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he Alliance of Active, Retired and Displaced Employees of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) asked senators from all the delegations on Thursday to vote in favor of House Bill 1383 which, in addition to cutting the debt with creditors, would avoid increases in the power bill and protect the Retirement System and employees’ collective bargaining agreement.

“The senators have in their hands the opportunity to depoliticize PREPA once and for all,” said Ángel Figueroa Jaramillo, president of the electricity union UTIER and spokesman for the Alliance, in a written statement. “They have in their hands the capacity to ensure that the bill does not raise the cost of electricity to more than 20 cents per kilowatt-hour. They have in their hands a chance to cut PREPA’s debt by 75 percent. They have in their hands the means to provide adequate financing to PREPA’s Employees Retirement

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System, without altering the defined benefit model that currently exists and thus guaranteeing present and future pensions. The senators have to approve this bill for the country’s benefit.”

The union leader said House Bill 1383, which has already been approved in the House, would prevent increases in bills and cuts to present and future pensions.

“This bill would prevent what we have been seeing in the past few months, bill increases galore.

This is relief for the pockets of all Puerto Ricans who pay their electricity bill monthly,” Figueroa Jaramillo added. “It also establishes that the eligibility criteria for the Retirement System cannot be modified, nor can the benefits of pensioners and active members be frozen or modified, thus also protecting the collective bargaining agreement of employees.”

“This is the time for senators of all parties to grow up and put the benefit of the people first,” he said. “It is time to make history and give way to this bill that saves the country’s pockets and protects our pensioners.”

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Alliance leader Ángel Figueroa Jaramillo said House Bill 1383, which has already been approved in the House, would prevent increases in bills and cuts to present and future pensions.

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Vargas Vidot blasts political parties for skipping prisoner death hearing

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Independent Sen. José Vargas Vidot

he independent Sen. José Vargas Vidot criticized the Popular Democratic Party (PDP), the New Progressive Party (NPP) and the Dignity Project party for failing to attend Wednesday’s hearing on the death in prison of Shannel Colon.

“Not a single senator from the Popular Party, or the New Progressive Party, or the Dignity Project attended this hearing. Not even a single one. Apparently, the interest of some in life is limited to when one has not yet been born. Today, another woman is reported dead at the women’s institution.

What is going on in the Department of Correction that no one raises an alarm about deaths in prisons? So many natural or unnatural deaths, which are nothing more than murders, suicides, overdoses, should lead the Governor of Puerto Rico to pay special

attention to that agency and the services that that agency contracts, such as the physical and mental health services of Correctional Physician,” said the senator.

From the year 2000 to 2022, more than 1,200 people have died in prison. About 650 of them died of natural causes and almost 370 died unnaturally, Meanwhile, 230 cases of people who died in prison during those 22 years are awaiting investigation. This data emerged during the public hearing we had on Shannel’s death in prison.

“What are they going to wait for? That another lawsuit be filed like Morales Feliciano?

That a thousand more people die? That they put it in a federal trusteeship, like Juvenile Institutions? With its silence and inaction, the constitutional duty to rehabilitation is nothing more than a hollow refrain; an empty promise from a government that cares more about taking away rights than safeguarding them,” said the senator.

Community Pharmacies lament Appeals Court ruling

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he executive director of the Association of Community Pharmacies of Puerto Rico (AFCPR), Linda Ayala Bousson, lamented on Thursday the decision of the federal Court of Appeals that validates the authority of the Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB) to stop laws approved by local government for the benefit of patients and health providers.

Among these laws objected to by the Board is Law 82 of 2019 which regulates pharmacy service managers (PBM’s), in controversy since 2019.

“We regret the decision of the Court that supports the paralysis of the law that regulates PBMs, allowing these entities to continue making decisions that affect our patients

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and health providers, without any State agency having jurisdiction to pass judgment on their actions,” Ayala Bousson said in a written statement.

She explained that the PBM’s and the PBA’s are the only link between the health providers that are not regulated, despite their role as intermediaries in relation to the pharmacy benefits they negotiate, the services and the costs of medicines between the pharmaceutical companies, the government, insurance companies, businesses and customers, as well as with pharmacies.

She said that these are the intermediaries between the medical plans and the pharmacies that administer the drug

plan coverage of thousands of patients on the Island through contracts with the pharmacies. In addition, they decide which drugs are included or excluded from drug formularies and arbitrarily decide how much pharmacies are paid for those drugs that they dispense to the patient.

“Now more than ever, we will continue the battle to find options to be regulated by the limitations that patients experience in accessing medicines and treatments for their health conditions. We make an urgent call to the Governor, the Department of Health and the Legislative Assembly to examine the options to regulate some aspects (of the industry),” said Ayala Bousson.

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Title III judge approves disclosure statement for Highways Authority POA

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.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who is overseeing Puerto Rico’s Title III bankruptcy cases, has issued the order approving the disclosure statement for the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority’s (HTA) plan of adjustment.

In the order filed Wednesday, Swain set a hearing to confirm the debt adjustment plan for Aug. 17. Ballots for those entitled to vote in favor of confirming the debt adjustment plan must be sent out by July 1. The ballots must be received by July 27. The debtor and other parties in interest are authorized to file and serve no later than 5 p.m. on Aug. 7, 2022: replies or an omnibus reply to any objections to the confirmation of the plan, the debtor’s memorandum of law in support of confirmation of the plan, witness declarations, voting results tabulation, and the debtor’s proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law.

The board submitted the proposed plan, proposed disclosure statement, and three other motions concerning the legal processes on the road to confirmation earlier this year in the U.S. District Court for Puerto Rico, which is handling all the Puerto Rico government bankruptcies.

According to the terms of the plan of adjustment, holders of $4.3 billion in HTA bonds will receive $1.2 billion in new bonds with 5% coupons and $389 million in cash, which equates to about a 72% haircut.

On May 21, 2017, the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, at the request of then-Gov. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, commenced a Title III case for the HTA.

U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain On May 5, 2021, the oversight board entered into the HTA/ CCDA Plan Support Agreement with certain holders of in excess of $2 billion in claims against the HTA, including more than 85% of HTA 1968 bonds and nearly 50% of HTA 1998 senior bonds, which include traditional municipal investors and monoline bond insurers Assured Guaranty Corp. and National Public Finance Guarantee Corp. The HTA/CCDA PSA sets forth the framework for the HTA plan of adjustment.

On Wednesday, Moody’s Investors Service affirmed the senior unsecured debt rating of MBIA Inc. (MBIA) at Ba3, the insurance financial strength (IFS) rating of National Public Finance Guarantee Corp. (National) at Baa2 and the IFS rating of MBIA Insurance Corp. (MBIA Corp.) at Caa1. The surplus notes rating of MBIA Corp. was downgraded to C(hyb) from Ca(hyb). The outlook for the ratings of MBIA, National and MBIA Corp. was changed to stable from negative.

The insurers are HTA creditors.

“The change in the rating outlook to stable for National and MBIA reflects reduced uncertainty regarding ultimate losses on National’s Puerto Rico exposures,” the rating agency said.

“Following the expected restructuring of Puerto Rico Highway and Transportation Authority (PRHTA) bonds later this year, National will have less than $900 million of remaining Puerto Rico exposure, primarily to bonds issued by Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA).”

The change in MBIA Corp.’s rating outlook to stable reflects expected improvements in the firm’s risk-adjusted capital adequacy as a number of large exposures mature during 2022.

However, Moody’s notes that MBIA Corp.’s policyholders’ surplus remains just above minimum regulatory levels and the firm’s longer-term solvency remains dependent on the outcome of the firm’s asset recovery efforts.

The downgrade of MBIA Corp.’s surplus notes rating to C(hyb) reflects Moody’s view that expected recovery rates of principal and accrued interest on these defaulted securities is likely to be lower than 35%.

PRASA steps up monitoring as drought conditions continue

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uerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) Executive President Doriel Pagán Crespo said Thursday that the public corporation is monitoring water systems and evaluating water rationing due to low rainfall.

“The report issued by the Drought Monitor today, on June 23, reports that 91.96 percent of the island continues to be affected by atypical drought conditions and another 68.03 percent of moderate drought for the north and south,” she said.

“In addition, an 8.33 percent severe drought was included for towns in the eastern zone. We continue to observe daily water supplies and hydrographic basins to maintain work plans that will help us manage this dry period effectively and minimize the effect on our clients.”

The engineer highlighted that “the scheduled rationing plans for water filtration plants in Canóvanas, El Yunque in Río Grande and Juncos Urbano are maintained.”

For clients in Loíza and Canóvanas, the same plan continues from Monday to Friday from 5:00 in the morning to 2:00 in the afternoon with service and from 2:00 in the afternoon to 5:00 in the morning without service,” she said. “During Saturdays and Sundays, service will be from 8:00 in the morning to 4:00 in the afternoon. For the residents of Río Grande, Juncos and part of Las Piedras, the plan maintains its established eight-hour interruption schedule from 9:00 at night to 5:00 in the morning.”

“Likewise, due to the decrease in the raw waters of the Guzmán Arriba filtration plant located in Río Grande, the water rationing plan for periods of 24 hours will be implemented,” the PRASA chief noted. “The service interruption will begin at 9:00 in the morning with the Peniel and Palma Sola sectors in Canóvanas followed by customers residing in the Guzmán Arriba sector in Río Grande.”

The water filtration facilities being kept under observation in PRASA’s Eastern Region are Humacao (serving Las Piedras and Humacao), Aibonito Urbano, Juncos Urbano, Jagual in San Lorenzo, Gurabo, Espino in San Lorenzo, Minillas in Aguas Buenas, Caguas Sur, El Duque in Naguabo and Barranquitas Urbano.

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Housing Dept. campaign to highlight testimonies of disaster relief recipients

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aras de R3” is the name of a new campaign launched by the island Housing Department on its digital platforms to make the reconstruction of the island visible through the testimony of thousands of people who have benefited from the multi-million-dollar allocation that Puerto Rico has received as a consequence of the damage inflicted by hurricanes Irma and Maria.

“We have already impacted the lives of 5,183 low- and moderate-income families under

the R3 [Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, and Relocation] program and we cannot minimize these benefits to a roof or a home, since we are able to offer our participants a better quality of life, resilience and security,” Housing Secretary William Rodríguez Rodríguez said. “That is why we want to make visible the faces of thousands of Puerto Ricans who have benefited and will continue to benefit from these funds.”

On Wednesday, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi and Rodríguez delivered eight homes from the R3 program for residents of various municipalities in the eastern zone.

Las Caras de R3 will highlight, daily on

social media, the reconstruction work and success stories of the program, as well as the achievements of other programs under Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds.

“We recognize that there is still a long way to go, but we have many stories to present and they are stories that fill us with great pride because with each one of them we give people hope,” Rodríguez said. “Each of these testimonies motivates us to continue implementing strategies to make Puerto Rico more resilient and safer to face any future atmospheric event.”

The R3 program under CDBG-DR recovery

funds offers eligible homeowners assistance with in-home repair or reconstruction of significantly damaged homes in non-hazardous locations. Eligible homeowners with affected homes in at-risk areas are offered relocation assistance. When repairing, rebuilding or relocating, R3 guidelines take into account the extent of damage and the location of the home.

“We are going to continue closing cases and giving these families the possibility of a decent and safe home,” the Housing chief said. “The focus … has been to speed up reconstruction and our goal is to serve 6,500 families by the end of this year, 2022.”

Matos-Ríos receives nurse practitioner association’s State Award for Excellence

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n recognition of her contribution as an advocate on behalf of nurse practitioners and their patients, Dr. Angélica Yilda Matos-Ríos is being honored by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) as the 2022

recipient of the 2022 AANP State Award for Excellence as an advocate in San Juan and Orlando, Fla. Matos-Ríos is a retired full professor from the School of Nursing at the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) in Río Piedras, where she worked for over 30 years.

Her career started in the early 1970s as a registered nurse who chose to work in the Pediatric Department at University Hospital on the Puerto Rico Medical Center campus, recognizing her interest and concern for children and adolescents in a tertiary setting. She taught nursing very early on after earning a bachelor of science in nursing degree that led her to teach at the licensed practical nurse level.

Later, while earning a master of science in nursing degree, Matos-Ríos worked as an instructor at the UPR Medical Sciences Campus and School of Nursing in 1981.

Matos-Ríos went on to study at Louisiana State University (LSU) in New Orleans, where she earned a doctorate in nursing science in 1995. She completed the clinical specialty of parent child health with the roles in consultation and counseling. Matos-Ríos’ doctoral dissertation studied

the “Phenomena of Loneliness and Intimacy of Friendship in Pregnant and Non Pregnant Adolescents.” She taught associate’s degree in nursing students at LSU in Eunice, La. in 1995, and worked for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit at Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans, where she says she deepened her holistic knowledge with respect to mental health issues and working and learning “with our souls” with a very young population that is already in treatment for mental disturbances.

Matos-Ríos acknowledges and takes the opportunity to thank the people of the UPR Medical Sciences Campus, School of Nursing, and other schools who gave her the opportunity to study and work in a very well recognized and prestigious institution, when the director of the graduate program was actively recognizing the efforts and accomplishments of nurse practitioners. She also thanks the AANP and its state representative Dr. Carmen Teresa López-Rodríguez, a pioneering and accomplished nurse practitioner who gave her the opportunity to be honored.

Matos-Ríos is the daughter of the late Effie Ríos and Raymond Matos of Bayamón, where her sister Marilu resides.

New variant of omicron detected in Puerto Rico

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new omicron variant of the coronavirus has been detected in Puerto Rico, Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López said earlier this week.

“A new variant of omicron has arrived, B4.5,” Mellado López said in response to questions from the press on Wednesday afternoon. “He is a patient between the ages of 16

and 20 from the southern region who came from Kentucky to visit and left.”

“The patient did not require hospitalization, the symptoms were mild and no person with symptoms or tests was reported by the tracking system,” he added.

The Health chief noted that the people with whom the young man was in contact will be monitored for 10 days and must be quarantined.

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GOP testimony at Jan. 6 panel exposes a party torn between truth and Trump

By SHANE GOLDMACHER

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s the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has built its public case that Donald Trump was at the center of an attempted coup, the panel has relied heavily on a seemingly unlikely stream of witnesses: Trump’s own advisers, his fellow Republicans and even his own family.

Those closest to Trump have been deposed, portrayed or shown dismissing the former president’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. And yet the fight to thwart the will of the people continued unabated.

The powerful testimony from a parade of Republicans, in four tightly produced hearings, has exposed in searing and consequential detail how divided the party has become between the faction that accepts the reality of the 2020 election and the many more who still cling to Trump’s anti-democratic falsehoods about a stolen election.

“If any Republicans were watching it, there is really no way they could defend a position that President Trump won the election based on the evidence presented so far,” said Mick Mulvaney, a former acting White House chief of staff to Trump.

There have been brief video clips of the former president’s daughter Ivanka Trump and unsparing testimony from a top White House attorney, Eric Herschmann, who said he scolded another pro-Trump attorney as “out of your” mind for continuing to pursue conspiracies to stop Joe Biden’s inauguration even the day after the Capitol riot.

“We’ve got lots of theories,” Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump’s lead lawyers, told a group of state legislators as he sought to forestall the results, according to testimony Tuesday from Rusty Bowers, the Republican speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives. “We just don’t have the evidence.”

The president’s former attorney general, William Barr, had one word for the swirling factless theories of fraud embraced by Trump in the election’s aftermath: “bullshit.”

“I told him that it was, it was crazy stuff,” Barr said in his video deposition of claims of voting machine fraud, “and they were wasting their time on that, and it was doing grave, grave disservice to the country.”

But Mulvaney said that the partisan nature of the Democratic-led proceedings — the Republican leadership boycotted the panel after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi nixed some of its appointees — meant that fewer Republicans were likely to tune in.

Democrats fully control the investigative committee, although its members include two anti-Trump Republicans, one of them Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the vice chair.

“The fact that there are Republican witnesses is very compelling,” Mulvaney said. “I don’t think Bill Barr is lying. I also know I am not seeing his entire testimony. I am going to see the pieces of his testimony that the Democrats want me to see.”

On Tuesday, Bowers and two Republican officials from Georgia testified under oath, describing in harrowing terms the pressure campaign that they endured for standing up to the president and the toll that it took on them personally. On Thursday, more testimony is coming from inside the top ranks of Trump’s Justice Department.

“The committee has been brilliant in that tactic of using senior officials, family members, those high up in the campaign and Republicans who supported him,” said former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, who served under Trump for almost his entire term but since emerged as a critic. “That’s what gives me hope that it will break through.”

A new Quinnipiac University poll Wednesday suggested that such a breakthrough

with large numbers of Republicans may still be a ways off.

While nearly 6 in 10 Americans overall think Trump bears a lot or some responsibility for the events of Jan. 6, the poll found, the opposite was true just among Republicans: 25% said he bears “not much” responsibility and 44% said he bears none at all.

“My level of hope that there is room for a sane wing of the Republican Party to become ascendant again — the chances of that are extremely low,” said Sarah Longwell, a founder of the anti-Trump Republican Accountability Project.

Still, in two focus groups of 2020 Trump voters Longwell has held since the hearings began, she said she noticed an unusual shift: Not one of the attendees wanted Trump to run in 2024.

“What was interesting to me: They liked Trump, but they want to move on,” Longwell said. “Which is exactly how they talked about Jan. 6 in general.”

Cheney, Trump’s most prominent Republican critic in Congress, has been direct about her goal to try to drive a wedge between Trump and the party’s base, if not between him and the party’s elected leaders in Washington.

“I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain,” Cheney said at the first hearing June 9.

Cheney, who is facing a Trump-backed primary challenger this summer, has positioned herself as a potential presidential candidate against Trump should he run. Next week, she is slated to deliver a speech on the future of the party at the Reagan Library in California, the same venue where a number of ambitious, potential Republican contenders in 2024 have appeared in recent months.

At times, the committee’s indictment has been so focused on Trump, and so full

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of praise for the few Republicans who stood up to him, that some Democrats privately fear the strategy could backfire — by setting Trump apart from a Republican Party that, in fact, remains deeply loyal to him.

“It’s absolutely infuriating,” said Jessica Post, executive director of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, which is involved in statehouse races. “There is a much broader story than is being told by the Jan. 6 committee about the anti-democracy forces in the states.”

She was particularly frustrated at the lionization of Bowers merely for upholding the law, noting that Arizona had passed more restrictive voting bills on his watch. “I just don’t think you get a gold star for doing the absolutely least,” Post said.

Sitting next to Bowers on Tuesday was Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, who earned plaudits from the committee as a “public servant.” That same day, Georgia Democrats nominated a state representative, Bee Nguyen, to run against him, and on Wednesday, Nguyen assailed Raffensperger’s past support for greater restrictions on voting.

The divide in the GOP can easily be overstated: Some of those whose words have been used as a cudgel against Trump still say they would vote for him in 2024, should he be the nominee, including Barr and Bowers, who told The Associated Press this week, “If he was up against Biden, I’d vote for him again.”

The committee’s hearing Thursday will be about Trump’s “attempt to corrupt the country’s top law enforcement body, the Justice Department, to support his attempt to overturn the election,” as Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the committee chair, previewed it.

The lawmaker leading the questioning will be another Republican: Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois.

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Louisiana nursing home owner faces cruelty charges in deadly hurricane evacuation

Wheelchairs and medical equipment outside a warehouse used to house nursing home residents in Independence, La., Sept. 3, 2021.

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he owner of seven nursing homes in Louisiana who sent more than 800 residents to a squalid warehouse lacking restrooms and proper medicine last year when Hurricane Ida battered the region was arrested earlier this week on state fraud and cruelty charges, authorities said.

The man, Bob Glynn Dean Jr., 68, was

out of state when he ordered the evacuation of the nursing home residents in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Aug. 26, 2021, telling staff members to move everyone to a warehouse in Independence referred to as the Waterbury facility, where they braced for severe weather, according to an arrest affidavit.

There, nursing home residents were subjected to overcrowding, the smell of urine and feces, piles of trash beside puddles of water, and inadequate food portions, the affidavit states. Seven people from the nursing homes died, according to the Louisiana Department of Health, which revoked the licenses of Dean’s seven facilities to operate as nursing homes. As authorities tried to learn what happened, Dean refused to cooperate and ordered that his employees do the same, according to an arrest warrant.

Dean, who in May was prohibited by the Department of Health and Human Services from participating in federal health care programs, was charged Wednesday with eight counts of cruelty to persons with infirmities, five counts of Medicaid fraud

and two counts of obstruction of justice, according to the office of Attorney General Jeff Landry of Louisiana. Cruelty to persons with infirmities, the most serious of the charges, carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Dean had “refused to move his residents out of the warehouse following Hurricane Ida, billed Medicaid for dates his residents were not receiving proper care and engaged in conduct intended to intimidate or obstruct public health officials and law enforcement,” Landry’s office said in a statement.

John McLindon, Dean’s lawyer, said Wednesday that his client, who was set to be released on a $350,000 bond, “desperately tried to get back to Louisiana” to help as the hurricane approached.

“I’m just not sure how they can charge him with cruelty to the infirm when he’s not even there,” he said. He added that Dean’s mental health had been in decline.

The charges came nearly 10 months after Ida walloped the state, making landfall as an intense Category 4 storm that left the

power grid in shambles and millions without power for days, including in New Orleans.

By Aug. 28, a day before the storm’s landfall, most of the 827 nursing home residents in the seven nursing homes had been evacuated to the Waterbury facility and divided among its three main buildings, according to an affidavit.

Longtime residents told The New York Times last year that the warehouse had once been used as a stocking factory and later was used to manufacture aerosol cans before largely going dark, though they said it was still sometimes used to store emergency supplies.

Dean ordered the residents in the metal building to move into the concrete one because he deemed it more safe, and residents in a building made of cinder block were later asked to do the same, according to the affidavit.

“This transfer of patients resulted in extremely overcrowded conditions in the larger concrete building, which significantly impacted the care that the staff was able to provide to the residents,” the affidavit states.

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Outbreak of meningococcal disease in Florida is growing, CDC says

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n outbreak of meningococcal disease in Florida has caused at least 26 cases of the serious illness, an official from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said earlier this week. Seven of the cases have been fatal, said Sam Crowe, a CDC public health researcher.

The outbreak is primarily affecting men who have sex with men; at least 24 of the cases and six of the deaths have been among gay and bisexual men, the agency said in a news release. Roughly half of the cases have occurred in Hispanic men.

New cases are still being reported.

The outbreak is “very much ongoing,” Crowe said.

The disease, which is caused by a bacterium, Neisseria meningitidis, is typically spread through close or prolonged contact, via activities such as kissing. It can manifest as meningitis — an inflammation of the membranes around the brain and spinal cord — or septicemia, an infection of the bloodstream. The disease remains rare but is serious and can cause death “literally overnight,” said Jill Roberts, a molecular public health researcher at the University of South Florida.

“The number of cases is not very high,” she added. “However, any cases of meningitis are really considered something that we worry about.”

When caught early, the disease is treatable with antibiotics. It can also be prevented with a vaccine, and health officials are urging at-risk populations, especially men who have sex with men and live in Florida, to get vaccinated.

“We want to make sure that gay and bisexual men are aware of the deadly outbreak in Florida and how easy it is to protect themselves — namely vaccination,” Crowe said.

Vaccination is also often recommended for college students and people with HIV or compromised immune systems.

Although the current outbreak has affected primarily men who have sex with men, the disease can affect anyone who has close contact with an infected individual.

“Anyone can get the disease regardless of sexual orientation, age, race,” Crowe said.

Florida first notified the CDC about a spike in meningococcal disease in late January, Crowe said. The state typically sees 20 to 25 cases of the disease annually; so far this year, 44 cases have already been reported in Florida, he said. (Not all of those cases are linked to the current outbreak; a small cluster of unrelated cases occurred among college students in February and March, Crowe said, and there were other isolated cases.)

Many of the recent monkeypox cases have also been identified in men who have sex with men, but that disease, too, can affect anyone, regardless of sexual orientation. It is critical not to stigmatize men who have sex with men, experts said.

“It’s in everyone’s best interest to make sure that people feel very comfortable coming forward and that they are getting the care that they need,” Roberts said.

Symptoms of meningococcal disease include a fever, a headache, a stiff neck and a rash. People who develop these symptoms should seek medical attention immediately, scientists said.

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June 24-26, 2022

The Supreme Court, public opinion and the fate of Roe

By ADAM LIPTAK

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he Supreme Court, it has long been said, seldom gets very far out of step with public opinion.

The court is about to test that conventional wisdom. In the coming weeks, it seems poised to overrule Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.

Such a ruling would be at odds with the views of most Americans, according to recent public opinion polls.

A single decision, even if it’s a judicial earthquake that would eliminate a constitutional right that’s been in place for 50 years, would not by itself disprove a general trend.

But is there indeed evidence that public opinion influences the court?

The justices themselves have suggested that there is at least a correlation between the popular will and judicial outcomes.

“Rare indeed is the legal victory — in court or legislature — that is not a careful byproduct of an emerging social consensus,” Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote in “The Majesty of the Law,” published three years before her retirement in 2006.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died in 2020, wrote in a 1997 law review article that

“judges do read the newspapers and are affected, not by the weather of the day, as distinguished constitutional law professor Paul Freund once said, but by the climate of the era.”

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in remarks at a law school in 2011, said that the court did not take public opinion into account in its rulings. At the same time, she said, the court manages to reflect the public’s views.

“On the vast majority of cases,” she said, “I bet we’re right with them.”

Books have been devoted to the subject.

An important one, published in 2009 by Barry Friedman, a law professor at New York University, set out its thesis in its subtitle. It was called “The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution.”

But a prescient 2010 article in The Supreme Court Review by Richard H. Pildes, another law professor at NYU, questioned the conventional view.

For starters, Pildes wrote, it is hard to know just what is meant by public opinion. Is it what people tell pollsters? The views of political elites?

The actions of elected lawmakers?

“Public opinion can be very nebulous,” he said. “It can be very dependent on how questions are framed.”

And what is the mechanism through which public opinion, however defined, influences the justices?

“How is the court supposed to be constrained and by what?” Pildes asked.

A legislative response to curb the power of the court if it veers too far from public opinion is theoretically possible. But even President Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the height of his popularity and commanding substantial majorities in Congress, failed to increase the size of the Supreme Court in response to a sustained judicial assault on his New Deal programs.

Pildes, who served on the commission President Joe Biden appointed to explore proposals to overhaul the Supreme Court, said that any new effort to expand the size of the court faced a steep uphill climb in light of the polarized political environment and the Senate’s filibuster rule.

His article explored another way in which the court could be tethered to public opinion.

“The one powerful mechanism for ensuring that the court is in line with majoritarian views is the appointments process, which in the United States is more politically structured than in some countries,” he wrote, adding, “If the cycle of appointing justices tracked the cycles of electoral politics, there would be strong reason to expect the court continually to reflect the dominant

views of the president and Senate.”

But at least two phenomena undermine that expectation. First, appointments do not track electoral cycles. President Donald Trump, aided by the hardball tactics of Senate Republicans, appointed three justices in a single term. His most recent predecessors — Barack Obama and George W. Bush — appointed two justices each over their eight-year presidencies.

A second reason the appointment process turns out to be a poor proxy for public opinion is the length of time justices now stay on the court. “Up until the late 1960s, the average term of service was around 15 years,” the Biden commission’s report found. “By contrast, the average tenure of the justices who have left the court since 1970 has been roughly 26 years.”

If it seemed in recent decades that the justices were more or less in sync with the public, that may simply have been because the swing justice, by happenstance, mostly reflected public sentiment.

For much of his 30-year tenure, Justice Anthony Kennedy held the controlling vote in many closely divided cases. And Kennedy “may in fact be closest to the median national voter,” Sanford Levinson, a law professor at the University of Texas, once said.

The court now looks very different. Kennedy retired in 2018 and was replaced by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative who has become the new median member of the court. If there is a chance that Roe survives, even if in name only, it would seem to be up to him.

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The San Juan Daily Star

June 24-26, 2022

Powell says Fed is ‘not trying to provoke’ a recession

By JEANNA SMIALEK

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erome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, said that the central bank might be able to lower rapid inflation without tipping America into a painful downturn, though he cautioned that pulling it off would be “very challenging” to achieve and that a recession is “certainly a possibility.”

“We’re not trying to provoke, and don’t think that we will need to provoke, a recession,” Powell said while testifying before the Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday. “But we do think it’s absolutely essential that we restore price stability, really for the benefit of the labor market, as much as anything else.”

Powell, who was to return to Capitol Hill to testify again Thursday, is facing a challenging moment. Inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index is running at 8.6%, the fastest pace in more than four decades, having reaccelerated in May thanks to surging gas prices and airfares. Although the economy remains strong and unemployment is historically low at 3.6%, the fast price increases have prompted the Fed to adjust its policy at an increasingly rapid pace to try to cool demand.

The Fed raised its policy interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point last week, the largest move since 1994, having lifted the rate by a quarter-point in March and a half-point in May. The escalation comes as central bankers become increasingly concerned about how broad inflation is, touching the prices of goods and services that span the economy, and as they worry that consumer expectations for future price increases have begun to creep up. If people expect faster inflation, they may ask for higher wages to cover costs and prompt employers to charge more thanks to climbing labor costs, setting off an inflationary cycle.

“We do understand the full scope of the problem, and we’re using our tools to address it pretty vigorously now,” Powell said during his testimony. “Price stability is really the bedrock of the economy.”

The Fed’s policies to restrain demand and wrestle inflation lower are expected to hurt the economy. Central bankers themselves predict that unemployment will rise and growth will slow as higher rates take effect, making mortgages, credit card debt and business loans more expensive.

“I think what you will see is continued progress, expeditious progress toward higher rates,” Powell said.

Wall Street investors are concerned that the central bank will set off a recession in its bid to bring inflation lower, and economists have warned that unemployment may need to climb markedly to bring demand down enough that inflation comes back under control. Households are fearful about the future, and consumer confidence is plummeting. Fed officials have reiterated that they are trying to stabilize prices without causing a recession, although they have also acknowledged that pulling that off will be difficult.

Achieving that goal “has been made significantly more challenging by the events of the past few months,” Powell said, citing supply disruptions coming from shutdowns in China and the war in Ukraine that have pushed prices even higher.

Still, he said that the central bank needs to do what it can to rein in price increases, because the other risk is that the Fed will not restore price stability, and high inflation will become entrenched in the economy, hurting low-income people more than anyone else.

“I’m trying to lower demand growth.

We don’t know that demand has to actually go down, which would be a recession,” Powell said. He later added that “this is very high inflation, and it’s hurting everybody, and we need to do our job and get inflation back on a path down to 2%.”

Looming economic pain spells trouble for many of the politicians Powell is testifying before

Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, appears before the Senate Banking Committee in Washington on Wednesday morning, June 22, 2022. this week — particularly the Democrats in power. Voter approval of President Joe Biden has sunk under the weight of inflation, which the administration regularly calls its top priority.

In fact, Biden planned to call on Congress on Wednesday to temporarily suspend the federal gas tax, an effort to slow soaring fuel prices. Passing such a measure could prove challenging, and economists have generally dismissed that policy as having a limited impact, as do most of the measures to fight inflation that the administration has been able to roll out.

The Fed, which is independent of politics, is the country’s main answer to quickly climbing prices. Its policies may be painful, but it is isolated from election cycles so that central bankers can make tough short-term decisions to put the economy on a more stable long-term track.

But the central bank’s policies are not perfectly suited to this moment. Its rates work to slow demand, but many of the factors pushing inflation higher today are linked to supply: China’s attempts to contain the coronavirus have slowed factory production, gas and food costs jumped

after Russia invaded Ukraine, and lingering shipping issues that started amid the pandemic have kept some parts and goods out of stock.

“Inflation has obviously surprised to the upside over the past year, and further surprises could be in store,” Powell said Wednesday.

While the White House has stressed the Fed’s central role in fighting inflation, some Democratic senators — including Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts — questioned whether hurting the economy was the right solution to today’s rapid price increases. Some urged a more tailored approach, even as the White House’s more precise efforts struggle to gain traction.

Powell acknowledged that rate moves would not bring down food or fuel prices but that they affect the economy by making it more costly to spend with borrowed money, pushing down stock and other asset prices, and through global currency adjustments.

“The idea is to moderate demand so that it can be in better balance with supply,” Powell said.

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June 24-26, 2022

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IRS backlog of unprocessed tax returns has grown to 21 million

By ALAN RAPPEPORT

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he backlog of tax returns at the Internal Revenue Service has grown to more than 20 million in the past year despite efforts by the Biden administration to process filings and send out refunds more quickly, the national taxpayer advocate said in a report published earlier this week.

The report offers a critical assessment of the Biden administration’s handling of the IRS, which has been burdened by staffing and funding shortages in recent years while taking on the responsibility of delivering economic relief money during the pandemic.

The tax agency’s independent watchdog said that the IRS was slow to use relief funds that it received as part of the $1.9 trillion stimulus package that Congress passed in March 2021. It said the agency should have moved more quickly to ramp up hiring, reassign employees and make technology changes that could have eased the backlog.

“That the backlog continues to grow is deeply concerning, primarily because millions of taxpayers have been waiting six months or more to receive their refunds,” Erin M. Collins, the national taxpayer advocate, wrote in the report.

A year ago, the IRS had 20 million unprocessed tax returns. That backlog had grown to 21.3 million as of the last week of May. The IRS disputed the taxpayer advocate’s findings and said that more recent data, through June 10, showed unprocessed returns had dipped below 20 million and were down slightly from June 2021.

“The IRS is committed to having healthy inventories by the end of this year and continues to make strong progress handling unprocessed tax returns,” Jodie Reynolds, an IRS representative, said in a statement.

Paper tax returns continue to bog down the IRS, as the documents must be manually transcribed into its antiquated computer systems.

Communication is also a major obstacle, Collins said, with taxpayers seeking

Erin M. Collins, the national taxpayer advocate, on Capitol Hill last year. to reach customer service agents on the submission processing facilities this year the IRS work to automate the processing of paper tax returns and make it easier for telephone waiting on hold for an avera- but had hired 2,056 so far.

For taxpayers, the dysfunction at the taxpayers to file electronically. Ensuring ge of 29 minutes. Ten% of the 73 million calls that the IRS received were answered IRS has led to mounting frustration as that phones are answered should also be by an agent. On both counts, those me- they await refunds at a time of soaring a priority. inflation.

“If a private company failed to answer trics are worse than last year.

Collins estimated that 9 million tax- 9 out of 10 customer calls, customers The Biden administration has been calling for more resources for the IRS payers were experiencing refund delays. would go elsewhere,” Collins said. “That, and asked for $80 billion over a decade More than 300,000 who have been vic- of course, is not an option for U.S. taxto overhaul its technology and bolster its tims of identity theft will have to wait at payers, so it is critical that the IRS increastaff. Democrats have pinned blame for least a year. se staffing in its telephone call centers to the agency’s problems on Republicans, The taxpayer advocate suggested that handle the volume of calls it receives.” who have long tried to starve it of funding and accused it of political bias against conservatives.

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June 24-26, 2022

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Wall Street posts solid gains, as defensives, tech shine

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all Street’s main indexes posted solid gains on Thursday, fueled by strong performance from defensive and tech shares that outweighed declines for economically sensitive groups as worries persisted about a potential recession.

The benchmark S&P 500 swung between positive and negative during the session, but stocks picked up steam heading into the market’s close. Benchmark U.S. Treasury yields fell to two-week lows, supporting tech and other rate-sensitive growth stocks.

Trading has remained volatile in the wake of the S&P 500 last week logging its biggest weekly percentage drop since March 2020. Investors are weighing how far stocks could fall after the index earlier this month fell over 20% from its January all-time high, confirming the common definition of a bear market.

“There is a tremendous amount of uncertainty about the outlook and so the market is confused,” said Walter Todd, chief investment officer at Greenwood Capital in South Carolina.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 194.23 points, or 0.64%, to 30,677.36, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 35.84 points, or 0.95%, to 3,795.73 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 179.11 points, or 1.62%, to 11,232.19.

In his second day of testifying before Congress, U.S. central bank chief Jerome Powell said the Fed’s commitment to reining in 40-year-high inflation is “unconditional” but also comes with the risk of higher unemployment.

U.S. business activity slowed considerably in June as high inflation and declining consumer confidence dampened demand across the board, a survey on Thursday showed.

“The Fed wants to see things start to slow and the data is starting to reflect that,” said James Ragan, director of wealth management research at D.A. Davidson.

Citigroup analysts are forecasting a near 50% probability of a global recession.

“Economic growth is slowing. Is it going to slow enough to go into a recession, that’s the big question,” Ragan said.

Defensive groups considered safer bets in rocky economic times were the top-performing S&P 500 sectors. Among them, utilities .SPLRCU gained 2.4%, healthcare .SPXHC rose 2.2% and real estate .SPLRCR added 2%.

The heavyweight tech sector .SPLRCT rose 1.4%, with Microsoft MSFT.O gaining 2.3% and Apple AAPL.O up 2.2%.

The energy sector .SPNY slumped 3.8%, continuing its recent pullback after soundly outperforming the market for most of 2022. Declines in Exxon Mobil XOM.N and Chevron CVX.N were the biggest individual drags on the S&P 500, with Exxon dropping 3% and Chevron falling 3.7%.

Other economically sensitive sectors also fell. Materials .SPLRCM lost 1.4%, while industrials .SPLRCI and financials .SPSY dipped about 0.5% each.

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June 24-26, 2022

European Leaders Give Ukraine Coveted EU Candidate Status

By MATINA STEVIS-GRIDNEFF and MONIKA PRONCZUK

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he European Union officially made Ukraine a candidate for membership Thursday, signaling in the face of a devastating Russian military onslaught that it sees Ukraine’s future as lying in an embrace of the democratic West.

While Ukraine’s accession into the bloc could take a decade or more, the decision sends a powerful message of solidarity to Kyiv and a rebuke to Moscow, which has worked for more than a decade to keep Ukraine from building Western ties.

The step was seen as almost impossible mere weeks ago, not least because Ukraine was seen as too far behind in terms of eliminating corruption and instituting economic reforms.

But the decision to nonetheless give it candidate status was another leap for European nations that have been rapidly shedding preconceptions and reservations to back Ukraine in the face of Russia’s invasion.

“Agreement,” Charles Michel, president of the European Council, said on Twitter. “A historic moment. Today marks a crucial step on your path towards the EU.” Candidacy in the European Union, which the 27 EU leaders also granted to Moldova, is a milestone but little else. It signals that a nation is in position, if certain conditions are met, to begin a detailed, painstaking and yearslong process of changes

and negotiations with the bloc, with a view to eventually joining.

When that might happen depends on the readiness of the country in question, which must align itself institutionally, democratically, economically and legally to EU laws and norms. On average, the process has taken other countries about 10 years; Turkey has been a candidate for 21 years but is unlikely to join.

The EU began in 1952 as a free-trade bloc among a core six nations. It has grown through the years to not only include huge swaths of the European continent, but also to encompass policies far beyond trade and economics, although those remain its strongest and best-aligned types of joint work.

The war in Ukraine has forced the EU into foreign policy, defense and military alignment, areas that it is politically uncomfortable with and legally underqualified to address. Although no substitute for NATO, the bloc could in future years — by the time Ukraine actually joins — develop into more of a military union.

The leaders of Germany, France and Italy, the largest EU nations, gave a preview of the decision to grant candidate status to Ukraine in a visit last week to its capital, Kyiv. Still, a handful of member countries needed to be convinced that despite Ukraine’s unreadiness to join the union, it was vital to

give it the prospect.

Important as the moment is for Ukraine, it is deeply significant for the EU, too. Most members had been eager to keep the bloc from growing, partly because its 27 members already find it at times exceedingly hard to agree on key issues like democratic freedoms, economic overhauls and the role of the courts.

The bloc nearly doubled in size in the decade from 200414, adding 13 members, many of them poorer former Soviet nations that swiftly gained access to wealthier labor markets and ample funding by the bloc.

That integration is still not complete, with several nations struggling with corruption, rule-of-law issues and economic backsliding. This calls into question the bloc’s capacity to absorb a country of Ukraine’s size and population.

Some European nations would have also liked to see Albania and North Macedonia, Balkan nations that have been candidates for more than a decade, admitted before Ukraine.

Western Balkan leaders met with their EU counterparts earlier Thursday, but the meeting yielded no progress.

The move to grant Ukraine’s candidacy is bound to irritate Russia, which has described Ukraine’s aspirations to align itself with Western institutions like NATO and the EU as a provocation and interference in its sphere of influence.

Arrival of Western weapons begins to reshape battle off Ukraine’s coast

By VALERIE HOPKINS and MARC SANTORA

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s Ukrainian forces launch a renewed assault on Snake Island in the Black Sea, recent strikes suggest that they are using powerful Western anti-ship weapons in an effort to undermine Russian naval domination.

The Ukrainian military’s southern command said late Tuesday that it was using “various forces and methods of destruction” to attack Russian infrastructure on Snake Island, a speck of land south of Odesa that is critical to efforts to control the Black Sea. On Wednesday morning, the military said it had destroyed a Russian air defense system, radar installation and vehicles on the island.

Russia’s defense ministry said it had thwarted the attack, which it said had featured 15 drones and long-range missiles, and was intended to land Ukrainian soldiers on the island. “The unsuccessful fire attack forced the enemy to abandon the landing to Snake Island,” the Russian military said.

The Russians said that “after being con-

vinced that the attempt to seize the island had failed,” the Ukrainians had used longrange anti-ship missiles and drones to attack Russian gas infrastructure facilities in the northwestern part of the Black Sea. The details of the battle offered by the two sides could not immediately be verified.

But Ukrainian officials defended the targeting of Russian offshore drilling infrastructure, saying that Moscow was converting its drilling platforms to military installations by installing high-tech surveillance and communications systems on the rigs.

The current round of fighting around Snake Island appeared to kick off Friday, when the Ukrainians struck a Russian naval tugboat as it was on a mission to deliver weapons and personnel to the island.

On Tuesday, the British military’s intelligence agency said that Ukraine had “almost certainly” used newly delivered Harpoon missiles in the attack — their first demonstrated use. Ukrainian coastal defense capabilities have now “largely neutralized” Russia’s ability to project maritime force in the northwestern Black Sea, the British analysis

said.

Andriy Zagorodnyuk, a former Ukrainian defense minister, said that Ukrainian weapons had hit a former natural-gas rig Monday where Russian forces had placed radio-jamming equipment, blocking Ukraine from getting an accurate picture of the area.

Zagorodnyuk said the strikes might be an indication that important naval weapons Ukraine has been seeking from its Western allies had arrived.

The Russians said that the Ukrainian attack on the drilling rig had resulted in an intensive fire and could lead to “an environmental disaster.”

The strikes at sea come amid an intensification of bombardment across southern Ukraine. The Ukrainian military has reported more than two dozen Russian missile attacks in recent days. Serhii Bratchuk, spokesman for the Odesa regional military administration, said a Russian missile barrage on Odesa on Monday had struck targets including a food warehouse and a cemetery.

As both sides duel in the Black Sea, the world is wrestling with a global food crisis

caused by a Russian naval blockade that is keeping Ukrainian ships from leaving port with millions of tons of grain.

Snake Island — which covers just 46 acres of rocks and grass — is vital to both the Ukrainians and the Russians. If the Russians have control of the island, a little over 20 miles off the coast, they can control shipping lanes in the northwestern corner of the Black Sea. After a series of attacks in May by Ukrainian forces in and around Snake Island, Russia has reinforced its outpost there with multiple surface-to-air rocket systems, according to satellite imagery and Ukrainian officials.

Bratchuk said the Russians were trying to turn the garrison on the island into “something that could be the analogue of the warship Moskva.” The Ukrainians sank the Moskva, the flagship of the Russian Black Sea fleet, in April. Although at that time Ukraine had a handful of domestically made anti-ship missiles, called Neptunes, powerful Harpoon systems appear now to be arriving in the country from the West.

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June 24-26, 2022

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Ukrainian nuclear plant workers are reportedly fleeing a brutal Russian hunt for saboteurs

By MARC SANTORA

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ussian soldiers who control a giant nuclear power plant in Ukraine are detaining workers and subjecting them to brutal interrogations in a search for possible saboteurs, prompting many employees to leave and raising concerns about safety, Ukrainian officials said.

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant — Europe’s largest — lies in southern Ukraine in the city of Enerhodar on the eastern side of the Dnipro River, across from territory still held by Ukrainian forces. With 11,000 workers, the plant occupies a strategically important spot, and safety concerns at the plant make any Ukrainian counteroffensive to retake the area particularly complicated.

Russian forces have fortified the outside of the plant with trenches and heavy artillery, and inside they are stepping up measures to find anyone they think might pose a threat, according to local and company officials.

Enerhodar’s exiled mayor, Dmytro Orlov, says he has received reports from employees and residents that workers at the plant are regularly abducted by Russian soldiers, “thrown into basements” and interrogated about suspected insurgent activity.

Ukraine says Russian forces seize Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant Speaking on a Radio Svoboda program called “Azov News,” he said people who had remained in the city to safely operate the plant and avoid accidents were working “under moral and physical pressure.”

He could not immediately be reached for comment.

Many plant employees and other residents are trying to escape to Ukrainian-held territory, he said. “Even young people are leaving the city,” he said. “It is unclear who will operate the nuclear power plant.”

Orlov’s statements could not be independently confirmed. The state company that oversees the complex, Energoatom, has offered similar accounts based on inter-

views with workers at the plant.

Petro Kotin, the acting president of Energoatom, told reporters last month that the Russians were using the nuclear power plant as a military base.

“Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is a well-fortified facility even in peacetime,” he said. “It is a perfect military base. Moreover, the Russians understand that the amount of nuclear material that is located there protects them. Ukraine will not strike at such an object.”

Enerhodar, like other the Russia-occupied areas in the south, has been the scene of attacks by Ukrainian partisans and reprisals by Russian forces. Moscow has cracked down in the face of a growing resistance movement in southern Ukraine, including violence, civil disobedience and efforts to help the Ukrainian military.

Tensions in the city escalated on May 22, when Andrii Shevchyk, whom the Russians had installed as mayor, was injured in a bombing outside his apartment. He had to be airlifted to Crimea for medical treatment.

The next day, according to Energoatom, an employee of the nuclear power plant was shot multiple times at his home by Russian forces.

Vladimir Rogov, a Russian proxy on the main governing council for the Zaporizka

region, which includes the nuclear plant, said in television interview on Tuesday that it was time to institute the death penalty for “war criminals.”

Ivan Federov, the exiled mayor of Melitopol who has become something of an unofficial spokesman for Ukrainian resistance in the region, estimated on Tuesday that about 500 locals in his home city alone had been detained and held by Russian forces.

His claim could not be independently verified, as Russia tightly controls access to occupied territories. People living there regularly have their cellphones inspected by Russian forces at checkpoints and during searches of their homes, according to witnesses, making communication with outsiders exceedingly risky.

Federov was himself kidnapped by Russian forces before being released, part of a pattern that has played out in towns and villages including Enerhodar. Ivan Samoidyuk. the first deputy Mayor of Enerhodar, has now been in Russian custody for more than three months, according to Ukrainian officials.

As Russia steps up its repression, the Ukrainian government has promised a large counteroffensive and has told everyone who can flee occupied territories to leave before it begins.

Extreme weather hits China with massive floods and scorching heat

By TIFFANY MAY

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hina is grappling with extreme weather emergencies across the country, with the worst flooding in decades submerging houses and cars in the south and record-high heat waves in the northern and central provinces causing roads to buckle.

Water levels in more than a hundred rivers across the country have surged beyond flood warning levels, according to the People’s Daily, the ruling Communist Party’s mouthpiece. Authorities in Guangdong province on Tuesday raised alerts to the highest level after days of rainfall and floods, closing schools, businesses and public transport in affected areas.

The flooding has disrupted the lives of almost half a million people in southern China. Footage on state media showed rescue crews on boats paddling across waterlogged roads to relieve trapped residents.

In Shaoguan, a manufacturing hub, facto-

ries were ordered to halt production, as water levels have reached a 50-year high, state television reported.

Guangdong’s emergency management department said that the rainfall has affected 479,600 people, ruined nearly 30 hectares of crops and caused the collapse of more than 1,700 houses, with financial losses totaling $261 million, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

China has been grappling with summertime floods for centuries but floods this year have also coincided with heat waves that struck the northern part of the country, where the heavy rain is also expected to move in the coming days, according to the Central Meteorological Observatory.

Temperatures on Tuesday reached a high of 104 degrees Fahrenheit in nine northern and central provinces. In Henan, roadside surface temperatures as high as 165 degrees Fahrenheit created ruptures in cement roads last week that resembled the aftermath of an earthquake, local media

reported.

The scorching heat in some of China’s most populous provinces has driven up the demand for air conditioning, fueling record electricity usage. In Shandong, a province in northeastern China with a population of 100 million, the maximum electricity load reached a record 92.94 million kilowatts on Tuesday, overtaking the 2020 high of 90.22 million kilowatts, state television said.

Premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday while touring a thermal power company that the country must increase coal production capacity to prevent power outages.

The floods and heat waves in China this year have stretched on for days and weeks, as it did last year when weeks of floods killed hundreds of people, caused power outages and displaced millions in central and southwestern China, including in Zhengzhou, where floodwaters trapped commuters in subways.

The two-pronged weather emergency that China is experiencing reflects a global trend of increasingly frequent and lengthy episodes of extreme weather driven by climate change.

China has converted farmlands to cities in past decades, lifting millions of people in rural areas out of poverty. But in its pursuit of economic development, it has also become the world’s largest polluter, with greenhouse gas emissions exceeding those of all developed nations combined.

Xi Jinping has since become the country’s first leader pledging to tackle climate change as a national priority. China introduced a carbon market last July to curb emissions and has over the past two decades nearly quintupled the acreage of green space in its cities.

But significant environmental damage has already been done. The devastation and disruptions resulting from greenhouse gases that have already been emitted are likely to continue in the coming years.

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As hope of finding quake survivors dims, focus shifts to relief

By CHRISTINA GOLDBAUM, NAJIM RAHIM and VICTORIA KIM

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or much of the past two decades, the southeastern part of Afghanistan near the Pakistani border was plagued by insurgent activity, as police and military posts were frequently overwhelmed by Taliban fighters, and received few benefits from the U.S. military presence.

The Taliban takeover in August finally brought relative peace to the far-flung population, despite the hardships they continued to face as the country suffered a drought and economic collapse.

Then early Wednesday, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit the region, shattering what little peace and stability the people there had been able to hold on to after so many years of hardship and violence.

More than 1,000 people were killed and 1,600 others injured in the quake, officials said, striking another blow to a country that has grappled with a dire humanitarian and economic crisis since the Taliban takeover in August.

The quake — the deadliest in the country in two decades — hit about 28 miles southwest of the city of Khost, a provincial capital in the country’s southeast, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and had a depth of about 6 miles. But the worst damage was in the neighboring Paktika province, which lies along the border with Pakistan.

“Nearly all government and private hospitals are full of victims,” said Awal Khan Zadran, a doctor in the Urgun district of Paktika. Some of the injured were

taken to Kabul, the Afghan capital, by helicopters and others were transported to nearby provinces, he said.

It was the latest in a series of tragedies to strike the country since the Taliban seized power from the Western-backed government last summer. In the months since, Afghanistan has struggled with widespread hunger, a severe drought, terrorist attacks by the Islamic State group and an economic crisis that has devastated every facet of Afghan society.

At the same time, the Taliban have struggled to attract foreign aid from Western donors since announcing edicts barring girls from attending secondary schools and restricting women’s rights.

Under the previous Western-backed government, foreign aid funded 75% of the government’s budget, including health and education services — aid that was abruptly cut off after the Taliban seized power.

Those challenges have only added to Afghanistan’s struggle to emerge from decades of war. The cumulative toll of a series of conflicts stretching back to the 1970s has left more than half the country’s roughly 40 million people needing humanitarian aid, according to the United Nations. Three-quarters of the population live in acute poverty.

Wednesday’s earthquake only added to that misery.

Sarhadi Khosti, 26, who lives in the Sperah district of Khost province, said he had been woken up by the shaking after 1 a.m., and that a number of houses — especially those made of clay or wood — had been destroyed.

“For now, we still are busy pulling the dead or injured from under the rubble,” he said.

Search-and-rescue efforts were continuing, led by the country’s Ministry of Defense, but wind and heavy rain were preventing helicopters from landing and casualties were likely to rise, the United Nations’ emergency response agency said.

Mohammad Almas,

Gulpar Khan, left, in a room at Paktika Provincial Hospital in Sharana, Afghanistan on Thursday, June 23, 2022. head of aid and appeals at Qamar, a charity in Afghanistan active in the area, said he expected the final death toll to be high, because the affected areas are far from hospitals and because the earthquake happened at night, when most people were indoors sleeping.

As many as 17 members of the same family were killed in one village when their home collapsed, he said; only one child survived. Almas, reached by phone from Pakistan, said that more than 25 villages were almost completely destroyed, including schools, mosques and homes.

Rugged, mountainous and in many areas inaccessible except by dirt roads, Paktika province is one of Afghanistan’s most rural, where some eke out a living by illegally cutting trees to sell for firewood.

It is also one of the poorest, with residents in some areas living in homes of earth and clay. The area is overwhelmingly Pashtun, the same ethnic group to which most of the Taliban belong.

The Taliban government Wednesday called on aid organizations to provide humanitarian support, even as the militant rulers have increasingly distanced

themselves from the West after their refusal to loosen restrictions on women’s education while imposing other draconian rules.

President Joe Biden directed the U.S. Agency for International Development and other parts of the administration to assess how it can best help Afghanistan after the earthquake, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Wednesday in a statement.

Sullivan said humanitarian partners of the administration were already in the process of delivering medical care and supplies to those on the ground.

“We are committed to continuing our support for the needs of the Afghan people as we stand with them during and in the aftermath of this terrible tragedy,” Sullivan said.

Even before the earthquake, the Biden administration faced increasing pressure to provide more humanitarian support to Afghans — an issue that became even more politically divisive after the Taliban assumed power.

The administration has taken some steps, including making exemptions to some sanctions and allowing money transfer companies to send money to the country as long as it did not benefit people on a terrorist list.

In January, the United Nations appealed for more than $5 billion in humanitarian relief for Afghanistan to avert what Martin Griffiths, the U.N.’s emergency aid coordinator, said could become a “full-blown humanitarian catastrophe.” Much of that appeal was for food after the economic collapse plunged half the population into potentially life-threatening food insecurity.

The earthquake was felt in several parts of Pakistan, especially in the northwest, but the country was spared the kind of damage seen in neighboring Afghanistan, officials said.

Some of the areas hit by the earthquake are in remote, rough country near the Pakistani border and were the scene of heavy fighting before and after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Telecommunications are poor or nonexistent, making it hard to get a full accounting of the casualties.

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Frustrated Finland, blocked from NATO by Turkey, practices patience

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purred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Finland and Sweden applied last month to join NATO, anticipating swift and smooth entry into the alliance. Instead, they are in a bind, their path blocked by the unpredictable Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

With NATO’s annual summit beginning June 29 in Madrid, their expectations to be greeted as fast-track applicants are quickly fading after Erdogan backtracked on earlier promises not to put obstacles in their way.

Ibrahim Kalin, Erdogan’s main foreign policy spokesperson, said there is no schedule for their acceptance and has even talked of a delay of a year.

Finland is especially frustrated, mindful of its 830 miles of border with Russia. After the Feb. 24 invasion, Finland moved quickly to prepare its application, and Finnish diplomats, according to Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto, checked with all 30 NATO members in advance and got rapid green lights from them all. That included an assurance from Erdogan himself, Finland’s president, Sauli Niinisto, has said.

NATO was so confident that the invitation to both countries would go smoothly that it choreographed a series of events around a vote accepting the applications in May, which the alliance had to cancel when Turkey suddenly objected.

Erdogan has made numerous demands, mostly centering on nationalist issues with domestic impact, like Kurdish separatism and terrorism, and the extradition of some followers of an exiled opposition leader, Fethullah Gulen. Erdogan blames Gulen, who lives in the United States, for a failed coup attempt against him in 2016.

Turkey wants both Finland and Sweden to strengthen their anti-terrorism laws; to extradite particular people, including a number of Kurdish journalists; and to eliminate an informal embargo on arms sales to Turkey, imposed after Turkey’s military intervention in northern Syria in 2019.

Finns are deeply frustrated, but the government counsels patience, said Haavisto in an interview.

“The very same terrorist legislation is almost in all NATO countries,” he said, and “we all condemn the PKK,” the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a group operating in Turkey and Iraq that the European Union and the United States have labeled a terrorist orga-

Finnish soldiers during NATO military exercises this month on an island in the Baltic Sea. nization.

“So we feel that the pressure is also not only so much against Finland and Sweden, but against some other NATO countries on this issue,” he added.

NATO countries should have similar criteria for all states, he said, “because otherwise, we come to the situation where different NATO member states would put different criteria to applicants, and I would guess that would end up in chaos.”

On Monday, there was the first meeting in several weeks of Swedish, Finnish and Turkish officials under the auspices of NATO, but the results were minimal. “We don’t see ourselves limited by any timetable,” Kalin said afterward. “The speed, scope of this process depends on these nations’ manner and speed of meeting our expectations.”

Most of those demands have to do with Sweden and its long-standing sympathy for Kurdish refugees and the Kurdish desire for autonomy, which Turkey regards as a threat to its own sovereignty. While the West condemns the PKK, it has relied heavily on a Syrian Kurdish offshoot in the fight against the Islamic State group. And Turkish Kurdish leaders long ago abandoned talk of independence to concentrate on autonomy and increased rights for Turkish Kurds.

Erdogan is facing elections next June, and his popularity is slipping along with the Turkish economy. The Kurdish issue is an important one in Turkey, and he is playing on nationalist sentiment now while suppressing political dissent and independent jour-

nalism.

In an interview on Swedish television, a former NATO official, Stephanie Babst, said that Erdogan’s real agenda is domestic. “Primarily, this is a message toward his electoral base at home,” she said. “He has an election ahead of him. The economic situation in Turkey is pretty gruesome, and so he wants to demonstrate leadership. He wants to demonstrate that he is a heard leader, and so he is, I am afraid to say, using Sweden and Finland in order to get his strategic messages across.”

NATO’s secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, has been careful publicly to say that every NATO member has the right to express its concerns; that Turkish terrorism concerns are “legitimate” and must be heard and responded to; and that he is confident that Finland and Sweden will become members, even if not by the Madrid summit.

But Haavisto, while preaching patience and a willingness to allay Turkey’s concerns, also notes that Erdogan is annoying his allies at a time of war, when the security of Europe is in question.

“I have to say, the pressure is mounting among the other EU members, or other NATO member states, that they would like to see this process going smoothly or rapidly,” he said. “Speculation that there could be a one-year delay to after the Turkish elections and others would be a big disappointment for many NATO countries as well, let alone for Finland and Sweden.”

There is popular frustration among Finns, but it is aimed less at their leaders than at

Turkey, said Charly Salonius-Pasternak of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs.

“There is a sense that this was supposed to be easy, and therefore there’s frustration that is definitely visible,” he said. “People understand Turkey played a double game.”

There is also some irritation with Sweden, where a minority Social Democratic government was slow to follow Finland’s lead and is wary of offending its supporters before elections in September by giving in to Turkish demands. Party members have a long history of supporting military nonalignment and underdog political movements, and many regard Erdogan as an authoritarian who tramples democratic rights.

“There was an expectation in Finland that Sweden can put aside party political issues and the coming elections for national security,” Salonius-Pasternak said. “But it’s quite clear that party politics is back.”

Some in Finland fear that going “hand in hand” with Sweden will turn out to be counterproductive, he said, but Niinisto and Haavisto both reject that view, citing the long security alliance between the two countries and their importance to enhancing NATO’s security in the north and the Baltic Sea. Haavisto also notes that Sweden’s Social Democrats have gone up in the opinion polls since the decision to join Finland and apply for NATO membership.

The United States publicly backs the membership of Sweden and Finland, and Haavisto has regularly been in contact with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, officials in the White House and key senators. Congress, too, has been supportive, with the Senate already preparing hearings for an eventual ratification vote once the problems with Turkey are resolved.

The legislatures of all NATO countries must ratify amendments to the founding treaty to admit new members, a process that could take up to a year.

But Haavisto said Finland and Sweden have received solid assurances that individual NATO countries will come to their aid in the interim, if necessary, including the United States, France, Britain and Germany. They are feeling safe, he said: “Even at this moment, there is no imminent risk to our security.”

“In this time of waiting,” he added, he recommended to friends that they read Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.”

“I started it, and I hope that when I’m done with it,” he said, Finland and Sweden will be members of NATO.

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June 24-26, 2022

The GOP tries to build a gay ghetto

By CHARLES M. BLOW

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his past weekend, the Republican Party in Texas voted on an outrageous platform that not only denies the results of the 2020 presidential election, but also rejects gay marriage and seeks to “protect” minors until they turn 17 against “predatory sexual behaviors,” such as drag queens reading stories aloud to children.

Drag queens are predators, trans women are a threat and gay marriage is a violation of the “natural order”: This is all part of the widening and re-energized attack

by Republicans on LGBTQ people and culture in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v.

Hodges guaranteeing a right to same-sex marriage.

The ruling was heralded as a major civil rights victory by its proponents, but many opponents of gay rights saw it as a lost battle in a war, not the loss of the war. For them, gay marriage is too big a development to simply accept.

Dennis Prager, writing in National Review, argued that the ruling completed “the secularization of America” and sealed “the end of America as the Founders envisioned it.”

Mitch McConnell, then the Senate majority leader, was a staunch opponent of gay marriage. He was one of six Republican senators to sign an amicus brief trying to convince the court to reject it. But after the ruling, even he acknowledged that there was little more that Congress could do. “The courts have pretty well spoken,” he said.

But opponents of gay rights wouldn’t stop there.

There were other avenues of oppression: the presidency, the states and the composition of the court itself.

In 2016, Donald Trump was elected. Although he had disavowed the violence at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, promising to protect the LGBTQ community from “violence and oppression,” courting openly gay donors like Peter Thiel and later referring to gay marriage as settled law, he would go on to take unprecedented steps “to undermine and eliminate rights protecting LGBTQ people,” as Alphonso David, then the president of the Human Rights Campaign, put it in 2020.

Among Trump’s exhaustive list of transgressions against gay people were his administration’s attempts to literally erase them by trying to block new questions about sexual orientation from the census and trying to define transgender people out of existence, proposing to “define sex as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born with,” according to The New York Times.

Then, there was the Supreme Court itself. Shortly after it sanctioned gay marriage, Mike Huckabee, a

presidential candidate in 2016, fumed that the “Supreme Court can no more repeal the laws of nature and nature’s God on marriage than it can the law of gravity.” He warned, “The only outcome worse than this flawed, failed decision would be for the president and Congress, two coequal branches of government, to surrender in the face of this out-of-control act of unconstitutional, judicial tyranny.”

It was clear that the fight was just getting underway.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority, put it this way: “The idea of the Constitution ‘was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts,’ ” quoting former Justice Robert Jackson.

Opponents of gay rights saw that as judicial overreach. And now, Kennedy has been succeeded by Brett Kavanaugh, who refused during his confirmation hearing to say whether he thought the gay marriage case was correctly decided. Amy Coney Barrett has also joined the court, succeeding another justice who was in the gay marriage majority: Ruth Bader Ginsburg. During a 2016 lecture, Barrett seemed to defend the justices who dissented in the gay marriage case and questioned whether it was up to the court to decide issues like which bathroom transgender people should be allowed to use.

Around that time, Republican state legislators were introducing a number of bathroom bills, an early step in their push to oppress queer people. Then came a series of state laws preventing transgender women and girls from participating in female school sports.

These attacks were never going to remain focused only on trans people. (Even if they did, it would still be a horrific attack on human rights.) Now, we are witnessing the inevitable result, as Republican legislators widen the attacks to queerness itself.

Just this year, we saw Florida pass its “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

Make no mistake, this is all part of a renewed, broadbased attack on gay rights and gay culture, to stanch the rise of young people who are coming out. And if you think a right once established by the court can’t be rescinded by the court, look no further than the expected ruling coming from the court on abortion.

There is no finality in the battle for civil rights.

Wins don’t stay won. They must be defended and can sometimes be reversed.

Republicans may not be able to push people back into the closet, but they can try to reestablish some stigma to prevent them from coming out in the first place and build them — us — cultural gay ghettos if we do.

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Presentan Protocolo Intergubernamental contra la violencia de género POR CYBERNEWS

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l gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia, la jueza presidenta del Tribunal Supremo, Maite Oronoz Rodríguez y la presidenta del Comité de Prevención, Apoyo, Rescate y Educación (PARE), Carmen Ana González Magaz, anunciaron ayer jueves, el Protocolo Intergubernamental para coordinar la respuesta, orientación e intercambio de información para la atención de personas sobrevivientes de violencia de género en situaciones de violencia doméstica.

“Como parte de los trabajos de cumplimiento con la Orden Ejecutiva, las agencias del Ejecutivo, el Poder Judicial, múltiples organizaciones no gubernamentales, y el Comité PARE, colaboraron durante varios meses revisando el único protocolo intergubernamental que suscribe al Poder Judicial y a las agencias del Gobierno de Puerto Rico referente a este tema. La misión de esta iniciativa es coordinar la respuesta, orientación e intercambio de información para la atención de personas sobrevivientes de violencia de género por parte de todos los componentes del gobierno junto al poder judicial.

Hoy como gobierno, reiteramos nuestra adhesión a esos compromisos con la firma del Protocolo Intergubernamental. Esto representa un gran logro colaborativo de todo el componente social y jurídico del Gobierno de Puerto Rico trabajando a favor de las víctimas sobrevivientes de violencia de género”, sostuvo el gobernador en declaraciones escritas.

El Protocolo está vigente desde el 2013, pero no se había culminado su revisión y actualización para lograr la atención

Un equipo interagencial tendrá a su cargo coordinación de la respuesta, orientación intercambio de información para la atención personas sobrevivientes de violencia de género situaciones de violencia doméstica.

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integral y colaborativa en los casos de violencia de género.

Esta actualización procura que el sistema de justicia y las entidades gubernamentales atiendan con prontitud, sensibilidad y de manera coordinada e integrada la intervención y atención de las víctimas de violencia doméstica.

El Protocolo Intergubernamental es un proyecto conjunto y multisectorial que integró a agencias del Gobierno, el Poder Judicial, el Comité PARE y organizaciones no gubernamentales. Mediante mesas de trabajo se lograron medidas encaminadas a implementar y dar seguimiento a la orientación e

información asertiva y oportuna a las personas sobrevivientes de violencia de género sobre los servicios, sus derechos y el proceso judicial que enfrentarán. A su vez, se cimentaron los enlaces para el intercambio efectivo de información entre los componentes del sistema de justicia para una identificación, prevención, intervención y respuesta efectiva.

Por su parte, la jueza presidenta Oronoz Rodríguez destacó que “hoy no sólo debemos firmar este protocolo actualizado sino asumir un nuevo compromiso con el acceso a la justicia: procurando simplificar los procesos entre los componentes del sistema de justicia para coordinar el intercambio de información y orientando a las víctimas de violencia doméstica para que accedan de forma inmediata a los servicios disponibles. Debemos establecer una pauta unificada en todas nuestras instituciones. Es decir, que no importa a qué institución se acerque una mujer que ha sido víctima de violencia, la situación deberá manejarse con un mismo norte: una intervención pronta, sensible y de manera coordinada e integrada. Este es el corazón del protocolo que hoy se firma”.

Mientras, González Magaz indicó que “el modelo de atención integrado y de servicios centrados en la persona sobreviviente de la violencia doméstica responde a las necesidades individualizadas de cada persona. La comunicación, capacitación y conocimiento como servidores públicos para atender la violencia de género, son un compromiso para con las personas sobrevivientes de la violencia doméstica e integrar las diversas interseccionalidades, como lo es el maltrato a menores”.

Salud comienza transición de beneficios a tarjetas EBT para participantes de WIC POR CYBERNEWS

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omo parte de un proyecto piloto que dio inicio en Fajardo, más de mil beneficiarios del Programa Especial de Nutrición Suplementaria para Mujeres, Infantes y Niños (WIC, por sus siglas en inglés) recibirán los beneficios a partir del mes de julio por método de tarjeta de pago (EBT), en aras de continuar modernizando los servicios que ofrece el Departamento de Salud (DS).

El anuncio fue hecho por el gobernador Pedro R. Pierluisi durante una visita al municipio de Fajardo durante el día de ayer. El primer ejecutivo visitó la Clínica WIC en Fajardo, recientemente renovada. El proyecto, que busca implementar un sistema de transferencia electrónica, comenzó el primero de este mes. Se espera concluya la entrega de tarjetas a todos los participantes en diciembre.

“Nos tenemos que ir adentrando a los tiempos y sacarle el máximo beneficio de las herramientas digitales para facilitar los servicios destinados a nuestra gente.

Este cambio de papel, mediante vale o cheque, al sistema EBT, más allá de que es un mandato federal, tiene muchísimas ventajas para las familias y los comercios”, indicó el secretario del DS, Carlos Mellado López.

El Titular manifestó que, con este cambio en sistema de beneficios del WIC, la experiencia de compra es más práctica dado que pueden comprar justo lo que necesiten, en lugar de obtener todos los productos a la vez.

Adicional, el paquete de alimentos del participante se puede ajustar en la clínica de acuerdo con sus necesidades y todo desde una sola tarjeta para dicha familia.

A esto se suma, que el participante tendrá mayor acceso a la información de sus beneficios a través de aplicaciones móviles WIC Puerto Rico y el portal de NERI. Del mismo modo, encontrarán también información de las clínicas y comercios WIC a través de la aplicación móvil MiWICPR. Mientras que este sistema le proporciona a la Administración del Programa una mayor capacidad para monitorear, auditar, analizar los gastos, entre otros factores importantes.

Por su parte, la directora del Programa WIC, Nilmarie Albarrán Fernández, explicó que “estamos apoyando también a los comercios con adiestramientos para este nuevo sistema y podrán aclarar cualquier duda durante el proceso. Es importante señalar que ya hemos diseñado un método alterno que entrará en función si el uso de la tarjeta se afecta por la falta de energía eléctrica”.

La funcionaria puntualizó que la etapa de competencia

de este proyecto inició en el 2015, luego ocurrió el huracán María, los terremotos y por lo tanto, el WIC obtuvo una prórroga para retomar el 1 de octubre de 2020, pero enfatizó que la meta es culminar la implementación en este mismo año. Es importante indicar que el Servicio de Alimentos y Nutrición aprobó a Puerto Rico $15 millones para la implementación de esta iniciativa, siendo 100% fondos federales.

El proyecto piloto por método de tarjeta de pago (EBT) dio inicio en Fajardo con más de mil beneficiarios del Programa Especial de Nutrición Suplementaria para Mujeres, Infantes y Niños.

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A quiet word with Italy’s master of horror

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or a man who has spent nearly 50 years scaring the pants off movie audiences, Italian director Dario Argento does not come across as frightening at all.

Soft-spoken, even a bit reserved, Argento was eager to wrap up a recent interview so that he could see his grandchildren — the offspring of his daughter, actress Asia Argento — before traveling the next day to New York, where “Beware of Dario Argento: A 20-film Retrospective” is running at Lincoln Center through June 29.

“I won’t see them for a while,” he said of the children, before shooing his interviewer out the door. Hardly the modus operandi of a “master of horror.”

But that doesn’t mean that Argento, 81, is not still up for a bit of mayhem or gore.

His most recent film, “Dark Glasses,” which premiered in February at the Berlin International Film Festival and had its North American debut in the Lincoln Center retrospective, delivers classic Argento moments: throbbing music that usually bodes badly; gruesome, bloodoozing murders; nail-biting chases (this time involving a blind protagonist); and plenty of plot twists. Yet the film is also surprisingly tender: At its heart is a relationship between a woman and a young boy whose lives intertwine through tragedy.

“The film is different from others that I’ve made,” and the finale even has room “for a little tear,” Argento said in the antiques-stuffed living room of his home in an upscale Rome neighborhood. A bulging bookcase along one wall was littered with some of the many awards he has won during his long career.

Two recent additions are prizes he picked up in August at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. One was a lifetime achievement award that was presented to him by director John Landis, who said at the ceremony that he had insisted on giving the prize to Argento in person. The other was in recognition for his debut acting role in “Vortex,” Gaspar Noé’s moving film about the decline of an elderly couple. (Argento had a bit role as an altar boy in a 1966 movie, but it was uncredited.)

Ilenia Pastorelli in “Dark Glasses.” The movie, which premiered in February, has at its heart the relationship between a woman and a young boy whose lives intertwine through tragedy.

It’s quite a career arc for a man who first worked as a journalist and then film critic for a left-wing Rome newspaper; co-wrote the story for Sergio Leone’s classic “Once Upon a Time in the West” (1968) with Leone and Bernardo Bertolucci; collaborated with George A. Romero on the zombie apocalypse classic “Dawn of the Dead” (1978); and recently wrote two books — an autobiography, called “Fear,” and an anthology of scary stories, titled “Horror” (2018).

“Dark Glasses” is an Italian “giallo” film — a broad genre that can contain elements plucked from murder mysteries, detective crime or horror, including the slasher subgenre. Argento is the living master of giallo movies.

True to form, the deaths in “Dark Glasses” are in-your-face violent, starting with the garroting of a female prostitute early in the film. Brutally murdered women are a troubling leitmotif in giallo movies, though Argento countered that he had also “killed off plenty of men” in equally gruesome ways.

And, he added, he had written courageous female roles, too, especially those portrayed by his daughter Asia, who was

his leading lady for many years. “She’s played many strong characters,” he said.

Argento burst onto the Italian movie scene in 1970 with “The Bird With the Crystal Plumage,” a stylish and visually lush giallo film that established him as a rising cinematic star and garnered him the nickname “the Italian Hitchcock.”

“Argento’s films are often full of these surprises, these twists,” said Russ Hunter, an expert in Italian films who teaches at Northumbria University in northern England. But Argento also brought to the screen a “kind of bravura visual style” that went on to influence other filmmakers and to establish him as a cult director with die-hard fans, Hunter added.

With “Deep Red” (1975), one of his most celebrated films, Argento used kinetic camerawork and lush visuals to build drama (not to mention the special effects of Carlo Rambaldi, who went on to win three Oscars). In “Suspiria” (1977), light and color do the trick.

“There’s such a fantastic use of color saturation, which creates an otherworldly ambience,” Hunter said. Contrasts in colors create moods that are “unsettling and uncanny,” he added.

Luigi Cozzi, a director who has worked with Argento on several films, recalled that it took him three months to find a camera that could create an effect that Argento wanted for a slow-motion car crash in the finale of “Four Flies on Grey Velvet.” Eventually, Cozzi found a camera that shot 3,000 frames a second — used to monitor the wear and tear of wheels on trains — at the University of Naples and rented it. The scene was about a minute and a half long.

“Another director would have made do with something else — not Dario,” Cozzi said in an interview in a Rome shop called Profondo Rosso (Italian for Deep Red) that he opened with Argento in 1989. The store is chock-full of horror paraphernalia, books and movies, as well as masks and fake limbs, and it also houses a museum dedicated to Argento, featuring objects from the director’s films (in the basement, naturally). Argento pops in frequently and makes a scheduled appearance every Halloween, Cozzi said.

“Dario innovated the language with which horror films were made,” Cozzi added.

Jason Rockman, one of the hosts of a Montreal radio station who visited the store recently while on vacation, agreed.

“There’s everything in his films, mystery, but also this stylized vision, the sense of dropping in on an exact moment that you’ll never see again,” Rockman said.

He was disappointed, he added, that he wouldn’t be able to make it to Turin, where the National Cinema Museum is hosting an Argento exhibition until Jan. 16.

Of the 20 Argento films being shown at Lincoln Center, 17 are premieres of high-definition restorations done at Cinecittà, Italy’s national film company.

“We wanted to celebrate Dario Argento,” who is experiencing a “rediscovery with a new generation of critics” said Chiara Sbarigia, the president of Cinecittà, which co-produced the New York retrospective. “We wanted him to have an official recognition, as well as a recognition of our work and the work of our restorers,” she added.

Argento said that he probably wouldn’t stick around for the screenings.

“I don’t like to see them again. The ones that I’ve made, they’re done,” he said. “Now I am thinking of new things.”

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June 24-26, 2022

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Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and their ‘Official Competition’ est but committed Iván Torres (Oscar Martínez). As the three rehearse for Cuevas’ film, their unscrupulous and egotistic motivations rise to the surface.

Together via video call from New York, where they attended the film’s U.S. premiere at the Tribeca Festival, the Spanish actors discussed their against-type roles and their thoughts on awards. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

Q: Had there been other projects you had planned to work on together before that didn’t happen because of scheduling or other mishaps?

CRUZ: No. That’s the weirdest thing. There had not been things that we were both offered and that one of us was able to do and the other one couldn’t. Pedro [Almodóvar] sometimes tells us his ideas of things that he would like to make with us.

He teases us bringing up the possibility of making a remake of “Marriage Italian Style.” We would love to make that with him, but we never know if he’s just joking or if it’s a Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas in New possible reality.

Q: Antonio, between the fameYork, June 2022. obsessed Félix and the condescending Iván, who would you prefer to

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BANDERAS: Félix is arrogant and frivhat international stars Penélope Cruz olous, but he’s also smart. If I had to pick and Antonio Banderas had never spent being one of the two actors in the film, I’d more than two minutes together on the still probably choose Félix. Iván is sly and big screen is a surprising truth.

They had a brief cameo together in Pe- pretends to have this purist ideology about dro Almodóvar’s “I’m So Excited” (2013), art, but the second you are distracted, he and though they both feature in that direc- could steal your wallet. He is a dangerous tor’s 2019 film “Pain and Glory,” their char- character. When Iván pretends to receive an acters inhabited different time periods and award in front of the mirror, he represents how people, in the film industry but even thus shared no scenes.

That changed with “Official Competi- more so in politics, can become the very tion,” now in theaters, a biting satire about thing they criticize.

Q: Have you ever encountered anyone the film industry and the creative process that resembles Lola and her tactics in your from Argentine directors Gastón Duprat and career?

Mariano Cohn.

BANDERAS: The arts, and in the film inCruz, 48, plays eccentric and curlyhaired auteur Lola Cuevas, while Banderas, dustry in particular, are a subjective world 61, is Félix Rivero, a vacuous and self-cen- where there are a lot of impostors. It’s easy tered actor cast opposite the seemingly mod- to hide behind the subjectivity of the field.

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For example, in the great schools of acting put it in your country home or on the top of such as Stanislavski’s method or Stella Adler, a tree or lose it, but the fact that you were the techniques that help actors perform given the Oscar will remain on record in come from decades of testing. But there are the history of cinema. Our attachment to plenty of swindlers who try extraordinarily the materialization of a moment is extraorbizarre processes and tell you that the truth dinary, and what Lola does is perhaps one about acting is behind the teachings they are of the most coherent scenes in the movie by selling. And there are naive individuals who saying, “Detach, man! This is symbolic. Even if I destroy this, you are already the winner buy it.

Q: Penélope, who were you channeling of whatever it was.” It’s funny how much we or mimicking in your portrayal of the capri- love medals and shiny things. cious Lola?

CRUZ: I don’t think Lola analyzes that CRUZ: I can’t say their names, but I was way, Antonio. She destroys her own awards inspired by a few people, although not all but at the same time is capable of shooting of them from the film industry and not all the entire movie again only with Félix playof them women. The directors and I had ing both characters. She knows exactly what watched a lot of video interviews of these happened to Iván. But she doesn’t ask quespeople to take notes of the outrageous things tions because she doesn’t want to know the they would say [laughs]. I created a Franken- truth. The only thing she cares about is movstein character based on them and what we ing her film forward. She’ll continue caring all shared on the strangest things that have about awards more than anything else in her happened to us on set. life.

Q: How useful was the eye-catching wig Q: Do you keep your awards in a particularly special place? for your transformation?

CRUZ: No, just at home. But when I had CRUZ: The wig helped me a lot, because when Lola enters a room, she wants just won the Oscar, I took it to the beach to be seen. She always believes that what with me for a few days. she has to say is more interesting than what BANDERAS: So he could get a tan anybody else has to say. She is not good at [laughs]. listening to others and is very lonely because her ego devours her. She is insufferable, but it was so fun playing her.

Q: In one scene, Lola tortures her actors by destroying their precious trophies. What do you feel about the importance of awards in relation to that scene?

CRUZ: I had a good time with that scene. But since some of them were our real awards, I didn’t want to go crazy and accidentally break them for real, because we’ve worked hard to get them.

They have value, and one should be thankful for them.

BANDERAS: But if we think about it, the trophy is the materialization of somePenelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas in New York, thing that has already been June 2022. The two Spanish actors discuss working granted to you. Meaning that together on a satire about the film industry, how they if you win an Oscar, you can feel about awards and how they get into character.

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June 24-26, 2022

Summer in Copenhagen: Biking, dining and celebrating

By LISA ABEND

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ver the course of the coronavirus pandemic, Copenhagen, Denmark, somehow seems only to have become more thoroughly itself. With restrictions long gone (they were lifted in January) and summer at hand, the city’s outdoor spaces, designed to extract every bit of joy from summer, have multiplied. There are more harborside spots to sip wine and swim, while devotion to environmental sustainability has generated an entirely new hangout for the green-minded. The Danish fetish for buttery pastries has transformed itself into a veritable eruption of new bakeries, while the broader dining scene — already world class — has become bigger and better. And in a city where bikes already constitute the primary method of transportation, Copenhagen is preparing for its cycling apotheosis: The Tour de France starts here July 1.

What’s Happening For the first time in history, the Tour de France’s Grand Depart begins in Denmark, with a 13-kilometer time trial through the streets of Copenhagen before moving on, during Days 2 and 3, to stages that start farther west in Roskilde and Vejle. On June 29, the competing teams will be presented first on a ride through the city and then in a special event, complete with live music, at Tivoli Gardens. The first day’s race ends at Copenhagen’s City Hall, but a big cyclingthemed party will take place in Fælledparkenon Days 1 and 2, with live music, bike games for kids and large screens for watching. On the morning of July 2, the route will open for cyclists of all skill levels to bike a “Tour de Copenhagen.”

But that will hardly be the only celebration. Danes love a festival, and they are greeting a summer calendar that is once again full of them with palpable relief. This year, all the old favorites — from the heavy metal paroxysms of Copenhell and smooth vibes of the Copenhagen Jazz Festival to the gastronomic excesses of Copenhagen Cooking to the highbrow discussions of the Louisiana Literature Festival — are back, and have been complemented with new additions like Syd for Solen. But the biggest of all — more rite of passage than mere festival — is Roskilde, which takes place

Apotek 57, a cafe known for its baked goods, inside the Frama Studio Store in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 11, 2022.

June 29 to July 2. This year it will attempt to channel all that pent-up energy with a postponed 50th-anniversary celebration and the largest roster — 132 acts, including Megan Thee Stallion, Dua Lipa, Post Malone and the Strokes — in its history.

What to See Several of Copenhagen’s cultural institutions used the pandemic to finish longplanned improvements. The Danish Design Museum, which for a while was basically a warren of rooms filled with chairs, reopens Sunday after a two-year restoration, with an exhibition on how design can address global challenges like climate change and pandemics. And one of Europe’s finest collections of 19th-century French art got a new showcase earlier this year when Ordrupgaard debuted its new wing, underground but open to the sky, on the edge of the city.

But perhaps the most topically relevant renewal is the Freedom Museum. Formerly called the Museum of the Danish Resistance, it was destroyed by arson in 2013, and has been entirely rebuilt from the ground up. Its interactive exploration of how Germany’s largely unobstructed takeover of Denmark in 1940 gradually transitioned into active resistance that sabotaged German weapons and mustered a volunteer fleet of fishing boats to spirit the country’s Jews to safety makes for an especially poignant les-

son these days.

Where to Eat Spurred perhaps by two long lockdowns in which takeaway coffee and cake were among the few pleasures left, the city that invented the Danish (although here they’re called wienerbrød) has entered a new Golden Age of pastry. There’s now an independent, chef-led bakery in almost every neighborhood, and often long lines stretching down the sidewalk. Some of the newest to try: Albatross & Venner, Benji and Ard — and that’s not counting Apotek 57 and Studio X, two cafes attached to different design shops, where they also do some mouthwatering in-house baking.

The rest of the dining scene is thriving as well — maybe a little too much. For all its acclaim as an international dining destination, pre-pandemic Copenhagen still had a hard time convincing its locals that restaurants were for more than just birthday celebrations and weekend date nights. But since restrictions lifted in January, they seem to have gotten the message; suddenly places at all levels of the food chain are fully booked most nights.

Luckily, there’s a slew of new places to meet the demand. Chef Christian Puglisi’s groundbreaking Relæ and his natural wine bar, Manfreds, both closed during the pandemic, but from those losses, three excep-

tional spots have risen. At Koan, housed in what was Relæ, chef Kristian Baumann injects some of the flavors and techniques of his Korean heritage into his precision-cut Nordic cuisine, for dishes like a plump, peppery mandu with fjord shrimp or a baked Jerusalem artichoke served with a luscious langoustine cream. Across the street, in the cramped, convivial space that was Manfreds, its former chef, Mathias Silberbauer, serves joie de vivre at Silberbauers Bistro, along with relaxed Provençal cooking with an emphasis on bracingly fresh seafood and soul-satisfying comforts like onion tart and white bean stew.

After a residency at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, chef Jonathan Tam returned to Copenhagen and opened Jatak, an intimate jewel of a restaurant designed by his wife, Sara Frilund, where the refined dishes — delicate curves of raw brill twinned with sweet steamed pumpkin; strips of endive whose crisp bitterness is both enhanced and softened with a housemade sesame sauce — are a deeply personal reflection of Tam’s Cantonese background, his many years as head chef of the vegetable-forward Relæ, and his commitment to local produce.

New dining neighborhoods are also emerging. Tucked into a postage-stamp of a forest on the city’s southwestern edge, Banegården used to house Copenhagen’s railway works, but the timbered buildings have now been repurposed by green food businesses, including a farm shop, a locavore restaurant and, yes, a bakery — one with excellent croissants and a commitment to sustainability so serious that there are no disposable cups; you can only get takeaway coffee via a deposit system for the thermosstyle cups.

But perhaps the most exciting transformation is of the stretch along the southern end of the city’s lakes. At Propaganda, Youra Kim’s Korean fried chicken, all stickiness and spice, is already iconic, and it, as well as her other high-voltage dishes, like the knockout grilled white asparagus and tteok, pairs well with the impressive selection of natural wines. And at Brasserie Prins, which manages to be cozy without tipping over into twee, American-born chef Dave Harrison draws on his time cooking in Paris to make some very old-school French dishes — plush quenelles in sauce Americaine, a crisp pan-fried veal brain, even a stalwart île flottante — somehow seem utterly modern.

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June 24-26, 2022

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What to know about the COVID vaccine for little kids

By MELINDA WENNER MOYER

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r. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has signed off on two COVID-19 vaccines for children over 6 months of age and under 5.

Millions of U.S. parents — including many of my friends with children under 5 — were crossing their fingers again this week, hoping the vaccines would soon be available for younger age groups. An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously last Wednesday to recommend that the agency authorize the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for use in very young children. On Friday and Saturday, advisers to the CDC met to discuss and voted yes unanimously.

After multiple delays in the review process of Pfizer’s vaccine, both vaccines are expected to become available early next week. The Pfizer vaccine will cover children ages 6 months through 4 years old, and the Moderna vaccine will cover children ages 6 months through 5 years old.

Understandably, many parents of young children have questions about the vaccines and the expected rollout. I talked with three infectious disease pediatricians to get answers.

Q: How do the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines differ?

A: The Moderna vaccine is authorized as two doses spaced four weeks apart, said Dr. Debbie-Ann Shirley, a pediatric infectious disease physician at the University of Virginia. Pfizer is authorized as a threedose series, with the first two shots spaced three weeks apart, and the third shot given at least eight weeks later. (Pfizer’s third shot

is not considered a booster. It’s likely that Moderna and Pfizer will eventually authorize an additional booster dose for young children.) Both vaccines are at lower doses than the vaccines given to older kids and adults.

Preliminary data released by Moderna in April suggested that two shots were 51% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 infection among children ages 6 months through 1 year, and that two shots were 37% effective at preventing infection among kids ages 2 through 5 years.

Pfizer claimed that its three-dose series had an efficacy of 80% at preventing COVID-19 infection among kids ages 6 months through 4 years old, but that estimate was based on infections in just three children.

Q: What are the side effects of the vaccines in young kids?

A: The data so far suggest that the side effects in younger kids are milder than those in older kids, probably because a lower dose of the vaccine is given, Shirley said. Among children under 5, “the side effects were the sorts of things that we might expect in children after receiving a vaccine,” she added, including increased fussiness, sleepiness and pain at the injection

site. Comparing the two vaccines, Pfizer’s resulted in fewer side effects overall, probably because it uses such a low dose.

No children in the vaccine trials developed heart issues like myocarditis, a form of heart inflammation that was seen in a small number of older children who received the vaccine, Shirley said, but this could be because the trials were not big enough to detect rare side-effects. It’s possible there will be some cases once the vaccines are given to enough kids, but experts don’t expect to see a significant number, because myocarditis “occurs more frequently in teenagers and young adults than younger kids,” said Dr. Ibukun Kalu, an infectious disease pediatrician at the Duke University School of Medicine.

“I would not expect high rates of vaccine-related myocarditis in the under 5s,” she added. Kalu also pointed out that the risk of myocarditis is much higher among kids who catch COVID-19 than it is among those who get the vaccine.

It’s important to note that when the FDA did not authorize the two-dose Pfizer vaccine back in February, that was because it didn’t work well enough, not because of any safety issues. (And that’s ultimately why the vaccine now has a three-dose regimen.)

Q: Should your child get vaccinated right away if they’ve recently had COVID-19?

A: According to the CDC, kids who recently had COVID can get the vaccine as soon as they are out of isolation and are feeling better, Kalu said. But because “reinfection appears to be rare after the first few months of recovering from a COVID infection,” Shirley added, it’s not unreasonable to wait up to 90 days after the infection be-

fore getting them vaccinated.

Still, you may want to get them the shot sooner if cases are climbing in your community, if you’re traveling to areas with high COVID rates, or if your child is immunocompromised or has underlying risk factors, Shirley said. If you’re not sure what to do, “reaching out to a trusted health care provider is always a good way to talk through some of those issues,” she added.

Q: COVID-19 symptoms are often mild in young kids, and they can get the virus even if they’re vaccinated, so what’s the point of vaccinating my young child?

A: It’s true that COVID-19 is far less risky for kids than it is for those who are older. But more than 440 children ages 4 and under have died from COVID-19 since January 2020, and the infection is “one of the top 10 causes of death in children in the United States,” said Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, a pediatric infectious disease physician at Stanford Medicine who chairs the American Academy of Pediatrics’ committee on infectious diseases. Also, COVIDrelated hospitalization rates are higher for children 4 and younger than they are for older children, and more than half of pediatric hospitalizations among kids ages 6 months through 4 years occur in children with no known underlying risk factors. “I’ve had a number of friends who are health care providers whose children have wound up in the hospital, some on oxygen in the ICU, who have no risk factors,” Maldonado said.

“Vaccines are the most effective way that we have as clinicians to help prevent patients from developing severe forms of COVID,” Shirley said — and that includes little kids.

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Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 2 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Vega Baja, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y

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cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia.

Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el BARRIO CEIBA del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de MIL TRESCIENTOS OCHENTA Y UNO PUNTO TRES SIETE NUEVE TRES (1,381.3793) METROS CUADRADOS, equivalentes a CERO PUNTO TRES CINCO UNO CINCO (0.3515) CUERDA. En linderos: por el NORTE y OESTE, con predio dedicado a uso público y con terrenos de la finca Colonia Ceiba, propiedad de la Autoridad de Tierras de Puerto Rico; por el SUR y por el ESTE, con terrenos de la finca Colonia Ceiba, propiedad de la Autoridad de Tierras de Puerto Rico.

La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 172 del tomo 438 de Vega Baja, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Cuarta, finca número 31,813, inscripción segunda. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: 201-0638, Rd. 689, Km. 2.1, Barrio Ceiba, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. La Subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $37,932.86, de principal; intereses al 5.50% anual desde el 1ro. de julio de 2020, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $5,350.00, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están l‫ؙ‬íquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $53,500.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $35,666.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la canti-

dad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $26,750.00. De declararse desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta 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. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, 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. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, 6 de junio de 2022. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888, ALGUACIL DE LA DIVISIÓN DE EJECUCIÓN DE SENTENCIAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.

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CUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS: Yo, ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, Placa 593, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia Nunc Pro Tunc de que se me libró con fecha del 31 de marzo de 2022, por la Secretaria del Tribunal Superior de Caguas en relación con la Sentencia Sumaria dictada el 21 de enero de 2021 (debió decir 2022), notificada y archivada en autos el 25 de enero de 2022, enmendada Nunc Pro Tunc en 17 de marzo de 2022, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado con el número catorce (14) del Bloque A en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Parque del Río, radicada en el Barrio Cañabón del término Municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida y colindancia según se indica a continuación: Cabida: área superficial de trescientos veinte punto dieciséis (320.16) metros cuadrados. Colinda: por el NORTE, con el solar A quince (A-15) de este mismo bloque, en una distancia de veintiséis punto setenta y tres (26.73) metros; por el SUR, con el solar A trece (A-13) de este mismo bloque, en una distancia de veintiséis punto setenta y tres (26.73) metros; por el ESTE, con la Avenida Principal Oeste (Principal West Avenue), en una distancia de doce (12.00) metros; y por el OESTE, con la Calle Leida, Sección C-C, en una distancia de doce (12.00) metros. Enclava en este solar una estructura construida de hormigón armado y bloques de concreto dedicada a vivienda para una sola familia. Consta inscrita al folio 109 del 1,252 de Caguas, Finca número 44,067, Registro de la propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera (I). i. Por su procedencia está afecta a: a. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico. b. Servidumbre a favor de Eastern Sugar Associates. c.

Servidumbre a favor del Municipio de Caguas. d. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Comunicaciones de Puerto Rico. e. Condiciones restrictivas sobre edificación y uso. Dirección de la propiedad: Urbanización Parque del Río, A14, Calle Yahueca, Caguas, Puerto Rico 00725. Se apercibe a los licitadores para que procedan con la inspección física del inmueble objeto de ejecución previo a la

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Friday, June 24, 2022 celebración de las subastas. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la propiedad anteriormente descrita y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 1 de agosto de 2022, a las 9:00am. Precio Mínimo: $150,000.00. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 8 de agosto de 2022, a las 9:00am.

Precio Mínimo: $100,000.00.

TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 15 de agosto de 2022, a las 9:00am. Precio Mínimo: $75,000.00. Las subastas se llevarán a cabo para satisfacer al Banco demandante de las siguientes sumas de dinero adeudadas por la parte demandante conforme a la Sentencia dictada, a saber, la suma de la suma de $127,329.06, adeudada por concepto de principal e intereses vencidos al 22 de junio de 2018 y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, los cargos por demora vencidos que a igual fecha ascienden a $1,527.41 y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, las sumas adeudadas por concepto de seguros y/o contribuciones, la suma de $15.00 por concepto de cargo por cheque devuelto por insuficiencia de fondos, la suma de $1,433.60, por concepto de adelantos, la suma de $2,956.17, por concepto de atrasos y recargos más la suma de $15,000.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Tribunal de Caguas, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, efectivo, cheque de gerente, giro postal a nombre del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del producto obtenido en dicha venta, el Alguacil pagará en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados hasta la suma convenida, en tercer término los intereses acumulados hasta la fecha de la subasta según pactados hasta su total y completo pago, en cuarto término, las sumas establecidas para el pago de recargos por demora hasta la fecha de

la subasta y en quinto término la suma principal adeudada.

Disponiéndose, que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. El inmueble anteriormente descrito se encuentra afecto al siguiente gravamen posterior: ANOTACIÓN PREVENTIVA DE DEMANDA radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas, Civil Número CG2018CV01322 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria, seguida por Firstbank Puerto Rico (Demandante) vs. Charlie Castro Lozada (Demandados). Por la misma se reclama el pago de la suma de $127,329.06 más intereses y otras sumas o en su defecto la venta en pública subasta, presentado al Asiento 2018-072083CA01 del Sistema Karibe, el día 30 de julio de 2018, finca número 44,067, el cual es objeto de ejecución en la presente causa de acción. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, toda vez que el precio de remate no se destina a su extinción.

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

Y PARA LA CONCURRENCIA, de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta por espacio de dos semanas y en un periódico de circulación general del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 17 de mayo de 2022. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, Alguacil Superior.

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

BOSCO IX OVERSEAS, LLC, BY FRANKLIN

CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION AS SERVICER Demandante V.

SUCESIONES DE RUBÉN ALEJANDRO RIVERA Y CARMEN ELENA ORTIZ ORTIZ T/C/C CARMEN ELENA TORRES ORTIZ COMPUESTA POR NORMA ALEJANDRO ORTIZ, CARMEN ALEJANDRO ORTIZ, RUBÉN ALEJANDRO ORTIZ, CARLOS ALEJANDRO ORTIZ, JOSÉ ALEJANDRO ORTIZ, GERMAN ALEJANDRO ORTIZ Y JUAN ALEJANDRO ORTIZ; FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE RUBÉN ALEJANDRO RIVERA Y CARMEN ELENA ORTIZ ORTIZ; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandado Civil Núm.: CR2019CV00126.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS (“IN REM”). ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo ANDRÉS VÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Comerio, al público en general. CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 11 de mayo de 2022, que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Comerio, 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 Comerio, 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, Sucesiones de Rubén Alejandro Rivera y Carmen Elena Ortiz Ortiz t/c/c Carmen Elena Torres Ortiz, compuesta por

Norma Alejandro Ortiz, Carmen Alejandro Ortiz, Rubén Alejandro Ortiz, Carlos Alejandro Ortiz, José Alejandro Ortiz, German Alejandro Ortiz y Juan Alejandro Ortiz; Fulano y Mengano De Tal, como posibles herederos desconocidos de Rubén Alejandro Rivera y Carmen Elena Ortiz Ortiz. Dirección Física: 88 Jardines de Barranquitas I, Barrio Quebrada Grande y Quebradillas, Barranquitas, Puerto Rico 00794. Finca 12,183, al folio 151 del tomo 213 de Baranquitas, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Barranquitas. RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno identificada con el número ochenta y ocho (88) en el Plano de Inscripción Jardines de Barranquitas I, radicado en los Barrios Quebrada Grande y Quebradillas del término municipal de Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos treinta y uno (331) metros cuadrados con punto siete mil setecientos ochenta y nueve (.7789) diez milésimas, equivalentes a cero punto cero ochocientos cuarenta y cuatro (.0844) cuerdas y en lindes por el NORTE, con el remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el SUR, con la parcela de terreno número ochenta y siete (87); por el ESTE, con la Calle dos (2); y por el OESTE, con el remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega. Finca 12,183: Por su procedencia está: a. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico. b. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico. c. Servidumbre a favor de la finca número 2,452. Por sí está: a) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Banco y Agencia de Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $33,000.00, con intereses al 7% anual, vencedero el día 1 de marzo de 2028, constituida mediante la escritura número 86, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de febrero de 1998, ante la notario Irma J. Planadeball Moreno, e inscrita al folio 152 del tomo 213 de Barranquitas, finca número 12,183, inscripción 2da. b) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Banco y Agencia de Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, también conocido como Banco de la Vivienda, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $19,580.00, sin intereses, vencedero el día 24 de febrero de 2018, constituida mediante la escritura número 87, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de febrero de 1998, ante la notario

The San Juan Daily Star Irma J. Planadeball Moreno, e inscrita al folio 152 vuelto del tomo 213 de Barranquitas, finca número 12,183, inscripción 3ra.

Condiciones: No podrá vender, permutar, donar o de cualquier forma transferir la propiedad, sin el previo consentimiento por escrito del Banco. c) Aviso de Demanda de fecha 19 de mayo de 2014, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Comerío, en el Caso Civil número B3CI-2014-00343, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Scotiabank de Puerto Rico versus Rubén Alejandro Rivera, su esposa Carmen Elena Ortiz Ortiz y la Sociedad de Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, por la suma de $23,719.31, más intereses y otras sumas adicionales o en su defecto la venta en Pública Subasta, anotado el día 17 de noviembre de 2014, al folio 192 del tomo 271 de Barranquitas, finca número 12,183, Anotación “A”. d) Aviso de Demanda de fecha 23 de abril de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Comerío, en el Caso Civil número CR2019CV00126, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Bosco IX Overseas, LLC., by Franklin Credit Management Corporation as Servicer versus Rubén Alejandro Rivera y su esposa Carmen Elena Ortiz Ortiz, por la suma de $18,135.06, más intereses y otras sumas adicionales o en su defecto la venta en Pública Subasta, anotado el día 6 de junio de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Barranquitas, finca número 12,183, Anotación “B”. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 12,183 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: FECHA DE SUBASTA: PRIMERA SUBASTA: 12 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $33,000.00. HIPOTECA: Escritura Número 86 sobre Primera Hipoteca, otorgada el día 24 de febrero de 1998, ante la notario Irma J. Planadeball Moreno. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: 19 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $22,000.00.

TERCERA SUBASTA: 26 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $16,500.00. 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

Friday, June 24, 2022

mismas, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Conforme a la Sentencia dictada el día 8 de febrero de 2022, archivada en los autos el 15 de febrero de 2022 y publicada el 23 de febrero de 2022, 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 $18,135.06, más intereses a razón de 7%, desde el 1 de octubre de 2018, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de $221.46 por cargos por mora, más la suma de $3,300.00 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 Comerio, Puerto Rico, hoy día 6 de junio de 2022. ANDRÉS VÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO, ALGUACIL #998, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE COMERÍO.

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

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante vs.

JOSE ANTONIO BERRIOS DIAZ T/C/C JOSE A. BERRIOS DIAZ, ALICIA CRUZ MERCED Y LA

SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado (s) CIVIL NUM. BY2019CV05512 (505). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS: Yo, JOSE F MARRERO Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia Sumaria In Rem dictada el 3 de marzo de 2020, notificada ese mismo día de la cual surge que las partes demandadas adeudan a la demandante la suma principal de $214,469.62, intereses vencidos que al 1 de diciembre de 2019, ascienden a la suma de $30,383.08, la suma de $1,464.33 por concepto de cargos por demora, más la suma de $24,827.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados y a tenor con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia In Rem que se libró con fecha de 7 de febrero de 2022, por la Secretaría de este Honorable Tribunal de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, la siguiente propiedad inmueble, la cual se describe a continuación: URBANA”: Solar radicado en la Urbanización “Palacios del Río II”, localizada en los Barrios Ortiz y Piñas del, término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización, como número, área y colindancia que se relacionan a continuación: Número del solar: diecinueve del bloque “G” (G-19), con una cabida de cuatrocientos setenta y seis punto cincuenta y siete metros cuadrados (476.57mc). En lindes: por el NORTE, con la calle número siete (7), en dos alineaciones, en una distancia de nueve punto doscientos tres metros (9.203m) y en otra de seis punto ciento ochenta y cuatro (6.184) por el SUR, con el solar número veintitrés y veinticuatro del Bloque “G” (G23) y (G-24), en una distancia de quince metros (15.00m); por el ESTE, con el solar número dieciocho del Bloque “G” (G18), en una distancia de treinta y dos metros (32.00m),por el OESTE, con el solar número veinte del Bloque “G” (G-20), en una distancia de treinta punto ciento cuarenta y ocho metros (30.148m). En este solar se ha construido una vivienda de bloques y hormigón reforzado para una familia. Inscrita al folio 33 del tomo 497 de Toa Alta, Finca Número 25,188, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sec-

ción III Bayamón. Por su procedencia está afecta a: Servidumbre a Favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico; Servidumbre a Favor de la de la finca 1,380; Servidumbre a Favor de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico; Servidumbre a Favor de Centennial de Puerto Rico; Sujeta a las disposiciones de la Ley de Acceso Controlado, según enmendada; Servidumbre a Favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico; Condiciones Restrictiva sobre Edificación y Uso. Sobre la antes descrita propiedad se encuentra presentado el siguiente gravamen posterior: Demanda” del 22 de febrero de 2019, expedida en Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior en el Caso Civil número TA2019CV00226, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca seguido por ORIENTAL BANK VS JOSE ANTONIO BERRIOS DIAZ T/C/C JOSE A. BERRIOS DIAZ, ALICIA CRUZ MERCED Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, por la suma de $248,270.00 y Otras Sumas, Anotado al Tomo Karibe de Toa Alta finca número 25,188. Anotación “A”. Esta propiedad tiene el siguiente número de catastro en el Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM): 12-112067-46-193-000. La dirección física del inmueble anteriormente descrito es: URBANIZACION PALACIOS DEL RIO II, BLOQUE G-19, TOA ALTA, PR 00953. Se apercibe a los licitadores para que procedan con la inspección física del inmueble objeto de ejecución previo a la celebración de la subasta. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la antes descrita propiedad y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 19 de Julio de 2022, a las 9:30 de la mañana.

Precio Mínimo: $248,270.00.

SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 2 de Agosto de 2022, a las 9:30 de mañana.

Precio Mínimo: $165,513.33.

TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 9 de Agosto de 2022, a las 9:30 de mañana.

Precio Mínimo: $124,135.00.

Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el cuarto piso en el Centro Judicial de Bayamón, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, en cheque certificado, dinero en efectivo o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, siendo éste el mejor postor.

En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que

le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del producto obtenido en dicha venta, el Alguacil pagará en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hasta la suma convenida, en tercer término los intereses devengados hasta la fecha de la sentencia, en cuarto término las sumas establecidas en la Sentencia para el pago de recargos por demora, contribuciones, seguros y en quinto término la suma principal adeudada conforme con la sentencia dictada.

Disponiéndose que si quedara algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón durante horas laborables. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y PARA LA CONCURRENCIA, de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Colecturía de Bayamón, Alcaldía y Cuartel de la Policía del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta por espacio de dos semanas y en un periódico de circulación general del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 9 de junio de 2022.

JOSE F MARRERO ROBLES #131, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

PARTE DEMANDANTE Vs.

MILAGROS BÁEZ LIBERATA T/C/C MILAGROS A. BÁEZ LIBERATA Y JUAN ANTONIO FONSECA ROSADO T/C/C JUAN A. FONSECA ROSADO

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. SJ2019CV06969.

SALA: 604. SOBRE: COBRO

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DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 29 de octubre de 2019, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 2 de junio de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 3 de junio de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 11 de julio de 2022, a las 10:00 de la mañana, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Superior, en la Avenida Muñoz Rivera, Esquina Coll y Toste, Parada 37, San Juan, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 1634 en el bloque M-38 del Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Reparto Metropolitano, radicado en el Barrio Monacillos del sitio denominado Río Piedras, con un área superficial de 252.00 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en 12.00 metros con la calle denominada “Nine West Street” del mencionado plano; por el SUR, en 12.00 metros, con el solar número 1627 del bloque M-38; por el ESTE, en 21.00 metros con el solar número 1636 del bloque M-38; y por el OESTE, en 21.00 metros con el solar número 1634-A del bloque M-38.

Enclava una casa construida de concreto armado de una planta, con divisiones de durotex, que consta de tres (3) dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina, cuarto de baño y balcón. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 275 de Monacillos, Finca Número 10504, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 104 del tomo 963 de Monacillos, Finca Número 10504, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III. Inscripción décima. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: REPARTO METROPOLITANO, M38 1634 CALLE 34 SE, SAN JUAN, PR 00921. Número de Catastro: 79-086-017-226-12-802.

Primera Subasta: 11 de julio de 2022, Hora: 10:00 am, Tipo Mínimo: $126,704.00. Segunda Subasta: 18 de julio de 2022, Hora: 10:00 am, Tipo Mínimo: $84,469.33. Tercera Subasta: 1 de agosto de 2022, Hora: 10:00 am, Tipo Mínimo: $63,352.00.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $126,704.00.

De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará

una segunda subasta, el día 18 de julio de 2022, 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, $84,469.33.

De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta, el día 1 de agosto de 2022, 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, $63,352.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $106,035.21 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.5% anual desde el 1 de enero de 2018 hasta su completo pago, más $224.84 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $12,670.40 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior que afecta la propiedad que se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Milagros Báez Liberata también conocida como Milagros A. Báez Liberata y Juan Antonio Fonseca Rosado también conocido como Juan A. Fonseca Rosado, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el Caso Civil Número SJ2019CV06969, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $106,035.21 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 5 de julio de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Monacillos. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá

que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm.

210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 10 de junio de 2022. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, Alguacil, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE M&T 41394 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR.

Lime Residential, Ltd. Demandante v.

Edgardo L. Nazario Montillo t/c/c Edgardo Luis Nazario Montillo, Sheila Judith Quiñones Santos y la sociedad legal de bienes gananciales compuesta por ambos

Demandados CIVIL NÚM: DCD2008-2173 (401). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el DÍA 11 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA en su oficina sita en la oficina de Alguaciles de Subasta sita en el 4to piso del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en Urb.

26 Palacio Imperial, A23 calle Francos, Toa Alta, PR 00953 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización ‘Palacio Imperial’ localizada en los Barrios Ortiz Piñas del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Numero del solar: 23 del bloque A (A-23). Área del solar: 600.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con el solar número 24 del bloque A (A-24), en una distancia de 30.00 metros; por el Sur, con el solar número 22 del bloque A (A-22), en una distancia de 30.00 metros; por el Este, con el solar número 30 y 31 del bloque A (A-30) (A31), en una distancia de 20.00 metros; por el Oeste, con la calle número 3, en una distancia de 20.00 metros. En este solar se ha construido una vivienda de bloques y hormigón reforzado para una familia. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el folio 169 del tomo 542 ágora de Toa Alta, finca número 27,333, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Tercera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $458,400.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe, en el 4to piso del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior, el DÍA 18 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $305,600.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe, en el 4to piso del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior, el DÍA 25 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $229,200.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 312, otorgada el día 8 de mayo de 2007, ante el Notario Félix R. Vega Fournier y consta inscrita en el folio 169 del tomo 542 ágora de Toa Alta, finca número 27333, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Tercera, inscripción segunda. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante

total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $423,400.00 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 7.375% anual desde el día 1 de marzo de 2008. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Se pagarán también los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento, la suma de $45,840.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $45,840.00 para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $45,840.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más intereses según provisto por la regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes.

Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores ni preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad.

Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacionan más adelante. A los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de, o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso, o al portador, garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor por la presente se notifica, que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. A. ANOTACION DE EMBARGO:

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Friday, June 24, 2022

Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Edgardo Luis Nazario Montijo y su esposa, Sheila Judith Quiñones Santos, dictado por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, en el caso civil número DCD 2008-2173, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, para que se anote Embargo y Aviso de Prohibición de Enajenar, por la suma de $423,400.00 y otras cantidades. Se acompaña Orden y Mandamiento de fecha 13 de octubre del 2009. Anotada al folio 169 del tomo 542 (ágora) de Toa Alta. Anotación A. B. SENTENCIA: Anotada contra Edgardo Luis Nazario Montijo y su esposa, Sheila Judith Quiñones Santos, a favor de Asociación de Propietarios de Urbanización Palacios Imperial Inc., por la suma de $3,000.00 y otras cantidades, según Sentencia de fecha 14 de mayo de 2010, sobre cobro de dinero (Regla 60), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Municipio de Toa Alta, en el caso civil número TM10-058. Anotada al folio 169 del tomo 542 (ágora) de Toa Alta. Anotación B. C. EMBARGO FEDERAL: Anotado contra Edgardo Nazario Montijo, seguro social XXXXX-0870, court number 17-CR278, por la suma de $912,423.62, anotado el 2 de junio de 2020, al asiento 2020002266-FED del Libro de Embargos Federales Karibe. D. EMBARGO FEDERAL: Anotado contra Sheila Judith Quiñones Santos, seguro social XXXXX-6497, court number 17-CR-278, por la suma de $731,927.62, anotado el 22 de feberero de 2022, al asiento 2022-001407-FED del Libro de Embargos Federales Karibe. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según aplique. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de junio de 2022. FDO. JOSE F. MARRERO ROBLES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.

FUND SOCIETY,FSB, AS TRUSTEE OF STANWICH MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST I Demandante vs.

LA SUCESION DE MARIA GENOVEVA QUINONES JUSTINIANO COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERES EN LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados CIVIL NUM. GY2018CV00098.

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 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 nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 6 de julio de 2022, a las 9:30 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 marcado con el número A-22 de la Urbanización Santa Elena Development, Segunda Extensión, localizado en los Barrios Jaguas y Pueblo, éste último lugar conocido por los sitios del municipio de Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, con un áreade 268.64 metros cuadrados. En lindes: NORTE, solar A-21 de esta misma urbanización en una distancia de 21.66 metros; SUR, solar A-23 de esta misma urbanización en una distancia de 21.07 metros; ESTE, con la Calle Número 1 de esta misma urbanización en una distancia de 11.77 metros; LEGAL NOTICE OESTE, con terrenos dedidado ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO a uso público que lo separa de DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- la Carretera Estatal Número 2 NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA en una distacia de 12.75 meSALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE. tros. Enclava en este solar una WILMINGTON SAVINGS estructura dedicada a vivienda, construida de hormigón armado

y bloques. 4809 INSCRITA AL FOLIO 100 DEL TOMO 133 DE GUAYANILLA, REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE PONCE, SECCION SEGUNDA. Propiedad localizada en: A22 Calle 1, Ext. Santa Elena, Guayanilla, PR 00656. 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 $40,082.00, 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 13 de julio de 2022, a las 9:30 de la mañana, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $26,721.33, 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 $20,041.00, 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 20 de julio de 2022, a las 9:30 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 $22,807.31 de principal, intereses al tipo del 8.00000% anual según ajustado desde el día 1 de julio de 2014 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $4,008.20 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 propie-

dad 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 27 mayo de 2022. LUIS R SANCHEZ VEGA, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR.

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

GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC Demandante v.

RICARDO MIRANDASANTIAGO, LIZA RODRIGUEZ-RIVERA Y SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

Demandados CIVIL NUM. CG2019CV03251.

SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA (IN REM) 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 Caguas, 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 Caguas, el 5 de ju-

lio de 2022, a las 10:45 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 marcado con el número cuatrocientos cincuenta y nueve (459) de la Urbanización Veredas del Barrio Navarro, en el término municipal de Gurabo, Puerto Rico con una cabida superficial de quinientos ocho punto cuarenta y seis (508.46) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a cero punto mil doscientos noventa y cuatro (0.1294) de cuerda. En linderos NORTE, con el solar número cuatrocientos sesenta (460); por el SUR, con el solar número cuatrocientos cincuenta y ocho (458); por el ESTE, con la calle número cuarenta y seis (46) y por el OESTE, con el solar cuatrocientos cincuenta y seis (456). Sobre este solar enclava una estructura de hormigón y bloques destinada a uso residencial. Inscrita al folio ciento trece (113) del tomo cuatrocientos veinte (420) de Gurabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, sección segunda, finca número quince mil novecientos veinte tres (15,923).

Propiedad localizada en: 46 ST #459 URB VEREDAS, GURABO, PR 00778. 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 $271,757.45, 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 Caguas, el 12 de julio de 2022, a las 10:45 de la mañana, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $181,171.63, 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 $135,878.72, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 19 de julio de 2022, a las 10:45 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 $271,757.46 de principal, intereses al tipo del 6.50% anual según ajustado desde el día 1 de septiembre de 2018 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $27,000.00 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 Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de junio de 2022. ANGEL GOMEZ GOMEZ, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE M&T 042371 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc. Plaintiff, v.

Roberto Rivera Padilla

Defendants CIVIL NO: 3:20-cv-01637 PAD. RE: Mortgage Foreclosure. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: Roberto Rivera

The San Juan Daily Star

Padilla, General Public and all parties that may have an interest in the property

WHEREAS, Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $339,817.05 plus interest at a rate of 5.875% per annum since April 1, 2015 until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff late charges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due until the debt is paid in full. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($37,600.00) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the appointed special master at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698579, -66.1124836) the following property: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento Número 602 localizado en la sexta planta del inmueble sometido al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal denominado Condominio Mont Blanc radicado en la calle Orquídea de la Urbanización Borinquen Gardens, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Es de forma sustancialmente cuadrado y está construido de hormigón reforzado y bloques de hormigón a ser utilizado para fines residenciales. Tiene su entrada principal por lado NOROESTE, que la comunica con el pasillo que conduce a ascensor y a las escaleras por donde tiene acceso a su vez a la vía pública y estacionamientos. Colinda por el NOROESTE, con el pasillo común que conduce al recibidor, ascensor y escaleras que conducen al exterior, con las escaleras del lado Este, con el apartamento 601 y con áreas comunes del exterior del condominio; por el SUROESTE, con el apartamento 604 y con las escaleras del lado Este; por

el SURESTE, con áreas comunes del exterior del condominio; y por el NORESTE con áreas comunes del exterior del condominio. Presenta un área de construcción de 2,100 pies cuadrados equivalentes a 195.20 metros cuadrados. Su distribución interna es la siguiente: vestíbulo, área de sala-comedor, 2 dormitorios con sus respectivos closets o armarios empotrados, uno de ellos ‘walk-in’, salón de estar o ‘family room’, 2 1/2 cuartos de baño, cocina con área de comedor y puerta de servicio al pasillo común, balcón y área de lavandería.

Corresponde, además, a este apartamento una participación equivalente al 0.012481% en los elementos comunes generales del inmueble, a todos los fines legales pertinentes. Corresponde a este apartamento el uso exclusivo de los estacionamientos 58-A, 58-B, 57-A y 57- B. Corresponde a este apartamento el uso exclusivo de la covacha número 57-C y 58-C. The property is identified with the number 22,042 and is recorded at page number 177 of volume number 799 of Río Piedras Sur, in the Registry of Property of San Juan, Fourth Section. WHEREAS, The mortgage foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is recorded at page number 177 of volume number 799 of Río Piedras Sur, Second inscription in the Registry of Property of San Juan, Fourth section. WHEREAS the property is subject to the following junior liens: • Mortgage: Pledged by Roberto Rivera Padilla single, guaranteeing a promissory note in favor of Doral Bank., or to its order, for the original loan amount of $94,000.00, bearing annual interest at a rate of 5 7/8% payable February 1st, 2034, as per deed number 5, executed in San Juan, January 29th, 2004, before notary Domingo Arturo Quiles Rosado. Recorded at page 177 of Rio Piedras Sur Volume 799. Third inscription.

• Lis Pendens: Civil case pursued by Doral Bank as servicer for Doral Financial Corporation vs. Roberto Rivera Padilla, before Puerto Rico Superior Court at San Juan, Docket Number KCD007-0995, regarding Collection of Monies and Foreclosure, requesting mortgage payment with an outstanding balance of $360,491.81 and other sums, as per complaint dated August 23, 2007. Recorded at Volume Karibe Rio Piedras South. Notation A. • Lis pendens: Civil case pursued by Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Roberto Rivera Padilla, before Puerto Rico Superior Court at San Juan, Docket Number SJ2019-CV-02241, regarding Collection of Monies and Foreclosure, requesting payment of mortgage with an outstanding balance of $66,806.70 and

Friday, June 24, 2022 other sums, as per complaint dated March 6, 2019. Recorded at Volume Karibe Rio Piedras South. Notation B. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFORE, the first public sale will be held on AUGUST 5, 2022 AT 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $376,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on AUGUST 12, 2022 AT 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $250,666.67. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction shall be held on AUGUST 19, 2022 AT 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $188,000.00. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this day of June 15, 2022. Sing. Joel RondaFeliciano, Special Master.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

SUCESIÓN DE JUAN MEDINA LEBRÓN COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDA MERCEDES ANTONIA ORTEGA RAMÍREZ T/C/C MERCEDES A. ORTEGA RAMÍREZ T/C/C MERCEDES ORTEGA RAMÍREZ T/C/C MERCEDES ANTONIA FRANCISCA ORTEGA RAMÍREZ; FULANO DE

TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN

DEMANDADO CIVIL NÚM.: CA2021CV01915.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 23 de febrero de 2022 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 18 de abril de 2022, librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villa Carolina, situada en el Barrio Hoyo Mulas de Carolina, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número Diecisiete de la manzana Nueve con un área de cuatrocientos cuarenta y cinco metros cuadrados con veintiún centímetros, en lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle Veintiocho, distancia de cuatro metros y setenta y cinco centímetros y un arco de seis metros y quinientos cinco milésimas de metro; por el SUR, con un camino sombreado, distancia de veintitrés metros y cuatrocientos treinta y siete milésimas de metro; por el ESTE, con el solar número dieciséis, distancia de veinticinco metros y quince centímetros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número dieciocho, distancia de veintinueve metros y doscientos noventa y cinco milésimas de metro. Contiene una casa de concreto reforzado diseñada para una familia. FINCA NÚMERO: 11,653, inscrita al folio 218 del tomo 306 de Carolina, sección II de Carolina.

Dirección Física: URB. VILLA CAROLINA 17 BLOQUE 9, CALLE 28 (17-N BLOQUE 9 CALLE 28) CAROLINA, PR 00985.

Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 5 de julio de 2022, a las 11:15 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Carolina. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $48,50000. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una

segunda subasta el día 12 de julio de 2022, a las 11:15 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $32,333.33. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 19 de julio de 2022, a las 11:15 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $24,250.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. El Honorable Tribunal dictó Sentencia In Rem, declarando Con Lugar la demanda al incumplir la parte demandada con los términos del contrato hipotecario y ordenando la venta en pública subasta del inmueble antes descrito. A tenor con la Regla 51.3 (b) de Procedimiento Civil y el Artículo 99 de la Ley 210-2015, conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”, el tribunal ordenó que el Alguacil de este Tribunal luego de haberse efectuado la correspondiente publicación de edictos en un periódico de circulación general, proceda a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor la propiedad descrita en las Determinaciones de Hecho que anteceden y que del producto de dicha venta, proceda a pagar en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas y honorarios de abogados según concedidos en esta sentencia, en tercer término los intereses acumulados por esta sentencia, en cuarto término los recargos acumulados, en quinto cualquier suma antes indicada como sobregiro en la cuenta de reserva y en sexto término hasta la suma de $39,383.23 para cubrir el principal pendiente de pago, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a los demandados previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte

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(20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen.

El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste.

Por la presente también se notifica e informa a la Federal National Mortgage Association t/c/c Fannie Mae versus Juan Medina Lebrón, por la suma de $45,252.42, y otras sumas, etc por concepto de Cobro de Dinero en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso civil número FCD2013-1751. Anotado el 27 de noviembre de 2013 al folio 73 del tomo 1415 de Carolina, finca número 11,653, Anotación A. Además, se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación

diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 4 de mayo de 2022. Hector Peña Rodriguez, Alguacil, Sala Superior De Carolina. ***

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

SUCESION DE LUISA ESTHER RAMOS DIAZ T/C/C LUISA E. RAMOS DIAZ T/C/C LUISA RAMOS DIAZ COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERA CONOCIDA CARMEN BORRERO; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2022CV00817.

(705). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

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.

Se le apercibe que conforme al artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §11021, usted tiene 30 días para aceptar o repudiar la herencia desde la publicación de este edicto. A esos efectos, de no rechazarla, se tendrá la herencia por aceptada. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com En Caguas, Puerto Rico a 8 de junio de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. BRENDA L. TORRES PÉREZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

MAYRA RIVERA VAZQUEZ; SIMON ALONSO T/C/C SIMON A. FERNANDEZ HERNANDEZ; ELIZABETH LOPEZ GARCIA

A: CARMEN BORRERO COMO HEREDERA CONOCIDA DE LA SUCESIÓN DE LUISA Demandados ESTHER RAMOS DÍAZ Civil Núm.: BY2022CV01230.

T/C/C LUISA E. RAMOS Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO DÍAZ T/C/C LUISA Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTERAMOS DÍAZ; FULANO CA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR DE TAL Y SUTANA DE EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS TAL COMO HEREDEROS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESDESCONOCIDOS DE TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE DICHA SUCESIÓN. URB. P.R., SS. VILLA BLANCA CALLE A: MAYRA RIVERA RUBÍ #14, CAGUAS, VAZQUEZ; SIMÓN PR 00725. DIRECCIÓN ALONSO T/C/C SIMÓN POSTAL: URB. EL VERDE A. FERNANDEZ 17 CALLE JÚPITER #6 HERNANDEZ; ELIZABETH CAGUAS, PR 00725-6305.

LOPEZ GARCIA. POR LA PRESENTE se le emCONDOMINIO EL ROBLE plaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva URB. SIERRA LINDA J-20 CALLE 5, BAYAMÓN, dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto.

PR 00957. DIRECCIÓN Usted deberá presentar su alePOSTAL: URB. AGUSTÍN gación responsiva a través del STAHL17 CALLE A Sistema Unificado de Manejo y BAYAMÓN, PR 00956Administración de Casos (SU3046 Y 5-H ANDREAS MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc- COURT, TRUJILLO ALTO, ción electrónica: https://unired.

PR 00976.

28 POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto.

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

Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com En Bayamón, Puerto Rico a 13 de junio de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ELIZABETH OLIVERAS PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

solución, 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 22 de junio de 2022. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, 22 de junio de 2022. LISILDA MARTINEZ AGOSTO, Secretaria Regional FDO/ JESSENIA PEDRAZA, Secretaria Auxiliar,

de junio de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 14 de junio de 2022. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KATHERINE SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOT ICE

WILFREDO SOTOMAYOR MATÍAS

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

MELVIN OLIVERI GONZALEZ LOURDES CARMONA VÁZQUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandante V.

NIMAY AUTO CORP.; ORIENTAL BANK Y JOEL EMMANUEL GUZMÁN MEDINA XYZ; ABC, JOHN DOE, JANE DOE

Demandado(a) Civil: BY2020CV02449. Sala: 403. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO, DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS, ENRIQUECILEGAL NOTICE MIENTO INJUSTO. NOTIFIEstado Libre Asociado de PuerCACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL EDICTO. DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de PriA: JOEL EMMANUEL mera Instancia Sala Superior GUZMAN MEDINA. SANTA de Caguas.

I ISBETH ZORAYDA LÓPEZ CEDEÑO DEMANDANTE VS

MUNICIPIO DE GURABO JOHN DOE

DEMANDADO CASO NUM. GR2022CC00098.

SOBRE: CANCELACION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO POR LA VIA JUDICIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE

(Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de junio de 2022 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 Re-

RITA CARR. 181 KM 17.4 GURABO, PR 00778.

(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 13 de junio de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 14

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

Parte Demandante Vs.

SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECI- herencia por aceptada. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL.: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 14 de junio de 2022. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. PILAR H. MERCADO GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

BO SUCESIÓN DE BANCO POPULAR ELIZABETH CUSTODIO DE PUERTO RICO GONZ-ÁLEZ, T/C/C Demandante Vs. ELIZABETH CUSTODIO SUCESION DE COMPUESTA POR CARMEN MILAGROS FULANO DE TAL MARTINEZ RODRIGUEZ Y SUTANO DE TAL COMPUESTA POR COMO HEREDEROS SUS HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE CONOCIDOS MARIA DESCONOCIDO; CENTRO CRISTINA MOLINA DE RECAUDACIONES MARTINEZ, PATRICIA MUNICIPALES; Y MOLINA MARTINEZ Y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE JOSÉ JAVIER MOLINA AMÉRICA MARTÍNEZ; Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV04386.

FULANO DE TAL (604). Sobre: COBRO DE DIY SUTANA DE TAL NERO; EJECUCIÓN DE HICOMO HEREDEROS POTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO DESCONOCIDOS Y/O POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIPARTES CON INTERES DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PREEN LA SUCESION SIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU.,

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV03695.

(604). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO; EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDemandados DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Civil Núm.: AR2022CV00723.

SIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., DE P.R., SS. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO A: FULANO DE TAL EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. DE P.R., SS. Y SUTANO DE TAL EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICA: WILFREDO COMO MIEMBROS TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE SOTOMAYOR MATÍAS. DE NOMBRES AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE Queda emplazado y notificado DESCONOCIDOS DE LA DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO de que en este Tribunal se ha SUCESIÓN ELIZABETH LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., presentado una demanda de CUSTODIO GONZÁLEZ, SS. COBRO DE DINERO; EJEA: JOSÉ JAVIER MOLINA CUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA en T/C/C ELIZABETH MARTÍNEZ COMO su contra. Se le notifica que CUSTODIO. deberá presentar su alegación Queda emplazado y notificado HEREDERO CONOCIDO responsiva a través del Sistema de que en este Tribunal se ha DE LA SUCESIÓN DE Unificado de Manejo y Adminis- presentado una demanda de CARMEN MILAGROS tración de Casos (SUMAC), al COBRO DE DINERO; EJEMARTÍNEZ RODRÍGUEZ; cual puede acceder utilizando CUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA en FULANO DE TAL Y la siguiente dirección electróni- su contra. Se le notifica que ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. deberá presentar su alegación SUTANA DE TAL COMO pr, salvo que se represente por responsiva a través del Sistema HEREDEROS derecho propio, en cuyo caso Unificado de Manejo y AdminisDESCONOCIDOS deberá presentar su alegación tración de Casos (SUMAC), al DE DICHA SUCESIÓN. responsiva en la Secretaría del cual puede acceder utilizando Tribunal Superior de Puerto la siguiente dirección electróni- URB. LOS LLANOS E-30 Rico, Sala de San Juan y en- ca: https://unired.ramajudicial.

CALLE 6, ARECIBO, PR viando copia a la parte deman- pr, salvo que se represente por 00612. dante CARDONA & MALDO- derecho propio, en cuyo caso POR LA PRESENTE se le emNADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. deberá presentar su alegación plaza para que presente al triATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan responsiva en la Secretaría del bunal su alegación responsiva Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box Tribunal Superior de Puerto dentro de los 30 días a partir de 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan y en- la publicación de este edicto.

Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) viando copia a la parte deman- Usted deberá presentar su ale622-7000, Fax (787) 625-7001, dante GLS LEGAL SERVICES, gación responsiva a través del Abogado de la Parte Deman- LLC, Atención: Lcda. Adriana Sistema Unificado de Manejo y dante. Se le apercibe y notifica M. Vega Hernández Dirección: Administración de Casos (SUque si no contesta la demanda P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, MAC), al cual puede acceder radicada en su contra dentro P.R. 00936-7308, Teléfono: utilizando la siguiente direcdel término de treinta (30) días 787-758-6550. Se le apercibe ción electrónica: https://unired. de la publicación de este edic- y notifica que si no contesta la ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se to, se le anotará la rebeldía y se demanda radicada en su contra represente por derecho propio, dictará sentencia concediendo dentro del término de treinta en cuyo caso deberá presentar el remedio solicitado en la de- (30) días de la publicación de su alegación responsiva en la manda, sin más citárseles, ni este edicto, se le anotará la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted oírseles. Expedido bajo mi fir- rebeldía y se dictará sentencia deja de presentar su alegación ma y sello del Tribunal, a 21 de concediendo el remedio solici- responsiva dentro del referido junio de 2022. GRISELDA RO- tado en la demanda, sin más término, el tribunal podrá dicDRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRE- citárseles, ni oírseles. Expedido tar sentencia en rebeldía en su TARIA REGIONAL. MARILY bajo mi firma y sello del Tribu- contra y conceder el remedio LÓPEZ MARTÍNEZ, SECRE- nal, a 21 de junio de 2022. GRI- solicitado en la demanda, o TARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA. SELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLA- cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en DO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARILY LÓPEZ MARTÍNEZ, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- A SALA. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA LEGAL NOTICE SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO JUAN FINANCE OF AMERICA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

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Se le apercibe que conforme al artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §11021, usted tiene 30 días para aceptar o repudiar la herencia desde la publicación de este edicto. A esos efectos, de no rechazarla, se tendrá la

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de junio de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 22 de junio de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARTHA ALMODÓVAR CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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JUAN CARLOS MELO Demandante Vs

ANGEL VEGA ROSA

Demandado Civil Núm.: TB2022CV00206.

Sala: 101. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LO$ ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: SR. ANGEL VEGA ROSA. URB. ROSALEDA, Demandante CALLE ROSA DE YORK PABLO ENRIQUE ZAYAS EC-55 LEVITTOWN, TOA PEREZ, SU ESPOSA BAJA. PR 00949.

ZULMA LIZETTE Por la presente se le notifica ROSADO SIERRA, Y LA que la parte demandante ha SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE presentado ante este Tribunal BIENES GANANCIALES demanda de cobro de dinero.

Representa a la parte demanCOMPUESTA POR dante el abogado cuyo nombre, AMBOS dirección y teléfono se consig-

Demandado (a) na: Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02022.

LCDO. MARCELINO RUIZ CORUJO Sala: 508. Sobre: COBRO DE RUA 6121 DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HI101 Esteban Padilla Ofic. 7 POTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE Bayamón Puerto Rico 00959 SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. Tels (787) 740-4560 - (787) 787-8678 A: PABLO ENRIQUE lic.corujo@hotmail.com Se le apercibe que si no compaZAYAS PEREZ, SU ESPOSA ZULMA LIZETTE reciere usted a contestar dicha dentro del término de ROSADO SIERRA, Y LA demanda treinta (30) días a partir de la SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE publicación de este edicto, se le BIENES GANANCIALES anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el reCOMPUESTA POR medio solicitado, sin más citarle AMBOS. EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo firma cribe le notifica a usted que y sello de este Tribunal. En Toa el 22 de junio de 2022, este Baja, Puerto Rico a 21 de junio Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANSentencia Parcial o Resolución TA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA en este caso, que ha sido debi- REGIONAL. GLENDALIZ AVIdamente registrada y archivada LÉS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR en autos donde podrá usted DEL TRIBUNAL. 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 22

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(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 15 de JUNIO de 2022, 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 17 de JUNIO de 2022. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 17 de JUNIO de 2022.

MARILYN APONTE RODRIGUEZ, Secretario(a). KEILA GARCIA SOLIS, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

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MARIANNE VAZQUEZ COLON Y OTROS Demandante V.

JOSE RAFAEL VAZQUEZ OLIVERAS MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE JOSE RAUL VAZQUEZ VERDEJO

Demandado(a) Civil: CA2021CV02249. Sala: 409. Sobre: LIQUIDACIÓN DE LEGAL NOTICE COMUNIDAD DE BIENES. Estado Libre Asociado de Puer- NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL CIA POR EDICTO. A: JOSÉ RAFAEL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior VÁZQUEZ OLIVERAS, de CAROLINA. DE QUIEN DESCONOCE

EVA NYDIA DEL HOYO ZAVALA Demandante v.

POPULAR MORTGAGE, INC, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL

Demandado(a) Civil Núm. CN2022CV00141 (401). Sobre: CANCELACION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL EN SU CONDICION DE

SU DIRECCIÓN ACTUAL EN ATLANTA, GEORGIA Y CON ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES CONOCIDAS EN VILLA DEL CARMEN, E13 CALLE 5, BO. RINCÓN, GURABO, PR 00778 Y 2508 WOOD GATE BOULEVARD APT 104, ORLANDO, FL 32822.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus-

The San Juan Daily Star cribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de junio de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de junio de 2022. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 16 de junio de 2022.

LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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CARMEN M. RAMOS RODRÍGUEZ, T/C/C CARMEN MILAGROS RAMOS RODRÍGUEZ, T/C/C CARMEN RAMOS, T/C/C CARMEN M. RAMOS, T/C/C CARMEN RAMOS RODRÍGUEZ, T/C/C CARMEN MILAGROS RAMOS; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2020CV01897.

Sala: 505. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: CARMEN M. RAMOS RODRÍGUEZ, T/C/C CARMEN MILAGROS RAMOS RODRÍGUEZ, T/C/C CARMEN RAMOS, T/C/C CARMEN M. RAMOS, T/C/C CARMEN RAMOS RODRÍGUEZ, T/C/C CARMEN MILAGROS RAMOS; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, JOSÉ F. MARRERO ROBLES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #131, Alguacil del Tri-

bunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 11 DE JULIO DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 22 de julio de 2019. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 18 DE JULIO DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 1 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 12 de enero de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar treinta y siete manzana cuatro N Lomas Verdes, barrio Minillas de Bayamón, compuesta de trescientos veinte metros sesenta y ocho centímetros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con solar treinta y ocho, en veintitrés metros cincuenta y cuatro centímetros; por el SUR, con solar treinta y seis en veinticuatro metros; por el ESTE con los solares diez y once, en trece metros sesenta y cinco centímetros; y por el OESTE, con la calle cuarenta y cinco, en trece metros cuarenta centímetros. Finca número 14,675, inscrita al folio 156 del tomo 332 de Bayamón Sur. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón. Dirección de la Propiedad: 4N-37 Pacua St. Lomas Verdes Dev., Bayamón PR 00956. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su fa-

Friday, June 24, 2022 vor, a saber: $73,945.97 con interés al 3.523% anual, por concepto de balance principal del préstamo el cual incluye intereses y otros gastos acumulados al 31 de octubre de 2020, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 189 otorgada el día 24 de agosto de 2009, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Ileana Corral Lizardi y consta inscrita al folio 1335 del tomo 1965 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 14675, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón Sur, Sección de I de Bayamón. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $174,900.00, con intereses al 3.523% anual, vencedero el día 19 de abril de 2093, constituida mediante la escritura número 190, (sin expresar lugar de otorgamiento), el día 24 de agosto de 2009, ante el notario Ileana Corral Lizardi, e inscrita al folio 1336 del tomo 1965 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 14,675, inscripción 5ta., como Asiento Abreviado extendidas las líneas el día 31 de septiembre de 2017, según la ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. (Fue presentado el día 12 de octubre de 2009 al Asiento 838 del Diario 1284). Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $116,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hi-

poteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $77,733.33; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $58,300.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá dili-

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genciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerradura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este desalojo. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 22 de junio de 2022. JOSÉ F. MARRERO ROBLES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #131, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN.

to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de junio de 2022. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, 16 de junio de 2022. LISILDA MARTINEZ AGOSTO, Secretario Regional. FDO/ JESSENIA PEDRAZA, Secretario (a) Auxiliar,

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUETO RICO Demandante V.

RAVILLE ORTIZ GARCIA

Demandado(a) Civil: CO2022CV00040. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFILEGAL NOTICE CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR Estado Libre Asociado de PuerEDICTO. to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL A: RAVILLE ORTIZ DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de PriGARCIA - LOS LLANOS mera Instancia Sala Superior de Caguas.

WD, 126 CALLE 3 DEMANDANTE VS

GREGORIO ROSADO TORRES, EMMA RUTH SEDA FIGUEROA y la SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS CASO NUM. CG2022CV0100.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: GREGORIO ROSADO TORRES, EMMA RUTH SEDA FIGUEROA y la SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

(Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de junio de 2022 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 Puer-

(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 2 de junio de 2022, 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 17 de junio de 2022.

En Coamo, Puerto Rico, el 17 de junio de 2022. ELIZABETH

GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. SONIA I. ORTIZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

JOSÉ GERARDO MALDONADO BUITRAGO

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: GB2019CV01575.

SALA: 201. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA) EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE GUAYNABO, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LAS 10:40 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE GUAYNABO, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: APARTAMENTO 1802, CONDOMINIO ASISI, GUAYNABO, PUERTO RICO 00966 y que se describe a continuación: URBAN: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: Assisi Condominium, apartment eighteen hundred two (1802). Rectangular shaped three bedroom unit with a total construction area of nine hundred fourteen point nine three (914.93) square feet, equivalent to eighty five point zero (85.50) square meters, distributed in seven hundred ninety eight point zero six (798.06) square feet, equivalent to seventy four point one four (74.14) square meters of enclosed area and one hundred sixteen point eight seven (116.87) square feet, equivalent to ten point eight six (10.86) square meters, of porch. The main entrance is located on the south west side. This apartment occupies part of the eighteenth floor of the building. The maximum length of this unit is twenty five feet five inches (25’5”) and the maximum width is forty four feet four inches (44’4”). Its boundaries are: by the NORTH EAST, in a distance of forty four feet four inches (44’4”) equiva-

lent to thirteen point five two (13.52) meters, with the common wall, separates it from apartment number eighteen hundred one (1801) and the common interior areas; by the SOUTH WEST, in a distance of forty four feet four inches (44’4”), equivalent to thirteen point five two (13.52) meters, with exterior common areas; by the SOUTH EAST, is a distance of twenty five feet three inches (25’3”) equivalent to seven point seven zero (7.70) meters, with the exterior common areas; and by the NORTH WEST, in a distance of twenty four feet one inch (24’1”), equivalent to seven point three four (7.34) meters, with the common wall that separates it from apartment number eighteen hundred three (1803) and interior and exterior common areas.

This unit contains a kitchen, a living room, a dining room, three bedrooms with closet two bathrooms and a covered porch. Se le asigna a este apartamento el estacionamiento número 23 como elemento común limitado el cual formará parte del apartamento. Este apartamento tiene una participación de uno punto treinta mil seiscientos cincuenta y uno por ciento (1.30651%) en los elementos comunes del Condominio. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 140 del Tomo 1,058 de Guaynabo, finca número 36,956, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $57,400.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LAS 10:40 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $38,266.66. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 23 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LAS 10:40 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $28,700.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 210 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 2 de junio de 2000, ante el Notario Miguel A. García Rivera, e inscrita al folio 140 del tomo 1,058 de Guaynabo, finca número 36,956, inscripción Segunda. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total

30 o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $31,883.01 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de octubre de 2019, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.60% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $5,740.00. Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $5,740.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $5,740.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE GUAYNABO, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesa el gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacionan a continuación: a) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $28,000.00, sin intereses, vencedero en 20 años, constituida mediante la escritura número 211, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 2 de junio de 2000, ante el notario Miguel A. García Rivera, e inscrita al folio 141 vuelto del tomo 1058 de Guaynabo, finca número 36,956, inscripción 2da. b) Embargo en aseguramiento de Sentencia en caso de Cobro de Dinero, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, mediante Orden y Mandamiento de fecha 12 de febrero de 2001, en el Caso Civil número CD962011, seguido por Gloria Irizarry González contra José G. Maldonado y Ruth Montes, por sí y como miembros de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Ganan-

ciales, compuesta por ambos, por la suma de $3,003.73, anotado al folio 133 del tomo 1533 de Guaynabo, finca número 36,956, inscripción 3ra, como Asiento Abreviado extendidas las líneas el día 17 de septiembre de 2015, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. (Fue presentado el día 12 de febrero de 2001 al Asiento 84 del Diario 411). Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de junio de 2022. Yamixa Ramos Ceballos, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE GUAYNABO SALA SUPERIOR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

HECTOR YADIEL LAI VELAZQUEZ, NESHSAIDA DIAZ NAVARRO T/C/C NESHAIDA DIAZ NAVARRO Y LA

The San Juan Daily Star

Friday, June 24, 2022 SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: MZ2019CV01796.

Sala: 207. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA).

EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 2 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: C-111, URBANIZACION PUERTA DEL COMBATE, CABO ROJO, PUERTO RICO 00623 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Puerta del Combate, localizada en el barrio Llanos Costa del término municipal de Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Número del solar: C-111; Área del Solar: 304.750 METROS CUADRADOS; En linderos; NORTE, en una distancia de 13.250 metros lineales, con la calle #2 de la urbanización; SUR, en una distancia de 13.250 metros lineales, con el solar #113 del mismo bloque C; ESTE, en una distancia de 23.000 metros lineales, con el solar #112 del mismo bloque C; OESTE, en una distancia de 23.000 metros lineales, con el solar #110 del mismo bloque C. Sobre dicho solar enclava una casa en concreto para fines residenciales. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 166 del Tomo 968 de Cabo Rojo, Finca número 32,994, del Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $112,098.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta

que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $74,732.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $56,049.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 223, otorgada el día 22 de febrero de 2008, ante el Notario Lesbia Hernández Miranda, y consta inscrita al folio 166 del tomo 968 de Cabo Rojo, finca número 32,994, inscripción segunda.

Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $89,688.50 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de mayo de 2019, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligaci6n.

Además, la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $11,209.80.

Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $11,209.80 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $11,209.80 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate.

La propiedad está sujeta a los siguientes gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad; Esta compraventa aplica en el Programa de Crédito Contributivo Para Vivienda

Nueva (Ley 197 del 14 de diciembre de 2007), obteniendo un crédito de $25,000.00. Que el notario autorizante explicó al comprador que al acogerse al crédito contributivo mencionado, deberá retener la posesión y uso de la propiedad por un término de 3 años y que de incumplir con ésta condición, el comprador será responsable con el Secretario de Hacienda de una contribución adicional especial, equivalente al crédito originalmente otorgado a su favor. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de junio de 2022. JOSÉ M. CRESPO NAZARIO, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR.

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COOPERATIVA DE SEGUROS MULTIPLES DE PUERTO RICO (en adelante “LA COOPERATIVA”)

DEMANDANTE VS

RAMON ANTONIO MESTRE RIVERA Y SU ESPOSA FULANA DE TAL (por no conocer el nombre) Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM. SS2020CV00522.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (SUBROGACION). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: RAMON ANTONIO MESTRE RIVERA; FULANA DE TAL LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

(Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 de mayo de 2022 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 10 de mayo de 2022. En San Sebastian, Puerto Rico, 10 de mayo de 2022.

SARAHI REYES PEREZ, Secretario Regional. FDO/ JESSENIA PEDRAZA, Secretario (a) Auxiliar,

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

ISLAND FINANCE PUERTO RICO, INC. H/N/C ISLAND MORTGAGE T/C/C ISLAND FINANCE POR CONDUCTO DE SU SUCESOR EN DERECHO SANTANDER FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.; THE

MORTGAGE HOUSE, INC.; JUAN FRANCISCO MALDONADO CÓRDOVA T/C/C JUAN F. MALDONADO CÓRDOVA, EVELYN ALVARADO NIEVES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ

Demandado(a) Civil: VB2022CV00028. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ISLAND FINANCE PUERTO RICO, INC. H/N/C ISLAND MORTGAGE T/C/C ISLAND FINANCE POR CONDUCTO DE SU SUCESOR EN DERECHO SANTANDER FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. A SUS ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES CONOCIDAS: 207 AVE. PONCE DE LEON, EDIFICIO SANTANDER, ANEXO PISO 2, SAN JUAN, PR 00917-1818, 221 AVE PONCE DE LEON STE 1003, SAN JUAN, PR 00917-1823 Y PO BOX 362589, SAN JUAN, PR 009362589; THE MORTGAGE HOUSE, INC.: A SUS ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES CONOCIDAS: COUNTRY CLUB, 915 ROBERTO SANCHEZ VILELLA, SAN JUAN, PR, 00924, AVE. MONSERRATE AB-20, VALLE ARRIBA HEIGHTS, CAROLINA, PR 00983, 915 AVE. CAMPO RICO, SAN JUAN, PR, 00924, 954 PONCE DE LEON AVE., SUITE 400, SAN JUAN, PR 00917, PO BOX 363823, SAN JUAN, PR 009363823; JUAN FRANCISCO MALDONADO CÓRDOVA T/C/C JUAN F. MALDONADO CÓRDOVA, EVELYN ALVARADO NIEVES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS A SU ÚLTIMA DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA: URB. QUINTAS DE TORTUGUERO, E-5 CALLE RUBI, VEGA BAJA, PR 00693. FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES

DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ.

(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 14 de junio de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 15 de JUNIO de 2022. En VEGA BAJA, Puerto Rico, el 15 de junio de 2022. Lcda. Laura I Santa Sanchez, SECRETARIA. Maritza Rosario Rosario, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs

YANINA ROSELI MORILLO VARGAS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2022CV02608.

(Salón 201 CD, CM TR Y CR).

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

A: YANINA ROSELI MORILLO VARGAS.

POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifi-

The San Juan Daily Star que con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda.

Marie L. Quiñones Tañón, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de abril 2020, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes.

Además adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de la suma principal de $138,087.39, la cual se desglosa en una suma principal de $96,127.66, más intereses a razón del 4% anual y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más una suma diferida de $41,959.73 la cual no genera intereses (Piggy Back), más los cargos por demora que corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 4% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más adelantos para el pago de seguros y contribuciones, entre otros; más una suma equivalente a $14,237.30, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentará para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: RÚSTICA: Situada en el Barrio Quebrada Arenas del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, marcado en el plano de parcelación como REMANENTE, con una cabida superficial seis mil doscientos dieciocho metros cuadrados con nueve mil novecientos veintiséis diezmilésimas de otro (6218.9926 m2) y en lindes; por el NORTE, con el lote número ocho (8) y parcela dedicada a uso público, por el SUR, con Anastasia Dávila; por el ESTE, con el PREDIO A SEGREGAR y por el OESTE con Juan Narváez. Finca número 16,036, inscrita al folio 150 del tomo 240 de Vega Baja. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de Bayamón. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se

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les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Bayamón Sala Superior de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. A 16 de junio de 2022. LCDA LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

CARMEN LUZ PAGÁN CARTAGENA; y LA SUCESIÓN DE HIPÓLITO ANDRADES NIEVES COMPUESTA POR CARMEN LUZ PAGÁN CARTAGENA, FULANO DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL; A, B Y C, COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2019CV05751.

(505). 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, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en la oficina del alguacil, cuarto piso del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número mil cuatrocientos cincuenta y ocho del bloque Q de la Urbanización Levittown, en el barrio Sabana Seca de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, compuesto de TRESCIENTOS CINCUENTA Y DOS PUNTO OCHENTA Y UN METROS CUADRADOS (352.81m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, veintitrés punto cero

cero metros con el solar Número mil cuatrocientos cincuenta y nueve; por el SUR, en dieciséis punto setenta y ocho metros con el solar número mil cuatrocientos cincuenta y siete; por el ESTE, en dos arcos, un de dos punto ochenta y ocho metros y otro de once punto ochenta y dos metros y en tres punto sesenta y dos metros con el Paseo Damisela; por el OESTE, en dieciséis punto cincuenta metros con paseo público. Dirección Física: Urb. Levittown, 1458 Paseo Damisela 1era.

Sección, Toa Baja, PR 00949.

Finca 4705, inscrita al folio 119 vuelto del tomo 60 de Toa Baja, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Segunda.

B. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. 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 ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente 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. D. Que la Propiedad se encuentra afecta los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta en la presente causa de acción. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $16,000.00, con intereses al 8.95% anual, vencedero el día 1 de septiembre de 2018, constituida mediante escritura 94, otorgada en San Juan, puerto Rico, el día 30 de agosto de 2003, ante el notario Joaquín Del Río Rodríguez, e inscrita al folio 35 del tomo 546 de Toa Baja, finca número 4,705, inscripción 8va. E. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $123,254.68; la cantidad de $22,049.89 en intereses a razón de $30.22 diarios, los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; la suma de $3,925.22, por concepto de sobregiro en la cuenta plica; $2,000.00, por concepto de tasación; $88.00 en cargos adicionales; y una suma igual al diez por ciento (10%) del importe original del principal, equivalente a $15,730.00, por concepto de cotas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 2 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tri-

bunal de Primera Instancia de Bayamón, por el tipo mínimo de $157,300.00. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $104,866.67.

De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $78,650.00. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 13 de junio de 2022 en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. JOSÉ F. MARRERO ROBLES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #131.

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FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

JAVIER RODRIGUEZ FIGUEROA, SU ESPOSA; CARMEN IVETTE NIEVES PÉREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TA2022CV00292.

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

A: JAVIER RODRIGUEZ FIGUEROA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON CARMEN IVETTE NIEVES PEREZ.

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

Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio,

en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Roberto C. Latimer Valentín, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de febrero de 2020, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes.

Además adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de $229,017.70 más intereses a razón del 3 3/4% anual, desde el 1ro de enero de 2020, hasta el presente, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo una suma equivalente al 10% de la suma principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentará para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Las Cascadas (Fase II), la cual forma parte del Complejo Las Cascadas II, localizado en el Barrio Mucarabones del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Número del solar: 110. Área del solar: 528.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes: por el NORTE, en una distancia de 35.20 metros lineales, con el solar 111 de la urbanización; por el SUR, en una distancia de 35.20 metros lineales, con el solar 109 de la urbanización; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 15.00 metros lineales, con la calle 2 de la urbanización; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 15.00 metros lineales, con terrenos pertenecientes a la Urbanización Jardines de la Fuente. Sobre dicho solar enclava una casa de concreto para fines residenciales. El expresado solar se halla afecto a la siguiente servidumbre: Servidumbre telefónica: Franja de terreno de 5 pies de ancho, que discurre a

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lo largo de su colindancia Este.

Consta inscrita al folio 183 del tomo 535 de Toa Alta, Finca número #27,149. Registro de la Propiedad, Sección III de Bayamón. SE LE APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. A 21 de junio de 2022.

LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ALBA BRITO BORGEN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2019-HB1

la publicación de este edicto.

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

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Demandante Vs.

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

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

Defendants Case No. 19-1697 (PAD). NOTICE OF SALE. TO: DEFENDANTS AND GENERAL PUBLIC On February 1, 2022, the Court entered Judgment in favor of plaintiff, Banesco USA (“Banesco”) and against defendants, Centro Citopatológico del Caribe, Inc.; Oficinas del Centro, Inc.; Puerto Rico Institute of Pathology, Inc.; Eliud López Vélez; and Cristina Gómez D’Angelo; (“Defendants”).

As of February 27, 2020, Defendants owe Banesco the total amount of $1,380,025.92 consisting of $974,721.66 of principal, plus interest at a rate of $216.54 per diem. The interest continues to accrue until the

SUCESION HERMELINDA PABON FERNANDEZ BANESCO USA, T/C/C HERMELINDA Plaintiff, v.

PABON COMPUESTA CENTRO POR CARMEN S. PEREZ CITOPATOLÓGICO PABON, JOSE ANTONIO DEL CARIBE, INC.; PEREZ PABON, MARIA LABORATORIO DE LOS ANGELES CLÍNICO EL CENTRO, PEREZ PABON, LUIS F. INC.; OFICINAS DEL PEREZ PABON; JOHN CENTRO, INC.; PUERTO DOE Y JANE DOE COMO RICO INSTITUTE OF POSIBLES HEREDEROS PATHOLOGY, INC.; ELIUD DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE LÓPEZ VÉLEZ; CRISTINA GÓMEZ D’ANGELO; AMERICA; CENTRO ARMANDO TROCHE DE RECAUDACION DE OLIVIERI; HIS WIFE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES KATHERINE DÁVILA Demandados MORALES; AND THEIR Civil Núm.: CA2022CV01312.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HICONJUGAL LEGAL POTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO PARTNERSHIP,

A: LUIS F. PEREZ PABON; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION HERMELINDA PABON FERNANDEZ T/C/C HERMELINDA PABON.

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

debt is paid in full. Defendants also owe Banesco accrued late charges and any other advance, charge, fee or disbursements made by Banesco on behalf of Defendants, in accordance with the mortgage deeds, plus costs, charges and disbursements, expenses, plus the amount of $220,550.00 in attorneys’ fees. The amounts owed by codefendant Centro Citopatológico del Caribe, Inc. will be satisfied only with the proceedings obtained from the judicial sale of the properties.

Pursuant to the Judgment, the Order of Execution of Judgment, and the Writ of Execution of Judgment, the undersigned appointed Special Master was ordered to sell, at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check, without appraisement or right to redemption, to the highest bidder, at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or at any other place designated by said Clerk, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the Plaintiff, the following properties: Property A: URBAN: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: Commercial space No. 22.

Commercial area on the ground floor of Centro II Building, Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a total floor area of 928.00 square feet equivalent to 98.70 square meters. Bounded on the North, by the interior wall that separates it from commercial unit 27 and with a distance of 21’6”; on the South, by the exterior wall that separates it from the exterior yard facing Loaiza Cordero Street on a distance of 21’6”; on the East, by the interior wall that separates it from commercial unit No. 21 on a distance of 39’ from commercial unit 28 on a distance of 21’8”; on the West, by the interior wall that separates it from commercial unit 23 and on a distance of 51’8”. This unit has its main access door on its southern boundary. Percentage: 1.197% in the general common elements.

The property described above is recorded at page 10 of volume 1523 of Río Piedras North, property number 36,709, Registry of Property, Second Section of San Juan. Property A is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Easement in favor of Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales; Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico; estate of Alfonso Luis Duval. By itself: MORTGAGE in the principal amount of $635,000.00, in guarantee of a mortgage note payable to R&G Premiere Bank of Puerto Rico, or to its order, subsequently endorsed to Banesco USA over this lot and three more lots, responding this lot for the amount of $158,750.00 with an annual interest of 12% and due on pre-

32 sentation, as per Deed #35, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 3, 2005, before Notary Public Mariela García Colberg, recorded at page 10 of volume 1523 of Rio Piedras Norte, 6th inscription. MORTGAGE in the principal amount of $1,093,000.00, in guarantee of a mortgage note payable to R&G Premiere Bank of Puerto Rico, or to its order, subsequently endorsed to Banesco USA over this lot and three more lots, responding this lot for the amount of $218,600.00 with an annual interest of 12% and due on presentation, as per Deed #64, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on August 26, 2005, before Notary Public Mariela García Colberg, recorded at page 10 of volume 1523 of Rio Piedras Norte, 7th inscription. In the same document is registered equal rank of mortgages for $635,000.00 and $1,093.000.00. Property B: URBAN: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: Commercial space No. 21.

Commercial area located on the ground area of Centro II Building Muñoz Rivera Avenue, Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a total floor area of 1072.00 square feet, equivalent to 99.63 square meters, bounded on the NORTH, by the interior wall that separates it from commercial unit #28 on a distance of 28’11”, on the SOUTH, by the exterior wall that separates it from the exterior facing Roiza Cordew street on a distance of 28’11”, on the EAST, by the interior wall that separates it from the entrance lobby No. 2 on a distance of 33’6” and from the exterior yard a distance of 5’6”, on the WEST, by the interior wall that separates it from commercial unit number 22 on a distance of 39’0”. This unit has its access on its Southern boundary. Percentage: 1.99% in the general common elements. The property described above is recorded at page 7 of volume 1523 of Río Piedras North, property number 25,287, Registry of Property, Second Section of San Juan. Property B is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Easement in favor of Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales; Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico; estate of Alfonso Luis Duval. Free of liens due to its origin. By itself: MORTGAGE in the principal amount of $635,000.00, in guarantee of a mortgage note payable to R&G Premiere Bank of Puerto Rico, or to its order, subsequently endorsed to Banesco USA over this lot and three more lots, responding this lot for the amount of $158,750.00 with an annual interest of 12% and due on presentation, as per Deed #35, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 3, 2005, before Notary Public Mariela García Colberg, recorded at page 7 of volume 1523 of Rio Piedras

Norte, 10th inscription. MORTGAGE in the principal amount of $1,093,000.00, in guarantee of a mortgage note payable to R&G Premiere Bank of Puerto Rico, or to its order, subsequently endorsed to Banesco USA over this lot and three other lots, responding this lot for the amount of $262,320.00 with an annual interest of 12% and due on presentation, as per Deed #64, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on August 26, 2005, before Notary Public Mariela García Colberg, recorded at page 7 of volume 1523 of Rio Piedras Norte, 11th inscription. In the same document is registered equal rank of mortgages for $635,000.00 and $1,093.000.00.

Property C: URBAN: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: Commercial space No. 27. Commercial area on the ground floor of El Centro II Building, Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a total floor area of 924.00 square feet equivalent to 85.88 square meters. Bounded on the North, by the exterior wall that separates it from the interior patio on a distance of 21’6”; on the South, by the interior wall that separates it from commercial unit 22 on a distance of 21’6”; on the East, by the interior wall that separates it from commercial unit No. 28 on a distance of 43’0”; on the West, by the interior wall that separates it from commercial unit No. 23 on a distance of 18’6” from commercial unit 26 on a distance of 24’6”. This unit has its main access door on its northern boundary. Percentage: 1.033% in the general common elements. The property described above is recorded at page 4 of volume 1523 of Río Piedras North, property number 25,283, Registry of Property, Second Section of San Juan. Property C is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Easement in favor of Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales; Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico; estate of Alfonso Luis Duval. By itself: MORTGAGE in the principal amount of $635,000.00, in guarantee of a mortgage note payable to R&G Premiere Bank of Puerto Rico, or to its order, subsequently endorsed to Banesco USA over this lot and three more lots, responding this lot for the amount of $158,750.00 with an annual interest of 12% and due on presentation, as per Deed #35, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 3, 2005, before Notary Public Mariela García Colberg, recorded at page 4 of volume 1523 of Rio Piedras Norte, 8th inscription.

MORTGAGE in the principal amount of $1,093,000.00, in guarantee of a mortgage note payable to R&G Premiere Bank of Puerto Rico, or to its order, subsequently endorsed to Banesco USA over this lot and three more lots, responding this

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lot for the amount of $218,600.00 with an annual interest of 12% and due on presentation, as per Deed #64, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on August 26, 2005, before Notary Public Mariela García Colberg, recorded at page 4 of volume 1523 of Rio Piedras Norte, 9th inscription. In the same document is registered equal rank of mortgages for $635,000.00 and $1,093.000.00. Property D: URBAN: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Commercial space No. 28.

Commercial area on the ground floor of El Centro II Building, Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a total floor area of 1609.00 square feet equivalent to 149.54 square meters. Bounded on the North, by the exterior wall that separates it from interior yard on a distance of 28’11”; on the South, by the interior wall that separates it from commercial unit 21 on a distance of 28’11”; on the East, by the interior wall that separates it from the entrance lobby No. 2 on a distance of 55’8”; on the West, by the interior wall that separates it from commercial unit No. 22 on a distance of 12’8”. This unit has its main access door on its northern boundary. Percentage: 1.699% in the general common elements.

The property described above is recorded at page 1 of volume 1523 of Río Piedras North, property number 25,251, Registry of Property, Second Section of San Juan. Property D is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Easement in favor of Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales; Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico; estate of Alfonso Luis Duval. By itself: MORTGAGE in the principal amount of $635,000.00, in guarantee of a mortgage note payable to R&G Premiere Bank of Puerto Rico, or to its order, subsequently endorsed to Banesco USA over this lot and three more lots, responding this lot for the amount of $158,750.00 with an annual interest of 12% and due on presentation, as per Deed #35, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 3, 2005, before Notary Public Mariela García Colberg, recorded at page 1 of volume 1523 of Rio Piedras Norte, 7th inscription. MORTGAGE in the principal amount of $1,093,000.00, in guarantee of a mortgage note payable to R&G Premiere Bank of Puerto Rico, or to its order, subsequently endorsed to Banesco USA over this lot and three other lots, responding this lot for the amount of $393,480.00 with an annual interest of 12% and due on presentation, as per Deed #64, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on August 26, 2005, before Notary Public Mariela García Colberg, recorded at page 1 of volume 1523 of Rio Piedras Norte, 8th ins-

cription. In the same document is registered equal rank of mortgages for $635,000.00 and $1,093.000.00.

Property E: URBAN: Horizontal Property: Parking space number twenty eight (28) Parking space located in the basement of EL CENTRO II building Muñoz Rivera Avenue, Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico, with an areas of one hundred fifty seven square feet, equivalent to fourteen point fifty one square meters, bounded: on the NORTH, by the imaginary line that separated it from parking space twenty seven (27), on a distance of nineteen feet, on the SOUTH, by the imaginary line that separates it from parking space twenty nine (29), on a distance of nineteen feet, on the EAST, by the imaginary line that separates it from the circulation area, on a distance of nineteen feet, on the WEST, by the west retaining wall on a distance of eight feet three inches. This unit has access on its Eastern boundary.

Percentage: 0.031% in the general common elements. The property described above is recorded at page 239 overleaf of volume 1014 of Río Piedras North, property number 29,456, Registry of Property, Second Section of San Juan. Property E is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Easement in favor of Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales; Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico; estate of Alfonso Luis Duval. By itself: MORTGAGE in the principal amount of $30,000.00, in guarantee of a mortgage note payable to Banesco USA, or to its order, over this lot and two other lots, responding this lot for the amount of $10,000.00 with an annual interest of 12% and due on presentation, as per Deed #19, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 31, 2014, before Notary Public Rafael L. Rovira Arbona, recorded at page 62 of volume 1623 of Rio Piedras Norte, 9th inscription. FEDERAL LIEN against Centro Citopatologico del Caribe, Inc. for the amount of $38,475.60, case #391833219, of November 8, 2019, presented at entry 2019-011592-FED on December 12, 2019 at Federal Liens System of Karibe System. Property F: URBAN: Horizontal Property: Parking space number one hundred ninety six, Parking space located in the basement of El Centro Building Muñoz Rivera Avenue, Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico, with an area of one hundred seventy one square feet, equivalent to fifteen point eighty nine square meters, bounded on the NORTH, by the imaginary line that separates it from parking space one hundred ninety five on a distance of nineteen feet, on the SOUTH, by the imaginary line that separates it from parking space eighty, on a dis-

tance of nineteen feet, on the EAST, by imaginary line that separates it from the common area on a distance of nine feet, on the WEST, by the imaginary line that separates it from the circulation area, on a distance of nine feet. This unit has access on its Western boundary.

Percentage: 0.031% in the general common elements. The property described above is recorded at page 27 of volume 890 of Río Piedras North, property number 25,713-B, Registry of Property, Second Section of San Juan. Property F is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Easement in favor of Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales; Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico; estate of Alfonso Luis Duval. By itself: MORTGAGE in the principal amount of $30,000.00, in guarantee of a mortgage note payable to Banesco USA, or to its order, over this lot and two other lots, responding this lot for the amount of $10,000.00 with an annual interest of 12% and due on presentation, as per Deed #19, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 31, 2014, before Notary Public Rafael L. Rovira Arbona, recorded at page 149 of volume 1623 of Rio Piedras Norte, 3rd inscription. FEDERAL LIEN against Centro Citopatologico del Caribe, Inc. for the amount of $38,475.60, case #391833219, of November 8, 2019, presented at entry 2019011592-FED on December 12, 2019 at Federal Liens System of Karibe System. PROPERTY G: URBAN: Horizontal Property: Parking space number one hundred ninety five, Parking space located in the basement of El Centro II Building Muñoz Rivera Avenue, Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico, with an area of one hundred seventy one square feet, equivalent to fifteen point eight nine square meters, bounded on the NORTH, by the imaginary line that separates it from parking space one hundred ninety six on a distance of nineteen fee, on the SOUTH, by the imaginary line that separates it from parking space seventy seven and seventy eight, on a distance of nineteen feet, on the EAST, by imaginary line that separates it from the common area on a distance of nine feet, on the WEST, by the imaginary line that separates it from the circulation area, on a distance of nine feet. This unit has its access on its Western boundary.

Percentage: 0.031% in the general common elements. The property described above is recorded at page 24 of volume 890 of Río Piedras North, property number 25,713, Registry of Property, Second Section of San Juan. Property G is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Easement in favor of Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales;

Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico; estate of Alfonso Luis Duval.

By itself: MORTGAGE in the principal amount of $30,000.00, in guarantee of a mortgage note payable to Banesco USA, or to its order, over this lot and two other lots, responding this lot for the amount of $10,000.00 with an annual interest of 12% and due on presentation, as per Deed #19, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 31, 2014, before Notary Public Rafael L. Rovira Arbona, recorded at page 149 of volume 1623 of Rio Piedras Norte, 3rd inscription. FEDERAL LIEN against Centro Citopatologico del Caribe, Inc. for the amount of $38,475.60, case #391833219, of November 8, 2019, presented at entry 2019011592-FED on December 12, 2019 at Federal Liens System of Karibe System. PROPERTY I: URBAN: Plot marked with the number forty (40) and the block “A” of the plot plan prepared by the Puerto Rico Home Authority, for a new extension to the Eleanor Roosevelt development, of the Hato Rey ward, of the municipality of Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a surface area of four hundred and twenty-one square meters and eighty-one hundred square meters (421.81 SM). With boundaries by the NORTH, with the street “C” of said extension of the development in eighteen meters (18.00 m); by the SOUTH, with the plots number 45 and 46 and 47 of the block “A” of the development in eighteen meters with nine hundredths of another 18.09 square meters by the EAST with plot number 41 of the block “A” of said development in twenty-four meters with thirty-five hundredths meters (24.35 M). And for the WEST, with plot number thirty-nine (39) of the block “A” in twenty-two meters and fortynine hundredths of a meter (22.49 m) of the same development. On this site was built a house of a reinforced concrete floor, consisting of living room, three (3) bedrooms, two (2) bathrooms, kitchen and garage.

The property described above is recorded at page 162 of volume 756 of Río Piedras North, property number 21,962, Registry of Property, Second Section of San Juan. Property I is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Easement in favor of Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales; Restrictive Conditions.

By itself: MORTGAGE in the principal amount of $275,000.00, in guarantee of a mortgage note payable to Banesco USA, or to its order, with interest of 12% and due on presentation, as per Deed #18, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 31, 2014, before Notary Public Rafael L. Rovira Arbona, recorded at Karibe, 10th inscription.

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. The liens executed are over the properties, and for the purpose of the first judicial sales the minimum bid amount is as follows: a. Property A - Mortgages I and II - The amount of $377,350.00, as set forth in the mortgage deeds, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $251,566.67 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $188,675.00. b. Property B - Mortgages I and II - The amount of $421,070.00, as set forth in the mortgage deeds, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, twothirds of the aforementioned amount or $280,713.33 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $210,535.00. c. Property C - Mortgage I and II - The amount of $377,350.00, as set forth in the mortgage deeds, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, twothirds of the aforementioned amount or $251,566.67 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $188,675.00. d. Property D - Mortgage I and II - The amount of $552,230.00, as set forth in the mortgage deeds, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, twothirds of the aforementioned amount or $368,153.33 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum

bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $276,115.00. e. Property E - Mortgage III The amount of $10,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $6,666.67 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $5,000.00. f. Property F - Mortgage III - The amount of $10,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $6,666.67 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $5,000.00. g.

Property G - Mortgage III - The amount of $10,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $6,666.67 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $5,000.00. h. Property I - Mortgage V - The amount of $275,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $183,333.33 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $137,500.00.

Said sales to be conducted by the appointed Special Master are subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the properties may be executed and delivered after the judicial sales.

Upon confirmation of the sales, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. THEREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appointed Special Master –pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment, the Order of Execution of Judgment, and the Writ of Execution of

The San Juan Daily Star Judgment, on the 9th day of September, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. for Property A; at 9:15 a.m. for Property B; at 9:30 a.m. for Property C; at 9:45 a.m. for Property D; at 10:00 a.m. for Property E; at 10:15 a.m. for Property F; at 10:30 a.m. for Property G; at 10:45 a.m. for Property I, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico will sell at public auction to the highest bidder the properties described herein, the proceeds of said sales to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. Should the first judicial sales seth hereinabove be unsuccessful, the second judicial sales of the properties described in this Notice will be held on the 16th day of September, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. for Property A; at 9:15 a.m. for Property B; at 9:30 a.m. for Property C; at 9:45 a.m. for Property D; at 10:00 a.m. for Property E; at 10:15 a.m. for Property F; at 10:30 a.m. for Property G; at 10:45 a.m. for Property I, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. Should the second judicial sales set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the third judicial sales of the properties described in this Notice will be held on the 23th day of September, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. for Property A; at 9:15 a.m. for Property B; at 9:30 a.m. for Property C; at 9:45 a.m. for Property D; at 10:00 a.m. for Property E; at 10:15 a.m. for Property F; at 10:30 a.m. for Property G; at 10:45 a.m. for Property I, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. The records of the captioned case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the Clerk’s Office of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 Federal Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 3rd day of June, 2022.

Friday, June 24, 2022 OLIVIERI; HIS WIFE KATHERINE DÁVILA MORALES; AND THEIR CONJUGAL LEGAL PARTNERSHIP

Defendants Case No. 19-1697 (PAD). NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: DEFENDANTS AND GENERAL PUBLIC

On February 1, 2022, the Court entered Judgment in favor of plaintiff, Banesco USA (“Banesco”) and against defendants, Centro Citopatológico del Caribe, Inc.; Oficinas del Centro, Inc.; Puerto Rico Institute of Pathology, Inc.; Eliud López Vélez; and Cristina Gómez D’Angelo; (“Defendants”). As of February 27, 2020, Defendants owe Banesco the total amount of $1,380,025.92 consisting of $974,721.66 of principal, plus interest at a rate of $216.54 per diem. The interest continues to accrue until the debt is paid in full. Defendants also owe Banesco accrued late charges and any other advance, charge, fee or disbursements made by Banesco on behalf of Defendants, in accordance with the mortgage deeds, plus costs, charges and disbursements, expenses, plus the amount of $220,550.00 in attorneys’ fees. The amounts owed by codefendant Centro Citopatológico will be satisfied only with the proceedings obtained from the judicial sale of the property. The amounts owed by codefendant Centro Citopatológico del Caribe, Inc. will be satisfied only with the proceedings obtained from the judicial sale of the properties.

Pursuant to said judgment and/or the Order of Execution of Judgment, the undersigned appointed Special Master was ordered to sell, at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check, without appraisement or right to redemption, to the highest bidder, at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or at any other place designated by said Clerk, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to LEGAL NOTICE the plaintiff, the following proIN THE UNITED STATES DISperty: PROPERTY H: URBAN: TRICT COURT FOR THE DISHORIZONTAL PROPERTY: TRICT OF PUERTO RICO. Apartment No.602 of PELIBANESCO USA, CAN REEF CONDOMINIUM, Plaintiff, v.

Apartment Building, located in CENTRO Corsica ward, of the municipality of Rincón, Puerto Rico. This CITOPATOLÓGICO apartment is built in reinforced DEL CARIBE, INC.; concrete. Single level, with its LABORATORIO entrance door from the exterior CLÍNICO EL CENTRO, corridor by the east boundary, INC.; OFICINAS DEL and that goes to the corridor CENTRO, INC.; PUERTO that leads to the lobby of elevators and stairs by which you reRICO INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY, INC.; ELIUD ach the first level of the building and from there to the parking LÓPEZ VÉLEZ; CRISTINA building. This apartment has GÓMEZ D’ANGELO; a total area of approximately ARMANDO TROCHE 715.32 square feet, equivalent

to 66.4554 square meters. In boundaries by the NORTH, in 33’9” equivalent to 10.29 meters, with dividing wall that separates it from apartment 603; by the SOUTH, in 33’9” equivalent to 10.29 meters, with a dividing wall that separates it from apartment 601 and the exterior corridor that is a common area; by the EAST, in 30’0” equivalent to 9.14 meters, with dividing wall that separates it from the exterior corridor that is common area; and by the WEST, in 30’0” equivalent to 9.14 meters, with dividing wall that separates it from apartment 603 and with railing that separates it from the common exterior area. This apartment consists: entrance hall, kitchen with closet for laundry equipment, living room, balcony, linen closet, bathroom and master bedroom with closet. This apartment corresponds to parking No.81 on the first level of the parking lot in front of the apartment building.

Percentage: 1.5440% in the common elements of the Condominium. The property described above is recorded at page 119 of volume 161 of Rincón, property number 8,155, Registry of Property, Section of Aguadilla. The property is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Easement in favor of Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales. By itself: MORTGAGE in guarantee of note in favor of Popular Mortgage, or to its order, in the principal amount of $189,190.00, with a annual interest rate of 5 7/8% and due on July 1, 2035, as per Deed No. 299, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 30, 2005, before Notary Public Namyr I. Hernández Sánchez, recorded at page 119 of volume 161 of Rincón, 2nd inscription. At entry 900 of journal 861, on January 21, 2015, Deed #3 was presented, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on January 28, 2013, before the Notary Public Mayra Rotger Meléndez, through which appeared Alejo Edgar Nery Beyer, t/c/c Edgar Alejo Nery Beyer, Edgar Nery Beyer and Edgar Nery Beijer, single; and María Cristina GÓMEZ D’Angelo, t/c/c Cristina Gómez D’Angelo, Cristina Gómez Nery and Doctor Cristina Nery, single, whose marriage was declared broken and dissolved by Judgment of December 6, 2012, followed in the Court of First Instance, Superior Chamber of San Juan, in Civil Case #KDI2012-1470, which is attached. Alejo Edgar Nery Beyer sells his participation in favor of María Cristina Gómez D’Angelo for the price of $20,000.00. In entry 901 of journal 861, on January 21, 2015, deed #20 was presented, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 31, 2014, before the Notary Rafael L. Rovira Arbona, through the which appears Cristina Gómez

D’Angelo, t/c/c Cristina Gómez Nery, single, to establish a Mortgage as collateral for a promissory note in favor of Banesco USA, or at its order, for the principal sum of $172,500.00, with interest at 12% per year and due on presentation. BANESCO USA Bank is holder by endorsement of the promissory note of $189,190.00 and POSTPONES said debt to the one hereby constituted; attesting the notary to add an “allonge”.

At entry 2022-052206-AG01 on April 22, 2022, Order and Writ Attachment dated April 21, 2022 was filed in civil case #19-1697 (PAD) in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. Plaintiff Banesco USA; Defendant: Caribbean Cytopathological Center Inc. Amount claimed: $1,380,025.92.

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. The lien executed is the Order and Writ of Attachment over the property, and for the purposes of the first judicial sale the minimum bid amount is the amount of $172,500.00. 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 may be executed and delivered after the judicial sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. 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 9th day of September, 2022, at 11:00 a.m., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, 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. 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. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 3rd day of June, 2022.

Aguedo De La Torre, Appointed

Special Master.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

PARTE DEMANDANTE vs.

Sucesión de MARICEl Y PARIS RIVERA compuesta por JOSÉ ISMAEL BATISTA PARIS, FULANO y MENGANO DE TAL; posibles herederos desconocidos

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. KCD2015-1075 [803]. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR lA VÍA ORDINARIA. REQUERIMIENTO DE INTERPELACIOIN POR EDITO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: JOSE ISMAEL BATISTA PARIS, como heredero de MARICELY PARIS RIVERA a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: 1065 11th.

St, .Apt. 2.B, Reading PA 19602-1208; Carr. 853 Sect. Barraza, Carolina, PR 00983; HC 4: Box 14990, Carolina PR 009879731; Ext. El Comandante, Calle Santa María 475, Carolina, PR 00982; Urb. Puerto Nuevo1 1362 Calle 20 NVJ (DM-19 CALLE 23 NO}¡ San Juan, PR 009202241.

A: FULANO y MENGANO DE TAL, posibles herederos desconocidos de MARICELY PARIS RlVERA, con dirección e identidad desconocida.

Queda usted notificado que el 31 de marzo de 2016, este Tribunal dictó Sentencia en el caso de epígrafe concediendo a la demandante el importe de $92,102.11 por concepto de principal, intereses al 5% anual desde el 1 de noviembre de 2014 !os cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el pago total y completo de la deuda; más los cargos por demora equivalentes a! 4% de todos aquellos pagos con atrasos en ‘exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; más los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; más una cantidad equivalente a $9,746.50 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado según pactado, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. La sen-

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tencia recae sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar de forma rectangular que mide 12.00 metros de frente por 21 metros de fondo marcado con el 19-DM de la Urbanización Puerto Nuevo, propiedad de Everlasting Corp., que radica en el Barrio Monacillos del Río Píedras Puerto Rico, con área superficial de 252.00 m.c. En lindes por el NORTE, SUR/ ESTE y OESTE con terrenos propiedad de la Everlastlng y dando frente al NORTE, con la denominada calle # 23 de la urbanización Enclava una casa de bloques de cemento y hormigón reforzado que consta de dos dormitorios, sala-comedor, cocina y cuarto de baño. La propiedad y la hipoteca constan inscritas al Folio 136 del Tomo 1026 de Monacillos; Finca Núm. 4,749 (antes 3,417), del Registro de la Propíedad de San Juan, Seccíón Tercera.

Inscripción 12ma. Se interpela a los herederos de MARICEL Y PARIS RIVERA para que acepten o renuncien a la herencia de la causante dentro de los 30 días subsiguientes a la fecha que fuesen requeridos que contesten, para darle cumplimiento al Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 3:..

L.P.R.A. § 11091, entendiendo que, si no se expresan dentro de dicho término, aceptan el caudal relicto. La renuncia se hará por instrumento público o por escrito judicial. La parte interpelada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría de este Tribunal y enviar copia de su contestación a !la abogada de !a Parte Demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, a: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo, PR 00970-3922; Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de ta publicación de este requerimiento de interpelación por edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 9 de junio de 2022, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Sec Regional.

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

CARLOS GABRIEL MERCADO RODRIGUEZ Demandante Vs.

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO VILLA COOP AGUSTIN BURGOS RIVERA; JONH DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: JD2022CV00328.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE

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

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

POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: htto://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, LCDA. MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEVA, A su dirección: PO. Box 7970 Ponce, PR. 00732.

Tel: 787-843-4168. 1. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cancelación de pagaré extraviado. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que se extravió un pagaré hipotecario a favor la de Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Villa Coop Agustín Burgos Rivera, o a su orden, por la suma de treinta mil dólares ($30,000.00), con intereses al diez punto veinticinco por ciento (10.25%), vencedero el primero (1ro) de enero de dos mil veinte (2020), según escritura número cincuenta y siete (57) otorgada en Villalba, Puerto Rico, el día diecinueve (19) de diciembre de dos mil nueve (2009), ante la notario Janet Villanueva Sánchez, y cuya obligación está ciento cuarenta y siete (147) vuelto del tomo ciento sesenta (160) de Villalba, finca número siete mil ochocientos cincuenta y seis (7,856), inscripción tercera (3ra). 2. Que la propiedad sobre la cual se constituyó dicha hipoteca es la siguiente: RÚSTICA: Solar ochenta y tres (83): Predio de terreno ubicado en el Barrio Hato Puerco Arriba en el Municipio de Villalba, Puerto Rico, en el Proyecto UM- guión seis guión ciento dieciséis (UM-6-116), Alturas de Villalba, con una cabida de quinientos treinta y dos punto ocho mil doscientos cuarenta y cuatro (532.8244) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a cero punto mil trescientos cincuenta y seis (0.1356) cuerdas, en lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número seis guión A (6-A); por el SUR, con el solar número treinta y cuatro (34); par el ESTE, con la Calle B; y por el OESTE, con el solar número ochenta y cuatro (84) y el viraje del camino público asfaltado.

Inscrita al folio ciento cuarenta y siete (147) del tomo ciento sesenta (160) de Villalba, finca número siete mil ochocientos cincuenta y seis (7,856). Registro de la Propiedad Sección Primera (1ra) de Ponce. SE LES APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, a día 13 de junio de 2022.

LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. DORIS A. RODRÍGUEZ COLÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandado(a) Civil: CA2021CV01617. Sala: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

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(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 16 de junio de 2022, 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 17 de junio de 2022. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 17 de junio de 2022.

Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria. Maricruz Aponte Alicea, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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Griner’s supporters call on Biden to strike a deal to free her

By MAGGIE HABERMAN

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ozens of organizations representing people of color, women and LGBTQ voters called on President Joe Biden earlier this week to strike a deal for the release of Brittney Griner, a WNBA star who has been detained in Russia since February.

In a letter sent to Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday, the groups said Griner “continues to endure inhumane treatment, deprived of contact with her family.”

The letter said the United States “has acknowledged that Brittney is essentially a political pawn in classifying her as wrongfully detained.” And while the signatories cited “deep appreciation” for the administration’s efforts to free Griner, “we now urge you to make a deal to get Brittney back home to America immediately and safely.”

The Phoenix Mercury basketball player was detained in Russia on Feb. 17 on accusations that she had hashish oil in her luggage. At first, Griner’s camp was worried that publicity could make the situation worse because of tensions between Russia and the United States, including the war in Ukraine.

But the group’s approach has changed since the State Department said May 3 that it had determined Griner had been “wrongfully detained.” That meant the United States could expend greater efforts toward bringing her home despite the legal action against her in Russia.

In recent weeks, players with the WNBA, working with Griner’s wife, Cherelle, and others, have tried to draw attention to her case.

The latest effort, the letter from groups including the National Organization for Women, the Human Rights Campaign, the National Urban League and the National Action Network, was coordinated by Griner’s agent, Lindsay Kagawa Colas, who worked with Democratic strategist Karen Finney and others.

The groups, which represent a coalition of constituencies that helped to elect Biden, are speaking out amid growing

Brittney Griner was detained in Russia on Feb. 17 on accusations that she had hashish oil in her luggage. frustrations over the pace of the effort to bring Griner home.

“To my understanding, they have not started negotiating her release, and so this letter is very powerful because it’s

much-needed support to highlight the fact that we are at the phase where you guys should be making a deal,” Cherelle Griner said.

“I wish I could say I have a clear un-

Brittney Griner of the Phoenix Mercury warms up before Game 2 of the 2021 WNBA Playoffs semifinals against the Las Vegas Aces at Michelob ULTRA Arena on Sept. 30, 2021, in Las Vegas.

derstanding of it,” she said of the White House strategy. “They do a lot of talking in code with me.”

The administration, she said, is “debating whether they should start negotiating,” when it has already been determined that her wife was wrongfully detained. “Instead, they’re debating and they’re wasting time from my wife’s life.”

White House officials, commenting after this article was published online, said, “President Biden has been clear about the need to see all U.S. nationals who are held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad released, including Brittney Griner. The U.S. government continues to work aggressively — using every available means — to bring her home.”

Administration officials have said Biden’s team is in regular contact with the Griner family and that Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Cherelle Griner in May. The special envoy for hostage affairs is also in touch with Brittney Griner’s team.

Bill Richardson, a former governor of New Mexico and a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, also has been working to try to free Griner and another American in Russia, former Marine Paul Whelan, who has been detained since 2018.

Still, Cherelle Griner said she was uncertain about how much the White House was prioritizing the case. She told The Associated Press that she was supposed to speak to her wife by phone for the first time in roughly four months over the weekend, but a logistical problem at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow upended the plans.

According to the AP, the embassy was supposed to facilitate the call between the women. But when Brittney Griner called the embassy to get patched through to her wife in the United States, there was no answer. Brittney Griner’s lawyers said she tried calling the line 11 times while her wife waited in vain for the call, the AP reported.

“I was distraught. I was hurt. I was done, fed up,” Cherelle Griner told the AP.

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June 24-26, 2022

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The stranded sons of Shakhtar Donetsk

By TARIQ PANJA

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t was in their moment of triumph, when they had beaten their opponents and come together to collect their medals, when some of the boys were overcome with sadness, when the tears welled in their eyes.

The teenagers, a mix of 13- and 14-year-olds representing one of the youth squads of the top Ukrainian soccer team Shakhtar Donetsk, had just won a tournament in Split, the Croatian city that has provided them with a refuge from war. Each boy was presented with a medal, and the team received a trophy to mark the victory.

The lucky ones got to celebrate and pose for pictures with their mothers. For most of the others, though, there was no one — just another vivid reminder of how lonely life has become, of how far away they remain from the people they love and the places they know. It is in these moments, the adults around the players have come to realize, when emotions are at their most raw, when the tears sometimes come.

“As a mother I feel it,” said Natalia Plaminskaya, who was able to accompany her twin boys to Croatia but said she felt for families who could not do the same.

“I want to hug them, play with them, make them feel better.”

It has all happened so fast. In those first frantic days after Russia invaded Ukraine earlier this year, Shakhtar Donetsk, one of Eastern Europe’s powerhouse clubs, moved quickly to evacuate its teams and staff members out of harm’s way. Foreign players gathered their families and found their way home. Parts of the first team wound up in Turkey, and then Slovenia, setting up a base from which they played friendly matches to raise awareness and money and kept alive Ukraine’s hopes for World Cup qualification.

But scores of players and staff members from Shakhtar’s youth academy needed sanctuary, too.

Phone calls were placed. Buses were arranged. But decisions had to be made quickly, and only about a dozen mothers were able to accompany the boys on the journey. (Wartime rules required that their fathers — all men of fighting age, in fact, ages 18 to 60 — had to remain in Ukraine.) Other families made different choices: to stay with husbands and relatives, to send their boys off alone. All of the options were imperfect.

None of the decisions were easy.

Three months later, the weight of separation, of loneliness — of everything — has taken its toll.

“It’s a nightmare, it’s a nightmare,” said Edgar Cardoso, who leads Shakhtar’s youth teams. He repeats his words to underline how fragile the atmosphere has become within the walls of the seaside hotel that has become the Shakhtar group’s temporary home. “You see that emotions are now on the peak.”

No one knows when all this will end: not the war, not the separation, not the uncertainty. No one can say, for example, even if they will remain together. More

Coach Edgar Cardoso with some of the Shakhtar Donetsk academy players still in Croatia. than a dozen top clubs across Europe, teams like Barcelona and Bayern Munich, have already cherry-picked the most talented of Shakhtar’s stranded sons, offering to train the best 14- to 17-year-olds in the comparative safety of Germany and Spain.

Those players’ departures have left Cardoso with mixed feelings. On the one hand, their absence hurts the quality of the training sessions. But there is also pride that others are so interested in the boys Shakhtar has developed.

When, or if, they will return is not clear: The rule change that had allowed Ukrainian players and prospects fleeing the war to join other clubs was supposed to end June 30. But FIFA on Tuesday extended the exemptions until the summer of 2023.

For Cardoso, a well-traveled Portuguese coach who moved to Shakhtar eight years ago after a stint developing youth soccer in Qatar, the implications of the war mean he has now been thrust into a new role: father figure and focal point for dozens of teenage boys dislocated from their families and everything they knew.

Once the club had spirited him, his young charges, a handful of their mothers and a few staff members out of Kyiv, Ukraine, to Croatia, where they had been offered a new base by the Croatian team Hajduk Split, Cardoso, 40, decided to create an approximation of normalcy with whatever, and whoever, was available.

While in Ukraine, each generation of young players had two dedicated coaches, doctors, access to dedicated fitness instructors and analysts. In Split, the setup is considerably more rudimentary.

Now a single female fitness coach looks after all the boys. One of the team’s administrators, a former player now in his 60s, helps run the daily training sessions.

Mothers help set up cones, oversee meal times or ac-

company the children on excursions, which typically means a short walk down a dusty track to the local beach. About halfway down the path, a piece of graffiti written in black letters marks the boys’ presence in Croatia: “Slava Ukraini,” it reads. Glory to Ukraine.

Along with Cardoso, perhaps the figure with the most outsize importance in ensuring things run smoothly is Ekateryna Afanasenko. A Donetsk native in her 30s and now in her 15th year with the club, Afanasenko was working in Shakhtar’s human resources department in 2014 when the team first fled after Russian-backed separatists attacked Donetsk, the club’s home city in eastern Ukraine.

Back then, Afanasenko was a part of the team’s emergency efforts, charged with shepherding 100 members of the club’s youth academy to safety. Once the team eventually settled in Kyiv, Afanasenko’s role evolved to include oversight of education and administration of a new facility where many of the displaced children lived.

Now in Split after another escape from another Russian assault, the responsibilities for both Afanasenko and Cardoso have grown to such an extent that Afanasenko has a simple explanation for what they do: “We are like mother and father.”

For the foreseeable future, all Cardoso, Afanasenko and the others holed up at the Hotel Zagreb can do is provide a safe environment for the players, preserve the connections they share and reunite them with their families as soon as they can. There will be more waiting, more worry, more tears.

“Every day in the morning and in the night, I start my day calling my family and end my day calling my family,” Afanasenko said. “I think every one of these boys is doing the same. But what can we change?”

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June 24-26, 2022

Tony Siragusa, a defensive lineman known as Goose, dies at 55

By EMMANUEL MORGAN

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ony Siragusa, a Super Bowl-winning defensive tackle and football television analyst for Fox Sports, died Wednesday, owners of the Indianapolis Colts and the Baltimore Ravens said. He was 55 years old.

Jim Irsay, the Colts’ owner, confirmed Siragusa’s death on Twitter. The cause of death has not yet been announced.

Siragusa, nicknamed Goose, played in the NFL for 12 seasons, seven of them for the Colts, who acquired him as an undrafted free agent in 1990. He joined the Ravens in 1997 and retired after the 2001 season, one year after playing a key defensive role as the franchise won its first Super Bowl.

“Renee and I are stunned and heartbroken to learn about the sudden passing of Tony Siragusa,” Steve Bisciotti, the Ravens’ owner, said in a statement. “He was a special person and clearly one of the most popular players in Ravens history. Tony’s larger-than-life personality made an enormous impact on our organization and throughout the Baltimore community.”

Irsay said on Twitter that Siragusa was fun-loving and “one of the most physically strongest players I have seen in 50 years.”

Siragusa, known for his imposing heft at

Tony Siragusa celebrating during the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl for the 2000 season, which the Baltimore Ravens won against the Giants.

330 pounds during his playing days, was a key member of the Ravens’ championship team in the 2000 season. While that season was one of his worst statistically — he recorded only 27 tackles without any sacks — he contributed to one of the NFL’s most fearsome defenses, absorbing blockers to allow star linebacker Ray Lewis, defensive back Rod Woodson, lineman Sam Adams and others to succeed in

their roles. That unit set NFL records for the fewest points allowed (165) and rushing yards allowed (970) in a 16-game regular season.

“On the field, he was the ultimate competitor who brought out the best in all of us,” Lewis said in a statement.

Siragusa, who was born in New Jersey, won a wrestling state championship while attending Brearley High School in Kenilworth,

where he also played defensive line for the football team. He was also its punter and kicker.

He played collegiate football at Pittsburgh and then signed with the Colts as a free agent, going on to start 78 games over seven seasons.

During the AFC championship game for the 2000 season, Siragusa evaded several blockers early in the second quarter and narrowly missed sacking Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon, who had just thrown the ball before he arrived. But Siragusa hit Gannon hard and landed with his full body weight on the quarterback, injuring Gannon’s left collarbone. Siragusa was later fined, but Gannon’s injury helped the Ravens win, 16-3, en route to a Super Bowl victory over the Giants.

“There was no one like Goose — a warrior on the field and a team unifier with a giving, generous heart who helped teammates and the community more than most people know,” Brian Billick, who coached the Ravens from 1998-2007, said in a statement. “We would not have won the Super Bowl without him.”

Siragusa worked as a Fox Sports broadcaster from 2003-15. He is survived by his wife, Kathy, and their three children: Samantha, Ava and Anthony Jr.

In a first for bloodhounds, Trumpet wins Westminster

By SARAH LYALL and KRIS RHIM

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rumpet, a magnificently be-wrinkled and be-jowled bloodhound from Illinois, won Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in Tarrytown, N.Y. on Wednesday night, nosing out a tough crowd of competitors that included a fluffy Samoyed, a silky Maltese and an all-business German shepherd. osing before a massive silver cup and a slew of ribbons in the traditional champion’s post-victory glamour shoot, Trumpet had little to say. But he looked every inch the champion, his lugubrious face and quizzical air for some reason adding to, rather than detracting from, his dignity. He is the first bloodhound to win Westminster.

“I was shocked,” Heather Buehner, Trumpet’s handler, said.

“There were seven beautiful dogs in that

ring. You know, I feel like sometimes a bloodhound might be a little bit of an underdog. So I was absolutely thrilled.”

Shockingly, she said, Trumpet competed in his first dog show in January.

Second place, or Best in Show Reserve in the parlance of Westminster, was awarded to a winsome French bulldog named Winston.

The show, traditionally held in the winter at Madison Square Garden, was moved for pandemic-related reasons to Lyndhurst, a country estate here, for a second year in a row. The preliminary rounds were held in outdoor rings and the group and Best in Show rounds were staged in a large tent filled with a small but enthusiastic number of dog fanciers.

It was hardly the same as a typical year, though the familiar sound of Frank Sinatra singing “New York, New York” filled the suburban air at the end of the evening. Back in

Midtown, about 25 miles south, the Empire State Building lit up in purple in recognition of the dog show.

With his lumbering gait and ponderous manner, Trumpet, who is 4 years old, was not necessarily the first choice of spectators who seemed to be drawn to showier, more effervescent dogs. The largest cheers of the evening were reserved for Striker, a charismatic and blindingly white Samoyed who was one of the seven group winners.

Striker reached the finals last year, too, only to lose to a tiny Pekingese named Wasabi.

But Trumpet had that special something that champion dogs have. And he comes from winning stock. His great-grandfather, Trigger, once held the record for the dog with the longest ears, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Trigger’s right ear was 13.75 inches long; his left was 13.5 inches long.

Trumpet and his handler, Heather Buehner, had stiff competition from Winston, a French bulldog, and Striker, a Samoyed.

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HOROSCOPE Aries

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Charming Venus’s move into Gemini gives you an edge when it comes to discussions, negotiations and closing deals. You’re already a powerhouse of energy, but Venus’s soothing vibes can help you present your case in a professional, mellow and diplomatic way, rather than coming across as impulsive or over-eager.

You’ll have an engaging tone that brings results.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

With artful Venus entering your money zone, your ability to encourage growth can show itself in an increase in income. Ideas and schemes could spring to mind that might enhance your financial worth over the short and long-term. Plus, your ability to spot a bargain or a brilliant investment, may be ramped up. In addition, anything that increases your confidence is worth going for.

As Venus sashays into your sign, you may want to spruce up your image, or invest in clothes or accessories that will brighten your look. This might seem more urgent if you are attending an interview, or have other reasons for wanting to look special. At the same time, you’ll be aware of how charm and a little flattery can smooth the way to getting something you want, Gemini.

Cancer

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(June 22-July 23)

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Your appetite for life could increase, as Venus moves into a more expansive zone. You’ll be ready for bigger experiences, fresh opportunities and a chance for more personal growth. If you are travelling, the coming weeks can find you connecting with people from all walks of life, and making new friends too.

Hoping for romance? Diving into new experiences may be key, Libra.

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

You may strive for a deeper union with a new partner, or to rekindle romance in a current bond. As sweet Venus moves into a more intense zone, the coming weeks bring an opportunity to smooth over any issues, especially those that require in-depth discussion. You’ll find it easier to connect with your feelings and to talk about them, which can assist in moving things forward.

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

A harmonious energy influencing your sector of relating from today, could inspire you to share your affection with others, including your family and partner. Venus’s presence here, suggests you might sense others’ needs intuitively, and this may help you to offer your thoughts and ideas in a way they can understand and work with. It could also pave the way for peaceful solutions.

As key planets continue their journey through a prominent zone, there are still opportunities for showcasing your skills, and letting others know how talented you are. Even so, as Venus enters a secluded sector, the coming weeks offer a chance to find closure on relationship issues that may be holding you back. Deep-seated emotions can be released Cancer, which could be liberating.

Issues on the job? From today, you may be keen to establish a happy and harmonious work environment, which might involve beautifying your office or desk, or discussing issues with co-workers with a view to resolving them. But there is also room for discussion regarding a project that could net you more money.

If you’re keen to enhance your income, this can be it.

Leo

Aquarius

(July 24-Aug 23)

You’ll make even more of a splash on the social scene, as convivial Venus glides into Gemini from today.

Hoping for more romance in your life? This influence encourages you to join groups and clubs related to your interests, and to take it from there. Long-term bonds will benefit from involvement in new activities. Getting out and about can help spice up your partnership, Leo.

Virgo

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

Making a good impression is key to getting ahead.

And you’ll certainly hit the right note from today, as a delightful focus on a prominent sector means your charm will enable plans to be successful. As Venus joins Mercury in Gemini, this is one of the best times to get your name known, and to enhance your reputation. Ready to promote yourself? It could be a game changer.

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

As charming Venus moves into your leisure zone, her presence can encourage you to get away from your daily routine when possible, and focus on fun plans. You really deserve this chance to put responsibilities to one side, and engage in activities that bring you pleasure. Whatever else needs doing, recharging your batteries could gift you with the energy to truly enjoy life, Aquarius.

Pisces

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

If you’ve had dreams of giving your place a makeover, it’s time to make a start. With a creative influence in your domestic zone from today, consider gathering ideas from various sources and get to work. And if you enjoy entertaining, the coming weeks can be excellent for that too. Have a special occasion to prepare for? With a little planning, it could be successful and enjoyable.

Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 37

June 24-26, 2022

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CARTOONS

Herman

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

BC

Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

For Better or for Worse

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Ziggy

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