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he Social Welfare Committee in the island House of Representatives, chaired by Rep. Lisie Burgos Muñiz, heard from Rafael Morales Maldonado, the diocesan bishop of the Episcopal Church, Diocese of Puerto Rico on Tuesday as part of a legislative hearing on House Bill 768, which seeks to ban the use of hormonal treatments and gender reassignment surgeries for minors.

In his explanatory presentation, the religious leader affirmed his support for local, state and federal laws that prevent discrimination based on the gender identity or gender expression of any person.

“In the case of this bill, we have to highlight the genuine interest of protecting minors in case of clinical decisions that will impact their future life,” Morales Maldonado said in a written statement. “However, we are concerned that the bill does not separate the physical and psychological development processes of children, pre-adolescents and adolescents.”

In turn, the bishop stressed that each age group requires “a differentiated approach to their physical and mental process.”

“As pediatric patients become adolescents and approach adulthood, their participation in medical decision-making often increases to take into account their values and determinations,” Morales Maldonado said. “But until a young person reaches the age of majority, the medical decision-making process generally includes parental or guardian permission to the extent appropriate.”

The bishop said he believes that respect for autonomy is the strongest factor that supports hormonal treatments, “since the practice is justified by the desire to respect the gender identity expressed by an adolescent.”

“Of course, any process [must be] supported and guided by a clinical team with the participation of a father, mother or guardians,” he said. “This is why we emphasize a differentiated and individualized project, in which a multidisciplinary and educational clinical team accompanies the adolescent in a decision that he or she will make when he or she is eighteen years old.”

Also deposing before the committee was clinical psychologist Riddish M. Álvarez, who expressed support for the bill filed by Burgos Muñiz.

“Hormonal gender affirmation therapy causes minors with gender dysphoria to begin hormonal and subsequently surgical processes with irreversible consequences,” she said. “Certainly, there are testimonies where it has helped people to transition and it has been effective at the moment. It is no less true that even though this process is novel and lacking in longitudinal studies, thousands of cases have been presented where minors have begun to transition and then have reversed course.” Álvarez recommended in her explanatory memorandum that the scope of the measure be extended to 21-year-olds.

“Something as severe and invasive as hormones, puberty blockers and surgeries should be [legal only] after reaching the age of majority, 21 years,” she wrote.

Burgos Muñiz noted that her bill “is not aimed at people of legal age who wish to make a gender transition.”

“We respect the privacy of people,” she said.

“This committee does not intend to limit any right of individuals to be something different. The dignity of all people must be respected. Here we are protecting minors.”

Bishop Rafael Morales Maldonado of the Episcopal Church Diocese of Puerto Rico

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On its first day as grid operator, LUMA Energy gets conditional go-ahead from regulator

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he Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) on Tuesday approved with conditions LUMA Energy’s system operation principles and initial budgets, but not the private consortium’s request for a full liability waiver.

LUMA Energy began on Tuesday to operate the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) transmission and distribution (T&D) system, customer service and billing areas.

Tuesday was also the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season.

“The decisions allow us to move into service commencement and that was important,” LUMA Energy CEO and President Wayne Stensby said. “The decisions themselves, just like the submissions, are complex and we are going to be moving on those in the coming days and weeks. There are certain reporting requirements but they allow us to move into service commencement.”

The contract went into effect even though not all of the conditions for the start date have been implemented, critics said. Senate President José Luis Dalmau Santiago challenged the legality of the LUMA Energy contract in local court.

At a news conference in the Capitol, Dalmau said the contract with LUMA Energy is not registered in the Property Registry as required by local laws.

The Public-Private Partnerships Act and the Mortgage Law establish that a contract must become a public deed when it is registered in the Property Registry. Although Dalmau said he is aware that the document has not been submitted to the Property Registry, he introduced two Senate resolutions to formally request a certification of that information from the Property Registry.

The legal recourse seeks a preliminary and a permanent injunction to stop LUMA Energy from operating. If the contract is nullified, all of the actions undertaken to implement the contract have to be reversed, including the transfer of PREPA employees to other government agencies.

Meanwhile, federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain on Tuesday denied a motion to reconsider her decision denying a request to stop the contract filed by the Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union.

The PREB, meanwhile, approved late Monday some of the plans required by the contract to become effective.

Under the contract, bankrupt PREPA retains the ownership of the T&D system assets that LUMA will manage. The 15-year contract, which is being administered by the Public-Private Partnership Authority (P3A), is

Private consortium LUMA Energy took over as operator of Puerto Rico’s electric power grid on Tuesday. expected to cost $1.5 billion.

The budget approved by the PREB for fiscal year (FY) 2022, which begins July 1, was $625 million for transmission and distribution, $774 million for capital improvements, $228.9 million for generation and $145 million for other expenses that include bankruptcy costs.

For FY 2023, the PREB approved a budget of $622 billion for T&D, $1.7 billion for capital improvements, $278 million for generation and $85 million in other costs. For FY 2024, the PREB approved $582 million for T&D, $1.3 billion in capital expenditures, $254 million for generation and $80.5 million for other debt.

The PREB also approved a $30 million emergency response account, which is to be continually replenished if a storm or other emergency event occurs, following drawdowns by LUMA to fund emergency response.

LUMA’s Emergency Response Plan and Emergency Management Plan include $1.8 million for emergency response preparedness in FY 2022, $1.2 million in FY 2023 and $0.9 million in FY 2024.

Stensby said the utility has enough resources for a Category 2 hurricane and not the major storms that hit Puerto Rico in 2017 and destroyed the grid. To address identified gaps, LUMA is proposing to establish an Office of Emergency Management and Business Continuity, and to also establish primary and alternate emergency operations centers.

LUMA’s budgets rely heavily on federal funds to work. The document said that of the planned FY 2022 capital expenditures of $774 million, some $650.4 million are targeted to receive federal funding support.

In FY 2023, LUMA’s budget includes $1.05 billion of federal funding support, out of total capital expenditures of $1.2 billion. LUMA’s proposed budget for capital improvements has $1.2 billion of federal funding support out of $1.3 billion.

The PREB’s approval of LUMA’s initial budgets is subject to several conditions, including requiring LUMA to periodically report on revenue collections and expenditures, maintain detailed accounting and provide quarterly reports.

PREB Commissioner Ángel Rivera dissented from the approved budget stating he would have required LUMA to file a revenue requirement process as the numbers were not clear.

Regarding the system operation principles (SOPs), defined by LUMA as the description of how the bulk power system will operate to ensure efficient energy generation and reliable energy delivery, the PREB said the SOPs seem to be solely intended to pave the way for the safe and reliable operations of the Puerto Rico bulk power system for purposes of fulfilling the requirements of the contract.

“Nevertheless, while the focus of the SOPs is to ensure planning and operations of

the bulk power system, it would be shortsighted and inadequate to ignore the important role distribution-connected resources such as distributed solar generating and storage facilities, microgrids, backup generators and demand side resources will play in the resource adequacy, reliability and stability of Puerto Rico’s electricity system,” the PREB’s resolution reads. “We recognize that LUMA focused on certain operational aspects geared toward increasing system stability as quickly as possible. Nevertheless, SOPs are meant to provide long-term direction about how the electrical system will be operated with the resources identified in the Integrated Resource Plan.”

The PREB gave LUMA Energy some 30 days to start making improvements to the plan.

In his dissent, Rivera stated that approving the SOPs at this time was premature. He described the SOPs as mere aspirations.

The PREB also rejected LUMA Energy’s waiver liability requests to cover incidents of gross negligence and willful misconduct. Instead, the regulatory body approved a liability waiver for ordinary negligence. Rivera dissented also because he said that there should have been certain limits imposed in liability.

While LUMA requested the full liability waiver to avoid insurance and rate hikes, Stensby said LUMA was not going to seek a rate revision but would explore seeking a reconsideration of the PREB’s decision.

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Labor groups vow ‘to get the governor out’ if gov’t won’t repeal LUMA contract

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

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ith the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) transmission and distribution system going under private management on Tuesday, local labor organizations warned Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia and the federal Financial Oversight and Management Board that the island is close to a national strike amid rising repudiation of LUMA Energy’s public-private partnership (P3) agreement with PREPA. Additionally, the organizations said “the summer of 2021 has begun” and indicated that the union-led demonstrations could demand Pierluisi’s resignation.

During a press conference held in front of PREPA’s headquarters in Santurce, Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union (UTIER by its Spanish acronym) Secretary of Health and Safety Walberto Rolón said the warning comes with a series of demonstrations against the 15-year deal.

On Thursday at 2 p.m., the first demonstration will consist of a march with torches from La Puntilla to La Rogativa in Old San Juan.

“We are facing a governor who is the head of a criminal enterprise that is LUMA Energy, who is the head that works for the fiscal board, who is the head of the P3s, which are all one company and have come to screw the lives of the people of Puerto Rico,” he said. “This will continue to increase because we will not rest until we get this governor and LUMA Energy out of Puerto Rico.”

“We are in the streets together with our comrades in the labor movement, together with the adjacent communities, such as religious people and students,” Rolón added. “What this contract is going to do is further impoverish the poor class of Puerto Rico.”

Moreover, Central Workers Federation (FCT by its Spanish initials) Secretary Eric Sevilla said Pierluisi was responsible for directing “the looting by private enterprise” and betrayed the 33% of constituents who voted for him last November.

“The governor is the main exponent of the private sector who wants to eat, steal, and take the little things the people

Labor organizations said Tuesday that the island is on the verge of a national strike over LUMA Energy’s public-private partnership agreement with the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority to operate the power grid. (Photo by Pedro Correa Henry) of Puerto Rico have left,” he said. “They better look for a lot of handcuffs and chains … and prepare the prisons because we are going to fill them with workers.”

“We are not going to back down because we are going to defend everything that belongs to the people of Puerto Rico,” Sevilla added.

FCT President Antonio Cabán pointed out that islanders already “removed a governor from power” in the summer of 2019, when then-Gov. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares resigned after 12 days of protests in the capital city sparked by the Telegram chat log scandal.

“The streets are hot. People are outraged; we have already seen that they are playing with many workers’ chances to provide nourishment,” Cabán said. “They are already privatizing part of essential services such as the [power] authority.”

“They are going to continue privatizing our parks. They are going to continue privatizing the beaches. They are going to privatize even your house if we let them,” he added. “I think they are going to put La Fortaleza on AirBnB or [turn it into] a hotel.”

“In other words, we are fed up,” Cabán said. “We are tired of this intransigent government.”

Truck Drivers Coalition Coordinator

Carlos Rodríguez added that “there will be no peace in Puerto Rico” if the government does not repeal the P3 agreement with LUMA Energy and bring PREPA back as a “public and efficient” entity.

“We are telling LUMA that they should not even worry about getting comfortable in our country because we are not going to leave them alone until they get the hell out,” he said. “And to every worker brought from outside to Puerto Rico, know that if they cross our picket lines, they will find people ready to defend their energy sovereignty and their access to water.”

“Without water or power, there is no life!” Rodríguez added.

State Insurance Fund Corporation Union President Lizbeth Mercado said the time for Pierluisi to have a dialogue with the people has passed.

“You have arbitrarily closed the doors to dialogue,” she said. “You have closed the doors to the search for equitable solutions in the courts of justice, you have legislated to undermine our rights, you have done everything you could to guarantee your domination. Now you must face the consequences. It is no longer necessary to tell so many lies and so many flip-flops.”

“Do not have the slightest doubt that the so-called rulers will have an effective

response from the working people,” she added. “We are not, nor are we going to stand idly by; you have drawn the line in the sand. We know how to cross it.”

Later in the day, Pierluisi’s press secretary, Sheila Angleró, said in a press release that the governor respects every resident’s freedom to speak out against the LUMA Energy deal.

However, she said that “there is no justification whatsoever for interfering with the essential services our people need.”

Pierluisi also said in a written statement that the utility’s electrical system is making “a great step forward.”

“We all want to have a new robust, reliable, and modern system, and that’s what we’re on our way to,” he said. “We want LUMA to be successful because that will mean better electricity service in Puerto Rico.”

Likewise, the governor said his administration remains vigilant “to ensure that LUMA complies with our people and with the provisions of its contract with the government.”

“We welcome the former PREPA employees who are now employees of the Government of Puerto Rico, and we count on them to provide excellent service to our people,” he said.

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Privatization of certain functions under review at PRASA

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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uerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) Executive President Doriel Pagán Crespo said in a radio interview on Tuesday that the water utility is analyzing the privatization of certain functions.

“That continues under the evaluation of the P3 [Public-Private Partnership Authority] office,” Pagán Crespo said in a radio interview on the program “Pegaos en la Mañana” on Radio Isla. “So as soon as they have a final determination, we will know the result. But it is still under evaluation.”

“What was being contemplated was only for the

customer service area” through the P3 model, she added.

“No dismissal of employees is contemplated” by PRASA under a revised structure, she said.

As for when bidding could start for a P3 contract, Pagán Crespo said she is in the evaluation process. The P3 Authority, or P3A, is described on its website as the one that “leads the delivery of investments for the infrastructure of Puerto Rico, with the intention of transforming our economy by ensuring private capital for public projects.”

“We are making Puerto Rico more robust, smarter and stronger,” the website says. “To achieve this, we execute strategic business efforts with meticulously chosen partners based on their credentials to provide the most efficient services for all. Come be part of the progress!”

Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority Executive President Doriel Pagán Crespo

Mass vaccination event planned for ‘Choliseo’

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

H A mass vaccination event at José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in Hato Rey has been scheduled for Saturday.

ealth Secretary Dr. Carlos Mellado López announced on Tuesday a mass vaccination event called “Play for the Team, Get Vaccinated” at José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in Hato Rey on Saturday.

“Our young people deserve to have an active and safe summer, that is our objective and that is exactly what we want to promote,” Mellado López said at a press conference. “We want to motivate them, and it is our goal that all young people over 12 years of age are vaccinated so that we can little by little enjoy what we loved to do so much before the pandemic. If we all

play for the team, and our team is Puerto Rico, we will be able to return to the normality we knew before the pandemic faster.”

He noted that an orientation campaign was designed that will be seen on social platforms, radio, television, and billboards throughout the island. At the start of the campaign, Tommy Torres, El Gran Combo, Jowel and Randy, Eladio Carrión, Lunay, J Balvin, Karol G, Kanny García, PJ Sin Suela, Arcángel, Sech and “Kiko el Crazy,” among others, will be present.

Meanwhile, athletes who will be part of the call for vaccination include former NBA basketball player José Juan Barea and other players from the National Superior Basketball league, table tennis player Brian Afanador, track and field athlete Rachelle de Orbeta and sport shooter Yarimar Mercado, among others.

Prosecutors assigned to investigate Rosselló ballot flap

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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ustice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández announced on Tuesday that he has assigned two prosecutors to investigate complaints related to the aspect of domicile in the

Former Gov. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares and former first lady Beatriz Rosselló

request by former Gov. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares and former first lady Beatriz Rosselló for an absentee ballot in the recent special election to choose lobbyists for statehood.

“Today I met with both prosecutors to let them know that our only mission is to seek the truth. Nothing else,” the Justice secretary said in a written statement.

The assigned prosecutors are Gretchen Camacho Rossi and Rufino Jiménez Cardona.

Camacho Rossi has over 27 years of experience in the areas of government ethics, public integrity and high-profile litigation. Jiménez Cardona has around 24 years of experience and vast experience in the field of highly complex criminal litigation.

Questions have arisen over how the former governor and first lady delivered their ballots in the statehood lobbyist special election. It is thought that their votes were sent by courier.

As previously reported by the STAR, the State Elections Commission said it would throw out the ballots of the former first couple.

Meanwhile, Rosselló Nevares was the leading vote-getter,

as a write-in candidate, in the balloting for lobbyists to the U.S. House of Representatives.

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New York’s ‘Excelsior Pass’ is the country’s first vaccine passport

By SHARON OTTERMAN

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n the Upper East Side in Manhattan, a well-heeled crowd flashed it to get into a socially distanced dance performance at the Park Avenue Armory. In Chelsea, people showed it to attend a John Mulaney stand-up set at City Winery. And in Troy, New York, patrons are using it to enter an intimate, speakeasy-style bar that admits only vaccinated guests.

This magic ticket is New York state’s Excelsior Pass, which was introduced in March as the first and only governmentissued vaccine passport in the country, accessible, for now, only to people who have been vaccinated in the state.

Officials are hoping that it can help New Yorkers feel confident about the safety of businesses and jump-start a statewide economy that is still reeling from losses experienced during the pandemic. But for that to happen, they will need more people and businesses to start using it and vaccine passports to become more universally accepted.

Though it is basically just a QR code on your phone that indicates your vaccine status, the pass, and vaccine passports more generally, have become a political flashpoint among conservatives who say the passports violate privacy concerns.

About 1.1 million Excelsior passes have been downloaded onto phones and computers since the passport’s introduction, according to the state, which is only a fraction of the 8.9 million New Yorkers who have so far been fully vaccinated.

But officials are hopeful that it will catch on more widely.

Eric Piscini, the vice president for emerging business networks at IBM, which developed the Excelsior Pass for the state, said New York was in discussions with other states so the pass could be used by out-of-state residents in New York and by New Yorkers elsewhere.

“In the application space, when you reach a million people, that’s a pretty good threshold to pass,” Piscini said. “That is a really good indication that people find value in this.”

Nationally, a range of states including Georgia, Alabama, Arizona and Florida have already banned the use of vaccine passports, presenting the bans as measures to protect individual privacy and vaccination choice.

In New York, some lawmakers are backing new legislation that would provide additional privacy protections.

But though major sports venues and a growing number of smaller New York businesses are embracing using the app, the vast majority of businesses are not requiring any proof of vaccination to enter. (The state would not say how many businesses had signed up.)

For those that take the Excelsior Pass, paper vaccine cards must also be accepted as a form of proof, the state said.

Some businesses — especially those catering to adult audiences, like arts venues — are jumping into the world of verification. Aside from accepting the Excelsior Pass, City Winery in Chelsea, for example, also uses the CLEAR pass as a way to verify health and vaccination status. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has encouraged the move toward fully vaccinated crowds by permitting businesses to disregard social distancing if everyone is vaccinated.

But civic technology experts warn that the passes can be gamed relatively easily, just like the paper vaccine card itself.

It took Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a nonprofit watchdog group, just 11 minutes to download someone else’s Excelsior Pass using information they had posted on social media and Google searches, he said.

Many people have posted pictures of their vaccination cards, which include a person’s name, birthday, date of vaccination and type of shot.

And each pass can be uploaded to a limitless number of devices, or printed out and copied. The Excelsior Pass, which cost the state $2.5 million to develop, contains no biometric data for privacy reasons, so it needs to be compared against an ID, an extra step that, in practice, sometimes isn’t taken.

A patron shows proof of vaccination against COVID-19 to enter City Winery for a performance, in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, May 26, 2021. New Yorkers can download an app that they can use to show proof of their vaccination: the Excelsior Pass, which was introduced in March as the first and only government-issued vaccine passport in the country, accessible, for now, only to people who have been vaccinated in the state.

“We need to realize that as much as we want a magic piece of software to be able to tell us whether the person next to us is vaccinated, these apps really can’t,” Cahn said. “At the end of the day, it’s largely built on trust.”

Accessibility is another worry. New York’s vaccine rollout was marred by a heavy reliance on a complex internet appointment system, which gave techsavvy people an advantage. Many older New Yorkers and those without good internet access struggled.

Now those same people face another technological hurdle if the pass becomes popular. Noel Hidalgo, executive director of BetaNYC, a nonprofit public interest technology organization, said he didn’t think the state should be investing millions in a vaccine passport when more time and effort could be spent on things like helping improve vaccination rates among Black and Hispanic New Yorkers and figuring out how people could quickly replace a lost or damaged paper card.

“Why are we focusing on providing a tech tool to a small group of New

Yorkers who are digitally literate and understand how to get access?” he asked.

Delays in entering data and data entry mistakes are also limiting who gets the pass. About 4% of people who tried to get passes were unable to do so, said Jennifer Givner, a state spokesperson.

The pass pulls its information from the state and city immunization databases. If the information is entered incorrectly — for example, with misspellings or a wrong initial — the pass cannot be found.

People who can’t get a pass can fill out a complaint form and call a state hotline, but for the most part, the organization that vaccinated them has to correct the data, which is not always easy. The Excelsior Pass also does not have access to federal vaccination data, so people who got their vaccines at veterans’ hospitals, like John Taylor, a 77-year-old Vietnam War veteran who lives in Pleasant Valley, New York, are out of luck.

“I had it laminated,” Taylor said of his paper vaccine card. “I’m just going to forget about the pass.”

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Where wind and solar power need to grow for America to meet its goals

By VERONICA PENNEY

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resident Joe Biden has promised to sharply reduce America’s planet-warming carbon emissions, which means changes to the country’s energy system may reshape landscapes and coastlines around the country.

The United States is now aiming to bring emissions down to net-zero by 2050, meaning the country would eliminate as much greenhouse gas as it emits. To reach that goal, Americans will need to get a lot more of their energy from renewable sources like wind and solar farms.

One of the most recent studies on the subject, Princeton University’s Net-Zero America Report, charted five pathways to net-zero, and all of them required the United States to exceed the current pace of building for solar panels and wind turbines.

But what will all that energy infrastructure look like, and where could it go? Here’s a look at the factors and forces that will determine where renewable energy projects are built.

Transmission lines Traditionally, the location of high-voltage transmission lines largely determines where new power projects are built, because transmission lines that can carry power between states and regions are expensive. So, does the United States have the lines to move power from solar farms in the sunny deserts of the southwest to big cities in other parts of the country?

In a word: No. Power lines are a big question mark in other parts of the country, too. In remote portions of Montana and Wyoming, wind speeds may be ideal for energy projects but the terrain is too rugged to build transmission lines to the cities and towns that need electricity.

Plus, approval to build new transmission lines currently needs to be granted state by state, parcel by parcel.

To show how complicated that could be, Cheryl LaFleur, a former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, cited the example of President Dwight Eisenhower’s Interstate highway project.

“Imagine if he didn’t have any authority to site the Interstate highways and he said, ‘We’d like to have some interstate highways, why don’t all you states go out and plan them?’” LaFleur said.

That’s why, according to many planners, the best option is to build energy sources close to population centers. They say the United States will still need to expand its network of high-voltage transmission lines, but minimizing that expansion will be the simplest path forward.

“The cost of solar is so low these days that it really makes sense to install it close to where the demand is, rather than incur large transmission costs to deliver it from somewhere else,” said Emily Leslie, a principal at the energy consulting firm Energy Reflections who contributed to Princeton’s Net-Zero America Report.

Whose backyard?

Renewable energy projects can offer a lifeline for struggling farmers, generating as much as ten or twenty

President Joe Biden has promised to sharply reduce America’s planet-warming carbon emissions, which means changes to the country’s energy system may reshape landscapes and coastlines around the country. times the revenue per acre as planting fields. But neighbors sometimes voice strong opposition to new projects.

“You live in different places for different reasons and some people live in places for the view,” said Sarah Mills, a senior project manager at the Graham Sustainability Institute at the University of Michigan who researches farmland preservation. “Wind turbines change the view.

For solar, if it’s right next to your house and it’s a couple miles of solar, it changes your view.”

In Wyoming, for example, local officials have been intrigued by the prospect of jobs and tax revenues from proposed wind projects. At the same time, they are reluctant to interrupt the wild vistas cherished by the people who live there. “It scared us,” said one county official in the state. “There were 50-some wind projects coming at us, and that would destroy our way of life.”

In other states, some local and state governments are planning legislation, including a proposed bill in Ohio, that restricts where renewable energy projects can be built.

Getting the permits Many of the places with the best sun and wind resources in the United States are on public land in the southwest and along the Rocky Mountains, so some energy will still need to come from remote areas in the West.

Getting approval to build on federal or state land

can be a much longer process than what’s required for private land.

The Interior Department currently has a goal of approving permits for 25 gigawatts of renewable energy on federal land by 2025, but some of the Princeton models propose nearly five times that amount on public land in the coming decades.

How much energy is allowed on public land, and where projects are built, will depend on how the Biden Administration updates the solar and wind energy plans developed during the Obama administration. Those projects allow fast-tracked permitting for renewable projects on certain parcels of federal land for projects.

The existing plans, nearly a decade old, will need to be updated to account for advances in solar and wind technology that allow projects to be built on steeper terrain or to have less of an environmental impact.

Conservation The question of whether to strictly conserve land for environmental purposes or make exceptions for clean energy is a thorny one.

Some species, like the desert tortoise and sage grouse, are being pushed to the brink of extinction by global warming and development, including oil and gas extraction, in their habitats. Without careful planning, adding vast solar panel arrays or hundreds of wind turbines where they live could push them over the edge. But so, too, could the continued burning of fossil fuels and rising global temperatures.

Renewable energy developers are required to conduct environmental impact studies and can sometimes offset the harm from new projects. A developer hoping to build wind turbines, for example, could pay to retrofit older, existing transmission lines in the area to make them safer for birds, balancing the toll on the species.

Projects can also be built on degraded or recovering land, rather than undeveloped landscapes. However, “a lot of abandoned agriculture’s important habitat also,” said Dustin Mulvaney, a professor of environmental studies at San Jose State University. The Swainson’s hawk, for instance, which travels between the United States and South America each year, relies on abandoned farmland in California to forage for food.

“Habitat quality and connectivity and things like that are also important for where these projects go,” Mulvaney said.

Technological advances Better technology could mean that future wind farms will generate more power with fewer turbines, or that more efficient solar panels could further reduce the land-use footprint of solar power projects.

But even without big advances, LaFleur said, the United States now has the technology and resources to reach net-zero emissions. And, she noted, it has the public will.

“We’re in a system where, fortunately, a lot of the people want to address climate change,” LaFleur said.

“We have a lot of benefits in the United States,” she added, even though “we have a complicated system to get there.”

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After dramatic walkout, a new fight looms over voting rights in Texas

By DAVE MONTGOMERY and NICK CORASANITI

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he battle among Texas lawmakers over a bill that would impose some of the strictest limits in the nation on voting access escalated Monday as Democrats and Republicans vowed that they would not back down over a highly charged issue that has galvanized both parties.

Stung by the last-minute setback for one of the GOP’s top legislative priorities, after Democrats killed the measure with a dramatic walkout Sunday night, Gov. Greg Abbott suggested he would withhold pay from lawmakers because of their failure to pass the bill.

“No pay for those who abandon their responsibilities,” Abbott, a Republican who strongly supported the bill, wrote on Twitter as he pledged to veto the section of the budget that funds the legislative branch.

GOP leaders said they would revive their efforts in a special session of the Legislature. The bill’s chief architect in the State House of Representatives, Briscoe Cain, said the walkout may enable Republicans to craft a measure even more to their liking.

“At the end of the day, this turned out to be a good thing,” said Cain, who chairs the House Elections Committee. “We’ll come back with better legislation and more time for it. Special sessions are focused.”

Democrats were resolute in their opposition, promising to redouble their efforts to keep a new bill from becoming law.

“This is Texas, this is the Alamo,” Rep. John H. Bucy III said at an afternoon news conference Monday. “We will do everything we can to stop voter suppression.’’

Despite the Democrats’ success Sunday night, Republicans control both chambers of the legislature, and would be favored to pass a voting bill in a special session. Abbott has not said when he would reconvene the Legislature; he can do so as early as Tuesday, but may wait until late summer when he had planned to recall lawmakers anyway to manage redistricting.

No matter when they take up the bill again, they will have to introduce it from scratch and restart a process that could take weeks — though they could start with the provisions in the bill that died Sunday night or even propose one with more severe restrictions.

Matt Krause, a conservative Republican from Fort Worth, described himself as “disappointed and frustrated” by the walkout. But he said he believed the bill will ultimately pass, if not in the next special session, then in another after that.

“It’s going to be heavily debated and contested,” he said. “But at the end of the day, during a special session, I think we’ll get it done.”

He and other Republicans expressed irritation that the walkout had killed not just the voting bill but several others that were important to the caucus, including bail reform.

The failure to pass the bill was a striking blow to Republicans and one of the few setbacks they have suffered nationally in a monthslong push to restrict voting in states they control.

GOP-controlled legislatures, aligning themselves with former President DonaldTrump’s baseless fraud claims, have passed new laws in Georgia, Florida and Iowa with expansive restrictions.

The Texas bill was viewed by many Democrats and vo-

ting rights groups as perhaps the harshest of all; among other provisions, it would have banned both drive-thru voting and 24-hour voting; imposed new restrictions on absentee voting; granted broad new autonomy and authority to partisan poll watchers; and increased punishments for mistakes or offenses by election officials.

President Joe Biden denounced the bill over the weekend, calling it “an assault on democracy,” and urged lawmakers to pass two Democratic voting bills that have been stalled in Congress — a theme that Texas Democrats picked up at their news conference Monday.

“I’m asking Joe Biden, you need to help Texas,” said Rep. Michelle Beckley, a member of the House Elections Committee who consistently opposed the Republican bill. “We have done everything we can. The Democratic senators, you need to pass the voter bills.’’

Republicans in Texas and in other states that have passed new voting laws have defended them on the grounds that they will improve “election security,” even though the results of the last election have been confirmed by multiple audits, lawsuits and court decisions.

Democrats stymied the bill late Sunday night by secretly orchestrating a walkout in the House of Representatives that denied the chamber a quorum. As the midnight deadline approached for passing legislation, and with more than five dozen Democrats missing, Republican leaders in the House acknowledged they lacked the required number of lawmakers to conduct a legal vote, and adjourned the proceedings.

Despite the vows to revive the measure in a special session, Republicans were clearly taken aback by their failure.

They accused Democrats of an abdication of governing by walking out — “it shuts down the business of the House,’’ said Krause — but also engaged in some finger-pointing in their own caucus. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick chided House Republicans for mismanaging the calendar as the deadline approached.

“You can’t take two days off with five days to go,” Patrick said after the walkout. “You put yourself in a box where you’re up against a deadline and I can’t even blame it on the other party for walking out.”

Patrick oversees the state Senate, which passed the bill early Sunday morning after an all-night session.

Shortly after the House adjourned Sunday evening, Democrats gathered at a predominantly Black church 2 miles from the Capitol and depicted the walkout as a last resort once Republicans made clear to them they would cut off debate in order to pass the bill by midnight. “We had no choice but to take extraordinary measures to protect our constituents and their right to vote,” said Chris Turner, a state representative who is the party’s caucus chair in the House.

The selection of the church as the place to deliver their remarks was an intentional nod to provisions Democrats considered among the most egregious in the bill — those that targeted voters of color.

Gene Wu, a House member from Houston, joined other Democrats in ridiculing Abbott’s threat to vetoing funding for the Legislature, writing on Twitter that it would punish “working class office staff, maintenance, and other support services because he didn’t get every single one of his demands.”

Discussions about a potential walkout began as early as April, Democrats said, and gained traction as the May 30 deadline for passing bills approached.

Seeing the voting bill as likely to be one of the final battles, and one rooted in a long history of voter suppression tactics in Texas, Democratic leadership began to explore all options that could halt its march.

The discussions about walking out, according to Trey Martinez Fischer, a Democratic representative, were organized on a personal level, similar to whipping a vote.

“Erasing a quorum, you just don’t just say it and it happens,” Martinez Fischer said early Monday morning, after the House had adjourned. “It takes a lot of conversations, lots of meetings, lots of discussions.”

Through most of May, the House caucus remained split on the idea of walking out, according to multiple people familiar with the discussions among Democrats.

But in the final weeks, Republicans angered Democrats by working behind closed doors to finalize the bill in what is known as a conference committee, leaving Democrats who were also on the committee in the dark and denying them input into the final legislation. That led to a change of attitudes in the Democratic caucus. Rep. Terry Canales publicly excoriated Republicans when the bill was released.

“The House Democrat Conferees have NOT even seen a Legislative Counsel Draft!” Canales said on Twitter. “This is egregious!”

The bill contained some new provisions that particularly enraged Democrats, including one limiting early voting on Sunday to the hours of 1 p.m. to 9 p.m., effectively limiting the traditional “Souls to the Polls” tradition in the Black church.

With a late-night debate scheduled for the voting bill, Democrats still clung to a hope that they would be able to run out the clock with lengthy debate. More than 30 Democrats in the House were prepared to speak against the bill, which would make passage by a midnight deadline difficult.

But when House Republicans moved to limit debate, Democrats saw walking out as their only option. Responding to a text message from Turner, all but five of 67 had left the House chamber when Republicans tried to move the bill toward passage.

People at a rally against Texas Republicans’ bill that places new restrictions on access to voting, outside the state’s capitol in Austin, Texas, May 8, 2021.

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An area for ride pickups at the Los Angeles airport on May 21, 2021. As people emerge from the pandemic, they are discovering that rides are not as cheap or as quick as before.

By KATE CONGER

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few weeks after receiving the second dose of a coronavirus vaccine, Debora Lima returned to an old routine: She pulled out her phone and requested an Uber ride so she could meet friends for dinner.

But instead of getting a ride within five minutes as she had expected, Uber surprised Lima with a 19-minute wait and a pricey fare. It was not a one-time glitch. Lima, a 28-year-old Miami resident, used to plan on spending $100 a month for frequent Uber trips. Just two recent rides ate through half her monthly budget.

As the coronavirus pandemic appears to recede in the United States and more people return to traveling, socializing and using ride-hailing apps, they are discovering that those cheap and quick rides have become more costly and not so readily available. Customers around the country say they have been startled by the price jumps. In some cases, they say, their Uber rides from airports cost as much as their plane tickets.

Uber and its top rival, Lyft, acknowledge that prices are up and wait times are longer, but they will not provide specifics. A recent analysis by research firm Rakuten

Intelligence found that the cost of a ride was 37% higher in March than it was a year ago. In April, the cost was up 40%.

Like many other industries, ride-hailing outfits say prices are up because they cannot find enough workers.

But more than most other types of companies, Uber and Lyft can nimbly pass the cost of finding those workers — in their case, drivers who are treated as contractors — directly to their customers.

When there are not enough drivers to meet demand, the companies pay them more, sometimes resorting to socalled surge pricing to lure drivers to areas where demand is high. Some recent surges have made prices jump 50% or more, said Daniel Ives, managing director of equity research at Wedbush Securities. Surge pricing can be a boon for drivers, but it sometimes provokes outrage from riders, especially during holidays and large events when demand can send prices soaring.

“By Uber and Lyft organizing themselves with the drivers being contractors, in a sense they have put the riders in the position of employing these contractors,” said Wendy Edelberg, director of the Hamilton Project and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “Every time we

open our Uber app, maybe we feel a little bit like the small business that can’t fill the vacancy after putting up the ‘Help Wanted’ sign.”

Uber and Lyft have poured money into extra incentives for drivers, like cash bonuses for completing a certain number of rides. But the incentives do not appear to be as effective as they were before the pandemic. Some drivers said they are not back on the road because they are still afraid of getting sick.

Other financial incentives might also be dissuading drivers. Although they would not normally receive unemployment insurance because they are categorized as independent contractors, Uber and Lyft drivers are eligible for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance funds under the CARES Act, easing the financial pressures that might otherwise have forced them to get back behind the wheel.

“We’ve given people a lot of fiscal support,” Edelberg said. “We’ve allowed people to not make these transitions in desperation, to prioritize their health, to prioritize their families. So that’s going to take a bit of time.”

In an early May earnings report, Uber said it had 3.5 million active drivers and couriers during the first three months of the year, down 22% from the previous year.

“We have not seen driver supply keep up with the demand growth in the U.S.,” Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber’s chief executive, said last week at the JPMorgan Technology, Media and Communications Conference.

In the past four weeks, however, more than 100,000 more drivers have also returned to the platform, an Uber spokesperson said. Uber has aggressively increased its incentive spending, putting $250 million into the effort to recruit drivers and branding it as a “stimulus.”

Lyft also said it did not have enough drivers and was spending heavily to recruit them. In the first quarter of the year, the company spent $100 million on driver incentives, according to an earnings report.

“It is something we are taking extremely seriously, but something that we’re extremely confident and I’ve already started to see significant movement on,” Lyft’s president, John Zimmer, said at the JPMorgan conference. Lyft saw a 25% increase in what it calls driver “leads” — drivers who are interested in working for the platform — between late February and May, Zimmer said.

The incentives are starting to have an effect, according to Gridwise, a service that helps gig workers track their earnings. Ride-hailing earnings have steadily climbed this year, rising to $25 an hour in May from $18 dollars an hour in January, Gridwise said.

The higher pay appears to be enough to tempt some drivers to return. While the number of drivers is still below pre-pandemic levels, Gridwise estimates it is down only 11%, an improvement from the 25% deficit in January.

Uber also said that the overall number of trips with surge pricing was declining after a peak in March.

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U.S. equities fluctuate as world stocks hit record, oil climbs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Real estate, up 0.41%, was a bright spot, benefiting from the pause in yields. Data on Tuesday showed sales of new U.S. single-family homes dropped in April as prices surged amid a tight supply of houses, while a separate report showed U.S. consumer confidence was little changed and near last month’s number that was the highest reading since February 2020.

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Peru says its true COVID death toll is almost triple official count

A Peruvian family buried a loved one who died of COVID-19 in Lima last month.

By ANDRÉS R. MARTÍNEZ

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eru said that its COVID-19 death toll is almost three times as high as it had officially counted, making it one of the hardest-hit nations during the pandemic relative to its population.

In a report released Monday, which combined deaths from multiple databases and reclassified fatalities, the government said that 180,764 people died from COVID-19 through May 22, almost triple the official death toll of about 68,000.

The new figure would mean that more people have died per capita in Peru than in Hungary or the Czech Republic, the countries with the highest official death tolls per person, according to a New York Times database.

The report landed at a precarious moment for Peru’s government, just days before the second round of a closely watched presidential election scheduled for Sunday.

Peru has struggled to contain the coronavirus since the pandemic began, and its official death toll before the revised estimate was already the ninth-highest per capita in the world.

As early as last June, it was clear that far more deaths were occurring in Peru than would be expected in a normal year, and the gap — a figure known as excess deaths — was much larger than the number of deaths officially attributed to COVID-19, according to New York Times data. That was a warning sign to experts that COVID deaths were being undercounted.

William Pan, who teaches global environmental health at Duke University, said the pandemic has underscored the deep inequality and corruption in Peru. Long before reports of oxygen shortages in India and Brazil made world headlines, COVID-19 patients were seeing similar problems in Iquitos, the largest Peruvian city in the Amazon, he said.

“Thousands of people were being turned away last April and May due to lack of oxygen, lack of space, medical staff

being totally overwhelmed and more,” Pan said.

Peru could be just the first of several nations forced to reckon with a re-evaluation of the pandemic’s true impact. The World Health Organization said in May that deaths from COVID-19 globally were probably much higher than had been recorded.

Peru’s government will start publishing more accurate daily tallies of cases and deaths based on new guidelines laid out in the report, said Oscar Ugarte, the health minister.

“This is a new tool” to help us fight the pandemic, Ugarte said, adding that the new estimate “requires a modification” of all the current policies aimed at controlling the spread of the virus.

The pandemic has only intensified the political turmoil in Peru, which was rocked by the impeachment of President Martín Vizcarra in November. He was one of four presidents to serve in five years, three of whom spent time in jail during bribery investigations.

Vizcarra’s ouster led to protests and came just months before the first round of presidential elections in April. Pedro Castillo, a former union activist and teacher, won the most votes in April and will face Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of jailed former president Alberto Fujimori, on Sunday.

The virus is spreading faster in South America than on any other continent, according to official data, with five nations among the top 10 globally for new cases reported per person.

The continent’s worst outbreak is in Argentina, which was supposed to host the Copa América soccer tournament, before organizers announced they were moving it to Brazil.

“Latin America has been one of the hardest-hit regions in the pandemic,” said Dr. Michael H. Merson, a professor of global health at Duke University. “I suspect that other countries in the region will be revising their estimates of deaths from COVID-19.”

The spread of the virus has slowed lately in Brazil, which has been ravaged by a variant known as P.1.

Over the weekend, thousands of Brazilians critical of President Jair Bolsonaro took to the streets in the largest public mobilization against the president since the beginning of the pandemic. Their show of force in cities across the country followed a series of damning revelations in congressional hearings examining the government’s catastrophic response to the coronavirus, which has killed more than 461,000 Brazilians.

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As virus toll grows, Brazil’s political divisions spill onto the streets

By ERNESTO LONDOÑO and FLÁVIA MILHORANCE

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or weeks, President Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters have made their presence felt with the roar of motorcycles during boisterous rallies meant to show steadfast fealty to an increasingly unpopular leader.

Until recently, the president’s opponents had refrained from convening street protests, opting instead to show their exasperation by banging pots and pans from windows and trading memes online.

But over the weekend, thousands of Brazilians critical of Bolsonaro took to the streets in the largest public mobilization against the president since the beginning of the pandemic.

Their show of force in cities across the country followed a series of damning revelations in congressional hearings examining the government’s catastrophic response to the coronavirus, which has killed more than 461,000 Brazilians.

Mariana Filgueiras, a professor at the school of communication at the Federal University of Rio de JaProtesters condemning the Brazilian government’s response to the pandemic gather in São Paulo on Saneiro, said she decided to participate in anti-government turday, May 29, 2021. Opponents of President Jair Bolsonaro have mounted the largest protests since the protests to help put a face on the rising opposition. A beginning of the pandemic, suggesting new volatility before next year’s elections. recent public opinion poll, by Datafolha, found that Bolsonaro’s support slipped to 24% in May from 30% in March. has grown in recent days as witnesses outlined a long in a movement seeking a better country.”

“We need to show that for every thousand people series of missteps in testimony before a legislative comThe government has also been shaken by scandals on motorcycles who are in favor of the government, mittee. Former health ministers spoke about the presi- unrelated to the pandemic. there are thousands of people walking peacefully in the dent’s befuddling belief that an anti-malaria drug was The Estadão newspaper revealed in early May that streets against it,” Filgueiras said. “The government is effective to treat COVID-19, the illness caused by the Bolsonaro’s administration had steered hundreds of milmore dangerous than the virus.” virus, even after scientists concluded definitively that it lions of dollars to questionable initiatives and purchases The recent street demonstrations, which have been was not. that strengthened the hand of key allied lawmakers. One largely orderly, are a far cry from the huge protests that An executive at Pfizer testified that the American case involved the government’s purchase of tractors at a shook Brazil in 2013 and 2015, fueling the successful ef- pharmaceutical company offered Brazil millions of dos- 259% markup. fort to impeach President Dilma Rousseff in 2016. es of its COVID-19 vaccine last year, but received no Days after the Estadão report, federal police served But political analysts said they could signal a new response from the government for months. search warrants at the ministry of the environment as phase of political instability as a deeply polarized elecBolsonaro has shrugged off the revelations and part of an investigation into a suspected scheme to autorate starts gearing up for next year’s presidential elec- shown no contrition. On Monday, his government an- thorize illegal exports of timber from the Amazon. tion. nounced that Brazil would host the Copa America socAmid the drumbeat of bad news, Bolsonaro has “These demonstrations, given the number of peo- cer tournament later this year, after Argentina decided it kept a busy travel schedule, focusing on electorally imple and their turnout throughout the nation, have put im- would be irresponsible to do so on its soil while the virus portant states in northeast Brazil, where he has highpeachment back on the horizon,” said Pablo Ortellado, continues to spread. lighted investments in infrastructure and basic services. a public policy professor at the University of São Paulo.

The president’s main political rival, former PresiAt recent rallies supporting the president, Bolso“It doesn’t mean an impeachment will happen, but the naro has been lionized as a “myth.” A recent banner dent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has refrained from endorspossibility has gained traction.” that greeted motorcycle enthusiasts in Rio de Janeiro ing street protests. But da Silva, who recently won court Ortellado said the president’s hard-core supporters proclaimed: “Myth, you are not alone.” battles in a corruption case, which restored his right to have been more visible on the streets than his detractors Paulo Cid Engineer, 55, who participated in one of run for elected office, is clearly relishing the prospect of because, like Bolsonaro, many have dismissed the threat those recent motorcycle rallies, said he regarded Bolso- a grassroots faceoff against a beleaguered incumbent. of the virus. That means they attend crowded gatherings naro as a fundamentally honest leader who has been Recent public opinion polls show da Silva narrowly edgof people who do not wear masks. unfairly attacked by scientific institutions and by the ing Bolsonaro in next year’s presidential contest.

“The left was advocating social distancing and news media.

“When Bolsonaro goes to the streets, he needs mask wearing while the right was advocating going back “I confess that my indignation turned into emo- thousands of police officers to protect him,” da Silva to work and criticizing the policies of distancing,” he tion,” he said, recalling how he felt at a pro-government wrote on Twitter on Saturday. “Does he think I’m afraid said. rally earlier this month in Rio de Janeiro. “I will be able of him? I was born on the streets and spent my whole Anger over Bolsonaro’s handling of the pandemic to tell my children and grandchildren that I took my part political life on the streets.”

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More than a third of heat deaths are tied to climate change, study says

Cool drinks were distributed on a New Delhi roadside in 2017.

By JOHN SCHWARTZ

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ore than a third of heat-related deaths in many parts of the world can be attributed to the extra warming associated with climate change, according to a new study that makes a case for taking strong action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to protect public health.

The sweeping new research, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, was conducted by 70 researchers using data from major projects in the fields of epidemiology and climate modeling in 43 countries. It found that heat-related deaths in warm seasons were boosted by climate change by an average of 37%, in a range of a 20% increase to 76%.

Some earlier studies have performed similar analysis for individual cities during particular heat waves, but the new paper applies these ideas to hundreds of locations and across decades to draw broader conclusions.

“It is a thoughtful, insightful, clever approach to try to understand how climate change is altering heatrelated mortality,” said Kristie Ebi, a professor in the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington who was not involved in the study.

The planet has already warmed 1 degree Celsius

over preindustrial times, and much more warming is predicted, with catastrophic results, if global emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane can’t be brought under control.

“Taken together, our findings demonstrate that a substantial proportion of total and heat-related deaths during our study period can be attributed to humaninduced climate change,” the authors wrote.

In many locations studied, the scientists found, “the attributable mortality is already on the order of dozens to hundreds of deaths each year” from heat attributed to climate change. Climate change has added to overall mortality from all causes by as much as 5% in some parts of the world, the authors found; they detected increased mortality from climate-boosted heat on every inhabited continent.

While the differences in mortality among the places studied are complex and spring from varied factors that include access to health care as well as architecture, urban density and lifestyle, the research indirectly suggests a divide between rich and poor regions. North America and East Asia, the researchers found, tended toward a smaller proportion of climaterelated deaths; some Central and South American nations saw a greater than 70% proportion of heat deaths attributable to warming.

The new paper comes amid a rush of recent re-

search on heat stress and economic inequality, both in the United States and across the globe.

While people around the world are increasingly reliant on air-conditioning, which could be holding down death rates while contributing to the emissions that heat the planet, climate change is also disrupting power grids, with failures increasing by 60% since 2015 in the United States alone. That means that the crutch of air conditioning could become less reliable over time.

Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera, the lead author of the new paper and a researcher at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Bern in Switzerland, said that the study showed that climate change was not just a problem for the future.

“We are thinking about these problems of climate change as something that the next generation will face,” she said. “It’s something we are facing already.

We are throwing stones at ourselves.”

The future looks even more grim, she added.

“This burden will amplify,” she said. “Really, we need to do something.”

Ebi agreed.

“Climate change is already affecting our health,” she said, noting that “essentially, all heat-related deaths are preventable.”

Much depends on decisions, she said; communities must adapt to heat through measures like cooling centers and heat action plans to help those most vulnerable. She added, “In the long term, there are lots of choices that will affect our future vulnerability, including reducing our greenhouse gas emissions.”

Because the scientists were unable to gather reliable data in some parts of the world, including parts of Africa and South Asia, Vicedo-Cabrera was reluctant to say that the mortality average the researchers found could be applied worldwide.

“This estimate that we obtained cannot be applied to areas that we did not assess,” she said.

Those gaps need to be filled, a commentary published alongside the paper argued.

“The countries where we do not have the necessary health data are often among the poorest and most susceptible to climate change, and, concerningly, are also the projected major hot spots of future population growth,” the commentary said. “Obtaining these data will be key for science to provide the information needed to help these countries adapt.”

The author of the commentary, Dann Mitchell, a climate scientist at the University of Bristol, said in an interview that the increased burden of climate changeboosted heat waves on societies like India, where many people already live in crowded conditions and poverty, and where health services are already strained, could create “something that’s not sustainable.”

“It’s going to crack at some point,” he said.

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Media groupthink and the lab-leak theory

By BRET STEPHENS

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f it turns out that the COVID pandemic was caused by a leak from a lab in Wuhan, China, it will rank among the greatest scientific scandals in history: dangerous research, possibly involving ethically dubious techniques that make viruses more dangerous, carried out in a poorly safeguarded facility, thuggishly covered up by a regime more interested in propaganda than human life, catastrophic for the entire world.

But this possible scandal, which is as yet unproved, obscures an actual scandal, which remains to be digested.

I mean the long refusal by too many media gatekeepers (social as well as mainstream) to take the lab-leak theory seriously.

The reasons for this — rank partisanship and credulous reporting — and the methods by which it was enforced — censorship and vilification — are reminders that sometimes the most destructive enemies of science can be those who claim to speak in its name.

Rewind the tape to February of last year, when people such as Sen. Tom Cotton began pointing to a disturbing fact set: the odd coincidence of a pandemic originating in the same city where a Chinese lab was conducting high-end experiments on bat viruses; the troubling report that some of the original COVID patients had no contact with the food markets where the pandemic supposedly originated; the fact that the Chinese government lied and stonewalled its way through the crisis. Think what you will about the Arkansas Republican, but these were reasonable obser-

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vations warranting impartial investigation.

The common reaction in elite liberal circles? A Washington Post reporter called it a “fringe theory” that “has been repeatedly disputed by experts.” The Atlantic Council accused Cotton of abetting an “infodemic” by “pushing debunked claim that the novel coronavirus may have been created in a Wuhan lab.” A writer for Vox said it was a “dangerous conspiracy theory” being advanced by conservatives “known to regularly spew nonsense (and bash China).”

There are many more such examples. But the overall shape of the media narrative was clear. On one side were experts at places like the World Health Organization: knowledgeable, incorruptible, authoritative, noble. On the other were a bunch of right-wing yahoos pushing a risible fantasy with xenophobic overtones in order to deflect attention from the Trump administration’s mishandling of the crisis.

Yet it was also a narrative with holes larger than Donald Trump’s mouth.

Was it outrageous to think that the virus might have escaped the Wuhan Institute? Not if you listened to evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein’s patient, lucid, scientifically rich explanation of the lab-leak hypothesis — which he delivered almost a year ago on the decidedly non-mainstream Joe Rogan podcast.

Was it smart for science reporters to accept the authority of a February 2020 letter, signed by 27 scientists and published in The Lancet, feverishly insisting on the “natural origin” of COVID? Not if those reporters had probed the ties between the letter’s lead author and the Wuhan lab (a fact, as the science writer Nicholas Wade points out in a landmark essay in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, that has been public knowledge for months).

Was it wise to suppose that the World Health Organization, which has served as a mouthpiece for Chinese regime

propaganda, should be an authority on what counted as COVID “misinformation” by Facebook, which in February banned the lab-leak theory from its platform? Not if the aim of companies like Facebook is to bring the world closer together, as opposed to laundering Chinese government disinformation while modeling its illiberal methods.

To its credit, Facebook reversed itself last week. News organizations are quietly correcting (or stealth editing) last year’s dismissive reports, sometimes using the fig leaf of new information about Wuhan lab workers being infected in the fall of 2019 with a COVID-like illness. And the public-health community is taking a fresh look at its COVID origin story.

But even now one gets a distinct sense of the herd of independent minds hard at work. If the lab-leak theory is finally getting the respectful attention it always deserved, it’s mainly because Joe Biden authorized an inquiry and Anthony Fauci admitted to doubts about the natural-origin claim. In other words, the right president and the right public-health expert have blessed a certain line of inquiry.

Yet the lab-leak theory, whether or not it turns out to be right, was always credible. Even if Tom Cotton believed it. Even if the scientific “consensus” disputed it. Even if bigots — who rarely need a pretext — drew bigoted conclusions from it.

Good journalism, like good science, should follow evidence, not narratives. It should pay as much heed to intelligent gadflies as it does to eminent authorities. And it should never treat honest disagreement as moral heresy.

Anyone wondering why so many people have become so hostile to the pronouncements of public-health officials and science journalists should draw the appropriate conclusion from this story. When lecturing the public about the dangers of misinformation, it’s best not to peddle it yourself.

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Jenniffer González anuncia $46.4 millones para Barceloneta, Bayamón, Caguas, Carolina, Guayama, Humacao y salud POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – La comisionada residente, Jenniffer González Colón, anunció el martes, la aprobación de 46,494,767 dólares en fondos federales asignados por diversas oficinas del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos (HHS) para servicios de salud y de cuidado a niños.La Administración de Niños y Familias/Oficina de Head Start de HHS asignó 5,007,588 dólares y 226,500 dólares en fondos federales al Municipio de Caguas bajo los fondos de Asistencia por Desastre en la categoría de servicios sociales, informó la comisdionada en comunicación escrita.

De igual forma, bajo los fondos Head Start Emergency Supplemental HHS asignó varias partidas de fondos federales. Dentro de esta asignación,

el Municipio de Barceloneta recibirá 2,012,513 dólares; el Municipio de Bayamón recibirá 2,299,673 dólares; el Municipio de Carolina recibirá 1,091,208 dólares; el Municipio de

Caguas recibirá 1,751,676 dólares; el Municipio de Humacao recibirá 1,027,794 dólares; el Municipio de Guayama recibirá 1,258,718 dólares y la Fundación para el Desarrollo de Hogar Propio Incorporado recibirá 1,422,639 dólares.

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

Por otro lado, el Departamento de Salud de Puerto Rico recibirá 10,162,773 dólares como parte de la asignación de fondos de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades/CDC- CSTLTS Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support (OT) para el programa “Puerto Rico National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities Among

Populations at High-Risk and Underserved, Including Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations and Rural Communities”.

Los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades/CDC-CPR Center for Preparedness and Response (TP) asignó 19,678,685 dólares al Departamento de Salud de Puerto Rico para servicios de salud bajo el programa “Public Health Emergency Response 2018: Cooperative Agreement for Emergency”.

El Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de Estados Unidos, a través de la Administración de Recursos y Servicios de Salud (HRSA) asignó fondos federales para capacitación como parte del programa de “Nursing Workforce Diversity”. En esta asignación, EDP University of Puerto Rico, Inc. Recibirá 555,000 dólares.

Salud reporta tres muertes, 97 personas hospitalizadas y 334 nuevos casos positivos en pruebas de COVID-19 POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El informe del Departamento de Salud de este martes reportó tres muertes por COVID-19, mientras que se registraron 49 casos confirmados, 30 probables y 255 sospechosos adicionales, para un total de 334 nuevos casos positivos en pruebas para detectar el coronavirus, en muestras tomadas desde el 16 al 30 de mayo de 2021.

Las personas con al menos una dosis de vacuna contra el COVID-19 alcanzan 1,766,243. Las personas que han completado sus dosis de vacunación llegan a 1,361,400.

Hay 121,227 personas que han padecido Covid-19, recuperadas o en proceso de recuperarse del virus.

Hay hospitalizadas 97 personas, cuatro menos que el lunes. Entre los

hospitalizados hay 70 pacientes adultos y 27 casos pediátricos.

En intensivo se encuentran 26 pacientes adultos, dos menos que el día anterior, y dos caso pediátricos, la misma cifra que el lunes.

Mientras que en ventilador hay 16 pacientes adultos, seis menos que el día anterior y dos pediátricos, la misma cifra que el lunes.

En total hay reportadas 2,505 personas fallecidas por Covid-19, tres más que en el informe del lunes.

El reporte de decesos puede variar en la medida en que se dan los procesos de registro y codificación de las causas de muerte, lo que podría tomar varios días.

Para más información, puede acceder a través de la página web del Departamento de Salud.

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Transport yourself with a literary escape this summer

By ADRIENNE GAFFNEY

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he definition of a summer read evolves with the times, and even more so this year. As the weather warms and the pandemic wanes in the United States, what readers are looking for on the page will vary dramatically.

Some might be in the mood for a whodunit, and others might feel pulled toward something more contemplative about the state of the world. But while the summer book crosses all genres, certain themes are transcendent: weddings, the beach, romance and escape in its many forms.

Here are a few new and old classics to revisit this season.

‘Leave the World Behind’ by Rumaan Alam (2020) This novel took the world by storm last fall, when it debuted into a world that felt just as dystopic as the one it created.

It tells of a Brooklyn family whose Hamptons vacation veers from the script when an inexplicable catastrophe causes the world to stop. The family is joined by the owners of their rental home, who have showed up after being stranded amid the chaos. As Rumaan Alam depicts two couples struggling to make sense of the disaster they are facing, he explores race, parenting and the assumptions we make about one another.

‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ by Patricia Highsmith (1955) For those of us dreaming of summer sojourns to the south of Italy, Patricia Highsmith’s incredibly transportive midcentury novel is a highly enjoyable alternative. In the first of her Ripley novels, we see obsession take hold with the titular con artist when he ingratiates himself into a jet-setting crowd of beautiful and wellheeled Americans abroad. The building suspense and intrigue make this a taut novel (one that is now being adapted into a television series following the celebrated 1999 film) and a compulsively readable classic.

‘How Stella Got Her Groove Back’

by Terry McMillan (1996) The restorative and transformative powers of vacation are on full display in this Terry McMillan novel, which also

pairs perfectly with a day by the pool.

Stella’s high-powered life as an investment analyst and single mother looks successful on paper but has left her with a feeling that something’s missing. Her carefully crafted identity is examined after a trip to Jamaica, where an unexpected romance with a younger man forces her to rethink what she truly wants.

‘Sag Harbor’ by Colson Whitehead (2009) Before writing Pulitzer Prize winners “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys” (as well as the upcoming “Harlem Shuffle”), Colson Whitehead put out this moving and contemplative look at summertime in the Hamptons for a young Black boy, whose life has echoes of Whitehead’s own. Benji, 15 and a New York City private-school student, is spending the summer of 1985 in his family’s home in Sag Harbor, a fancy enclave historically popular with Black families.

What ensues is a tenderhearted comingof-age story fused with a sharp look at the intersections of race and class.

‘Evil Under the Sun’ by Agatha Christie (1937) Agatha Christie novels have served as utterly dependable summer crime classics for decades. In this Hercule Poirot installment, the Belgian detective’s holiday at an idyllic English hotel suffers the

signature interruption of a ghastly murder.

This time it’s a flirtatious wife and stepmother who met her untimely end in a remote beach cove, and our mustachioed hero must deduce which of the assembled guests did the deed. The good news?

If you enjoy this, there’s 81 more Christie mysteries where it came from.

‘Call Me By Your Name’ by André Aciman (2007) The ’80s novel, which was given new life by the 2017 film adaptation, has all the hallmarks of a summer read — a secretive seasonal romance in a stunning European locale — with bona fide literary heft. The gay coming-of-age novel is both gorgeous and heartbreaking in its depiction of teenage longing and sexual awakening seen through the eyes of young Elio, an American 17-year-old whose summer in the Italian Riviera is shaken up by a passionate affair with an older man, a formative experience that he continues to process decades later.

‘Summer Sisters’ by Judy Blume (1998) One of Judy Blume’s four adult novels, this cult favorite maintains the coming-of-age themes seen in her beloved books for younger readers. At the center of “Summer Sisters” are Caitlin and Vix, two diametrically opposed personalities who become inextricably bonded after

Caitlin joins Vix on her family’s annual pilgrimage to Martha’s Vineyard. The yearly getaways shape their teenage years as each discovers romance and adulthood.

Their grown-up lives take them on different paths, though ones that continue to converge throughout their lives.

‘The Wedding’ by Dorothy West (1995) Dorothy West’s final book and her first novel in a 47-year period, “The Wedding” is set in 1953 during the wedding weekend of the favorite daughter of upper-class parents. Shelby has shaken up her family and their tight-knit Black community in Martha’s Vineyard by choosing to marry a white musician. The balance that was once carefully maintained is upended as guests explore the events in their lives that have led to this shifting moment, in a beautiful and devastating examination of family, society and race.

‘Seating Arrangements’ by Maggie Shipstead (2013) Maggie Shipstead’s debut novel follows the time-tested formula that a book centered on a wedding naturally includes tense family dynamics, long-lost friends, love and a scenic locale, all compressed into the span of a few days. “Seating Arrangements,” which takes a sharp and satirical look at elitist WASP culture, doesn’t disappoint. In the days leading up to the marriage of Daphne, whose parents didn’t expect her to be heavily pregnant on her wedding day, a cast of dysfunctional and entitled guests gather on a small island, where, inevitably, sexual shenanigans ensue.

‘The Interestings’ by Meg Wolitzer (2013) When a group of six friends meet at a summer arts camp in upstate New York in the mid-’70s, all with their own deep creative pursuits, their connection leads to a lifelong bond. “The Interestings” explores the ecstasy and heartbreak of artistic longings, the joy of making it, the crushing despair of failure and frustration of seeing your friends find fame as you struggle. Meg Wolitzer beautifully examines the struggles of following (or relinquishing) your dreams and the tensions inherent in longtime friendships.

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The zombie-mall weirdness of going to the movies again

By JOSHUA ROTHKOPF

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’m finally back at Film Forum, watching porn. Not really. But I might as well be: Languorous, perfectly toned bodies writhe in “La Piscine,” the 1969 French erotic thriller taunting us from the screen.

The stars — Alain Delon, Romy Schneider and Jane Birkin — are impossibly beautiful and shirtless. Party guests mingle, superspreading their way to bad decisions. The flirting is criminal.

Out in the audience, we sit stock still, at appropriately safe distances. There are 25 of us, tops. One attendee lowers her face covering a few inches, as if to catch a whiff of tanning lotion and Michel Legrand’s sultry music. Viewers around her tense up.

An usher is summoned, discreetly asking for compliance. She raises her mask, but the employee lingers for a moment, making sure it sticks. (This is much better than what happened at a midday screening of Federico Fellini’s “La Strada,” when a flareup over smuggled-in snacks threatened to plunge the anticipatory mood into fury.)

As ever, the movies are showing us a reality that’s out of reach. That gap feels especially wide right now as New York’s art houses and multiplexes reopen, shakily, and the CDC relaxes safety guidelines, a development that has only added to the friction. The experience of being back isn’t quite what it used to be, at least not yet.

Bathrooms are spotless to a spooky degree.

The slick smell of popcorn butter — the oddly comforting aroma of Hollywood itself — hasn’t returned so far. Concessions are unavailable in many theaters. Deserted lobbies and empty escalators add to the overwhelming zombie-mall weirdness of it all.

What was I hoping to find? Can you feel phantom FOMO for something that isn’t even happening? Before the pandemic, I went to the movies for a living, never realizing how important the going was. During lockdown, the movies tracked me down (considerately) via streaming links when that was the only option. Sometimes it felt like pretending. For more than a year, I’ve been desperate to return the favor and have now embarked on a fact-finding mission across the city, like Martin Sheen heading upriver in “Apocalypse Now.” Hopefully you forget how that one ends.

Only the fully vaccinated should be witnessing this. That’s certainly not the case.

After waiting the suggested two weeks from my second Moderna shot in late March (a sluggish day that felt like a system reboot), I rejoined the company of filmgoers. It felt vaguely like getting away with something you knew you shouldn’t be doing.

No apologies. The excitement of being back, however tinged by free-floating nervousness, can’t be downplayed. I drank in Andrei Tarkovsky’s elliptical 1975 art film “Mirror” like so many vodka flights, every mysterious windswept field and liquid interlude frizzing my synapses. Amazingly, my tiny Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center audience greeted the end credits with a robust chorus of whoos (possibly a first for Tarkovsky). Maybe we were cheering the mere idea of surviving a film together.

A theater worker dismissed us row by row; we obeyed like good little schoolchildren.

There’s something performative about returning to the movies right now. The laughing is louder. Perhaps it’s compensation for all the taped-off rows, all the dead space. We’ve become the film ourselves, telegraphing our emotions in ways that only 14 months of mouth-obscured masking can spur. Case in point: Orson Welles’ chatty 1973 documentary “F for Fake” is amusing in a purring, intellectual way, but it’s not the riot that a few superfans at the Paris Theater in Midtown were clearly having.

It helps to bring your own enthusiasm. Otherwise, a mind can wander to the whooshing air conditioning units, freshly

refitted with the required MERV 13 filters and somehow louder than memory serves.

Is the ceiling too low? Was that a cough or a chuckle? Don’t let yourself get too distracted, or you’ll be demoted from paying customer to cop.

At Brooklyn’s Alamo Drafthouse on reopening night, House of Wax, the morbid cocktail bar-slash-museum, was curtained off and dormant, a shame. The foyer, carpeted in patterned orange to look like the Overlook Hotel in “The Shining,” was unusually quiet.

Still, a temperature taker greeted me as if the party were in full swing. Sliding into my booth for Guy Ritchie’s pounding “Wrath of Man,” the sheer volume transported me for the first time in months. (We can have dumb things again.) A toothpickspeared burger wafted by on a tray. (Are they insane?) Feeling invulnerable, I decided to test the kitchen and order off-menu.

My shake — half-chocolate, half-strawberry — arrived with a straw I knew I could slip under my mask. Jason Statham bros to my left and right tucked kernels of popcorn under theirs.

As fine a time as I’m having — it’s just like being at home but louder and larger — the communal experience is far too polite to sustain a proper action buzz. That will change in time as crowd size ramps up in the coming weeks, along with the fear factor.

For the saddest vision of the current purgatory of multiplex moviegoing, a visit to the AMC Empire 25 in Times Square reveals a postapocalyptic setting in need of characters. Virtually no one is in the lobby.

Two teenage girls — are they the last two humans left alive? — take selfies on a vacant upper mezzanine. Still, higher I go.

Somewhere, there’s the rumbling of Godzilla, or it could be King Kong. At the theater, it’s empty. Daniel Craig’s voice, barking out of a trailer for October’s already thrice-delayed James Bond film “No Time to Die,” echoes in the antiseptic space: “If we don’t do this … there’ll be nothing left to save.”

Maybe 007 is too late. None of this will change until we’re done with social distancing, a threshold that’s about as conceivable as licking a subway pole at rush hour like Elizabeth Berkley in “Showgirls.” Better to find the theater that takes your safety as seriously as you do. At Greenwich Village’s IFC Center on a Friday night, several tickets were still available for a never-released film

by the zombie maestro himself, George A. Romero. Filmed in 1973 and shorter than an hour, “The Amusement Park,” about society’s rejection of the elderly, is more a walking, talking metaphor than a fully successful piece of drama. But it has the meat-and-potatoes solidity of the director’s low-budget Pittsburgh productions, and it will put you in mind of “Night of the Living Dead” or “Dawn of the Dead” — that is, if a year of being boarded up watching doctors bicker on TV hasn’t already cemented you there.

We numbered fewer than 10 in the theater, and our spacing was such that I didn’t mind the stealthy crack of a can of something. Spike Lee, Miranda July and Aaron Sorkin, among others, welcomed us back in a bespoke trailer created for IFC Center that stressed keeping those masks on. I felt good supporting a theater that nourished me in better times. Everyone there did their level best to avoid the deepdish irony of unearthing a Romero castaway during a pandemic. The quiet was eerie.

Do I miss the texters, the scrollers, the screen-grabbers, the rambling Q&A hijackers who never get around to their question?

Candidly, no. I can enjoy a movie by myself and have done so for decades, long before I got paid for it.

But I don’t want to get too comfortable without those strangers. Selfishly, I want them beside me on the off-chance we’re all changed for the better by a “Parasite” or a “Nomadland.”

And if that’s impossible right now, so be it. There was that one warm spring evening when I fooled myself that I was jumping in a cab for the hottest screening of the season. It was the opening night of Zack Snyder’s robustly enjoyable “Army of the Dead,” a film equally indebted to the sinewy urban nightmares of John Carpenter and the dazzling scherzo inventions of Steven Soderbergh’s “Ocean’s Eleven.” It also has a zombie tiger.

At the Paris, there was no red carpet.

There was no line. There was no crowd to speak of. There was free popcorn. I plopped down in my fifth-row seat and tuned out the handful of people behind me. Kicking back, I did my best Robert De Niro in “Cape Fear” (sans cigar), cracked a wide smile and let the grade-A nonsense wash over me.

The movie is already on Netflix, in case you’re interested. But you really had to be there.

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An invitation to the cicada party

By ELEANOR LUTZ

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ome of our insect neighbors are already kicking off their once-in-a-cicada-lifetime party. Before the festivities are over, billions of cicadas, part of a cohort called Brood X, will emerge from underground tunnels to sing, mate and die across the Eastern United States. Like any good party, the emergence will be loud. It will be crowded. And everyone’s invited.

The activities Singing: The party will be announced by a cacophony of cicada song, as the males begin to gather in a treetop chorus to call for mates.

Mating: The Brood X females won’t sing in the chorus, but they have plenty of other activities to keep them occupied. After mating, a female cicada needs to choose a tree that will safely harbor her offspring for the next 17 years. Then she will use a sawlike appendage called an ovipositor to insert her eggs into a young branch.

Dying: The frenzy of singing, mating and egg laying will last just four to six weeks. Then the adult cicadas will die and fall to the ground, creating piles of brown carcasses underneath the trees.

The soundtrack The Brood X cohort actually consists of three different cicada species. The males of each species sing a distinctive song to attract others to their chorus. Males also have additional songs for courting nearby females, and they can make a rough, buzzing alarm if they are picked up or handled.

Male cicadas sing by using their muscles to flex ribbed structures called tymbals. A hollow air chamber inside the abdomen is thought to amplify their song. Females don’t have tymbals and can’t sing, but they respond to males by flicking their wings to make a faint clicking sound.

The menu Thousands of Brood X cicadas will be eaten by hungry predators, ranging from birds to small mammals — likely even some household pets. These cicadas have few defenses.

They don’t bite or sting, and they aren’t toxic or poisonous. Instead, their survival strategy seems to consist of emerging in such overwhelming numbers that the area’s predators can’t possibly eat them all. As for the cicadas themselves, they feed by drinking a watery fluid inside the xylem of trees and plants.

Directions Brood X — or the Great Eastern Brood — is one of the largest periodical cicada broods in the United States. The insects are expected to emerge this year in at least 15 states, including in cities like Baltimore, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Washington.

Periodical cicadas occur throughout the Eastern United States but are relatively rare across the world. Outside North America, there are eight-year periodical cicadas in Fiji and four-year cicadas in India.

Throughout history, periodical cicadas have been carefully tracked and mapped by agencies like the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Today, many scientists use community science projects like the Cicada Safari phone app to track the broods. Anyone using the app can take a photo of their neighborhood cicadas to

contribute to the mapping effort.

Attire As Brood X begins to emerge, you may see brown, cicada-shaped suits attached to trees or on the ground. These are leftover casings shed by the immature cicadas as they become adults.

During their 17 years in the ground, Brood X cicadas shed their skin four times as they move through their life cycle. The immature underground cicadas, called nymphs, also leave behind tunnels from their journey to the surface, which you may notice as tiny holes in the ground.

When they first crawl out of their nymphal skin, adult cicadas are the color of a slightly green toasted marshmallow. As they complete their transition into adults, their bodies will gradually harden and turn black. Brood X cicadas are known for their charismatic red eyes, though a rare few may have other colors, like blue or white.

RSVP The Brood X cicadas are due to appear aboveground from early May into June, depending on the weather. Although some gogetters can emerge early, the mass emergence usually begins after the soil temperature warms to 64 degrees Fahrenheit.

If you miss this party, the next one won’t be until 2024, when Broods XIII and XIX emerge throughout Illinois and other parts of the Midwest as well as the Southern United States.

Births of Tasmanian devils are a milestone after 3,000 years

By LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA

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ink, hairless, deaf and blind, the roughly month-old joeys were but the size of a shelled peanut.

Yet they were a momentous discovery for the conservationists who had set off across a dense eucalyptus forest in the dawn mist in hopes of finding them. About 3,000 years after Tasmanian devils were wiped out on the Australian mainland, seven babies were born last month on the continent in their natural terrain.

“It was very moving,” said Tim Faulkner, the president of Aussie Ark, the conservation group that has been leading attempts to re-establish populations of the devils, long after they were eliminated on the mainland, most likely by wild Australian dogs, known as dingoes.

Like the devils themselves, Faulkner said, the project is still in its infancy. It remains unclear how the animals would fare outside the fenced 1,000-acre wildlife preserve where they were born. But, he added, the first step was for

the devils “to breed and survive, and they did.”

The baby devils, found in their mothers’ pouches, are a promising sign as conservationists contend with a steep decline in the animals’ numbers in the only place where they exist in the wild: the island of Tasmania, south of mainland Australia.

Devils there are being ravaged by a contagious facial cancer that has slashed the population by more than 90%.

“It’s really aggressive,” Faulkner said.

“Their future is really uncertain.”

For decades, scientists have been trying to save the devils by developing vaccines, studying genetic variations that make some of the animals resilient to the cancer and trying to breed a population of uninfected creatures on the mainland.

If the devils were ever to take root again on mainland Australia, the benefits could go beyond rescuing the endangered animals. Conservationists say there is evidence that the Tasmanian devil, a carnivorous marsupial with a powerful bite, is effective at reducing feral cats

and perhaps even foxes, both of which have decimated Australia’s native flora and fauna.

Since 2006, Faulkner and his team have been relocating uninfected devils from Tasmania to New South Wales, where they run a conservation center and sanctuary that is home to more than 150 of the animals.

Late last year, they released 26 devils, male and female, into the sanctuary, with a goal of eventually allowing the animals to roam completely free. The organization does not give food or water to the animals, Faulkner said, simulating a natural environment — minus the danger of dingoes.

Earlier this month, they checked the pouches of two of the released female devils and found the seven babies. Tasmanian devils are born after only a 21-day gestation period, and they are initially blind and no larger than a grain of rice.

While the births were an important breakthrough, some scientists cautioned that breeding the animals in close-to-wild conditions was a far cry from having them survive in unfenced

areas where they were at risk of becoming prey or roadkill.

“Maintaining a thriving population of devils in the wild is everyone’s goal,” said Andrew Flies, an immunologist at the University of Tasmania who is developing a vaccine to protect Tasmanian devils against cancer. But, he added, “if you take the fences away, the devils might not do so well.”

Hamish McCallum, a disease ecologist and Tasmanian devil expert at Griffith University in Queensland, said the real test would be whether the baby devils could survive into adulthood, when they were more likely to become prey for other larger mammals.

He added that even if the devils were able to survive in the wild, conservationists might face pushback from farmers, some of whom in Tasmania have claimed that the native animals are killing their lambs.

“They’re not genuinely in the wild because they’re behind a fence,” he said. “It’s a small step in the right direction, but it’s only an initial small step.”

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

Reverse Mortgage Funding, LLC Plaintiff v.

Amalio Rosario Maldonado; Milagros Robles Sánchez; Conjugal Partnership Rosario-Robles; United States of America

Defendants CIVIL ACTION NO.: 19-CV1251-PAD. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: Amalio Rosario Maldonado; Milagros Robles Sánchez; Conjugal Partnership Rosario-Robles; United States of America GENERAL PUBLIC:

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $95,024.553, according to the affidavit of indebtment filed by the Plaintiff (Docket No. 19), plus the interest rate convened of 5.06% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendants, Amalio Rosario Maldonado; Milagros Robles Sánchez; Conjugal Partnership Rosario-Robles; United States of America, also owes and is ORDERED to pay Reverse Mortgage Funding, LLC all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($19,200.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation.

The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the U.S. District Court, District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property. URBANA: Solar radicado

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en la Urbanización University Gardens del Barrio Hato Abajo del término municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, que se marca en el número 10 del bloque “J”, con un área superficial de CUATROCIENTOS CINCUENTA Y CINCO (445.00) METROS CUADRADOS, colindando por el NORTE, en trece (13.00) metros, con la calle número nueve (9) de dicha Urbanización; por el SUR, en trece (13.00) metros, con el solar número siete (7) del bloque “J” de dicha Urbanización; por el ESTE, en treinta y cinco (35.00) metros, con el solar número once (11) del bloque “J” de dicha Urbanización; por el OESTE, en treinta y cinco (35.00) metros, con el solar número nuevo (9) del bloque “J” de dicha Urbanización.

Este solar contiene una casa de concreto destinada para una familia.” Property Number 17,408 recorded at page 200 of volume 435 of Arecibo, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, First Section. The mortgage foreclosed is recorded on the 16th inscription of land number 17,408 of Arecibo, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Karibe Volume. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $192,000.00, due on December 23, 2091 pursuant to deed number 264, issued in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, on June 11, 2012, before notary Neftali García Sánchez, and recorded, at Karibe volume, property number 17,408, 17th inscription. Other Liens: None.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on the 18th day of June of 2021, at: 10:15 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $192,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on

the 25th day of June of 2021, at: 10:15 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $128,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the 2nd day of July of 2021, at: 10:15 AM.and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $96,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 19th day of April of 2021. By: Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master, specialmasterpr@gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

Ingresos Municipales; United States of America

Defendants CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:16-cv01295-GAG-BJM. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: The Estate of Ana Natalia Haddock Ramos a/k/a Ana N. Haddock Ramos a/k/a Ana Natalia Haddock a/k/a Ana Haddock a/k/a Ana Natalia Hadock Ramos a/k/a Ana Haddock Ramos composed of German Pena Haddock, Bertha Mae Peña Haddock, Juan Guillermo Peña Haddock and Jorge Luis Peña Haddock; Centro de Recaudaciones De Ingresos Municipales; United States of America, any other party with interest over the property mentioned below, GENERAL PUBLIC:

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $82,363.99 plus interest at a rate of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant also owes and is ORDERED to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC., all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount $17,700.00 to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United LEGAL NOTICE States District Court, Room 150 IN THE UNITED STATES DISFederal Office Building, 150 TRICT COURT FOR THE DISChardon Avenue, Hato Rey, TRICT OF PUERTO RICO. Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: PurFinance of America suant to the terms of the aforeReverse, LLC mentioned Judgment, Order of Plaintiff v.

Execution, and the Writ of ExeThe Estate of Ana Natalia cution thereof, the undersigned Haddock Ramos a/k/a Ana Special Master was ordered to N. Haddock Ramos a/k/a sell at public auction for U.S. Ana Natalia Haddock a/k/a currency in cash, money order, certified check without apAna Haddock a/k/a Ana or praisement or right of redempNatalia Hadock Ramos tion to the highest bidder and at a/k/a Ana Haddock Ramos the office of the Clerk of the Unicomposed of German ted States District Court for the Pena Haddock, Bertha District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, Mae Peña Haddock, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Juan Guillermo Peña Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover Haddock and Jorge Luis the sums adjudged to be paid Peña Haddock; Centro to the plaintiff, the following de Recaudaciones De property: RUSTICA: Sita en el

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Wednesday, June 2, 2021 Barrio Carolina del término Municipal de Humacao, denominado con el número diecinueve en el Plano de Inscripción compuesta de cuatro mil cincuenta y cinco metros cuadrados con sesenta y cuatro centésimas de otro, equivalentes a una cuerda con treinta y dos milésimas de otra, colindando por el NORTE, en ciento seis metros con cuarenta y tres centésimas de otro con la C. Brewer of Puerto Rico; por el SUR, en noventa y nueve metros con cincuenta y tres centésimas de otra con la parcela número dieciocho; por el ESTE, en treinta metros, con el remanente de la finca que se segrega; y por el OESTE, en cincuenta y un metros con setenta centésimas de otra con el remanente de la finca que se segrega y que se donaron para uso público y para ensanche de la carretera Estatal número novecientos veintiséis. Enclava una Casa.” The above-mentioned property is identified with the number 5,417 recorded at page 245 of volume 180 of Humacao, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section of Humacao. The mortgage deed is recorded at entry 649 of the Journal of Daily Entries 914 of Humacao, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section of Humacao. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $177,000.00, due on January 1, 2083, pursuant to deed number 2, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on January 15, 2015, before notary Juan Sanchez Fernando, and recorded, in the Karibe system, 10th inscription, of Humacao, property number 5417. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on 18th day of June of 2021, at: 10:15 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $177,000.00. 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 25th day of June of 2021, at: 10:15 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $118,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the 2nd day of July of 2021, at: 10:15 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $88,500.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the third public sale, the property may be awarded to the creditor for the entire amount of its debt if it is equal to or less than the amount of the minimum bid of the third public sale, crediting this amount to the amount owed if it is greater. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), money orders, or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this19th day of April of 2021.By: Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master, specialmasterpr@ gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

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CIVILNUM.: DJV2017-1271.

Sala 601. SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO - USUCAPION EXTRAORDINARIA (30 años). CITACION POR EDICTO.

BUNAL, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de febrero de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, Sec Regional. Carmen M Pintado, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal I.

LEGAL NOTICE

A: Las personas ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ignoradas o DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUdesconocidas a quienes NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA pueda perjudicar la SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROinscripción solicitada en LINA. NEWREZ LLC D/B/A la demanda,.y herederos de Angel Morales Ferrer: SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING DE: LCDA. DELIA CABAN Demandante vs.

DAVILA P. O. Box 361678 San Juan, P.R.00936-1578/ Dennis Narváez Sanchez Demandados Tel/. 787-627-2147

POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que una demanda ha sido presentada SOBRE EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO relacionada al inmueble que se describe a continuación: “RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno ubicado en la carretera estatal Puerto Rico número ocho once (811) kilómetro cinco punto cinco ( 5.5) , Interior, Camino Flor Rivera, Barrio Lomas, SectorCielito, Naranjito, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de DIEZ MIL TRES METROS CUADRADOS CON DOS MIL SETECIENTOS TREINTA Y NUEVE DIEZMILÉSIMAS DE OTRO (10,003.2739 m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, en cuatro (4) alineaciones que suman una distancia de ciento veintitrés metros eón veintiséis centésimas de otro (123.26), con terrenos de José Pacheco Reyes y Jesús Morales; por el SUR, en tres (3) alineaciones que suman una distancia de cincuenta y siete metros con treinta centésimas de otro (57 ;30) · con Dolores Cosme; por el ESTE, con cuatro (4) alineaciones que suman una distancia de ciento setenta y dos .metros con noventa y seis centésimas de otro (172.96) con la Sucesión de Ángel Morales Ferrar; y por el OESTE, en ocho (8) alineaciones que suman una distancia de ciento ochenta y un metro con cuarenta y cuatro centésimas de otro ( 181.44) con Victor Rivera Reyes.” SE LE REQUIERE que en el plazo improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, los interesados y/o LEGAL NOTICE las partes citadas, o en su deESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO fecto los organismos públicos DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- afectados, podrán comparecer NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA ante el tribunal, a fin de alegar lo que en derecho procéda. Se SALA.DE BAYAMÓN. le apercibe que de no hacerlo, ALICEA SANTIAGO, JOSEFINA, MORALES se podrá dictar Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado ALICEA, ERNESTO, en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírSAMUEL Y JOSEFINA le más. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI Demandantes-Peticionarios FIRMA V EL SELLO DEL TRI-

CIVIL NUM. CA2020CV02741.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: La Parte Demandada, al (a la) Secretario(a) de Hacienda de Puerto Rico y al Público General:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 30 de junio de 2021, a las 1:30 tarde, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL. Apartment number 1508. Efficiency apartment consisting of one main dependency where living-dining and sleeping activities are conducted, bath, kitchen, balcony, and closets. It bounds: on the NORTH, on a distance of thirty one point fifty nine feet, equivalent to nine point sixty four meter with a common wall which separates it from apartment one thousand five hundred seven and the common element of the building and the lot on which it is erected; on the SOUTH, on a distance of thirty one point forty two feet, equivalent to nine point fifty nine meters with the com-

The San Juan Daily Star mon elements of the building and the lot on which it is erected; on the EAST, on a distance of twenty three point seventeen feet, equivalent to seven point zero seven meters with a wall which separates it from a common hallway through which access to the public street may be gained; and on the WEST, on a distance of twenty three point seventeen feet, equivalent to seven point zero seven meters with a common elements of the building and the lot on which it is erected. This apartment has an area of six hundred sixtyfour-point seventy-two square feet, equivalent to sixty-onepoint seventy-five square meters. A balcony with an area of sixty-one-point sixty-five square feet, equivalent to five point seventy-three square meters is included. Consta inscrita al folio 197 del tomo 411 de Carolina, finca número 15774, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Carolina. Propiedad localizada en: Waldorf Towers, Unit #1508, Carolina, PR 00979. URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL. Parking space number 16-A uncovered parking space, located on the ground level of Waldorf Tower Condominium, Loiza Street Carolina, with a total floor area of one hundred forty-eight-point one square meters. Bounding on the NORTH, on a distance of eighteen feet, with an imaginary line that separated it from parking space number 17-A; on the SOUTH, on the same distance, with an imaginary line that separates it from parking space number 15-A, on the EAST, on a distance of eight point twenty five feet with an imaginary line that separates it from the circulation area; and on the WEST, on the same distance with the common elements of the building. This unit has its access on its easterly boundary. Consta inscrita al folio 204 del tomo 46 de Carolina, finca número 15775, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Carolina. Propiedad localizada en: Waldorf Towers, Unit #1508, Carolina, PR 00979. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: a. AVISO DE DEMANDA con fecha 17 de marzo de 2016 radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina en el caso civil número FCD2016-403 sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca; Ditech Financial LLC FKA Green Tree Servicing LLC, demandante v. Dennis Narváez Sánchez, cónyuge desconoci-

do y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, demandados. Por la misma se reclama el pago de préstamo Hipotecario garantizado con la Hipoteca por $230,534.00, más otras sumas.

Anotada el 7 de junio de 2016 al Tomo Karibe, finca 15774 de Carolina Norte, anotación “A”. b. AVISO DE DEMANDA con fecha 24 de diciembre de 2020 seguida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, caso civil número CA2020CV02741, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca; Newrez LLC, h/n/c Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing, demandante v. Dennis Narváez Sánchez, demandada. Por la misma de reclama el pago de $230,535.54, más otras sumas, correspondiente a la hipoteca que grava esta finca y la finca 15775 de Carolina Norte. Anotada el 10 de marzo de 2021 al Tomo Karibe, finca 15774 de Carolina Norte, anotación “B”. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $240,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una segunda subasta por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 7 de julio de 2021, a las 1:30 tarde, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $160,000.00, dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la tercera subasta, la suma de $120,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 14 de julio de 2021, a las 1:30 tarde. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $230,534.54 de principal, intereses al tipo del 6.00000% anual según ajustado desde el día 1 de noviembre de 2009 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $24,000.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente

Wednesday, June 2, 2021 por concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de mayo de 2021. SAMUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

MANUEL DE JESÚS PASCUAL HERNÁNDEZ

Demandado Civil Núm.: LR2019CV00109.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM”. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Lares, Centro Judicial de Lares, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 30 de abril de 2021, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar D-2 de la Urbanización Villa Serral, localizada en el Barrio Pueblo del Municipio de Lares, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida

de 301.03 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, solar D-17 y Solar D-18, en distancia de 12.313 metros; por el SUR, Calle A, en distancia de 13.750 metros; por el ESTE, Solar D-3, en distancia de 22.819 metros; y por el OESTE, Solar D-1, en distancia de 23.293 metros.

Nota: Descripción según inscripción 3ra. Inscrita al folio 239 del tomo 242 de Lares, finca #500,001. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Utuado. La propiedad ubica en: Lote 2 D-2 Calle C, Villa Serral, Lares, PR. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 26 de septiembre de 2019 y notificada el 15 de octubre de 2019, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $101,640.49 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 4.00%, anual desde el 1ro de agosto de 2018, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario, recargos por demora y cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de primera hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha del pago total de las mismas, más la suma de $11,632.60 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 9 DE JULIO DE 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Lares, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $116,326.00.

Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 16 DE JULIO DE 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $77,550.66, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 23 DE JULIO DE 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $58,163.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo

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NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA alineaciones, cuatro de cuatro SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA punto veintitrés metros y una BAJA de trece punto noventa y ocho BANCO POPULAR DE metros, colinda con la calle que va a ser pavimentada, que da PUERTO RICO acceso al remanente de la finDemandante V. RAFAEL FRANCISCO ca principal; por el OESTE, en treinta y ocho punto setenta y ANDINO FERNÁNDEZ, nueve metros y colinda con el LYDIA MARGARITA solar número uno de dicha finRIVERA GARCÍA Y LA ca principal. Finca 4,024: Por SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE su procedencia está afecta a: BIENES GANANCIALES, a. Servidumbre de paso. b.

Condiciones restrictivas. Por COMPUESTA POR sí está afecta a: a. Hipoteca en AMBOS garantía de un pagaré a favor Demandado de Doral Mortgage CorporaCivil Núm.: VB2019CV00910. tion, o a su orden, por la suma Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO principal de $95,000.00, con Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANintereses al 6.95% anual, venTÍAS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE cedero el día 1 de septiembre AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE de 2033, constituida medianDE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, te la escritura número 242, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO otorgada en San Juan, Puerto DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICRico, el día 21 de agosto de TO DE SUBASTA. Yo LUIS 2003, ante el notario Oscar M. F. ORTIZ ROSA, Alguacil del González Rivera, e inscrita al Tribunal de Primera Instancia, folio 33 del tomo 408 de Vega Sala Superior de Vega Baja, al Baja, finca número 4,024, inspúblico en general. CERTIFICO cripción 6ta. b. AL ASIENTO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cum359 DEL DIARIO 285, se preplimiento de un Mandamiento sentó el día 4 de noviembre de de Ejecución de Sentencia fe2013, Demanda de fecha 4 de chado el 4 de mayo de 2021 octubre de 2013 expedida en el que me ha sido dirigido por la Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Secretaría del Tribunal de PriSala Superior de Bayamón, en mera Instancia, Sala Superior el Caso Civil número DCD13de Vega Baja, en el caso arriba 2807, seguido por Doral Bank indicado, venderé en la fecha contra Rafael Francisco Ano fechas que más adelante se dino Fernández también coindican, en pública subasta al nocido como Rafael Andino mejor postor, en moneda leFernández y su esposa Leyda gal de los Estados Unidos de Margarita Rivera, mediante la América, en efectivo, cheque cual se reclama la suma de certificado o giro postal, en $82,045.74 más otras sumas mi oficina sita en el local que adicionales. El precio mínimo ocupa en el Centro Judicial de de este remate con relación a Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, Cala Finca 4,024 antes descrita y rretera 2 Kilómetro 38.3, Vega la fecha de cada subasta serán Baja, Puerto Rico (al lado del la siguiente: FECHA DE SUCentro de Gubernamental), BASTA: PRIMERA SUBASTA: todo derecho, título e interés 7 DE JULIO DE 2021 A LAS que tenga la parte demandada, 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO en el inmueble que se descriMÍNIMO: $95,000.00. HIPOTEbe a continuación, propiedad CA: Escritura Número 242, sode la parte demandada Rafael bre Hipoteca, otorgada el 21 de Francisco Andino Fernández, agosto de 2003, ante el Notario Lydia Margarita Rivera García Oscar M. González Rivera. SEy la Sociedad Legal de Bienes GUNDA SUBASTA: 14 DE JUGananciales, Compuesta por LIO DE 2021 A LAS 9:15 DE LA Ambos. Dirección Física: Bo. MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: Yeguada, 692 PR Km 1.5, Vega $63,333.33. TERCERA SUBaja, PR 00693. Finca 4024, BASTA: 21 DE JULIO DE 2021 inscrita al folio 8 del tomo 88 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. de Vega Baja, Registro de la PRECIO MÍNIMO: $47,500.00.

Propiedad de Puerto Rico, SecLos autos y todos los documención de Vega Baja. RUSTICA: tos correspondientes al proceParcela de terreno radicada en dimiento incoado estarán de el Barrio Yeguada, del término manifiesto en la Secretaría del municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Tribunal durante las horas laboRico, compuesta de quinientos rables. Se entenderá que todo punto siete mil ciento cincuenlicitador acepta como bastante ta y cinco metros cuadrados, la titulación que se transmite y en lindes por el NORTE, en que las cargas y gravámenes catorce metros, con la franja anteriores y las preferentes, dedicada a uso público para el si las hubiere, al crédito del ensanche de la carretera númeejecutante, continuarán subro seiscientos noventa y dos; sistentes, entendiéndose que por el SUR, en diecisiete punto el rematante las acepta y quecincuenta y ocho metros, con el LEGAL NOTICE da subrogado en la responsolar número tres (3) de la finca sabilidad de las mismas, sin ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO principal, propiedad de Manuel destinarse a su extinción el DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUValiente; por el ESTE, en cinco precio del remate. Conforme a mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a.

Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Lares, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de mayo de 2021. ELLIOT LÓPEZ QUILES, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL #241, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE LARES.

la Sentencia dictada el día 26 de marzo de 2021 y archivada en los autos el 29 de marzo de 2021, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: Al 1 de junio de 2018, la suma principal de $71,058.40, más la suma de $11,242.44, que incluye intereses, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados.

Se 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 Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de mayo de 2021.

LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

LOURDES TERESA LÓPEZ COLÓN

Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV08287.

(604). Sobre: COBRO DE DI-

22 NERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, al público en general. CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABERL: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 3 de marzo de 2020 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, 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 San Juan, Puerto Rico, Avenida Muñoz Rivera, Esquina Coll y Toste, Parada 37, San Juan, 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 Lourdes Teresa López Colón. Dirección Física: Cond.

Parques de Cupey, Apt. 633, San Juan, PR 00926. Finca 22580, inscrita al folio 133 del tomo 814 de Río Piedras Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Cuarta de San Juan. URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Parques de Cupey, situado en la carretera estatal ochocientos cuarenta y cuatro (844), calle Tagore y calle Juan Ramon Jiménez en el Barrio Cupey del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, apartamento número seiscientos treinta y tres (633). Esta localizado en el tercer piso del edificio número seis. Consta de un área superficial de construcción de ochocientos setenta y nueve punto treinta (879.30) pies cuadrados, equivalente a ochenta y uno punto seis mil novecientos (81.6900) metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia de veintitrés pies con once pulgadas (23’11”) con apartamento seiscientos treinta y dos (632); por el SUR, en una distancia de dieciocho pies con diez pulgadas (18’-10”), con el vestibulo, escaleras y acceso a los demás apartamentos, en una distancia de ocho pies con diez pulgadas (8’10”), con apartamento seiscientos treinta y cuatro (634); por el ESTE, en una distancia total de treinta y seis pies con cinco pulgadas (36’-5”) con pared exterior que da a área comunal y a colindancia ESTE del Proyecto y quebrada; por el OESTE, en una distancia total de treinta y dos pies con nueve pulgadas (32’9”) con pared exterior que da a área comunal y a los estacionamientos del Proyecto. Esta pro-

piedad esta formada por sala, comedor, cocina, tres (3) habitaciones, un (1) baño, “closets” y área de lavandería. Le corresponde el estacionamiento identificado con el número noventa y uno (91) y una participación de cero punto cinco seis ocho tres (0.5683) por ciento en los elementos comunes. Finca 22,580: Por su procedencia está afecta a: a. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico.

Por sí está afecta a: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Popular Mortgage, Inc., por la suma principal de $150,490.00, con intereses al 2.99% anual por los primeros cinco (5) años y 5.875% anual por los treinta y cinco (35) años restantes, vencedero el día 1 de septiembre del 2049, constituida mediante la escritura número 311, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de agosto del 2009, ante el notario David Cardona Dingui, e inscrita al folio 133 vuelto del tomo 814 de Rio Piedra Sur, finca número 22,580, inscripción 2ª. b. Anotación de Demanda de fecha 3 de septiembre de 2019, expedida en el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, en el Caso Civil Número SJ2019CV08287, seguido por el Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Lourdes Teresa López Colón, por la suma de $135,384.05, anotado el día 5 de septiembre de 2019 al tomo Karibe de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 22,580, Anotación A. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 22,580 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: FECHA DE SUBASTA: PRIMERA SUBASTA: 21 DE JUNIO DE 2021 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $150,490.00. HIPOTECA: Escritura Número 311, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 28 de agosto de 2009, ante el Notario David Cardona Dingui. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: 28 DE JUNIO DE 2021 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $100,326.67. TERCERA SUBASTA: 6 DE JULIO DE 2021 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $75,245.00.

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 12 de diciembre de 2019 y archivada en los autos el 13 de diciembre de

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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 $135,384.05, y la cantidad de $3,145.36, por concepto de atrasos acumulados por la moratoria debido al paso del Huracán María, más $13,987.69, que incluye intereses, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se 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 San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de mayo de 2021. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

MARÍA DE LOURDES JIMÉNEZ FLORES

Demandado CIVIL NÚM: CA2019CV03257 (406). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. ESTADOS UNI-

DOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo SAMNUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, al público en general.

CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 16 de abril de 2021 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso arriba indicado, venderé en la fecha o fechas que más adelante se indican, en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal, en mi oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, Puerto Rico, Avenida 65 Infantería, Carretera 3 Kilómetro 11.7, Carolina, Puerto Rico (Entrada de la Urbanización Mansiones de Carolina), todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada, en el inmueble que se describe a continuación, propiedad de la parte demandada María de Lourdes Jiménez Flores. Dirección Física: Urb. Ciudad Universitaria, X5 Calle 24, Trujillo Alto, PR 00976. Finca 7320, inscrita al folio 55 del tomo 150 de Trujillo Alto, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Cuarta de San Juan. URBANA: Solar 5 de la manzana X, radicado en la Urbanización Ciudad Universitaria, situada en el Barrio Cuevas, del término municipal de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, con cabida de 339.05 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el Solar número 7, distancia de 21.497 metros; por el SUR, con la Calle número 24, distancia de 20.00 metros; por el ESTE, con el Solar número 4, distancia de 20.893 metros; y por el OESTE, con el Solar número 6, distancia de 13.012 metros. Enclava una estructura de concreto diseñada para una familia. Finca 7,320. Por su procedencia está afecta a: a. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico. b. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico. c. Servidumbre a favor del Municipio de Trujillo Alto y San Juan. d. Servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company. e. Condiciones restrictivas sobre edificación y uso. Por sí está afecta a: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Popular Mortgage Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $165,000.00, con intereses al 7.50% anual, vencedero el día 1 de abril de 2037, constituida mediante la escritura número 38, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de marzo de 2007, ante

el notario Ulises Santiago Tejada Nieves, e inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 757 de Trujillo Alto, finca número 7,350, inscripción 6ta. b. Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 6ta, en cuanto al principal, el cual se cancela parcialmente por la suma de $18,150.00, para un nuevo principal de $146,850.00 y al interés que será al 6.125% anual, vencedero el día 1ro. de junio de 2047, según consta de la escritura número 139, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 13 de mayo de 2017, ante el notario Héctor M. Lúgaro Figueroa, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Trujillo Alto, finca número 7,320, inscripción 7ma. c. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 26 de agosto de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, en el Caso Civil número CA2019CV03257, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra María De Lourdes Jiménez Pérez, por la suma de $145,538.87, más intereses y otras sumas, presentado el día 6 de septiembre de 2019, anotado el día 22 de junio de 2020, al tomo Karibe de Trujillo Alto, finca número 7,320, Anotación A. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 7,320 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: Primera Subasta: 9 de julio de 2021 a las 11:00AM, Precio Mínimo: $165,000.00, Hipoteca: Escritura Número 38, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 23 de marzo de 2007, ante el Notario Ulises Santiago Tejada Nieves, modificada mediante Escritura Número 139, otorgada el 13 de mayo de 2017, ante el Notario Héctor M. Lúgaro Figueroa. Segunda Subasta: 16 de julio de 2021 a las 11:00AM, Precio Mínimo: $110,000.00.

Tercera Subasta: 23 de julio de 2021 a las 11:00AM, Precio Mínimo: $82,500.00. 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 8 de marzo de 2021 y archivada en los autos el 8 de marzo de 2021, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: La suma de $145,538.87, más la suma de $3,570.00, por concepto de

atrasos acumulados por la moratoria debido al paso del Huracán María, más $16,374.63, que incluye intereses, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados.

Se 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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de mayo de 2021.

SAMNUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA. ***

LINDA GLORIA MALAVE FISICA: (a) 110 CALLE SANTANA Y LA JOSÉ DE DIEGO, URB. SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE VISTAS DEL ATLANTICO, BIENES GANANCIALES ARECIBO, PR 00612 COMPUESTA POR y POSTAL: (b) #112 AMBOS; REINALDO CALLE TIBURON, URD. RODRIGUEZ FELICIANO, VISTAS DEL ATLANTICO, IRIS MIRIAM DIAZ ARECIBO, PR 00612-2977.

Se les notifica por este medio RODRIGUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE que en el caso del epígrafe BIENES GANANCIALES se solicita a SUSTITUCION DE UN PAGARÉ EXTRAVIACOMPUESTA POR DO notarizado bajo el número AMBOS; JOHN DOE; de testimonio #464 a favor de RICHARD ROE COMO First Financial Caribbean Corp.

POSIBLES TENEDORES h/n/c H.F. Mortgage Bankers, o a su orden, por la sum de DESCONOCIDOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: AR2021CV00355.

SOBRE: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ 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-demaadada: IRIS MIRIAM DÍAZ RODRiGUEZ., POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON EL SR. REINALDO RODRIGUEZ FELICIANO, a su última dirección conocida: FISICA: (a) 110 CALLE JOSÉ DE DIEGO, URB. VISTAS DEL ATLANTICO, ARECIBO, PR 00612 y POSTAL: (b) #112 CALLE TIBURÓN, URB. VISTAS DEL ATLANTICO, ARECIBO, PR 00612-2977.

A la parte co-demandada REINALDO RODRÍGUEZ FELICIANO, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON LA LEGAL NOTICE SRA.BUS MIRIAM DÍAZ ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO RODRiGUEZ, a su ultima DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUdirección conocida: NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA FISICA: (D) 110 CALLE CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AREJOSÉ DE DmGO, URB. CIBO SALA SUPERIOR. VISTAS DEL ATLANTICO, SUN WEST MORTGAGE ARECIBO, PR 00612 COMPANY, INC y POSTAL: (b) #112 DEMANDANTE vs.

CALLE TIBURÓN, URD. BANCO POPULAR DE VISTAS DEL ATLANTICO, PUERTO ruco COMO UN POSIBLE SUCESOR ARECIBO, PR 00612-2977.

A la parte ce-demandada; DE FIRST FINANCIAL LINDA GLORIA MALA CARIBBEAN CORP. VÉ, POR SÍ Y EN H/N/C H.F. MORTGAGE REPRESENTACIÓN DE BANKERS DESPUES LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE DORAL FINANCIAL BIENES GANANCIALES CORPORATION COMPUESTA (ACREEDOR COMPUESTA CON HIPOTECARIO ESTEBAN RODRIGUEZ ORIGINAL); ESTEBAN FELICIANO, a su último RODRIGUEZ FELICIANO, dirección conocida:

$52,556,00, devengando intereses a razón del 7 1/2% por ciento anual, vencedero el primero (1ro) de Ju lo de 2026, garantizado con hipoteca constituida mediante escritura número 445 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el 6 de Junio de 1996, ante el Notario Diana M. Ruíz Hernández, In cual consta inscrito al Folio 45 vuelto del Tomo 974 de Arecibo, finca número 42,748, inscripción Segunda. Dicha Hipoteca fue modificada según la Escritura numero 198, otorgada en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de agosto de 2009, ante el Notario Enid S. Rodríguez Binet, para un nuevo principal de 545,267.20, intereses al 5% por ciento anual, con vencimiento el Iro de junio de 2026, dicha modificación se encuentra presentada y pendiente de calificación al Asiento 630 del Diario 846, finca número 42,748 de Arecibo, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Primera. 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 emplazo por este edicto que se publica una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva otra ves del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicinl.nr/sumac/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretarla del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONA LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. A TENCIÓN al Lcdo.

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

The San Juan Daily Star (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 18 de mayo de 2021, en Arecibo, Puerto Rico. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, Sec Regional. Brunilda Hernandez, Sec Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR.

SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC DEMANDANTE vs.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO ruco COMO UN POSIBLE SUCESOR DE FIRST FINANCIAL CARIBBEAN CORP. H/N/C H.F. MORTGAGE BANKERS DESPUES DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION (ACREEDOR HIPOTECARIO ORIGINAL); ESTEBAN RODRIGUEZ FELICIANO, LINDA GLORIA MALAVE SANTANA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; REINALDO RODRIGUEZ FELICIANO, IRIS MIRIAM DIAZ RODRIGUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: AR2021CV00355.

SOBRE: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ 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-demaadada: 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 a SUSTITUCION DE UN PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO notarizado bajo el número de testimonio #464 a favor de First Financial Caribbean Corp. h/n/c H.F. Mortgage Bankers, o a su orden, por la sum de

$52,556,00, devengando intereses a razón del 7 1/2% por ciento anual, vencedero el primero (1ro) de Ju lo de 2026, garantizado con hipoteca constituida mediante escritura número 445 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el 6 de Junio de 1996, ante el Notario Diana M. Ruíz Hernández, In cual consta inscrito al Folio 45 vuelto del Tomo 974 de Arecibo, finca número 42,748, inscripción Segunda. Dicha Hipoteca fue modificada según la Escritura numero 198, otorgada en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de agosto de 2009, ante el Notario Enid S. Rodríguez Binet, para un nuevo principal de 545,267.20, intereses al 5% por ciento anual, con vencimiento el Iro de junio de 2026, dicha modificación se encuentra presentada y pendiente de calificación al Asiento 630 del Diario 846, finca número 42,748 de Arecibo, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Primera. 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 emplazo por este edicto que se publica una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva otra ves del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicinl.nr/sumac/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretarla del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONA LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. A TENCIÓN al Lcdo.

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

EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 18 de mayo de 2021, en Arecibo, Puerto Rico. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, Sec Regional. Brunilda Hernandez, Sec Auxiliar.

Wednesday, June 2, 2021 NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA que se publicará una sola vez CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CIA- en un periódico de circulación LES SALA SUPERIOR general. Por tratarse de una SUN WEST MORTGAGE obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este COMPANY, INC caso o quedar afectando por el Demandante Vs. remedio solicitado, se le emplaFIRST FINANCIAL za por este edicto que se publiCARIBBEAN cará una vez en un periódico CORP, DESPUÉS de circulación diaria general de DORAL FINANCIAL Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva CORPORATION, a través del Sistema Unificado DESPUÉS DORAL de Manejo y Administración de FINANCIAL CORP, Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede DESPUÉS DORAL acceder utilizando la siguiente BANK AHORA BANCO dirección electrónica: https:// POPULAR DE PUERTO unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, RICO; RUBEN ROSARIO salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso OTERO, JESENIA CHINEA RIVERA Y LA deberá presentar su alegación SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal y notifique copia de la BIENES GANANCIALES Contestación de la Demanda COMPUESTA POR a las oficinas de CARDONA & AMBOS; JOHN DOE; MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, RICHARD ROE COMO P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo.

POSIBLES TENEDORES Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, Sao Juan, DESCONOCIDO Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel Demandados Civil Núm.: MT2021CV00064. (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 625Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE 7001, Abogado de la Parte DePAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EM- mandante. Dentro de los treinta PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. (30) días siguientes a la publiESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ- cación de este Edicto, aperciRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE biéndole que de no hacerlo así LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL dentro del término indicado, el ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, conceDE PUERTO RICO. diéndose el remedio solicitado A La Parte Cosin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s).

Demandada: RUBEN EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con ROSARIO OTERO, el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy JESENIA CHINEA 19 de mayo de 2021, en Ciales, RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD Puerto Rico. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA LEGAL DE BIENES REGIONAL. MADELINE GARGANANCIALES CÍA PÉREZ, SECRETARIA COMPUESTA POR AUXILIAR.

AMBOS, A SU ÚLTIMA DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA: LEGAL NOTICE FÍSICA: (A) URB. BRISAS Estado Libre Asociado de PuerDE CIALES, B-49, CIALES, to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL PUERTO RICO 00638 Y DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de PriPOSTAL: (B) 549 AVE. mera Instancia Sala Superior SEXTA (SIXTH AVENUE) de CAROLINA. EVELYN APT. 314, CLERMONT, FL GUADARRAMA RAMOS 34714-8913.

Se les notifica por este medio que en el caso del epígrafe se solicita la SUSTITUCIÓN DE UN PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO notarizado bajo el testimonio núm. 12,678 a favor de FIRST FINANCIAL CARIBBEAN CORP., o a su orden, por la suma de $47,546.00, devengando intereses a razón del 7.06% por ciento anual, vencedero el primero (1ro) de junio de 2015, garantizado con hipoteca constituida mediante escritura número 74 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el 19 de mayo de 1995, ante el Notario Rogelio l. Guzmán Lloveras, la cual consta inscrita al Tomo 285 de Ciales finca número 11,515, inscripción LEGAL NOTICE Segunda (2da) y última. Este ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Tribunal ha ordenado que se DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto

Demandante v.

SUCN LUIS MEDINA BONAO Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Civil Núm. CA2021CV00072.

SALA 409. Sobre: LIQUIDACION DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: NECTOR LUIS MEDINA BAEZ T/C/C NESTOR LUIS MEDINA BAEZ

(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 24 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 26 de mayo de 2021. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 26 de mayo de 2021. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRIGUEZ, Secretaria.

MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, Sec Auxiliar.

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

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE VEGA ALTA Demandante v.

FULANO DE TAL

Demandado(a) Civil: VB2021CV00130. SALA 403. Sobre: PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO DE TAL

(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 25 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 25 de mayo de 2021. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 25 de mayo de 2021.

LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ-

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SEC. REGIONAL. F/KATHERI- de divorcio presentada y en su NE SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ, consecuencia, decreta roto y Secretario(a) Auxiliar. disuelto el vínculo matrimonial existente entre las partes por LEGAL NOTICE la causal de ruptura irreparable.

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO El Tribunal le apercibe a la parDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- te demandante que, a tenor con NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA la Regla 65.3 de las de ProceSALA SUPERIOR DE ARECI- dimiento Civil, tiene que cumplir BO. con el proceso de publicación de esta Sentencia por edictos.

LERINICHY REGÍSTRESE Y NOTIFÍQUEGONZÁLEZ ROMÁN SE. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Demandante v. hoy día 21 de mayo de 2021.

EMMANUEL f/ VIDAL VÉLEZ DÍAZ, JUEZ VALENTÍN VALLE SUPERIOR. Demandado CIVIL NUM: AR2020RF00406.

LEGAL NOTICE SOBRE: DIVORCIO (RUPtUESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO RA IRREPARABLE). SENTENDE PUERTO RICO TRIBUCIA. El 14 de julio de 2020, la NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA parte demandante presentó CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARODemanda de Divorcio. MedianLINA SALA SUPERIOR te Orden del 17 de noviembre SUN WEST MORTGAGE de 2020, el Tribunal autorizó la COMPANY, INC expedición de emplazamiento Demandante Vs. por edicto para emplazar o lo parte demandada. El edicto fue publicado el 18 de diciembre de 2020, en el periódico Primero Hora. Obra en los autos ejemplar del edicto publicado, declaración jurada del periódico, así como prueba del envío a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada. Habiendo transcurrido el término de lo parte demandado paro presentar alegación responsiva, sin haberlo hecho, el 4 de mayo de 2021, se le anotó la rebeldía, lo cual fue notificado ese mismo día. El coso quedó señalado para Juicio en su Fondo para el 17 de mayo de 2021. A la Vista en Rebeldía, celebrada mediante videoconferencia el 17 de mayo de 2021, compareció la señora González Román, representada por el Lcdo. Jorge L. Couto González. El demandado Emmanuel Valentín Valle no compareció ni representación legal alguna. De la prueba presentada bajo juramento se desprende que el Tribunal tiene jurisdicción para entender en este caso. El matrimonio aquí disuelto se contrajo el 24 de septiembre de 2016, en Hatillo, Puerto Rico, según surge del Certificado de Matrimonio Número 152-2016-00152-011211136576-02028329. Las partes no procrearon ni tienen hijos en común, por lo cual el Tribunal no dispone en cuanto o custodia, patria potestad, relaciones filiales ni pensión alimentario.

La señora González Román no se encuentra en estado de embarazo. Durante la relación matrimonial las partes no adquirieron ni asumieron deudas atribuibles o sociedad legal de gananciales alguna. A base de un análisis de dicha prueba y de conformidad con las disposiciones y los artículos 423, 424 y 425(c) de la Ley 55-2020, mejor conocida como Código Civil de Puerto Rico, el Tribunal declaro Ha Lugar la Demanda

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

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2021CV00378.

(407). Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ 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 COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ, DEMANDADOS DESCONOCIDOS CUYA DIRECCIÓN SE DESCONOCE. FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA

SUCESIÓN DE JORGE ARTEMIO BERRIOS MARTÍNEZ, CUYA ÚLTIMA DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA CONOCIDA ES: CONDOMINIO ANDALUCIA, APARTAMENTO 503, CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO 00979 Y CUYA ÚLTIMA DIRECCIÓN POSTAL CONOCIDA ES: CONDOMINIO ANDALUCIA, APARTAMENTO 503, CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO 00987-2314.

Se les notifica por este medio que en el caso del epígrafe se solicita la SUSTITUCIÓN DE UN PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO notariado bajo el testimonio núm. 762 Vol. XXXV a favor de Doral Financial Corporation, haciendo negocios como HF Mortgage Bankers, o a su orden, por la suma de $151,000.00, devengando intereses a razón del 5.50% por ciento anual, vencedero el primero (1ro.) de febrero de 2034, garantizado con hipoteca constituida mediante escritura número 14 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 30 de energía de 2014, ante el Notario José M. González Romanace, la cual consta inscrita al folio 190 del tomo 1394 de Carolina, finca número 57,287, inscripción Segunda (2da) y última. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo.

Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 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 in-

24 dicado, 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 21 de mayo de 2021, en Carolina, Puerto Rico.

LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LYSHA M. CORDERO DANOIS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

por el NORTE, con el solar número LU-3 de la mencionada Urbanización, en una distancia de 19.78 metros, equivalentes a 64.90 pies; por el SUR, con el solar número LU-1 de dicho proyecto, distancia de 18.90 metros equivalentes a 62 pies; por el ESTE, con servidumbre de paso de la Calle “B” de la susodicha Urbanización, distancia de 10.43 metros, equivalentes a 34.21 pies; y por el OESTE, con la quebrada Mabú, distancia LEGAL NOTICE de 15.53 metros, equivalentes ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO a 50.96 pies. EDIFICACIÓN: DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- Enclava una casa de bloques y NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA hormigón de 20 pies de fondo SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMA- de una sola planta compuesta CAO. de sala-comedor, tres (3) habiBANCO POPULAR DE taciones, cocina y marquesina, con techo de zinc pero sobre PUERTO RICO columnas de concreto con PARTE DEMANDANTE VS. un valor de $4,000.00, según FACUNDO SÁNCHEZ consta de la Escritura Número MERCEDES, HELEN Seis (6), otorgada en Humacao, ORTIZ SÁNCHEZ Y Puerto Rico, el 23 de diciembre LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL de 1964, ante el Notario FausDE GANANCIALES tino R. Aponte. Inscrita al folio 179 vuelto del tomo 154 de COMPUESTA POR Humacao, Finca número 4687, AMBOS Inscripción segunda. La proPARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. HU2019CV00380. piedad consta inscrita al folio SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HI- 178 del tomo 154 de Humacao, POTECA POR LA VÍA ORDI- Finca número 4687, Registro NARIA “IN REM”. ESTADOS de la Propiedad de Humacao.

UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL La escritura de hipoteca consPRESIDENTE DE LOS ES- ta inscrita al folio 210 del tomo TADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO 554 de Humacao, Finca númeLIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER- ro 4687, Registro de la PropieTO RICO. SS.. AVISO DE PÚ- dad de Humacao. Inscripción BLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil décimo quinta (15). DIRECque suscribe por la presente CIÓN FÍSICA: EXTENSIÓN anuncia y hace constar que en ANTONIO ROIG, LU2 CALLE cumplimiento de la Sentencia 2, HUMACAO, PR 00791.

Enmendada dictada el 9 de Primera Subasta: 4 de agosdiciembre de 2019, la Orden to de 2021 a la 1:30 pm, Tipo de Ejecución de Sentencia Mínimo: $63,945.00. Segunda Enmendada del 19 de marzo Subasta: 11 de agosto de 2021 de 2020 y el Mandamiento En- a la 1:30 pm, Tipo Mínimo: mendado de Ejecución del 27 $42,630.00. Tercera Subasta: de marzo de 2020 en el caso 18 de agosto de 2021 a la 1:30 de epígrafe, procederé a ven- pm, Tipo Mínimo: $31,972.50. der el día 4 DE AGOSTO DE El tipo mínimo para la primera 2021, a la 1:30 de la TARDE subasta será de $63,945.00. en mi oficina, localizada en De no haber adjudicación en Tribunal de Primera Instancia, la primera subasta se celebraCentro Judicial de Humacao, rá una segunda subasta, día Sala Superior, en la Avenida 11 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, a la Nicanor Vázquez, Humacao, 1:30 de la TARDE en el mismo Puerto Rico (frente al Centro de lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo Bellas Artes), al mejor postor en será de dos terceras partes del pago de contado y en moneda tipo mínimo fijado en la primede los Estados Unidos de Amé- ra subasta, o sea, $42,630.00. rica cheque de gerente o giro De no haber adjudicación en la postal todo título, derecho o segunda subasta, se celebrará interés de la parte demandada una tercera subasta el día 18 sobre la siguiente propiedad: DE AGOSTO DE 2021, a la URBANA: Solar marcado con el 1:30 de la TARDE en el mismo Número Dos (2) de la manza- lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo na “LU” en el plano preparado será la mitad del precio pactapor la Autoridad sobre Hogares do, o sea, $31,972.50. Si se de Puerto Rico hoy Corpora- declarase desierta la tercera ción de Renovación Urbana y subasta, se adjudicará la finca Vivienda de Puerto Rico, para a favor del acreedor por la totasu proyecto de solares deno- lidad de la cantidad adeudada minado Extensión Antonio Roig si ésta es igual o menor que PRHA-9 radicado en el Barrio el monto del tipo de la tercera Mabú del término municipal de subasta, si el tribunal lo estima Humacao, Puerto Rico, con una conveniente. Se abonará dicho cabida superficial de 240.14 monto a la cantidad adeudada metros cuadrados. En lindes si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate

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se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $46,111.29 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7% anual desde el 1 de mayo de 2018 hasta su completo pago, más $448.05 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $6,394.50 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 Facundo Sánchez Mercedes y su esposa, Helen Ortiz Sánchez, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $5,000.00, sin intereses y vencedero el 6 de septiembre de 2001, según consta de la Escritura Número 945, otorgada en Humacao, Puerto Rico el 6 de septiembre de 2002, ante el Notario José Rubén Vélez Marrero, inscrita al folio 210 del tomo 554 de Humacao, finca número 4687.

Inscripción 16 y última. Nota: Sujeta a condiciones “La Llave para tu Hogar”, por un término de 6 años. b. Bitácora: Al asiento 2019-033030-HU01, presentada el 2 de abril de 2019, Demanda de fecha 25 de marzo de 2019, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, en el caso civil número HU2019CV00380, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Facundo Sánchez Mercedes y su esposa, Helen Ortiz Sánchez, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de la hipoteca, con un balance de $46,111.29 y otras cantidades, o la venta en pública subasta de la propiedad.

Pendiente anotación. Se le 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.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. 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 Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy 23 de abril de 2021. MARÍA DEL PILAR RIVERA RIVERA, Alguacil Regional. Por: JENNISA GARCÍA MORALES, Alguacil Auxiliar, Placa 796, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

SERGIO BÁEZ GARCÍA, JANET DELGADO FLORES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA REPRESENTADO POR EL SECRETARIO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO (HUD)

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2019CV03151.

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 13 de enero de 2020, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 13 de marzo de 2020 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 24 de marzo de 2020 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 2 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Sala Superior, en la Carretera Número Uno (#1), Intersección con la Número 189, Entrada Norte, Urb. Bairoa, Caguas, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor

en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Solar marcado con el Número Once (11) del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Camino Real radicada en el Barrio Cañaboncito de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 2013.0848 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 36.611 metros con la Calle Número Tres (3) de la Urbanización; por el SUR, en 30.7345 metros con Agapito Pérez; por el ESTE, en 67.113 metros, con el Solar Número Doce (12) de la Urbanización; y por el OESTE, en 55.760 metros con el Solar Número Diez (10) de la Urbanización. Servidumbre de agua en la parte posterior del solar que discurre de Norte a Sur, para que el solar sea predio sirviente de los solares superiores y no se intervenga de ninguna forma con el discurrir de las aguas por dicha servidumbre de aguas, con un valor de $100.00. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 210 del tomo 1516 de Caguas, Finca Número 52216, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 23 del tomo 1730 de Caguas, Finca Número 52216, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. Inscripción duodécima (11ma). La escritura de modificación de hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Caguas, Finca Número 52216, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. Inscripción décimo tercera (13ra). DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: URB CAMINO REAL, LOTE 11 CALLE YAGRUMO, CAGUAS, PR 00725. SUBASTAS: PRIMERA: 2 DE AGOSTO DE 2021 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $236,737.28. SEGUNDA: 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2021 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $157,824.85. TERCERA: 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2021 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $118,368.64.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $236,737.28.

De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $157,824.85. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA día 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $118,368.64. 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. 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 Sergio Báez García y su esposa Janet Delgado Flores, en garantía a un pagaré a favor de Secretary of Housing and Urban Development of The United States, o a su orden, por la suma de $49,945.32, sin intereses y vencedero el 1 de septiembre de 2047, según consta de la Escritura Número 786, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 30 de agosto de 2017, ante el Notario Néstor Machado Cortes. Inscrita al folio 23 del tomo 1730 de Caguas, finca número 52216, inscripción décimo cuarta (14ta). Nota: No surgen condiciones. b. Bitácora: Al Asiento 2019-096152CA01, el 11 de septiembre de 2019, Demanda de fecha 26 de agosto de 2019, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el Caso Civil Número CG2019CV03151, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Sergio Báez García y su esposa Janet Delgado Flores, Estados Unidos de América, representado por Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano (HUD), sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $233,626.17 y otras cantidades, o la vena 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. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $233,626.17 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4% anual desde el 1 de junio de 2018 hasta su completo pago, más $221.76 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $30,648.80 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables,

en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 13 de mayo de 2021.

ALBERTO NEGRON ROMAN, ALGUACIL PLACA #435, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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Parte Demandante V.

JORGE L. ECHEVARRÍA GORDON, LINDA RODRIGUEZ REYES Y LA SOCEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2020CV00954.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, hago saber a la parte demandada, JORGE L. ECHEVARRÍA GORDON, LINDA RODRIGUEZ REYES y la SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES compuesta por ambos, y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 11 de febrero de 2021, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en

pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y al mejor postor la propiedad de la dirección [Sunflower Valley Dev., B10 Tornasol St., Toa Alta PR 00953] y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 10 del bloque B en el plano de la Urbanización Sunflower Valley, radicado en el barrio Quebrada Arena del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 778 metros cuadrados con 93 milésimas de otro, y en lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 36.861 metros y en un medio arco de 1.75 metros con la Calle 2 de la urbanización; por el SUR, en una distancia de 44.01 metros con el lote número 9 del bloque B de la urbanización; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 18.85 metros con el lote número 11 del bloque B de la urbanización y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 15.0 metros y en un medio arco de 1.75 metros con la Calle Número 1 de la urbanización. Sobre este predio de terreno enclava una casa construida en hormigón armado y bloques de concreto para una sola familia, consistente de 3 dormitorios, 2 baños, sala, cocina, comedor, laundry y marquesina doble. Contiene además un pozo séptico de doble recámara. Finca 25629, inscrita al Folio 198 del tomo 504 de Toa Alta, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección tercera. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen: (i) HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Oriental Bank, o a su orden, por la suma de $128,250.00 con intereses al 3.5% anual y vencimiento 1ro de abril de 2041.

Constituida por la Escritura 105 otorgada en Bayamón el 31 de marzo de 2016 ante el notario Rafael Maldonado Perez, e inscrita al tomo Karibe, finca 25629 de Toa Alta, inscripción 3ª. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 8 de diciembre de 2020, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad de ascendente a $117,195.82 de principal, más $3,610.24 a intereses acumulados, que continuarán acumulándose al 5.000% anual hasta el saldo total de la deuda, mas $168.84 a cargos por demora, más $52.00 a otros cargos, más $11,235.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para

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La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 2 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, Piso 5, Sala 503. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $128,250.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $85,500.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $64,125.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los dere-

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chos del acreedor ejecutante.

Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de mayo de 2021. EDGARDO E. VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL #193, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN.

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NEWREZ LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING Plaintiff V.

NILDA BURGOS RODRIGUEZ, RICARDO PINEIRO NEGRON AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THEM

Defendant(s) Case No.: 3:11-cv-01424-ADC. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: NILDA BURGOS RODRIGUEZ AND RICARDO PINEIRO NEGRON, DEFENDANTS. URB. VILLAS DE SAN AGUSTÍN, E-10 CALLE 5, BAYAMÓN, PR 00959.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC:

WHEREAS: On August 6, 2012 this Court entered a Judgment in favor of Plaintiff, NEWREZ LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING, against Defendant. On April 29, 2013 this Court entered an Order of Execution of Judgment stating that “Defendants defaulted on their repayment obligation to Plaintiff, and as of May

7, 2021, they owe Plaintiff principal amount of $141,677.00, interest in the amount of $103,679.50 which continue to accrue on a daily rate of $26.20, $178.74 in late charges, $19,378.88 in escrow deficiency, and $14,820.00 in contractually agreed-upon attorney’s fees and legal costs, for a total amount of $279,734.12. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following property belonging to the Defendants will be sold at a public auction: URBANA: PARCELA DE TERRENO UBICADA EN EL BARRIO GUARAGUAO ABAJO MINILLAS DEL MUNICIPIO DE BAYAMON, PUERTO RICO, IDENTIFICADO EN EL PLANO DE INSCRIPCION DE LA URBANIZACION VILLAS DE SAN AGUSTIN, COMO SOLAR NUMERO DIEZ (10) MANZANA “E” SECCION “1” CON UNA CABIDA SUPERFICIAL DE 331.50 METROS CUADRADOS. EN LINDEROS POR EL NORTE, CON SOLAR NUMERO VEINTITRES DE LA MANZANA “E” DE LA REFERIDA URBANIZACION EN UNA DISTANCIA DE TRECE PUNTO CERO METROS; POR EL SUR, CON LA CALLE NUMERO CINCO DE LA REFERIDA URBANIZACION EN UNA DISTANCIA DE TRECE METROS; POR EL ESTE, CON SOLAR NUMERO NUEVE DE LA MANZANA “E” DE LA REFERIDA URBANIZACION EN UNA DISTANCIA DE VEINTICINCO PUNTO CINCUENTA METROS; Y POR EL OESTE, CON SOLAR NUMERO ONCE DE LA MANZANA “E” DE LA REFERIDA URBANIZACION EN UNA DISTANCIA DE VEINTICINCO PUNTO CINCUENTA METROS. EN DICHA PARCELA EXISTE UNA EDIFICACION DE VIVIENDA UNIFAMILIAR DE UNA SOLA PLANTA, CONSTRUIDA DE CONCRETO ARMADO Y BLOQUE DE CONCRETO. The aforementioned Property is recorded in the Puerto Rico Property Registry, Section of Bayamon, Sección I, at page 236, of Book 1277, Property Lot (“Finca”) number 57434. The mortgage deed is recorded at entry 64 of the Journal of Daily Entries 1844 of Bayamon, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section I, Property Lot (“Finca”) number 57434. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that

prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. WHEREAS: The lien executed is the first one over the property and for the purpose of the first judicial sale, the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the mortgage deed will be $148,200.00 for the property and no lower offers will be accepted. Should the first judicial sale of the above-described property be unsuccessful, then the minimum bid for the property on the second judicial sale will be $98,800.00, that is two-thirds the amount of the minimum bid for the first judicial sale. The minimum bid for a third judicial sale, if the same is necessary, will be $74,100.00, that is one-half of the minimum bid agreed upon the parties in the aforementioned mortgage deed. (30 PR Laws Ann. § 2721, Mortgage and Property Registry Act, Act. No. 198, Article 221, as amended). WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation, free of all subsequent liens and encumbrances. NOW THEREFORE, PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before referred to, will, on the 6TH DAY OF AUGUST OF 2021 AT: 10:00 AM, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 2001, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. Should the first judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the SECOND JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 13TH DAY OF AUGUST OF 2021, AT: 10:00 AM, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court located at the address indicated above. Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the THIRD JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 20TH DAY OF AUGUST OF 2021, AT 10:00 AM, in the

Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court located at the address indicated above.

In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 19th day of May 2021. PEDRO A. VÉLEZ BAERGA, APPOINTED SPECIAL MASTER, 787672-8269.

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

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE

Demandados Civil Núm.: HA2021CV00089.

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

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, personas desconocidas que se designan con estos nombres ficticios, que puedan ser tenedor o tenedores, o puedan tener algún interés en el pagaré hipotecario a que se hace referencia más adelante en el presente edicto, que se publicará una sola vez.

Se les notifica que en la Demanda radicada en el caso de epígrafe se alega que un pagaré hipotecario fue otorgado el 31 de mayo de 2004, a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Puerto Rico (hoy Oriental Bank), o a su orden, por la suma de $95,000.00 de principal, con intereses al 10% anual, y vencedero a la demanda, ante la Notario Eugenio Otero Silva, mediante afidávit 5568. La hipoteca fue constituida mediante la escritura número 35 del 31 de mayo de 2004, ante la Notario Eugenio Otero Silva, inscrita al folio 145 del tomo 357 de Hatillo, finca 7503, inscripción 10-A, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección l. El inmueble gravado mediante la hipoteca antes descrita es la finca número 7503 inscrita al folio 90 del tomo 357 de hatillo, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección II. La obligación evidenciada por el pagaré antes descrito fue saldada en su totalidad. Dicho gravamen no ha podido ser cancelado por haberse extraviado el original del pagaré. El original del pagaré antes descrito no ha podido ser localizado, a pesar de las gestiones realizadas. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Puerto Rico, hoy Oriental Bank, es el acreedor que consta en el Registro de la Propiedad. El

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último tenedor conocido del pagaré antes descrito fue Oriental Bank. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento.

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

LCDO. JAVIER MONTALVO CINTRÓN RUA NÚM. 17682 DELGADO & FERNÁNDEZ, LLC PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750, Tel. (787) 274-1414 / Fax (787) 764-8241 E-mail: jmontalvo@delgadofernandez.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 20 de mayo de 2021. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. BRENDA TORRES MUÑIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

HECTOR LUIS RIVERA VARGAS Y LA SUCESION DE YAMIL APONTE ROSADO COMPUESTA POR HECTOR LUIS RIVERA VARGAS, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE, SECRETARIO DE HACIENDA, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandado Civil Núm.: A2CI2012-00682.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo LUIS A. NIEVES RIVERA, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL #659, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Se-

bastián, al público en general.

CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 3 de mayo de 2021 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Sebastián, 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 el local que ocupa en el Centro Judicial de San Sebastián, 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, Héctor Luis Rivera Vargas y la Sucesión de Yamil Aponte Rosado, compuesta por Héctor Luis Rivera Vargas, John Doe y Richard Roe. Dirección Física: E-17, Vac. 18, Reparto Sofia, San Sebastián, Puerto Rico 00685.

Finca 17,059, al folio 297 del tomo 325 de San Sebastián, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de San Sebastián. URBANA: Solar marcado con el número F guion Diecisiete (F-17) del plano de inscripción del Proyecto UM guion siete guion cuarenta y cinco (UM 7-45), denominado El Pepino, radicado en el Barrio Culebrinas del término municipal de San Sebastián, con una cabida superficial de doscientos sesenta y cuatro (264.00) metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con el Solar F guion dieciséis (F-16), distancia de veintidós (22.00) metros; por el SUR, con el Solar F guion dieciocho (F-18), distancia de veintidós (22.00) metros; por el ESTE, con la Calle principal distancia de doce (12.00) metros; y por el OESTE, con la Calle número ocho (8), distancia de doce (12.00) metros.

Sobre dicho Solar ubica una estructura dedicada a vivienda con la siguiente descripción: Casa con un área de piso de hormigón de seiscientos setenta (670) pies cuadrados, paredes de hormigón prefabricada con columnas de aluminio.

Techada con losas de hormigón armado, fundida sobre una lámina de acero galvanizado, tiene 3 dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina, servicio sanitario y balcón. Finca 17,059: Por su procedencia está: Libre de Cargas. Por sí está afecta a: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Financial Corporation, haciendo negocios como HF Mortgage Bankers, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $45,675.00, con intereses al 6% anual, vencedero el día 1 de mayo de 2023, constituida mediante la

escritura número 31, otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de abril de 2005, ante el notario José García Báez, e inscrita al folio 91 del tomo 577 de San Sebastián, finca número 17,059, inscripción 4ta. b. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 25 de octubre de 2012, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Sebastián, Caso Civil número A2CI-201200682, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por Doral Bank, versus Héctor Luis Rivera Vargas y Yamil Aponte Rosado, por la suma de $33,267.87 y otras sumas, anotado el día 5 de noviembre de 2012, al folio 91 del tomo 577 de San Sebastián, finca número 17,059, Anotación A. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 17,059 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: FECHA DE SUBASTA: PRIMERA SUBASTA: 13 DE AGOSTO DE 2021 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $45,675.00.

HIPOTECA: Escritura Número 31 sobre Primera Hipoteca, otorgada el día 14 de abril de 2005, ante el notario José García Báez. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: 20 DE AGOSTO DE 2021 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $30,450.00.

TERCERA SUBASTA: 27 DE AGOSTO DE 2021 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $22,837.50. 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 1 de agosto de 2013, notificada el 5 de agosto de 2013 y publicada el 15 de agosto de 2013, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: La suma principal de $33,267.87, más intereses a razón de 6% anual, desde el 1 de junio de 2012, más recargos acumulados, más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, recargos por demora, así como de cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, más la suma de

26 $4,567.50 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, poseedorewws, 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 San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de mayo de 2021. LUIS A. NIEVES RIVERA, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL #659, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN.

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

NEWREZ LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING Demandante v.

WILMER RAFAEL CARDONA RIVERA T/C/C WILMER CARDONA RIVERA

Demandados CIVIL NUM. DCD2016-1738 (501). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: La Parte Demandada, al (a la) Secretario(a) de

Hacienda de Puerto Rico y al Público General:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, el 5 de agosto de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar 20 del bloque J Hato Tejas Bayamón, Extensión Villa Rica, compuesto de 350.00 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en 14.00 metros con la Calle 13; SUR, en igual medida con solar 7; ESTE, en 25.00 metros con una foja de terreno y OESTE, igual medida con solar 21. Contiene una casa de hormigón y bloques para una familia. Consta inscrita al folio 139 del tomo 369 de Bayamón, finca número 16421, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón.

Propiedad localizada en: Urb. Villa Rica, Calle 13 T-20, Bayamón, PR 00959. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $108,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una segunda subasta por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubi-

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cada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, el 12 de agosto de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $72,000.00, dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la tercera subasta, la suma de $52,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, el 19 de agosto de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $95,753.92 de principal, intereses al tipo del 5.87500% anual según ajustado desde el día 1 de julio de 2015 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $10,800.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de mayo de 2020. EDGARDO E. VARGAS SANTANA, Alguacil de Subastas.

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

NATlVIDAD MOLINA RODRIGUEZ PETICIONARIA

Ex Parte

CIVIL NUM.: AR2020CV00250.

SALON: 401. SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: A LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS O DESCONOCIDAS A QUIEN PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCION DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MAS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBE Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, Si 10 creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los VEINTE (20) DiAS contados a partir de Ia ultima publicación de este edicto, el que se publicará por TRES (3) veces en el término de veinte (20) días, a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por Ia parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre Ia siguiente finca: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno con un área de 13,857.2056 metros cuadrados equivalentes a 3.5257 cuerdas, localizada en eI Sector Berrocal Bo. Bayaney del Municipio de Hatillo. En lindes por el Norte en varias alineaciones que suman 277.18 metros con Claudio Nuñez Salas; 01 el Sur en varias alineaciones que suman 261.22 metros con lsmael Méndez Méndez, Alejandro Ríos Pagan, Alejandro Rios Reyes y Juan Rosado; 01 el Este en varias alineaciones que suman 78.92 metros con Margot Soto y Juan Rosado y por el Oeste en 4.77 metros con Camino Municipal. Número de catastro: 131-020-198-19-000.

Debe presentar el original de su escrito al Tribunal y notificar copia del mismo al representante legal de Ia parte promovente, Lcda. Marisel Barreto Viera, cuya dirección postal es Urb. Crown Hills, 138 Ave. W. Churchill PMB 224, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926-6013 y cuyo teléfono es el 787-945-5193.

Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diana, para que comparezcan Si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención

de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificara en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de Ia fecha de Ia Ultima publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por Ia parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oIrle. POR ORDEN DE ESTE TRIBUNAL, expido Ia presente bajo mi firma y sello oficial. EnArecibo, hoy día 17 de mayo de 2021. Vivian Y Fresse Gonzalez, Secretaria Regional.

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NATIVIDAD MOLINA RODRIGUEZ PETICIONARIA

Ex Parte

CIVIL NUM.: AR2020CV00250.

SALON: 401. SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: CLAUDIO NUÑEZ SALAS HC-03 Box 33720, Hatillo, PR 00659

POR LA PRESENTE se Ie notifica para que comparezca, silo creyere pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los VEINTE (20) DIAS contados a partir de Ia ultima publicación de este edicto, el que se publicará por TRES (3) veces en el término de veinte (20) días, a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por Ia parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre Ia siguiente finca: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno con un área de 13,857.2056 metros cuadrados equivalentes a 3.5257 cuerdas, localizada en el Sector Berrocal Bo. Bayaney del Municipio de Hatillo. En lindes por el Norte en varias alineaciones que suman 277.18 metros con Claudio Nuñez Salas; por eI Sur en varias alineaciones que suman 261.22 metros con lsmael Méndez Méndez, Alejandro Rios Pagan, Alejandro Rios Reyes y Juan Rosado; por el Este en varias alineaciones que suman 78.92 metros con Margot Soto y Juan Rosado y por el Oeste en 4.77 metros con Camino Municipal. Número de catastro: 131-020-198-19-000.

Debe presentar el original de su escrito al Tribunal y notificar copia del mismo al representante legal de Ia parte promovente, Lcda. Marisel Barreto Viera, cuya dirección postal es Urb. Crown Hills, 138 Ave. W. Churchill PMB 224, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926-6013 y cuyo teléfono es el 787-945-5193.

Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diana, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de Ia fecha de Ia última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder eI remedio solicitado por Ia parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oIrle. POR ORDEN DE ESTE TRIBUNAL, expido Ia presente bajo mi firma y sello oficial. En Arecibo, hoy día 13 de mayo-de 2021. Vivian Y Fresse Gonzalez, Secretaria Regional. Anabel Perez Rios, Sec Auxiliar Tribunal I.

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

LIME HOMES, LTD Demandante V.

SAMUEL BORRERO DE JESUS

Demandados Civil Núm.: JCD2010-0988.

(406). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

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

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nom-

bre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 7 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 3:15 DE LA TARDE, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: SOLAR RADICADO EN LA URBANIZACION BRISAS DEL PRADO (VALLE COSTERO III). LOCALIZADO EN EL BARRIO FELICITA DOS (2) ENEL TERMINO MUNICIPAL DE SANTA ISABEL,PUERTO RICO, QUE SE DESCRIBE EN EL PLANO DE INSCRIPCION DE LA URBANIZACION Y QUE SE ENCUENTRA INSCRITO EN EL REGISTRO DE PLANOS, COMO NUMERO, AREA Y COLINDANCIAS QUE SE RELACIONAN A CONTINUACION: NUMERO DEL SOLAR CON LA CALLE #303 Y EL SOLAR 422,717 METROS CUADRADOS, EN LINDES POR EL NORTE CON LA CALLE #303 Y EL SOLAR #10 DEL BLOQUE M, POR L SUR, CON EL SOLAR 13 DEL BLOQUE l; POR EL ESTE CON EL SOLAR 11 DEL BLOQUE L; Y POR EL OESTE, CON EL REMANENTE DEL TERRENO DEL EDGARDO RIVERA. ENCLAVA UNA ESTRUCTURA DE HORMIGON PARA USO RESIDENCIA. INSCRITA AL FOLIO 151 DEL TOMO 178 DE SANTA ISABEL, FINCA #6,824, INSCRIPCION 4TA. Propiedad localizada en: L 12 GARZA STREET, BRISAS DEL PRADO DEV., SANTA ISABEL, PR 00757. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $137,750.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria

una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 14 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 3:15 DE LA TARDE, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $91,833.33, dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $68,875.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 21 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 3:15 DE LA TARDE. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $135,800.97 de principal, intereses al tipo del 7.00000% anual según ajustado desde el día 1 de septiembre de 2009 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $13,775.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as).

Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de mayo de 2021. MANUEL MALDONADO, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE, SALA SUPERIOR.

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‘For my people’: A transgender woman pursues an Olympic dream

By GILLIAN R. BRASSIL

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WANZEY, N.H. — During a drive on a steep, winding road in this small town, it would not be surprising these days to see an elite hurdler jump into the bushes to avoid being hit by a car.

That hurdler, CeCe Telfer, is hoping to qualify for the United States Olympic trials, which begin on June 18 in Eugene, Oregon.

The asphalt road is her primary training facility.

In 2019, Telfer became the first openly transgender woman to win an NCAA title; she was a fifth-year senior at Franklin Pierce University, a Division II school in Rindge, New Hampshire. Now she is among a handful of transgender women seeking to reach the Tokyo Games, which begin in late July.

Olympic historians say that no athletes at the Winter or Summer Games have publicly identified as transgender when they competed. At least two announced that they were transgender sometime later, including Caitlyn Jenner, who won a gold medal in the decathlon in 1976.

Some athletes who identify publicly as transgender will probably compete this summer in Tokyo at the Olympics and the Paralympics, though many competitors are still attempting to qualify. Yet even as opportunities for transgender athletes have opened up at the college and Olympic levels, there has been a spike in state legislation across the United States to bar transgender athletes — mainly younger girls — from competing on teams that match their gender identity.

Recent clashes over transgender athletes have made it more important for Telfer to capitalize on her opportunity for elite competition.

“It’s important for me to do it for these kids,” Telfer, 26, said while sitting on the back porch of her college psychologist’s house. “It’s important for me to do it for my people — whether it be women, Black people, transgender people, LGBTQ people — anybody who is scrutinized and oppressed.”

Her path to the Olympic trials has been difficult. She struggled during the coronavirus pandemic to find a coach who would support her, and even flew to Mexico to train briefly.

Telfer ultimately returned to New Hampshire, where she was sleeping in her car until the psychologist extended an invitation to stay at her home in Swanzey, a town not far from Franklin Pierce.

Three days a week, training sessions involve mainly Telfer and cars on the Swanzey asphalt. For three other days, Telfer drives

CeCe Telfer, the first openly transgender woman to win an N.C.A.A. title, is aiming to qualify for the U.S. about two hours to a high school track in a Boston suburb. There, she can use the hurdles and work with another athlete.

She meets the International Olympic Committee’s eligibility requirements after suppressing her testosterone levels and sustaining them for at least a year. But to reach the Tokyo Games, where she hopes to race in the 400-meter hurdles, Telfer must first qualify for the national trials. To do that, she needs to run the race in 56.5 seconds at a feeder meet. It will be tough — her best time at a qualifying meet so far has been 57.5 seconds.

If Telfer reaches the trials, she will have to finish among the top three in her event to have a chance of going to Tokyo.

After she left college in spring 2019, Telfer tried to persuade several coaches to help her achieve her Olympic goal. Two initially agreed to work with her.

One stopped replying when he realized she was transgender, Telfer said. The other was in Mexico. In February, after nearly two years of training on her own, Telfer gave up her apartment and job at a nursing home in New Hampshire and flew down. She stayed with a friend’s family and was coached for the first time since college.

But her stay was brief. Telfer, who grew up mostly in Jamaica and Canada, needed to return to the United States to see through her application for American citizenship, which was granted on May 14.

She spent a few days couch surfing when she got back to New Hampshire. When that was no longer an option, she spent two weeks sleeping in her car. She kept warm by wearing two sweaters, as well as leggings with sweatpants over them, and wrapping herself in her blanket from college. She parked at various truck stops and park-and-ride lots. She regularly skipped breakfast and lunch, and mainly ate cooked rotisserie chicken that she could

buy cheaply at the supermarket.

Nicole Newell, the director of counseling at Franklin Pierce, learned about Telfer’s situation and offered a place to stay. Sometimes, she can see Telfer sprinting up the hill outside her window.

“No matter what comes at her, she just keeps moving,” Newell said. “And it’s incredible.”

Though some people have embraced her, Telfer has always felt like an outsider. She receives weird looks in public and death threats on social media, she said, and feels out of place as a Black person in a majority-white community.

“I was always the ‘seventh friend,’” she said. “Nobody would invite me first. I would be the last one or I would invite myself.”

Telfer was raised by a single mother and hid her gender dysphoria for fear of being persecuted. She began running track in elementary school in Jamaica, where sports for her age group were not separated by gender. She continued running on men’s teams when her family moved to Lebanon, New Hampshire, the summer before her junior year of high school.

She saw herself as a sprinter, she said, but her coach steered her toward hurdling.

She entered Franklin Pierce in fall 2014 and began competing there in 2016 — on the men’s team, though she publicly identified herself as a woman. Telfer stepped away from track for a time in spring 2017 after growing uncomfortable with the way others perceived her, and she soon began testosterone suppression.

“They didn’t get that I was a female competing in the sport that I love,” Telfer said about running against men. “They were starting to see me as a gay male athlete running with cisgender men,” she said, referring to those who identify with the gender they were assigned at birth.

At the start of the 2018-19 academic year, Telfer said, she walked into her coach’s office with a friend and asked to compete with other women. She expected the coach to balk. Instead, she recalled, he responded, “Finally.”

“Then I started crying, and then my friend started crying,” Telfer said. “It’s like we didn’t know what was going on, and he said, ‘You can compete as CeCe, as yourself, as a girl.’”

Her excitement, she said, was tempered by a backlash. Parents of Telfer’s competitors objected, saying she had an athletic advantage.

College and Olympic sports allow transgender women to compete in women’s divisions so long as they meet various testoster-

one-suppression requirements. Research on how such hormone treatment affects elite athletes is scant.

Some research indicates that after a year of hormone therapy begun after puberty, transgender women retain some muscle mass and strength advantages fueled by testosterone. Other research indicates that strength advantages, but not cardiovascular ones, are mitigated after two years.

Citing supposed competitive advantages, but with little evidence that transgender athletes were dominating women’s sports, lawmakers in more than 30 states have introduced bills aimed at barring transgender women and girls from competing on teams that match their gender identity.

Six states — Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Montana and West Virginia — have enacted such laws in the most recent legislative sessions, according to the Human Rights Campaign. Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota signed two executive orders that would similarly limit participation; Idaho enacted a law last summer, but it has since been stalled by a federal judge.

“Seeing how the world hated people like me, the dream not only became a reality, but it had a bigger meaning,” Telfer said.

When Telfer came out to her mother over the phone in 2018, she was told she would probably never see her immediate family again.

Larry Leach, who played basketball at Franklin Pierce in the early 1980s and returned as the vice president for alumni affairs while Telfer was a student, became a mentor for her as she navigated life as a student-athlete and grappled with her identity. He stood in the room with Telfer when she came out to her mother.

“Listening and hearing that a mother, under any circumstance, won’t accept a child, was sad for me — for CeCe — because I know how badly she wants her mother’s support,” Leach said in a phone interview. “She gets it from other people, but the longing to just have it from her mother means much more than me giving her support or whoever else giving her support.”

When she is on the track, Telfer sets aside the broader issues and focuses more on the clock and her Olympic dream. She hopes to hit her qualifying time for the trials at a meet in early June.

“I have to really believe that this is going to help me get to the trials,” Telfer said of her training. “When I open my eyes, all I can see is Olympic trials.”

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Why one US basketball team won’t be at the Olympics

By VICTOR MATHER

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hen three-on-three basketball has its Olympics debut in Tokyo this summer, Latvia will be there.

As will Poland. But a men’s team from the United States, birthplace of basketball and winner of 15 of 19 men’s gold medals in the traditional five-on-five game, will not.

The Americans were eliminated by the Netherlands, 21-16, in a qualifying tournament in Austria on Sunday.

How did this happen?

One clue is the U.S. men’s roster. It consisted of Dominique Jones, Robbie Hummel, Kareem Maddox and Joey King.

All were capable college players. All have honed their three-on-three game — which is played on half-court — for several years in preparation for these Olympics. But they hardly represent the best players that the United States could offer.

Several factors prevented the U.S. men from rolling out a threesome such as LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant. For one, the best NBA players are currently in the middle of the playoffs.

Still, even hustling together a group of stars from teams not in the playoffs would not have been possible. Hoping to promote its three-on-three tournaments around the world, the international federation, FIBA, mandated that Olympic hopefuls earn points in those events. Since they took place in the winter, all NBA players and even most Americans playing for European teams were out.

FIBA is aware of what it is doing. It hopes to build the game beyond merely the Olympics, so it demands participation in its other, lower-profile events. It also wants to have as many countries involved as possible. The U.S. men did not qualify for the 2018 World Cup either, although Andorra, population 77,000, did, in part merely for showing up.

“Andorra has heavy participation every weekend,” an official explained at the time.

The unforgiving nature of the qualifying tournament over the weekend didn’t help. The U.S. team won its pool with a 3-1 record. But that only got them into the quarterfinals. The loss to the Netherlands eliminated them, since only the top three teams advanced to the eight-team Olympic tournament.

In the three-on-three game — or 3x3, as FIBA insists on calling it — baskets are

The United States women’s three-on-three basketball team easily qualified for the Tokyo Olympics. The United States men’s three-on-three basketball team was eliminated by the Netherlands in a qualifying tournament in Austria on Sunday. worth 1 point. What would be a 3-point shot in the regular game is worth 2 points.

The Dutch made four 2-pointers down the stretch to put the Americans away.

“Obviously, it’s not the ending we wanted,” said Joe Lewandowski, who has the title of coach/adviser (coaching is not allowed during games).

He is the coach at Point Park University, an NAIA school in Pittsburgh. The traditional men’s five-on-five team has qualified and will be coached by Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs.

Dawn Staley of South Carolina will coach the women’s five-on-five team.

Kara Lawson of Duke coached the U.S. women’s three-on-three team, which qualified for the games with ease, finishing 4-0 in its pool, then beating Belarus, 21-10, and

Spain, 21-13. (The winner is the first team to 21 points or the leader after 10 minutes.)

The women’s roster has much more familiar names, all with WNBA experience: Allisha Gray of the Dallas Wings, Stefanie Dolson of the Chicago Sky, Katie Lou Samuelson of the Seattle Storm and Kelsey Plum of the Las Vegas Aces, the latter of whom is a former No. 1 overall draft pick. Because the WNBA is a summer league, the opportunity was there to recruit some top players who were available to earn points at FIBA events in the winter.

Those stars will now return to their WNBA teams. In contrast, the players on the men’s teams include a news producer and a development specialist.

Although one spot is left in the men’s field at the Olympics, the United States is

not eligible for it. In another quirky FIBA decision, that place is reserved only for nations that did not have a team in the 2012 or 2016 Olympic Games. So, men from Mongolia, Hungary or Romania could be at the games, while the nation of Wilt Chamberlain and Julius Erving watches from home.

TODAY’S NBA PLAYOFF GAMES (All Times EST) Washington Wizards at Philadelphia 76ers, 7 p.m., NBA TV (Philadelphia leads series 3-1) Atlanta Hawks at New York Knicks, 7:30 p.m., TNT (Atlanta leads series 3-1) Memphis Grizzlies at Utah Jazz, 9:30 p.m., NBA TV (Utah leads series 3-1) Dallas Mavericks at Los Angeles Clippers, 10 p.m., TNT (Series tied 2-2)

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

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

Crossword

Answers on page 30

Wordsearch

GAMES

HOROSCOPE Aries

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(Mar 21-April 20)

Does one issue or difficulty dominate everything else? The Sun’s link with healer Chiron, suggests you may feel a sense of purpose around resolving this, as any experience gained could help others in a similar situation. This might be an opportunity to start a group that caters for those in the same boat, and perhaps to derive great satisfaction from offering sound advice, Aries.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

A fresh perspective on a relationship might be just the thing to nudge it in a new direction. A positive aspect can help ease it out of the doldrums and give it that extra sizzle, although this could mean moving out of your comfort zone, and opting for a new experience or project. If you’ve had nothing to challenge you both lately, then it may do you so much good to be bold.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

Is something showing up as a bit of a mystery? Ask a few searching questions, and you’ll soon begin to see a pattern developing. As you connect the dots, you’ll quickly understand what has eluded you for so long, and from here you’ll know exactly what to do. Regarding a key goal, you may feel less enthusiastic than you did. With some radical changes, it can soon sparkle again.

A friendship may seem to be damaged, but perhaps not as much as you think. If you make a point of starting a conversation, you could find that whatever appeared to be wrong is easily rectified. With a soothing Sun/Chiron tie showing, you might find that listening and putting yourself in their shoes can help you see things from their perspective, and help correct the problem, Gemini.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

Have a blind spot regarding a career or work matter? You may get insights into something you hadn’t realized for years, that could have been holding you back. With a healing aspect showing, something can click into place that helps you move forward. Plus, a positive Moon/Mercury link might make it easier to put your feelings into words, if you need to talk things over with someone.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Something can click into place that gives you a sense of reassurance, and changes your perspective on a situation. You may see a way to right a wrong, or find comfort in a solution that might have been staring you in the face all along. The Sun’s merger with your Point of Destiny could be a like a lightbulb moment that clearly shows you the way ahead, and leaves you happier.

A meeting or fascinating encounter could have quite an impact, and may be the reason that you are prompted to try something or embrace a new path.

If you’ve had qualms about going ahead for your own personal reasons, they might set your mind at rest, Archer. Perhaps all you needed was for someone to be there to give you confidence. Now you’re all set to make a fresh start.

Keen to enhance your wellbeing? If so, it can be the result of a positive tie between the Sun and healer Chiron, that might inspire you to consider changing your diet, doing more exercise and perhaps getting the family involved as well. If you feel that the family have got into bad habits over time, you may feel motivated to start small and gradually make a shift to healthier ones.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

You may connect with an interest or opportunity that you sense is linked to your destiny, Leo. If you’ve felt that there is something more to life, then the coming days can find you on the trail and ready to commit, if the time is right. If you do take this step forward it could feel like a relief, and as though you are finally on the right track, even if things do take a while to fully blossom.

Have uncertainties about a plan or project? If so, it may be an idea to make a start, and take things one step at a time. As your confidence builds, you’ll soon know whether this is right for you or not. It’s also possible that you need to change your mindset to one that gives you more belief in yourself, and that can assist you in scaling up ideas that could lead to exciting opportunities.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

Dissolving an emotional issue could help your career to flourish, Virgo. Although there may seem to be little relationship between the two, a deep-seated matter that has bothered you for a while, might be resolved by talking to a coach or perhaps a therapist. Once it’s gone the benefits can show in other areas of your life, including your ability to shine and be the star you are.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Ready to streamline your financial affairs? A desire to cut back on expenses, including those involved with the household, could set you up to save money and have more to spend on those things you enjoy the most. Mind, key influences reveal that this is a great opportunity to extend your creativity to redecorating your home and giving it the makeover it deserves, Pisces.

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CARTOONS

Herman

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

BC

Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

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