

In addition, diagnostic codes in electronic records are “only as good as what is documented by the provider who saw the patient,” said Chu, a co-author of a smaller study of post-COVID symptoms among patients at the University of Washington.

For example, neurological or cognitive issues like brain fog may be underreported because doctors may not find an appropriate diagnostic code or patients may not be seeking medical help for that specific issue, FAIR Health said.

It’s also possible that some people classified as having asymptomatic COVID-19 infections developed symptoms after they tested positive. And some people who received their first diagnosis of a medical issue like hypertension or high cholesterol post-COVID might have previously had those issues but never sought or received treatment.

Overall, experts said, the report’s findings underscore the widespread and varied nature of post-COVID symptoms.

“People with long COVID need multidisciplinary care,” said Al-Aly, “and our health systems should adapt to this reality and develop capacity to deal with these patients.”

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New dinosaur species is Australia’s largest, researchers say

By JENNIFER JETT

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obyn and Stuart Mackenzie, riding motorbikes one day in 2006 on their vast sheep and cattle farm in the Australian outback, spotted a pile of what looked like large black rocks.

On close inspection, they appeared to be dinosaur bones. A closer inspection, with the help of paleontologists who were part of a new study, found that the rocks belonged to a new species of dinosaur that is the largest found in Australia and one of the largest in the world.

Researchers in Eromanga, Queensland, where the Mackenzies live, said last week that they had identified the new species, calling it Australotitan cooperensis.

Nicknamed Cooper after the creek near the fossil, it was a long-necked, plant-eating titanosaur estimated to have lived more than 90 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period. Like the brachiosaurus, the titanosaur was part of a group called sauropods, which were the largest of all dinosaurs.

Though closely related to three other titanosaur species discovered in Australia, the Australotitan was significantly larger. It is estimated to have weighed about 70 tons, measured two stories tall and extended to about the length of a basketball court, making it comparable in size to the gargantuan titanosaurs that have been found in South America. The researchers’ findings were published Monday in the journal PeerJ. “This is sort of our first hat in the ring, getting into the big leagues of big titanosaur dinosaurs worldwide,” said study co-author Scott Hocknull, a paleontologist at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane. “We’re pretty excited about it because it’s just the start of what we think might be a new wave of discoveries of very large dinosaur species in Australia.”

Unlike in the United States, where dinosaur fossils have been hunted since the mid-19th century, Australia began its “dinosaur rush” relatively recently, with a flurry of discoveries over the past two decades. Like the three other titanosaur species, Australotitan was found in the Winton Formation, a thick layer of sedimentary rock that covers large parts of the state of Queensland.

Because it is mostly flat and lacks the mountain ranges and canyons that would expose fossils by eroding rock, Australia is one of the most difficult places to find dinosaurs in the world. Rather than people finding dinosaurs, Hocknull said, “dinosaurs find you.”

For that reason, farmers have proved important, because they spot fragments of dinosaur bone that have migrated to the surface of their land. There could be “beautifully preserved” bones in the black soil several feet below the surface, Hocknull said, but major machinery is required to excavate them. Local

In an undated image provided by the Eromanga Natural History Museum, Scott Hocknull and Robyn Mackenzie with a 3-D reconstruction of the humerus of Australotitan cooperensis. Researchers in Eromanga, Queensland, Australia, said on Monday, June 7, 2021, that they had identified a new dinosaur species, calling it Australotitan cooperensis. communities in Queensland such as Eromanga, a town of about 60 people (that is occasionally misplaced by Google Maps), have played a key role in recovering fossils.

A dinosaur bone was first found on the Mackenzies’ property in 2004 by their son, Sandy, who was 14 at the time. Early on, Robyn Mackenzie said, she and her husband decided it was best for the bones to stay in Eromanga, “rather than being sent thousands of kilometers away to a state museum.” So they started a museum themselves.

Neighbors rallied to help. A local earthmoving business provided the machinery for excavation, an oil refinery supplied fuel, and others in town offered funding or were trained as volunteers.

“We physically couldn’t have gotten the bones out of the ground without the community supporting us in the way that they did,” said Stuart Mackenzie,

In an undated image provided by the Eromanga Natural History Museum, a rendering of the Australotitan cooperensis, a new species of dinosaur.

who is mayor of Quilpie Shire, an area that includes Eromanga.

Excavation began in 2007, followed by years of preparation and analysis using 3D scanning to compare the bones with those from existing species.

The Eromanga Natural History Museum opened in 2016, with a similar mission as a natural history museum in the town of Winton run by a nonprofit group called the Australian Age of Dinosaurs. The establishment of such museums is “probably one of the largest citizen-science campaigns in Australia, certainly for natural history,” Hocknull said.

“Without them, none of these fossils would be found, none of them would be excavated, none of them would be prepared and none of them would be scientifically available,” he said.

The Mackenzies say significant excavations continue on their property, including one with bones that may also prove to be from a new species.

“I will never see all this material processed in my lifetime — there’s just so much of it,” said Robyn Mackenzie, who is now a field paleontologist, head of the museum and, along with her husband, co-author of the new study. “So we need this sort of facility out here to keep employing people.”

The museum is changing the way that people in Eromanga think about the town’s future. With pandemic border closures having kept Australians fenced in at home for more than a year, domestic tourism has become much more popular, Stuart Mackenzie said, adding that he hoped the dinosaur discoveries in Eromanga would also draw more international visitors once the country reopens.

Hocknull said the museum also gave the children of Eromanga a firsthand science education that they might otherwise not have access to.

“They’ve probably never been to Brisbane, they’ve never seen the ocean,” he said, “and yet here they have Australia’s largest dinosaur literally in their backyard.”

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

Lime Homes, LTD Plaintiff, v.

Jose Ramos Berrios a/k/a Jose Orlando Ramos Berrios, Marilyn Santos Rodriguez and the Conjugal Partnership constituted among them

CIVIL NO: 3:20-cv-01132-PAD. RE: Collection of Money and Mortgage Foreclosure. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: Jose Ramos Berrios a/k/a Jose Orlando Ramos Berrios, Marilyn Santos Rodriguez and the Conjugal Partnership constituted among them, General Public,First Bank and all parties that may have an interest in the property

WHEREAS, Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $118,722.47 plus interest at a rate of 6.000% per annum since May 1, 2019 until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff late charges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due until the debt is paid in full. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($11,815.00) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation.

The records of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Mr. Joel Ronda-Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder and at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698579, -66.1124836) the following property: URBANA:

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Solar marcado con el número 87 del bloque ‘C’ en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Villa Verde, radicado en el Barrio Guaraguao del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 273.12 metros cuadrados.

Colinda por el Norte, en una distancia de 10.308 metros, con terrenos propiedad de Sucesión Espinal; por el Sur, en una distancia de 10.30 metros con la calle número 10 de la Urbanización; por el Este, en una distancia de 26.684 metros con el solar número 86 del bloque ‘C’; y por el Oeste, en una distancia de 26.335 metros con el solar número 88 del bloque ‘C’. Sobre el antes descrito solar se ha edificado una casa de hormigón reforzado dedicada a vivienda. The property is identified with the number 60,527 and is recorded at page number 101 of volume number 1,350 of Bayamón, in the Registry of Property of Bayamón, First Section. WHEREAS, The mortgage foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is recorded at page number 133 of volume number 1,849 of Bayamón, eight inscription in the Registry of Property of Bayamón, First Section. WHEREAS, The mortgage note and the mortgage deed were modified pursuant to Deed Number 546 executed on November 22, 2010, before Notary Public Teresa Jiménez Meléndez, in which the principal balance was modified to the sum of $128,568.63, the maturity date extended to November 1, 2050 and the interest rate modified as follows: i) From November 22, 2010 until November 1, 2012 at a rate of 5.50%. ii) From December 1, 2012 until November 1, 2050 at a rate of 7.50%. The modification deed is recorded at page number 133 of volume number 1,849 of Bayamón, 9th inscription in the Registry of Property of Bayamón, First Section. WHEREAS, The mortgage note and the mortgage deed were modified through a of Home Affordable Modification Agreement executed on October 14, 2016, pursuant to which the new principal balance was modified to $146,674.74 of which $25,924.74 constituted a deferred principal balance. The interest rate was also reduced to 6.000% per annum, with a balloon payment of $14,400.95 due at the new maturity set for November 1, 2054. WHEREAS, On November 17, 2017 as part of the moratoriums offered by the passage of Hurricanes María and Irma over Puerto Rico, by virtue of a Deferral Offer, the amount of $1,993.14 was

Thursday, June 17, 2021 deferred. WHEREAS the property is subject to the following junior liens: LIS PENDENS: Civil matter pursued by Firstbank de Puerto Rico vs. José Orlando Ramos Berrios and Marilyn Santos Rodríguez and the conjugal partnership constituted among them, before the Bayamon Court of First Instance, docket number DCD 20130927 (504), regarding collection of monies and foreclosure, claiming payment of mortgage with an outstanding balance of $127,503.38, as per complaint dated April 11, 2013. Recorded at page 183 of volumne 1849 of Bayamon. Annotation A. LIS PENDENS: Civil matter pursued by DLJ Mortgage Capital Inc., vs. José Orlando Ramos Berrios and Marilyn Santos Rodríguez and the conjugal partnership constituted among them, before the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, docket number 3:20 CV 01132-PAD regarding collection of monies and foreclosure, claiming payment of mortgage with an outstanding balance of $118,722.47, as per complaint dated March 10, 2020. Recorded at the Bayamon Karibe volume, annotation A. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFORE, the first public sale will be held on JULY 2, 2021 AT 9:45 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $118,150.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on JULY 9, 2021 AT 9:45 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $78,766.67. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction shall be held on JULY 16, 2021 AT 9:45 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $59,075.00. Upon confirma-

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

FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C FANNIE MAE DEMANDANTE VS.

SUCESIÓN DE RAMÓN RODRÍGUEZ GONZÁLEZ COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDERAS CONOCIDAS LOURDES RODRÍGUEZ Y ANETTE RODRÍGUEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: BY2018CV03355.

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 9 de enero de 2020, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 13 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: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 327, en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural La Trocha del barrio Río Abajo del término municipal de Vega Baja, con una cabida superficial de 941.22 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcelas número 331 y 329 de la comunidad; por el SUR, con lote 1044; por el ESTE, con parcela número 326 de la comuni-

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25 dad; por el OESTE, con calle de la comunidad. FINCA NÚMERO: 22,353, inscrita al folio 25 del tomo 267 de Vega Baja, sección IV de Bayamón. Dirección física: BARRIO RIO ABAJO COMUNIDAD RURAL LA TROCHA PARCELA NÚMERO 327 CALLE LOS ORTIZ 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 11:15 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 $52,600.00. 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 11:15 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 $35,066.66. 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 11:15 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 $26,300.00. 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 $36,635.15 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 3.75% 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. 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, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.

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

FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C FANNIE MAE DEMANDANTE

HECTOR MANUEL SANCHEZ RIVERA, SU ESPOSA CARMEN IRIS PIZARRO PANIAGUA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM.: CA2019CV03571.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Carolina, 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 26 de febrero de 2021 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 16 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 radicado en la Urbanización Villas de Loíza, situada en el Barrio Canóvanas del Municipio de Loíza, Puerto Rico, que se describen en el plano de inscripción de la urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación que contiene una casa de concreto reforzado, diseñada para una sola familia: solar número treinta y nueve (39) del bloque AM con un área de doscientos cuarenta y cinco punto cincuenta y dos metros (245.52 m/c). En lindes por el NORTE, en veinticuatro punto cero cero metros con solar treinta y ocho; por el ESTE, en diez punto veintitrés metros con calle treinta y tres; por el SUR, en veinticuatro punto cero cero metros con solar cuarenta; y por el OESTE, en diez punto veintitrés metros con solar dos.

FINCA NÚMERO: 8,735, inscrita al folio 254 del tomo 178 de Canóvanas, sección III de Carolina. Dirección Física: VILLAS DE LOIZA AM 39 CALLE 33 CANÓVANAS, P.R. 00729.

Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 8 de julio de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Carolina. 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 $65,777.64. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 15 de julio de 2021, a las 10:30 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 $43,851.76. 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 22 de julio de 2021, a las 10:30 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 $32,888.82. 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 $62,904.80 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 6 1/8% 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

26 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, la Colecturía de Rentas Internas y/o Cuartel Estatal de la Policía 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 5 de mayo de 2021. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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

FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C FANNIE MAE DEMANDANTE VS.

SUCESIÓN DE RAMÓN VALLE TALAVERA

COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDERAS CONOCIDAS JEANETTE VALLE HEMRAJ, ARACELIS VALLE HEMRAJ Y ELIZABETH VALLE HEMRAJ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: BY2018CV02288.

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 13 de marzo de 2020 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 23 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 número Veintiocho del bloque número Siete de la Urbanización Residencial Miraflores radicada en el Barrio Pájaros de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, compuesto de trescientos veintiún metros con treinta centímetros cuadrados. Colindando por el NORTE, en doce metros sesenta centímetros con solares dos y tres; por el SUR, en doce metros sesenta centímetros con calle Diecisiete; ESTE, en veinticinco metros cincuenta centímetros con solar veintinueve; y por el OESTE, en veinticinco metros cincuenta centímetros con solar veintisiete de dicho bloque. Contiene una casa de concreto. FINCA NÚMERO: 34,745, inscrita al folio 101 del tomo 762 de Bayamón Sur, sección I de Bayamón. Dirección Física: URB. RESIDENCIAL MIRAFLORES 28-7 CALLE 17 BAYAMÓN PR 00957. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 15 de julio de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina 503 sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Bayamón. 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 $102,757.00. De no haber

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remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 22 de julio de 2021, a las 9:30 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 $68,504.66. 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 29 de julio de 2021, a las 9:30 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 $51,378.50. 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 $81,565.02 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 4.00% 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. 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 bas-

tante 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 14 de abril de 2021. JOSE F MARRERO ROBLES #131, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMON.

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

LUNA ACQUISITION, LLC DEMANDANTE VS.

MORAIMA ORTIZ MARTINEZ

DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM.: DCD2018-0127 (505). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Bayamón, 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 25 de julio de 2018 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 20 de septiembre de 2018 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 dos mil ochocientos quince del Bloque K de la Urbanización Levittown en el Barrio Sabana Seca de Toa Baja, compuesto de trescientos diez metros cuadrados con cincuenta centímetros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en veintitrés metros con el solar número dos

mil ochocientos catorce; por el SUR, en veintitrés metros con el solar número dos mil ochocientos dieciséis; por el ESTE, en trece metros con cincuenta centímetros con un Paseo Público; y por el OESTE, en trece metros cincuenta centímetros con el Paseo Alba (según plano con la calle número trescientos veinticinco). FINCA NÚMERO: 4,922, inscrita al folio 6 del tomo 65 de Toa Baja, sección II de Bayamón. Dirección Física: URB. LEVITTOWN SOLAR #2,815 BLOQUE K (PASEO ALBA LEITTOWN SEC. 2DA) TOA BAJA PR 00949. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 12 de julio de 2021, a las 10:15 de la mañana, en la oficina 503 sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Bayamón. 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 $140,650.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 19 de julio de 2021, a las 10:15 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, por la suma de $93,766.66. 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 26 de julio de 2021, a las 10:15 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, por la suma de $70,325.00. 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 $135,468.00 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 den-

tro 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 Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico por éstos contar con un embargo por la suma $2,525.35 anotado al Libro de Embargos #10 del folio 69, número de orden 273, presentada el 17 de septiembre de 2010. 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 15 de abril de 2021. JOSE F MARRERO ROBLES #131, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMON.

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

LUNA ACQUISITION, LLC DEMANDANTE VS.

HENRY HUI CAO

DEMANDADO CIVIL NÚM.: PO2018CV01344.

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 22 de mayo de 2019, y según Orden y Mandamiento Enmendados del 7 de enero 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 N diecisiete (N-17) del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Hacienda La Matilde, radicada en el Barrio Canas del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos cincuenta y dos punto cuarenta y seis metros cuadrados (352.46 mc).

En lindes por el NORTE, con terrenos de la Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda (CRUV), a una distancia de doce punto diez metros (12.10 m); por el SUR, con la calle número tres (3), a una distancia de doce metros (12.00 m); por el ESTE, con el lote número N dieciocho (N-18) a una distancia de treinta metros (30.00 m); y por el OESTE, con el lote N dieciséis (N-16) a una distancia de veintiocho punto cincuenta metros (28.50 m). Afecto a servidumbre de un ancho de cinco pies a lo largo de su colindancia Sur, a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company. FINCA NÚMERO: 18,895, inscrita al folio 76 del tomo 1083 de Ponce, sección II de Ponce. Dirección Fisica: URB. HACIENDA LA MATILDE N-17 CALLE BAYAZO PONCE PR 00728.

Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 7 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 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 $95,200.00. 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 11:30 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 $63,466.66. 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 11:30 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 $47,600.00. 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 $88,247.85 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 6.3750% 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,

The San Juan Daily Star con dirección postal en PO Box 871, Springfield, MA 01101; Carlos J. Cancel, miembro de la sucesión de Víctor Hugo Cancel y, a su vez, de la sucesión de Juana Domínguez Rivera, inmediato anterior dueño, con dirección postal en PO Box 871, Springfield, MA 01101; Carmen Julia Cancel Domínguez, miembro de la sucesión de Juana Domínguez Rivera, inmediata anterior dueña, con dirección en 173 Grave St. Apt. 1001, Waterbury CT. 06710; Jennifer Cancel, miembro de la sucesión de Carlos Juan Cancel Domínguez y, a su vez, de la Sucesión de Juana Domínguez Rivera, inmediata anterior dueña con dirección en 272 D. Beaver St., Framingham, MA 01702; John Cancel, miembro de la sucesión de Carlos Juan Cancel Domínguez y, a su vez, de la sucesión de Juana Domínguez Rivera, inmediato anterior dueño con dirección en 272 D. Beaver St., Framingham, MA 01702; Luis Alberto Cancel Domínguez, miembro de la sucesión de Juana Domínguez Rivera, inmediato anterior dueño con dirección en 1630 Warcester Rd., Framingham, MA 01702; Víctor José Domínguez Hiraldo, miembro de la sucesión de Zenén Domínguez Rivera, inmediato anterior dueño con dirección en 56 North St. 1rst Floor, Lowell, MA 01852; José Manuel Domínguez Hiraldo, miembro de la sucesión de Zenen Domínguez Rivera, inmediato anterior dueño con dirección en 55 Wausha Kum St., Framingham, MA 01702; Carlos Domínguez, miembro de la sucesión de María Domínguez Osario, inmediato anterior dueño con dirección en 9 Weld St. Apt. 8, Framingham, LEGAL NOTICE MA 01702; Lorely Rohena ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Vicente, miembro de DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUla Sucesión de Javier NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Rohena Domínguez, y, a SALA DE CAROLINA su vez de la Sucesión de María Domínguez Osario, ESTEBAN GARCÍA inmediata anterior dueña DOMINGUEZ, EN con dirección en 2309 Main REPRESENTACIÓN St. Apto 14, Springfield, DE LUZ GLADYS MA 01107; Carlos Simón DOMINGUEZ RIVERA Ruiz Domínguez, miembro Peticionaria de la sucesión de Carmen EX-PARTE Dolores Domínguez Rivera, Civil Núm.: CA2020CV02308. inmediato anterior dueño Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOy colindante con dirección MINIO. CITACIÓN POR EDICen 17 Prince 2nd Floor, TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE Pawtucket Rl 02860; Juan AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE Ramón Domínguez Márquez, DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO miembro de la Sucesión de LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR. Ramón Domínguez Rivera, A: Kristhia Llanos Cancel, inmediato anterior dueño miembro de la sucesión con dirección en 314 Quail de Víctor Hugo Cancel y, a Run Ln., Clinton, NC 28328, su vez, de la sucesión de Víctor M. Domínguez Febres, Juana Domínguez Rivera, miembro de la Sucesión de inmediata anterior dueña, José Domínguez Rivera,

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 14 de abril de 2021.

MANUEL MALDONADO, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE.

Thursday, June 17, 2021 inmediato anterior dueño con paradero desconocido en los Estados Unidos continentales, y, asimismo, a todo el que tenga algún interés o derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito en la Petición de Dominio del caso de epígrafe, a las personas ignoradas, a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción, a los anteriores dueños, o sus herederos y, en general, a toda persona que desee oponerse.

POR LA PRESENTE: se les notifica que el Peticionario de epígrafe ha presentado una Petición para que se declare a favor de él, el dominio que tiene sobre la siguiente propiedad: “RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno marcado con la letra ‘D’ en el plano de segregación, localizado en el Barrio Santa Cruz del Municipio de Carolina, con cabida de mil doscientos cincuenta y cuatro metros cuadrados con nueve mil cuatrocientos cincuenta y cuatro diezmilésimas de otro metro cuadrado (1,254.9454 M.C.), equivalentes a tres mil ciento noventa y tres diezmilésimas de cuerda (.3193 cda.). En lindes por el Norte, en una alineación de cincuenta y cuatro metros con dos mil seiscientos ochenta diezmilésimas de otro metro (54.2680 Mts.), con solar ‘E’ del mismo plano de segregación; por el Este, en dos alineaciones que suman doce metros con doscientos veintiséis milésimas de otro metro (12.226 Mts.) con camino a ser dedicado a uso público, ahora denominado Calle Maguey; por el Sur, en una alineación de setenta metros con tres mil seiscientos tres diezmilésimas de otro metro (70.3603 Mts.), con solar ‘C’ del mismo plano de segregación y, por el Oeste, en dos alineaciones que suman treinta y un metros con seis mil novecientos cincuenta y tres diezmilésimas de otro metro (31.6953), con terrenos de Rafael Fossas.”

Sobre este terreno enclava una casa en hormigón y bloques construida para fines residenciales. Este Tribunal ordenó que se publique la pretensión por tres (3) veces durante el término de veinte (20) días en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que todas las personas arriba mencionadas y todas aquellas desconocidas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción o deseen oponerse, puedan así hacerlo dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la última publicación del presente edicto. Por tanto firmo expido la presente en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 24 de mayo de 2021. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ROSA M. VIERA VELÁZQUEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

JOSÉ LUIS RIVERA VÉLEZ, LA SUCESIÓN DE EROILDA VÉLEZ CORDERO COMPUESTA POR JOSÉ LUIS RIVERA VÉLEZ, EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESION; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: MZ2019CV00725.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 21 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: 5 CALLE CEIBA URB. REPARTO FLAMBOYAN MAYAGÜEZ, PR 00680 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 5 radicado en el Barrio Sábalos del término municipal de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy frente a la Calle Ceiba del referido municipio, con una cabida superficial de trescientos catorce punto cuatro mil trescientos trece metros cuadrados (314.4313 m.c.). Colinda por el NORTE, en 13.101 metros con Urbanización Flamboyanes; por el SUR, en 13.101 metros, con calle dedicada a Uso Público, hoy Calle Ceiba; por el ESTE, en 24.00 metros con el Solar marcado número 6 y parte del área de viraje de la Calle Ceiba; y por el OESTE, en 24.00 metros con el Solar

marcado número 4 en el Plano de Inscripción. Enclava casa.

La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 91 del Tomo 1162 de Mayagüez, finca número 35,852, Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $108,171.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 28 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $72,114.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 4 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $54,085.50. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 25 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de septiembre de 2011, ante la Notario Luis Ángel Ruiz Chabrier, y consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Mayagüez, finca número 35,852, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez, inscripción Sexta (6ta). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $96,040.65 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de junio de 2018, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además José Luis Rivera Vélez y La Sucesión de Eroilda Vélez Cordero adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $10,817.10. Además José Luis Rivera Vélez y La Sucesión de Eroilda Vélez Cordero se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $10,817.10 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $10,817.10 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que

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los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de junio de 2021. IVELISSE FIGUEROA VARGAS, ALGUACIL PLACA #924, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA

SUPERIOR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

STEVEN RAMÍREZ DE JESÚS

Demandados Civil Núm.: MZ2019CV01823.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 21 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: #219 CALLE EMAJAGUAL COMM. CUESTA BLANCA LAJAS, PR, 00667 y que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Solar marcado con el número doscientos diez y nueve (219) en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Cuesta Blanca del Barrio Costas del término municipal de Lajas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cero cuerdas con novecientos ocho diezmilésimas de otra, equivalente a trescientos cincuenta y siete punto trece metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela número doscientos diez y ocho de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la calle número ocho de la comunidad.; por el ESTE, con la calle número diez de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con la parcela número doscientos veinte y uno de la comunidad. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 122 del Tomo 195 de Lajas, finca número 7,370, Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $58,000.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble

mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 28 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $38,666.66. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 4 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $29,000.00.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 282 otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el día 15 de agosto de 2008, ante el Notario J. Francisco Sepúlveda Rivera, y consta inscrita al Folio 121 del Tomo 398 de Lajas, finca número 7,370, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán, inscripción undécima (11ma). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $49,873.99 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de noviembre de 2018, más intereses al tipo pactado de 7.25% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $5,800.00.

Además la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $5,800.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $5,800.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el

28 rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesa el gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacionan a continuación: Hipoteca a favor de La Autoridad de Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $15,000.00, sin intereses, vencedero el día 15 de agosto de 2016, constituida mediante la escritura número 283, otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el día 18 de agosto de 2008, ante el notario J. Francisco Sepúlveda Rivera, e inscrita al folio 121vto del tomo 398 de Lajas, finca número 7,370, inscripción 12ma.

Condiciones restrictivas bajo el “Programa La Llave para tu Hogar” por el período de 8 años.

Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Mayagüez, Puer-

to Rico, hoy día 1 de junio de 2021. IVELISSE FIGUEROA VARGAS, ALGUACIL PLACA #924, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

LA SUCESIÓN DE EDWIN PEREZ AYALA, COMPUESTA POR MARGARITA RIVERA RIVERA, POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: CCD2015-0810.

(401). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM” (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado, o en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 11 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: F-16, CALLE SAN JORGE, URB. VALLE SAN LUIS, MOROVIS, PUERTO RICO 00687 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar identificado como lote número F-16 de la Urbanización Valle San Luis, sita en el Barrio Barahona del término municipal de Morovis, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 323.12 metros cuadrados, colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia de 14.00 metros, con la calle número 5 de la Urbanización; por el SUR, en una dis-

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tancia de 14.00 metros, con los lotes número F-19 y F-20; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 23.08 metros, con el lote F-17 de Valle San Luis; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 23.08 metros, con el lote número F-15 de Valle San Luis. Enclava una casa. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al folio 107 del tomo 324 de Morovis, finca número 14,478, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Manatí. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $101,212.00.

Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 18 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $67,474.67.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 25 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $50,606.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 200, otorgada el día 24 de mayo de 2012, ante la Notaria Aurora Montalvo Díaz y consta inscrita al folio 107 del tomo 324 de Morovis , finca número 14,478, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, sección de Manatí, inscripción Quinta (5ta). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $94,171.76 por concepto de principal desde el primero 1ro de julio de 2015, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.50% anual. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte demandada adeuda a la parte Demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $10,121.20. Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $10,121.10 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipo-

teca. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate.

La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesa el gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relaciona a continuación: Sentencia del día 22 de septiembre de 2014, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Morovis, en el Caso Civil número CM2013-423, sobre Cuota de Mantenimiento, por Asociación de Residentes de Valle San Luis, Inc., versus Edwin Pérez Ayala y Margarita Rivera Rivera, por la suma de $821.38, anotado el día 17 de noviembre de 2014, al folio 119 del tomo 2. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra Edwin Pérez Ayala, seguro social xxx-xx-7436, por la suma de $6,455.08, según Caso número BAY-19-7436, según Certificación de fecha 30 de septiembre de 2019, anotado el día 10 de septiembre de 2019 (así surge), al Asiento 2019-008571-EST del Sistema Karibe. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos 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. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez

el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial.

Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 2 de junio de 2021. WILLIAM LUGO GUZMÁN, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS PLACA #720, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL ARECIBO, SALA SUPERIOR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

HECTOR MEJIA VARGAS (TITULAR REGISTRAL Y DEUDOR HIPOTECARIO); LA SUCESIÓN DE ILEANA OTERO RODRIGUEZ COMPUESTA POR HECTOR MEJIA VARGAS EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESION; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CARMEN RUBIO FIGUEROA T/C/C CARMEN FIGUEROA RUBIO T/C/C CARMEN RODRIGUEZ (DEUDOR HIPOTECARIO) Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2020CV00181.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR, , en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos

de América el día 6 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: B-6 CALLE 2 URB. VILLAS DE TRUJILLO TRUJILLO ALTO, PR 00976 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: URBANA: Solar número seis (6) del Bloque “B” guion dos (B-2), sito en el proyecto de viviendas conocido como Urbanización Villas De Trujillo, localizado en el Barrio Las Cuevas del término municipal de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos cincuenta punto cero cero (250.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el Solar número siete (7) del Bloque “B” guion dos (B-2); por el SUR, con el Solar número cinco (5) del Bloque “B” guion dos (B-2); por el ESTE, con la calle número dos (2); y por el OESTE, con el Solar número veinte (20) del Bloque “B” guion dos (B-2). El inmueble antes descrito contiene una casa tipo Garden Villa (Exterior Unit) de concreto diseñada para una familia. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 1 del Tomo 664 de Carolina, finca número 30,593 Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $115,950.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 13 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $77,300.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 20 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $57,975.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 409 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 22 de octubre de 2004, ante el Notario Wilson A. Galarza Galarza y consta inscrita al Folio 213 del Tomo 704 de Trujillo Alto, finca número 30,593, inscripción Tercera, Registro de la Propiedad

de San Juan, Sección Cuarta.

Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción tercera (3era), en cuanto al principal que será por $112,202.43 y al interés que será al 4.50% anual, vencedero el día 1ro de septiembre del 2041, según la escritura número 441, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el día 27 de agosto del 2011, ante el notario Mario Enrique Vázquez Vera, e inscrita al folio 213 del tomo 704 de Trujillo Alto, finca número 30,593, inscripción Cuarta (4ta), Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta.

Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $97,443.62 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de noviembre de 2018, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además Héctor Mejía Vargas, La Sucesión de Ileana Otero Rodriguez y Carmen Rubio Figueroa t/c/c Carmen Figueroa Rubio t/c/c Carmen Rodriguez (Deudor hipotecario) adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $11,595.00.

Además Héctor Mejía Vargas, La Sucesión de Ileana Otero Rodriguez y Carmen Rubio Figueroa t/c/c Carmen Figueroa Rubio t/c/c Carmen Rodriguez (Deudor hipotecario) se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $11,595.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $11,595.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate.

La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la

Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en el Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 2 de junio de 2021. SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR.

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Federal National Mortgage Association t/c/c Fannie Mae Demandante v.

José J. Pizarro Rohena t/c/c José Joaquín Pizarro Rohena, Migdalia Landrau Pérez t/c/c Migdalia Rosa Landrau Pérez y la sociedad legal de bienes gananciales compuesta por ambos, ahora la Sucesion de José J. Pizarro Rohena t/c/c José Joaquín Pizarro Rohena compuesta por Migdalia Rosa Landrau Pérez t/c/c

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Migdalia Landrau t/c/c Migdalia Rosa Landrau t/c/c Midalalia Landrau Pérez por si y en la cuota viudal usufructuaria, Maylin Nanette Pizarro Landrau, José Joaquin Pizarro Landrau, Audrey Dagmar Pizarro Landrau, y sus nietos, Félix Daniel Montalvo Pizarro y Keven Rafael Espinet Pizarro.

Folio móvil del Tomo 1,296 de Carolina, finca número 3,166, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Segunda.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $102,400.00.

Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 3 de agosto de Demandados CIVIL NÚM: CA2019CV01571. 2021, a las 11:45 de la mañana.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO En la segunda subasta que se Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE- celebre servirá de tipo mínimo CA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. las dos terceras partes (2/3) EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Al- del precio pactado en la primeguacil que suscribe por la pre- ra subasta, o sea la suma de sente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y $68,266.67. Si tampoco hubiehace CONSTAR: Que en cum- re remate ni adjudicación en la plimiento de un Mandamiento segunda subasta se celebrará de Ejecución de Sentencia que una tercera subasta en las ofile ha sido dirigido al Alguacil cinas del Alguacil que suscribe que suscribe por la Secretaría el día 10 de agosto de 2021, a del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA las 11:45 de la mañana. Para INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDI- la tercera subasta servirá de CIAL DE CAROLINA SALA tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del SUPERIOR, en el caso de epí- precio pactado para el caso de grafe procederá a vender en ejecución, o sea, la suma de pública subasta al mejor postor $51,200.00. La hipoteca a ejequién pagará de contado y en cutarse en el caso de epígrafe moneda de curso legal de los fue constituida mediante la Estados Unidos de América, escritura número 257, otorgagiro postal o por cheque de da el día 29 de junio de 2001, gerente a nombre del Alguacil ante el Notario Raúl J. Vilá del Tribunal de Primera Instan- Sellés y consta inscrita en el cia el día 27 de julio de 2021, Folio móvil del Tomo 1,296 de a las 11:45 de la mañana en Carolina, finca número 3,166, su oficina sita en el local que en el Registro de la Propiedad ocupa en el edificio del TRIBU- de Carolina, Sección SegunNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA da, inscripción décima. ModifiCENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO- cada la hipoteca relacionada, LINA SALA SUPERIOR, todo compareciendo Los Titulares derecho, título e interés que y Oriental Bank, este último tenga la parte demandada de como tenedor por endoso del epígrafe en el inmueble de su pagare, en cuanto al principal propiedad que ubica en Calle que será ahora por $96,551.67, 6 Salvador Brau Carolina, PR sus intereses serán al 4.00% 00981 t/c/c Solar #15-37, Calle anual y su vencimiento será Salvador Brau, Carolina, PR para el 1ro. de abril del 2056, 00630 y que se describe a con- todo mediante escritura No. tinuación: URBANA: Solar No. 128 otorgada en Carolina el 6 15 de la Manzana No. 37 del de mayo del 2016, ante Juan plano del Municipio de Caroli- A. Martínez Romero, inscrita na, compuesto de 176.70 me- al Sistema Digital Karibe, finca tros cuadrados (176.7 metros No. 3166 de Carolina Sur, inscuadrados según certificación cripción 11. Dicha subasta se registal) y en lindes por el Nor- llevará a cabo para con su prote, en 8.00 metros, con la Calle ducto satisfacer al Demandante Salvador Brau, donde radica; total o parcialmente según sea por el Sur, en 7.20 metros (7.22 el caso el importe de la Senmetros según certificación re- tencia que ha obtenido ascengistral) , con los solares Nos. 6 dente a la suma de $95,297.28 y 12 de la misma Manzana No. por concepto de principal, más 37, edificadas con casas de Li- intereses al tipo pactado de cenciado Ramón García Mojica 7.000% anual desde el día 1 de y Don Francisco Hernández; julio de 2017. Dichos intereses por el Este, en 23.25 metros, continúan acumulándose hasta con el solar No. 16, edificado el pago total de la obligación. con casa de Severo Escuté; y Se pagarán también los carpor el Oeste, en 23.25 metros, gos por demora equivalentes a con el solar No. 14 de la misma 5.000% de la suma de aquellos Manzana, edificado con una pagos con atrasos en exceso casa del propio Don Andrés de 15 días calendarios de la Carmona. Sobre este solar fecha vencimiento, la suma de hay un ranchón de madera, $10,240.00 para costas, gasterreno, techado de zinc de la tos y honorarios de abogado, propiedad de Don Andrés Car- la suma de $10,240.00para mona. La propiedad antes re- cubrir los intereses en adición lacionada consta inscrita en el a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $10,240.00 para cubrir

Thursday, June 17, 2021 cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más intereses según provisto por la Regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble 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 de remate.

La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores 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. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según aplique. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 27 de mayo de 2021. FDO. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, ALGUACIL.

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

E.M.I. EQUITY MORTGAGE, INC. Demandantes VS.

AAA CONCORDIA MORTGAGE CORPORATION, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: CA2021CV01384.

SOBRE: CANCELACION DE PAGARE HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, El Presidente de los Estados Unidos, El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico.

A la parte co-demandada: JOHN 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 CANCELACION de un pagaré extraviado a favor de AAA Concordia Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma de $86,900.00, intereses al 7% anual, vencedero el 1ro de septiembre de 2028, según escritura número 739, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el 4 de septiembre de 1998 ante el Notario Gamalier Oliveras Alvarez, inscrita al folio movil del tomo 1319 de Carolina Sur, finca 15,943, inscripción séptima. 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. 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, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria 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.

David Cardona Dingui, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 625-7001, Abogado de la Parte Deman-

dante, 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 15 de junio de 2021 en Carolina, Puerto Rico. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodriguez, Secretario (a) Regional. Por: Ruth Colon, Secretario (a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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

CARLOS GONZALEZ BOOTHBY, JENNY BOLIVAR HORSTMANN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES QUE COMPONEN Demandante V.

MIDWEST FUNDING CORPORATION Y JOHN DOE COMO CUALQUIER TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO

Demandado(a) Civil: BY2021CV01592. SALA 506. Sobre: PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: MIDWEST FUNDING CORPORATION Y JOHN DOE COMO CUALQUIER TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 de junio de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 14 de junio de 2021. En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 14 de junio de 2021. f/ LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ,

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SECRETARIA. f/MARILYN COLON CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

BANCO COOPERATIVO DE PUERTO RICO

OTTO CHARDON MASINI COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDA JULITA ROIZ VIDAL, POR SI; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y /O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

BALLO GARCÍA, Secretario(a) Regional. f/GLORIVEE MORALES SÁEZ, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de VEGA BAJA.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

DEMANDADO Demandante V. Civil Núm.: PO2020CV01747.

COOPERATIVA DE EVYS MARY Salón: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE SANCHEZ AGOSTO Demandado(a) ORIENTAL, HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. Civil: VB2019CV01013. Sobre: FULANO DE TAL COBRO DE DINERO Y EJEDemandado(a) A: SUCESIÓN DE CUCION DE HIPOTECA VIA Civil: HU2020CV00959. Sobre: OTHONIEL CHARDON ORDINARIA, NOTIFICACIÓN CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUMASINI TIC/C OTTO DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. CIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIACHARDON MASINI A: EVYS MARY DO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENCOMPUESTA POR SU TENCIA POR EDICTO. SANCHEZ AGOSTO (Nombre de las partes a las que se le VIUDA JULITA ROIZ A: FULANO DE notifican la sentencia por edicto) VIDAL, POR SI; FULANO TAL; DIRECCION; EL SECRETARIO(A) que susDE TAL Y SUTANA DE cribe le notifica a usted que 7 DESCONOCIDA; P/C TAL COMO HEREDEROS de junio de 2021 , este Tribunal LCDO. JULIÁN A DESCONOCIDOS Y /O ha dictado Sentencia, SentenPARRILLA BORIA PARTES CON INTERÉS cia Parcial o Resolución en este EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 9 EN DICHA SUCESIÓN, caso, que ha sido debidamente de junio de 2021, este Tribunal CONO. EL SEÑORIAL registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse ha dictado Sentencia, Senten1326, CALLE SALUD, detalladamente de los términos cia Parcial o Resolución en este APTO. 1102, PONCE, de la misma. Esta notificación caso, que ha sido debidamente PR 00731; DIRECCIÓN se publicará una sola vez en registrada y archivada en autos un periódico de circulación gePOSTAL: URB. EL donde podrá usted enterarse neral en la Isla de Puerto Rico, detalladamente de los términos BOSQUE, CALLE de la misma. Esta notificación CRUG, 3339 , PONCE, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o se publicará una sola vez en PR 00717-1691 , PARA representando usted una parte un periódico de circulación geSER NOTIFICADOS POR en el procedimiento sujeta a neral en la Isla de Puerto Rico, EDICTO los términos de la Sentencia, dentro de los 10 días siguientes Sentencia Parcial o ResoluP/C: LIC. JUAN C. a su notificación. Y, siendo o ción, de la cual puede estarepresentando usted una parte FORTUÑO FAS blecerse recurso de revisión o en el procedimiento sujeta a los PO BOX 3908 apelación dentro del término términos de la Sentencia, SenGUAYNABO , PR 00970 tencia Parcial o Resolución, (Nombre de las partes a las que se les de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de de la cual puede establecerse notifica la sentencia por edicto) recurso de revisión o apelación EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- esta notificación, dirijo a usted dentro del término de 30 días cribe le notifica a usted que el 4 esta notificación que se concontados a partir de la publica- de junio de 2021 , este Tribunal siderará hecha en la fecha de ción por edicto de esta notifica- ha dictado Sentencia, Senten- la publicación de este edicto. ción, dirijo a usted esta notifica- cia Parcial o Resolución en este Copia de esta notificación ha ción que se considerará hecha caso, que ha sido debidamente sido archivada en tos autos de en la fecha de la publicación registrada y archivada en autos este caso, con fecha de 8 de de este edicto. Copia de esta donde podrá usted enterarse junio de 2021 En VEGA BAJA notificación ha sido archivada detalladamente de los términos , Puerto Rico, el 8 de junio de en los autos de este caso, con de la misma. Esta notificación 2021. LCDA LAURA I. SANTA fecha de 14 de junio de 2021. se publicará una sola vez en un SANCHEZ, Secretario(a). MAEn HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el periódico de circulación general RITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, 14 de junio de 2021. DOMINGA en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

Demandante V.

GOMEZ FUSTER, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. KEYLA PEREZ FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Ponce.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DEMANDANTE vs.

SUCESIÓN DE OTHONIEL CHARDON MASINI T/C/C

de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representado usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 2 de junio de 2021. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 2 de junio de 2021. LUZ MAYRA CARA-

LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de HUMACAO.

FIRSTBANK DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION (FDIC) Y BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO como sucesores en derecho de R-G PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO Y JOHN

30 DOE Y RICHARD ROE, como posibles tenedores del pagaré

Demandado(a) Civil: HU2020CV00982. Sobre: CANCELACION DE HIPOTECA PRESENTADA POR PAGARE HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO, NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCO TORRES GRACIA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

A: JOHN DOE; RICHARD Demandado(a) ROE, posibles tenedores de pagaré extraviado; Civil: BY2018CV04718. SALON 701. Sobre: COBRO DE a su última dirección DINERO Y EJECUCION DE conocida como: HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDIRECCIOND DINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE ESCONOCIDA y SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. FEDERAK DEPOSIT A: FULANO DE TAL INSURANCE Y SUTANO DE TAL CORPORATION, a su COMO MIEMBRO DE última dirección: 1601 LA SUCESIÓN DE BRYANT ST. DALLAS, GLADYS NORMA AULET TEXAS 75201 P/C DE LA SÁNCHEZ; FULANO LCDA. MARITZA GUZMAN DE TAL Y SUTANO DE MATOS. TAL COMO MIEMBROS (Nombre de las partes a las que se le DE LA SUCESIÓN DE notifican la sentencia por edicto) FRANCISCO TORRES EL SECRETARIO(A) que susGRACIA; CENTRO DE cribe le notifica a usted que el 9 RECAUDACIONES de junio de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, SentenDE INGRESOS cia Parcial o Resolución en este MUNICIPALES; A LOS caso, que ha sido debidamente ESTADOS UNIDOS DE registrada y archivada en autos AMÉRICA 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 3 de junio de 2021.

En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 3 de junio de 2021. DOMINGA GOMEZ FUSTER, Secrtaria. f/ NORIE I. MERCADO LABOY, Secretaria Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de BAYAMON.

REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC. Demandante

FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GLADYS NORMA AULET SÁNCHEZ; FULANO

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 18 de marzo de 2021 , este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 15 de junio de 2021. En BAYAMON , Puerto Rico, el 15 de junio de 2021. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, Secretario(a). F/ALBA I. BRITO BORGEN, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal do Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Cabo Rojo.

The San Juan Daily Star

Thursday, June 17, 2021 COOPERATIVA D E AHORRO Y CREDITO DE CABO ROJO Demandante V.

CARLOS ALBERTO COLON NAZARIO

Demandado(a) CivilNUm. HO2021CV00007.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (VIA ORDINARIA). NOTIFICACION DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: CARLOS ALBERTO COLON NAZARIO

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican ía sentencia par edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de mayo de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia o Sentencia Parcial en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de a misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en Ia 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 Ia Sentencia o Sentencia Parcial, de Ia cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de Ia publicación par edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en Ia fecha de Ia publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 14 de junio de 2021. En CABO ROJO , Puerto Rico, el 14 de junio de 2021. NORMA G SANTANA IRIZARRY, Secretario(a) Regional. MARIA M AVILES BONILLA, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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

BAUTISTA REO PR CORP. Demandante, v.

Sucesión rafael marcano hernández t/c/c rafael marcano hernández compuesta por rafael marcano dávila; irving marcano dávila, peggy marcano dávila; y cándida marcano dávila; fulano de tal; mengano de tal como posibles herederos

Demandados CIVIL NUM. CA2019CV00122.

Sala: 404. SOBRE: cobro de dinero y EJECUCIÓN DE hipoteca POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO

RICO. S.S. YO, el(la) Alguacil que suscribe, por la presente anuncia y hace constar, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia, expedido el 25 de mayo de 2021 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, quien pagará el importe de la venta en dinero efectivo o en cheque certificado o de gerente, a la orden del Alguacil suscribiente, en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, el día 2 de agosto de 2021, a la(s) 9:30 a.m., en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Carolina, todo título, derecho o interés que corresponda a la parte demandada sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número seiscientos setenta cinco del bloque “J” del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Vistamar, Tercera Extensión, situado en el Barrio Sábano Abajo de la municipalidad de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos doce metros cuadrados con once centímetros cuadrados, colinda por el Norte, en trece metros cincuenta y siete centímetros, con los solares seiscientos setenta y siete, seiscientos ochenta y siete, y seiscientos ochenta y ocho, por el Sur, en trece metros cincuenta y siete centímetros, con la calle principal, por el Este, en veintitrés metros, con el solar número seiscientos setenta y seis y por el Oeste, en veintitrés metros, con el solar número seiscientos setenta y cuatro. Todas dichas colindancias con el mismo solar “J” de dicha Urbanización. Inscrita al Folio 50 del tomo 132 de Carolina, finca número 4,741 (antes 9,834) en el Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Primera. Dirección Física: 675 Pontezuela Ave., Vista Mar, Carolina, PR La propiedad descrita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Por su procedencia está libre de cargas. Por sí afecta a: HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de Metro Island Mortgage, o a su orden, por la suma de $230,000.00, con interés al 6.95% anual, y vencedero el 1ro de junio de 2011, según consta de la escritura #191, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de mayo de 2004, ante el Notario Público José Laborde Corretjer, inscrita al folio 31 del tomo 1042 de Carolina, finca # 4741, inscripción 18va. ANOTACIÓN DE DEMANDA: Es objeto de esta anotación, la hipoteca a favor de Metro Island Mortgage por $230,000.00 de la inscripción #18, demandante: Bautista Cayman Asset Company; demandado, Sucesión de RAFAEL MARCANO t/c/c RAFAEL HERNÁNDEZ MARCANO

compuesta por RAFAEL MARCANO DÁVILA; IRVING MARCANO DÁVILA; PEGGY MARCANO DÁVILA Y CÁNDIDA MARCANO RODRÍGUEZ; cantidad adecuada $315,136.30 por concepto principal más interés, según Demanda del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, caso Civil Núm. CA2019CV00122 del día 11 de enero de 2019, inscrito al tomo Karibe de Carolina Norte, finca 4741, ANOTACIÓN DE DEMANDA A. Servirá como tipo mínimo para la primera subasta en ejecución de la Finca Número 4,741 antes descrita la suma de $230,000.00, conforme a lo estipulado en la escritura de Hipoteca número 191, otorgada el 27 de mayo de 2004 ante el Notario Público Jorge Laborde Corretjer. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la primera subasta, se celebrará una segunda subasta, en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 9 de agosto de 2021, a la(s) 9:30 a.m. El tipo mínimo para la segunda subasta será dos terceras partes (2/3) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, $153,333.33. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 16 de agosto de 2021, a la(s) 9:30 a.m. El tipo mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo que se pactara para la primera subasta, o sea, $115,000.00.

Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde alcance, el importe adeudado a BAUTISTA REO PR CORP., ascendente a la suma de $327,995.56, la cual se desglosa de la siguiente manera: $196,065.39 por concepto de principal bajo el Pagaré; más $102,274.79 por concepto de intereses, los cuales incrementan diariamente a razón de $37.85 per diem hasta su total y completo pago; más $5,393.98 por concepto de cargos por mora, los cuales incrementan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago; más $1,261.40 por concepto de otros gastos, incluyendo seguros, estudio de título, valoración e inspección; más $23,000.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado expresamente pactados. La venta en pública subasta de la propiedad descrita anteriormente se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dicha propiedad. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si lo hubiera, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución, continuará subsistente, entendiéndose además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Que los autos y

todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables.

El Alguacil procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. POR LA PRESENTE, se les notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas registrales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrará la SUBASTA en la fecha, hora y sitio anteriormente señalados, y se les invita a que concurran a dicha subasta, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecutante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efectuar tal subrogación. Y PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta señalada. Además, en un periódico de circulación general en dos (2) ocasiones y mediante correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada. EXPEDIDO el presente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 2 de junio de 2021. Samuel González Isaac, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAROLINA.

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FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

RUTH MIRIAM MELENDEZ CAMACHO

Demandado (s) CIVIL NÚM.: CE2018CV00097.

SALA: 307. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS: Yo, Sandraliz Martínez Torres, Alguacil Auxiliar #737, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Fajardo, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia de que se me libró con fecha del 5 de febrero de 2020, por la Secretaria del Tribunal Superior de Fajardo en relación con la Sentencia Sumaria En Rebeldía dictada en 28 de octubre de 2019, no-

tificada el 1 de noviembre de 2019 y publicada la Notificación de Sentencia por Edicto el 8 de noviembre de 2019, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: URBANIZACIÓN JARDINES DE CEIBA: Solar número ocho (8) de la manzana D, con una cabida de trescientos treinta y siete metros cuadrados con cincuenta centímetros (337.50mc). En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar nueve (9), distancia de veinticinco (25.00) metros; por el SUR, con el solar siete (7), distancia de veinticinco (25.00) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar catorce (14), distancia de trece metros y cincuenta centímetros (13.50m); y por el OESTE, con la calle seis (6), distancia de trece metros y cincuenta centímetros (13.50m). Se segrega de la finca número 933, inscrita al folio 207 del tomo 35 de Ceiba. Consta inscrita al folio 240 del tomo 47 de Ceiba, finca número 2,166, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. Por su procedencia está afecta a: a. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad d e Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico. b. Condiciones restrictivas sobre edificación y uso.

Dirección de la propiedad: Jardines de Ceiba Development, 8 D ST, Ceiba, Puerto Rico 00735. Se apercibe a los licitadores para que procedan con la inspección física del inmueble objeto de ejecución previo a la celebración de las subastas. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la propiedad anteriormente descrita y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 15 de julio de 2021, a las 9:00am. Precio Mínimo: $81,000.00. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 22 de julio de 2021, a las 9:00am.

Precio Mínimo: $54,000.00.

TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 29 de julio de 2021, a las 9:00am. Precio Mínimo: $40,500.00. Las subastas se llevarán a cabo para satisfacer al Banco demandante de las siguientes sumas de dinero adeudadas por la parte demandante conforme a la Sentencia dictada, a saber, la suma de la suma de $63,656.47 adeudada por concepto de principal e intereses vencidos al 17 de septiembre de 2018, y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, los cargos por demora vencidos que a igual fecha ascienden a $183.89, y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, las sumas adeudadas por concepto de seguros y/o contribuciones, la suma de $39.00 por concepto de adelantos (Corp Advan-

ces), la suma de $1,050.72 adeudada por concepto de las mensualidades pospuestas relativas a la moratoria concedida por el paso del Huracán María por Puerto Rico, más la suma de $8,100.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Tribunal de Fajardo, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, efectivo, cheque de gerente, giro postal a nombre del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del producto obtenido en dicha venta, el Alguacil pagará en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados hasta la suma convenida, en tercer término los intereses acumulados hasta la fecha de la subasta según pactados hasta su total y completo pago, en cuarto término, las sumas establecidas para el pago de recargos por demora hasta la fecha de la subasta y en quinto término la suma principal adeudada.

Disponiéndose, que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. El inmueble anteriormente descrito se encuentra afecto al siguiente gravamen posterior: ANOTACIÓN PREVENTIVA DE DEMANDA radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Fajardo, Civil Número CE2018CV0097 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria, seguida por Firstbank Puerto Rico (Demandante) vs. Ruth Miriam Meléndez Camacho (Demandada). Por la misma se reclama el pago de la suma de $63,656.47 y otras sumas, anotado el día 11 de febrero de 2019, al Tomo Karibe de Ceiba, finca número 2,166, Anotación A, el cual es objeto de ejecución en la presente causa de acción. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la respon-

The San Juan Daily Star sabilidad de los mismos, toda vez que el precio de remate no se destina a su extinción.

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

Y PARA LA CONCURRENCIA, de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta por espacio de dos semanas y en un periódico de circulación general del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 5 de mayo de 2021. Sandraliz Martínez Torres, Alguacil Auxiliar #737. Shirley Sánchez Martínez, Alguacil Regional #161.

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CONSEJO DE TITULARES CONDOMINIO SERENITY

BY THE SEA DEMANDANTE VS-

TERESA MARIE VOLLRATH

DEMANDADA CIVIL NUM: CB2021CV00261.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (CUOTAS DE MANTENIMIENTO) REGLA 60. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR. SS.

A: TERESA MARIE VOLLRATH 12 TROTTER WAY CREAM RIDGE, NJ 08514

Por el presente Edicto, que se publicará una sola vez, se le notifica que se ha presentado ante este Tribunal una Demanda sobre Cobro de Cuotas de Mantenimiento (Regla 60).

Usted es parte indispensable en esta Demanda. Si usted no formula oposición, dentro del término de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de Ia fecha de publicación de este Edicto, Ia parte demandante podrá obtener Sentencia en Rebeldia declarando HA LUGAR Ia Demanda y concediendo los remedios solicitados, sin más citarle ni oIrle a usted. Deberé radicar el originar de su Contestación en Ia Secretarla del Tribunal de epígrafe y enviar copia por correo regular o electrónico a Ia representación legal de Ia parte demandante cuyo nombre y dirección postal es Ia siguiente: Lcdo. Santiago Man Roca

Thursday, June 17, 2021

PO Box 1589 Mayaguez, PR 00681 -1589 Teléfono: (787) 831-2200 Fax: (888) 641-6230 Email: smari_roca@yahoo.com EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello de este Tribunal, por orden de un Juez de esta Sala.

En Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico a 7 de junio de 2021. LIC. NORMA G SANTANA IRIZARRY, Sec Regional II. f/MARIA M AVILES BONILLA, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

CARMEN MILAGROS RODRÍGUEZ DE JESÚS

Demandada CIVIL NÚM: CG2018CV01567.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo ANGEL GOMEZ GOMEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, al público en general. CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 1 de octubre de 2019 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso arriba indicado, venderé en la fecha o fechas que más adelante se indican, en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal, en mi oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, Puerto Rico, Carretera PR 1, Intersección PR 189, Kilómetro 0.4, Barrio Bairoa, Caguas, Puerto Rico (Entrada norte Pueblo Caguas), todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada, en el inmueble que se describe a continuación, propiedad de la parte demandada Carmen Milagros Rodríguez De Jesús.

Dirección Física: 787 RD, KM 6.5, Bo. Beatriz, Caguas, PR 00725. Finca 10885, inscrita al folio 215 del tomo 412 de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Caguas. RUSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Beatriz del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, tiene una cabida de 500. metros cuadrados. En linderos: NORTE, en 20 metros con la finca principal de la cual se segrega; SUR, en 20 metros con la Carretera Estatal Número

172; ESTE, en 25 metros con la finca principal de la cual se segrega; OESTE, en 25 metros con la finca principal de la cual se segrega. Finca 10,885. Por su procedencia está afecta a: a) Libre de Cargas. Por sí está afecta a: a) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Asociación de Empleados del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $63,050.00, con intereses al 5.375% anual, vencedero el día 1 de enero de 2036, constituida mediante la escritura número 253, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de diciembre de 2005, ante el notario Guillermo Mojica Maldonado, e inscrita al folio 5 del tomo 1713 de Caguas, finca número 10,885, inscripción 4ta. b) Aviso de Demanda de fecha 10 de agosto de 2018, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el Caso Civil número CG2018-CV01567, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Carmen Milagros Rodríguez de Jesús, reclamando el pago de la hipoteca con un balance de $48,635.56, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 28 de abril de 2020, al tomo Karibe de Caguas, finca número 10,885, Anotación A. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 10,885 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: Primera Subasta: 29 de noviembre de 2021 a las 9:00AM, Precio Mínimo: $66,000.00, Hipoteca: Escritura Número 253, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 29 de diciembre de 2005, ante el Notario Guillermo Mójica Maldonado. Segunda Subasta: 6 de diciembre de 2021 a las 9:00AM, Precio Mínimo: 44,000.00. Tercera Subasta; 13 de diciembre de 2021 a las 9:00AM, Precio Mínimo: $33,000.00. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables.

Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación que se transmite y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si las hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante las acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de las mismas, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Conforme a la Sentencia dictada el día 25 de septiembre de 2019 y archivada en los autos el 1 de octubre de 2019, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación:

La suma de $48,635.56, más $5,546.49, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado.Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de junio de 2021. ANGEL GOMEZ GOMEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

DESCONOCIDOS MAS ADELANTE EN EL INTERPELACIÓN COBRO DE CIÓN DE GRAVAMEN MODINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE BILIARIO (REPOSESIÓN DE DEMANDADOS PRESENTE EDICTO, HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN VEHÍCULO). NOTIFICACIÓN CIVIL NÚM.: CA2021CV00732.

QUE SE PUBLICARA DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. SOBRE: SUSTITUCIÓN DE UNA SOLA VEZ.; ENMENDADA. A: SUCESIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMJOHN DOE Y RICHARD A: FULANO DE TAL OSVALDO CORA LOPEZ PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICROE, PERSONAS Y FULANA DE TAL BAYRON COMPUESTA TO/ ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA El Presidente de los DESCONOCIDAS QUE COMO MIEMBROS POR ROSA JULIA SE DESIGNAN CON DESCONOCIDOS DE LA LÓPEZ BAYRON: URB. Estados Unidos El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico.

ESTOS NOMBRES SUCESIÓN DE JORGE MONTEBRISAS, 5 N21 A la parte co-demandada: FICTICIOS, QUE L. RIVERA MENENDEZ: CALLE 19, FAJARDO, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD PUEDAN TENER ALGUN A SUS DIRECCIONES PR 00738; URB. ROE, demandados INTERES EN EL PAGARE CONOCIDAS: F 12 MONTEBRISAS, 5N-21 desconocidos cuya HIPOTECARIO A QUE CAMINO SERENO, LAS CALLE 19, FAJARDO, dirección se desconoce SE HACE REFERENCIA PIEDRAS, PR 00771; 89 PR 00738; URB. MONTE Se les notifica por este medio MAS ADELANTE EN EL CALLE VALLE SERENA, BRISAS 5, N21 CALLE que en el caso del epígrafe PRESENTE EDICTO, QUE URB. CAMNO SERENO, 19, FAJARDO, PR 00738; se solicita la SUSTITUCION SE PUBLICARA UNA DE UN PAGARÉ EXTRAVIALAS PIEDRAS, PR 1734 HOLMAN AVE., SOLA VEZ. 00771-9112. P/C RAQUEL COVINGTON, KY 41011- DO notarizado bajo el número (Nombre de las partes a las que se le de testimonio #442 a favor de DESEDA BELAVAL. 2942. notifican la sentencia por edicto) CUSTOM MORTGAGE COR-

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de mayo de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 9 de junio de 2021. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 9 de junio de 2021.

LCDA. MARILYN APONTE LEGAL NOTICE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA LEGAL NOTICE TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUCAROLINA JOSE RAUL GAYA GIL NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSDemandante V. TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CITIBANK, N.A. H/N/C HUMACAO

CITIMORTGAGE, INC Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Civil: CA2021CV00124. Sala: 404. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

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ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de enero de 2020, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 9 de junio de 2021. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 9 de junio de 2021. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 9 de junio de 2021.

DOMINGA GÓMEZ FUSTER, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE GUEVARA DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 11 de junio de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de junio de 2021. En FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, el 11 de junio de 2021.

WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. JENIFFER CARRASQUILLO GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO LEGAL NOTICE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARONAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA LINA SALA SUPERIOR. TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS- SUN WEST MORTGAGE TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE COMPANY, INC FAJARDO DEMANDANTE VS.

SUCESIÓN DE JORGE L. RIVERA MENENDEZ AMERICAS LEADING COMPUESTA POR FINANCE, LLC Demandante V. JORGE RIVERA MENDEZ, DANIEL RIVERA MENDEZ SUCESIÓN DE OSVALDO CORA LOPEZ BAYRON A: MR. COOPER Y GEOMARIS RIVERA COMPUESTA POR ROSA PERSONA QUE PUEDA MENDEZ, Y FULANO JULIA LÓPEZ BAYRON SER TENEDOR O Y FULANA DE TAL Demandado(a) PUEDA TENER ALGUN COMO MIEMBROS Civil: FA2019CV00740. Sobre: INTERES EL EL PAGARE DESCONOCIDOS COBRO DE DINERO POR LA Demandado(a) HIPOTECARIO A QUE VÍA ORDINARIA Y EJECUCivil: HU2018CV00594.

Sobre: SE HACE REFERENCIA

MANUEL ALTAGRACIA PÉREZ CAMINERO, MAGDA MARIBEL DE LOS SANTOS SENCIÓN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES

PORATION, o a su orden, por la suma de $75,920.00, devengando intereses a razón del 7.50% por ciento anual, vencedero el primero (1ro) de abril de 2026, garantizado con hipoteca constituida mediante escritura número 71 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el 19 de marzo de 1996, ante el Notario Emil g. Delgado Ríos, la cual consta inscrita al Folio 1 del Tomo 892 de Carolina, finca número 18,352, inscripciónCuarta (4ta).

Dicha Hipoteca fue modificada en cuanto a que se amplió por la suma de $22,474.31, para un nuevo principal que será por $98,394.31 y el interés que será al 4.50% anual, vencedero el día 1ro de mayo de 2046, según la escritura número 121, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de abril de 2016, ante el notario Jaime E. Dávila Santini, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 18,352, inscripción quinta (5ta).

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)

32 622-7000, Fax (787) 625-7001, 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 oirle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 15 de junio de 2021, en Carolina, Puerto Rico. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRIGUEZ, Sec Regional. Ruth M Colon, Sec Aux del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE M&T 41467 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

Lime Homes, LTD Plaintiff v.

Pedro F. Pou Rodríguez a/k/a Pedro Federico Pou Rodríguez, Gianna Méndez Zamora and the conjugal partnership constituted among them

Defendants CIVIL NO: 16-1096-PAD. RE: Collection of Money and Mortgage Foreclosure. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: Pedro F. Pou Rodríguez a/k/a Pedro Federico Pou Rodríguez, Gianna Méndez Zamora and the conjugal partnership constituted among them, General Public, and all parties that may have an interest in the property

WHEREAS, Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $370,052.96 plus interest at a rate of 6.000% per annum since April 1, 2011 until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendants were also ordered to pay Plaintiff late charges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due until the debt is paid in full. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendants were also ordered to pay Plaintiff all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($40,000.00) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation.

The records of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court,

Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda-Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder and at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698579, -66.1124836) the following property: URBANA: Solar No. 9 de la Manzana B-1 de la Urbanización Mansiones de Villanova, localizado en el Barrio Caimito de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. Dicho solar tiene un área superficial de 981.63 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en una distancia de 42.02 metros, con la Calle ‘A’; por el Sur, en una distancia de 25.00 metros, con el solar No. 8; por el Este, en una distancia de 46.97 metros, con los solares Nos. 11, 12 y 13; y por el Oeste, en una distancia de 17.16 metros, con la Calle ‘A’.

El inmueble descrito contiene una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. Aprobada la segregación del descrito solar por la Junta de Planificación mediante plano archivado en esta oficina con el No. 5119.

The property is identified with the number 11,017 and is recorded at page number 279 of volume number 316 of South Río Piedras, in the Registry of Property of San Juan, Fourth Section. WHEREAS, the mortgage foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is recorded at page number 137 of volume number 697 of South Río Piedras, fifteenth inscription in the Registry of Property of San Juan, Fourth Section. WHEREAS the property is subject to the following junior liens: LIS PENDENS: Civil matter pursued by DLJ Mortgage Capital Inc. vs. Pedro Federico Pou Rodríguez and his wife Gianna Méndez Zamora before Puerto Rico Superior Court at San Juan, docket number KCD2014-1177(803) regarding collection of monies and foreclosure, claiming payment of mortgage with an outstanding balance of $370,052.96, as per complaint dated April 14, 2014. Recorded on February 5, 2015, page number 112 of volume 855 for South Rio Piedras.

Sixteenth inscription. LIS PENDENS: Civil matter pursued by DLJ Mortgage Capital Inc. vs.

Pedro Federico Pou Rodríguez and his wife Gianna Méndez Zamora in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, docket number 3:16-CV-01096PAD regarding collection of monies and foreclosure, claiming payment of mortgage with an outstanding balance of $370,052.96, as per

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complaint dated January 20, 2016. Recorded on February 20, 2016. Recorded at the Karibe volume for South Rio Piedras. Notation B. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens.

WHEREFORE, the FIRST public sale will be held on AUGUST 6, 2021 AT 9:30 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $400,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on AUGUST 13, 2021 AT 9:30 and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $266,666.67. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction shall be held on AUGUST 20, 2021 AT 9:30 and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $200,000.00. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this day of June 15, 2021. (SING.) Joel RondaFeliciano, Special Master 787) 565-0515. Email: rondajoel@ me.com.

LEGAL NOTICE M&T 42416 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

Lime Homes, LTD Plaintiff, v.

María de los Ángeles Hernández Echevarría

Defendants CIVIL NO: 3:20-cv-01714 FAB. RE: Collection of Money and Mortgage Foreclosure. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: María de los Ángeles Hernández Echevarría, General Public, and all parties that may have an

interest in the property

WHEREAS, Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $172,833.73 plus interest at a rate of 4.000% per annum since May 1, 2019 until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff late charges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due until the debt is paid in full. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($16,000.00) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation.

The records of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda-Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder and at at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698579, -66.1124836) the following property: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villa Fontana en el Barrio Sabana Abajo del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número de solar 22 de la manzana 4-S. Area del Solar 337.56 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con el solar número 21, distancia de 23.450 metros; por el Sur, con la calle número 322, distancia de 19.950 metros en arco; por el Este, con la Calle número 320, distancia de 11.007 metros y 2.75 metros en arco; y por el Oeste, con el solar número 1, distancia de 14.507 metros. Contiene una casa para una sola familia. The property is identified with the number 11,959 and is recorded at page number 108 of volume number 315 of Carolina, in the Registry of Property of Carolina, First Section. WHEREAS, The mortgage foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is recorded at page number asiento abreviated 180 of volume number 1,056 of Carolina, third inscription in the Registry of Property of Carolina, First Section. WHEREAS the property is subject to the following

junior liens: A. MORTGAGE: A promissory note in favor of DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION, doing bussiness as H. F. MORTGAGE BANKERS, or to its order, for the original loan amount of $40,000.00, bearing annual interest at a rate of 7.95%, payable August 1st 2034, as per deed number 1358, executed in Carolina, August 5, 2004, before Luis Archilla Diaz. Recorded at page 180 of Volume 1056. Third inscription. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFORE, the FIRST public sale will be held on AUGUST 6, 2021 AT 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $160,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on AUGUST 13, 2021 AT 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $106,666.67. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction shall be held on AUGUST 20, 2021 AT 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $80,000.00. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens.

For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this day of June 15, 2021.

(SING.) Joel Ronda-Feliciano, Special Master 787) 565-0515.

Email: rondajoel@me.com.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

MIGUEL ÁNGEL BERRIOS MELÉNDEZ, MARÍA

AURORA LÓPEZ CIRILO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado CIVIL NÚM: FA2019CV00986.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA, Yo SANDDRALIZ MARTINEZ TORRES, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, al público en general.

CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 20 de marzo de 2020 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, en el caso arriba indicado, venderé en la fecha o fechas que más adelante se indican, en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal, en mi oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el Centro Judicial de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, Avenida Marcelito Gotay Edificio 461, Esquina Barriada Jerusalén, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada, en el inmueble que se describe a continuación, propiedad de la parte demandada Miguel Ángel Berrios Meléndez, María Aurora López Cirilo y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, Compuesta por Ambos. Dirección Física: Urb. Veve Calzada, 85 Calle 21, Fajardo, PR 00738. Finca 2,680, inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 420 de Fajardo, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. URBANA: Solar situado en el Barrio Quebrada Fajardo de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, que lleva el número ochenta y cinco de la Urbanización SemiRural Santiago Veve Calzada con una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos dieciocho metros cuadrados con seis centésimas de metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar mil cuarenta y cinco y la calle veinte; por el SUR, con el solar mil cuarenta y tres y la calle veintidós; por el ESTE, con los solares mil cuarenta y tres y mil cuarenta y cuatro; y por el OESTE, con las calle número veintiuno y veintidós. Enclava una estructura de concreto para fines residenciales. Finca 2,680. Por su procedencia está afecta a: a) Libre de Cargas.

Por sí está afecta a: a) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Great Atlantic Mortgage Corp., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $62,464.00,

con intereses al 7 ½ % anual, vencedero el día 1 de agosto de 2028, constituida mediante la escritura número 305, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de julio de 1998, ante el notario Ignacio José Gorrin Maldonado, e inscrita al folio 202 vuelto del tomo 420 de Fajardo, finca número 2,680, inscripción 10ma. b) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage Corp., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $17,000.00, con intereses al 9.950% anual, vencedero el día 1 de septiembre de 2020, constituida mediante la escritura número 260, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de agosto de 2005, ante el notario Néctor F. Robles Morales, e inscrita al folio 202 vuelto del tomo 420 de Fajardo, finca número 2,680, inscripción 11ma. c) Aviso de Demanda de fecha 14 de agosto de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia , Sala de Superior de Fajardo, el el Caso Civil número FA2019-CV00986, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Miguel Angel Berrios Melendez, Marie Aurora López Cirlo y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, mediante la cual se ordena el pago por la suma de $38,608.22 más la suma de 10,875.23, más intereses y otras sumas o en su defecto la venta en pública subasta, anotado el dái 17 de septiembre de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Fajardo, finca número 2,680, Anotación A. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 2,680 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: Primera Subasta: 12 de octubre de 2021 a las 10:30AM, Precio Minimo: $62,464.00, Hipoteca: Escritura Número 305, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 31 de julio de 1998, ante el Notario Ignacio José Gorrin Maldonado. Segunda Subasta: 20 de octubre de 2021 a las 10:30AM, Precio Minimo: $41,642.67.

Tercera Subasta: 27 de octubre de 2021 a las 10:30AM, Precio Minimo: $31,232.00. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables.

Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación que se transmite y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si las hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante las acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de las mismas, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Conforme a la Sentencia dictada el día 25 de enero de 2020 y archivada en los autos el 28 de

enero de 2020, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: La suma de $38,608.22, más $10,875.23, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de junio de 2021. SHIRLEY SANCHEZ MARTINEZ #161, Alguacil Regional. SANDRALIZ MARTINEZ TORRES #737, Alguacil Auxiliar, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE VÍCTOR RODRÍGUEZ CHAULIZANT COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES

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HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, MERCEDES MORALES VÁZQUEZ, POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES RELICTOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2019CV00094.

(409). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. 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 19 de julio de 2019, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 1 de noviembre de 2019 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 13 de noviembre de 2019 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 31 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, Carretera Número Tres (3) Km. 11.7, Avenida 65 de Infantería, Intersección Carr. Núm. 853, Entrada Urb. Lomas de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villa Fontana, situada en el Barrio Sabana Abajo de Carolina, Puerto Rico, que se describe con el Número Dos (2) del bloque “EL” con un área de 315.80 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con los Solares veinticuatro (24), veinticinco (25) y veintiséis (26), distancia de 16.54 metros; por el SUR, con la Calle Número Cuarenta y Siete (47), distancia de 12.16 metros; por el ESTE, con el Solar Número Uno (1), distancia de 21.79 metros; y por el OESTE, con el Solar Número Seis (6), distancia de 22.31 metros. En dicho solar enclava una vivienda de concreto para una familia.

La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 617 de Carolina, Finca Número 32275, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio móvil del tomo 898 de Carolina, Finca Número 32275,

Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. Inscripción novena. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: VILLA FONTANA, EL2 VÍA 26, CAROLINA, PR 00983-3908.

SUBASTAS: FECHAS: PRIMERA: 31 DE AGOSTO DE 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $64,928.00.

SEGUNDA: 8 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $43,285.33. TERCERA: 15 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $32,464.00.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $64,928.00.

De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 8 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 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, $43,285.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 15 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $32,464.00. 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 $36,553.89 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7% anual desde el 1 de octubre de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $213.76 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $6,492.80 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) Hipoteca: Constituida por Víctor Rodríguez Chaulizant y su esposa, Mercedes Morales Vázquez, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Citibank N.A., o a su orden, por la suma de $16,000.00 sus intereses al 2.5% anual y vencedero a la presentación, según consta de la Escritura Número 367, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 7 de octubre de 1998 ante el Notario Alejandro Oliveras Rivera, inscrita al Folio móvil del tomo 901 de Carolina, Finca Número 32275, inscripción décima. Nota: Sujeta a condiciones que aceleran su vencimiento. B) Aviso de

Thursday, June 17, 2021 Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Víctor Rodríguez Chaulizant, Mercedes Morales Vázquez y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, compuesto por ambos, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, en el Caso Civil Número CA2019CV00094 sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $36,553.89 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 10 de enero 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. 210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 12 de mayo de 2021. SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.

JOSÉ LUIS CORREDOR MIRANDA, ROSANED RODRÍGUEZ BÁEZ Y

LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. CA2019CV01136 (408). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 17 de octubre de 2019, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 19 de febrero de 2020 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 27 de febrero de 2020 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 31 de agosto de 2021, a las 11:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, Carretera Número Tres (3) Km. 11.7, Avenida 65 de Infantería, Intersección Carr. Núm. 853, Entrada Urb. Lomas de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno identificado con el número 139 en el plano de inscripción de la Comunidad Reparto Miñi Miñi radicada en el Barrio Medianía Alta del término municipal de Loíza, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 341.46 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.0869 cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, en 26.36 metros lineales con el solar número 138; por el SUR, en 26.17 metros lineales con el solar número 140; por el ESTE, en 13.00 metros lineales con servidumbre de uso público número 3; y por el OESTE, en 13.00 metros lineales con la calle número 7-A. Edificación: Enclava una casa de concreto armado y bloques para una familia, que consta de tres (3) cuartos dormitorios, un (1) baño, sala, comedor y marquesina abierta, consiste de 927.00 pies cuadrados de construcción interior más 200.00 pies cuadrados de marquesina abierta, con un valor de $52,000.00, según escritura número 284, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 30 de noviembre de 1999, ante el Notario Rolando A. Silva. Inscrita al folio 191 vuelto del tomo 194 de Loíza, Finca Número 9374, Inscripción tercera. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 191 del tomo 194 de Loíza, Finca Número 9374, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sec-

ción III. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 191 vuelto del tomo 194 de Loíza, Finca Número 9374, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. Inscripción tercera. La primera escritura de modificación consta inscrita al folio 25 del tomo 227 de Loíza, Finca #9374, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. Inscripción cuarta. La segunda escritura de modificación consta inscrita al folio 13 vuelto del tomo 239 de Loíza, Finca #9374, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. Inscripción quinta. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: 139 VILLAS DE MIÑI MIÑI, LOÍZA, PR 00772.

Primera Subasta: 31 de agosto de 2021 a las 11:30 am. Tipo Mínimo: $57,470.62. Segunda Subasta: 8 de septiembre de 2021 a las 11:30 am, Tipo Mínimo: $38,313.74. Tercera Subasta: 15 de septiembre de 2021 a las 11:30 am, Tipo Mínimo: $28,735.31. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $57,470.62. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una segunda subasta, el 8 de septiembre de 2021, a las 11:30 de la mañana en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $38,313.74 De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el 15 de septiembre de 2021, a las 11:30 de la mañana en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $28,735.31. 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 $54,986.15 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4% anual desde el 1 de julio de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $189.47 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $6,395.70 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Bitácora: Al Asiento 2019-036158CR03, presentada el 9 de abril de 2019, Demanda de fecha 4 de abril de 2019, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso civil número CA2019CV01136,

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seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. José Luis Corredor Miranda y su esposa Rosaned Rodríguez Báez, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca de la inscripción tercera, por la suma de $63,967.00, con un balance de $54,986.15 y otras cantidades, o la venta en pública subasta de la propiedad. Pendiente de anotación. 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.

210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 12 de mayo de 2021. Samuel González Isaac, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

SUCESIÓN DE WILSON RIVERA RIVERA, COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; RAMÓN LUIS NIEVES

KUILAN

Demandado CIVIL NÚM: CG2019CV03365.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: Fulano y Mengano de Tal como posibles herederos desconocidos de la Sucesión de Wilson Rivera Rivera, DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA DE: BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda enmendada dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, radicando el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal y notificando al Lcdo.

Juan C. Salichs Pou, cuya dirección es PO Box 195553, San Juan, PR, 00919-5553, teléfono (787) 449-6000, y número de facsímile (787) 474-3892, con copia de la contestación a la demanda enmendada. Este caso trata sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Garantías en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene a la parte demandada a pagar: la suma principal de $201,514.34, más intereses a razón de 5.125%, desde el 1 de octubre de 2016, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de $3,555.85 por cargos por mora, más la suma de $20,589.10 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se le apercibe que si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda enmendada, sin más citarle ni oírle. Se ordena a los herederos a que dentro del mismo término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de notificación, ACEPTEN O REPUDIEN la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante Wilson Rivera Rivera. Se les apercibe que de no expresarse dentro del término de (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por aceptada.

Lcdo. Juan C. Salichs Pou, Número del Tribunal Supremo 11,115 PO Box 195553, San Juan, PR, 00919-5553, Teléfono: (787) 449-6000, Facsímile: (787) 474-3892, Correo Electrónico: jsalichs@splawpr.com EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 10 de junio de 2021. CARMEN ANA PEREIRA ORTIZ, Secretaria.

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

GABRIEL JIMENEZ PEREZ DEMANDANTE VS.

MADELINE GUZMAN CHACON

DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM.: AG2021RF00114.

SOBRE: DIVORCIO; RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA.

A: Madeline Guzmán Chacón 7433 April Dr. Fayetteville North Carolina 28314

Por medio del presente aviso se le notifica que la parte demandante ha radicado en su contra una demanda de divorcio por la causal de ruptura irreparrable. Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación del presente Edicto. Deberá usted presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC) al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal dentro del término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

La dirección postal de los Abogados de la parte demandante es: Luz Neida Cordero Cancel P.O. Box 534, Isabela, Puerto Rico 00662, teléfono (787) 8721500 y su correo electrónico es perezcorderolaw@gmail.com.

Se le advierte que este Edicto será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico y que de no contestar usted la demanda en el término anteriormente mencionado, se procederá a anotarle la Rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado de conformidad a la Ley, sin más citarle u oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Honorable Tribunal en la ciudad de Aguadilla, hoy a 6 de mayo de 2021. SARAHI REYES PEREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LISNEL RODRIGUEZ ACEVEDO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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The NBA’s roving role player hopes to settle down in Brooklyn

By SOPAN DEB

J

eff Green has not played basketball everywhere, but it’s on his list. The Brooklyn Nets are the 10th NBA team he’s played for since he was drafted in 2007, two shy of a record shared by Chucky Brown, Jim Jackson, Tony Massenburg and Joe Smith.

Green, 34, is one of 18 players in NBA history to play for at least 10 teams.

He is now in the playoffs as a core member of the Nets — one of seven teams he’s reached the postseason with.

During the regular season, he played some of the best basketball of his career, posting a career high in offensive efficiency, while starting for more than half the season filling in for the All-Stars Kevin Durant, James Harden and Kyrie Irving. On one of the most loaded teams in NBA history, Green has carved out a niche for himself, averaging 11 points and 3.9 rebounds per game, with the occasional highlight-reel dunk.

Because of a plantar fascia strain in his left foot, Green missed six straight playoff games before returning on Sunday for Game 4 of the Nets’ secondround series against Milwaukee, a Nets loss that left the best-of-seven series tied at two games apiece. Now, the Nets find themselves in an unexpected dogfight with the Bucks. And with Irving having sprained his ankle and Harden’s hamstring ailing, Green will be called upon once again to play a significant role.

He scored 27 points off the bench in the Nets’ 114-108 win in Tuesday’s Game 5, supplementing Durant’s 49 points as Harden returned but was limited.

But Green’s career has been an especially odd trek, even in a league where players are moving around more than ever. Green has been productive but has not cashed in with long-term deals: He has joined seven of his 10 teams since the 2014-15 season. His last five contracts — with the Nets, Houston Rockets, Utah Jazz, Washington Wizards and Cleveland Cavaliers — were for one year or less, at the minimum rate.

One of those was a 10-day contract with the Rockets.

Green has routinely averaged around double digits in scoring and out-

Jeff Green, left, started more than half the Nets’ games in the regular season as the team dealt with injuries. He scored 27 points in the Nets’ Game 5 win over the Bucks. performed the expectations for someone with his pay. In Game 7 of the 2018 Eastern Conference finals, he had 19 points and 8 rebounds for Cleveland against the Boston Celtics, helping the Cavaliers advance to the championship round.

But instead of landing him a substantial contract, that performance, after a strong regular season, only led to another minimum contract — the kind of status often reserved for players who are on the fringe of the NBA or at the end of their careers.

“It confuses me, but it isn’t frustrating,” Green said in a recent interview.

“You know, this stuff, that’s out of my control. I go out and just do the work.

And I let my agent handle the logistics of the contract terms, but it is confusing to the point of, ‘What else do I need to do to prove that I’m not a minimum guy?’”

Green said that he would like to stay with the Nets past this year.

“I’d love to settle down in one place,” Green said. “There’s Brooklyn. I’d love to settle down in Brooklyn. I’m not too concerned with the NBA record or how many teams. When you think about it, if I was to play 22 years, played on 15 teams, what does that say? It has no teeth behind it.”

Green’s lack of multiyear offers hasn’t gone unnoticed. After he agreed to yet another minimum deal, with the Jazz in 2019, Dwyane Wade said in a

viral Twitter post: “I do NOT understand how and why Jeff Green keep signing these 1 year deals for the minimum. This is now 3 years in a row. He’s never injured, He’s never been a problem in the locker room, He’s athletic, he can shoot the 3, he can guard multiple positions and he’s not old.”

DeAndre Jordan, Green’s friend and Nets teammate, called it “a little unfair,” but added, “Obviously, teams want him because he continues to get signed.”

For a year.

So instead, Green has settled for life as a professional basketball nomad.

Green, a native of Cheverly, Maryland, began his NBA journey in 2007 after three years at Georgetown. He was drafted fifth overall by the Boston Celtics and immediately traded to the Seattle SuperSonics in a package for Ray Allen.

The Sonics had already drafted Durant at No. 2 overall. Because of Green’s athleticism and scoring ability, there was hope that Green would become a star next to Durant.

That never materialized. At his best, Green has shown a talent for scoring, but not much else — which helps explain why he hasn’t been able to settle with one franchise. And while in some cases an NBA player might bounce around because of concerns about locker room presence, Green has a positive reputation off the court.

“I just live in the moment,” Green said. “I’ve enjoyed each city that I’ve been in, each team, teammate, that I’ve been with.”

Ish Smith, now a guard for the Washington Wizards, his 11th team, said playing for so many franchises means locations that should be familiar are not: the grocery store, the arena, the practice gym.

“The difficult part is when you leave one team and go to another team, you’ve got to pick up all your stuff,” Smith said.

“All your belongings. Get traded to a new team and get acclimated to a new system and a new area. New everything.

And then that’s just the off-the-court stuff. The on-the-court stuff is, playingwise, knowing what each team wants from you.”

He added, “But the blessing is you’re in the NBA.” That Green is even in the league is surprising. In January 2012, when he was 25 and playing for the Celtics, he had surgery for an aortic aneurysm that was discovered in a routine physical.

The heart surgery likely saved his life. He missed the 2011-12 season.

A decade later, Green said he never doubted that he would play again.

“I reflect on it by being grateful and blessed to wake up and still be able to play. That’s my reflection,” Green said.

“My goal after the surgery was to go out and play as hard, and have people forget that I even had surgery. And I think that was the goal and I think I succeeded.”

Instead, Green talks about playing into his mid-40s, like his former teammate Vince Carter, who played for eight teams. But either way, Green said he is satisfied with his career plight.

“You can’t take this career, these opportunities for granted,” Green said.

“Regardless of how many teams that I’ve been on, the end of the day, my goal was to play in the NBA and I’m still doing that.”

TODAY’S PLAYOFF GAME (All Times EST) Eastern Conference Semifinals Brooklyn Nets at Milwaukee Bucks, 8:30 p.m., ESPN (Brooklyn leads series 3-2)

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Once again, MLB faces a crisis of its own making

By TYLER KEPNER

H

ere is what the New York Yankees’ Gerrit Cole should have said last week when asked if he had ever used Spider Tack while pitching: “I follow all the rules that baseball is willing to enforce.”

That would have put the emphasis where it belongs.

On Tuesday, Major League Baseball formally announced “enhanced enforcement” of its long-standing rules prohibiting the application of foreign substances to baseballs. This continues the sport’s tradition of winking at scofflaws until the situation gets out of control.

Do we really think that the 1919 Chicago White Sox were the first group of players to take money for fixing games? Was Jackie Robinson the very first Black man qualified to play in the majors? Did nobody ever take steroids before Ken Caminiti admitted it? Did the 2017 Houston Astros invent the art of illegal sign stealing?

Of course not. And just like in those shameful episodes, MLB knew what was happening long before making a fuss about it.

“Yeah, there’s a rule on the books, but they don’t enforce that rule,” Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said Tuesday, adding that pitchers took advantage of the league’s indifference.

“The game is now starting to catch up: this has become too much, this has gone too far, and how do we self-correct it? And the only way to correct all of it is to have people, I guess, go dry, and not use what they’ve used for generations.”

Starting Monday, umpires will check the gloves, hats, and fingertips of every pitcher who appears in a game. If those fidgety pitchers look suspicious as they tug their sleeves, hike their belts or scratch their heads, they can expect an additional umpire visit. Anyone found with a foreign substance will get a 10-game suspension (with pay), and their team will not be allowed to replace the player on its active roster.

If baseball follows through with its planned enforcement, expect a major

As it did with steroids, baseball spent decades fostering a breeding ground for blatant ball doctoring. A handful of 10-game suspensions can’t change that. shift in the culture of the game. In the century since the league banned the spitball, generations of pitchers have used gripping agents on the mound, mostly with impunity; it was so widespread that managers had an unwritten pact not to check each other’s pitchers.

Those who were caught and punished had typically flouted the rules in such an obvious manner — think of Michael Pineda with pine tar smeared on his neck — that they basically goaded the opponent into asking an umpire to intervene.

The problem now is that pitchers have advanced from using pine tar to products like Spider Tack, a sticky paste meant to help competitive strongmen haul stones that weigh hundreds of pounds. It would have made sense to approve something besides the rosin bag to give pitchers a consistent feel and grip; say, a sunscreenand-rosin mix. When a baseball feels slick — as it often can on cold nights, in particular — it’s a danger to hitters and pitchers alike.

To prepare for the new enforcement, many pitchers had already abandoned their usual methods. Tyler Glasnow, the ace right-hander for the

Tampa Bay Rays, said he had long used a sunscreen-and-rosin mix but stopped doing so in his start last week. Forced to grip his fastball and curve much tighter, he said, he developed soreness “in places I didn’t even know I had muscles.” In his next start, on Monday, Glasnow felt his elbow pop. He was diagnosed with a partial tear of his ulnar collateral ligament and a flexor strain; even if he avoids surgery, Glasnow will miss months.

“To tell us to do something completely different in the middle of a season is insane,” he said. “It’s ridiculous.

There has to be some give and take here. You can’t just take away everything and not add something. Pitchers need to be able to have some sort of control or some sort of grip on the ball.”

Now they cannot, because MLB ignored the evidence it should have been collecting long before this season.

In the 2016 season, there were 3,294 more hits than strikeouts in the majors. By 2018, strikeouts had narrowly overtaken hits. And if the 2021 numbers continue at the current rates, there will be about 5,200 more strikeouts than hits this season.

Baseball has stood by and let this happen, sometimes to a comical degree. In April 2017, Yadier Molina of the St. Louis Cardinals blocked a pitch in the dirt and searched frantically for it, only to see that it was stuck like Velcro to his chest protector. MLB determined there was no rules violation, and everybody had a good laugh.

Trevor Bauer, now with the Los Angeles Dodgers, saw what was happening. He even showed it in the first inning of a start in April 2018, with Cleveland, when he raised his spin rate by about 300 revolutions per minute. Bauer had cited that figure as the increase a pitcher could get by using a gripping agent on the ball.

“There is a problem in baseball right now that has to do with sticky substances and spin rates,” Bauer told reporters then. “We might not have had the technology before to measure how sticky stuff affects the ball, how it spins, how it moves. But all that research is clear now.”

Bauer added: “It is the same argument that was used when steroids were going on in the game. If you just look the other way and you let some people do it, the people who chose not to do it are at a competitive disadvantage. And that’s what’s going on right now.”

As it was in the steroid era, baseball was more concerned with appearances than competitive disadvantages. When home run records started falling — and Congress started calling — MLB and the players union were finally motivated to institute drug testing with meaningful penalties.

Now, it seems, baseball is terrified by the product it has become. While it’s hard to share New York Mets first baseman Pete Alonso’s belief that MLB routinely changes the baseball based on the next free agent class, the home run rate did spike significantly in 2015, just after it fell to a 22-year low. When home runs rise, strikeouts typically follow — but now there are too many strikeouts.

The result is a style of play that many longtime observers, inside and outside the sport, barely recognize. It is a style the league promoted by reacting too late to a trend that was clear all along.

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Baseball Reference adds Negro leagues statistics, rewriting its record book

By JAMES WAGNER

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n Monday, Baseball Reference, the go-to source on the internet for such matters, would have told you that Stan Musial led the major leagues with a .357 batting average in 1943. It also would have said that numerous pitchers took a turn leading the majors in strikeouts per nine innings between 1927 and 1945, and that the top three batters in career in adjusted onbase-plus-slugging percentage were Babe Ruth, Ted Williams and Barry Bonds.

A day later, all of that looks much different. Now, Tetelo Vargas of the New York Cubans (.471) and Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays (.466) have both surpassed Musial in 1943. Satchel Paige, a dominant pitcher for more than 20 seasons, has taken over eight of those strikeout titles. And Oscar Charleston, perhaps the finest all-around player in Negro leagues history, has bumped Bonds for the third-best career mark in adjusted OPS. “A lot of new books on baseball trivia will be coming out in the next few years,” Sean Forman, founder and president of Sports Reference, joked on a video call before his baseball site’s announcement Tuesday that it had drastically changed and expanded its accounting of the Negro leagues.

The move comes before Major League Baseball’s own plans to incorporate the statistics into its historical record, which could happen in the next offseason.

The reason for Baseball Reference’s adjustment dates to August, when Forman said that he read an article about how players from the Negro leagues remained uncounted among the official major leagues and that MLB was considering formally recognizing several of those leagues as on par with its American and National leagues.

Until 1947, Black players had been excluded from the major leagues. And long after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, the accomplishments of most Black players remained overlooked. A committee of five white men in 1969 granted major league status to four defunct organizations but chose not to include the Negro leagues, an omission that MLB called

It has long been understood that Josh Gibson was one of the most dominant players in baseball history. With Baseball Reference’s latest update, you can see just how dominant he was. “clearly an error” in December when it announced it was redressing that past racial wrong and bestowing “long overdue recognition” to more than 3,400 players from seven distinct Negro leagues that operated from 1920 to 1948.

Baseball Reference has long featured statistics from the Negro leagues, but they were not comprehensive, the numbers were not included in such features as the major league leader boards or advanced search tool, and the players’ pages looked different from those of other major leaguers.

Forman said Sports Reference began talking to the people at Seamheads last summer about potentially licensing their extensive Negro leagues database. But doing so, and elevating those leagues on his site, did not crystallize until after Forman read Ben Lindbergh’s article in The Ringer.

“It just hadn’t occurred to me, and I’m somewhat ashamed to say,” Forman said.

Soon, Forman and his team embarked on the largest project that Sports Reference had ever undertaken, with half of the company’s staff dedicating the past four months to beefing up its representation of the Negro leagues. The company sought input from the families of Negro leagues players and researchers, and

commissioned articles from them and sought interviews for a new podcast.

Although the Elias Sports Bureau is the official keeper of MLB’s statistics and has been researching how best to incorporate Negro leagues statistics given the scattered nature of the various leagues and inconsistent record keeping, Baseball Reference’s efforts, while unofficial, were significant. That is because the site is perhaps the most accessible and widely used baseball almanac, visited by fans, players and front office executives alike.

“As baseball reinvents itself, every fan should welcome this statistical reconstitution towards social reparation,” Larry Lester, a founder of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, and the chairman of the Society for American Baseball Research’s Negro Leagues Committee, said in a video call.

“The beauty of these stats is that they now humanize these folk heroes, and they’re no longer mythical figures like Paul Bunyan or the steel-driving John Henry. These stats legitimize their accomplishments.”

Lester said MLB’s announcement in December was bittersweet because it came on the heels of what he called the country’s awakening to social concerns such as police brutality and systemic racism. Adding the accomplishments of Ne-

gro league players to Baseball Reference, he said, was an opportunity for America to learn more about its history.

“Many of the websites need to be updated to include the greatness of the Negro league players,” he said. “You’re going to discover great home run hitters besides Josh Gibson.”

The major league leader boards, however, did not change drastically Tuesday because of several complicating factors and inherent inequalities. First and foremost, Lester said, the Negro leagues played 50 to 70 games a season — less than half as many as the other major leagues — and thus players from those leagues did not have the same opportunities.

That is why, Lester said, rate statistics like at-bats per home run or strikeouts per nine innings are better ways to show the talent of players like Gibson and Paige.

Gibson was a power-hitting catcher whose Hall of Fame plaque says he “hit almost 800 home runs in league and independent baseball,” but, as of Tuesday, only 165 were accounted for on Baseball Reference.

When MLB made its Negro league announcement over the winter, Gibson’s greatgrandson Sean said there were many unanswered questions about how recognition would take place. He said being included in this way on Baseball Reference was one example of how the change matters. He imagined how excited one of the few living Negro league players, former outfielder Ron Teasley, 94, might feel when he sees his page listed among the major leaguers online.

Gibson also wondered if the change could bolster the Hall of Fame case for players like Rap Dixon, a star outfielder in the 1920s and 1930s.

For his own family, Sean Gibson said he was excited to see how his great-grandfather’s accomplishments rank in major league history. On Tuesday, the top of Josh Gibson’s Baseball Reference page had several new additions: two-time Triple Crown winner, 12-time All-Star, two-time World Series winner and three-time batting champion.

“It used to always be like, ‘Was Josh Gibson considered one of the greatest Black baseball players?’” Sean Gibson said in a video call. “Well, now we can say Josh is considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time.”

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

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

Crossword

Answers on page 38

Wordsearch

GAMES

HOROSCOPE Aries

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(Mar 21-April 20)

Your heart may melt at the plight of the world and the issues people have to deal with, Aries. Compassionate influences could see you in the mood to give to others, and leave them happier. There is a more awkward aspect showing though, and this can bring on feelings of frustration if someone has taken advantage of your kindness. Now might be the time to nip it in the bud.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

An uplifting aspect across your self-care axis, can be a call to create a routine that factors in more pampering. If you need some quiet time, then do take it, as a chance to reflect on life and any issues you are dealing with, could help you see things in perspective. And once you are rested and energized, you can take advantage of an opportunity that might be very good for you.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

An edgy solar connection with radical Pluto, can focus your mind and give you the confidence to make changes in your life. There is no need to listen to others who might want to hurry you along, as this is something that is best done in your own time. The opportunity to release whatever no longer serves you, could leave space for fruitful opportunities and connections.

You may be spurred on by someone who has nothing but positive remarks and compliments for an idea of yours. Current trends reveal you can do well if you have a good plan and plenty of determination to reach your goal. But there is the potential to be easily distracted and lose momentum. Try giving yourself a deadline Gemini, as this might assist in getting things done.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

With a dreamy blend of energies in your adventure zone, this can be a time to explore the pleasures of life and to indulge yourself, Cancer. If you have the time and inclination, then invite some friends to join you for an outing. You deserve this opportunity to unwind, especially if the pressure has been on recently and you need a break from an issue that just won’t go away.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

You may feel like cocooning yourself from the world, and wrapping yourself up in dreams that are sheer delight. This might not be possible though, until you have sorted out a matter that seems to be coming to a head. Decisions can be needed regarding dealings with someone who seems to be a tad dominating. They may not mean to be, but if they want something, they will push for it.

Virgo

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

Today’s Moon/Jupiter face-off may bring out the best in your partnership and relationships in general, which could smooth the way and make the day ahead more agreeable. You might be feeling the pressure from an awkward situation. But if you can do nothing about it for now, it’s best to focus on other things that you could accomplish. Need a boost? A chat with a friend may help.

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

The Sun’s uncomfortable angle with Pluto can be enough to force change. If you have been in two minds about going ahead, you may now understand why it is so important. But once you have made your decision, it could be a relief. With the pressure off, you’ll be ready to get on with it. It might seem like a weight has lifted from your shoulders Scorpio, and that now all is well.

A very persuasive influence could see someone keen to get you signed up to a scheme. You may sense this is unwise Archer, and if so, steer clear at all costs. Even so, they might not be easily put off, so if you feel a strong aversion to their suggestions, run with this feeling and avoid getting further involved. You’ll be better to keep your money in your bank account where it belongs.

There seems to be positive things happening in your life Capricorn, which is good news. This includes the potential to involve yourself in delightful interests that can bring much enjoyment. However, you may be on the verge of a breakthrough regarding a personal goal or other plan. Therefore, it could be one of the better times to find the right balance between work and play.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

An easy-going aspect can inspire you to splurge on an experience that looks to be right up your street.

Could you get it cheaper though? You might if you are prepared to ask around. Go for it, Aquarius, as you may get a real bargain. On another note, while sobering Saturn in your sign can make you a tad self-conscious, the cosmos encourages you to boldly strut your stuff.

Pisces

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

You might find yourself in the position of supporting one friend, but perhaps alienating yourself from another, which could be difficult. With an intense aspect ongoing, it seems that there may be no middle ground, and that you can be pushed into making a choice. If so, take time out to reflect on your options, as by acting on your higher and wiser impulses, things might change.

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CARTOONS

Herman

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

BC

Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

For Better or for Worse

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